TV blather
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oiranPaintjob part II tomorrow, and so I should probably sleep, or at least assume a horizontal position in a sleep-positive atmosphere.
I did enjoy Crisis more than I expected to (though the attempt to make Verizon commercials somehow hip and pop-culturey via Chloe was just sad). Lex was gorgeous in his blood-red shirt. Someone else thought it was alizarin, but I'm sticking firm on quinacridone. Anyway, that's a sexy mo-fo of a red, and I'm always pleased when they put it on MR. Also, he's so fucking sexy, and the little face he made while he was rubbing his post-handcuff wrists? Gah. Very, very nice.
I wish we'd get an episode where Lex wears no shirt and isn't covered with scabs and dirt. And fucks someone. Twice.
I found Lionel's lab report very amusing, especially the TERMINAL notation. Because, you know, lab results always have an opinion about your life expectancy printed on the bottom. Also, drinking copious amounts of brown fluid from crystal decanters while you are DYING OF LIVER DISEASE (which, as we know, is TERMINAL) has got an awful lot of swagger behind it. I seriously doubt that Lionel will make it that easy on himself and Lex and all of us--I think he's just having an opera moment. Personally, I love the smell of gun oil and good tools, so maybe Lionel has a similar comfort reaction to sucking cold steel.
Loved Lex and Clark together, being the Nancies Drew together again. What is this Clear and Obvious Rift that so many of you complain of in this episode? I thought their interactions were great. They seemed to be very much together on this one, even with the distrust and each knowing full well he's in love with a liar. I also liked the way they both stepped over that dead guy in the lab like he was a rumpled throw rug they didn't want to trip on.
I don't want Dr. Teng to be dead. I wanted her to stick around and be EVIL, but since she was being stupid and keeping Adam alive for no good reason, and really just prolonging his agony, I suppose she was never going to be the Korean Mengele that I was looking forward to.
Poor Adam. Did you all notice the huge quantities of jaundice makeup he was wearing? At first, I thought it was my TV, but it was actually the first bit of medical sense I've seen on this show in three years. Yellow like a sad, sad lemon. Poor little zombie. I had so many good ideas about where the character could go--and then when we learned he was a zombie, I had different good ideas, but what they did with him was just a waste. (But I do have to say I never could see the Lex/Adam spark, and then when we learned he was a zombie, the idea of Lex fucking a corpse was just--ew. Just another thing to add to my list: I don't think Lex was a hooker, drug addict, cross-dresser, or corpse-fucker. And I'm never going to write him pregnant, either, just so we're all clear.)
Lana/Kristin is a very pretty girl. Can't they get her a mirror and make her practice expressions? Sticking her with pins if necessary? She seems to rather disapprove of being scared or menaced, but I'd like to see some actual fear at some point.
Shells. Blue!Fred! As with A Hole in the World, I was distracted/interrupted while it was actually airing, so I didn't really "get" it until a re-view later on. This is the first season of Angel that I've seen, so I missed badass Wes in prior seasons. He's pretty brutal and self-involved when he's in pain, isn't he? Not that I can't relate or that I disapprove... But I'm bothered that he'll help Illyria just because she looks like Fred. Actually, I'll shut up about this episode. I don't have enough background, and I don't know where this "bothered" feeling is headed.
I did enjoy Crisis more than I expected to (though the attempt to make Verizon commercials somehow hip and pop-culturey via Chloe was just sad). Lex was gorgeous in his blood-red shirt. Someone else thought it was alizarin, but I'm sticking firm on quinacridone. Anyway, that's a sexy mo-fo of a red, and I'm always pleased when they put it on MR. Also, he's so fucking sexy, and the little face he made while he was rubbing his post-handcuff wrists? Gah. Very, very nice.
I wish we'd get an episode where Lex wears no shirt and isn't covered with scabs and dirt. And fucks someone. Twice.
I found Lionel's lab report very amusing, especially the TERMINAL notation. Because, you know, lab results always have an opinion about your life expectancy printed on the bottom. Also, drinking copious amounts of brown fluid from crystal decanters while you are DYING OF LIVER DISEASE (which, as we know, is TERMINAL) has got an awful lot of swagger behind it. I seriously doubt that Lionel will make it that easy on himself and Lex and all of us--I think he's just having an opera moment. Personally, I love the smell of gun oil and good tools, so maybe Lionel has a similar comfort reaction to sucking cold steel.
Loved Lex and Clark together, being the Nancies Drew together again. What is this Clear and Obvious Rift that so many of you complain of in this episode? I thought their interactions were great. They seemed to be very much together on this one, even with the distrust and each knowing full well he's in love with a liar. I also liked the way they both stepped over that dead guy in the lab like he was a rumpled throw rug they didn't want to trip on.
