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A thousand gestures of gratitude and affection for the warm birthday wishes and commentspam. I think the post has now reached the point where my computer goes into a brief coma while loading it, so... mission accomplished. :D
I can't believe I'm leaving on my Grand Travel Adventure tomorrow. Tomorrow! TO. MORROW. And, true to form, I still haven't packed anything because ahhhh I hate myself. Whatever. (I'm sort of on schedule, anyway; I had some sewing I wanted to finish up this morning [which I still didn't finish, WHOOPS, but hopefully I'll wrap it up tonight], and then break for lunch, and then I was going to devote a solid three hours to packing, then head out to Wal-Mart for all of the stuff I realize I still need while packing, then finish packing, then nap so that way I can stay up for Lost tonight and yet still get up at 3AM tomorrow so I can catch my flight. So! I just finished the lunch part, and I figure I've earned a brief LJ interlude.)
Also, I KNOW THIS IS EXTREMELY LAME AND WHINY OF ME, but I'm being such a big baby about all of the TV I'm going to miss. I mean, it's inevitable that I would be antsy about missing Lost, but HOLY EFF LOOK AT THESE SPOILERY PREVIEW SCENES FOR THE NEXT EPISODES OF PSYCH AND HOUSE. DAMN IT ALL. I... will... survive... but not without many sighs of frustration and disappointment.
TV I am kind of not all that upset about missing: CHUCK. WE ARE ON A SERIOUS OFF-AGAIN PHASE. Everybody is such a farcical version of themselves right now. It's really depressing. I can't even get properly excited about Casey scenes any more. Also, Chuck? You're kind of an asshole. And definitely a bad boyfriend. Like, okay, I get that that's partially the point of this arc, but I feel like the show is really at its most distasteful right now, so whether or not it is arc-reliant I am starting to lack the motivation to see it through. PLEASE RESOLVE AND REFORM BY THE TIME I RETURN, MMKAY.
TV I am thrilled I got to see before leaving: THE LATEST EPISODE OF LEGEND OF THE SEEKER. I MIGHT POSSIBLY HAVE DIED OF GLEE. I... I cannot even say how perfectly everything played in "Princess." It was such a great first-new-episode to follow-up on my rewatch frenzy, too, because it confirmed so many of the overall strengths of the show.
1) the crack. WELL, OBVIOUSLY. I know those involved with the show tend to distinguish it from Hercules/Xena by emphasizing how different it is in tone, which is definitely true -- even though Seeker has a much younger, round-faced cast, it also tends to be a much darker show, and doesn't have as many of the peppy one-shots. Still, though, when they want to be fun and ridiculous, they know what they're doing. RICHARD'S HAIR. ZEDD'S ROUGE. CARA'S EMBROIDERY. YESYESYESYESYESSSSS.
2) the BEYOND AWESOME ladies. Like, WOW, I cannot believe how many truly truly truuuuly great things were going on in this episode from a feminist standpoint. On a different show, this sort of My Fair Lady/Taming of the Shrew would be played as an opportunity for Cara to get in touch with her ~feminine~ nature and learn a little something about humility and grace and what have you. Instead, it's just like -- fuck that, she's already in control of her own idea of her feminine identity, and she manages to win over the Margrave on her own terms (ha, as I type this, "She's a Lady" has come up on random play. Ironyyyy). THE HUNTING SCENE! A RHAPSODY OF LOVE, MY FRIENDS. Just the fact that the entire court set up was presented as a complete bizzaro world -- again, in so many other things it would have played into some sort of glamorous courtly love nostalgia of dashing gentlemen and ladies fair, and yet this episode really went into some serious juicy meta places with Kahlan and the Margrave's wife in the dungeon. Her nearly unshakable belief that being executed was preferable to disobeying her husband was chilling, and even more disturbing because we can see exactly why it seems so normative for her (and, yeah, DING DING DING CAN YOU GUYS SEE THE MODERN PARALLELS DING DING?? -- okay, maybe less than subtle, but I almost feel like that contributes to power of the episode. "HELLO YES WE ARE TIRED OF BEING SUBTLE ABOUT THE EPIC LAMEITUDE OF YOUR ROMANTICIZED PATRIARCHY BULLSHIT, SO TAKE THIS EPISODE IN. YOUR. FACE."). And it all comes to great conclusion, too, as Cara and Kahlan synchronize their respective rescue and escape plans and save the day AND ARE JUST AMAZING IN GENERAL.
3) THE FAMILY. How cute was Kahlan in the closer? SO. CUTE. Checking out Cara's boobs, making fun of Richard's hair, cuddling with Zedd...!!! The last cap on this picspam is killing me, seriously.
4) Not really a point, but ahahaha -- an appropriate recasting of the episode.
