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beyondthepen asked:
I have! But I'm stuck at Season 1, 'cause I didn't have time to watch more eps lately, but I plan to check out Season 2 and see how I feel about David Tennant. I never thought I would make it so far into the series because I had watched the pilot twice, and hated it both times. Actually, I pretty much disliked all the first episodes (I didn't find the funny/cute in the campy, I thought I would give up again, but I've decided to apply a new rule to tv shows - if it's recommended from people whose taste I trust, I'll watch at least 6 episodes before quitting). And then... I think it was the Dalek episode, it started to get better. Some episodes were really good and I finally got into the right "spirit" to watch the series. Christopher Eccleston is very good, and Captain Jack is adorable (me and my soft spot for conmen, lol). I still don't know how I feel about Rose - she kicked major ass especially in the S1 finale, but the way she handled things on Earth with her family and friends left me a bit... I don't know.
Hmm, this is hard to answer because there are many shows that I think are well done and I've had a great time watching (I think about Mad Men, or Six Feet Under, or Battlestar Galactica), and shows that aren't that great but I truly love due to the memories attached to them, and made me happy. Anyway, it's a toss between The X-Files and Lost, but considering how much emotionally attached I got to some Lost character, and how that was the series that made me decide to join a fandom for the first time, I'll have to go with Lost. While I'm typing this, I feel like I'm betraying my TV parents Mulder and Scully, though. Lol
Sawyer/Juliet. It surprises me that in so little time I managed to fell so hard for them, I mean they were together for one season and two episodes and a lot about them is left unsaid in canon. All my previous ships (Mulder/Scully, Buffy/Spike, Jess/Rory) have a longer history in terms of screentime, and yet I could've taken/took their non ending up together waaaaaaaay more easily than I would've dealt with a negative ending for S/J (I was expecting it, btw, so their The End reunion blew me away). It's also the first time that I "jump ship" in a show, and I won't be an hypocrite and say that the writers didn't screw things up with them like I think they did with each and every "angles" of the quadrangle, in different degrees, but I have this mad love for them, for the way we were finally presented a relationship in which both people are equally committed and in love and willing to make it work.
nicis_anatomy asked:
Oh man, this is another hard question. It's almost impossible to pick a favorite episode out of 9 seasons of the show (although, ahem, the last two can be skipped).
I can tell you what's the episode that freaked me out the most - actually, I don't think I've ever really been freaked out by a tv episode until I watched "Home" (although the dear Eugene Tooms was one hell of a magnificent creeper, too). Good times, I almost never get much of a reaction out of gross/horror/gory, and that one totally got me.
I love so many episodes... abnd this question makes me want to do a rewatch because it's been ages since I've done one.
Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose and Paper Clip are brilliant, Post-Modern Prometheus and Humburg are classics, much love for the most emotional episodes like Paper Hearts or Memento Mori...
Ok, Nici, here's the deal: I'll answer this question after a rewatch s I have everything fresh in mind, otherwise now I'll just list 30 or more eps, lol.
I... don't know if I want a third movie. The second one they made tried to be so many different things, and was so generic on purpose... that it ended up being a bland mess. But if they do get to make another movie installment, I want them to go back to the mythology and the whole 2012 alien colonization storyline left open in The Truth. I believe the choice to make a movie that could be seen by everyone backfired big time - the old fans were disappointed and the people who checked out the movie without knowledge of the background were underwhelmed.
I did watch it, and no I wasn't disappointed. I was WTF-ing a bit during the episode, but for the simple reason that it resembled the Lost finale SO MUCH, and it aired just 2 days before The End, that I almost couldn't believe my eyes, lol. I think the ending fitted the series, because the writers had been dropping hints leading to it since Sam and Life on Mars, and I kind of suspected that Alex was floating between life and death. For some reason the fact that Gene, one of the most unpolitically correct, sarcastic characters I've ever met on TV, would turn out to be an "angel-like" figure, helping souls to find their way in limbo... was pretty genius. I think they could've been a bit more subtle in presenting Jim Keats as the devil, or a devil's messanger, and I would've gladly done without that iPod line at the end, but overall I was very satisfied. I felt bad about Gene being stuck in limbo, but TPTB clarified in an interview that eventually he would find his redemption/complete acceptance too, and join the others in Heaven, so.
