there's a lot of tv and space (but not space tv) in this post
happy birthday murielle! writer and lj idoler! i hope your day was a good one. :D (that means cake.)
dancing boys: *tango*
i did something weird to my knee this morning while i was running for the t, and it has consequently hurt all day. >.< and i don't think i have useful painkillers in the house. >.< just excedrin migraine. >.< oy, self. this is what you get for trying to run early in the morning.
last night my bus driver looked weirdly like kim manners, and this morning there was a girl on the bus who looked like mistyzeo. doppelgangers on the bus!
quick things about the 100: bellamy's heart might be in the right place, but wow, is throwing in with pike going to be a mistake. pike being voted chancellor is going to be a mistake. allow me to channel my inner hawkeye to say ok, this looks bad.
i knew the ice queen was going to end up dead by the end of thunderdome lexa and roan's trial by combat, but i was expecting roan to throw the spear at her. but no! lexa! sort of a shocker. probably would have been more of a shocker if i wasn't convinced someone was going to throw that spear.
i still feel bad for jasper, and i get why he's so angry at monty, but as other commentary has pointed out, he's not the only person who lost someone. dunno if monty essentially breaking up with him will make a difference, tho.
i finally watched sleepy hollow from last week - and i wouldn't even have known it was back except for twitter, so thank you, twitter - and i like ichabod's shorter hair but there was a lot of clunky dialogue involving character a explaining character b's motivation to character b, for the benefit of the audience. i wasn't super impressed. and what was the point of the flashback, other than to suggest that sometimes you have to let your friends die so you can complete your mission? and does anyone else expect foster to be someone's love interest by the end of the season? because i don't think the ptb know any other reason to introduce a new character, especially a young and attractive one. (i kinda like her, but she ended up with a lot of explainy, therapist-y dialogue, and eh.) and the motw was very easily dispatched - she showed up in one scene and was killed off in the next. why did they bother to introduce her, if she was going to be revealed, named, and killed in such short order?
and how is reynolds the one person who's as desperate to find abbie as ichabod is? shouldn't that be, you know, abbie's SISTER?
on the other hand, betsy ross wasn't quite as anachronistic as she has been! and nikki reed wasn't terrible! the ptb seem to have retconned katrina out of ichabod's life, tho, which is weird and disappointing. i was never her biggest fan but the first two seasons made so much of her and ichabod's relationship that never mentioning her at all makes for a huge, huge hole. she's glaringly conspicuous for her absence.
and on the other, other hand, ichabod all but saying that he has to get abbie back because he loves her was, uh, lovely. i really do like that they can be friends and colleagues and they can really, really care about each other - they can love each other - without being IN LOVE with each other. now she just needs to be back, so we're not getting so much ichabod/betsy and jennie/corbin junior. (which, eh. i like him - he certainly has more of a reason to be on the show than hawley did - but, again, the end game for pretty much any new character seems to be "love interest". which is boring.) (altho so far betsy ross, super spy, is more ichabod's fellow spy than anything else and they have absolutely zero ust, altho that could be lack of chemistry on the part of the actors. the glaring lack of katrina vaguely implies that ichabod and betsy were a thing, even if we haven't actively seen it.)
also, there was a shocking lack of batshit. i never thought i'd miss the batshit, but i miss the batshit. and i miss all the instances of ichabod vs the 21st century. he didn't even get to rant this episode! at least he's still incredibly cute.
agent carter continues to be fun (peggy! jarvis! rose!), izombie continues to be a lot of "this isn't going to end well" (but also, ravi! ravi&major! peyton! liv on zombie brains!), and i hate to admit it, because the story is leisurely and convoluted in good ways and i like it, but i think i'm watching london spy at least 50% for ben whishaw and his really nice profile. >.<
tilt-shift van gogh - photoshopped tilt-shift applied to some of van gogh's paintings. i love tilt-shift. i love how 3d it makes things look.
a really cute comic about missing your rolls in d&d.
space tourism propaganda posters - last chance for water until jupiter! :D
catpool! ie, deadpool cat cosplay. i hope the movie's good, or at least worth the time and the ticket price.
"secret room" discovered in berlin's subway system. how did they get a bed and a tv and a plant down there, without being detected?
secret agent woman - by which i mean, josephine baker during ww2. she was pretty amazing.
so way back when he was working on his theory of general relativity, einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves, which are ripples in the fabric of spacetime that are caused when a very large object accelerates through space. we've never been able to find them. except now we have. because over a billion years ago two black holes caught each other in a death spiral and eventually merged into one, and apparently that much black hole makes some really persistent gravitational waves. i admit i don't understand all of it - understanding astroscience is really, really not my skillset - except for the fact that it's really, really cool.
also apparently we almost missed them.
there was a press conference this morning, but scientists and journalists who'd gotten some details ahead of time were under embargo not to say anything beforehand, but a research associate at nasa broke the embargo with a cake. accidentally. for the second time. i love that story. i mean, it has cake. what's not to love?
