On awesomeness

Oct 08, 2009 21:33

The Cymothoa exigua proves that the world is on crack - and that it's freaking awesome crack ( Read more... )

humour, science, doctor who, religion, buffy the vampire slayer, angel, tv talk

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irmelin October 8 2009, 20:43:46 UTC
Oh. I loved that character in Buffy, but I had no idea she appeared in Angel. I might have to track down those episodes.

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kattahj October 9 2009, 04:35:21 UTC
Absolutely, do that! She's in Blood Money, The Thin Dead Line, and Not Fade Away.

I love the way things and people that are fun in one show become ever so much more layered when you watch both. (For instance, I've often felt that Faith's reappearance on BtVS must be completely bizarre for anyone who doesn't watch Angel.)

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kattahj October 9 2009, 04:35:48 UTC
Yay, I am not alone!

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archbishopm October 9 2009, 08:06:30 UTC
Cymothoa exigua

That is just so disturbing.

Gunn: "What if I told you it doesn't help? What would you do if you found out that none of it matters? That it's all controlled by forces more powerful and uncaring than we can conceive, and they will never let it get better down here. What would you do?"
Anne: "I'd get this truck packed before the new stuff gets here."

It's good to be reminded that Angel had without any doubt the best series ending ever. I get swayed by like BSG's epicness & Hendrix or Life-on-American-Mars's sheer weirdness but no but yeah Angel ftw.

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kattahj October 9 2009, 18:30:12 UTC
That is just so disturbing.

But also AWESOME.

... I have this reaction to a lot of disturbing biology. Possibly I should have been a scientist.

It's good to be reminded that Angel had without any doubt the best series ending ever.

Truth be told, I wasn't that fond of the series ending. It made me want to go into grandmother mode, tutting disapprovingly and saying, "Ooh, you're just so sharp you could cut yourself, aren't you?" (I couldn't read more than a chapter of Pullman's Sally Lockhart books for the same reason. Too damned smug.) But some individual scenes were gorgeous, and I love Anne.

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archbishopm October 10 2009, 06:40:02 UTC
It made me want to go into grandmother mode

You do sometimes come across as a grandmother looking for a place to happen. Um but I really do mean that in a good way. Grounded and centred and all oh one just cannot say that in a good way can one :-)

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kattahj October 10 2009, 07:21:15 UTC
LOL! That's too funny. Feel free to expand. :-) As morthel put it when I told her about your comment, I have to start working at it if I'm gonna be a grandmother... but at least I'm an aunt 4½ times over. A craft-making aunt, at that, which amuses me. (Like Sophie Hatter, I sometimes feel that despite my young years, old lady-hood is much more suited to me. But then, I was crap at being a kid and a teen and am crap at being an adult, so maybe I'll be crap at being an old lady too.)

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utopian_sky October 9 2009, 18:21:59 UTC
The Cymothoa exigua proves that the world is on crack
That is totally amazing!! I wonder if it could work on humans too... :-D

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kattahj October 9 2009, 18:32:28 UTC
Yay someone else who realizes it's amazing!

If it did work on humans I bet the subject would talk pretty funny afterwards. But no, I think this particular louse only does fish.

Have you read Scott Westerfeld's Parasite? Among the vampire stuff, it has some wicked tales of real-life parasites, including hints that cat parasites can make you lazy and irresponsible... either that, he says, or lazy and irresponsible people are more likely to own cats. :-)

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