Misfits 2.03 .... one single thought; Smallville, TVD, Harry Potter rambles
Okay, f-list, I literally started watching this show today and blazed through eight episodes in one afternoon. Yes, it's been a Bridget Jones Thanksgiving for me, spent vegging practically all day except for dinner.
Anyway, "Misfits", for those who don't know is a frigging amazing show. I am so into it. It's just brilliant. Fun, good writing and it takes the comic/superhero genre and just does some wonderfully entertaining things with it and I'm already hooked. Hooked. HOOKED.
So I haven't even SEEN this most recent episode yet because it aired today but I looked on my tumblr and this gif came up...
*SPOILER AFTER CUT*
Has killed me. KILLED ME.
+Those two, for anyone who doesn't know: Simon and Alisha. His superpower is invisibility and hers is sex pheromone manipulation. She has the power to make any living thing be violently, frighteningly, debilitatingly sexually attracted to her when she touches them. Except. Despite the scorching hotness of that GIF... he's immune to that --- this is a different version of him but oh gods. I started shipping them at approximately 3PM this afternoon when I got to episode 4 of series 1 (which is six episodes in total). And I am now dead. I ship it so hard. (Although, I apparently ship all the five main characters with each other but these two are my special ones)
Look at that. Hnnnf.
Credit to the lovely pointlesscloud on Tumblr.
Other things:
+I watched Harry Potter: Deathly Hallows last night and I've never been a fanatical HP fanatic, I've never been a fanatic period. But I adored that film and I wept multiple times. Few things that leap out at me on one viewing, that I enjoyed.
1. Don't ship. If I did, I would ship H/Hr so badly after that film. That dance in the tent, and the two of them so worn and weary, despairing and just fucking tired. And Harry's love shines through in how much he just wants to find something to make Hermione happy, if even for a moment, to take her mind away from Ron's absence. It was beautiful and poignant and broke my heart. And then later in the graveyard and she comes upon him just silently crying, god, it was beautiful. With the dance scene esp. it struck me, and I've always felt so with the books is that it's an OT3 in the truest sense of the word. Even in that moment, Ron's presence -- or shall I say, absence, was stark and almost palpable. They're linked all the time and it makes perfect sense for the three of them to live happily ever after together because they just fit and complement ridiculously well. No wonder some folks see Ginny as a substitute --- although there are so many reasons for that that I, as a ignorant observer, won't dare to go there.
2. All three: Harry, Hermione, Ron, the actors, were so good. Just delivered so much.
3. The dark, WW2, Nazi apartheidness of this world was brought home hard in this. It felt so much more REAL and painful and messy and cruel than it ever did in the books. And a huge part of that was the focus on Hermione. I loved that and I cried so much in that opening scene with her parents, and the forgetting. And then Bellatrix writing 'mudblood' into her arm --- there was so much imagery, disturbing and frightening. I think in the first ten minutes when Charity Burbage was killed so brutally and callously by Voldemort, I said out loud in the cinema: "Damn, shit just got real." Speaking of, Bellatrix was genuinely frightening this time around. Not a caricature who leaps and bounds all over the place like she's got ants in her pants but legitimately scary. Something about the coiled energy, and madness with which Helena Bonham Carter plays her this time, there was a restraint to it.
4. The Malfoys. Wow. What was it? Three scenes and they ran away with them entirely. Lucius, to see him like that, so broken and haggard, and that symbolic castration of having his wand taken away - powerful acting. Narcissa, despite the two-tone hair, was there, trying to hold the tattered pieces of her life and her family together and so strong while the men fall apart beside her. And Draco's expressiveness, I love that flash of recognition with Harry at the Manor, and you could see it --- all that fear, the burden of all of that. He wants out so badly and there's non out for him, none. I know he's a jerk but the entire Malfoy family tore my heart into pieces even with those few scenes.
5. Luna, her dad, the scene with the multiple Harrys, Hermione's bag of magic wonder etc. etc. = happy-making.
6. Weeping for Dobby and Hedwig, and so many other things. Wonderful stuff.
+Smallville. I miss you. I need Clark Luthor in me my computer screen. I'm suffering from massive writer's block right now which is irritating as I have about four stories, thirty pages of rough draft. Come back to me, Muse!!!! *waves fist*
+TVD fandom, saw the kerfuffle over the past two days with the alleged voting against Paul Wesley in the EW 'Most Underrated' poll by a certain sector of the fandom. I'm still yet to actually see physical proof - or internet proof that there was a plot brewing on some DE board to do this although an alleged DE-er posted in TVD Fandom Fail about how this was actually going on. Long story short, Paul started losing the poll massively, fans went batshit, some of them tweeted Somerhalder complaining about it, he tweeted about it and it's just... jeez. It's just depressing all around: i) if fans are plotting such inane things against a very talented actor/his fanbase OR ii) if someone is stirring the hornet's nest because they just want to do that OR ii) in general folks involving the actors in fandom nonsense. I'm really against that in a big way but it's whatever, different strokes. Needless to say, endless second hand embarrassment right now and also disappointment/trepidation. We're only season 2, and it's already a madhouse. Sadface.
