SPN 4x05
That was delightful. It was a nice break from the angstathon we're probably in for, but there were enough layers there that it didn't completely ignore how high the stakes are for them and it tied back into the mythology. I really enjoyed Jamie and I liked Dean's dynamic with her - he seemed to genuinely like her. It was a lot like the first season in feel. Dean's healthy appreciation for women didn't bother me until last season when the misogyny really started to grate. I like that Jamie saved the day. I wish Dean had said something along those lines when she was thanking them for saving her life, but I liked the ending; it was sweet.
(You guys, I really, really want to see Dean in a relationship. Or in a situation where he *could* be, anyway, if the world wasn't ending and everything didn't suck. I've said this before, I know, I know, but I want to read EPIC fanfic about Dean falling in love against his will because he has duty and things he has to be DOING and his main, guiding relationship will ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS be with Sam because family FIRST, but there's this thing that he doesn't know what to do with and, yeah. I mean, we all know how badly I want non-wincestuous Dean slash that fits that description, but het that fits it would also be emotionally satisfying to me. This is, like, the one fandom in which I would be willing to read multi-chapter epics with an OC as half of the main pairing, but I so, so, so would.)
The monster movie thing was awesome. The self-references were cute. Originally I didn't know who wrote it and I was thinking it felt like XF used to feel when they started getting sillier (probably because the black and white mixed with the monster movies reminded me of Post-Modern Prometheus), but then I looked it up and Ben Edlund! Yeah, that makes just as much sense. Dracula on a vespa! I see what you did there, Ben. <3
The rehymenated thing was . . . *handwaves* whatever, but what I found really, really compelling was that Dean no longer has his scars. (It is not surprising that I am fascinated by this, given how fixated I got on the consequences of Athena's post-Hera regeneration in BSG; apparently that was not an isolated incident and I have a Thing). I want fic about that, you guys, about loss and what the scars represented and how the body is tied to memory and what it means to have them gone. I haven't been reading a lot of fic in SPN lately, so if there IS fic about that, please let me know! (Please no Wincest, though. I haven't really been feeling it recently).
Overall, it was a nice break, but I will be ready to get back into the angst and doom. I understand why we haven't had a good look in Sam's head recently - he needs to be all angst ridden and broody, but hopefully he will have more to do soon.
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I have also caught up on The Office for this season. I don't know, you guys. This season isn't really doing it for me and last season didn't really do it for me either. I love Jim and Pam and I still think they're adorable and the proposal two weeks ago made me flail at my TV and make squeaking noises, but I'm to the point where I either actively dislike or am indifferent to everybody else. It's just gotten so over the top that where it used to be clever and biting it's now just kind of ridiculous. Thursday's episode hit my embarrassment squick so hard I almost couldn't watch it. Like, the whole episode I was flinching with my finger hovering over the fast forward button. I assume they are going to break Jim and Pam up because there won't be enough drama if Jim and Pam stay happy (though the ending scene was the best part of the episode this week). I will definitely continue to watch the show until that happens - at which point I will reevaluate.
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Last night I went with some friends to see the DC Shakespeare Theater's all male production of Romeo and Juliet. It was excellent. It was staged in such a way that it really drove home how young (and kind of ridiculous) the two characters are. The emphasis was on that rather than on Great Romance, but that emphasis didn't lessen the impact of the tragedy in any way. It might have heightened it, actually, making it seem all the more senseless. Anyway, it was very well done. My one complaint was that I didn't like the guy playing Mercutio all that much, which was annoying because I am somewhat bizarre in that I tend to judge productions of Romeo and Juliet by how I feel about Mercutio's death scene. :/ However, both the guy playing Romeo and the guy playing Juliet were really fantastic.
