Catches Thieves Just Like A Cold.

[rionaleonhart]

On Wednesday evening, not having much to do, I turned on the television to find some sort of BBC school drama. Two schoolboys were speaking urgently, facing each other in an otherwise empty room; one, Josh, was explaining that he didn't fancy his girlfriend, and the other, Finn, was saying 'who cares; it's still a lay, isn't it?'

Well, I thought,

Comments

[dracothelizard]

As someone vaguely familiar with the FF8 storyline, please do!

Does Man-Spider drive a car?

[rionaleonhart]

He has the knowledge required to, but unfortunately his little spider feet can't reach the pedals. Alas!

[dracothelizard]

Alas, foiled again by reality. I imagine he's shaking one of his tiny spider legs in anger.

[wolfy_writing]

Can the talking shelf be his sidekick?

[lozenger8]

Oh man, man-spider is ADORABLE.

(Like you, I have a skill in accidentally stumbling along gay storylines in tv series. My parents think I have some kind of psychic link with the tv.)

[rionaleonhart]

(A useful skill to have! I don't turn on the television just to see what's on very often, so I have to wonder whether this particular incident was the result of a talent for accidentally coming across gay or whether, given the BBC's apparent current policies, it's just more likely than not that you're twenty seconds away from homosexuality whenever you turn on BBC One. Hmmm.)

[wolfy_writing]

I love Man-Spider! He is adorable and awesome!

Once, my parents and I were watching some show on BBC America (The State Within? Am I imagining titles again?), and my mom went "Those two guys arguing are a couple." And my dad and I were like, "No way!", and then they kissed. (The guys on TV. Not my parents. That wouldn't be remarkable or worth commenting on, as they kiss several times a day.)

My mom was incredibly smug. However, her other two instances of slash goggles did not turn out to be canon (one was spoilery for a thing you might not want information about, where she actually did expect it to be canon, and one was Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day, where she didn't, but just had fun giggling).

[rionaleonhart]

Thank you! I'm not a big fan of spiders, on the whole, but I am quite fond of Man-Spider. (Also, there's a spider who seems to have set up home outside our sitting-room window. I'm starting to feel that perhaps I should name her, as we've been acquainted for a week or so. 'Clara', perhaps?)

And my dad and I were like, "No way!", and then they kissed. (The guys on TV. Not my parents. That wouldn't be remarkable or worth commenting on, as they kiss several times a day.)

Hee! (Congratulations to your mother on her occasionally accurate slash goggles!)

[wolfy_writing]

Spiders should be names Boris. It's a rule. Well, not so much a rule as a bad joke, but close enough.

[rionaleonhart]

One of the first bosses you fight in Final Fantasy X-2 is a giant spider named Boris. When you magically scan him at his strongest, you get the description 'During battle, he grows progressively stronger, a vile breach of etiquette', which I find inexplicably hilarious.

[yumiboo]

OMG, I watched that as well! I'd seen some of the earlier episodes, but never got around to properly watching it cause, well, I'm not even sure why - I just figured it'd be like a 'Grange Hill after hours' special or something like that.

Also, that is an ace Man-Spider.

[rionaleonhart]

I'm sort of surprised to find out that people on my flist have watched it, because it doesn't seem to have a Livejournal-based fandom, despite presumably being quite popular if it's been running for more than eighty episodes. As someone with a bit of a habit of falling for things without fandoms, I'm quite interested in what causes something to have a fandom or not in spite of the size of its fanbase.

[rionaleonhart]

Hee, may I ask what made it so rage-inducing?

[rionaleonhart]

I think a woman who totally committed suicide at the end of the first series was randomy alive.

Really? That's excellent. I hope absolutely nobody in the programme seemed to notice anything odd.