WOW, I wish this download of Conan last night would go past 1%. It'd be nice, is all I'm saying.
I voted today, and then lost my sticker at Wal mart. :( I was sad.
Here, have some random due South rambles!
The super duper smart
soupytwist said this about Ray Vecchio:
I also love how it's part of the overall thing of ray realising that he's *always* been a softie on the inside, and his pretending not to be didn't get him anywhere, cause he felt bad about not doing the right thing anyway, he just pretended like he didn't and ignored it as much as he could. (it also made him a bad cop.) and once he DOES start properly acting on his nobler impulses, even while bitching the whole time, it pays off: even if he blows up his car and that IS sad, he knows he did the right thing. and because of it, he's a much better cop and a happier person and just OH GOD THE LOVE.
(we were talking about his shooting the Riv, of course.)
I love Ray SO HARD.
Then I was talking about how Ray whines and complains and bitches all the time about everything because that's just his way - (I bitch, therefore I am; copyright
belmanoir ;P) - and we had this fun little discussion:
snoopypez: imagine how extra sad he must have been in Vegas because he couldn't bitch the same way about everything :O
soupytwist: I think he must have come up with some way of venting, even if it was just composing bitchy letters to Fraser in his head.
snoopypez: omgomgomg. that is both adorable and makes me want to SOB.
soupytwist: ...\o/?
snoopypez: ;P sob because it makes me so saaaaad!!!! he's all ALONE in vegas and trying desperately to hold onto his humanity while being a frickin MOB BOSS and trying to keep from killing people and still have his minions believe he's Armando and the only thing keeping him sane is knowing that Benny's in Chicago doing good things and thinking good things about HIM so he's gotta keep it up here and not lose himself in the job so he tries to keep things light by scribing letters in his head from his past self, the tiny bit he's clinging to, the one that bitched about doing the right thing even as he went full into it, right behind Benny.
..um.
(Yeah, I got a little.. rambly there, eh?)
And lastly, when dicussing Vecchio in Florida - I am against it, she is for it - she mentioned that he could have a secret side job as a PI or something or like, advise the PD when they don't even WANT the advice, heeeee! So I said:
oh my god, there should SO be fic about that!! there's like, never any lighter fic about him in Florida so that'd be SO CUTE. he'd like, sekritly call and give advice and be like 'no REALLY, I saw some guy crossing the street and he was carrying a basket of illegal oranges!!' and then later realise that he's seeing Fraser-like cases everywhere and should maybe go to sleep.
Um. The end? :D
Moral of this post: Ray Vecchio = \o/