Comments | brynnmck: My dad's better than your dad, he's got eight cars and a house in Ireland (SING IT)

brynnmck

My dad's better than your dad, he's got eight cars and a house in Ireland (SING IT)

Dec 16, 2008 11:23

So I FINALLY had the chance to watch the "leaked" four episodes of Flashpoint this weekend (I was waiting for troyswann! Okay, not really, I was waiting to finish my DSSS because Hugh is REALLY DISTRACTING, though the recent bout of Flu on my f-list made my attempts at virtue sort of in vain--is there a lesson there? But Sal was here and I'm glad I waited ( Read more... )

i am a sad sad fangirl, flashpoint, seattle wins at fangirls, headstones

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inathunderstorm December 16 2008, 23:04:56 UTC

I like that picture! I can always get behind Hugh/Trent (and maybe Hugh/Trent/Callum? I <3 OT3s the mooooooooost!)

brynnmck December 16 2008, 23:38:18 UTC

Hee! I can't even wrap my brain around Hugh/Trent/Callum. But I totally support you! Hee. <3

vsee December 16 2008, 23:26:40 UTC

Great comments. I agree that those two eps reversed would have made for a much more interesting emotional arc. And yeah, he is really....hitting his stride or something, even just over these few weeks he was working on this. Amazing. I was just thinking about it the other day when china sent me the files with the Ask the HDRC audio files. You know, back then he was still being all fuck-you-I-am-in-my-rockstar persona, which I guess is what people were expecting. It's still fun to hear him being a little snide and yelling out answers, but at the same time part of me was...buh? I have grown used to a more thoughtful person in interviews.

brynnmck December 16 2008, 23:53:30 UTC

I have grown used to a more thoughtful person in interviews.*nodnod* I actually really love both of those aspects of his personality--and the fact that he has them both at the same time, because if you listen to/read some of his interviews even back in the Headstones days, there's a big difference between them and his stage persona (which I also love, but then again, I find pretty much everything Hugh does to be painfully adorable/hot/awesome, because I have a problem!); the thoughtful, softer-spoken guy was always there, and surprisingly obvious given that that was NOT what people were expecting. I think Hugh kind of plays to his crowd, so if he's being interviewed by Mike Bullard, he's happy to sling the bullshit; if he's being interviewed by Stroumbo, he's a little mellower. Y'know? But he does look so HAPPY and TOGETHER in interviews these days, and that brings me a lot of joy--he just glows, which is a nice change from the early days, when (from the interviews I've seen) he tends to look strung-out and exhausted. Heh ( ... )

belmanoir December 17 2008, 01:24:03 UTC

you know...well, you know how i feel about sad endings, but i honestly don't feel like hugh/trent HAS one. i mean, they were amazing for a very long time, and then they broke up. that happens. they were still right for each other and bff for years and years and made a lot of amazing music before they weren't anymore. people change. they need different things at different points in their lives. hugh is doing great and i hope trent is too, and it sounds like they are starting to be friends again, and i think that's AWESOME. it's like stella and kowalski, you know? i don't want them to get back together because there are reasons things didn't work out in the long term, and they aren't kids anymore, and obviously that's really painful and hard for both of them, but i like to think that in the future they'll be able to still be part of each other's lives and even if they can't, they spent some fucking amazing years together being really happy.

brynnmck December 17 2008, 01:38:29 UTC

it sounds like they are starting to be friends again

That's honestly the key for me. If that's the case, then I have no reason to be sad. (I mean, not that any of this is ANY of my business anyway, but you know what I mean.) I think it's just that I know just enough about the whole deal (with the whole band, not just Hugh and Trent) for my overactive imagination to fill in the rest, y'know? And aside from that interview Hugh gave recently, where he said they talk about a reunion periodically (which is hard for me to entirely believe; it seems like maybe one of those things you SAY, but I hope it IS true, because that would entirely alleviate my overinvested sadness), the last thing I have in my head is an article about Trent's 40th birthday party not long after the band broke up, and it was this surprise deal at a bar in Toronto, and Tim was there but Hugh and Dale weren't, and people requested Headstones songs and they couldn't play them because the Headstones weren't, anymore, and... I'm just stuck on that, and it's so sad! I ( ... )

belmanoir December 17 2008, 01:45:34 UTC

oh my god that is the sadddest thing i've ever heard. oh TRENT. but re: the interview you're talking about, was that the same interview where hugh said that he talks to them all a few times a year and stuff? that seems like a really good sign, like he's in a place now where he can start to be friends with them again and know that he doesn't have to go back to being past!hugh to do that.

anyway, i totally agree, breakups and losing close friends are AWFUL and you never get back that piece of yourself...but it seems like that's what hugh is ALL ABOUT, how you take the pain with the good stuff and live your life and fucking enjoy it, you know? hugh is so obviously happy that it's hard for me to get too upset about it. (it'd be nice to know more about how trent's doing, of course!)

oh god i want a reunion SO BAD. anyway hi, nothing wrong with a little overinvesting, it is what we do here!

brynnmck December 17 2008, 18:24:46 UTC

Isn't that SAD? (Well, actually, now that I go back and read the article [scroll down], it's more upbeat than I made it sound, I was just reading between the lines. Heh.)

Anyway, yes, I was talking about that interview, and you're right, it bodes well. (I don't know why I have a hard time believing that's actually true--it's not like Hugh would have much motivation to lie about that stuff. I think it's just that he's pretty vague about it, so I wonder if he just doesn't want to get into it because it's personal. Which makes me feel that much more stalkery! *facepalm* But anyway.)

it seems like that's what hugh is ALL ABOUT, how you take the pain with the good stuff and live your life and fucking enjoy it, you know? hugh is so obviously happy

I know, I totally agree! I think it's more me being sad that they're not friends anymore, rather than about whether they're happy (though I, too, would like to know what's going on with the rest of the guys, at least aside from Dale's MySpace page *g*). And obviously part of it is my own ( ... )

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nos4a2no9 December 18 2008, 02:21:21 UTC

Dude, the last few eps of Flashpoint rocked my socks! Hugh was GREAT in the ep with Ed's mentor. WE COULD INDEED SEE LITTLE PIECES OF HIS SOUL! It was fabulous! And I think the show is starting to figure out what it wants to say about masculinity and violence and the role of peacekeepers. I was thinking, watching those last few episodes, that we really haven't seen a lot of cop shows where their job is to actually protect people. It's always about catching the bad guy, but with Flashpoint there rarely is a bad guy (or girl): just people living through, as Ed's mentor so aptly put it, "the worst twenty minutes of their lives." And the TEAM is there to hold things together, to make sure everyone makes it out alive. And that premise is...well, it's kind of fabulous. I wish it'd gelled for me a little earlier, but I am all set to enjoy the next season of HUGH'S ACTING SHOWCASE OF AWESOME ( ... )