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Okay, so I might have just posted about how this show and I are on the verge of a breakup... but I take it all back! Or at least most of it back! Sorry, "The Other Man" was just such a raging shitfest that I couldn't motivate myself to catch up with anything beyond that, but after a solid week of moping I finally went back to watch "The Honeymooners" and it was UNBELIEVADORABLE, as was "Role Models." I think somewhere along the line I had forgotten that my distaste for Chuck/Sarah came from all of obstacles fabricated for them, the majority of which made Chuck look like the world's worst boyfriend EVER and Sarah like the world's least professional colleague EVER, and yet? At the very heart of it? They, when they are just allowed to be them, are charming and cute and ever so WIN. I approve! (Even if "Other Man" and I will NEVER BE RECONCILED, SIIIIGH. Such is life!)
Of course, I still have things to whine about:
- treatment of Ellie in general. Her being the odd (wo)man out of everything. Chuck being A HORRID HORRID BROTHER, and yet Ellie still being gracious and taking the blame for it ("It's my fault for leaving you!" WTFFF ELLIE NO IT ISN'T). Even though Doctors Without Borders was Ellie's dream, Awesome ends up being the one who is, well... awesome at it, whilst Ellie flounders as the hopelessly lost city girl (seriously, folks? NO. JUST NO).
- um... somewhat treatment of Casey? There were some good Sarah/Casey moments to be sure, but one of my qualms with Sarah/Chuck was the tendency to automatically phase out Casey -- like, just because Sarah and Chuck had some sort of romantic bond meant that Casey could never be a cohesive part of the team. ARRRGHHHH. Didn't we go through this last season in "Chuck vs. the Colonel"? INVITE CASEY ALONG. HE WANTS TO HELP. I am getting into the Casey/Morgan B-team in a way, but... but... :/ OT3 OR BUST. (And, anyway, I still have issues with Morgan being in on Team Bartowski BUT THAT IS FOR ANOTHER RANT.)
Mostly, though... oh, show, you know how to woo me back. How could I hate you after this?
(Of course, looking at the preview for this week, I think I might HATE YOU AGAIN so, y'know. We might be on break-up alert once more.)
So, right, I'm ten thousand years behind the rest of the world, but "The Time of Angels" just aired here last night AND WHAT THE FUCKING WHAT WHY DID I WATCH THAT OH GOD WHAAAAAAATTTTTTT. And then I tried to go to bed immediately afterward and for some odd reason could not make my eyes close. After about fifteen minutes of lying there, very determinedly NOT BLINKING, I remembered that I still had "Blink" on my iPod and hadn't gotten around to watching it, so... yeah... you probably know where this is going. Why did I think that was a good idea for something to watch at 1AM to help me fall asleep? Because WHAT THE FUCKING WHAT WHY DID I WATCH THAT OH GOD WHAAAAAAATTTTTTT PT. 2. Or technically pt. 1 and the other one was pt. 2?
I totally called the two heads thing, though.
ALSO, AMY POND, ILU.
In other HOLY CRAAAAAAAAP territory -- ASHES. WHAT. So much this series has been freaking me out, but nothing so much as Thordy doing the Sam Tyler monologue from his cell WHAT WHAT WHAT AND ALSO WHAAAAAAAATTTTTT.
And then Viv's death scene was absolutely horrifying, not least of all because it was Viv's death scene what no whhhhyyyy??!?
I honestly have absolutely no idea what is going on with this show any more. Well -- ideas, yes, but I'm just not sure what to make of them. I haven't really written anything about this series yet, have I? So! Thoughts!:
-It's generally accepted, then, that both Jim and Gene have some sort of... soul-collecting purpose? I'm actually somewhat on Team Jim (just in the sense that I think he's a great character and I'm still holding out that he's more than just a purely nefarious force), but whereas Louise had a death scene that was somberly peaceful and seemed... guided, almost? VIV'S WAS JUST PURE TORTURE TO WATCH and I'm not sure what to make of the contrast. (And then what of Gene at Bevan's death, then? Can he and Jim really be at opposite ends of it? They strike me as more two-sides-of-the-same-coin. And even as Jim becomes more creepy and calculating, so does Gene become more brutal and ruthless. They're going on a matched downward spiral on the likability scale, which again makes me question whether it's going to be as simple as an angel/devil duality.)
