Oi, Padalecki, cut your hair!
Watched the Rory graduates from high school Gilmore Girls ep. Lots of wonderful moments, although Alexis Bledel gabbling through Rory's valedictorian speech wasn't one of them. I will disbelieve any pretentions that Rory is a great public orator, from now, because that was definitive proof that she isn't. And she used a double negative. How very l33t of her.
Having said that, yeah, the tribute to Lorelai was lovely. LG looked especially stunning in the red, the way that the financial issues were resolved were very in character for everyone involved (and Emily's attitude towards money is so very wrong). Just, general joy, from the Kirk moments, to Lorelai and Sookie (how do you spell her name?) getting her inn, but, er, won't the start-up coincide with the latter stages of Sookie's pregnancy and then her baby's first years?
And then there was the dream. Oh, Luke.
I am thisclose to calling the brothers Winchester the tall one and the hot one to separate them out. The fourth ep felt like an X-Files ep, and they even referenced the show. Aw, bless.
Shallow thought: the black suits. Mgdofhagccccccccccccccccccc.
More deeply, Ackles nailed this. He played all the laughs and all the quieter moments juuust right; he was expressive when he needed to be and sold his lines. Meanwhile, Padalecki...needs to cut his hair. Er. There's playing the brooder, and then there's having a default puzzled frown (see also the bloke who plays Duncan Kane) which is pretty, but unless if the writers are insensate beings, they'll be giving Ackles all the meaty stuff.
Ooh, and I liked the snarky man who knew their father. Can he be a recurring character? His comments to his co-workers were one of the highlights of the show.
Meanwhile, ITV2, while I appreciate you advertising SPN on your 'Look at all these new shows we are showing' trailer, it's not exclusive if you're repeating it on ITV1 the next night.
I read some fic and all of Saturday's supplements yesterday (woo! Georgette Heyer is experiencing a renaissance in lending libraries. How some of her heroines would have approved. The Bath ones nearly always signed up to the lending library, didn't they?) But no books, partly because I'm waiting on a delivery from Amazon.
It occurred to me yesterday that there's a new facet I hadn't considered to how I pick books to read and buy, because the other day, I saw a novel by Kethy Reichs, but set it back down. This would be one of the book series that inspired 'Bones', and it was my enjoyment of that show, the dynamics and the performances, that made me reject the primary source, happy to stick with the adaptation.
The same thing has happened with Val McDermid's Tony Hill books and Elizabeth George's Inspector Lynley books. I watch the TV shows, but don't read the novels that inspired them. I know that there have been definite changes between the TV Lynley and the book Lynley, characters lopped and so on. But a lot of it is just wanting to keep the primacy of the performances, and ok, to be completely frank, the ships as they stand on the shows. And speaking of them, I wonder if Lynley or WITB are coming back soonish? Lynley I watch for the pretty and Sharon Small's Barbara, WITB is compulsively excellent, and sick. Plus it'd be interesting to make a comparison between the Tony/Carole and Bones/Boothe Copper/squint dynamics.
As to those fanfics that I read. Oh, people, please, please, please put a nice white space between your paragraphs! It's only two presses of the Enter key. Easy like a Sunday morning - and more friendly to the eye on one. Furthermore, don't give up half way, this advice is for the whole fic.
I don't get why writers want to make it more difficult for readers to understand what they're saying. Grammar and punctuation are there to give us a common way of communicating. Being sloppy or ignorant about them just pushes readers away from the muddle. If you're telling a story, tell t using full-stops and quotation marks, capital letters and proof reading. Please.
Having said that, yeah, the tribute to Lorelai was lovely. LG looked especially stunning in the red, the way that the financial issues were resolved were very in character for everyone involved (and Emily's attitude towards money is so very wrong). Just, general joy, from the Kirk moments, to Lorelai and Sookie (how do you spell her name?) getting her inn, but, er, won't the start-up coincide with the latter stages of Sookie's pregnancy and then her baby's first years?
And then there was the dream. Oh, Luke.
I am thisclose to calling the brothers Winchester the tall one and the hot one to separate them out. The fourth ep felt like an X-Files ep, and they even referenced the show. Aw, bless.
Shallow thought: the black suits. Mgdofhagccccccccccccccccccc.
More deeply, Ackles nailed this. He played all the laughs and all the quieter moments juuust right; he was expressive when he needed to be and sold his lines. Meanwhile, Padalecki...needs to cut his hair. Er. There's playing the brooder, and then there's having a default puzzled frown (see also the bloke who plays Duncan Kane) which is pretty, but unless if the writers are insensate beings, they'll be giving Ackles all the meaty stuff.
Ooh, and I liked the snarky man who knew their father. Can he be a recurring character? His comments to his co-workers were one of the highlights of the show.
Meanwhile, ITV2, while I appreciate you advertising SPN on your 'Look at all these new shows we are showing' trailer, it's not exclusive if you're repeating it on ITV1 the next night.
I read some fic and all of Saturday's supplements yesterday (woo! Georgette Heyer is experiencing a renaissance in lending libraries. How some of her heroines would have approved. The Bath ones nearly always signed up to the lending library, didn't they?) But no books, partly because I'm waiting on a delivery from Amazon.
It occurred to me yesterday that there's a new facet I hadn't considered to how I pick books to read and buy, because the other day, I saw a novel by Kethy Reichs, but set it back down. This would be one of the book series that inspired 'Bones', and it was my enjoyment of that show, the dynamics and the performances, that made me reject the primary source, happy to stick with the adaptation.
The same thing has happened with Val McDermid's Tony Hill books and Elizabeth George's Inspector Lynley books. I watch the TV shows, but don't read the novels that inspired them. I know that there have been definite changes between the TV Lynley and the book Lynley, characters lopped and so on. But a lot of it is just wanting to keep the primacy of the performances, and ok, to be completely frank, the ships as they stand on the shows. And speaking of them, I wonder if Lynley or WITB are coming back soonish? Lynley I watch for the pretty and Sharon Small's Barbara, WITB is compulsively excellent, and sick. Plus it'd be interesting to make a comparison between the Tony/Carole and Bones/Boothe Copper/squint dynamics.
As to those fanfics that I read. Oh, people, please, please, please put a nice white space between your paragraphs! It's only two presses of the Enter key. Easy like a Sunday morning - and more friendly to the eye on one. Furthermore, don't give up half way, this advice is for the whole fic.
I don't get why writers want to make it more difficult for readers to understand what they're saying. Grammar and punctuation are there to give us a common way of communicating. Being sloppy or ignorant about them just pushes readers away from the muddle. If you're telling a story, tell t using full-stops and quotation marks, capital letters and proof reading. Please.