and I would be the one / to hold you down

[loneraven]

So, up until now, I've been saying that Due South is the television equivalent of a nice cuddly blanket and a mug of dark hot chocolate. It's just... comforting. It's so sweet, and gentle, and not much happens, and they take a break from murder cases to do weird interludes involving ghosts and curling and the geography of Canada, not necessarily at

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[icepixie]

First of all, congratulations on passing the driver's test! I hear your tests are much, much harder than Tennessee's (I drove around the block. Literally. Around the block. And for this they let me operate two-ton hunks of metal that max out at 120 mph.), so go you on passing it the first try.

Second, welcome to the trauma that is VS. A couple weeks after I watched it, I was pulling a book at the library for a patron named Victoria and about freaked out just from the name. GAH. I was a mess during the actual episodes.

And that show has destroyed more pieces of music I like, dammit. There's a significant chunk of Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, of course, and Loreena McKennitt's "Full Circle" is RUINED for me thanks to "Juliet Is Bleeding."

[thiswaltz]

oh, but for me, it *introduced* me to Sarah McLachlan, I went and sought it out because it was so pretty and hearbreaking. And come to think of it, introduced me to Loreena McKennitt as well, with "Prospero's Speech" in the S1 ep "Chinatown"

[icepixie]

I was a hardcore Sarah M. fan from way back--mostly in high school, less so now--and...yeah, it's still kind of hard to listen to "Possession." Ow. Apparently all the music I listened to in the mid to late 90s was made by Canadians, because watching all of dS this year for the first time was, musically speaking, a flashback to high school. If they'd used Alanis Morissette (I'm amusing myself now by imagining how they could work in one of her songs) or the Barenaked Ladies, the flashback would've been complete.

[thiswaltz]

well it's not like the real story behind the inspiration for Possession is any less Ow. But yeah. And the funny thing is I had the dS soundtrack with the SM songs on it before I had any of her CDs so I pictured Melina Kanakaredes until I knew what Sarah looked like XD
Canada produces the best musicians. like Joni Mitchell. And the McGerrigle sisters.

[loneraven]

Oh! Is that what that was? I loved that bit of music so much.

[loneraven]

Around the BLOCK? *criez* That is just so, so wrong. Thank you, sweetie. :)

Ahahaha, VS has killed me, seriously. The bit where he's reciting the poem on the station platform - I about wailed. And I foresee I'm going to be getting through a lot of new music shortly.

[icepixie]

Around the BLOCK? *criez* That is just so, so wrong.

I know. I had to make a left turn at a traffic light that had a left turn signal. And stop at a stop sign. Oh, and park in a parking lot. Tres difficult, obviously. *rolls eyes* I'm not sure if this is apocryphal or not, but I heard of a friend of a friend still getting his license even though he drove on the sidewalk during his test.

Fraser getting cuffed in part two was pretty much my breaking point. You know that's worse than death for him.

[loneraven]

He drove on the... yep. Resigning my citizenship right now.

And, and, he submits to it! Just like that, with Dief sat there watching him, and it kills. Oh, Fraser. The whole thing just keeps on killing.

[icepixie]

It rather feels like taking one's life in one's hands when driving in this state, I swear.

One day, I may get up the courage to watch those episodes again. Maybe the same day I take up drinking...