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exsequarLet me just say, there is absolutely nothing like seeing a movie in an audience of 100 fellow college students. It's the most reactive audience POSSIBLE. And The Departed is possibly the best movie to see in these circumstances. I just got back and holy SHIT I'm on an adrenaline high! I'd already seen it, and if you've seen it you know the end is SHOCK after SHOCK, and I was just sitting there trembling and waiting for everyone to react and it was SO COOL hearing the GASP. The SILENCE. And just sharing in the laughter and the rollercoaster of emotions that this movie causes was SO COOL. There was applause at the end, and I just - so, so awesome. THIS is what movies are. I'm not generally a huge movie person, but that... that was an incredible experience. ♥
Also, I have concluded thusly: I LOVE LEO AND MARK. *draws hearts*
Because I promised Avia, and because I LOVE THIS SHOW, here are thoughts on where I'm up to in SGA.
Most recent things first - I watched 3x03 "Irresistable" and 3x04 "Sateda" tonight. Irresistable was just HILARIOUS, omg. The cast must have had SO much fun getting to be all goofy and ridiculous and over the top. So adorable. *draws hearts* And John is my hero! *swoons*
As for Sateda, what a fantastic episode. Some surprising moments, much more outward emotion than we usually see from these people. Teyla and John's conversation made me go AWWWW! I was distracted at first because I thought they were going a John/Teyla place and I was all BZUH? But then it was just John being an adorable woobie who LOVES HIS TEAM like NOTHING ELSE, and I just -- ohmyheart! The darling! To hear him say that was just - yeah. And I thought Joe did a fantastic job, making John a bit more vulnerable, open - he was stripped of his armor of sarcasm and California Cool, and what was left was a man who's really quite lonely, and to his surprise he's found himself part of (the HEAD of) a team of extraordinary people whom he cares about so much it surprises him. I thought that was a gorgeous, touching character moment. And I really like that Teyla thanked him. (P.S. Teyla looks fucking HOT in that low cut black shirt. and John's LEATHER JACKET aslkjsdlfkjsd. Nnngh.)
Then there was Carson and Rodney's conversation, which actually made me a little irritated with Rodney, which usually doesn't happen (mostly I'm just "oh, RODNEY." and laugh) but there was some actual callousness here, and then his final line to Carson seemed like a real barb, even though Carson just laughed it off. I don't know, that scene just rubbed me the wrong way a little bit.
But then the end! When Ronon hugged Carson in thanks, and thumped his PAW on Rodney's shoulder, and it was just so sweet and and *heartclench!* They are the bestest team ever and I love them ALL.
And OH, the McShep! When Rodney got shot in the ass (LMAO. Never not funny) John immediately turned and swept Rodney away to safety. There was just something about the way he took Rodney's weight on himself that was so tender and lovely. And then! When Rodney was on the morphine, and the major was questioning him, Rodney says "Have you seen a man? He looks like you, except with messy hair... I think I lost him somewhere..." AWWWWWWWW. You know when drugged up someone's going to tell some addled version of the truth, and John is Rodney's first concern! I LOVE SO MUCH! *points at them* Best. Ever. ♥
Now, rewinding a bit.
2x19 Inferno - I remember loving it. John and Rodney fighting over the girl was just priceless. And there was grave danger and Rodney saving the day again and uhm it was intense and awesome and I don't remember details *facepalm* Except I am totally developing a Thing for Ronon/Teyla. I like how they understand each other, both being outsiders to these strange Earthlings. That may or may not have something to do with this episode, but I know they were in grave peril together, so :P
2x18 Michael - 2x20 Allies - 3x01 No Man's Land - 3x02 Misbegotten
Now, I'm lumping these all together because they essentially all deal with the same throughline - the Atlantean's new drug that converts Wraith into humans, and the various consequences thereof. I must admit I was having lots of troubling doubts about this, in terms of the morality of this plan of action. It was dismaying to see these people that I love and trust so much carrying out such a horrifying idea. If they're never going to integrate these new "humans" into their society, then what the hell is the point? Converting them only condemns them to, at best, a life of exile and ignorance of their own pasts. And obviously that never actually stuck on anyone, so they end up with a pile of pissed off Wraith reverts and one hell of a problem on their hands. It's just - a really fucking bad idea, both in terms of practicality and MORALITY. If they can get that drug into the ships - why not just a poison? Kill them fast, instead of subjecting them to that half life. Absolutely horrifying. I hate that they betrayed Michael, too, after all he did for them. And while I do like that they're treading into darker territory, it's a bit surprising in my happyshiny show. Not a bad surprising. Just surprising.
