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[miss_porcupine]

* trekreversebang sorting has commenced. I know who I've got because I recognized the style, although that was not my driving motivation and it was actually a near thing because I reversed my claims order at the last moment. There was some truly stunning art that I could never have come up with a quality story for, so I made my choices on what I thought I could

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[redhawk]

I have to admit I am pleased that you're digging the collection of hoopleheads, cocksuckers, and celestials that is Deadwood. :)

[miss_porcupine]

I suspected you might be. ;)

What I'm enjoying is the way the show introduces characters, lets you pigeon-hole them by how they debut, and then turns 'em around.

Also, Robin Weigert was on The Mentalist last week and it was just very, very odd to see her clean and sober and acting somewhat female.

[redhawk]

That had to be a massive amount of brainshear.

I can't see her as anything but drunken, pissing-herself Jane these days.

[doqz]

W.E.B is always a good idea. And I call b.s. on you ability to read only the 'relevant' portions of The Corps.

[miss_porcupine]

I might get around to finally buying the series, yeah. I own the Aubrey/Maturin collection and certainly return to that over and over...

(In the meanwhile, I'm lugging around the hardcover version of the third Honor Bound book after realizing that yeah, it actually does get better after the first one.)

[doqz]

I think that one and his stuff about Philly(?) cops are the two series of his that I haven't read. The Corps and the Brotherhood of War, however, are among my favorite. I was quite pleased that he had gone back and started adding books to the former again.

[miss_porcupine]

The Brotherhood of War is definitely my favorite non-The Corps series. I didn't start the Philly cops one or the Brotherhood of War one, although I'm tempted by the latter. The Presidential Agent one alternates between intriguing and so-stupid-it-burns, especially the last one. Honor Bound I'm still deciding on; the first one was not awesome and just seemed like a pretext for him to blather on about Argentina and sazeracs, the second one got interesting, and I'm not far enough into the third to have an opinion.

[miss_porcupine]

I will admit that I didn't expect an entire season of set-up, but that's to the show's credit.

[miss_porcupine]

Well, I was thinking more along the lines of "Bullock's back to wearing a badge by episode three because the show's going to be about the Rule of Law versus the rule of a warlord and they are the champions of the fight" and that certainly didn't happen. It is about Law versus law, but not like that.

[em_kellesvig]

I have to agree with you on both NCIS and NCIS:LA. It's like NCIS is a half step from jumping the shark but it's not because they've run out of ideas; the writers' just aren't paying attention.

And I keep expecting LA to hit its stride but then I think: what stride? It's just there to be pretty.

Harmon was more or less right.

[miss_porcupine]

I keep wondering why the ratings are higher than ever, but.. *shrugs*

[teenygozer]

Yeah, I'm with both you and Mark Harmon on this one - it's not as bad as what happened to Buffy the Vampire Slayer when Joss's attention was drawn away by his shiny new toy, Firefly, but it's similar. Sometimes I've backed up the Tivo to rewatch a scene where someone is acting particularly stupid, trying to figure out the motivation for the behavior, and it just brings home how crappy to writing is to see it again.

I enjoyed Gibbs vs. The Mother-in-Law, but was a bit troubled by the fact that it looks like he let her get away with murder. Some people on my flist felt that the show jumped the shark big-time as they felt it was a betrayal of the character's moral code, but I felt there was a certain cold pragmatism to it that was well within the scope of Gibbs' personality -- I just need to see another episode or episodes that deal with the fall-out one way or another.

[miss_porcupine]

To be fair, Gibbs has let other people get away with murder before -- Franks, for instance. And what he's let go with both Jenny and Vance... He's broken that trust before.

[doqz]

Technically he committed murder himself. Arguably twice, if you count setting up Ari.

[miss_porcupine]

And he was enabled in that first murder by Franks, which was then covered up by Macy. The show has always favored justice over law.