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Today my friends decided we had to marathon the BBC Pride and Prejudice for six hours. I have some Austenite friends here and they found the fact that I had never seen the BBC P&P pretty unacceptable. I enjoyed it and I do love the story, but I have to ask, how much of a freak am I that I don't swoon over Darcy? I *don't* and I haven't in pretty much any incarnation. I mean, he's okay. I like the character, but my knees don't go weak and it seems pretty clear to me that I am in a small minority. I think I am picky about my dark and broody.
(You guys, I really, really want to see Dean in a relationship. Or in a situation where he *could* be, anyway, if the world wasn't ending and everything didn't suck. I've said this before, I know, I know, but I want to read EPIC fanfic about Dean falling in love against his will because he has duty and things he has to be DOING and his main, guiding relationship will ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS be with Sam because family FIRST, but there's this thing that he doesn't know what to do with and, yeah. I mean, we all know how badly I want non-wincestuous Dean slash that fits that description, but het that fits it would also be emotionally satisfying to me. This is, like, the one fandom in which I would be willing to read multi-chapter epics with an OC as half of the main pairing, but I so, so, so would.)
The monster movie thing was awesome. The self-references were cute. Originally I didn't know who wrote it and I was thinking it felt like XF used to feel when they started getting sillier (probably because the black and white mixed with the monster movies reminded me of Post-Modern Prometheus), but then I looked it up and Ben Edlund! Yeah, that makes just as much sense. Dracula on a vespa! I see what you did there, Ben. <3
The rehymenated thing was . . . *handwaves* whatever, but what I found really, really compelling was that Dean no longer has his scars. (It is not surprising that I am fascinated by this, given how fixated I got on the consequences of Athena's post-Hera regeneration in BSG; apparently that was not an isolated incident and I have a Thing). I want fic about that, you guys, about loss and what the scars represented and how the body is tied to memory and what it means to have them gone. I haven't been reading a lot of fic in SPN lately, so if there IS fic about that, please let me know! (Please no Wincest, though. I haven't really been feeling it recently).
Overall, it was a nice break, but I will be ready to get back into the angst and doom. I understand why we haven't had a good look in Sam's head recently - he needs to be all angst ridden and broody, but hopefully he will have more to do soon.
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I have also caught up on The Office for this season. I don't know, you guys. This season isn't really doing it for me and last season didn't really do it for me either. I love Jim and Pam and I still think they're adorable and the proposal two weeks ago made me flail at my TV and make squeaking noises, but I'm to the point where I either actively dislike or am indifferent to everybody else. It's just gotten so over the top that where it used to be clever and biting it's now just kind of ridiculous. Thursday's episode hit my embarrassment squick so hard I almost couldn't watch it. Like, the whole episode I was flinching with my finger hovering over the fast forward button. I assume they are going to break Jim and Pam up because there won't be enough drama if Jim and Pam stay happy (though the ending scene was the best part of the episode this week). I will definitely continue to watch the show until that happens - at which point I will reevaluate.
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Last night I went with some friends to see the DC Shakespeare Theater's all male production of Romeo and Juliet. It was excellent. It was staged in such a way that it really drove home how young (and kind of ridiculous) the two characters are. The emphasis was on that rather than on Great Romance, but that emphasis didn't lessen the impact of the tragedy in any way. It might have heightened it, actually, making it seem all the more senseless. Anyway, it was very well done. My one complaint was that I didn't like the guy playing Mercutio all that much, which was annoying because I am somewhat bizarre in that I tend to judge productions of Romeo and Juliet by how I feel about Mercutio's death scene. :/ However, both the guy playing Romeo and the guy playing Juliet were really fantastic.
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Today my friends decided we had to marathon the BBC Pride and Prejudice for six hours. I have some Austenite friends here and they found the fact that I had never seen the BBC P&P pretty unacceptable. I enjoyed it and I do love the story, but I have to ask, how much of a freak am I that I don't swoon over Darcy? I *don't* and I haven't in pretty much any incarnation. I mean, he's okay. I like the character, but my knees don't go weak and it seems pretty clear to me that I am in a small minority. I think I am picky about my dark and broody.