lormats asked:
I liked Skate from the very beginning of the show because Sawyer and Kate have what I think is the most powerful, immediate chemistry of all the couples on the series, so that arm grab in the pilot didn't go unnoticed by my shippy-radar. So, chemistry, and the fact that I thought they could not only understand each other because of their similar pasts, but grow together through the second chance that was the island for all the characters. Even if I don't ship them anymore I have fond memories of many of their moments in the early seasons (the I Never game is one of my favorite scenes of the whole show, and this will be an unpopular opinion but I love the S3 mini-arc), and back then they were good, and I could understand their struggle in interacting and developing affection for each other, especially Kate's doubts/conflict over her feelings for two different men (because IMO, when Sawyer is in love you see it so evidently on his face all the time, that the audience don't have much to wonder).
When did all of that start to go bad (very, very) bad? I would say as soon as Not in Portland, but it was Catch-22 that really did the trick. While in the past I could understand Kate's guarded, even harsh attitude around Sawyer, the moment she used him for sex to feel better over the jealousy she was feeling for Jack, it was over for me. Not only she did it for no good reason (crying over Jack and Juliet having dinner together..?) but it happened, what, a week/10 days after she saw Sawyer being literally ready to DIE for her. If she could have so little respect for him and his feelings after what they had gone through together at the Hydra island, it meant, to me, that she would never reciprocate how deeply he felt about her. And no, Sawyer telling her "all you had to do was ask" when he found out the truth doesn't justify/give a pass to her actions in my eyes. I had already burnt my virtual shipper membership card and everything, then when Eggtown aired I reached a new level - I went from being a melancholic, former shipper to start wishing the show would never touch on Skate again, in any way (which was overracting, but after 4 years of triangle/quadrangle shenanigans I was pretty fed up).
Sawyer and Juliet happened... in a weird, crazy way. As I said, in S4 I had moved into the "non shipper" phase, and I counted to stay on that front until the end. I never shipper Jack/Juliet and when Jack basically left her behind without a second thought - after making it crystal clear that he wanted Kate - I was feeling just as strongly an "anti-shipper" when it came to her, than I did about Sawyer. Be single and be awesome.
When James and Juliet ended up sitting on the beach together in the S4 finale, never in a million years I would've expected the writers to go romantic with them the following season. I used to be completely puzzled by people who were so sure they would become an item only because of that one scene. I feared/expected the quadrangle would start where it had been left when the Oceanic Six flew off the island once Jack, Kate & co. came back. BUT, I really liked the idea of Sawyer/Juliet as a team and friends, because I had been hoping they would share more screentime and go on missions together since Through The Looking Glass. They were my favorite male and female characters, so it was natural for me to wish for a kickass partnership. And then... then everyone started to bad mouth the possibility of them developing feelings for each other, saying how absurd it would be, or that at best they would simply have some comfort sex. And I thought, why would it be such a crime for these two to be together? They're great, they're hot, and have 3 years to get to know each other. So, I know how absurd this must sound... but my turning into a shipper (although it was a shipping made just of "what if"s and hopes) started during the hiatus between S4 and S5. When the "You Found Me" music video by The Fray aired with frames from the show, I knew I was a goner because 1 second of Sawyer and Juliet running away from flying arrows did crazy things to my brain. Then I fell in love with what I call the "Left-Behinders" arc, and every episode I wanted S/J to happen more. But I repeat, I NEVER thought they would hook-up romantically, and seeing as I've already made a fool of myself with this neverending recap, I'll also tell you that I thought Sawyer's love interest in Season 5 would be... Amy. I actually kept that convinction until LaFleur and the only fanfic I've written in my life? Addresses that scenario. XD
The night LaFleur aired I watched it live, at 3 in the morning, and I thought I would implode (couldn't explode, or I would've wokep up the whole house).
(I bet when you saw the lenght of the reply you regretted asking that question, Lau, lol!!)
