Sorry, I don't watch NCIS...BUT OMG, WHAT IS THIS MOOD THEME YOU ARE USING??? AND WHY IS 'EXCITED' THE ONLY ONE SHOWING UP WHEN I LOOK IN YOUR JOURNAL?
Hee! It's something I made a couple years ago. It's science/politics/JC/Ewan McGregor/animal-themed. I've been thinking of making an all-science one, though, because my favorite moods are "optimistic" with the full Erlenmeyers, and then "pessimistic" where the knocked over Erlenmeyer is empty.
I think the pics aren't showing up because I still use Boomspeed and it sucks? The whole thing should be here now. Hopefully. But you've reminded me that I've been meaning to move the pics off there for a while in case it crashes and takes my mood theme with it. Also, I think LJ has given us new moods, so it needs an update!
OMG. OMG. NO SERIOUSLY, OMG. I SAW IT THIS MORNING AND THERE HAVE BEEN SQUEE FIREWORKS IN MY HEAD EVER SINCE! I JUST. I JUST! HOW AWESOME WAS TONY? AND GIBBS? AND TONYANDGIBBS?
I'm trying not get too gloaty and over-the-moony, but this fits what we'd been talking about so very well indeed!
Okay, Tony as conman. It's so perfect, and the difference between him and his father being that Junior is using his powers of deception for good while Senior uses them purely for his own gains - I CANNOT STRESS HOW MUCH I LOVE THAT DISTINCTION, OKAY?!?! I loved meeting his father, but I didn't like his father, not even a little bit. I felt sorry for him, because his wife died and he had no clue what to do and he was probably kind of addicted to lying and maybe didn't know what else to do but keep on lying - but what he does is kind of awful, despite the reasons. And I love that Tony didn't seem to think that, not really - he wasn't happy about his childhood, but he doesn't seem angry about it (although this is Tony, so duh), he just seemed
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1/3 Tony and his fatherchreeskoJanuary 15 2010, 01:06:10 UTC
EXACTLY! I read a spoiler or two (mostly reactions) before the episode aired here because I thought I would enjoy it more if I weren’t worrying about how bad it was going to be. And everyone was squeeing like crazy about it, and I was just sort of like, “Oh, good, it doesn’t suck.” I really thought people were overreacting. But then I watched it, and I still haven’t fully absorbed it yet! I’m not coherent about it yet so I might come back to your comment later, but for now…
There was not one single second of this episode that I didn’t love. I almost couldn’t watch it, it was that awesome. They squeezed so much in. Can you believe it was written by the same guys that did South by Southwest? I was so scared they were going to screw it up. (But now I’m irritated with them for being so lazy with the other eps! They could do this, but instead they were giving us that. Work harder, writers
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Re: 1/3 Tony and his fatherlittle_ozzoJanuary 15 2010, 10:11:40 UTC
I was going to be really good and not read anyone's reactions at all before watching it, but I have crappy willpower so that lasted all of ten minutes. But then I was delighted because everyone seemed so happy and then I read about the steak - but even all the fandom glee couldn't actually prepare me for how awesome the episode really was! No, seriously, it was that good! I couldn't believe it!
Okay, I did not realise it was written by the SxSW guys, but it was weird because all the cowboy and steak references (none of those writers are vegetarians, clearly) totally made me think about that episode, peripherally, when I was watching! Because even though there are some things I dislike lots about SXSW, that's kind of the first episode that Gibbs shocks himself out of his weird detachment, because he's all terrified Tony's going to leave, and then this one sort of comes full circle: I've never seen Gibbs less detached than he was here
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Re: 1/3 Tony and his fatherchreeskoJanuary 18 2010, 17:07:48 UTC
I’ll probably edit this a million billion times because I still can’t be coherent about it. Whenever I try to think about Tony and his father, I just break down into a ridiculous fangirly puddle because OMG! OMG. How could you do that to your own child and not even notice? OMG.
I hadn’t noticed the steak thing, but now that you mention it, there were a couple of similarities between this and SxSw. In addition to being fans of meat, these writers also seem to be fans of cowboys and the Gibbs-Tony-separate-from-the-others dynamic, which is cool. I like the Gibbs-Tony thing better here because it didn’t have the feel of we’re splitting up the team! Also, in retrospect, I would have liked the team being split up in SxSw a lot more if we hadn’t had the Sherriff tagging along - think of the talks they could have had! The two episodes did share the fact that the opening scene was about money. And both had a Gibbs ‘n’ Tony Fireside Chat™. Actually, the more I talk about it, the more SxSw grows on me, sort of. I still don’t like it, but I
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All I can say is IT'S ABOUT TIME! This is the first real Tony episode in a long time where they really get past his goofiness and really show who he is and where he came from! All these years we've heard hints about the family and everything, but only from Tony's point of view! To really see him as a reflection of Sr. and through Gibbs' eyes, it's like \o/ WIN WIN WIN!!!!
