Comments | daygloparker: scales fell from Saul's eyes, and he could see again

daygloparker

scales fell from Saul's eyes, and he could see again

Apr 17, 2010 15:41

The natural order of things has been disrupted. Instead of watching this (drunk) then vaguely handwaving at it and going, "Next week! Next week, I promise, I'll talk," I... watched it live? Sober? Then again, just now (after a brief drunk-and-it's-understandable 12-hour interlude) (this reads like I drink a lot. I mean, I do, but I don't? Timing? ( Read more... )

ashes to ashes

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ohvienna April 17 2010, 21:48:49 UTC

I don't even know anymore. I think the space of waiting before this episode was my first crisis of, OH OH I DON'T KNOW IF LIKE WHERE THIS IS GOING AAAAH but then after the episode I was TOTALLY FINE (this is three years of thinking it would be cooler if they didn't make it a "real" place? Or say that everyone else is/was also a real person in the real world? Not that I thought it would be bad, just that I thought they eventually would probably go the whole "let us connect shows by showing it is a "real" (er?) place" and thought if it was all "in [Alex's] mind" (a la new intro) it would be like o_0 OOH AWESOMES. I'm over it. ALL IS WELL. STILL DON'T QUITE KNOW ( ... )

daygloparker April 18 2010, 14:44:38 UTC

I'm VERY INTRIGUED to know how Keats will go about trying to "get" Chris next week. DIDN'T SUMMERS ALREADY TRY THIS? AND DIDN'T IT FAIL? I would think that if you had to rank them, Chris' loyalty is second only to Alex, in that regard. (Oh God, and now that I'm thinking about it - Series 2. When they're all trying to figure out how precisely to take Super Mac down, and Gene says something about there always being a side door. KEATS IS LOOKING FOR GENE'S SIDE DOOR. akjfkasjfhafhjafha)

re: numbers - do you mean SPOILERED spoilered, like outside the bounds of this episode? IF SO, TELL ME NOW PLEASE. Um.

I also got this image of him actually riding a bicycle around the station ringing the bell with the Wicked Witch of the West theme playing and now I can't get it out of my head?

It is statements like this that are the reason why my afternoon is currently slated as: watching The Wizard of Oz for the 1,000,000th time. (You know how kids have their particular favorite movies? HEH HEH. THIS WAS MINE. I. Can. Quote. The. Entire. Thing. ...

ohvienna April 19 2010, 01:16:48 UTC

re: numbers - do you mean SPOILERED spoilered, like outside the bounds of this episode? IF SO, TELL ME NOW PLEASE. Um.

IMAGE FROM THE END OF 3X02:

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daygloparker April 19 2010, 03:36:21 UTC

...

!!!! OH MY GOD?

I now want it to be a combination of this + my crazy Bible thing. NO I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT WHAT ACTUALLY MEANS. BUT. Let's face it, I busted out my Bible. I want that to count.

(I did actually watch The Wizard of Oz today, making loads of preemptive screencaps, and oh boy. If they do half of the stuff that while watching this I was going, "Wouldn't it be neat if [insert parallel here]...?" then we are in definite trouble. All I'm saying is, Zeke/The Cowardly Lion carries Dorothy out of the pig sty in the beginning Gene-Hunt-style. jUST. SAYING.)

grenadine April 17 2010, 23:33:31 UTC

"Are you still putting crap in his office?"
"Yeah."

Heeeee, I think it says terrible things about me that that was my favorite thing in the episode, but it was? How do you deal with evil setting up shop in the basement? FILL HIS OFFICE WITH BICYCLES. WHERE ARE THE GOATS?(My friend at the football game today remarked that Keats looks like the Verizon guy, and he does, and now I can't unsee it ( ... )

daygloparker April 18 2010, 00:03:32 UTC

It seems kind of...personal, with Keats, in that he so desperately hates Gene

THIS. THIS. THIS. It's sort of hard to tell if he's just - is he simply the universe's deadliest personification of Why We Hate Gene Hunt, or does he have an actual axe to grind with the man? (This is why I think Keats might be the dead ghost copper? Once upon a time, Gene killed Keats in another life, and all of this is PUNISHMENT?)

Gene gives people what they want; Alex does the actual work. Artemis, goddess of the hunt; them, those two, the bloody unbreakable team. Things that would not surprise me: the people that Keats "works for" orchestrated events to kill Sam Tyler, because Gene killing his "other" triggers consequences [I AM BASICALLY STEALING THE PLOT OF LOST RIGHT NOW.] But then they got scared shitless when Alex arrived because that bond was even harder to break (he! saved! her! as! a! kid!) so they've been spending the last 3 years trying to undo it. HADES AND PERSEPHONE, except that only Hades/Gene knows what's what. Only he knows that they ( ... )

theonlytwin April 18 2010, 00:29:49 UTC

RAY AND ALEX. i have always loved their relationship and now i love it 100 TIMES MORE. oh ray and your backstory! (though my first thought when he was wary about contacting family was "of course, he's dead, and his family are in a nother world" which might still be true but his explaination was even more heart breaking ( ... )

daygloparker April 18 2010, 14:52:37 UTC

Jim's hate on Gene is so hard to get a handle on - are they legit on the same (metaphysical) level? Is Keats just something Gene has to buckle down and ride out? (or) IS KEATS ACTUALLY WAY MORE POWERFUL than he appears, and right now only using about 5% of his influence and Gene knows this (but we should never ever ever argue in front of junior staff, that sort of thing)? I WANT TO KNOW, SHOW. Tell me. TELL ME.

In conclusion, fraternal icon twin.

theonlytwin April 18 2010, 22:04:28 UTC

ooooooooooooooooh i hadn't even thought of that. HOW MANY EPISODES LEFT UNTIL WE KNOW?

delgaserasca April 27 2010, 20:26:27 UTC

I HAVE A QUESTION. Why Romans and not Joshua? (Admittedly it is about the charging of a city and I don't know why that would be relevant, but: does book, chapter, verse apply only to New Testament?)

daygloparker April 27 2010, 22:06:31 UTC

I guess I would say that it only applies colloquially - "the X book of the Bible" is a reference to the 20 Gospels, Letters, or Revelation that compromise the New Testament. All 20 have identifiable (insomuch as there is a name attached to each one), whereas "Old Testament" is a catch-all phrase for a LOT of scattered different works. If the New Testament is a novel, the Old Testament is an anthology - a compilation issue. In iTunes, its artist name would be Various. New Testament was shaped and reordered and revised in a very specific way, to tell a specific message, so - yeah. Long-winded way of saying yes, all parts of the Bible have their book, chapter, and verse delineation. But when someone says "the Bible," it's Jesus first, Job second.

Gosh. For a heathen, even I'm impressed. That Bible as Lit class in college was WICKED HELPFUL.