Heroes and some other stuff
Just rewatched DW ep Father's Day. It made me cry this time too. A pity nfalkestav couldn't watch this week, I may have to download the ep and show it to her - no point in her sitting through The Aliens of London and The Long Game and missing stuff like this.
I've told her to stay home the two next weeks, though. Sternly.
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Gaystudenterna showed Rocky Horror yesterday, which should have been fabulous but was completely cringe-worthy. I was the only one who'd seen it before, and the rest of them seemed to be expecting something different. The mood was very grim, hardly a giggle - well, except the occasional one from me, but even I had a hard time laughing when everyone was being all quiet instead of making comments and stuff. There were complaints afterwards that the film had no plot. Which, no. But it has sex, music and stockings and that has to count for something, right?
*sigh* Not much to do about people resistant to the Time Warp, I guess. It's getting increasingly clear that I should see this film at a real cult showing first chance I get. Sofas don't do it justice.
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On a happier note, all through my childhood there has been an after-school daycare in my parents' neighborhood with a carpenter's yard belonging to it, and that yard has had rabbits, chickens, and so on. In my teen years (I think it was), two kittens also came to stay. They were tattooed JD17 and JD18 so I nicknamed them Jamie and Dean (I think their official names were Simon and Casper). When I moved away, I could usually see them outside when I walked home to my parents', and I always stopped to say hello.
Unfortunately, they found mildew in the daycare and decided to replace it with apartments and move it to a smaller place a couple of blocks away. Because of the construction stuff, I had to take another route to my parents'. It's been like that for maybe a year.
Now the construction is done, and I passed the new location the other day. Something fluffy was lying curled up in the bushes. Sure enough, when I stopped, it turned out to be Dean. He was just as friendly as always, purred when I petted him (the soft Daisy kind of purr that you have to touch his throat to feel, not the loud Spike kind of purr that can be heard from nearby rooms), and when I held him, he kissed my face all over just like old times.
Either he still remembers me after all this time, or he's an incredibly slutty cat. :-)
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On an even happier note, as made clear by my early fic post, Heroes 1.20 rocked my socks on so many levels. I've made three different icons just because I had to do something with all the prettiness. The Mohinder one isn't my fave (because, well, it's Mohinder), but it's the least spoily one. The other two are under the cut with the meta. :-)
Ah, Hiro... As I said in the fic post, this ep made me do Hiro/Ando, I had no choice. Not that I'm complaining - I've wanted to write Heroes fic for a long time, but it's hard to find a good plot bunny for a show that's so twisty. But a tiny little ficlet like that one doesn't need much of a plot bunny.
There were just so many nice little H/A moments. And the way Hiro hid Ando's death from him kind of reminded me of DW ep Gridlock, and how the Doctor lies to Martha about Gallifrey, because as long as she doesn't know Gallifrey has been destroyed, he can pretend that it hasn't been. As long as Ando doesn't know he's dead, he's not, you know?
I'm amazed by how slash-resistant fandom seems to be all of a sudden, though. I mean, it went something like this:
Future!Peter: I think you're the reason he became so obsessed with trying to change it all back. He wants to save you.
Me: OMGsquee! Hiro/Ando all over the place! This rocks! I must immediately go online and devour all the slashy goodness that will come of this!
*goes online*
Me: Slashy goodness?
80% of posts: Why, yes, that was very sweet. Nothing sexual about it, of course. They're just friends.
Me: *headdesk*
I'm used to liking rare pairings, of course. But I'm used to my rare pairings being stuff like, well, Wesley/Doyle. These two... they're Remus/Sirius. Merry/Pippin. Xavier/Magneto. They're the guys you don't even have to build up any justification for, because the subtext is only inches away from text.