I don't want Dr. Teng to be dead. I wanted her to stick around and be EVIL, but since she was being stupid and keeping Adam alive for no good reason, and really just prolonging his agony, I suppose she was never going to be the Korean Mengele that I was looking forward to.
Poor Adam. Did you all notice the huge quantities of jaundice makeup he was wearing? At first, I thought it was my TV, but it was actually the first bit of medical sense I've seen on this show in three years. Yellow like a sad, sad lemon. Poor little zombie. I had so many good ideas about where the character could go--and then when we learned he was a zombie, I had different good ideas, but what they did with him was just a waste. (But I do have to say I never could see the Lex/Adam spark, and then when we learned he was a zombie, the idea of Lex fucking a corpse was just--ew. Just another thing to add to my list: I don't think Lex was a hooker, drug addict, cross-dresser, or corpse-fucker. And I'm never going to write him pregnant, either, just so we're all clear.)
Lana/Kristin is a very pretty girl. Can't they get her a mirror and make her practice expressions? Sticking her with pins if necessary? She seems to rather disapprove of being scared or menaced, but I'd like to see some actual fear at some point.
Shells. Blue!Fred! As with A Hole in the World, I was distracted/interrupted while it was actually airing, so I didn't really "get" it until a re-view later on. This is the first season of Angel that I've seen, so I missed badass Wes in prior seasons. He's pretty brutal and self-involved when he's in pain, isn't he? Not that I can't relate or that I disapprove... But I'm bothered that he'll help Illyria just because she looks like Fred. Actually, I'll shut up about this episode. I don't have enough background, and I don't know where this "bothered" feeling is headed.
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Date: 2004-03-03 11:02 pm (UTC)I see rift only in that Lex makes Clark work for it now, instead of offering to help the minute farmboy clomps through the door. But they're still very much with the so doing it, so I'm happy.
Re: badass Wes and his Pain... they've done a wonderful job building him from what he was on Buffy to who he is today. He can wallow in his unhealthy mire all he wants, imo. He's earned it.
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Date: 2004-03-03 11:11 pm (UTC)Because, yeah: so doing it.
Mr. G and I have prior seasons of Angel in the Netflix queue, but first we have to watch Firefly. Disc 1 is waiting downstairs right now...
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Date: 2004-03-03 11:35 pm (UTC)I just erased a bunch of squeeing babblery. I love my show. I hope you do too :)
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Date: 2004-03-03 11:04 pm (UTC)There was a rift? In this episode? I didn't see anything and I don't think that's just the denial talking. I saw Clark going to Lex for help, I saw Lex going out on a limb for Clark, I saw Clark and Lex staring longingly into each others eyes and working together. I saw Clark sitcking up for and standing by his boyfriend. And I saw Lex rubbing his wrists, fondly remembering the last time he and Clark played with handcuffs.
All in all - no rift anywhere to be seen! *g*
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Date: 2004-03-03 11:15 pm (UTC)I keep seeing them get closer and closer, which will make it that much worse when there finally is a Rift, but I really don't think we've seen even the first crack yet.
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Date: 2004-03-03 11:44 pm (UTC)WORD! And quite possibly the only indication of actual *research* they've ever done.
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Date: 2004-03-04 04:48 am (UTC)Hey, love, did you get the Captured file I sent you? I got the mail back twice before it went through, so I'm wondering if it did go through after all. Or maybe you just hated it and are afraid to tell me. No, wait, this is Jed I'm talking to; you would tell me. *g*
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Date: 2004-03-04 07:13 am (UTC)But we all know there's something else he'd rather be sucking on. Obsessed much, Lionel?
Re the rift, I saw it last night for sure. For someone like Clark Kent there's only one acceptable response to finding out people are being experimented on against their will. That's
busting them outalerting the authorities. That he knows Lex is capable of participating in it instead, indicates to me that there is no possibility of him ever, under *any* circumstances, trusting Lex with his secrets. I thought TW's delivery of his last line in Lex's office was pure disillusionment.no subject
Date: 2004-03-04 10:37 am (UTC)In my mind, he's rubbing his wrists because those nasty police-cuffs are so much less comfortable than the fur-lined cuffs he and Clark use.
La la la, la la la.
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Date: 2004-03-04 11:29 am (UTC)I loved chocked-up!Lex at finding her body, so of course I immediately hoped it would inspire authors, porn, gen, whatever.
*sigh*
I really wish they hadn't killed her.
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Date: 2004-03-04 03:02 pm (UTC)They seemed to be very much together on this one, even with the distrust and each knowing full well he's in love with a liar.
Yes. So very true. I like how Clark realizes he can't change who Lex is by yelling and stomping, and that he truly took to heart the talk he had with his dad about the gray areas. Growth! Love! *g*