I liked Wound Up Penguin quite a bit. But it didn't really have a point in the forwarding the arc sense. Which is fine. But if that's an ish with Barrel Bear, then wouldn't it be with Wound Up Penguin also?
You got all kinds of learnin' and you made me look the fool without tryin', and yet here I am with a gun to your head. That's 'cause I got people with me. People who trust each other, who do for each other, and ain't always lookin' for the advantage.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Lovesick, my Ass!
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Kat - May 17, 2004 1:44:19 pm PDT #450 of 668
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Sue - May 17, 2004 1:44:36 pm PDT #451 of 668
hip deep in pie
Because it's really funny to watch two undatable people date? It like standing outside the Fun House and watching people run into the glass walls.
I think you just summed up my love life.
Kat - May 17, 2004 1:45:54 pm PDT #452 of 668
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Nope. Heidi had called too. Definitely his mom first, then Heidi.
I was just joking about us being undate-able. Lori and I are both Delicious Lambs.
Cranberry - May 17, 2004 1:47:18 pm PDT #453 of 668
I was fine when existence had no meaning. Meaninglessness in a universe that has no meaning -- that I get. But meaninglessness in a universe with
meaning? What does that mean?
I didn't like Safety Canary because the Jaye/Eric breakup seemed forced. One minute they're making out at the zoo, happy as can be, and then the next she "realizes" she's a man-eater and dumps him. I think they could at least have waited until the next episode to do that.
(I was also a bit bothered by Jaye admitting she may love Eric in Cocktail Bunny -- or was that Lying Pig? -- but I can let that go because I love that episode so much. Both of them.)
I do enjoy Aaron/Mahandra, though; their scenes in Safety Canary made the episode worthwhile.
§ ita § - May 17, 2004 1:47:55 pm PDT #454 of 668
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
But if that's an ish with Barrel Bear, then wouldn't it be with Wound Up Penguin also?
Barrell Bear, to me, needs a point. If it doesn't fit anywhere in the arc, has crappy characterisation, furthers nothing, and isn't that funny?
Waste of 42 minutes. What Safety Canary and Totem Mole had over Barrell Bear (and made the rest irrelevant, in my books) is a point. Wound Up Penguin can easily lack a point, be hysterical, have good characterisation, and help introduce Aaron in more detail.
Which it did. So I have no beef.
Kat - May 17, 2004 1:50:36 pm PDT #455 of 668
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Cindy, thanks for asking. It was really lovely. It would be cliche to say it went really fast, but it's true. At some point I looked around and realized how lucky we are to have truly cool, amazing, funny, interesting people in our lives. When I made a toast to that effect, it made someone (ahem... ahem... no names named, oh purple-haired one) laugh internally and roll her eyes forevah.
Kat - May 17, 2004 1:52:47 pm PDT #456 of 668
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
It furthered the sense that Jaye WANTED THE HELL OUT. And that she felt adrift and lost. A feeling that was echoed in Crime Dog. But I'm unclear on why I'm defending Barrel Bear since I didn't like it.
Lying Pig is one that I just roll my eyes at. And the last speech in Caged Bird. Where Jaye and Eric are all, "i had to leave to come back and I had to let go of you to get you back." It was like the crap Footprints placque of the bathroom.
Allyson - May 17, 2004 1:56:41 pm PDT #457 of 668
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
One minute they're making out at the zoo, happy as can be, and then the next she "realizes" she's a man-eater and dumps him. I think they could at least have waited until the next episode to do that.
Hey! That's my Every Single Relationship EVAH!!!
Kat - May 17, 2004 1:57:50 pm PDT #458 of 668
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Is it that you realize you're a maneater?
Allyson - May 17, 2004 2:00:04 pm PDT #459 of 668
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
No, I realize that I'm Not Good Enough and this must be part of a joke or bet, like I'm Lili Taylor and he's River Phoenix and it's a Real Life version of Dogfight and so I better get the hell out NOW before I get punchlined.
This is called "low self-esteem."