Five thoughts after watching "Vows"
1) Lieutenant Kennedy, what are you doing, sir?!
UGH, the premise of this show frustrates me SO MUCH. I really didn't want to be put in a "Billy"-ish position* with one of my high school heartthrobs where every time I see him from now on, a little part of me remembers that time he was really amazingly good at being really amazingly creepy, so luckily that didn't quite happen. Not quite. ::whines::
I was, by the way, genuinely surprised when he had a British accent. It has been way, way too long since I've watched Hornblower, and I clearly need to track down Law and Order: UK, what with Peter Davison (!) joining the cast and all.
GAWD, Bamber is so effing charming. Y'know, until he starts slamming women's heads into desks. That's a little bit of a mood-killer.
2) Aw, don't pull their little ratty tails! Poor little things...!
3) AAAAAAARGH WHY ARE YOU SO CREEPY, PAUL?!!?! Okay, so, his has been a slow build-up of creepiness, and, while I will love Helo forever and ever so say we all, my heart has never throbbed as much for Penikett as it has for Bamber, so I much prefer that he has hired out Echo for a sting to Bamber's character having some twisted gross wedding fantasy - and I also much prefer these episodes where the actives' imprints are to be undercover operatives, because...I dunno, because I guess that way they're not the only ones who are being lied to? Because they have at least the illusion of more agency that way and there's an extra dimension to the power dynamic? Because their personalities are less innocent?
Anyway, yeah, I'm somehow relieved to find that Bamber is actually playing an arms dealer instead of a severely frakked up john. Meanwhile, I don't actually remember Helo and Apollo fighting with one another (though that seems absurd; surely they MUST have, considering everyone fought with everyone on that show), so this is sort of new territory.
4) Um, yeah. I made this odd, excited "DAAA!" noise when Denisof showed up. I somehow managed to forget he was in this, I guess.. Whedon did that with me and Marsters on BtVS, too - knowledge that they would eventually appear in the shows was largely responsible for my beginning to watch them when I did, but, by the time they did finally show up, I was invested in the story enough that I had completely forgotten about them. Colour me impressed. Y'know, again.
Also, damnation, I've thought before that Denisof can be very Colbert-y when I puts his mind to it (see also Sandy Rivers), but I would be somewhat surprised if he wasn't intentionally channeling him here, at least a little.
Also also, I was legitimately surprised when he didn't have a British accent. Heh.
5) Topher is absolutely the lovechild of Warren and Andrew. I don't know why they would have created such a thing, but you can't tell me they couldn't have figured out a way if they had put their twisted little minds to the task.
In tangentially related news, I'm still 80% certain the Rossum Corporation is a division of Wolfram & Hart, and I frickin' love Saunders. I don't think it should surprise anyone that she's my favourite character, and has been since basically the beginning.
* Because of the actor in question, I should clarify that I mean a position not unlike the one I was put in after seeing Alexis Denisof in the Angel episode "Billy," not anything to do with Paul Campbell's character from Battlestar Galactica.
I have just discovered the fatal flaw in my plan to paint Lorne tonight: there is no green paint in this house. Seems as though there will be a trip to the store in my future.
(Um...just to make sure we're all on the same page, I am discussing painting something to look like the character from Angel, I am not talking about doing something that should be reported to PETA.)
UGH, the premise of this show frustrates me SO MUCH. I really didn't want to be put in a "Billy"-ish position* with one of my high school heartthrobs where every time I see him from now on, a little part of me remembers that time he was really amazingly good at being really amazingly creepy, so luckily that didn't quite happen. Not quite. ::whines::
I was, by the way, genuinely surprised when he had a British accent. It has been way, way too long since I've watched Hornblower, and I clearly need to track down Law and Order: UK, what with Peter Davison (!) joining the cast and all.
GAWD, Bamber is so effing charming. Y'know, until he starts slamming women's heads into desks. That's a little bit of a mood-killer.
2) Aw, don't pull their little ratty tails! Poor little things...!
3) AAAAAAARGH WHY ARE YOU SO CREEPY, PAUL?!!?! Okay, so, his has been a slow build-up of creepiness, and, while I will love Helo forever and ever so say we all, my heart has never throbbed as much for Penikett as it has for Bamber, so I much prefer that he has hired out Echo for a sting to Bamber's character having some twisted gross wedding fantasy - and I also much prefer these episodes where the actives' imprints are to be undercover operatives, because...I dunno, because I guess that way they're not the only ones who are being lied to? Because they have at least the illusion of more agency that way and there's an extra dimension to the power dynamic? Because their personalities are less innocent?
Anyway, yeah, I'm somehow relieved to find that Bamber is actually playing an arms dealer instead of a severely frakked up john. Meanwhile, I don't actually remember Helo and Apollo fighting with one another (though that seems absurd; surely they MUST have, considering everyone fought with everyone on that show), so this is sort of new territory.
4) Um, yeah. I made this odd, excited "DAAA!" noise when Denisof showed up. I somehow managed to forget he was in this, I guess.. Whedon did that with me and Marsters on BtVS, too - knowledge that they would eventually appear in the shows was largely responsible for my beginning to watch them when I did, but, by the time they did finally show up, I was invested in the story enough that I had completely forgotten about them. Colour me impressed. Y'know, again.
Also, damnation, I've thought before that Denisof can be very Colbert-y when I puts his mind to it (see also Sandy Rivers), but I would be somewhat surprised if he wasn't intentionally channeling him here, at least a little.
Also also, I was legitimately surprised when he didn't have a British accent. Heh.
5) Topher is absolutely the lovechild of Warren and Andrew. I don't know why they would have created such a thing, but you can't tell me they couldn't have figured out a way if they had put their twisted little minds to the task.
In tangentially related news, I'm still 80% certain the Rossum Corporation is a division of Wolfram & Hart, and I frickin' love Saunders. I don't think it should surprise anyone that she's my favourite character, and has been since basically the beginning.
* Because of the actor in question, I should clarify that I mean a position not unlike the one I was put in after seeing Alexis Denisof in the Angel episode "Billy," not anything to do with Paul Campbell's character from Battlestar Galactica.
I have just discovered the fatal flaw in my plan to paint Lorne tonight: there is no green paint in this house. Seems as though there will be a trip to the store in my future.
(Um...just to make sure we're all on the same page, I am discussing painting something to look like the character from Angel, I am not talking about doing something that should be reported to PETA.)