-The stars and such: if they're visible by those who are breaking hold with Gene's world, it's interesting that the visions only come to characters after they've received some sort of specific stated personal approval from Gene. Is it approval to move on? But then why does he still seem so desperate to hold them together?
-Not so much to do with this season, but... series two starts on BBCA this week. I went into "must convert everybody" phase and started looking up appropriate clips to post on facebook and pimp the show (why do I always do this, guys? IT NEVER WORKS). Gosh, but series two seems so long ago! And series one even impossibly longer! I... I kind of miss it? It's weird because when I first got into Ashes, I enjoyed the everloving heck out of S1 but felt that the show improved exponentially in S2 -- but thinking about it now, I miss the fluff ridiculous of S1. I've really enjoyed wanting to curl up in a ball of pain and confusion at the end of every episode this series (MINDFUCKS, I CRAVE THEM), but... I don't know. I've been quite good at compartmentalizing LOM and A2A, and I've already prepared myself to just accept whatever the A2A endgame happens to be and not let it tarnish any rosy views I have of the shows up to this point... but I am starting to get legitimately jittery. As completely screwed up as the LOM finale is, I want Sam to have made the right choice for himself and I'm so worried that things are going to happen to change that. Honestly, I think a lot of my feelings on S3 are akin to my feelings on S6 of Lost -- I love that we are getting hardcore dense mythology of INSANITY, but I kind of long for simpler character moments of yore, where I could still comfortably like the people involved without being worried that they turn out to be SATAN or something. Why do I do this to myself. D:
And the only thing I really have to say about Legend of the Seeker 2.20...:
CARA NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
OH MY GOD HOW ARE THERE ONLY TWO EPISODES LEFT. TWO EPISODES EVER. D: D: D:
Okay, so I might have just posted about how this show and I are on the verge of a breakup... but I take it all back! Or at least most of it back! Sorry, "The Other Man" was just such a raging shitfest that I couldn't motivate myself to catch up with anything beyond that, but after a solid week of moping I finally went back to watch "The Honeymooners" and it was UNBELIEVADORABLE, as was "Role Models." I think somewhere along the line I had forgotten that my distaste for Chuck/Sarah came from all of obstacles fabricated for them, the majority of which made Chuck look like the world's worst boyfriend EVER and Sarah like the world's least professional colleague EVER, and yet? At the very heart of it? They, when they are just allowed to be them, are charming and cute and ever so WIN. I approve! (Even if "Other Man" and I will NEVER BE RECONCILED, SIIIIGH. Such is life!)
Of course, I still have things to whine about:
- treatment of Ellie in general. Her being the odd (wo)man out of everything. Chuck being A HORRID HORRID BROTHER, and yet Ellie still being gracious and taking the blame for it ("It's my fault for leaving you!" WTFFF ELLIE NO IT ISN'T). Even though Doctors Without Borders was Ellie's dream, Awesome ends up being the one who is, well... awesome at it, whilst Ellie flounders as the hopelessly lost city girl (seriously, folks? NO. JUST NO).
- um... somewhat treatment of Casey? There were some good Sarah/Casey moments to be sure, but one of my qualms with Sarah/Chuck was the tendency to automatically phase out Casey -- like, just because Sarah and Chuck had some sort of romantic bond meant that Casey could never be a cohesive part of the team. ARRRGHHHH. Didn't we go through this last season in "Chuck vs. the Colonel"? INVITE CASEY ALONG. HE WANTS TO HELP. I am getting into the Casey/Morgan B-team in a way, but... but... :/ OT3 OR BUST. (And, anyway, I still have issues with Morgan being in on Team Bartowski BUT THAT IS FOR ANOTHER RANT.)
Mostly, though... oh, show, you know how to woo me back. How could I hate you after this?
