basket, basket maker...guy who didn't bring enough money...
Como estan, bitches! (TY Sarah :D) (I apologize, I watched Anchorman last night. I love lamp). So last night I had this extended dream wherein I had a long-lost sister lol. She was like 25 and thought I was a bitch for a while because I was shy but then eventually we became BFFs and then she moved to Iceland for work. I wonder what work requires you to move to Iceland. Maybe research on chees grand masters, as Iceland has more chess grand masters per capita than anywhere else in the world. Check it, fact fans.
I don't know if you can tell but i have little to say today. Oh, wait, I totally forgot to post my Heroes premiere thoughts! K, I'll do that.
- Most unintentionally hilarious part: Mum (who I watch this show with) and I have now started doing air quotes and saying "UNCLE" or "BROTHERS" whenever the Petrellis do or say things that are vaguely incestual. When Claire was like "Peter, why can't you help me?" and Peter turned around, my mum suddenly said "BECAUSE I LOVE YOU!". And I laughed because it was funny, and because I seriously did expect those exact words to come out of Peter's mouth. I know Hayden's hitting that in real life, but these two are getting a little too canonically close for comfort. "I ALWAYS LOVED YOU." (How can I be a bit weirded out by Peter/Claire when I totally support Peter/Nathan, you ask? Well, Milo and Adrian have a mystery between them. They're certainly very, very close, but we know for a fact that in real life they're not THAT close. Hayden and Milo are and it's creeping into the show and I don't really like it). (I still love my Claire Bear though).
- I completely forgot that: Claire's mum is aware of her power. This is partly because I have wiped season 2 from my brain in a Haitian type way. So when Claire lifted her hand and there was glass in it and she pulled it out and healed, I was surprised when her mum was like "Yeah, so, you healed..." On that note, some issues I have: I remember it being said by one of the producers back in the season 1 days that Claire does feel pain but "feels it differently to you and me". Now apparently we're meant to believe she felt it exactly the same as the rest of us, yet she's had bones sticking out of her body before - hell, in the pilot she walked halfway home with a rib sticking out - and didn't even notice, implying she couldn't really feel it. She stuck her hand in the freaking garbage disposal in the pilot and all she did was grunt! I get that she felt some pain when she hacked into herself, but if she felt it like we do, you know, she'd have been screaming at some of the things she's done to herself. And that whole speech about how the pain is the only thing that reminds her she's human? Felt REALLY out of place, and a bit like it was appealing to the teenage audience. Also a little insulting for anyone that's had a real problem with self-injury (though she's a character people with self-injury problems should not watch, period - Claire is very triggery). The speech she did to the camera before she tried to get hit by the train was so cheesy. I mean, poor girl was shell-shocked, but...
- Most intentionally hilarious part: "Thank you Mr Turtle, you've saved my life". And then the African dude walks up LMAO. My mum thought it was awesome for about five seconds that Matt could telepathically communicate with turtles, though.
- Part that I didn't think would be hot, but was: Mohinder and Maya having hot monkey sex on the floor. Actually, let's backtrack: Mohinder hopped up on adrenaline was pretty hot to begin with. I only like Mohinder when he's shirtless and isn't talking. I was actually surprised to find that Maya and Mohinder have chemistry in spades. They go well together. Two annoying characters together become less annoying! Also, my mum has a theory that Maya is now pregnant. Please tell me that's not happening Also also, way to completely not solve a single one of Maya's problems and somehow make them all about yourself, Mohinder. Jeez. And WTF VOICEOVER! I thought we got rid of those! I'm sure we did! There were protests and everything!
- Part I did not expect: Lindermann is invisible and/or imaginary and/or Nathan is slightly wacko. What?
- Parts I also did not expect: And then Sylar and Claire were like "...MOM?"
- Part I REALLY would never have expected, but like the idea of and am willing to ~roll with~: Nathan loves Jesus and Jesus loves him. But let's remember Nathan also likes corruption, politics and girls for hire. Ahem.
- Best resurrected ship that isn't: Nathan/Niki! "Speaking of sin..."! Yes, yes, yes. I love this. I don't even care that she's Tracy and that she doesn't remember any of NikiEssica's actions. All I care about is she walks in and clear as day Nathan remembers her as that girl he met in Vegas. And let's remember what happened before/after all the sex they had: "The girl I met...was someone you wait your whole life to meet." And now he's insisting that she be on his staff. I love it. Because if you squint and tilt your head, it IS Nathan/Niki, and quite possibly may be again.
- Best part of anything ever: Peter/Nathan. Oh lord. It's just so wrong/right. Peter kissed him! Twice! Once while he was awake! The fact that Future!Peter shot Nathan and then went back in time to seek his forgiveness just broke me. The fact that Nathan was more concerned about what path he should take and what happens in the future than the fact his own brother shot him just broke me more. And of course that lovely season one blocking is back, with the closeness and the sweeping past each other and the invasion of personal space. They're just an epic OTP for me now. I missed having them around to squee over.
