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LINCOLN LEEEEEE! I'm pissed that Olivia didn't get to meet him. That was like the most exciting prospect of finally seeing Lincoln in our universe. :( But still, his nerd glasses were delightful.
So last week i was highly skeptical of these William Bell shenanigans and Anna Torv's old man voice (THAT CLIFFHANGER SEEMED REALLY DOOFY TO ME, OKAY) but i was fine with it this week. Except for that William Bell is apparently a pretty skeezy old man. Maybe that shit seemed like a good idea because it was coming from Anna Torv's face? But UGH THE ASTRID CREEPINESS. Like they don't have enough Astrid issues already, WHY IS IT GETTING WORSE? HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE? The shit about transferring Bell's soul to Gene and then making Astrid milk her/him: GROSS. GROSS. GROSS. UNCOMFORTABLE. GROSS. I would like to mute the interaction between Bellivia and Astrid and pretend it's Olivia hitting on Astrid. NEW CANON.
Peter's face when the real Olivia briefly reappeared at the end was really great. And like, uh. I THINK OLIVIA WANTS HER BODY BACK. Man. When Nimoy was on the show i thought Bell was pretty cool, but everything surrounding him now has all these dubious consent alarms going off. Like, he got into Olivia's body by slipping something into a drink he gave her? WHAT THE FUCK.
I am, however, really hoping for some Bellivia/Nina interaction. .........Purely so i can maybe see Nina and Olivia kiss. .........Have i told you i kind of ship Nina and Olivia? ...I kind of ship Nina and Olivia. YEAH THAT'S WEIRD I KNOW. BUT OLDER LADY/YOUNGER LADY WITHOUT MATERNAL OVERTONES IS SO INTERESTING. I like to imagine maybe in some other universe they're like M and James Bond. ...Which i also ship in the current movies, WHAT UUUUUUP
It may not sound like it but i do still love this show. Even though all i do is complain and i haven't posted about it in a month! It just feels so much like this season has veered off in some weird directions after it started out so strongly. It's been like the reverse of s1-2, which both started out shitty and then got progressively awesomer. S3 started out awesome and suddenly got shitty, and if it's one or the other i'd rather have a strong finish than a strong start. :[ But i really enjoyed the flashback episode even though it had some things that bugged me a lot. As for last week: Peter and Olivia acting like a couple was really awkward. :/
BUT ON A POSITIVE NOTE, here's an excellently phrased observation which aligns with a lot of my deeper thoughts on Fringe, from the comments section of The AV Club's review of Subject 13:
The white tulip signified a miracle for Walter. However, the image of the tulip was sent by a man who bent the laws of reality to put it there; it was an imagined act, a willed act, a human act. Thus the white tulip signified for the audience that in the universe of Fringe, man IS God, with the power of imagination and of will to make or break entire universes.
The white tulips tonight re-emphasized that theme. Elizabeth noted that they were put in that field by a scientist who wanted to see them there. Olivia and Peter, too, were brought together in that field by (the unintentional consequences of) the actions of a scientist. Thus, Olivia and Peter were brought together by Fringe's version of divine providence- by the consequences of human design. Their connection is then "fated" in the same way as all human relationships are fated- by exquisite accident.
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Okay i know nobody likes reading about other people's dreams, but the other night i had a Tron dream (LOLOLOLOL) and it made me happy. I was watching Tron 3! There was an actual Tron 3 and i was watching it in the theater! (ugh my fandom dreams are always about WATCHING STUFF, i'm such a nerd.) And it started out with an Alan and Sam scene, except now Alan knew about the ~computer world~ and he was telling Sam about some stuff that was gonna be in there this time, including something in the form of a polyhedron, to which my reaction was to freak out and yell in my head "POLYHEDRON!!!!!!!!" (...yes.) because it meant BIT! And there was some shit about the computer world phasing in and out with the real world so like people saw programs occasionally as life-size ghosts, meaning Alan saw Tron IN REAL LIFE. And blah blah blah i started wondering where the fuck Cillian Murphy was and then he showed up, and then the dream devolved into non-Tron-related randomness. THE END.
Parks and Recreation continues its streak of being the most delightful show on television. I am at a point where the only comments i would have about it would be going "THIS WAS THE BEST! AND THIS WAS THE BEST! AND I LOVED THIS PART! AND ALSO THIS PART!" while wildly gesticulating at things.