Click to view(Of course, looking at the preview for this week, I think I might HATE YOU AGAIN so, y'know. We might be on break-up alert once more.)
So, right, I'm ten thousand years behind the rest of the world, but "The Time of Angels" just aired here last night AND WHAT THE FUCKING WHAT WHY DID I WATCH THAT OH GOD WHAAAAAAATTTTTTT. And then I tried to go to bed immediately afterward and for some odd reason could not make my eyes close. After about fifteen minutes of lying there, very determinedly NOT BLINKING, I remembered that I still had "Blink" on my iPod and hadn't gotten around to watching it, so... yeah... you probably know where this is going. Why did I think that was a good idea for something to watch at 1AM to help me fall asleep? Because WHAT THE FUCKING WHAT WHY DID I WATCH THAT OH GOD WHAAAAAAATTTTTTT PT. 2. Or technically pt. 1 and the other one was pt. 2?
I totally called the two heads thing, though.
ALSO, AMY POND, ILU.
In other HOLY CRAAAAAAAAP territory -- ASHES. WHAT. So much this series has been freaking me out, but nothing so much as Thordy doing the Sam Tyler monologue from his cell WHAT WHAT WHAT AND ALSO WHAAAAAAAATTTTTT.
And then Viv's death scene was absolutely horrifying, not least of all because it was Viv's death scene what no whhhhyyyy??!?
I honestly have absolutely no idea what is going on with this show any more. Well -- ideas, yes, but I'm just not sure what to make of them. I haven't really written anything about this series yet, have I? So! Thoughts!:
-It's generally accepted, then, that both Jim and Gene have some sort of... soul-collecting purpose? I'm actually somewhat on Team Jim (just in the sense that I think he's a great character and I'm still holding out that he's more than just a purely nefarious force), but whereas Louise had a death scene that was somberly peaceful and seemed... guided, almost? VIV'S WAS JUST PURE TORTURE TO WATCH and I'm not sure what to make of the contrast. (And then what of Gene at Bevan's death, then? Can he and Jim really be at opposite ends of it? They strike me as more two-sides-of-the-same-coin. And even as Jim becomes more creepy and calculating, so does Gene become more brutal and ruthless. They're going on a matched downward spiral on the likability scale, which again makes me question whether it's going to be as simple as an angel/devil duality.)
-The stars and such: if they're visible by those who are breaking hold with Gene's world, it's interesting that the visions only come to characters after they've received some sort of specific stated personal approval from Gene. Is it approval to move on? But then why does he still seem so desperate to hold them together?
-Not so much to do with this season, but... series two starts on BBCA this week. I went into "must convert everybody" phase and started looking up appropriate clips to post on facebook and pimp the show (why do I always do this, guys? IT NEVER WORKS). Gosh, but series two seems so long ago! And series one even impossibly longer! I... I kind of miss it? It's weird because when I first got into Ashes, I enjoyed the everloving heck out of S1 but felt that the show improved exponentially in S2 -- but thinking about it now, I miss the fluff ridiculous of S1. I've really enjoyed wanting to curl up in a ball of pain and confusion at the end of every episode this series (MINDFUCKS, I CRAVE THEM), but... I don't know. I've been quite good at compartmentalizing LOM and A2A, and I've already prepared myself to just accept whatever the A2A endgame happens to be and not let it tarnish any rosy views I have of the shows up to this point... but I am starting to get legitimately jittery. As completely screwed up as the LOM finale is, I want Sam to have made the right choice for himself and I'm so worried that things are going to happen to change that. Honestly, I think a lot of my feelings on S3 are akin to my feelings on S6 of Lost -- I love that we are getting hardcore dense mythology of INSANITY, but I kind of long for simpler character moments of yore, where I could still comfortably like the people involved without being worried that they turn out to be SATAN or something. Why do I do this to myself. D:
And the only thing I really have to say about Legend of the Seeker 2.20...:
CARA NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
OH MY GOD HOW ARE THERE ONLY TWO EPISODES LEFT. TWO EPISODES EVER. D: D: D: