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healingmirthMy entire home smells like bleach. I was confused by why the contractor felt that the units needed powerwashing. So was the guy who was doing the powerwashing.
Things I learned watching Top Gear: There's a model of caravan called the shamal. That seems ill-advised? Almost on par with the Chevy Nova. Does Britain lack trailer parks? I know they have tornadoes. Because the last thing I want to reference, in terms of a trailer, is wind.
I am unreasonably frightened by the fanworks that a fair percentage of the How to Train Your Dragon fandom seems to be producing. (This does not include Stoick/Gobber. I am totally cool with that.) Someone has written some sort of SPN AU/hybrid/I don't know what (found on my network page, so maybe one of you has clicked through) and I am fighting the urge to click through to either the summary or the actual fic, because I don't want to scar any more of my brain.
I have no idea when this season of SGU is going to be over. I expect every week to be the season-ender, and then it keeps not being.
I am really, really mad that they got Chloe and Eli and Lt. Whosits back so soon. I am sort of mad that the saboteur, once it turned out to be the chick who's hung up on Ly. Whosits, did it because she was possessed. I had a brief hope that it was either Franklin, or her own subconscious torpedoing the ship so that her object of obsession could gate back. I require melodrama, I think.
Speaking of bad ideas, Dear SGU: please, please, please stop with the hooking up with the characters in other people's bodies.
This week's version, the swap was the lesbian diplomat and a brilliant scientist, who is paralyzed (from the neck down-ish? I don't know enough about spinal injuries) as the result of an accident when she was nine years old.
I'm still not over Col. Young sleeping with his ex(?)wife while in Rush's body. So, I was less than thrilled when it looked like Amanda was on her way to sleeping with Rush. However! Rush! Rush is the voice of reason! Except, nope, he's just holding back because he feels like he just lost his wife. Seriously, I understand why they're filming the way they are, with the actors in each others' clothes, but I really, really, really want some more time talking about how freaking weird it is to be in someone else's body. How weird it is to be looking at/working with someone who's not themselves. This did not bother me nearly so much in SG-1, and I wonder if it would when I rewatched now.
And re: the end of the episode. Ohhhh shit. Did Franklin ascend? That would be vastly preferable to him having been kidnapped by aliens. Next week is some sort of ghost on board thing, apparently, and it would be sort of awesome to have an out of control, rule-less, untrained, but possibly well-meaning ascended thing hanging around.
I am still sort of excited for summer movies. Possibly even excited enough to spend money on tickets. But the commercials are doing nothing to whet my appetite.
Watching the A-Team commercial, having seen The Losers, I am slightly less excited. I want to be more excited! Boo!
Owen Wilson is playing Marmaduke. Why are they making a Marmaduke movie? And why is there a scene where the CGI pets do a choreographed dance? To Tick Tock? Or some other pop song. I forget.
Prince of Persia! Jake Gyllenhall! Yay? I've never played any of the games, but they're supposed to be awesome, so I really hope they don't screw up the movie.
Despite the fact that as Jamie Foxx pointed out, "Music is the soundtrack of our lives," I still sort of don't care who wins Idol.
- Ellen! \o/ She and Adam Shankman are saving Fox's reality competitions for me.
- Lee's inability to make eye contact has ceased to be endearing.
- Casey totally should have done The Lemonheads' version of Mrs. Robinson.
- Also, is that soul patch thing new? Stop that, please.
- Still waiting to see Michael in theater.
- Fuck yeah, Crystal Bowersox. Although, honey, what the hell is on your feet? There is being yourself, and then there's wearing combat boots with that dress. She might as well be wearing sandals with black socks.
- I'm really going to miss Simon next season.
ETA: because I don't think I've made this clear before, SGU, what I want is for you to acknowledge that there's a line - not even a fine one, a FOR-REAL LINE between "I love you for your mind/soul/heart, our bond transcends physical appearance," and "Sure, I don't care if you're wearing someone else's body, let's screw." I don't even need you to stop doing it. I just need someone to be conflicted about it. You guys should be good at conflicted by now. Conflicted for any number of possible reasons. I am not picky.
Things I learned watching Top Gear: There's a model of caravan called the shamal. That seems ill-advised? Almost on par with the Chevy Nova. Does Britain lack trailer parks? I know they have tornadoes. Because the last thing I want to reference, in terms of a trailer, is wind.