I must say I'm baffled. I have no idea what's going on. People obviously like Hiro. They like Ando. They like slash. And yet... *shrugs* Maybe it's Hiro's childish optimism, but a) he's not actually a child, so he's allowed to date, b) he did in fact date Charlie, and c) Future!Hiro's not like that anyway, so what's the problem? Is it because they don't eyefuck? But lots of people don't eyefuck. My parents are quite in love (and AFAIK they still have sex - they certainly did when I was in my teens) and they don't eyefuck. To use Charlie as a jumping point to another show, Ugly Betty and Henry the Accountant don't eyefuck, and people are shipping them like mad. (Well, the fandom's smaller in general. But relatively speaking.)
And no, I don't have any problem with "just friends" as such, except people aren't exactly falling over themselves to write ampersand fics either. Oh, well. At least there's irisbleu.
Anyway, I refuse to let this harsh my squee, because my squee is strong on many levels. Therefore let me move on to the other icon:
As I said way back when: "he's got that kind of pleasant, pretty-but-unremarkable face that would really benefit from a big nasty scar." And lo and behold, it did. Scarred!Peter was much much hotter than ordinary Peter has ever been. I downloaded no less than nine screencaps to choose from when making the icon, and it should be noted that Peter's not normally even in my top half dozen characters. (Not that I don't like him, or anything. There are just so many good chars on this show.)
I love that Peter and Future!Hiro were so good at fighting together, and how at ease he was with his powers in general. I'd love to see our Peter be so bad-ass, but of course it would mean getting all that bitterness too, and that would be kind of sad for him.
Not to mention that for the first time, I'm kind of invested in not having the dystopia come true, because two of my favourite characters' lives are on the line now. I don't want Ando and Nathan to die in the real world, no matter how awesome it worked storyline-wise in this ep.
Speaking of Nathan, it's been fun to see who called the Sylar thing and who didn't. Unfortunately, I kind of spoiled myself on that particular fact, so I didn't have a chance to be smart. (axa claims she called it, and I believe her, because she's a scarily smart TV viewer.) Instead, I got to see his scenes knowing that it was Sylar, and that was very interesting too, especially when he started dropping very Sylar-esque lines all over the place. I think Nathan was killed quite some time ago, but not as long as five years. The person covering for Peter's explosion was definitely Nathan, and I think Nathan was the one elected president too, if only because I dread the public that'd actually elect Sylar president. (I mean, yeah, Bush is bad, but he's not a brain-eating serial killer.)
Of course I'm very grateful that my boo doesn't grow up to be a nazi leader, that it's an impostor, but I'm not so sure Nathan wasn't the one to start the whole rounding up of "terrorists" thing. He pretty much said to Simone that he would. Nathan's not a bad man, but he likes things he can control.
The "final solution" thingy is completely out of character, though, and I think if Peter had known about that, he would have figured out that Nathan was Sylar pretty much instantly. But Mohinder didn't, because he doesn't know Nathan that well, and because as we all know, Mohinder's not the sharpest geneticist in the box.
It's kind of tragic that after all this trouble Future!Hiro went through, his reasoning was built on the faulty premise of Sylar being the bomb. At least I can comfort myself with the fact that if Hiro's a good boy and kills Sylar as he's supposed to, even if Peter blows up New York Nathan won't get his brains eaten and there won't be an attempted genocide.
I've heard rumours that they plan on making Sylar a regular, though. I have absolutely no idea how they'd manage that. Having a regular brain-eating serial killer on board would probably get tired after another half season or so, and redeeming him would be awful. So it worries me. But then again, considering how these writers manage to squeeze awesomeness out of each ep, maybe I shouldn't be worried.
Of course, it'd help if they could figure out what to do with Nikiessica. Or not toss a girl in a skanky miniskirt into a workplace full of suits. Or make Mohinder less stupid and more awesome, since we know he can do it. (The killing-the-Haitian scene was not quite as awesome as the "it will hurt!" scene from before the hiatus, but close enough.)
Thing is, though, while I'm watching I rarely ever think of those kinds of objections, and that's more than I can say for most shows. I can't recall the last ep I came out of with less than a squee. I applaud their cliffhangers. That definitely doesn't happen with most shows.
