Water and Shows
I was at work yesterday in hot sunny Perth when cricketk sent me a photo from a news site of flooding on the highway near my street. I couldn't get away, but my mother drove out to see what was going on at my place. I'm glad she did since there was water in the house (from leaks and rain coming in open windows, not from floodwaters!) that would probably have damaged my floors by the end of the day.
She took this photo of the creek at the bottom of my property some hours after the highway flooding. It was bone dry the day before and is normally only about a metre wide even in winter.
It was back in its banks by the time I got home about 9pm. My poor gravel driveway is very eroded and the firebreaks are even worse, a disadvantage of being on a significant slope. At least three trees and many branches are down, half the firebreaks are blocked, one fence is mostly pushed over by the dirt and vegetation that piled up behind it, and the hallway ceiling needs to be repainted due to water damage. The week's forecast for 36 to 40 degrees C every day is not very conducive to chainsawing and outdoor cleanup! On the upside, the water tanks are full, the animals are cleaner and the lawns got thoroughly watered! Most of the rest of the land is dry again already - if it's dry to begin with, water just races over it and hardly sinks in at all.
SPN 7x12
I've hit a point with Supernatural where I'm likely to be disappointed by what happens onscreen and need to pull back from that point ASAP. It boils down to the need to keep the separation of fanfic and canon clearer in my mind! I liked the time travel and Dean's letter to Sam across 68 years, and thought the casting of Eliot Ness was excellent. Everyday jeans beat a 40s suit hands-down for me, but it's nice to have a bit of variety, I guess. Jody Mills made me cross when she presumed to speak to Sam in a Mom voice. That's Sam Winchester you're talking to - show him some respect! A 14 year age difference (using the actress's age) does not qualify you to take a parental tone with anybody, let alone someone who saved the world.
If we're going to see more of Jody, I'm going to want some details about how she's dealt with her son and husband's rather horrific deaths, which were less than two years ago. She seems a little too calm and well-adjusted. I was surprised she'd want to bring up even having a Mom voice.
White Collar 3x11
Lots of good stuff here, though I thought Peter let Neal off the hook way too quickly. People shouting at each other is one of my bulletproof kinks, so I was very keen on Peter shoving Neal up against the wall, and I also loved Neal's honest answers to Peter's questions, especially "Why not (leave New York)?" "You." I would have thought the probation office would check with Peter before deciding whether to hold a hearing for Neal, but it will be interesting to see where that goes.
Over the last two weeks I've seen all of S2 BBC Sherlock and both the Sherlock movies. I rate them inversely to the percentage of each that I was thinking about Sam and Dean:
In order of watching:
BBC 2x01 "A Scandal in Belgravia": 20%.
BBC 2x02 "The Hounds of Baskerville": 15%. I loved this one for "I don't have friends. I only have one."
Ritchie 2011 "A Game of Shadows": 35%. I saw that one at the end of a workday when I was many hours past my comfortable limit for going without an SPN fix.
Ritchie 2009: 10%. Pretty good.
BBC 2x03 "The Reichenbach Fall": 5%. The clear winner!
"The Reichenbach Fall" reminded me of elohvee's We Were Twenty in the way that it tells you at the start that a main character is going to die (and then you spend the rest of the episode/story hoping that's not going to be the case even so!), but after I dragged myself back from that little SPN detour, I was pretty much captivated. They did such a good job of showing how close John and Sherlock were that John's grief at the end rang very true, and I liked how socialised Sherlock was becoming, at least with prompting either by John, or, surprisingly, by Molly. I also loved the great sense of action and alarm and movement during Moriarty's break-ins, not to mention the pure fun of setting them off with phone icons.
I was a bit confused by how slashy the movies are. Who are they aiming at with that stuff? I wouldn't have thought big-budget films targeted slash fans, so the things we get all excited about must appeal to the masses in different ways.
She took this photo of the creek at the bottom of my property some hours after the highway flooding. It was bone dry the day before and is normally only about a metre wide even in winter.
It was back in its banks by the time I got home about 9pm. My poor gravel driveway is very eroded and the firebreaks are even worse, a disadvantage of being on a significant slope. At least three trees and many branches are down, half the firebreaks are blocked, one fence is mostly pushed over by the dirt and vegetation that piled up behind it, and the hallway ceiling needs to be repainted due to water damage. The week's forecast for 36 to 40 degrees C every day is not very conducive to chainsawing and outdoor cleanup! On the upside, the water tanks are full, the animals are cleaner and the lawns got thoroughly watered! Most of the rest of the land is dry again already - if it's dry to begin with, water just races over it and hardly sinks in at all.
SPN 7x12
I've hit a point with Supernatural where I'm likely to be disappointed by what happens onscreen and need to pull back from that point ASAP. It boils down to the need to keep the separation of fanfic and canon clearer in my mind! I liked the time travel and Dean's letter to Sam across 68 years, and thought the casting of Eliot Ness was excellent. Everyday jeans beat a 40s suit hands-down for me, but it's nice to have a bit of variety, I guess. Jody Mills made me cross when she presumed to speak to Sam in a Mom voice. That's Sam Winchester you're talking to - show him some respect! A 14 year age difference (using the actress's age) does not qualify you to take a parental tone with anybody, let alone someone who saved the world.
If we're going to see more of Jody, I'm going to want some details about how she's dealt with her son and husband's rather horrific deaths, which were less than two years ago. She seems a little too calm and well-adjusted. I was surprised she'd want to bring up even having a Mom voice.
White Collar 3x11
Lots of good stuff here, though I thought Peter let Neal off the hook way too quickly. People shouting at each other is one of my bulletproof kinks, so I was very keen on Peter shoving Neal up against the wall, and I also loved Neal's honest answers to Peter's questions, especially "Why not (leave New York)?" "You." I would have thought the probation office would check with Peter before deciding whether to hold a hearing for Neal, but it will be interesting to see where that goes.
Over the last two weeks I've seen all of S2 BBC Sherlock and both the Sherlock movies. I rate them inversely to the percentage of each that I was thinking about Sam and Dean:
In order of watching:
BBC 2x01 "A Scandal in Belgravia": 20%.
BBC 2x02 "The Hounds of Baskerville": 15%. I loved this one for "I don't have friends. I only have one."
Ritchie 2011 "A Game of Shadows": 35%. I saw that one at the end of a workday when I was many hours past my comfortable limit for going without an SPN fix.
Ritchie 2009: 10%. Pretty good.
BBC 2x03 "The Reichenbach Fall": 5%. The clear winner!
"The Reichenbach Fall" reminded me of elohvee's We Were Twenty in the way that it tells you at the start that a main character is going to die (and then you spend the rest of the episode/story hoping that's not going to be the case even so!), but after I dragged myself back from that little SPN detour, I was pretty much captivated. They did such a good job of showing how close John and Sherlock were that John's grief at the end rang very true, and I liked how socialised Sherlock was becoming, at least with prompting either by John, or, surprisingly, by Molly. I also loved the great sense of action and alarm and movement during Moriarty's break-ins, not to mention the pure fun of setting them off with phone icons.
I was a bit confused by how slashy the movies are. Who are they aiming at with that stuff? I wouldn't have thought big-budget films targeted slash fans, so the things we get all excited about must appeal to the masses in different ways.