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I really, really, really hate not getting along with people. It's not even that I don't like confrontation (which I don't, at all, but that's not the point of this) it's just that I don't like feeling like things aren't all right. Even when I'm actively not getting along with someone I don't like, I feel like things are off, and I can't really enjoy anything I'm doing. But when I'm not getting along with someone I do like, or love, everything is just...muted. Like nothing seems as interesting, nothing seems as enjoyable, no matter how much I might normally love it. Even when it's a small disagreement. And I'm sure that's true for everyone, to some degree, right? I don't know. I just hate feeling like someone I care about is out there going, "Ooo, that Jess, I could strangle her right now." I don't like to think about people thinking about me, period, but thinking about people thinking badly of me just makes me so unhappy. Like Michael Scott would say, it's not that I have to be liked, I like being liked, I enjoy being liked, I have to be liked, but it's not an obsessive thing like my need to be praised. /not verbatim I'm sorry but I'm not going to go look up that quote. :D
/ ramble-y junk that you don't care about hokai.
So, TV! Which, gosh, I watch way too much of.
Dirty Sexy Money
A couple people on my flist recommended this, and gah WHY DO I ALWAYS SUCK AT PICKING SHOWS. Well, that's not necessarily true, I did pick SPN and Heroes, but I also picked Profit and The Black Donnellys. :-/ But yeah, so, I really should have started watching DSM from the beginning.
I sort of fell for Seth Gabel when he played the kid who was sleeping with his transsexual mom on Nip/Tuck. (The spoiler is old, but it's a big one, so if you haven't seen that show, don't read it. It's worth the surprise if you haven't been spoiled already.) I also love Samaire Armstrong, and hi, this is me we're talking about, if there's any possibility of fictional incestuous relationships on a show, I'm all over it, and these two are definitely possible. But I really can't get myself to like Samaire's character. I know they're all rich and spoiled, but she's the only one who's sort of kind of pretending she's not, and that just bugs me to no end. So I guess we'll see how that character develops.
But I do love the show, and akldajsdflasdfj I'm sorry, I'm usually not into older gents at all, but if I had to do one, it would probably be Donald Sutherland. I literally stare at his hair the entire time I'm watching his scenes. Is that natural? His hair, I mean, not the fact that I stare at it. I know that's not natural. But damn, that man is well up there in years, and his hair looks amazing. Plus he's got that Sutherland voice, and that voice does things to me.
Also, Billy Baldwin is basically Alec's twin now, amirite? I mean, seriously. Wow. Also, I love Carmelita, you should have seen how far my jaw dropped when she first spoke. That woman is gorgeous.
Dexter
As much as I love the books, I'm really glad they're doing something totally different with the series. The only thing I dislike, as a couple other people on my flist have pointed out, is that book!Cody is much more broken and traumatized than TV!Cody, and I like book!Cody much better. It worries me because I seriously doubt they'll go the same way with Cody that the books did, and I really love what they did with both him and Aster in the books.
"You owe me a Michelin, motherfucker." Doakes is still my favorite. Hands down.
I don't really know where they're going with this St. LaGuerta thing. I have a hard time believing that after last season, she's willing to forgo her own career just to prove a point with her boss, or to show some sort of feminist solidarity. I still think she has ulterior motives, and if she doesn't, I'm going to be really disappointed. I really like to dislike her.
I don't like Lila. There's really no reason to bring in a potential new love interest, right? I mean...Dexter doesn't do love, or at least not like a normal person, so it's not like he's going to get all hot and bothered and have a crisis of conscience about cheating on Rita. And I really hope they're not trying to give him some new killing companion or whatever to replace Rudy/Brian. No one can replace Rudy/Brian, hokai. Ghostly!Rudy/Brian needs to come back and keep his little brother company.
