it's been a long time since i liveblogged anything
tonight is the series finale of haven, and in its honor
i still don't buy that this is actually duke. the voice is totally throwing me off.
oh, now audrey cares about him? or is she just trying to talk him down like she always tried to talk to the troubled? i guess it worked, tho. she brought him back. i don't know how i feel about her love bringing him back, tho, after an entire season of her not seeming to care that much. the ptb totally threw over duke and audrey's relationship so they could concentrate on her and nathan instead, as if she can only care about one guy at a time, and god forbid anyone think she might love anyone besides nathan. so to all of a sudden make her love for duke super important and super powerful is too little, too late.
"you have to kill me" - yeah, no. i mean, yeah, for the purposes of stopping croatoan from collecting and using his troubles, but for the purposes of the ot3, no. and how much do i love that nathan's response is "i can't do that"? i love it a lot. of course nathan can't do it. nathan loves him.
if duke dies i will be MOST PUT OUT.
...well, i guess nathan can do it. >.<
OH COME ON. WHAT WAS THAT? WHY WAS THAT?
interestingly ot3-ish, tho. seems pretty blatant that nathan really does love duke, and has for a while. oh, and hey, duke did die at the hand of someone with a guard tattoo.
croatoan's insistence that audrey is mara/his daughter is so strange to me - does he really think she could've been reincarnated how many times, over how many centuries, and still be the exact same girl she was when she was mara? if she believes croatoan that nathan just abandoned her i will be VERY surprised.
i actually kinda like replacement-audrey and zapped-out-of-haven-nathan, altho i don't think i need to know all the details about their sex life.
i somehow care sightly less about what happens now that duke is gone. this could be a problem. i'm glad dwight's still - wait, what? how is duke still alive? where did croatoan zap dwight to that duke's there?
i'm kind of intrigued by replacement-audrey, tho. she knows she's like a clone and there's a real audrey out there who nathan should be with instead of her. we haven't spent nearly enough time with her for this to feel as tragic as it is, but it's a little tragic! well, back in the day this was a genuinely tragic show, so i guess it's nice to have some of that back.
"why can't he see you?" "i'm dead, dwight." "you're pissing me off, duke." heh.
audrey, honey, you found more than one person who loves you and would do anything for you. nathan's not the only one. duke killed people for you. the ptb just didn't want you to obviously care about both of them at the same time. (yes, i'm bitter.)
so, what, audrey's great love for nathan is what convinces croatoan to leave haven and take the troubles with him? love saves the day, but it's her love for nathan?
"i don't think this is something the real duke crocker would do. he's kind of a dick." and i think he flipped you off, dwight. because of course he would.
ok, i was kind of wrong - not just audrey's love for nathan, but her love for haven and everyone in it. that's more like it. this is probably how it was always going to end, to be honest, with audrey going into the barn one last time. it doesn't have quite the weight and emotional oomph that i want it to, at least not for me, but maybe that's me and is just an outgrowth of how utterly boring and flat a lot of the audrey/nathan was for the past couple seasons, and how oddly determined the ptb were in cutting duke out of her emotional life. (at least he got to be part of nathan's emotional life, but why couldn't they all be close to each other?)
did what'shisname's map say "twin peaks"?
awww, dwight gets to keep his daughter! that's actually really cute.
"spend a little time as a building, you'd get out too." hee, laverne.
holy shit, it's audrey with baby james. of course she gets to come back as someone else - she always did before. that song, tho.
aside from DUKE BEING DEAD, WHAT THE HELL, that was actually a happy ending. it was cute. i don't know how i feel about it. audrey/paige and nathan meeting was kind of cute, and i always did like all the various audreys, and i like that things went back to normal without anyone having to be mind-wiped or anything.
still not sure how i feel about the whole thing, tho. by the end the show seemed to be kind of maybe trying to get back to where it started, sort of, but s4 wasn't good and while s5 was an improvement, that wasn't a very high bar. and i missed the first three seasons and the sense of legitimately high stakes and the vague ot3-ness (well, when nathan wasn't being a dick to/about duke) and the trouble of the week. i'm not sure the mythology ever made a whole lot of sense or hung together particularly well, but the show was still interesting and fun to watch, and nathan and duke and audrey made a great threesome.
in totally other news, except it's also tv, i watched the pilot of the magicians last night and i think i liked it. it's very harry potter meets narnia, except everyone is college-age or just-out-of-college-age so they can drink and have sex. i'm interested enough to keep watching, anyway.
the daily babble for dec 15 was school photo days, for ellison, and i feel like a cop-out but i can't do justice to the topic without visual aids, and i still haven't found a driver for my scanner yet. also i only have like two school photos at my house, from when i was wee. but! on sunday i'm going to my parents' house to sort shit, and i will hopefully find better pictures, and will hopefully scan then, and will share! and you can laugh at my hair. :D
i still don't buy that this is actually duke. the voice is totally throwing me off.
oh, now audrey cares about him? or is she just trying to talk him down like she always tried to talk to the troubled? i guess it worked, tho. she brought him back. i don't know how i feel about her love bringing him back, tho, after an entire season of her not seeming to care that much. the ptb totally threw over duke and audrey's relationship so they could concentrate on her and nathan instead, as if she can only care about one guy at a time, and god forbid anyone think she might love anyone besides nathan. so to all of a sudden make her love for duke super important and super powerful is too little, too late.
