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[rm]

Despite Patty's hatred of Costco, I've lured her into going with me today. YAY. This mitigates, slightly, the pouring rain factor.

Last night I said to myself, "don't forget to post about ANZAC Day tomorrow," and then, of course, forgot. wcg reminds us all.

Don't be fooled by this article. While plastic surgery may be out for actors, impossible beauty standards still reign. So if you didn't win the genetic lottery, you can forget about going into the business, at least on screen, in the United States. Also? the ratio of period films for which natural breasts are a must have to everything else? Yeah, not so much.

I told you the UK was a very drinky country. Because, holy crap, Cardiff! I can't believe this is where Patty's going to be for 10 - 12 weeks.

Last night on Buffy we watched "Shadow" and "Listening to Fear".

- OMG, Riley, REALLY? You're patronizing vampire hookers so you can be dark enough for your girlfriend? This is the most fucked up plot ever, and, quite frankly, sort of a stupid one. But I've always thought Riley was such a dumb lug, that I'm not riveted by this complete absurdity Wheedon has visited upon us.

- Aliens! There are canonical aliens! Man, that thing, that whole ep, was TERRIFYING. Except, you know, the part where Riley was being distracted because he wanted to go visit some more whores.

- Willow was AMAZING in "Listening to Fear"

- This whole arc in which Joyce eventually bites it (yes, I have that spoiler and the Tara spoiler) is going to be really hard for me to watch. I have an acute medical phobia that manifests in weird ways -- it's not about the gore, it's about the lack of control, medicine as punishment and my own probably not so awesome genetic odds. And this is punching those buttons hard.

- I really don't like Glory. She's just not a bad guy I find interesting and I think I really dislike the actresses performance, although it's clear she's just following directions. I am, however, really curious about Ben and the whole cosmology around her now.

- And I forgot to mention about "Fool for Love" the other day that hey RTD, you really liked SPike's little "you're connected to people and that keeps you alive" speech, didn't you? Well, good to know that Torchwood isn't _just_ about the Angel/Wesley Jack/Ianto loving. Wow, now if only Torchwood fandom could remember that. *snerk*

Royalty in New York. Really.

Sainsbury's gluten-free cherry bakewell tarts? AWESOME.

We think Cricket's squeakiness may be cat sonar.

Comments

[realtsunamigirl.livejournal.com]

DO NOT watch "The Body" without a large box of Kleenex and a calm frame of mind. When people ask me what it was like to lose my mother, I tell them to go watch that episode, because that is it, right on the screen (if you subtract the vampire, of course.) It sums up the horrifying combination of shock, rage, bewilderment, selfishness and constant flipping of other emotions I still can't even begin to name 10 years later perfectly. I habitually skip it when I'm watching S5 unless I'm in just the right frame of mind even though I consider it to be one of the top 5 episodes of the show.

[rm.livejournal.com]

To be frank, I'm worried I won't react to the episode. I've been warned so much, I don't like Joyce that much, I don't identify with Buffy, I haven't lost a parent, I'm viewing it through the lens of my death paper.... I'm really worried I won't be able to experience in the moment, which I like to do with things.

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

Honestly, it's done so well, I think you will react.

In the list of reasons why I'm glad I never watched the show until now, that episode is quite high. I'm glad I watched it after my mom died and not before, because I know, I know I would have viewed that entire experience through the lens of that episode.

[elionwyr.livejournal.com]

I'm not a huge Joyce fan either, I've not lost a parent, and IMO it doesn't matter...I hope it works for you as an episode. Which is an inelegant way to put it, but..

[realtsunamigirl.livejournal.com]

If that's the case, then just sit back and enjoy it for the amazing technical accomplishment that it is. There's a lot of very interesting things done with the lighting, uses no soundtrack beyond what is actually happening and it's very close to being in real time (barring things like having to drive places and phone calls and the like.) I strongly recommend listening to the commentary on this one, which is Joss discussing what he did and what he was trying to evoke. It's a whole class on direction all on its own.

Plus, Anya's "I just don't understand" speech will probably get you, even if the rest doesn't.