look, i'm saving the flea story for a rainy day, and right now it's brilliant outside.
HOKAY, reviews!
Leverage:
Despite everything, I really really liked this episode, and not even in an ironic sort of you're-so-adorably-failboaty as I have with Leverage eps in the past. The guest stars were fucking stellar and oh my god, I was legit choking back tears at the end. Jesus Christ. Hardison and Eliot's HUGS<-----PLURAL. HUGS. I THOUGHT I WAS HALLUCINATING. And Eliot just going for that second one, like he saw Parker leave Hardison hanging and just BAM. He's there, man, he's all over that. Parker and Eliot being the ones who were smart enough to leave the dead guy behind, even with Parker trying so hard not to be. Ugggggh their BONDING. ♥_________♥ OT3 ALL OVER THE FUCKING PLACE, MY HEART. Hardison is definitely the gooey chocolate center in their inverted oreo cookie, I KNEW IT.
This that did not fly: cold drains batteries like a son of a bitch. This is why we've moved our battery box from our not-entirely-heated-garage to the music closet in the living room--brand new batteries would just be dead. DEAD. I don't understand why the tv execs think the exact opposite--maybe some phone batteries are different but i'm thinking no.
OKAY LET'S TALK ABOUT ALASKA. #1, I have never ever heard of that mountain, and neither have my parents. Best Guess is that they were going for Mount McKinley....maybe? But Hardison's little 3D replica of the thing--sorry, it's just not how mountains are made here. Our mountains are broader and jagged-er, and i know it's a nit-picky thing, but there you go. I will give them kudos for having real snow 95% of the time. It's really obvious (to me) when snow isn't real (just ask flightjacket how many times I complained about the "frost" in Dr. Who) so seriously, A++ in that arena. UMMMMM while we're talking about the snow, though, on a mountain it is not all puffy and cute like it was when Eliot and Parker were climbing in the first couple shots. You never ever take your gloves off, not even to handle a dead guy's cell phone, and as frozen as he was, dying like he did, his body and every article of clothing on it would have been one solid chunk of ice. You can't flip back the jacket to get at the diary, is what i'm saying. You'd actually have to hack at him until you could dig out the book which would be a frozen brick of frozen book.
BUT AGAIN, these are nitpicky things, and I dearly loved the absence of airplane lube deus ex machina. \O/
White Collar!
OH MY GOD, BABY MOZZIE. alksdjfladskjfla MY HEART, MY SOUL, OH WIDDLE BABY JEEBUS, I CAN'T REALLY GET INTO HOW AWESOME EVERY SINGLE THING WAS, BUBBLE GUM ICE CREAM AAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
And in other news, plastic banana knife. o___________o .....I have a plastic banana. It's been sitting in our fruit bowl for as long as I can remember. ..........Just putting that out there.
X-MEN. I GOT TO SEE X-MEN. AND I'M GONNA EAT IT EVERY DAY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT--
1) Havock and Darwin = totally doing it. And I don't buy that Darwin is really and truly dead. Made to SURVIVE, YO. I would absolutely not be surprised if he reincarnated re-evolvedfrom a speck of dust into a higher life form WITH THE POWER OF MAN ON MAN LOVE HE HAD FOR ALEX, NOT KIDDING.
2) The eyefucking ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh the eyefucking between Eric and Xavier ohhhhhmmyyyyyyyygodddddddddd. I caught a glimpse of someone on my flist who was disappointed that the hype had let her down in this regard, but I just can't see HOW. Xavier jumped in the water to save him because he picked up on Eric's pain ~through the air~ and couldn't bear to see him hurting, he taught Eric how to fly magnet things by thinking HAPPY THOUGHTS, they watched each other cry big fat manful tears and held each other when the other was hurt, Eric said Xavier had left a HOLE IN HIS LIFE BY LEAVING, and and and GENERALLY THERE SHOULD BE GAY SEX ALL OVER THE PLACE. ALL. NIGHT. LONG. I truly believe this would have stopped the mutant divide. *delusional nod*
That being said, I have but two words: Fuschia. Helmet. It's not intimidating. It is, in fact, fuschia. This is what happens when you don't let Hank design your wardrobe.
My brother asked why Eri kept slipping into an Irish accent, which I honestly had failed to pick up on, but I did remember that Michael Fassbender is Irish, right? And James McAvoy is Scottish, which just makes them a match made in romeo'n'juliet heaven, Y/Y/MFY? FOUR TIMES, JAMES SAID, FOUR TIMES THEY HAD SEX. ASDJK
Also, I don't really buy Raven's reasons for leaving. Like a lot. Also don't buy Xavier's sudden interest in the CIA agent. HANK, THOUGH, FUCKING ADORABLE AND I LOVE HIM. I really didn't get that he was the blue gorilla guy with Frasier's voice from the later movies until he turned full-ape. HUGH JACKMAN CAMEO, YESSSSS. I APPROVE.
So come on. Recs. Bring it bring it bring it, bbs, I do want like a mo fo.
In other news, I just moved 20-odd bowling balls onto our lawn for next weekend's Macho Bocce Ball Party. This is my life.