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[cassi0pei4]

 I fucking love Patty Hewes.

This post has no real point, I just needed to put that out there.

Also, why haven't people capped damages for download?  The only ones I can find are dreadful quality and only come in gallery format.  I might have to learn how to do my own screencaps if I want to keep making damages icons...

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[cassi0pei4]

I don't know. MAGIC, that's how.

Why aren't more people obsessed with her? Damages should have a massive fandom. I mean, at the very least, femmeslashers should be obsessed with Patty/Ellen.

My favorite moments so far have been the "What" scene with her grand-daughter and the scene during the play date when Patty says something like "If you only had the resources" and then pauses and you can feel the power struggle because Ellen doesn't want to have to ask and Patty doesn't want to just concede, so neither says anything. Just deliciously perfect.

[cassi0pei4]

Therapy! That was awesome. I hope she stays in therapy all season. Patty's attempts to challenge the therapist's power were so perfectly in character. And the way she could resist talking about Ellen even though she didn't want to talk with the therapist about anything. LOVE.

I love your spam. I always want to comment with something like, "YES, EXACTLY THAT," but resist because, well, I usually have nothing more coherent than that to say in response. :)

[promethia_tenk]

I must watch Damages, I know I must. *weeps over list of TV to watch*

I might have to learn how to do my own screencaps if I want to keep making damages icons...
I'm completely and utterly low rent, but I just use screen grab to get the particular frames I want. It does give you better control over what *exact* instant you want to capture and then you're not sitting on a million caps you don't need.

[cassi0pei4]

You definitely should watch Damages. Patty is built in a similar River/Laura Roslin sort of mold. :D

I use my screen grab tool all the time. I meant that I might have to learn how to cap an avi file, with, say a cap every half second or so, without having to go through and cap everything individually. I generally prefer looking through files of photos than capping specific scenes. I have done some manual capping for dw, when I've wanted an exact tenth (or less) of a second of a scene of River, but I'd rather not manually cap everything.

I take it you've discovered the awesomeness that is Dollhouse? Adelle Dewitt is actually what made me join lj. It's a flawed show for sure, but interesting. :)

[promethia_tenk]

Pretty much all reason says that I should love Patty Hewes. Alas, I seem to be rather stuck in a Whedon rut at the moment (despite having major gripes with him), so I'm using it to plow through his whole oeuvre and be done with it.

But then came Dollhouse . . . I think I'm in love. The flaws are sad but forgiveable, I think, particularly given the network interference. The ideas it's playing with have made me into a drooling, gibbering idiot. There may have to be meta about parallels with River (Song). And Adelle <3 Frankly, I did not credit Whedon with being able to write a character like Adelle well. If she'd shown up in any of his earlier shows, I'm pretty sure she would have eaten babies. Literally. And her relationship with Topher . . . I'm thoroughly impressed.

[cassi0pei4]

I love Dollhouse much more on a meta level than on a straightforward one, (though I just adore Dewitt beyond logic, and so am willing to brush past her dubious morals...actually in a rather similar way to how I love Patty...). I also loved it more when I realized what Whedon had intended it to be like, as shown by the pilot and the epitaphs. I actually think the Epitaph universe might have made a more fascinating tv show, with flashbacks to the early days of the technology, rather than showing the early days with two episodes of flash-forwards.

I also think it's possible that Adelle's awesomeness, (and this goes for Dominic as well) might be partially due to the way the actors played them. Olivia Williams brought a lot of nuance to an otherwise somewhat bland businesswoman - ditto for Reed Diamond, who managed to make standing still with almost no lines into an actual character.