To summarize: Heroes FTW, folks.
I've told her to stay home the two next weeks, though. Sternly.
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Gaystudenterna showed Rocky Horror yesterday, which should have been fabulous but was completely cringe-worthy. I was the only one who'd seen it before, and the rest of them seemed to be expecting something different. The mood was very grim, hardly a giggle - well, except the occasional one from me, but even I had a hard time laughing when everyone was being all quiet instead of making comments and stuff. There were complaints afterwards that the film had no plot. Which, no. But it has sex, music and stockings and that has to count for something, right?
*sigh* Not much to do about people resistant to the Time Warp, I guess. It's getting increasingly clear that I should see this film at a real cult showing first chance I get. Sofas don't do it justice.
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On a happier note, all through my childhood there has been an after-school daycare in my parents' neighborhood with a carpenter's yard belonging to it, and that yard has had rabbits, chickens, and so on. In my teen years (I think it was), two kittens also came to stay. They were tattooed JD17 and JD18 so I nicknamed them Jamie and Dean (I think their official names were Simon and Casper). When I moved away, I could usually see them outside when I walked home to my parents', and I always stopped to say hello.
Unfortunately, they found mildew in the daycare and decided to replace it with apartments and move it to a smaller place a couple of blocks away. Because of the construction stuff, I had to take another route to my parents'. It's been like that for maybe a year.
Now the construction is done, and I passed the new location the other day. Something fluffy was lying curled up in the bushes. Sure enough, when I stopped, it turned out to be Dean. He was just as friendly as always, purred when I petted him (the soft Daisy kind of purr that you have to touch his throat to feel, not the loud Spike kind of purr that can be heard from nearby rooms), and when I held him, he kissed my face all over just like old times.
Either he still remembers me after all this time, or he's an incredibly slutty cat. :-)
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On an even happier note, as made clear by my early fic post, Heroes 1.20 rocked my socks on so many levels. I've made three different icons just because I had to do something with all the prettiness. The Mohinder one isn't my fave (because, well, it's Mohinder), but it's the least spoily one. The other two are under the cut with the meta. :-)
Ah, Hiro... As I said in the fic post, this ep made me do Hiro/Ando, I had no choice. Not that I'm complaining - I've wanted to write Heroes fic for a long time, but it's hard to find a good plot bunny for a show that's so twisty. But a tiny little ficlet like that one doesn't need much of a plot bunny.
There were just so many nice little H/A moments. And the way Hiro hid Ando's death from him kind of reminded me of DW ep Gridlock, and how the Doctor lies to Martha about Gallifrey, because as long as she doesn't know Gallifrey has been destroyed, he can pretend that it hasn't been. As long as Ando doesn't know he's dead, he's not, you know?
I'm amazed by how slash-resistant fandom seems to be all of a sudden, though. I mean, it went something like this:
Future!Peter: I think you're the reason he became so obsessed with trying to change it all back. He wants to save you.
Me: OMGsquee! Hiro/Ando all over the place! This rocks! I must immediately go online and devour all the slashy goodness that will come of this!
*goes online*
Me: Slashy goodness?
80% of posts: Why, yes, that was very sweet. Nothing sexual about it, of course. They're just friends.
Me: *headdesk*
I'm used to liking rare pairings, of course. But I'm used to my rare pairings being stuff like, well, Wesley/Doyle. These two... they're Remus/Sirius. Merry/Pippin. Xavier/Magneto. They're the guys you don't even have to build up any justification for, because the subtext is only inches away from text.