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~ Answers to the fandom meme I posted the other day:
beyondthepen asked:
I have! But I'm stuck at Season 1, 'cause I didn't have time to watch more eps lately, but I plan to check out Season 2 and see how I feel about David Tennant. I never thought I would make it so far into the series because I had watched the pilot twice, and hated it both times. Actually, I pretty much disliked all the first episodes (I didn't find the funny/cute in the campy, I thought I would give up again, but I've decided to apply a new rule to tv shows - if it's recommended from people whose taste I trust, I'll watch at least 6 episodes before quitting). And then... I think it was the Dalek episode, it started to get better. Some episodes were really good and I finally got into the right "spirit" to watch the series. Christopher Eccleston is very good, and Captain Jack is adorable (me and my soft spot for conmen, lol). I still don't know how I feel about Rose - she kicked major ass especially in the S1 finale, but the way she handled things on Earth with her family and friends left me a bit... I don't know.
Hmm, this is hard to answer because there are many shows that I think are well done and I've had a great time watching (I think about Mad Men, or Six Feet Under, or Battlestar Galactica), and shows that aren't that great but I truly love due to the memories attached to them, and made me happy. Anyway, it's a toss between The X-Files and Lost, but considering how much emotionally attached I got to some Lost character, and how that was the series that made me decide to join a fandom for the first time, I'll have to go with Lost. While I'm typing this, I feel like I'm betraying my TV parents Mulder and Scully, though. Lol
Sawyer/Juliet. It surprises me that in so little time I managed to fell so hard for them, I mean they were together for one season and two episodes and a lot about them is left unsaid in canon. All my previous ships (Mulder/Scully, Buffy/Spike, Jess/Rory) have a longer history in terms of screentime, and yet I could've taken/took their non ending up together waaaaaaaay more easily than I would've dealt with a negative ending for S/J (I was expecting it, btw, so their The End reunion blew me away). It's also the first time that I "jump ship" in a show, and I won't be an hypocrite and say that the writers didn't screw things up with them like I think they did with each and every "angles" of the quadrangle, in different degrees, but I have this mad love for them, for the way we were finally presented a relationship in which both people are equally committed and in love and willing to make it work.
nicis_anatomy asked:
Oh man, this is another hard question. It's almost impossible to pick a favorite episode out of 9 seasons of the show (although, ahem, the last two can be skipped).
I can tell you what's the episode that freaked me out the most - actually, I don't think I've ever really been freaked out by a tv episode until I watched "Home" (although the dear Eugene Tooms was one hell of a magnificent creeper, too). Good times, I almost never get much of a reaction out of gross/horror/gory, and that one totally got me.
I love so many episodes... abnd this question makes me want to do a rewatch because it's been ages since I've done one.
Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose and Paper Clip are brilliant, Post-Modern Prometheus and Humburg are classics, much love for the most emotional episodes like Paper Hearts or Memento Mori...
Ok, Nici, here's the deal: I'll answer this question after a rewatch s I have everything fresh in mind, otherwise now I'll just list 30 or more eps, lol.
I... don't know if I want a third movie. The second one they made tried to be so many different things, and was so generic on purpose... that it ended up being a bland mess. But if they do get to make another movie installment, I want them to go back to the mythology and the whole 2012 alien colonization storyline left open in The Truth. I believe the choice to make a movie that could be seen by everyone backfired big time - the old fans were disappointed and the people who checked out the movie without knowledge of the background were underwhelmed.
I did watch it, and no I wasn't disappointed. I was WTF-ing a bit during the episode, but for the simple reason that it resembled the Lost finale SO MUCH, and it aired just 2 days before The End, that I almost couldn't believe my eyes, lol. I think the ending fitted the series, because the writers had been dropping hints leading to it since Sam and Life on Mars, and I kind of suspected that Alex was floating between life and death. For some reason the fact that Gene, one of the most unpolitically correct, sarcastic characters I've ever met on TV, would turn out to be an "angel-like" figure, helping souls to find their way in limbo... was pretty genius. I think they could've been a bit more subtle in presenting Jim Keats as the devil, or a devil's messanger, and I would've gladly done without that iPod line at the end, but overall I was very satisfied. I felt bad about Gene being stuck in limbo, but TPTB clarified in an interview that eventually he would find his redemption/complete acceptance too, and join the others in Heaven, so.
