So, uh, about Due South.
Worked out that all the episodes with Rennie are boxed as the third season. Bought the third season (I have no interest in Vecchio, and though Paul Gross is growing on me, he's not my focus.)
Also while at the store, bought The Covenant as a gift for my friend, and Devour because I didn't think it would be there and it was ten bucks.
About Devour.
I watched it mostly for Jensen, and a little bit for that chick from A Knight's Tale. Shaving really does make him look believable as twenty-one, even though my smrt math puts him around twenty-seven when it was made. Don't worry, Jen, Tom Wellng did it, too.
The dialogue, while brilliant, quirky, and edgy, made the overall experience worse. Jen should get an award for Most Halfhearted Delivery of a Crap Line for his work on 'Behave, Mom.'
Also? Haha, you were totally planning on having sex with your mother.
And I hadn't realized that both the boys played The Next King of Hell at one time or another.
But, yeah, going to watch the movie with the sound off from now on. (Not including the sex scene, obvs.)
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About The Covenant: for a movie with so much potential for slash and magical fight scenes, the boys spend a staggering amount of time angsting about slowly killing themselves, or about girls, or about being killed by the new kid.
Yeah, I know, welcome to high school.
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About Due South.
Jesus fuck I'm hot for Callum Rennie. As Zero in Tin Man, as Leoben in BSG, as Ray. What is this. He's like thirty years older than me. Then again, he hasn't aged since, like, at least Due South, which was more than a decade ago.
And I'm only halfway through the episodes, but Mounties on the Bounty is my favorite.
Firstly for the angsty Ray-just-punched-me-in-the-face look that Paul Gross didn't put on, because oh my God Fraser was still Superman about it. And the surprised-resigned-angsty look at that Callum Rennie did go with, because Ray's only human and this isn't working anymore.
(Side note - Rennie, the entire argument leading up to punching Fraser. Watch his acting. It builds. It's, it's just. I have such a hard-on for good acting, you have no idea, I don't think I've told you guys, but jesus, watch the progression Rennie did the Ray's body language. Kept shifting his weight, like he was going to step away, like he was boxing, and maybe that's me reading too much into it but if he did that on purpose it is amazing because that's incorporating a different and rather minor character trait into a different situation and, and. Fuck.)
Secondly for Paul Gross singing a shanty. It made me go look up Stan Rogers, and. Um. Am listening to an absurd amount of his songs all in a row, right now. Fraser kept singing as Ray talked to him, didn't miss a beat when he talked back. God, god. Yay.
Thirdly for the batshit crazy drill sargeant RCMP lady, who had her recruits build a replica of the Bounty. I can't even tell you how much I laughed. Especially since Ray was just asking Fraser if everyone in Canada knew everyone, and now here's one of Thatcher's old friends jumping out from behind trees. (Camouflage! They weren't hiding very well! They were new! I laughed some more!)
Fourthly for the entire communication thing with Ray and Fraser. It was awesome. Not even the buddy-breathing, that wasn't the high point. The fact that Fraser gave a fifteen second speech and convinced Ray that he could swim well enough to make it 150m underwater. The hand-signals and silent communication (unsubtle in the foreshadowing, granted, having had Ray complain specifically that they should know each other without talking in the ealier part...), the part where Ray barely made a face and Fraser punched a guy behind him based on some blind faith that Ray had seen something. God, they're totally doing it.
Fifthly, for Turnbull's Epic Romance On The Bounty sequence being centered around he and a young male recruit arm-wrestling. And two episodes later, he's cooking ratatouille. He's totally gay - probably for Fraser. Yay.
Didn't like the Fraser-Thatcher kiss, especially since they shrugged it off right away and no one's brought it up, when it happened right after he nearly brought her flowers two episodes before.
Didn't like that the partnership-falling-apart angst happened the very episode after Ray trusted Fraser trusted Ray and they risked their careers together in Asylum. Didn't make sense, in that context, that the opening gambit of the next was Ray punching Fraser in the face.
