I think the "forged in pain" line worked a lot better in context than it did in the ads. Still, not my favorite line.

discussing it like this and making me actually THINK about it - making me want to kinda puke

raises hand me too. i'm sitting here eating animal crackers and reading this and trying very hard to suppress my gag reflex.

I buy that she could skin one of her own hands, but the idea of then using the skinless hand to do the other and half of her face is hard to swallow.

Speaking as a head case, the absolute lowest part of depression is disassociation, where you're floating outside of yourself, and it's like watching yourself in a movie.

There's no pain, nothing at all, and it allows you to do terrible things to hurt yourself. I'm unsure how physically she could continue to hold the knife even in that state, but I'll suspend disbelief for both that, and Marg's stiletto heeled investigatory fuck me boots on CSI.

ok, so what did people think of the CLOTHES!?!?!

funny crosspost

Here's how you know I don't mind cliches -- I LOVED the four of them walking up to the first scene, in their FBI suits and shit.

Loved it. The gore didn't bother me too much and I was eating during it. I looked away when I needed to but even that didn't happen too often.

The part that viscerally bothered me the most was Rebecca not trying to get away from the killer once he has her out on the subway platform. I really, really wanted her to start fighting back at that point. I know it wouldn't have made sense in terms of her character (so far anyway) or the needs of the story. But it bugs.

Would that there were some mystical ILLUMINATING DEVICE!

I slept horribly last night and when I finally did I had the wacky dreams including a scary sequence that took place on a subway platform. It was all murky dark and there were guys with bags over their heads lurching around menacingly. I just got annoyed and turned on a light. They were not nearly so scary as ridiculous then.

I enjoyed it. I'm not raving crazy about it yet, but I enjoyed it yet. Right now, I'm getting "X-Files meets Profiler meets CSI," so I'm happily waiting for the show to distinguish itself.

The one moment when I wanted to throw something at the TV? "She needs a makeover. Mel?" (or whatever the line was). Yes, clearly as the only other woman on the team, she's the one qualified to go pick out that really cute top that will make Rebecca look like a victim! Grrrrr.

I like Paul right now. I thought the "conscience" bit in the elevator was delivered and shot well. Webb is quite the bastard. I'm waiting for more information on Mel and Danny (still hate the name "Danny Love"), and I'm afraid I'm never going to be able to listen to Adam Baldwin and hear anyone but Jayne.

I was prepared to have my biggest problems with...Rachel Nichols? is that correct? She just didn't grab me in still photos, but I liked her performance quite a lot, especially in the scene that Jon mentioned, where she kept her eyes averted during her first conversation with Webb.

But what really cheered my heart? All the little Tim touches. Every time there was a line that I could hear and think, "No one could write that but Tim." That part was cool.

Here's my issue with the bit at the end where Web shoots the guy: if this were Firefly, I'd be all over it. But this is supposed to be the mundane world, not 500-years-in-the-future. You can't pull that shit now and get away with it, and if you do, the label you get isn't "efficient", it's "corrupt", and "steamrolling over civil rights". You do that stuff, they call you "The Oakland Riders" and put you on trial for human rights/criminal procedure violations.

Web made me laugh, but he didn't make me like him. Which is what happened when Mal shot that guy in The Train Job.

Does that make any sense?

My favorite part was when she said, "The fourth victim, Allyson Beatrice."

I'm unsure how physically she could continue to hold the knife even in that state

That's my issue. I don't have a problem with the psychology of it, but that kind of precision's gonna be difficult for anyone not a surgeon even with all nerve endings intact. Plus, slippery.