DCAU UPDATE: I'm currently over halfway through Superman: The Animated Series and it's pretty great. It took me a little while to get adjusted to watching Superman after being so fixated on something as drastically different as Batman, but now i'm more clearly able to take stock of what i like and dislike about both shows. I LOVE that Superman has an actual continuity and more consistent overall quality, unlike the basically random standalone nature of the Batman episodes (it is a series without either a beginning or an ending! THAT IS TRAGIC). And when it comes down to it, i think Superman is a much better hero than Batman. I love idealism and incorruptible heroes and the childlike wonder that inspires, and the concept that hope is a more powerful tool than fear. The city of Metropolis appeals to me more than Gotham; i like gleaming futurism better than dark grittiness. I like that Superman actually has an awesome main female character in Lois, unlike the more intermittent presence of all the rad ladies in the Batman canon. BUT i also think Lex Luthor is a boring villain, and i'm more fascinated by and invested in the stories and characters in Batman's universe. Batman has my favorite villains (although that's not to say Superman doesn't have some good ones. I looooove Brainiac in TAS. EVIL COMPUTEEEERRRSS. I was also really entertained by the Livewire episodes. Lori Petty!). I'm still more attached to Batman, but both heroes are so different that there's plenty of room to love them equally in entirely separate ways. In any case, my newly realized fondness for both Batman AND Superman made the World's Finest three-parter PRETTY MUCH THE MOST EXCITING EPISODES OF ANYTHING EVER. BRUCE AND CLARK'S FIRST MEETING IN THE DCAU. BATMAN THROWS SUPERMAN ACROSS A ROOM. BRUCE DATES LOIS. BASICALLY I FLIPPED OUT.
I can't help but think back on Smallville, which was the only other time i've followed a Superman canon (for 3 and a half seasons, at least). It was also apparently the only time i found Lex truly engaging, probably because Rosenbaum was one of the best actors on that show. But it's interesting to watch TAS and feel like it gets the universe right, and then compare it to how those things were portrayed TOTALLY DIFFERENTLY on Smallville. e.g. Pa Kent, THE WORST, whereas i like him just fine on TAS. Lana Lang on TAS is pretty much exactly Chloe Sullivan. :O :D (Chlooooeeeeeeee. The only reason i have ever regretted giving up on Smallville! All my intense worry about her being killed off and she lived through TEN FREAKING SEASONS. miracles are real!)
So last week i was highly skeptical of these William Bell shenanigans and Anna Torv's old man voice (THAT CLIFFHANGER SEEMED REALLY DOOFY TO ME, OKAY) but i was fine with it this week. Except for that William Bell is apparently a pretty skeezy old man. Maybe that shit seemed like a good idea because it was coming from Anna Torv's face? But UGH THE ASTRID CREEPINESS. Like they don't have enough Astrid issues already, WHY IS IT GETTING WORSE? HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE? The shit about transferring Bell's soul to Gene and then making Astrid milk her/him: GROSS. GROSS. GROSS. UNCOMFORTABLE. GROSS. I would like to mute the interaction between Bellivia and Astrid and pretend it's Olivia hitting on Astrid. NEW CANON.
Peter's face when the real Olivia briefly reappeared at the end was really great. And like, uh. I THINK OLIVIA WANTS HER BODY BACK. Man. When Nimoy was on the show i thought Bell was pretty cool, but everything surrounding him now has all these dubious consent alarms going off. Like, he got into Olivia's body by slipping something into a drink he gave her? WHAT THE FUCK.
I am, however, really hoping for some Bellivia/Nina interaction. .........Purely so i can maybe see Nina and Olivia kiss. .........Have i told you i kind of ship Nina and Olivia? ...I kind of ship Nina and Olivia. YEAH THAT'S WEIRD I KNOW. BUT OLDER LADY/YOUNGER LADY WITHOUT MATERNAL OVERTONES IS SO INTERESTING. I like to imagine maybe in some other universe they're like M and James Bond. ...Which i also ship in the current movies, WHAT UUUUUUP
It may not sound like it but i do still love this show. Even though all i do is complain and i haven't posted about it in a month! It just feels so much like this season has veered off in some weird directions after it started out so strongly. It's been like the reverse of s1-2, which both started out shitty and then got progressively awesomer. S3 started out awesome and suddenly got shitty, and if it's one or the other i'd rather have a strong finish than a strong start. :[ But i really enjoyed the flashback episode even though it had some things that bugged me a lot. As for last week: Peter and Olivia acting like a couple was really awkward. :/
BUT ON A POSITIVE NOTE, here's an excellently phrased observation which aligns with a lot of my deeper thoughts on Fringe, from the comments section of The AV Club's review of Subject 13:
The white tulip signified a miracle for Walter. However, the image of the tulip was sent by a man who bent the laws of reality to put it there; it was an imagined act, a willed act, a human act. Thus the white tulip signified for the audience that in the universe of Fringe, man IS God, with the power of imagination and of will to make or break entire universes.