....
And finally. For those who celebrate --- happy, happy Thanksgiving!!!!
Anyway, "Misfits", for those who don't know is a frigging amazing show. I am so into it. It's just brilliant. Fun, good writing and it takes the comic/superhero genre and just does some wonderfully entertaining things with it and I'm already hooked. Hooked. HOOKED.
So I haven't even SEEN this most recent episode yet because it aired today but I looked on my tumblr and this gif came up...
*SPOILER AFTER CUT*
Has killed me. KILLED ME.
+Those two, for anyone who doesn't know: Simon and Alisha. His superpower is invisibility and hers is sex pheromone manipulation. She has the power to make any living thing be violently, frighteningly, debilitatingly sexually attracted to her when she touches them. Except. Despite the scorching hotness of that GIF... he's immune to that --- this is a different version of him but oh gods. I started shipping them at approximately 3PM this afternoon when I got to episode 4 of series 1 (which is six episodes in total). And I am now dead. I ship it so hard. (Although, I apparently ship all the five main characters with each other but these two are my special ones)
Look at that. Hnnnf.
Credit to the lovely pointlesscloud on Tumblr.
Other things:
+I watched Harry Potter: Deathly Hallows last night and I've never been a fanatical HP fanatic, I've never been a fanatic period. But I adored that film and I wept multiple times. Few things that leap out at me on one viewing, that I enjoyed.
1. Don't ship. If I did, I would ship H/Hr so badly after that film. That dance in the tent, and the two of them so worn and weary, despairing and just fucking tired. And Harry's love shines through in how much he just wants to find something to make Hermione happy, if even for a moment, to take her mind away from Ron's absence. It was beautiful and poignant and broke my heart. And then later in the graveyard and she comes upon him just silently crying, god, it was beautiful. With the dance scene esp. it struck me, and I've always felt so with the books is that it's an OT3 in the truest sense of the word. Even in that moment, Ron's presence -- or shall I say, absence, was stark and almost palpable. They're linked all the time and it makes perfect sense for the three of them to live happily ever after together because they just fit and complement ridiculously well. No wonder some folks see Ginny as a substitute --- although there are so many reasons for that that I, as a ignorant observer, won't dare to go there.
2. All three: Harry, Hermione, Ron, the actors, were so good. Just delivered so much.
3. The dark, WW2, Nazi apartheidness of this world was brought home hard in this. It felt so much more REAL and painful and messy and cruel than it ever did in the books. And a huge part of that was the focus on Hermione. I loved that and I cried so much in that opening scene with her parents, and the forgetting. And then Bellatrix writing 'mudblood' into her arm --- there was so much imagery, disturbing and frightening. I think in the first ten minutes when Charity Burbage was killed so brutally and callously by Voldemort, I said out loud in the cinema: "Damn, shit just got real." Speaking of, Bellatrix was genuinely frightening this time around. Not a caricature who leaps and bounds all over the place like she's got ants in her pants but legitimately scary. Something about the coiled energy, and madness with which Helena Bonham Carter plays her this time, there was a restraint to it.
4. The Malfoys. Wow. What was it? Three scenes and they ran away with them entirely. Lucius, to see him like that, so broken and haggard, and that symbolic castration of having his wand taken away - powerful acting. Narcissa, despite the two-tone hair, was there, trying to hold the tattered pieces of her life and her family together and so strong while the men fall apart beside her. And Draco's expressiveness, I love that flash of recognition with Harry at the Manor, and you could see it --- all that fear, the burden of all of that. He wants out so badly and there's non out for him, none. I know he's a jerk but the entire Malfoy family tore my heart into pieces even with those few scenes.
5. Luna, her dad, the scene with the multiple Harrys, Hermione's bag of magic wonder etc. etc. = happy-making.
6. Weeping for Dobby and Hedwig, and so many other things. Wonderful stuff.
+Smallville. I miss you. I need Clark Luthor in me my computer screen. I'm suffering from massive writer's block right now which is irritating as I have about four stories, thirty pages of rough draft. Come back to me, Muse!!!! *waves fist*
+TVD fandom, saw the kerfuffle over the past two days with the alleged voting against Paul Wesley in the EW 'Most Underrated' poll by a certain sector of the fandom. I'm still yet to actually see physical proof - or internet proof that there was a plot brewing on some DE board to do this although an alleged DE-er posted in TVD Fandom Fail about how this was actually going on. Long story short, Paul started losing the poll massively, fans went batshit, some of them tweeted Somerhalder complaining about it, he tweeted about it and it's just... jeez. It's just depressing all around: i) if fans are plotting such inane things against a very talented actor/his fanbase OR ii) if someone is stirring the hornet's nest because they just want to do that OR ii) in general folks involving the actors in fandom nonsense. I'm really against that in a big way but it's whatever, different strokes. Needless to say, endless second hand embarrassment right now and also disappointment/trepidation. We're only season 2, and it's already a madhouse. Sadface.
....
And finally. For those who celebrate --- happy, happy Thanksgiving!!!!