I must say I'm baffled. I have no idea what's going on. People obviously like Hiro. They like Ando. They like slash. And yet... *shrugs* Maybe it's Hiro's childish optimism, but a) he's not actually a child, so he's allowed to date, b) he did in fact date Charlie, and c) Future!Hiro's not like that anyway, so what's the problem? Is it because they don't eyefuck? But lots of people don't eyefuck. My parents are quite in love (and AFAIK they still have sex - they certainly did when I was in my teens) and they don't eyefuck. To use Charlie as a jumping point to another show, Ugly Betty and Henry the Accountant don't eyefuck, and people are shipping them like mad. (Well, the fandom's smaller in general. But relatively speaking.)
And no, I don't have any problem with "just friends" as such, except people aren't exactly falling over themselves to write ampersand fics either. Oh, well. At least there's irisbleu.
Anyway, I refuse to let this harsh my squee, because my squee is strong on many levels. Therefore let me move on to the other icon:
As I said way back when: "he's got that kind of pleasant, pretty-but-unremarkable face that would really benefit from a big nasty scar." And lo and behold, it did. Scarred!Peter was much much hotter than ordinary Peter has ever been. I downloaded no less than nine screencaps to choose from when making the icon, and it should be noted that Peter's not normally even in my top half dozen characters. (Not that I don't like him, or anything. There are just so many good chars on this show.)
I love that Peter and Future!Hiro were so good at fighting together, and how at ease he was with his powers in general. I'd love to see our Peter be so bad-ass, but of course it would mean getting all that bitterness too, and that would be kind of sad for him.
Not to mention that for the first time, I'm kind of invested in not having the dystopia come true, because two of my favourite characters' lives are on the line now. I don't want Ando and Nathan to die in the real world, no matter how awesome it worked storyline-wise in this ep.
Speaking of Nathan, it's been fun to see who called the Sylar thing and who didn't. Unfortunately, I kind of spoiled myself on that particular fact, so I didn't have a chance to be smart. (axa claims she called it, and I believe her, because she's a scarily smart TV viewer.) Instead, I got to see his scenes knowing that it was Sylar, and that was very interesting too, especially when he started dropping very Sylar-esque lines all over the place. I think Nathan was killed quite some time ago, but not as long as five years. The person covering for Peter's explosion was definitely Nathan, and I think Nathan was the one elected president too, if only because I dread the public that'd actually elect Sylar president. (I mean, yeah, Bush is bad, but he's not a brain-eating serial killer.)
Of course I'm very grateful that my boo doesn't grow up to be a nazi leader, that it's an impostor, but I'm not so sure Nathan wasn't the one to start the whole rounding up of "terrorists" thing. He pretty much said to Simone that he would. Nathan's not a bad man, but he likes things he can control.
The "final solution" thingy is completely out of character, though, and I think if Peter had known about that, he would have figured out that Nathan was Sylar pretty much instantly. But Mohinder didn't, because he doesn't know Nathan that well, and because as we all know, Mohinder's not the sharpest geneticist in the box.
It's kind of tragic that after all this trouble Future!Hiro went through, his reasoning was built on the faulty premise of Sylar being the bomb. At least I can comfort myself with the fact that if Hiro's a good boy and kills Sylar as he's supposed to, even if Peter blows up New York Nathan won't get his brains eaten and there won't be an attempted genocide.
I've heard rumours that they plan on making Sylar a regular, though. I have absolutely no idea how they'd manage that. Having a regular brain-eating serial killer on board would probably get tired after another half season or so, and redeeming him would be awful. So it worries me. But then again, considering how these writers manage to squeeze awesomeness out of each ep, maybe I shouldn't be worried.
Of course, it'd help if they could figure out what to do with Nikiessica. Or not toss a girl in a skanky miniskirt into a workplace full of suits. Or make Mohinder less stupid and more awesome, since we know he can do it. (The killing-the-Haitian scene was not quite as awesome as the "it will hurt!" scene from before the hiatus, but close enough.)
Thing is, though, while I'm watching I rarely ever think of those kinds of objections, and that's more than I can say for most shows. I can't recall the last ep I came out of with less than a squee. I applaud their cliffhangers. That definitely doesn't happen with most shows.
To summarize: Heroes FTW, folks.