'Cause we live in a house of mirrors
Listen, I didn't ask for hot flashes. I don't want hot flashes. Can't I give them back? (amusing Thanksgiving story: every time I did something - had coffee, or wine, or chocolate, or turkey, my sister was like, "You know drinking/eating X can cause hot flashes, right?" Me: *heavy sigh* "I know." Of course, she's still put out that she went 11 months without a period and then when she thought she was finally done, nope, she had to restart the clock.)
Meanwhile, work continues to be hectic and occasionally infuriating. Perhaps a locked post over the weekend? Idk if I have the energy to write it out.
Let's talk about Arrow since that was the best episode of the show in a long time!
♥♥♥MOIRA♥♥♥
I'd heard she said no last time they asked her back, so I was surprised and so pleased to see her last night! MOIRA! The show definitely lost something when she died. (Otoh, I was sad Manu Bennett is still not returning as Slade.)
"The Man Who Has Everything"/"Perchance to Dream" type episodes are usually big winners for me - though I haven't seen the one they did with Supergirl last season, I can't imagine it topped this one because this had four seasons of resonance behind it.
Stephen Amell knocked it out of the park last night - I got a little choked up during his conversations with Moira and Robert and Thea - ZOMG THEA REMAINS THE BEST. Also they still have that stupidly zingy chemistry that was one of the best things about this show in s1 when it was still finding its way. But Thea! "That's two more spaceships than I ever thought I'd be on." And then figuring out how to fly it! That's my girl.
I felt like Barry and Kara went way too hard at that cyborg lady - and then high-fived about it! - and perhaps that's as good an explanation as any for why that kid turned his attitude on metas around so quickly.
But otherwise, I loved everything about this - how Oliver and Sara both got some closure with Laurel, and Oliver got to say goodbye to his parents one last heartbreaking time, after choosing the hard life of a vigilante hero rather than the illusion of happiness.
While I was lying awake at 4:30 am this morning, I thought it was interesting that the Flash episode was about heroes vs. heroes, or man vs. man, and the Arrow episode was about Oliver and company against their own fantasy lives, i.e., man vs. himself. So does that mean tonight on LoT we'll finally get man vs. nature or extraterrestrial anyway?
So even given that I haven't watched Arrow in a while, that was a super satisfying episode.
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Meanwhile, work continues to be hectic and occasionally infuriating. Perhaps a locked post over the weekend? Idk if I have the energy to write it out.
Let's talk about Arrow since that was the best episode of the show in a long time!
♥♥♥MOIRA♥♥♥
I'd heard she said no last time they asked her back, so I was surprised and so pleased to see her last night! MOIRA! The show definitely lost something when she died. (Otoh, I was sad Manu Bennett is still not returning as Slade.)
"The Man Who Has Everything"/"Perchance to Dream" type episodes are usually big winners for me - though I haven't seen the one they did with Supergirl last season, I can't imagine it topped this one because this had four seasons of resonance behind it.
Stephen Amell knocked it out of the park last night - I got a little choked up during his conversations with Moira and Robert and Thea - ZOMG THEA REMAINS THE BEST. Also they still have that stupidly zingy chemistry that was one of the best things about this show in s1 when it was still finding its way. But Thea! "That's two more spaceships than I ever thought I'd be on." And then figuring out how to fly it! That's my girl.
I felt like Barry and Kara went way too hard at that cyborg lady - and then high-fived about it! - and perhaps that's as good an explanation as any for why that kid turned his attitude on metas around so quickly.
But otherwise, I loved everything about this - how Oliver and Sara both got some closure with Laurel, and Oliver got to say goodbye to his parents one last heartbreaking time, after choosing the hard life of a vigilante hero rather than the illusion of happiness.
While I was lying awake at 4:30 am this morning, I thought it was interesting that the Flash episode was about heroes vs. heroes, or man vs. man, and the Arrow episode was about Oliver and company against their own fantasy lives, i.e., man vs. himself. So does that mean tonight on LoT we'll finally get man vs. nature or extraterrestrial anyway?
So even given that I haven't watched Arrow in a while, that was a super satisfying episode.
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This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/890374.html.
people have commented there.