I was so scared when I heard they were doing a backstory episode for Tony. Can you just imagine the myriad ways in which this could have gone wrong? But honestly, I think this might be my favorite episode of the show, ever. Definitely my favorite over the past couple of years. Tony was so… eeeee! I can’t even be rational about it, while I was watching it I just devolved into this big ball of squee and I kept flapping my arms and doing this weird little chicken dance. IDEK
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NOTHING to do with this post...georgiamagnoliaMay 2 2011, 18:01:08 UTC
Hi!
I just approved your membership to mfu_yumdaily and decided I needed to friend you if only because one of your listed interests is 'little blond soviets' and that amused me greatly. Also, echoandsway is a mutual friend so we must have some other things in common besides love for MFU and NCIS. Thanks for making my morning and welcome aboard the crazy. *grin*
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I think the pics aren't showing up because I still use Boomspeed and it sucks? The whole thing should be here now. Hopefully. But you've reminded me that I've been meaning to move the pics off there for a while in case it crashes and takes my mood theme with it. Also, I think LJ has given us new moods, so it needs an update!
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I'm trying not get too gloaty and over-the-moony, but this fits what we'd been talking about so very well indeed!
Okay, Tony as conman. It's so perfect, and the difference between him and his father being that Junior is using his powers of deception for good while Senior uses them purely for his own gains - I CANNOT STRESS HOW MUCH I LOVE THAT DISTINCTION, OKAY?!?! I loved meeting his father, but I didn't like his father, not even a little bit. I felt sorry for him, because his wife died and he had no clue what to do and he was probably kind of addicted to lying and maybe didn't know what else to do but keep on lying - but what he does is kind of awful, despite the reasons. And I love that Tony didn't seem to think that, not really - he wasn't happy about his childhood, but he doesn't seem angry about it (although this is Tony, so duh), he just seemed ( ... )
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There was not one single second of this episode that I didn’t love. I almost couldn’t watch it, it was that awesome. They squeezed so much in. Can you believe it was written by the same guys that did South by Southwest? I was so scared they were going to screw it up. (But now I’m irritated with them for being so lazy with the other eps! They could do this, but instead they were giving us that. Work harder, writers ( ... )
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Okay, I did not realise it was written by the SxSW guys, but it was weird because all the cowboy and steak references (none of those writers are vegetarians, clearly) totally made me think about that episode, peripherally, when I was watching! Because even though there are some things I dislike lots about SXSW, that's kind of the first episode that Gibbs shocks himself out of his weird detachment, because he's all terrified Tony's going to leave, and then this one sort of comes full circle: I've never seen Gibbs less detached than he was here ( ... )
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I’ll probably edit this a million billion times because I still can’t be coherent about it. Whenever I try to think about Tony and his father, I just break down into a ridiculous fangirly puddle because OMG! OMG. How could you do that to your own child and not even notice? OMG.
I hadn’t noticed the steak thing, but now that you mention it, there were a couple of similarities between this and SxSw. In addition to being fans of meat, these writers also seem to be fans of cowboys and the Gibbs-Tony-separate-from-the-others dynamic, which is cool. I like the Gibbs-Tony thing better here because it didn’t have the feel of we’re splitting up the team! Also, in retrospect, I would have liked the team being split up in SxSw a lot more if we hadn’t had the Sherriff tagging along - think of the talks they could have had! The two episodes did share the fact that the opening scene was about money. And both had a Gibbs ‘n’ Tony Fireside Chat™. Actually, the more I talk about it, the more SxSw grows on me, sort of. I still don’t like it, but I ( ... )
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I just approved your membership to mfu_yumdaily and decided I needed to friend you if only because one of your listed interests is 'little blond soviets' and that amused me greatly. Also, echoandsway is a mutual friend so we must have some other things in common besides love for MFU and NCIS. Thanks for making my morning and welcome aboard the crazy. *grin*
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And I love your icon. DAT ASS, as they say.
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