... in which it's past my bedtime
My house was full of small children today. *bleery peering* (I made party bags, people. Party bags. Oh dear god what has the world come to.) However I will not go on about that, but will instead, er, go on about other things. Apparently.
I reaaaaaally wanted to title this entry "in which there are steel boats, iron men, and thirty two down on the Robert Mackenzie", except that was way too long. Heh.
I watched the episode again today (I never thought I'd say YAY VHS! but I do today! thankyou for saving me from small children, VHS!) and just, oh my god there is not a single part of that episode that doesn't make me squee. From Ray and Fraser jumping in the water at the beginning, to the gorgeously goofy grinning at the end, it's total love. They have A PIRATE EPISODE, people. One where the exchange "Accountant?" "Pirate." "Thankyou!" can be used and make sense, one where the pirate not only has a hook and an eyepatch but also has a treasure map - admittedly, carved on his chest - and then turns out to be destroying the environment! And Fraser's all "Well, I obviously try to keep up with threats against the environment, Ray" and Ray's all "oh, obviously!" and there is BUDDY BREATHING and even better it's recognised as being gay as all hell IN THE SHOW ITSELF! And oh, oh, Ray and Fraser's fight and the punch and then Ray asking Fraser to trust him and Fraser does and how they love each other anyway to the point where Fraser actually says "Tell me where my partner is or I shall kick you in the head" and gets mocked for it and just random things like the Mounties capturing Turnbull and...
... and also, the bit I actually meant to talk about. My current favourite bit of the episode. Right near the end. A bad guy's got Fraser, and he's all mwahah, and Fraser goes to arrest him, and the bad dude's all "Am I missing something here?" and Fraser responds "Only that I have a partner that should be showing up just about now" and then Ray knocks the dude out.Awesome. It's very cool indeed. But then, then... all through the show they've been playing the same little snippet of song, "Thirty-two down on the Robert Mackenzie!", and it's designed to get you to pay attention, only now they go to fight the main bad guy, and it looks like they might be screwed, but then Fraser goes "Possibly. But right now, my friend, you're in the dominion of Canada" and the song kicks in for real as Fraser goes and KICKS THE DUDE'S POLLUTING ASS. He is ninja!Mountie, with lots of help from Ray, who does some awesome jumping over barrels and stuff. It is BEAUTIFUL.
And that's all I have to say about that for the moment. :D
Other things that are beautiful include Supernatural. No, really. it's such a pretty show in such a dark way, and OK there are some occasionally painful monster-of-the-week plots but, really, who cares when you've got such a fascinating and complicated sibling relationship as the heart of the show? The two main guys, and their dad if you swing that way, are pretty but even if they weren't, they'd still be interesting, with the added bonus of a thumping rock soundtrack and a really cool car and just, yay, Winchesters! It makes me happy. Am glad that concernedlily is lovely enough to listen to me randomly geek at her, especially when I have Theories and am being all fic-obsessed. And way overly excited for the DVDs, which will rock if they have even half of the rumoured stuff on as extras.
(And if they are mean to us just because we live in the wilds of Region Two, then I shall be mad. Eeeeble. And I am being all embarassed because I want to read discussion about the show and then I end up feeling ridiculous because I've been stalking people's journals and not said hello or friended them or anything, because I'm weird like that. I should probably say hello and maybe friend people at some point. Maybe. Hmm.)
Stargate Atlantis is also rocking today. If you've seen the show, you might want see how Seperis has a really cool thing here (it's not linked, so just keep clicking that little "next entry" arrow). It's, er, an AU where Atlantis is a prison colony for the very worst offenders, and that includes Carson Beckett and his creepy experiments on people, and Rodney McKay who blew up an inhabited solar system, and John Sheppard, who wiped Afghanistan off the map with one ZPM bomb. If that's actually sounding pretty like the actual show to you, well... you'd be right. And that is the creepiest and best thing about it. Even beating the really creepy and yet weirdly mesmerizing Rodney/John relationship, which again is creepy because it's so similar in many ways to what we actually see on screen, but, just, shown to be completely and utterly fucked up. It kind of broke my brain.
And finally, for anybody who needs cheering, I have a random snippet of information that has been randomly amusing me all day, and by this I mean "making me break out into fits of giggles so severe that some people probably considered having me incarcerated". You see, there's a show called Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. I've never watched it, don't know anything about it and don't want to. Except for one thing: in one episode Hercules gets turned into a pig. The pig has a little leather Hercules costume on. And the best bit is that the episode is called, and I almost wish I was kidding... Porkules.
