It gives me all I need

[fan_elune]

We've been doing some watching. Nip/Tuck, and The L-Word, and Rome. We're waiting for Harken (Joey's PC) to come back to watch Veronica Mars, as he's the only one of the comps that will read those bloody DVDs. (It's all shiny to put those homemade cover-things on burnt DVDs, except they read reaaaaally badly (if at all) in laptops, people.)

So! Without further ado.

Nip/Tuck

I loved Quentin from the very start, but it wasn't until they made him "bisexual" that I knew, I just knew, he was gonna be the Carver and I was going to hate it.

As it turns out, I was half-right. Ah, maybe a quarter right.

He is the Carver. And I'm not completely happy with it. Because that scene with Sean and Christian was just - so much with the dramatics, and I didn't like it all that much. It was interwoven with the Matt and Sherry and insane!nazi!dad and that was, well, a very good idea, except the Matt and Sherry and insane!nazi!dad showed us what real suspense was. I wasn't scared for Sean and Christian - not really - and I didn't really dig Quentin-as-the-Carver, because he seemed like such a... caricature, almost. So expected. So expectedly insane. We've seen killers like this time and time again. In counterpoint, the character of the insane!nazi!dad was so very real, and much more chilling, and there were no assurances that either Sherry or Matt were gonna make it.

And while I'm at it, watch me type something I never thought I would: amazing character arc with Matt woohoo!

To go back to the Carver thing. What makes it all okay, really, is the last scene. Is Kit. First off, I loved her from the start, too. And her accent and intonation and delivery made me want to suck on her lower lip. And she acts so wonderfully. The scene where she tells Sean and Christian about Quentin's sister was excellent, mostly I'm thinking of her performance, because it showed. I'd need to rewatch it, I'm not sure I know exactly how, or what, but it showed that she was the sister. Like this slightly overly thoughtful, just a bit too touched by the story, sort of way she portrayed it.

And that last scene? What is it with Nip/Tuck and incest, by the way? But, yeah. Amazing. This is where I loved the Carver(s) all over again. Because that pulled Quentin back from "completely fucking insane" into "completely fucking twisted." Let me try to explain. Hmm. CFI is so far out that it doesn't really touch me, because it's too far away from a human sort of thing, yeah? Whereas CFT is human, so very human, the darkest and sickest human stuff, but still human. And that is more chilling, more interesting, and more fascinating. In a train-wreck sort of way.

What else should I say? Liz, I love Liz as much as ever. I even sort of liked Julia now and then, mostly when she was all strong-woman-taking-charge-like. Gina I always adored, hasn't changed. Only she says "asshole" quite this way. Kimber! I couldn't believe how much I loved Kimber this season, when she had always got on my nerves so much before. Matt, as much as he's got a great character arc, annoyed me for most of the season as ever, miracles don't happen all that often. But the stuff with Sherry was just so good. Through and through. (And he is prettier than her.)

Oh, yeah, the one thing I really really digged about the counterpoint of Sean and Christian and Quentin with Sherry and Matt and insane!nazy!dad was the part where Sherry and Christian both went "do it to me instead!" That said so much - and gods, that Sherry would do that for a guy that beat her bloody, even though it does make sense-ish, since she eventually wants to be rid of it, but STILL. And that Christian would be ready to do that for Sean.

I mean, seriously. I love the Christian/Sean/Julia triangle more than ever, and the two boys having fun pretending to be gay was so CUTE. I wanted to SMOTHER THEM WITH KISSES AND CUDDLES (and possibly watch them have "pretend" hot gay sex ahem). No, but seriously. Such an acknowledgement of the third side of the triangle. And that scene before Christian's not-marriage. Hmmyeah.

Also, when Quentin was all like, "I just wanted to be one of the boys" I wanted to cuddle him, too. Because yeah, I bought it. So sue me. Quentin would make me sell my soul to the devil. (Er, Luce, mate? Dickless plastic surgeon and serial rapist and murderer comes to you with my soul? Or hot former detective with an English accent and lips that are just begging to be nibbled and sucked on? Check with me first, yeah? Ta.)

Aw. Now I want to see S2 again and cuddle Adrian. A lot.


The L-Word

You know, it's harder and harder to pretend it's a good show, and that I watch it for anything but SHANE OMG SHANESHANESHANE. And possibly Moira, because, HOT goddammit. But, yeah, Shane. Her voice, and her looks, and deargods. But the whole Alice thing is so over the board, and I just... I can't really care about any of it. Apart from Shane and Moira.

And possibly the new token straight guy, who looks like a hottie. And David! Hmm, David's a hottie, I'd forgotten.

YES I AM A SHALLOW CREATURE.


Now, see, Rome, that's a good show. I've finally finished showing the pilot to Joey, who is clearly not as taken and OMGSOGOODed with it as I am, but oh well. Nobody's perfect. *grins* Anyway. She asked about homosexual stuff going on, and the only thing I could come up with was, er, you-know-what, those of you who have watched it.

Which seemed to really disappoint her (and I'm supposed to be the slashy one, yeah) and she started ranting at me about the decadence of Rome and how they had orgies all the time and all that. My point is, anybody know anything about Rome in those days, and how faithful the show is to that particular aspect of their society back then? Thanks. No time to go digging around for info on that right now.

And on top of that I've swamped myself with things to write for people. All right, let's see the stuff I'm supposed to get done soonish:
- first and foremost, finish editing NaNo! I need for NaNo to be over.
- a birthday drabble for the_swordman, anything in particular you want, stud?
- a Merry-and-Pippin birthday drabble for thewatch, which means I need to rewatch at least some LotR, and we all know how easy it is to do that without getting sucked into rewatching the three EEs, and possibly some extras on top. Because I have no self-control.
- the Jack/Ten fic I had promised grapefruitzzz ages ago and never published because my Ten was way OOC and now I really should rewrite it all.
- a Chaucer fic for the_grynne.
- EDIT: and I forgot I'd signed up to do "20 things you didn't know about" fics on Inara and Badger a while ago. And I should really get on it. *eyeroll* Somebody kill me. Or chain me to my laptop, I'm not rightly sure.

I'd planned everything out so nicely before I signed up for NaNo, I was going to actually finish all my ongoing projects, and now I'm absolutely swamped. And I'm starting to give lessons, which what being the actual lessons and the preparation time is gonna take up more of my time. Why are days never long enough?

And, of course, there is Lost to watch tonight. I'll be surprised (and disappointed) if I don't come out of it with Eko plot bunnies.

And I'm late! *panicks*

Comments

[the-grynne.livejournal.com]

Did you get the email about the nano Chinese?

[fan-elune.livejournal.com]

Yes! Shuai ge, right? Sorry I never got back to you. Thanks! And enrolling your friend into helping me, too? Hee!

(Just imagine that icon there is saying xiexie instead.)

[the-grynne.livejournal.com]

*quizzical* That was the second email. How about the first one?

[fan-elune.livejournal.com]

Er... that would be a no, then. I figured you'd have a look at the rest of the stuff later. *kicks mail software* Please send it again?

[the-grynne.livejournal.com]

*headlocks Gmail into in a pail of water*

Okay, let me know when you get it. *g*

[fan-elune.livejournal.com]

I have! It's perfect! I am so indebted to you. And my inner language geek is all over the place with joy. *blisses* Will get back to you shortly! Mwah!