Supernatural
So...not overwhelmed with love on this one. And I really, really thought I would be. Daddy!Dean hits high on my "yes plz!" scale, even not-really-the-daddy-but-paternal-anyway!Dean. And I figured the kid wouldn't be his in the end, because that would be a lot to throw on top of an already emotional season. But I personally would have loved to see it be his anyway, because I don't think many people would have expected it (the "he's just like Dean!" was way too over the top, IMO, so it would have made sense that it was just to throw us off of thinking Ben really was Dean's) and because I would have loved to see how Dean reacted to that, how he'd deal with the new responsibility and the repercussions of his lifestyle.
Which brings me to a question I've been pondering: just how many women has Dean slept with? (Saying he's only slept with women, which I'm not, but. That's a question for another time.) So, poll!
This poll isn't to gauge how many times he's had sex, because I'm sure we're all aware that if you have Dean Winchester in your bed, you do not stop at once. Ever. Just how many women overall he's been with. I know the number increments are wonky, but they seemed to fit.
Poll Let's talk about sex, baby
I still don't know about the blonde. I really don't like her, but I don't know if I'm being unfairly biased because I really and truly disliked the blonde they tried to insert into the show last season and I'm just transferring, or if I don't like her for her. Plus, I feel like if I say I don't like her, I'm automatically labeled as not liking her because she's a girl on the show or because I'm misogynistic or something.
Back to the Ben not being Dean's kid thing. So, how is it that the mom did a blood test without samples from the possible father(s)? She did say she met the father at a bar and didn't have a mailing address for him, right? So...are we thinking maybe she's lying and Ben could be Dean's after all? Or is this just an example of the magic of TV, where there doesn't need to be a match for a blood test to say Some Guy Who Isn't Dean is the dad?
While my brother and I were watching it, he mentioned off-handedly that maybe Lisa slept with John, and Ben is Dean's brother. Which, at the time, seemed ridiculous, but hey, if Dean is/was Lisa's type, who says John wasn't, too? And even if it's not true, it'd make an interesting fic.
Heroes
I don't like West. There is something creepy and off-putting about him.
I was actually kinda relieved there was no Hiro this episode, which sounds mean but isn't. I love Hiro dearly, but that storyline is just kind of boring me at the moment.
Making up for the sort of slow pace of some of the storylines, though, is MOTHEREFFING SYLAR TO THE RESCUE. Except, not rescuing so much as smashing people's heads in with bricks and creepifying up my screen with little smirks and sexifying it up with black wifebeaters and scruff and being tall and hot. Yeah, the more Sylar on my screen, the better.
But also, the more Matt/Mohinder/Molly on my screen, the better, too, because that little haven of domestic bliss is about the cutest thing I've ever seen. I know I'm not the only one that thinks Matt and Mohinder are about as couple-y a couple as ever a couple has been. Aww, and Janice's baby wasn't Matt's? That about broke my heart. :( Did we know that before? I didn't know that, but I feel like maybe everyone else did.
I was worried for a while that Micah's cousin's (can't remember her name) power was the ability to carve vegetables. Which would make her very useful for parties, but not so much in a fight, since I don't think rosebud tomatoes are very painful when lobbed. My brother, being the total freak that he is, also noticed that the wrestling match the other cousin was watching was like two years old, and he explained to me which wrestlers were on and that one of them isn't even in the WWE anymore, like somehow his explaining would make me care, but it was an interesting observation. We decided that instead of it just being a production problem, it was in fact Micah's way of screwing over his ass of a cousin. "Yeah, I'll get you Pay-Per-View, but it will be TWO YEARS OLD PAY-PER-VIEW AND YOU WILL HAVE NOTHING TO SAY WHEN YOUR FRIENDS DISCUSS THE LATEST MATCH."
This is super long. If I had something to offer in appreciation of your reading, I'd offer it, but seeing as how the rain that we've been having for TWO WEEKS STRAIGHT makes my internet connection stop working every five minutes or so, I have not been doing any uploading. So you'll just have to take my less fun thanks very much. ♥
