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[vaznetti]

I should post something, shouldn't I? Consider this a placeholder, like the title says. BH arrived safely, and stayed awake long enough to watch BSG and Rome. I will post about Rome at some later point. Really. For some reason I am kind of sleepy this morning; I'm trying to write reference letters, but they're going slowly

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[the_grynne]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

I can almost guarantee that you will like Primeval even more after episode...3?

[vaznetti]

I am up to episode 4 now (the killer dodos, as BH calls it.) Don't you think Nick and Helen have a sort of Jack Bristow - Irina Derevko thing going? But then I also want to slash him with Stephen and the Home Office man.

And thank you!

[the_grynne]

Helen! I love Helen!!

Nick is less Jack than Helen is Irina. Don't know what he sees in the stultifyingly dull Claudia. But Jack/Stephen! Stephen/Helen! Lester/Everybody!!

[vaznetti]

Lester amuses me, I have to admit!

Stephen/Helen!

Oooh. I hadn't thought of that, at least not yet.

[muridae_x]

Those poor dodos. No wonder they went extinct. They just couldn't run without slipping on tiled floors...

I can definitely see the Helen Cutter/Irina Derevko parallel. I think it's the first thing I've seen Juliet Aubrey in since Middlemarch, and she's magnificent at doing playfully untrustworthy. You can't help but like her, even though she's clearly Bad News.

[vaznetti]

What I like most about Helen is that she's enormously convincing as a woman who's primary social attachments have, over the past few years, been to reptiles. Her eyes, and the way she moves her head, seem very reptilian.

The dodos were terribly cute.