"you have to kill me" - yeah, no. i mean, yeah, for the purposes of stopping croatoan from collecting and using his troubles, but for the purposes of the ot3, no. and how much do i love that nathan's response is "i can't do that"? i love it a lot. of course nathan can't do it. nathan loves him.
if duke dies i will be MOST PUT OUT.
...well, i guess nathan can do it. >.<
OH COME ON. WHAT WAS THAT? WHY WAS THAT?
interestingly ot3-ish, tho. seems pretty blatant that nathan really does love duke, and has for a while. oh, and hey, duke did die at the hand of someone with a guard tattoo.
croatoan's insistence that audrey is mara/his daughter is so strange to me - does he really think she could've been reincarnated how many times, over how many centuries, and still be the exact same girl she was when she was mara? if she believes croatoan that nathan just abandoned her i will be VERY surprised.
i actually kinda like replacement-audrey and zapped-out-of-haven-nathan, altho i don't think i need to know all the details about their sex life.
i somehow care sightly less about what happens now that duke is gone. this could be a problem. i'm glad dwight's still - wait, what? how is duke still alive? where did croatoan zap dwight to that duke's there?
i'm kind of intrigued by replacement-audrey, tho. she knows she's like a clone and there's a real audrey out there who nathan should be with instead of her. we haven't spent nearly enough time with her for this to feel as tragic as it is, but it's a little tragic! well, back in the day this was a genuinely tragic show, so i guess it's nice to have some of that back.
"why can't he see you?" "i'm dead, dwight." "you're pissing me off, duke." heh.
audrey, honey, you found more than one person who loves you and would do anything for you. nathan's not the only one. duke killed people for you. the ptb just didn't want you to obviously care about both of them at the same time. (yes, i'm bitter.)
so, what, audrey's great love for nathan is what convinces croatoan to leave haven and take the troubles with him? love saves the day, but it's her love for nathan?
"i don't think this is something the real duke crocker would do. he's kind of a dick." and i think he flipped you off, dwight. because of course he would.
ok, i was kind of wrong - not just audrey's love for nathan, but her love for haven and everyone in it. that's more like it. this is probably how it was always going to end, to be honest, with audrey going into the barn one last time. it doesn't have quite the weight and emotional oomph that i want it to, at least not for me, but maybe that's me and is just an outgrowth of how utterly boring and flat a lot of the audrey/nathan was for the past couple seasons, and how oddly determined the ptb were in cutting duke out of her emotional life. (at least he got to be part of nathan's emotional life, but why couldn't they all be close to each other?)
did what'shisname's map say "twin peaks"?
awww, dwight gets to keep his daughter! that's actually really cute.
"spend a little time as a building, you'd get out too." hee, laverne.
holy shit, it's audrey with baby james. of course she gets to come back as someone else - she always did before. that song, tho.
aside from DUKE BEING DEAD, WHAT THE HELL, that was actually a happy ending. it was cute. i don't know how i feel about it. audrey/paige and nathan meeting was kind of cute, and i always did like all the various audreys, and i like that things went back to normal without anyone having to be mind-wiped or anything.
still not sure how i feel about the whole thing, tho. by the end the show seemed to be kind of maybe trying to get back to where it started, sort of, but s4 wasn't good and while s5 was an improvement, that wasn't a very high bar. and i missed the first three seasons and the sense of legitimately high stakes and the vague ot3-ness (well, when nathan wasn't being a dick to/about duke) and the trouble of the week. i'm not sure the mythology ever made a whole lot of sense or hung together particularly well, but the show was still interesting and fun to watch, and nathan and duke and audrey made a great threesome.
in totally other news, except it's also tv, i watched the pilot of the magicians last night and i think i liked it. it's very harry potter meets narnia, except everyone is college-age or just-out-of-college-age so they can drink and have sex. i'm interested enough to keep watching, anyway.
the daily babble for dec 15 was school photo days, for ellison, and i feel like a cop-out but i can't do justice to the topic without visual aids, and i still haven't found a driver for my scanner yet. also i only have like two school photos at my house, from when i was wee. but! on sunday i'm going to my parents' house to sort shit, and i will hopefully find better pictures, and will hopefully scan then, and will share! and you can laugh at my hair. :D