Hee. I mean, PORKULES, people. There is no way in which that doesn't rule. Bwahahahahah! PORKULES!
I reaaaaaally wanted to title this entry "in which there are steel boats, iron men, and thirty two down on the Robert Mackenzie", except that was way too long. Heh.
I watched the episode again today (I never thought I'd say YAY VHS! but I do today! thankyou for saving me from small children, VHS!) and just, oh my god there is not a single part of that episode that doesn't make me squee. From Ray and Fraser jumping in the water at the beginning, to the gorgeously goofy grinning at the end, it's total love. They have A PIRATE EPISODE, people. One where the exchange "Accountant?" "Pirate." "Thankyou!" can be used and make sense, one where the pirate not only has a hook and an eyepatch but also has a treasure map - admittedly, carved on his chest - and then turns out to be destroying the environment! And Fraser's all "Well, I obviously try to keep up with threats against the environment, Ray" and Ray's all "oh, obviously!" and there is BUDDY BREATHING and even better it's recognised as being gay as all hell IN THE SHOW ITSELF! And oh, oh, Ray and Fraser's fight and the punch and then Ray asking Fraser to trust him and Fraser does and how they love each other anyway to the point where Fraser actually says "Tell me where my partner is or I shall kick you in the head" and gets mocked for it and just random things like the Mounties capturing Turnbull and...
... and also, the bit I actually meant to talk about. My current favourite bit of the episode. Right near the end. A bad guy's got Fraser, and he's all mwahah, and Fraser goes to arrest him, and the bad dude's all "Am I missing something here?" and Fraser responds "Only that I have a partner that should be showing up just about now" and then Ray knocks the dude out.Awesome. It's very cool indeed. But then, then... all through the show they've been playing the same little snippet of song, "Thirty-two down on the Robert Mackenzie!", and it's designed to get you to pay attention, only now they go to fight the main bad guy, and it looks like they might be screwed, but then Fraser goes "Possibly. But right now, my friend, you're in the dominion of Canada" and the song kicks in for real as Fraser goes and KICKS THE DUDE'S POLLUTING ASS. He is ninja!Mountie, with lots of help from Ray, who does some awesome jumping over barrels and stuff. It is BEAUTIFUL.
And that's all I have to say about that for the moment. :D
Other things that are beautiful include Supernatural. No, really. it's such a pretty show in such a dark way, and OK there are some occasionally painful monster-of-the-week plots but, really, who cares when you've got such a fascinating and complicated sibling relationship as the heart of the show? The two main guys, and their dad if you swing that way, are pretty but even if they weren't, they'd still be interesting, with the added bonus of a thumping rock soundtrack and a really cool car and just, yay, Winchesters! It makes me happy. Am glad that concernedlily is lovely enough to listen to me randomly geek at her, especially when I have Theories and am being all fic-obsessed. And way overly excited for the DVDs, which will rock if they have even half of the rumoured stuff on as extras.
(And if they are mean to us just because we live in the wilds of Region Two, then I shall be mad. Eeeeble. And I am being all embarassed because I want to read discussion about the show and then I end up feeling ridiculous because I've been stalking people's journals and not said hello or friended them or anything, because I'm weird like that. I should probably say hello and maybe friend people at some point. Maybe. Hmm.)
Stargate Atlantis is also rocking today. If you've seen the show, you might want see how Seperis has a really cool thing here (it's not linked, so just keep clicking that little "next entry" arrow). It's, er, an AU where Atlantis is a prison colony for the very worst offenders, and that includes Carson Beckett and his creepy experiments on people, and Rodney McKay who blew up an inhabited solar system, and John Sheppard, who wiped Afghanistan off the map with one ZPM bomb. If that's actually sounding pretty like the actual show to you, well... you'd be right. And that is the creepiest and best thing about it. Even beating the really creepy and yet weirdly mesmerizing Rodney/John relationship, which again is creepy because it's so similar in many ways to what we actually see on screen, but, just, shown to be completely and utterly fucked up. It kind of broke my brain.
And finally, for anybody who needs cheering, I have a random snippet of information that has been randomly amusing me all day, and by this I mean "making me break out into fits of giggles so severe that some people probably considered having me incarcerated". You see, there's a show called Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. I've never watched it, don't know anything about it and don't want to. Except for one thing: in one episode Hercules gets turned into a pig. The pig has a little leather Hercules costume on. And the best bit is that the episode is called, and I almost wish I was kidding... Porkules.
Hee. I mean, PORKULES, people. There is no way in which that doesn't rule. Bwahahahahah! PORKULES!