The white tulips tonight re-emphasized that theme. Elizabeth noted that they were put in that field by a scientist who wanted to see them there. Olivia and Peter, too, were brought together in that field by (the unintentional consequences of) the actions of a scientist. Thus, Olivia and Peter were brought together by Fringe's version of divine providence- by the consequences of human design. Their connection is then "fated" in the same way as all human relationships are fated- by exquisite accident.
♥_____♥
Okay i know nobody likes reading about other people's dreams, but the other night i had a Tron dream (LOLOLOLOL) and it made me happy. I was watching Tron 3! There was an actual Tron 3 and i was watching it in the theater! (ugh my fandom dreams are always about WATCHING STUFF, i'm such a nerd.) And it started out with an Alan and Sam scene, except now Alan knew about the ~computer world~ and he was telling Sam about some stuff that was gonna be in there this time, including something in the form of a polyhedron, to which my reaction was to freak out and yell in my head "POLYHEDRON!!!!!!!!" (...yes.) because it meant BIT! And there was some shit about the computer world phasing in and out with the real world so like people saw programs occasionally as life-size ghosts, meaning Alan saw Tron IN REAL LIFE. And blah blah blah i started wondering where the fuck Cillian Murphy was and then he showed up, and then the dream devolved into non-Tron-related randomness. THE END.
Parks and Recreation continues its streak of being the most delightful show on television. I am at a point where the only comments i would have about it would be going "THIS WAS THE BEST! AND THIS WAS THE BEST! AND I LOVED THIS PART! AND ALSO THIS PART!" while wildly gesticulating at things.
DCAU UPDATE: I'm currently over halfway through Superman: The Animated Series and it's pretty great. It took me a little while to get adjusted to watching Superman after being so fixated on something as drastically different as Batman, but now i'm more clearly able to take stock of what i like and dislike about both shows. I LOVE that Superman has an actual continuity and more consistent overall quality, unlike the basically random standalone nature of the Batman episodes (it is a series without either a beginning or an ending! THAT IS TRAGIC). And when it comes down to it, i think Superman is a much better hero than Batman. I love idealism and incorruptible heroes and the childlike wonder that inspires, and the concept that hope is a more powerful tool than fear. The city of Metropolis appeals to me more than Gotham; i like gleaming futurism better than dark grittiness. I like that Superman actually has an awesome main female character in Lois, unlike the more intermittent presence of all the rad ladies in the Batman canon. BUT i also think Lex Luthor is a boring villain, and i'm more fascinated by and invested in the stories and characters in Batman's universe. Batman has my favorite villains (although that's not to say Superman doesn't have some good ones. I looooove Brainiac in TAS. EVIL COMPUTEEEERRRSS. I was also really entertained by the Livewire episodes. Lori Petty!). I'm still more attached to Batman, but both heroes are so different that there's plenty of room to love them equally in entirely separate ways. In any case, my newly realized fondness for both Batman AND Superman made the World's Finest three-parter PRETTY MUCH THE MOST EXCITING EPISODES OF ANYTHING EVER. BRUCE AND CLARK'S FIRST MEETING IN THE DCAU. BATMAN THROWS SUPERMAN ACROSS A ROOM. BRUCE DATES LOIS. BASICALLY I FLIPPED OUT.
I can't help but think back on Smallville, which was the only other time i've followed a Superman canon (for 3 and a half seasons, at least). It was also apparently the only time i found Lex truly engaging, probably because Rosenbaum was one of the best actors on that show. But it's interesting to watch TAS and feel like it gets the universe right, and then compare it to how those things were portrayed TOTALLY DIFFERENTLY on Smallville. e.g. Pa Kent, THE WORST, whereas i like him just fine on TAS. Lana Lang on TAS is pretty much exactly Chloe Sullivan. :O :D (Chlooooeeeeeeee. The only reason i have ever regretted giving up on Smallville! All my intense worry about her being killed off and she lived through TEN FREAKING SEASONS. miracles are real!)