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[rm]

I tend to flip out right before travel. Tonight, like clockwork -- flipping out. Not _about_ the traveling, just inspired by.

I bought a new cell phone today, so that I am reachable in Europe, since I will be there a lot over the next year. So now I have a Blackberry. I totally don't know how to use it at all, and I'm all like "I need my Torchwood logo background" again and "OMG, how do I download my ringtones again" and "I hope I set my alarm right." But you can call me when I'm in the UK now (but don't, unless it's an emergency because it's really expensive). Anyone got a rec for apps? Which Twitter app do you like?

I also had long, horrible battles with Parallels Desktop tonight, that have been vanquished for the moment.

All of which means some editing I needed to do has not yet been done. Bah! Tomorrow is another day.

Meanwhile, there is, more Angel 1.19 "Sanctuary" and Buffy 4.17 "Superstar" --

- Now that was an episode. Things have consequences the next day! Wesley's been tortured and he's fucked up about it. Cordelia is in physical pain and scared and covering. People care about each other. People are angry!

- Oh, those fucking Watchers. They're so an American cliche of what British thugs would be like or something. It's really rather ludicrous.

- Go Wesley for not going along with their plan.

- I just... yeah, I ADORE Wesley. It's funny. I don't identify with the character, and I don't respond to him from the standpoint of identifying with a different character, but the complexities of the character, which include a lot of shit traits I have (arrogance, superiority, fear, wrath, open emotional wounds), make me keep going "but this is a good man" and if he's okay, I'm okay. Or something. I don't know. It's been a rough night.

- Meanwhile, over on Buffy. IS THERE NOTHING RTD DIDN"T STEAL FROM THIS SHOW? It's like "Superstar" was spun in a centrifuge to get us "Adam" and "Random Shoes" on Torchwood. And you know, I liked this episode. I'm the person who hated, _hated_ "Adam" on Torchwood (I mean, other than Ianto in the hot coat and the leather gloves and the strangulation and the crying in the rain business). Of course, I also loved "Random Shoes," which like no one else did, but what can you do?

- Overall: I can't believe the casting they let Whedon get away with. These are all relatively normal looking people. Faith has a hot body, sure, but a pretty average face. Tara isn't tiny, and her face could be considered homely. They work hard to make Willow less cute than she is. And yeah, all these people are still "above average," but when I get told to lose weight to be in this business, I do find the casting in these shows to be notable. I also feel like it wouldn't happen today. I am a pessimist.

Comments

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

IS THERE NOTHING RTD DIDN"T STEAL FROM THIS SHOW?
LOLOLOLOL! i can't wait until you get to the ____ with the ____ and that other ____ B/C OMG YOUR ANSWER IS NO!

i fucking LOVE 'random shoes'

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

YOU SAID IT SISTER.

AND I AM JOINING THE CHORUS OF RANDOM SHOES LOVERS (even though I love Adam too. I don't think there's an ep of TW I don't like...uhm. CJH maybe. No no the dumbassone about the Ghost Machine. No wait. Uhm. YEah.)

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

i actually don't mind the ghost machine one... i can barely remember what happened in it though
word on CJH
the only problems i had with adam was how they "resolved" it, b/c um... i don't think that worked and i actually DO NOT want to play with those possibilities, it's too freaky having your mind messed with like that

but lol in 'angel' when ____ does the thing and then in tw when ____ does the thing?! HAH! oh, rtd, you're like joss's lil brother who just magically appeared

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

You will have to specify the time you are referencing, since let's face it, there are several times when the _______ and the __________ and that thing where ___________ and RTD ganked it.

It's okay, I'm ganking Hush for my TW-BB.

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

o i love HUSH! there are so many individual episodes in s4 that are so so good (not counting, like, the 1st 3 which i really can't stand)
i don't want to spoil it for rm, though

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I think the mayor is my favorite big bad, tho. That and the one from Season 5.

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

oh, the mayor, totally! i love the mayor
i think, for individual episodes, seasons 4 and 6 are my faves, and for overall story arcs seasons 3 and 5

[firefly124.livejournal.com]

LOLOLOLOL! i can't wait until you get to the ____ with the ____ and that other ____ B/C OMG YOUR ANSWER IS NO!

Yes! *g*

Also love "Random Shoes." I didn't hate "Adam," either, but Border Princes drove me up a wall. About the only excuse for its existence is if it was written before "Adam."

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

i thought "border princes" WAS written before "adam"
it was in the 1st set of books, wasn't it? i actually rather liked that one, but i only listened to the audio and eve did a good job reading b/c she wasn't trying to do the voices

[firefly124.livejournal.com]

Ah, see I didn't hear it until long after I'd watched both S1 and S2, and I wasn't sure when it had come out. Owen was still alive, but that just makes it pre-Reset.

Oddly, I liked the other one Eve read better (In the Shadows, I think?), partly because she did the voices. Though I also thought the pacing of Border Princes really dragged, either in the writing or in her reading of it. I just kept getting bored, losing track of what was going on, and then going back to it just to finish.

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

i'm pretty sure "BP" takes place mid-series 1, but i listened a loooooong time ago (def before series 2 aired), so i can't recall - i just remember that it was SO MUCH MORE INTERESTING than "another life" which, sorry barrowman, BORED ME TO TEARS (actually bored me to SLEEP while i was driving to and from work)
i didn't like eve doing the voices b/c her "jack" attempt is AWFUL! (though the story was better)
burn gorman was the best reader out of all of them