That said! I still love our guys, omg. Elizabeth pwning the panel on Earth? FTW! Rodney and Ronon stuck on the Hive ship, and Ronon taking control of the situation and generally being awesomesauce? FTW! John in general? FTW! :D One of my favorite bits was when John was looking for Rodney and Ronon on the Hive, and he says "If I know Ronon, they're somewhere they can do as much damage as they can, and McKay would know where and how to do that." And he's, of course, EXACTLY RIGHT. He knows his team SO WELL, knows that they would go out fighting, and they have the smarts to do it well. That line just made me so happy.
Random note: I really like Major Lorne. He's pretty awesome for a random supporting character.
Holy shit, John is so alpha to Ronon. It's kind of awesome. MONA I BLAME YOU.
Ahem. So yes, those are my general thoughts. Pretty much, this show rocks my socks to a ridiculous degree. Whee! I'm totally watching 3x05 before I go to bed :D
I CAVED and watched the SPN Director's Cuts, and WOW. This episode is going to blow my mind. *wibbles*
Also, I have concluded thusly: I LOVE LEO AND MARK. *draws hearts*
Because I promised Avia, and because I LOVE THIS SHOW, here are thoughts on where I'm up to in SGA.
Most recent things first - I watched 3x03 "Irresistable" and 3x04 "Sateda" tonight. Irresistable was just HILARIOUS, omg. The cast must have had SO much fun getting to be all goofy and ridiculous and over the top. So adorable. *draws hearts* And John is my hero! *swoons*
As for Sateda, what a fantastic episode. Some surprising moments, much more outward emotion than we usually see from these people. Teyla and John's conversation made me go AWWWW! I was distracted at first because I thought they were going a John/Teyla place and I was all BZUH? But then it was just John being an adorable woobie who LOVES HIS TEAM like NOTHING ELSE, and I just -- ohmyheart! The darling! To hear him say that was just - yeah. And I thought Joe did a fantastic job, making John a bit more vulnerable, open - he was stripped of his armor of sarcasm and California Cool, and what was left was a man who's really quite lonely, and to his surprise he's found himself part of (the HEAD of) a team of extraordinary people whom he cares about so much it surprises him. I thought that was a gorgeous, touching character moment. And I really like that Teyla thanked him. (P.S. Teyla looks fucking HOT in that low cut black shirt. and John's LEATHER JACKET aslkjsdlfkjsd. Nnngh.)
Then there was Carson and Rodney's conversation, which actually made me a little irritated with Rodney, which usually doesn't happen (mostly I'm just "oh, RODNEY." and laugh) but there was some actual callousness here, and then his final line to Carson seemed like a real barb, even though Carson just laughed it off. I don't know, that scene just rubbed me the wrong way a little bit.
But then the end! When Ronon hugged Carson in thanks, and thumped his PAW on Rodney's shoulder, and it was just so sweet and and *heartclench!* They are the bestest team ever and I love them ALL.
And OH, the McShep! When Rodney got shot in the ass (LMAO. Never not funny) John immediately turned and swept Rodney away to safety. There was just something about the way he took Rodney's weight on himself that was so tender and lovely. And then! When Rodney was on the morphine, and the major was questioning him, Rodney says "Have you seen a man? He looks like you, except with messy hair... I think I lost him somewhere..." AWWWWWWWW. You know when drugged up someone's going to tell some addled version of the truth, and John is Rodney's first concern! I LOVE SO MUCH! *points at them* Best. Ever. ♥
Now, rewinding a bit.
2x19 Inferno - I remember loving it. John and Rodney fighting over the girl was just priceless. And there was grave danger and Rodney saving the day again and uhm it was intense and awesome and I don't remember details *facepalm* Except I am totally developing a Thing for Ronon/Teyla. I like how they understand each other, both being outsiders to these strange Earthlings. That may or may not have something to do with this episode, but I know they were in grave peril together, so :P
2x18 Michael - 2x20 Allies - 3x01 No Man's Land - 3x02 Misbegotten
Now, I'm lumping these all together because they essentially all deal with the same throughline - the Atlantean's new drug that converts Wraith into humans, and the various consequences thereof. I must admit I was having lots of troubling doubts about this, in terms of the morality of this plan of action. It was dismaying to see these people that I love and trust so much carrying out such a horrifying idea. If they're never going to integrate these new "humans" into their society, then what the hell is the point? Converting them only condemns them to, at best, a life of exile and ignorance of their own pasts. And obviously that never actually stuck on anyone, so they end up with a pile of pissed off Wraith reverts and one hell of a problem on their hands. It's just - a really fucking bad idea, both in terms of practicality and MORALITY. If they can get that drug into the ships - why not just a poison? Kill them fast, instead of subjecting them to that half life. Absolutely horrifying. I hate that they betrayed Michael, too, after all he did for them. And while I do like that they're treading into darker territory, it's a bit surprising in my happyshiny show. Not a bad surprising. Just surprising.
