Sounds like a classic.

I thought Tim wrote the one where Tara died, but then they realized some of the fans were completely bug-fuck craxy and it would cause ridiculous amounts of problems and then... Wait.

Aww. Tara. :-(

RSSN - hated the 2 women I saw sing so far. HATED. The guy was good. I can't be bothered with knowing names yet.

RSSN: To quote Michael Kors, I was underwhelmed. I liked almost no one. It was kinda boring.

RSSN: I liked one guy and one girl. The guy with the eyeshadow needs to go.

I predict a non-riot, I predict a non-riot. Doesn't have the same ring to it. (Although I'm not sure the original song had that much of a ring to it anyway).

Ah, Minear, forever in the shadow Buffy thout shall be. Although it is a nice shadow.

Hey, I was on the motorway today on the way to Londonshire, and a car crashed right in front of me - it got squashed by a lorry pulling into the same lane (which hadn't checked for cars, obviously). And, after getting over the moment of panic and making sure the people inside were still alive, I have to admit I had a slight 'car motorway' moment. Role on Drive.

RS: Liked Dilana. Hated: Ryan, Zyera, Chris Meh: Storm, Patrice, Jenny, Phil, Magni, Toby, Jill, Lukas, Joshua Did I forget anyone?

Yes: Dana -- she' REALLY in the wrong contest, isn't she?

sumi, a world of yes to your last point.

So, work is not enough to distract me from the current local news, and therefore I'm looking for other distractions. Thanks to Kristen (who, did I ever mention it already? rocks, and also the new design of her site is very lovely and elegant), I read the script for Loneliest Number instead. And then I rambled.

Oh, I loved how we saw all the images that were supposed to show us, in the clearest way possible, that it's a suicide, followed by both Rebecca and Paul asserting that, only to end with Web notifying that it's a murder. I mean, what was it that we didn't see, when we saw the whole bath-preparation at the beginning? How come he knows about it, too, come to think of it? And why wouldn't he share that information, too, in order to help Paul and Rebecca solve the case he had just handed them?

I was just about to write how I like the air of easy-going-ness (if that's a word), of sharing stuff, even if only a familiarity with a place to eat, of knowing each other and what the person in front of you prefers and how to make them smile or grunt, when Rebecca, noticing just that, had the exact opposite response, poor broken girl, and left the diner awkwardly. Poor girl.

So this episode is about being alone, about isolating oneself from the people around you, right? I mean, Rebecca cut herself from the group, who very naturally included her in their dinner, and the first victim tried to commit suicide on her own, several times, before she was murdered, so the focus is, in a way, on what a person does to himself, and what is being done to them by others. Oh, and only now I've noticed the name of the episode, "Loneliest Number", one, alone. Huh.

"His resistance worn down, he listens to a call, is he trying not to cry?" - reading descriptions like this make me really truly wish I could watch the show. I'm glad that I at least know a bit of Danny's actor, enough to try and imagine how he may look like, feeling like this. And even only imagining it is breaking my heart.

And him, to be the one most touched of all. Obviously not Rebecca, who - just like she was told earlier - shuts herself up and away from things. Not Mel who uses humor as her defence, not Paul who is too much involved in life - marriage, a pregnant wife - to wallow in these sad stories. Danny, the quick-to-want-to-shoot not-really-all-a-thug.

Oh, and if it's one of the crisis center's people who committed those murders, then the very act of reaching out, of trying to find help somewhere, to not retreat inside, is what hurt the victims most of all. I guess the secret, then, is in finding the balance, in a way. Is that what it's about? Because that's something that Rebecca definitely doesn't know yet, isn't it?

So, of course, Web puts Rebecca, who struggles with the same issues - the victims had no social close relationships - at the front line, calling the possibly-murderer. It's like he's taking everything and makes it sharper, more drawn out, so that the person has no choice but to deal with it.

Oh, and I'm really curious as to how the phone conversation between Rebecca and Gary was shot. The description was chilling, with the way her face was masked by the receiver, the shadows, her hair, and Paul's face was exposed and emotional, and Gary's weren't there at all. How the voices, both of them, told a lie - Rebecca wasn't really freaking out and cracking, if Gary really is the killer, then he wasn't honestly interested in helping her. Only Paul, silent and not taking place in the conversation, was emotionally honest.

It seems like Rebecca completely disassociates herself from that role she plays, as if the emotions that rang in her voice on the phone never came from her, as if these are two different people. Just like she tried to cut all external connections to Becky, the little girl she was when she was kidnapped. It seems like something she keeps trying to do. Web probably realizes this, too. Otherwise, would he risk her that much? Losing her to an emotional turmoil or even worse, so early in recruiting her?

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