Obliques are the pretty pretty ones, on males.

Obliques are the pretty pretty ones, on males.

Hmmph. I think my obliques are quite fetching. At the bottom, anyway. No definition at the top.

I am sure that everything about you is pretty, but you're not my preferred eye-candy gender.

My stomach is sulking.

We've got an interview with Rob Thomas up about the soundtrack and the music of the show in general.

I would offer to pat your stomach, but that would go nowhere good.

You have a strange definition of "good."

Or maybe I just have an especially porny mind...

Nah.

If you think getting clocked by ita is porny, I'm sure she could oblige you.

Actually, thinking it'd be porny is one of the easiest ways to discourage me from hitting you.

Though, note, I said "discourage" and not "prevent." Sometimes I just can't help myself.

t Running in with hands over my eyes

(Do you have any idea how difficult it is to type like that? My head keeps banging on the keyboard and I can't see on which keys because of the hands so I have to re-write all the time and - well, it's just not pretty. Anyway.)

A couple of Veronica Mars thoughts I wanted to share (IIRC, the USA season didn't start yet, so it's not like I'm stealing second-season time with my first-half-of-first-season-ramblings, right?):

It was very much not a "love at first sight" for me. I have to admit, I didn't like the pilot. The show was broadcasted in Israel in a cables channel that I don't have. A friend liked the show so much, she said that she had to have other people watching it, so that she'd have people to discuss it with. So I got the tape. It's a friend whose taste I trust - we watched "Firefly" together, for example - so when she said how much she fell in love with the show, I was very willing to give it a try.

And then, I didn't like the pilot. I mean, it looked liked this pile-on of horrible things that kept happening to this one person. Something bad happened to her, and then another and another, and not all of them seemed connected to each other, so it made it look as though some evil entity looked from above and targeted that poor girl for "more bad things happen here, please".

And I did like how that powerful girl who was introduced to us at the beginning, with cutting down the kid who was tormented, when the whole school didn't dare to do it, and that with a quip and a smile, is also the fragile broken-hearted victim. How she was both strong and weak, smart and yet full of questions. I liked how the trust issues were laid out, with her father mostly, but with all that happened, as well. And it wasn't that the pilot was just too full, with too many events and new people, because I felt I have a pretty good handle on the characters the way they were introduced in it. I guess it was the "oh, another bad thing happens, to add to the list" feel.

But my friend asked me to watch a couple of more episodes, to see how the show goes on as a show, and it's not like I had lots of great stuff to watch anyway, so I gave it a shot, and I liked what I saw later a lot more.

I liked the character of Veronica - again, the combination of strength and need, smarts and mystery, being able to solve other people's questions while stuck on her own. I liked it that she had such obvious flaws - the disregard to other people's privacy, for once, her easygoing willingness to exploit people in order to achieve her goals, how she is so caught up sometimes int he way she sees things that she refuses to even consider a different look. Oh, and I liked it that she had no problem in being a good student (and, in fact, a character that is presented as such a smart sharp girl would have had to go a long way to convince me she couldn't do well in school).

One thing I did notice - and I hardly ever notice any of these things - is that in more than one case, Veronica is dressed in a combination of pink and green, which in my eyes is not such a common obvious combination of colors. I liked it. The innocence of pink, the girl she used to be - and still is, in the flashbacks - and the unusual addition of the green, which make sit all have a twist and make her look a bit out-of-place, standing out, but not in a "screaming" look-at-me sort of way. Am I making any sense? I liked it, even if I don't.

Another thing that I liked is the friendship between Veronica and Wallace (sp?), the new kid she helps at the pilot. I love it that there's a lovely and lively portrayal of a friendship between a boy and a girl that is not romantic, that doesn't look like it may turn romantic, that it just friendship. Part of what i liked so much about "Firefly" was the relationships between Mal and Zoe or Kaylee, which were deep but had nothing romantic or sexual about them. It's such a rich field to explore, without getting back to the "we're not just best-friends but meant to be together forever" territory.

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