That said! I still love our guys, omg. Elizabeth pwning the panel on Earth? FTW! Rodney and Ronon stuck on the Hive ship, and Ronon taking control of the situation and generally being awesomesauce? FTW! John in general? FTW! :D One of my favorite bits was when John was looking for Rodney and Ronon on the Hive, and he says "If I know Ronon, they're somewhere they can do as much damage as they can, and McKay would know where and how to do that." And he's, of course, EXACTLY RIGHT. He knows his team SO WELL, knows that they would go out fighting, and they have the smarts to do it well. That line just made me so happy.
Random note: I really like Major Lorne. He's pretty awesome for a random supporting character.
Holy shit, John is so alpha to Ronon. It's kind of awesome. MONA I BLAME YOU.
Ahem. So yes, those are my general thoughts. Pretty much, this show rocks my socks to a ridiculous degree. Whee! I'm totally watching 3x05 before I go to bed :D
I CAVED and watched the SPN Director's Cuts, and WOW. This episode is going to blow my mind. *wibbles*
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Date: 2007-02-03 07:10 am (UTC)i laughed so hard with utter GLEE in the theater. i can't say my experience was as awesome as yours sounds because the theater was nearly empty, but damn. so awesome.
/ends required tim!spaz over the departed
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Date: 2007-02-03 07:15 am (UTC)People literally SCREAMED at a couple of the surprises at the end. IT WAS SO FANTASTIC.
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Date: 2007-02-03 07:43 am (UTC)People literally SCREAMED at a couple of the surprises at the end.
AWESOME. i was laughing so hard (semi-silently) in ecstatic joy that my brother punched me. XD
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Date: 2007-02-03 07:54 am (UTC)*flail flail flail*
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Date: 2007-02-03 08:13 am (UTC)Ellerby: Go fuck yourself.
Dignam: I'm tired from fucking your wife.
Ellerby: How is your mother?
Dignam: Good, she's tired from fucking my father.
and!
Police Camera Tech: Who the fuck are you?
Dignam: I'm the guy who does his job. You must be the other guy.
he's an asshole, but wahlberg's delivery keeps him from being just a typical jerk, y'know? god, i could quote the whole movie and never stop flailing. i picture dignam and smecker tearing the hide off of each other and in the end coming to a grudging respect and toasting each other with their coffees or something.
*twirls you and flails* okay, i'm done. srsly. @_@
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Date: 2007-02-03 08:04 am (UTC)Seeing Serenity was one of thos experiences :O There weren't many people, but those were fantastic ... they all knew Firefly and they were all fans and watching it together was so great ... sharing the laughs and the tears and it's just a great memory *g*
The whole Departed-Cast rocks so much ♥
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Date: 2007-02-03 08:08 am (UTC)Except I am totally developing a Thing for Ronon/Teyla. I like how they understand each other, both being outsiders to these strange Earthlings. That may or may not have something to do with this episode, but I know they were in grave peril together, so :P
THANK YOU! Thank you thank you thank you! I'm not the only one! As soon as I finished watching all the eps I immediately went in search for lots of Ronon/Teyla fics. To my great sadness, there is very little. Damn me for shipping a not-so-popular het couple! It makes finding good fics so difficult. :(
Anyway, HI ANNE HI! I've missed you!
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Date: 2007-02-03 08:34 am (UTC)(I just finished reading a chapter of a fic that was John/Ronon and dlskfjsdlkfjsd. Yeah that's all I've got.)
It gets BETTER? Hee! So exciting! (And DAMN girl, you watch fast, for all you complain about not having much time! o.O)
Did you ever warm up to Rodney or McShep? *hopes*
HI MANDA HI! I've missed you TOOO! *clingloves*
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Date: 2007-02-03 08:51 am (UTC)It's not really unpopular - it could just be that I haven't found the central place for all the fics yet. At least, that's what I'm hoping. It is so obvious in canon so I thought it would be all over the place! They would be so SCORCHING hot together and I just can't understand why barely anyone is behind that! It's all McShep this, McShep that. Where's all the het, people?! :D
It gets BETTER? Hee! So exciting! (And DAMN girl, you watch fast, for all you complain about not having much time! o.O)
Technically, I don't have that much spare time. But I've been really REALLY neglectful in doing a lot of things I was supposed to (like reading my flist and chatting! :P) so that I could devour five or six eps a night. And a dozen on my free days off. Yes I do realise that I'm completely hopeless!
Did you ever warm up to Rodney or McShep? *hopes*
Okay, I'll chop out a bit of my last post to answer.
