Your regularly scheduled fangirling
Finally caught up with all my shows. Spoilers up to the newest episodes for each show below.
Misfits
Ok, it's official, I ship Simon/Nathan now. I know it's so dysfunctional and Nathan's such a twat that I want to smack him half the time, but I don't know. I just... like seeing them together I guess.
I'm not so sure what to make of the whole Simon/Alisha storyline. I really didn't see it coming, so it was a surprise. Not really liking it, but not disliking it either.
One thing that really bugs me is the time travel. Since future!Simon dies protecting Alisha, then Simon has no future past that point right? I mean, I don't know what sort of time travel he's using, but that seems to be the most logical conclusion. And the whole gamer episode - I had so many issues with that I just don't even know where to start.
Oh! And Nathan's immortality! I always wonder, in stories with immortal people, how far that immortality goes. Usually that means no aging, immunity from all diseases, and so on, but I wonder about murder. I know in Blade of the Immortal Manji can't reanimate if his head is cut off (or if he's hacked into too-tiny pieces, IIRC), but then it seems like Jack Harkness can live through absolutely anything. So how would you come back to life if your head was chopped off and kept separate from your body? Would you grow a new head/body, or like, be two separate living parts until they found each other again (since I'm assuming you don't really need food)?
And this train of thought reminds me of a really cool Devil May Cry fic that I read ages ago that focused on Dante, being unable to have normal relationships, because him being a (mostly-immortal) half-demon, carried like, every human disease ever known.
/morbid thoughts
Supernatural
My gut feeling is that, at the end of the series, Sam is going to get his soul back and Cas will fix him and everyone will be back to what passes for happy in the Supernatural world. But it's Supernatural - the writers seem to like taking us on angsty rollercoaster rides, so you never know. But if Sam gets his soul back and ends up insane or something similar? I might just cry T___T
Bones
OMG. If the show keeps going like this I don't know if I'll be able to keep watching it. I mean, Bones is SO SAD and I just want to see her happy again. Like, ok, so Booth is in a relationship now, but I hope Bones can get over it and find someone else who's good for her. It might not be the epic romance that I was hoping for with Bones/Booth, but I can't deal with watching her pining away and being miserable.
Merlin
I LOVED The Coming of Arthur Part 1, but Part 2 was a bit of a disappointment to me, story-wise (pretty-people-wise, it exceeded all my expectations ;)). It just seemed a bit anticlimactic. And also, WTF was up with Morgana's screeching at the end? She sounded like an actual harpy.
But other than that, I'm still overflowing with Merlin squee! Colin and Bradley are too adorable <3
The Walking Dead
I am SO disappointed by this show. The first episode was great - I loved it! But then it just went downhill and didn't stop. At the end of the last episode I was hoping that everyone would get stuck in the CDC, so we could see a new group next season. As it is, I don't think I'll be coming back to this show.
Note 1: Google Wave is now Apache Wave (doesn't have as nice a ring, does it?). I don't know if that means Google will be keeping the current version of Wave up or not (they'd planned to take down the site at the end of the year), but they've added an option to download waves as zip files, so now might be a good time to back up your waves if you have anything important.
Note 2: I'm thinking of doing an SGA re-watch over the holidays. Definitely not the whole series. It'll probably be a few choice episodes (off the top of my head I'm thinking Rising pt 1 and 2, The Eye/The Storm, Conversion, more early-season stuff), just enough to fill me with warm fuzzies. I don't know what would be a good way to do this though. IM? IRC? Or should I just make a post on sga_squee?
PS I totally think 'fangirly' should be an official mood, except for the fact that there's not really a gender-neutral equivalent.
Misfits
Ok, it's official, I ship Simon/Nathan now. I know it's so dysfunctional and Nathan's such a twat that I want to smack him half the time, but I don't know. I just... like seeing them together I guess.
I'm not so sure what to make of the whole Simon/Alisha storyline. I really didn't see it coming, so it was a surprise. Not really liking it, but not disliking it either.
One thing that really bugs me is the time travel. Since future!Simon dies protecting Alisha, then Simon has no future past that point right? I mean, I don't know what sort of time travel he's using, but that seems to be the most logical conclusion. And the whole gamer episode - I had so many issues with that I just don't even know where to start.
Oh! And Nathan's immortality! I always wonder, in stories with immortal people, how far that immortality goes. Usually that means no aging, immunity from all diseases, and so on, but I wonder about murder. I know in Blade of the Immortal Manji can't reanimate if his head is cut off (or if he's hacked into too-tiny pieces, IIRC), but then it seems like Jack Harkness can live through absolutely anything. So how would you come back to life if your head was chopped off and kept separate from your body? Would you grow a new head/body, or like, be two separate living parts until they found each other again (since I'm assuming you don't really need food)?
And this train of thought reminds me of a really cool Devil May Cry fic that I read ages ago that focused on Dante, being unable to have normal relationships, because him being a (mostly-immortal) half-demon, carried like, every human disease ever known.
/morbid thoughts
Supernatural
My gut feeling is that, at the end of the series, Sam is going to get his soul back and Cas will fix him and everyone will be back to what passes for happy in the Supernatural world. But it's Supernatural - the writers seem to like taking us on angsty rollercoaster rides, so you never know. But if Sam gets his soul back and ends up insane or something similar? I might just cry T___T
Bones
OMG. If the show keeps going like this I don't know if I'll be able to keep watching it. I mean, Bones is SO SAD and I just want to see her happy again. Like, ok, so Booth is in a relationship now, but I hope Bones can get over it and find someone else who's good for her. It might not be the epic romance that I was hoping for with Bones/Booth, but I can't deal with watching her pining away and being miserable.
Merlin
I LOVED The Coming of Arthur Part 1, but Part 2 was a bit of a disappointment to me, story-wise (pretty-people-wise, it exceeded all my expectations ;)). It just seemed a bit anticlimactic. And also, WTF was up with Morgana's screeching at the end? She sounded like an actual harpy.
But other than that, I'm still overflowing with Merlin squee! Colin and Bradley are too adorable <3
The Walking Dead
I am SO disappointed by this show. The first episode was great - I loved it! But then it just went downhill and didn't stop. At the end of the last episode I was hoping that everyone would get stuck in the CDC, so we could see a new group next season. As it is, I don't think I'll be coming back to this show.
Note 1: Google Wave is now Apache Wave (doesn't have as nice a ring, does it?). I don't know if that means Google will be keeping the current version of Wave up or not (they'd planned to take down the site at the end of the year), but they've added an option to download waves as zip files, so now might be a good time to back up your waves if you have anything important.
Note 2: I'm thinking of doing an SGA re-watch over the holidays. Definitely not the whole series. It'll probably be a few choice episodes (off the top of my head I'm thinking Rising pt 1 and 2, The Eye/The Storm, Conversion, more early-season stuff), just enough to fill me with warm fuzzies. I don't know what would be a good way to do this though. IM? IRC? Or should I just make a post on sga_squee?
PS I totally think 'fangirly' should be an official mood, except for the fact that there's not really a gender-neutral equivalent.