Also while at the store, bought The Covenant as a gift for my friend, and Devour because I didn't think it would be there and it was ten bucks.
About Devour.
I watched it mostly for Jensen, and a little bit for that chick from A Knight's Tale. Shaving really does make him look believable as twenty-one, even though my smrt math puts him around twenty-seven when it was made. Don't worry, Jen, Tom Wellng did it, too.
The dialogue, while brilliant, quirky, and edgy, made the overall experience worse. Jen should get an award for Most Halfhearted Delivery of a Crap Line for his work on 'Behave, Mom.'
Also? Haha, you were totally planning on having sex with your mother.
And I hadn't realized that both the boys played The Next King of Hell at one time or another.
But, yeah, going to watch the movie with the sound off from now on. (Not including the sex scene, obvs.)
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About The Covenant: for a movie with so much potential for slash and magical fight scenes, the boys spend a staggering amount of time angsting about slowly killing themselves, or about girls, or about being killed by the new kid.
Yeah, I know, welcome to high school.
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About Due South.
Jesus fuck I'm hot for Callum Rennie. As Zero in Tin Man, as Leoben in BSG, as Ray. What is this. He's like thirty years older than me. Then again, he hasn't aged since, like, at least Due South, which was more than a decade ago.
And I'm only halfway through the episodes, but Mounties on the Bounty is my favorite.
Firstly for the angsty Ray-just-punched-me-in-the-face look that Paul Gross didn't put on, because oh my God Fraser was still Superman about it. And the surprised-resigned-angsty look at that Callum Rennie did go with, because Ray's only human and this isn't working anymore.
(Side note - Rennie, the entire argument leading up to punching Fraser. Watch his acting. It builds. It's, it's just. I have such a hard-on for good acting, you have no idea, I don't think I've told you guys, but jesus, watch the progression Rennie did the Ray's body language. Kept shifting his weight, like he was going to step away, like he was boxing, and maybe that's me reading too much into it but if he did that on purpose it is amazing because that's incorporating a different and rather minor character trait into a different situation and, and. Fuck.)
Secondly for Paul Gross singing a shanty. It made me go look up Stan Rogers, and. Um. Am listening to an absurd amount of his songs all in a row, right now. Fraser kept singing as Ray talked to him, didn't miss a beat when he talked back. God, god. Yay.
Thirdly for the batshit crazy drill sargeant RCMP lady, who had her recruits build a replica of the Bounty. I can't even tell you how much I laughed. Especially since Ray was just asking Fraser if everyone in Canada knew everyone, and now here's one of Thatcher's old friends jumping out from behind trees. (Camouflage! They weren't hiding very well! They were new! I laughed some more!)
Fourthly for the entire communication thing with Ray and Fraser. It was awesome. Not even the buddy-breathing, that wasn't the high point. The fact that Fraser gave a fifteen second speech and convinced Ray that he could swim well enough to make it 150m underwater. The hand-signals and silent communication (unsubtle in the foreshadowing, granted, having had Ray complain specifically that they should know each other without talking in the ealier part...), the part where Ray barely made a face and Fraser punched a guy behind him based on some blind faith that Ray had seen something. God, they're totally doing it.
Fifthly, for Turnbull's Epic Romance On The Bounty sequence being centered around he and a young male recruit arm-wrestling. And two episodes later, he's cooking ratatouille. He's totally gay - probably for Fraser. Yay.
Didn't like the Fraser-Thatcher kiss, especially since they shrugged it off right away and no one's brought it up, when it happened right after he nearly brought her flowers two episodes before.
Didn't like that the partnership-falling-apart angst happened the very episode after Ray trusted Fraser trusted Ray and they risked their careers together in Asylum. Didn't make sense, in that context, that the opening gambit of the next was Ray punching Fraser in the face.