"This is not meant to harsh anyone's squee in any way, shape or form, but I just can't ship the McShep. It saddens me because I know that there is SO MUCH good fic out there if only I could get into it. *sigh* I think what is holding me back is the fact that I can't love Rodney as a character. I like him well enough because he has had a LOT of redeeming moments, but that 'asshole' factor that he has just gets on my nerves. The "I'm smarter than anyone else EVER" attitude, while amusing for a while, has made me almost hate him at times."
If Rodney was a less self absorbed and arrogant, I could probably love him and read all the fic I could find. But then he wouldn't be the character that so many other people love. I'm happy shipping Ronon/Teyla in my own little corner.
Ooooh. Speaking of Ronon: The vertical expression of a horizontal desire.
I love that saying and I only use it for the hottest of fellas. And DAMN, he is one of them! *goes to happy place*
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Date: 2007-02-05 04:32 pm (UTC)*facepalm* MANDA! IF I DIDN'T LOVE YOU SO MUCH YOU'D BE DEAD TO ME. *giggles and pets you*
I think you've got to kind of read the fic to really get behind the McShep - it's one of those pairings that you need to have that metatextual experience of. This might also be my "read the fic before I watched the show" talking.
ANYWAY. Ronon/Teyla rocks my socks, though I mostly feel their love is pure and big-sisterly/little-brotherly.
*pauses for a moment and thinks about the big/little sibling thing* But we all know how very very LOW my moral high-ground is with regards to saying "oh it's not sexual, it's sibling-y!"
Except when they stick-fight. Or are on Wraith-enzyme. Then they fuck a lot and it's sweaty and athletic. Or when Ronon is fucking Weir. Or Sheppard. Or Rodney.
Ronon is slutty and I wouldn't have him ANY OTHER WAY. He's too much man for OTPing.
Mmmm. *drifts*
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Date: 2007-02-05 05:32 pm (UTC)I cannot stand for thisPLZ TO BE CONTINUING \o/Dude, I have been squeeing about the Elizabeth/Ronon all OVER the place, which I ALSO blame on you. But of course McShep pwns me. Mmmmph.
I really love the flexible shipping of this show, which is largely due to the fact that the show ITSELF doesn't romanticize any of the relationships. Instead, it builds up a LOT OF LOVE between EVERYONE without sexualizing any of it - so we can sexualize whichever ones we want! Because we are h0rish like that! \o/
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Date: 2007-02-03 03:20 pm (UTC)I mostly agree with you on the whole Michael/Wraith thing too. I was actually thinking of writing something up after the last episode. Because once they made them human they either had to treat them like humans or treat them like wraith and the fact that they wouldn't make that decision ... On the other hand, I understand why they wouldn't want to just send Michael out to start killing people, but they just put themselves into a really bad position. I didn't like it. Misbegotten was probably my least favorite episode of the entire series.
But John is very pretty and awesome! That's what I think to myself when petty things such as "morality" get me down!
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Date: 2007-02-03 09:58 pm (UTC)Anyway, SGA! :D Okay... so - yes, John is so incredibly hot. And just so awesome in his love for his team, and how they've become his family. His little conversation with Teyla was love. :D AND OMG THE LEATHER JACKET! Killed me ded it did. :D Also at some point they started having these black uniforms... skdfjhskdjhfkjs. Yes.
Lorne is awesome. Awesome awesome awesome. I really love pretty much all the supporting cast of this show - Lorne, Zelenka, Caldwell (well at first it was because well, he's Skinner, but I do love him now cause he's kinda awesome), EVERYONE.
The whole Wraith retrovirus thing was a pretty idiotic storyline IMO and I'm glad they kinda neglected it in the third season.
RONON/TEYLA! YES! It's a little bit in the background for me, cause obviously most of my attention is usually for OMGMCSHEPISSOCANON but every now and again they have the most beautiful, adorable moments together and I just love these two. I only have two SGA ships, McShep and Ronon/Teyla. So yay! I'm glad you're seeing it too!
Whoa, that was a long comment. :D
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Date: 2007-02-05 04:26 pm (UTC)*nods* Yes. IMHO, that IS the point. They are making STUNNINGLY bad choices, having been put in an untenable situation. I think it's OMG FASCINATING that in trying to take the more "moral" route, NOT slaughtering the Wraith wholesale, they are in fact perpetrating a much more IMmoral plan of action.
A lot of people in the fandom don't like this storyline, but I think it's kinda great. It's all shade of grey. It's all our "heroes" fucking up to an insane degree and, yeah, that makes people uncomfortable - we don't like to see our heroes make epic mistakes.
Holy shit, John is so alpha to Ronon. It's kind of awesome. MONA I BLAME YOU.
\o/ I will gladly take this blame.
*points to my icon* Look! It's from Inferno! Hee. Yay.
YAYAYAYAYAY SGA!!! HAPPY PLACE! HAPPY PLACE!