Angel: You know, I killed my actual dad. It was one of the first things I did when I became a vampire. Wesley: I hardly see how that's the same situation. Angel: Yeah. I didn't really think that one through.

'Lineage'


Natter Area 51: The Truthiness Is in Here  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


brenda m - May 20, 2007 2:38:38 pm PDT #8413 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

I don't know, that shower at the place in Atlanta was pretty hardcore.


-t - May 20, 2007 2:39:25 pm PDT #8414 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Also, Burke wasn't going to be Chief, so his whole career path has just been called into question in his mind, putting all the burden of his happiness on his relationship with Christina - if he takes that out of the question, he can just leave and, barring him wanting to be with Christina, that's what he really wanted to do. Couple that with the possibility that she seems to be leaving him at the altar and I can see why he'd feel pushed to leave.


sarameg - May 20, 2007 2:45:26 pm PDT #8415 of 10001

My brother has taken pictures of the swank bathrooms in his hotel rooms and sent them to me. Cancer conferences often score fancypants hotels.

I'm about to turn Mister Kitty into slippers. He occasionally recalls he likes to jump up on the end bookcase and knock things off a nearby shelf. And he's so.fucking.persistant. I pull him off, try to distract him. As soon as I'm settled, he's back up there and I have to lunge to rescue my knickknacks. AHRG. He'll eventually forget again, but AHRG.


Kat - May 20, 2007 2:46:48 pm PDT #8416 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

And, there is the other hiring/firing aspect of whether or not Isiah Washington's contract was going to be renewed. I do love the character of Burke even I think IW is an ass. But the reality is, if he were on his way out, this is a lovely and heartbreaking way to achieve that for the character and for Cristina.


Kat - May 20, 2007 2:47:50 pm PDT #8417 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Mr. Kitty,

Get off the bookshelf please and be good to sara. Or else.

Love,
Kat


-t - May 20, 2007 2:50:55 pm PDT #8418 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Kat, I am in total agreement with you on the meta. Love Burke, regardless of the actor's shortcomings, and this was kind of an elegant move by the writers, really. I'm impressed that they didn't telegraph his leaving at all in previous episodes, yet I completely believe that he is gone and not coming back.


§ ita § - May 20, 2007 2:50:58 pm PDT #8419 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Back in the day I saw an interview with Isaiah Washington, and he was kinda goofy and un-Burkish. Okay, a lot. So I made the clean separation between the man and the character before the whole anti-homosexual and strange behaviour started. Which made it easy to love Burke (or at least be drawn to him, despite his flaws) while thinking the actor an asshat. I can see how his asshattedness may affect his current and future employ, but I want as much Burke as possible.


Steph L. - May 20, 2007 3:18:34 pm PDT #8420 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

As soon as I'm settled, he's back up there and I have to lunge to rescue my knickknacks. AHRG.

Deb Grabien -- because she has 11 (12?) cats -- learned the trick of securing knickknacks in place with sealing wax. I think she uses the kind of sealing wax that can be used with glue guns -- the inexpensive kind. She says it works great.


Zenkitty - May 20, 2007 3:20:15 pm PDT #8421 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

securing knickknacks in place with sealing wax

taking notes for future cat-owning


sarameg - May 20, 2007 3:40:39 pm PDT #8422 of 10001

These items WERE tacked down with something similar. He's pretty damned strong when determined (he can bruise when he's kneading.) I am smart enough to only put the relatively unbreakable stuff within extended-cat-reach.

But Kat's stern words seemed to have worked. He's busy being passed out.