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"This is the longest hallway in the world."

Dec 03, 2009 20:36

B) I love Monk. SO MUCH. Even though USA/the writers are BASTARDS for splitting the finale like this. I'm just glad I had to wait until I had hardly any wait left to watch it. Being sick _and_ anxious about the resolution would not have made for a pleasant week.

C) D.B. Woodside got to participate in a classic Monk conversation! Like he ( Read more... )

...if you have no shame, monk, happy making things

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magratpudifoot December 4 2009, 04:26:19 UTC

The way I buried the Monk reactions within non-Monk things belies the fact that I'm kinda...*twitchy* at the moment. You know what's not helping? The end of DMC is not helping. I couldn't even get properly excited about _the return of Barbossa_ because I was too preoccupied thinking about WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO MONK OMGOMG. You know what else is not helping? Raspberry vanilla tea, which was, only two days ago, a bloody panacea, let me tell you. And I strongly suspect that The Daily Show is not going to help here in a moment. And then, when that's over and I watch "The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco"*, I'm fairly certain _it won't help_. Not sleep, not dealing with my ML-MF, not the promise of Comedy Central playing Hot Fuzz** on Saturday night, certainly not spending 8 hours checking massive columns of numbers to make sure they have the proper numbers in them, and, possibly even less than that, not driving for an hour to get home and then STILL having _three more hours_ ( ... )

"Wish it were five." / "Why?" / "It's a bigger number." bizarreoptimism December 4 2009, 12:29:06 UTC

HA! I thought about the ending of DMC _too_! Although my thought was, "... at least with the ending of DMC, we KNOW Jack Sparrow is going to be coming back -- but with 'Monk,' well, ANYthing could happen." I mean, I don't _think_ they'll kill him off ... unless they do. Because they might. ANYthing could happen.

I totally get what you mean about not being able to enjoy The Return of Barbossa because you're too busy going OhmigawdMonk'sbeenpoisonedwillhebeokay -- but I actually didn't have that. INSTEAD, the two hanging plot threads have kind of interwoven around each other, my impatience and _anxiety_ over how they'll wrap up twisting around each other, each making the other worse. That said -- I almost am tempted to look up spoilers online and make sure that Monk lives, because I'm afraid that if I DON'T know that information going into the episode, I won't be able to relax enough to enjoy The Last New Episode Of "Monk" Ever ( ... )

Re: "Wish it were five." / "Why?" / "It's a bigger number." magratpudifoot December 5 2009, 00:43:24 UTC

I don't know if I would have thought of DMC if it hadn't been on Syfy when I finished "The End, Pt. 1," but it was rather appropriate, wasn't it ( ... )

Re: "Wish it were five." / "Why?" / "It's a bigger number." bizarreoptimism December 6 2009, 15:32:51 UTC

1.) I will have much, much more to say about this on my LJ, but -- this is the most excited I have ever been for a story ending, either. But I OFTEN get excited for my favorite stories having endings, because it means we will finally _know_. (Harry Potter and PotC: AWE are the best examples of this.) That said, I was surprised by how much the happiness of this ending _hurt_, simply because it was an ending. Although a beginning, too. If that makes sense. (I suspect it doesn't. Well, I'll try to figure that out for my own entry.)

2.) I SAW THAT RANDY AND STOTTLEMEYER SCENE AT THE _EXACT SAME TIME_ YOU DID. What's weird is that I happened to flip on the TV _just_ as it came on. It is my all-time favorite Randy moment and one of my all-time favorite "Monk" moments and while I love the song ("SHOT DOOOOWN in his PRI-iiiime, forty-EIGHT! ... Or forty-nine."), I really love it because of the lines you quoted. I just love-love-LOVE that moment, it is so perfect on so many levels -- and it cracks me up to know we were both caught and watched ( ... )

Re: "Wish it were five." / "Why?" / "It's a bigger number." bizarreoptimism December 6 2009, 15:42:40 UTC

... I also want to say that I'm glad you appreciate my even-theories-spoiler-cuts, because I was wondering if I was getting a bit silly with all that. I mean, I would have cut them ANYway, because I wouldn't want to spoil Part One for anyone who hadn't seen it and I wouldn't want to annoy my poor flist with LONG "Monk" entries if they weren't interested -- but the wordy disclaimers before the theories felt slightly like overkill. I did it anyway because the ending of Harry Potter really was ruined for me, however, and I didn't want to do it to anyone else! (It's not that I think I'm that clever, it's just -- you never know.)

... I still can't really believe I made it to the end without being spoiled. I can't BELIEVE it.

Re: "Wish it were five." / "Why?" / "It's a bigger number." magratpudifoot December 8 2009, 01:20:52 UTC

1) I don't really count AWE as an example of being excited to see a favourite story end, since it was fully a third of the story. It's not the same with a series of movies as it is with books and shows, I don't think, since those stories are more distilled. It's entirely possible to become as attached to a movie character as a television character, of course, but the story is more focused, more goal-oriented ( ... )

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