Boxed Set, Vol. II: "It's a Cookbook...A Cookbook!!"
A topic for the discussion of Farscape, Smallville, and Due South. Beware possible invasions of Stargate, Highlander, or pretty much any other "genre" show that captures our fancy. Expect Adult Content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
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it's been pushed back to september 28th from what i'm told. did you figure out the killer before Veronica did?
do not read if you haven't seen the finale of VM
wasn't really all that happy with who the killer turned out to be. mostly because we'd been told all season that if we watched the pilot all the clues were there. well...Aaron was hardly mentioned in the pilot. not to mention that Rob Thomas had said he knew who the killer was from the beginning, BUT Logan was only supposed to be in the first few eps. so how is it that he wasn't supposed to be a recurring character, but his father was decided upon to be the killer in the beginning? just doesn't work for me and i'm convinced RT changed who the killer was.
I was certain Momma!Kane had done it. like, completely certain. shows what i know.
Ah. Well, y'see, I had no context for viewing other than a brief summary meara gave me when she was in Egypt and I asked about it. So I had no particular expectations about whodunnit. It
totally
worked for me. It was one of my (numerous) suppositions, and it seemed to fit very well with the characterisation. I don't mind whether that was
the writer's original plan or whether he found that the story reshaped itself as he was writing, because it seemed plausible to me.
SO pleased that
MommaMars got kicked to the curb, and that MommaFennel got to hold his hand in the end.
And OMG, poor
Logan. JEsus. The damage just kept right on a-comin', didn't it?
That last episode was both very satisfying and very moreish. And, argh, just to reiterate,
poor Logan! And Weevil! Who should have been kicking PappaEccles' denim-clad ass! I SO wanted Weevil to show up and get medieval on Aaron's ass. But I clapped Florist!Guy, when he smashed into him with a big white van, 'cause that was a pretty acceptable alternative, in a pinch.
...I have a rule of thumb wrt acceptability of fancying people. I figure that, yes, granted, I'm 31, but it's okay to fancy people who are bigger than me. Even if I'm considerably older than them. Ahem.
So it's okay to get hot and bothered about teenagers pressed up against bookshelves. Really. Fine.
if it makes you feel better, he's 24 in RL.
*g*
See, if you play the "he's taller than me, and thus fair game to fancy" card, it's all one whether a person is 24 or 17. Really, I have no difficulty justifying fancying this lad, 'cause he's clearly a grown up. I mean, okay, there's the whole gawky thing going on there, but we're hardly talking Jeremy Sumpter here, are we?
(Don't talk to me about
Peter Pan.
Now THAT made me feel like Humbert Humbert*. This, not so much.)
...fwiw, when it comes to
Alias
I'm Victor Garber's girl all the way. Well, okay, and Lena Olin. Gah. And Isabella Rosselini. Oh, mind you, mustn't forget David Anders, or at least his portrayal of Sark...
thinks
Does this just mean I'm an equal opportunities letch?
sighs.
*although I was mostly All About Captain Hook. But Captain Hook was himself clearly All About Peter. Which was kind of sexy disturbing.
But Captain Hook was himself clearly All About Peter.
Heh. I was all, hmmm, "Captain Hook/Wendy!", because dude, there was subtext in some of their scenes. I was secretly hoping that Wendy would take a pirate name and stay to boss around the pirates. Plus, I thought Peter was kind of a prat.
Mmmmm'Jason Isaac....
As for Jason Dohring who plays Logan, it was sad-making to learn that he's 1) married and 2) a scientologist. I have tougher time getting past 2) than 1) in terms of crush-age.
Oh! And while I'm at it; someone on my LJ Flist, in a weird bit of synchrony, asked for VM fic recs earlier on today. Rather than copying all of these to fic thread, I'll just link to the post here ('cause I am laaaaaazy): [link] I particularly recommend Yahtzee's fic (somewhere half way down the comment page) and everything Boyfriend In Coma has written, especially "Past Is A Prologue" because, talk about fuckin' Ow.
I have tougher time getting past 2) than 1) in terms of crush-age
This I can understand.
Can you believe that they delayed the VM premier to air two hours of America's Next Top Model?
Isn't Mama Mars the worst Mama in the world?
Isn't Mama Mars the worst Mama in the world?
Well, I think maybe not as bad as Angela Landsbury's character from "The Manchurian Candidate". Or Mrs. Bates, Norman's Ma. Or Medea. But she's pretty high up there.
Fay! Who do you think
showed up at
Veronica's
door
at the very end? I'm hoping that it was
Wallace.
Aw! Aw, yeah, that'd be nice. Bless. I do love
Wallace
to pieces. But I must confess that I spent a chunk of that most excellent ending jiggling like a five year old in need of the loo, with my brow puckered, saying to the telly "...But, but, but what about
Weevil and Logan?
Is
Logan
dead now? Surely not! But how the H E double hockey sticks is he going to get out of this mess? Especially since he doesn't WANT to get out of this mess? And
Weevil is very pissed off indeed!"
So I was hoping hoping hoping it would be
Logan,
to reassure me of his not-dead-ness. But upon reflection,
Wallace
is a better call. Yeah. I suppose it could be
Leo......
I certainly hope it isn't
Duncan.
I like him, and I enjoy their interaction, but I'm not aboard that 'ship. Well, not that I'm a 'shipper of any flavour.