5) I JUST WANT TO MARRY THIS WHOLE SHOW.
I can't believe I'm leaving on my Grand Travel Adventure tomorrow. Tomorrow! TO. MORROW. And, true to form, I still haven't packed anything because ahhhh I hate myself. Whatever. (I'm sort of on schedule, anyway; I had some sewing I wanted to finish up this morning [which I still didn't finish, WHOOPS, but hopefully I'll wrap it up tonight], and then break for lunch, and then I was going to devote a solid three hours to packing, then head out to Wal-Mart for all of the stuff I realize I still need while packing, then finish packing, then nap so that way I can stay up for Lost tonight and yet still get up at 3AM tomorrow so I can catch my flight. So! I just finished the lunch part, and I figure I've earned a brief LJ interlude.)
Also, I KNOW THIS IS EXTREMELY LAME AND WHINY OF ME, but I'm being such a big baby about all of the TV I'm going to miss. I mean, it's inevitable that I would be antsy about missing Lost, but HOLY EFF LOOK AT THESE SPOILERY PREVIEW SCENES FOR THE NEXT EPISODES OF PSYCH AND HOUSE. DAMN IT ALL. I... will... survive... but not without many sighs of frustration and disappointment.
TV I am kind of not all that upset about missing: CHUCK. WE ARE ON A SERIOUS OFF-AGAIN PHASE. Everybody is such a farcical version of themselves right now. It's really depressing. I can't even get properly excited about Casey scenes any more. Also, Chuck? You're kind of an asshole. And definitely a bad boyfriend. Like, okay, I get that that's partially the point of this arc, but I feel like the show is really at its most distasteful right now, so whether or not it is arc-reliant I am starting to lack the motivation to see it through. PLEASE RESOLVE AND REFORM BY THE TIME I RETURN, MMKAY.
TV I am thrilled I got to see before leaving: THE LATEST EPISODE OF LEGEND OF THE SEEKER. I MIGHT POSSIBLY HAVE DIED OF GLEE. I... I cannot even say how perfectly everything played in "Princess." It was such a great first-new-episode to follow-up on my rewatch frenzy, too, because it confirmed so many of the overall strengths of the show.
1) the crack. WELL, OBVIOUSLY. I know those involved with the show tend to distinguish it from Hercules/Xena by emphasizing how different it is in tone, which is definitely true -- even though Seeker has a much younger, round-faced cast, it also tends to be a much darker show, and doesn't have as many of the peppy one-shots. Still, though, when they want to be fun and ridiculous, they know what they're doing. RICHARD'S HAIR. ZEDD'S ROUGE. CARA'S EMBROIDERY. YESYESYESYESYESSSSS.
2) the BEYOND AWESOME ladies. Like, WOW, I cannot believe how many truly truly truuuuly great things were going on in this episode from a feminist standpoint. On a different show, this sort of My Fair Lady/Taming of the Shrew would be played as an opportunity for Cara to get in touch with her ~feminine~ nature and learn a little something about humility and grace and what have you. Instead, it's just like -- fuck that, she's already in control of her own idea of her feminine identity, and she manages to win over the Margrave on her own terms (ha, as I type this, "She's a Lady" has come up on random play. Ironyyyy). THE HUNTING SCENE! A RHAPSODY OF LOVE, MY FRIENDS. Just the fact that the entire court set up was presented as a complete bizzaro world -- again, in so many other things it would have played into some sort of glamorous courtly love nostalgia of dashing gentlemen and ladies fair, and yet this episode really went into some serious juicy meta places with Kahlan and the Margrave's wife in the dungeon. Her nearly unshakable belief that being executed was preferable to disobeying her husband was chilling, and even more disturbing because we can see exactly why it seems so normative for her (and, yeah, DING DING DING CAN YOU GUYS SEE THE MODERN PARALLELS DING DING?? -- okay, maybe less than subtle, but I almost feel like that contributes to power of the episode. "HELLO YES WE ARE TIRED OF BEING SUBTLE ABOUT THE EPIC LAMEITUDE OF YOUR ROMANTICIZED PATRIARCHY BULLSHIT, SO TAKE THIS EPISODE IN. YOUR. FACE."). And it all comes to great conclusion, too, as Cara and Kahlan synchronize their respective rescue and escape plans and save the day AND ARE JUST AMAZING IN GENERAL.
3) THE FAMILY. How cute was Kahlan in the closer? SO. CUTE. Checking out Cara's boobs, making fun of Richard's hair, cuddling with Zedd...!!! The last cap on this picspam is killing me, seriously.
4) Not really a point, but ahahaha -- an appropriate recasting of the episode.
5) I JUST WANT TO MARRY THIS WHOLE SHOW.