- Token spoilery question: You know Daphne the French speedster chick? Is Matt supposed to marry her in the future for some reason? I'm starting to get that idea from fic around the place. I think I actually support this. I miss his actual now-ex-wife and hypothetical kid, though.
A random Bones thought that just occurred to me - how does Bones manage to write novels when she clearly has no imagination or tolerance for anything that isn't scientifically viable? I mean, if it's not scientific, she doesn't understand it. She doesn't even understand basic colloquialisms. How exactly does she write novels that appeal to a general audience then??? You can't make a science out of writing a fiction book. I get that she's writing about science but it's been mentioned her books have romantic subplots and blah. I think the show's creators took the whole "based on KATHY REICHS ZOMG" premise a little too far with that. The character of Bones being a novelist as well as a scientist makes absolutely no sense to me. Especially considering the novelist thing is barely even referred to - but if she really was a prolific a novelist as she's made out to be in those instances (popular enough to be on TV and implying her books are bestsellers) then she'd have to be writing a LOT in her spare time to get her books done alongside a full-time career as a scientist keeping off hours. Publishers have timelines for these things. It's confusing and I don't get why she has to be a novelist in the first place (besides the whole "KATHY REICHS!!!" deal I mentioned)...
...though my biggest issue as far as Bones knowing nothing about pop culture is that somehow she was able to sing Girls Just Wanna Have Fun complete with both verses at five seconds notice. She wasn't even reading from a prompter either. I HAVE ISSUES WITH THIS INCONSISTANCY K.
Stuff I wanted to link:
-A Jewish take on the opening credits of Dexter. LULZ. It's actually really really well done though. BTW, I miss Dexter, and it's only been off air here for like two weeks. (They're playing season 2 of Californication now).
-There are a lot of pretty Gilmore icons here and 260 very pretty icons here that I liked.
- New LJ news post! Filled with generalized bitching as always. Apparentally LJ've upgraded their last.fm functionality and have doubled maximum comments in a post from 5000 to 10000 (though they require human verification for comments after the 5000th). Epic ONTD posts are about to get even more epic.
-Super cute Japanese flash games that I played for ages yesterday. They're addictive!
Tonight we're having McDonalds for dinner. WHO'S JEALOUS? The only complicated bit is my brother has recently become vegetarian/slightly vegan (he drinks soy milk but still eats yogurt and cheese...) and practically everything at McDonalds now contains meat or an animal product of some kind, including their ice cream. So basically his dinner is going to be fries, a garden salad with non-dairy-based dressing and an apple pie. I guess he could also have their cookies, but I don't trust Macca's not to put milk in them. Why oh why did you get rid of your chick pea vege burgers, Micky D's? For realz, yo.
My next entry, just to, I dunno, forewarn you all, will probably be me on my soapbox for Blog Action Day. I will try not to get too preachy :D
I don't know if you can tell but i have little to say today. Oh, wait, I totally forgot to post my Heroes premiere thoughts! K, I'll do that.
- Most unintentionally hilarious part: Mum (who I watch this show with) and I have now started doing air quotes and saying "UNCLE" or "BROTHERS" whenever the Petrellis do or say things that are vaguely incestual. When Claire was like "Peter, why can't you help me?" and Peter turned around, my mum suddenly said "BECAUSE I LOVE YOU!". And I laughed because it was funny, and because I seriously did expect those exact words to come out of Peter's mouth. I know Hayden's hitting that in real life, but these two are getting a little too canonically close for comfort. "I ALWAYS LOVED YOU." (How can I be a bit weirded out by Peter/Claire when I totally support Peter/Nathan, you ask? Well, Milo and Adrian have a mystery between them. They're certainly very, very close, but we know for a fact that in real life they're not THAT close. Hayden and Milo are and it's creeping into the show and I don't really like it). (I still love my Claire Bear though).
- I completely forgot that: Claire's mum is aware of her power. This is partly because I have wiped season 2 from my brain in a Haitian type way. So when Claire lifted her hand and there was glass in it and she pulled it out and healed, I was surprised when her mum was like "Yeah, so, you healed..." On that note, some issues I have: I remember it being said by one of the producers back in the season 1 days that Claire does feel pain but "feels it differently to you and me". Now apparently we're meant to believe she felt it exactly the same as the rest of us, yet she's had bones sticking out of her body before - hell, in the pilot she walked halfway home with a rib sticking out - and didn't even notice, implying she couldn't really feel it. She stuck her hand in the freaking garbage disposal in the pilot and all she did was grunt! I get that she felt some pain when she hacked into herself, but if she felt it like we do, you know, she'd have been screaming at some of the things she's done to herself. And that whole speech about how the pain is the only thing that reminds her she's human? Felt REALLY out of place, and a bit like it was appealing to the teenage audience. Also a little insulting for anyone that's had a real problem with self-injury (though she's a character people with self-injury problems should not watch, period - Claire is very triggery). The speech she did to the camera before she tried to get hit by the train was so cheesy. I mean, poor girl was shell-shocked, but...
