various things
1. Happy belated birthday to afteriwake! I hope you had a lovely day.
2. I have notes for a review of "Help," although I have not yet been able to transform them into a coherent whole. I have not yet watched "Rush to Judgment."
3. Although it was probably evident from my recent post, I don't think I've mentioned here that I've started watching Leverage. I've seen all of the episodes except for "The Two-Horse Job," and I love it to pieces. Furthermore, as I noted to scarletts_awry during one of our discussions about it, there are plenty of shows that I like and am fannish about to one degree or another (The Middleman, Pushing Daisies, Doctor Who, Eureka, et al), but Leverage is the first show since CSI:NY that has made me want to have continued and in-depth discussions about it. A show hasn't pinged me this hard in a long time. If I were still writing, I would also want to be writing fic for it.
4. My very favorite things about Leverage are:
a. How much fun the capers are, and how, at the same time, the writers are doing very good character work.
b. Nate Ford and his Issues, which scarletts_awry and I have decided deserve their own billing -- i.e., Leverage, starring Timothy Hutton as Nate Ford and Nate Ford's Issues. There is one specific aspect of this, in particular, that the writers, and Hutton, are handling with a startling amount of subtlety, and for that, I love it so much. (scarletts_awry and I have also belatedly discovered, after not having an opinion about him one way or the other prior to this, that Timothy Hutton is seriously hot and seriously charming.)
c. Sophie and her amazing awesomeness. She's smart, tough, and gorgeous. She's also in a position where all of her choices are shitty ones, which makes for painful but compelling viewing.
d. Hardison! Oh, Hardison. He is so made of win. He's also smart, and he's a geek in all the best ways. The names he comes up with for their fake IDs kill me. He's also very kind and observant, and, in some ways, probably the most sensible member of the team. After "The Mile High Job," it's also quite possible that he's made of magic as well as win.
e. The extreme competency of all the characters. They're all smart and good at what they do. I have more than a bit of a competency kink; Leverage satisfies it immensely.
5. I've started my reading for 50books_poc, and I'm having a great time with it. I also need to finish replying to comments on that post; I started to do so earlier this week, and then work, as it has a habit of doing, got hectic, and time got away from me.
2. I have notes for a review of "Help," although I have not yet been able to transform them into a coherent whole. I have not yet watched "Rush to Judgment."
3. Although it was probably evident from my recent post, I don't think I've mentioned here that I've started watching Leverage. I've seen all of the episodes except for "The Two-Horse Job," and I love it to pieces. Furthermore, as I noted to scarletts_awry during one of our discussions about it, there are plenty of shows that I like and am fannish about to one degree or another (The Middleman, Pushing Daisies, Doctor Who, Eureka, et al), but Leverage is the first show since CSI:NY that has made me want to have continued and in-depth discussions about it. A show hasn't pinged me this hard in a long time. If I were still writing, I would also want to be writing fic for it.
4. My very favorite things about Leverage are:
a. How much fun the capers are, and how, at the same time, the writers are doing very good character work.
b. Nate Ford and his Issues, which scarletts_awry and I have decided deserve their own billing -- i.e., Leverage, starring Timothy Hutton as Nate Ford and Nate Ford's Issues. There is one specific aspect of this, in particular, that the writers, and Hutton, are handling with a startling amount of subtlety, and for that, I love it so much. (scarletts_awry and I have also belatedly discovered, after not having an opinion about him one way or the other prior to this, that Timothy Hutton is seriously hot and seriously charming.)
c. Sophie and her amazing awesomeness. She's smart, tough, and gorgeous. She's also in a position where all of her choices are shitty ones, which makes for painful but compelling viewing.
d. Hardison! Oh, Hardison. He is so made of win. He's also smart, and he's a geek in all the best ways. The names he comes up with for their fake IDs kill me. He's also very kind and observant, and, in some ways, probably the most sensible member of the team. After "The Mile High Job," it's also quite possible that he's made of magic as well as win.
e. The extreme competency of all the characters. They're all smart and good at what they do. I have more than a bit of a competency kink; Leverage satisfies it immensely.
5. I've started my reading for 50books_poc, and I'm having a great time with it. I also need to finish replying to comments on that post; I started to do so earlier this week, and then work, as it has a habit of doing, got hectic, and time got away from me.