dancing boys: *tango*
i did something weird to my knee this morning while i was running for the t, and it has consequently hurt all day. >.< and i don't think i have useful painkillers in the house. >.< just excedrin migraine. >.< oy, self. this is what you get for trying to run early in the morning.
last night my bus driver looked weirdly like kim manners, and this morning there was a girl on the bus who looked like mistyzeo. doppelgangers on the bus!
quick things about the 100: bellamy's heart might be in the right place, but wow, is throwing in with pike going to be a mistake. pike being voted chancellor is going to be a mistake. allow me to channel my inner hawkeye to say ok, this looks bad.
i knew the ice queen was going to end up dead by the end of thunderdome lexa and roan's trial by combat, but i was expecting roan to throw the spear at her. but no! lexa! sort of a shocker. probably would have been more of a shocker if i wasn't convinced someone was going to throw that spear.
i still feel bad for jasper, and i get why he's so angry at monty, but as other commentary has pointed out, he's not the only person who lost someone. dunno if monty essentially breaking up with him will make a difference, tho.
i finally watched sleepy hollow from last week - and i wouldn't even have known it was back except for twitter, so thank you, twitter - and i like ichabod's shorter hair but there was a lot of clunky dialogue involving character a explaining character b's motivation to character b, for the benefit of the audience. i wasn't super impressed. and what was the point of the flashback, other than to suggest that sometimes you have to let your friends die so you can complete your mission? and does anyone else expect foster to be someone's love interest by the end of the season? because i don't think the ptb know any other reason to introduce a new character, especially a young and attractive one. (i kinda like her, but she ended up with a lot of explainy, therapist-y dialogue, and eh.) and the motw was very easily dispatched - she showed up in one scene and was killed off in the next. why did they bother to introduce her, if she was going to be revealed, named, and killed in such short order?
and how is reynolds the one person who's as desperate to find abbie as ichabod is? shouldn't that be, you know, abbie's SISTER?
on the other hand, betsy ross wasn't quite as anachronistic as she has been! and nikki reed wasn't terrible! the ptb seem to have retconned katrina out of ichabod's life, tho, which is weird and disappointing. i was never her biggest fan but the first two seasons made so much of her and ichabod's relationship that never mentioning her at all makes for a huge, huge hole. she's glaringly conspicuous for her absence.
and on the other, other hand, ichabod all but saying that he has to get abbie back because he loves her was, uh, lovely. i really do like that they can be friends and colleagues and they can really, really care about each other - they can love each other - without being IN LOVE with each other. now she just needs to be back, so we're not getting so much ichabod/betsy and jennie/corbin junior. (which, eh. i like him - he certainly has more of a reason to be on the show than hawley did - but, again, the end game for pretty much any new character seems to be "love interest". which is boring.) (altho so far betsy ross, super spy, is more ichabod's fellow spy than anything else and they have absolutely zero ust, altho that could be lack of chemistry on the part of the actors. the glaring lack of katrina vaguely implies that ichabod and betsy were a thing, even if we haven't actively seen it.)
also, there was a shocking lack of batshit. i never thought i'd miss the batshit, but i miss the batshit. and i miss all the instances of ichabod vs the 21st century. he didn't even get to rant this episode! at least he's still incredibly cute.
agent carter continues to be fun (peggy! jarvis! rose!), izombie continues to be a lot of "this isn't going to end well" (but also, ravi! ravi&major! peyton! liv on zombie brains!), and i hate to admit it, because the story is leisurely and convoluted in good ways and i like it, but i think i'm watching london spy at least 50% for ben whishaw and his really nice profile. >.<
tilt-shift van gogh - photoshopped tilt-shift applied to some of van gogh's paintings. i love tilt-shift. i love how 3d it makes things look.
a really cute comic about missing your rolls in d&d.
space tourism propaganda posters - last chance for water until jupiter! :D
catpool! ie, deadpool cat cosplay. i hope the movie's good, or at least worth the time and the ticket price.
"secret room" discovered in berlin's subway system. how did they get a bed and a tv and a plant down there, without being detected?
secret agent woman - by which i mean, josephine baker during ww2. she was pretty amazing.
so way back when he was working on his theory of general relativity, einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves, which are ripples in the fabric of spacetime that are caused when a very large object accelerates through space. we've never been able to find them. except now we have. because over a billion years ago two black holes caught each other in a death spiral and eventually merged into one, and apparently that much black hole makes some really persistent gravitational waves. i admit i don't understand all of it - understanding astroscience is really, really not my skillset - except for the fact that it's really, really cool.
also apparently we almost missed them.
there was a press conference this morning, but scientists and journalists who'd gotten some details ahead of time were under embargo not to say anything beforehand, but a research associate at nasa broke the embargo with a cake. accidentally. for the second time. i love that story. i mean, it has cake. what's not to love?