teevee and some links of artistic nifty

[tsuki_no_bara]

converted churches - mostly converted into houses, but there's one that was converted into a bookstore. NIFTY. i would actually really like living in a converted church. it's the ceilings. :D i mean, check this out - is that not gorgeous? (i wouldn't have put a bed at the end of the dining room, but otherwise. i'm curious to see a floor plan

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[wrenlet]

CM is very good about using non-L.A.-looking people and letting their characters have real (if uncomfortable) reactions, like turning on Charlie's mom there in the middle :( Also, Parenthood was on Tuesday at the same time as White Collar, but you should maybe pick up a downloaded because I am in loooooooove with that house.

Alsoalso, when I was in college one of the small local concert venues was in a converted church, the named it The Vatican *hee*. It was great except for the part where the church had had auditorium-style seating so the floor sloped down towards the stage... difficult for dancing. Not that that stopped us :D

[tsuki_no_bara]

i actually jumped a little when brooke smith's character started screaming at sarah. it wasn't quite the reaction i was expecting - seriously, i watch too much tv, i never expect characters to do the things people do in real life, because the things people do in real life don't always make good enough drama or pull enough tears or set up the rest of the plot - but it made a lot of sense and was really well done. i kind of expected her to apologize later but she never did, and that too was pretty realistic.

parenthood the series is based on parenthood the movie, isn't it. is there as much lorelai lauren graham in the show as there was in the ads?

i'm now picturing you sliding down a dance floor while you're dancing. hee.

[wrenlet]

parenthood the series is based on parenthood the movie, isn't it.

Yep! And it repeats tonight at 8 your time.

i'm now picturing you sliding down a dance floor while you're dancing. hee.

Now... picture the mosh pit *laughs*

[azewewish]

I totally missed the series finale of Nip/Tuck. I only watched it sporadically, but I always loved Sean & Christian's co-dependent relationship.

How did it end, anyway?

[tsuki_no_bara]

julia and the two younger kids took off for london, matt took his daughter and followed ava and told her "i'm in love with you and will be totally devoted to you and i don't care that you don't love me, but you want a daughter and i have a daughter and she's perfect and this is the best you're going to do" and i guess they ran off together, christian and sean made liz a partner in the firm, sean kind of wanted to adopt ava's baby (which she abandoned when she realized he'd never be perfect), and christian bought sean and the baby a one-way ticket to, uh, south america? wherever ava had gotten him from. so sean took the baby and is off to be a doctor in the third world, and i guess christian is going to stay in la and be a plastic surgeon. the very last scene showed him at a bar, and some blonde woman asked him "are you a doctor?" sounding all impressed, and he said he was a plastic surgeon

[azewewish]

Wait, wait, Ava came back??? And ran off with Matt???? Wow.

And I figured there would have been some sort of emotional something with Sean & Christian, because they really are soulmates. I'm proud of Christian for doing the unselfish thing & letting Sean go, though. That's pretty cool.

Yaye show. I'm glad it got to go out on its own terms & that everyone (except Kimber) got what they wanted. *g*

[tsuki_no_bara]

ava came back! with a baby who'd survived some random south american jungle disease or something but with lesions - i missed most of this episode - and christian cut her a deal that he and sean would perform surgery on the kid in exchange for her telling matt she didn't love him and didn't want to be with him. and that did indeed happen. and then sean told her that yes, they minimized a lot of the baby's scarring but he'd never be perfectly beautiful. so she abandoned him. and matt decided he didn't care that she didn't love him, and chased her down at the airport. and they no doubt lived dysfunctionally ever after.

i think the best thing about christian buying sean the plane ticket and telling him to go is that it was something sean wanted. it might've been the only really unselfish thing christian did for him the whole series. i was a teeny bit verklempt. and of course they hugged at the airport as sean was leaving. :D

[ignipes]

I want to live in a converted cathedral!

CM made me cry last night too. Those kids and those families... man. :(

[tsuki_no_bara]

i admit that sometimes i walk around churches and chapels thinking how i could convert them into living spaces.

when charlie told the one set of parents that their son had died the day before, and of course he'd remembered them, that was what kept them all going, i completely lost it. and of all the kids who'd been taken, only three were still alive. just... all those parents hanging around the bau, waiting for their kids to come home. heart. breaking.

[ephemera]

the gummi-bear light looks surprisingly classy - and I would totally like in a church conversion if I could. (Or shop the bookshop - someone linked recently to a bookshop in a converted gold-and-red-velvet traditional theatre, which is also awesome sounding)

[tsuki_no_bara]

converting an old theater into a bookshop seems kind of fitting. and quite awesome.

and if you don't look at it too closely, you can't really tell the gummy bear chandelier is made out of gummy bears.

[roguebitch]

Am I mistaken, or was Rob Benedict AKA The Prophet Chuck one of the parents in that ep of CM?

The episodes where kids get taken and tortured and killed always freak me the hell out, since I am a parent, and I'm painfully aware of the weirdos out there. Even if the percentage is actually pretty small, it's still scary for me.

That was not a very happy episode, even if it was a good story.

[tsuki_no_bara]

he's not credited on imdb, if he was. and yeah, i imagine that episode would've been a lot harder to watch if i had kids.