lormats asked:
I liked Skate from the very beginning of the show because Sawyer and Kate have what I think is the most powerful, immediate chemistry of all the couples on the series, so that arm grab in the pilot didn't go unnoticed by my shippy-radar. So, chemistry, and the fact that I thought they could not only understand each other because of their similar pasts, but grow together through the second chance that was the island for all the characters. Even if I don't ship them anymore I have fond memories of many of their moments in the early seasons (the I Never game is one of my favorite scenes of the whole show, and this will be an unpopular opinion but I love the S3 mini-arc), and back then they were good, and I could understand their struggle in interacting and developing affection for each other, especially Kate's doubts/conflict over her feelings for two different men (because IMO, when Sawyer is in love you see it so evidently on his face all the time, that the audience don't have much to wonder).
When did all of that start to go bad (very, very) bad? I would say as soon as Not in Portland, but it was Catch-22 that really did the trick. While in the past I could understand Kate's guarded, even harsh attitude around Sawyer, the moment she used him for sex to feel better over the jealousy she was feeling for Jack, it was over for me. Not only she did it for no good reason (crying over Jack and Juliet having dinner together..?) but it happened, what, a week/10 days after she saw Sawyer being literally ready to DIE for her. If she could have so little respect for him and his feelings after what they had gone through together at the Hydra island, it meant, to me, that she would never reciprocate how deeply he felt about her. And no, Sawyer telling her "all you had to do was ask" when he found out the truth doesn't justify/give a pass to her actions in my eyes. I had already burnt my virtual shipper membership card and everything, then when Eggtown aired I reached a new level - I went from being a melancholic, former shipper to start wishing the show would never touch on Skate again, in any way (which was overracting, but after 4 years of triangle/quadrangle shenanigans I was pretty fed up).
Sawyer and Juliet happened... in a weird, crazy way. As I said, in S4 I had moved into the "non shipper" phase, and I counted to stay on that front until the end. I never shipper Jack/Juliet and when Jack basically left her behind without a second thought - after making it crystal clear that he wanted Kate - I was feeling just as strongly an "anti-shipper" when it came to her, than I did about Sawyer. Be single and be awesome.
When James and Juliet ended up sitting on the beach together in the S4 finale, never in a million years I would've expected the writers to go romantic with them the following season. I used to be completely puzzled by people who were so sure they would become an item only because of that one scene. I feared/expected the quadrangle would start where it had been left when the Oceanic Six flew off the island once Jack, Kate & co. came back. BUT, I really liked the idea of Sawyer/Juliet as a team and friends, because I had been hoping they would share more screentime and go on missions together since Through The Looking Glass. They were my favorite male and female characters, so it was natural for me to wish for a kickass partnership. And then... then everyone started to bad mouth the possibility of them developing feelings for each other, saying how absurd it would be, or that at best they would simply have some comfort sex. And I thought, why would it be such a crime for these two to be together? They're great, they're hot, and have 3 years to get to know each other. So, I know how absurd this must sound... but my turning into a shipper (although it was a shipping made just of "what if"s and hopes) started during the hiatus between S4 and S5. When the "You Found Me" music video by The Fray aired with frames from the show, I knew I was a goner because 1 second of Sawyer and Juliet running away from flying arrows did crazy things to my brain. Then I fell in love with what I call the "Left-Behinders" arc, and every episode I wanted S/J to happen more. But I repeat, I NEVER thought they would hook-up romantically, and seeing as I've already made a fool of myself with this neverending recap, I'll also tell you that I thought Sawyer's love interest in Season 5 would be... Amy. I actually kept that convinction until LaFleur and the only fanfic I've written in my life? Addresses that scenario. XD
The night LaFleur aired I watched it live, at 3 in the morning, and I thought I would implode (couldn't explode, or I would've wokep up the whole house).
(I bet when you saw the lenght of the reply you regretted asking that question, Lau, lol!!)