- Most intentionally hilarious part: "Thank you Mr Turtle, you've saved my life". And then the African dude walks up LMAO. My mum thought it was awesome for about five seconds that Matt could telepathically communicate with turtles, though.
- Part that I didn't think would be hot, but was: Mohinder and Maya having hot monkey sex on the floor. Actually, let's backtrack: Mohinder hopped up on adrenaline was pretty hot to begin with. I only like Mohinder when he's shirtless and isn't talking. I was actually surprised to find that Maya and Mohinder have chemistry in spades. They go well together. Two annoying characters together become less annoying! Also, my mum has a theory that Maya is now pregnant. Please tell me that's not happening Also also, way to completely not solve a single one of Maya's problems and somehow make them all about yourself, Mohinder. Jeez. And WTF VOICEOVER! I thought we got rid of those! I'm sure we did! There were protests and everything!
- Part I did not expect: Lindermann is invisible and/or imaginary and/or Nathan is slightly wacko. What?
- Parts I also did not expect: And then Sylar and Claire were like "...MOM?"
- Part I REALLY would never have expected, but like the idea of and am willing to ~roll with~: Nathan loves Jesus and Jesus loves him. But let's remember Nathan also likes corruption, politics and girls for hire. Ahem.
- Best resurrected ship that isn't: Nathan/Niki! "Speaking of sin..."! Yes, yes, yes. I love this. I don't even care that she's Tracy and that she doesn't remember any of NikiEssica's actions. All I care about is she walks in and clear as day Nathan remembers her as that girl he met in Vegas. And let's remember what happened before/after all the sex they had: "The girl I met...was someone you wait your whole life to meet." And now he's insisting that she be on his staff. I love it. Because if you squint and tilt your head, it IS Nathan/Niki, and quite possibly may be again.
- Best part of anything ever: Peter/Nathan. Oh lord. It's just so wrong/right. Peter kissed him! Twice! Once while he was awake! The fact that Future!Peter shot Nathan and then went back in time to seek his forgiveness just broke me. The fact that Nathan was more concerned about what path he should take and what happens in the future than the fact his own brother shot him just broke me more. And of course that lovely season one blocking is back, with the closeness and the sweeping past each other and the invasion of personal space. They're just an epic OTP for me now. I missed having them around to squee over.
- Token spoilery question: You know Daphne the French speedster chick? Is Matt supposed to marry her in the future for some reason? I'm starting to get that idea from fic around the place. I think I actually support this. I miss his actual now-ex-wife and hypothetical kid, though.
A random Bones thought that just occurred to me - how does Bones manage to write novels when she clearly has no imagination or tolerance for anything that isn't scientifically viable? I mean, if it's not scientific, she doesn't understand it. She doesn't even understand basic colloquialisms. How exactly does she write novels that appeal to a general audience then??? You can't make a science out of writing a fiction book. I get that she's writing about science but it's been mentioned her books have romantic subplots and blah. I think the show's creators took the whole "based on KATHY REICHS ZOMG" premise a little too far with that. The character of Bones being a novelist as well as a scientist makes absolutely no sense to me. Especially considering the novelist thing is barely even referred to - but if she really was a prolific a novelist as she's made out to be in those instances (popular enough to be on TV and implying her books are bestsellers) then she'd have to be writing a LOT in her spare time to get her books done alongside a full-time career as a scientist keeping off hours. Publishers have timelines for these things. It's confusing and I don't get why she has to be a novelist in the first place (besides the whole "KATHY REICHS!!!" deal I mentioned)...
...though my biggest issue as far as Bones knowing nothing about pop culture is that somehow she was able to sing Girls Just Wanna Have Fun complete with both verses at five seconds notice. She wasn't even reading from a prompter either. I HAVE ISSUES WITH THIS INCONSISTANCY K.
Stuff I wanted to link:
-A Jewish take on the opening credits of Dexter. LULZ. It's actually really really well done though. BTW, I miss Dexter, and it's only been off air here for like two weeks. (They're playing season 2 of Californication now).
-There are a lot of pretty Gilmore icons here and 260 very pretty icons here that I liked.
- New LJ news post! Filled with generalized bitching as always. Apparentally LJ've upgraded their last.fm functionality and have doubled maximum comments in a post from 5000 to 10000 (though they require human verification for comments after the 5000th). Epic ONTD posts are about to get even more epic.
-Super cute Japanese flash games that I played for ages yesterday. They're addictive!
Tonight we're having McDonalds for dinner. WHO'S JEALOUS? The only complicated bit is my brother has recently become vegetarian/slightly vegan (he drinks soy milk but still eats yogurt and cheese...) and practically everything at McDonalds now contains meat or an animal product of some kind, including their ice cream. So basically his dinner is going to be fries, a garden salad with non-dairy-based dressing and an apple pie. I guess he could also have their cookies, but I don't trust Macca's not to put milk in them. Why oh why did you get rid of your chick pea vege burgers, Micky D's? For realz, yo.
My next entry, just to, I dunno, forewarn you all, will probably be me on my soapbox for Blog Action Day. I will try not to get too preachy :D