I am unreasonably frightened by the fanworks that a fair percentage of the How to Train Your Dragon fandom seems to be producing. (This does not include Stoick/Gobber. I am totally cool with that.) Someone has written some sort of SPN AU/hybrid/I don't know what (found on my network page, so maybe one of you has clicked through) and I am fighting the urge to click through to either the summary or the actual fic, because I don't want to scar any more of my brain.
I have no idea when this season of SGU is going to be over. I expect every week to be the season-ender, and then it keeps not being.
I am really, really mad that they got Chloe and Eli and Lt. Whosits back so soon. I am sort of mad that the saboteur, once it turned out to be the chick who's hung up on Ly. Whosits, did it because she was possessed. I had a brief hope that it was either Franklin, or her own subconscious torpedoing the ship so that her object of obsession could gate back. I require melodrama, I think.
Speaking of bad ideas, Dear SGU: please, please, please stop with the hooking up with the characters in other people's bodies.
This week's version, the swap was the lesbian diplomat and a brilliant scientist, who is paralyzed (from the neck down-ish? I don't know enough about spinal injuries) as the result of an accident when she was nine years old.
I'm still not over Col. Young sleeping with his ex(?)wife while in Rush's body. So, I was less than thrilled when it looked like Amanda was on her way to sleeping with Rush. However! Rush! Rush is the voice of reason! Except, nope, he's just holding back because he feels like he just lost his wife. Seriously, I understand why they're filming the way they are, with the actors in each others' clothes, but I really, really, really want some more time talking about how freaking weird it is to be in someone else's body. How weird it is to be looking at/working with someone who's not themselves. This did not bother me nearly so much in SG-1, and I wonder if it would when I rewatched now.
And re: the end of the episode. Ohhhh shit. Did Franklin ascend? That would be vastly preferable to him having been kidnapped by aliens. Next week is some sort of ghost on board thing, apparently, and it would be sort of awesome to have an out of control, rule-less, untrained, but possibly well-meaning ascended thing hanging around.
I am still sort of excited for summer movies. Possibly even excited enough to spend money on tickets. But the commercials are doing nothing to whet my appetite.
Watching the A-Team commercial, having seen The Losers, I am slightly less excited. I want to be more excited! Boo!
Owen Wilson is playing Marmaduke. Why are they making a Marmaduke movie? And why is there a scene where the CGI pets do a choreographed dance? To Tick Tock? Or some other pop song. I forget.
Prince of Persia! Jake Gyllenhall! Yay? I've never played any of the games, but they're supposed to be awesome, so I really hope they don't screw up the movie.
Despite the fact that as Jamie Foxx pointed out, "Music is the soundtrack of our lives," I still sort of don't care who wins Idol.
- Ellen! \o/ She and Adam Shankman are saving Fox's reality competitions for me.
- Lee's inability to make eye contact has ceased to be endearing.
- Casey totally should have done The Lemonheads' version of Mrs. Robinson.
- Also, is that soul patch thing new? Stop that, please.
- Still waiting to see Michael in theater.
- Fuck yeah, Crystal Bowersox. Although, honey, what the hell is on your feet? There is being yourself, and then there's wearing combat boots with that dress. She might as well be wearing sandals with black socks.
- I'm really going to miss Simon next season.
ETA: because I don't think I've made this clear before, SGU, what I want is for you to acknowledge that there's a line - not even a fine one, a FOR-REAL LINE between "I love you for your mind/soul/heart, our bond transcends physical appearance," and "Sure, I don't care if you're wearing someone else's body, let's screw." I don't even need you to stop doing it. I just need someone to be conflicted about it. You guys should be good at conflicted by now. Conflicted for any number of possible reasons. I am not picky.
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Date: 2010-05-12 06:44 am (UTC)I am unreasonably piqued by this comment. I haven't actually looked for much fanwork, so what is it that has you distressed so?
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Date: 2010-05-12 03:52 pm (UTC)The thing that I'm having a hard time with is that there's a decent amount of Hiccup/Toothless (on ff.net, at least, is either Human!Toothless or Dragon!Hiccup, but its not always clear from the summaries, and even then, DNW.) There's also a lot of "a mysterious girl/girl dragon shows up on the island" but I think that's to be expected. It seems to be a crap shoot whether Astrid is secretly evil/a bitch in those stories.
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Date: 2010-05-12 04:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-12 04:47 pm (UTC)Right! Walking away from the computer now.