What'd you all order a dead guy for?

Jayne ,'The Message'


Cable Drama: Still Waiting for the Cable Guy to Show Up with the Thread Name...

To be determined... (but it's definitely [NAFDA])


§ ita § - Jul 30, 2010 6:43:00 am PDT #6146 of 12003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I think I would like Covert Affairs better if Piper Perabo was replaced by Kristen Bell.

No! I've finally decided I might actually have liked Veronica Mars if it had had a different lead. Please keep Kristen Bell out of stuff.

Piper Perabo leaves me mostly cold, so I don't know if I'm going to love Covert Affairs. It's still background TV for me.

Fiona and Sam were fun, and I'm not usually much of a Fiona fan. But she was on fire last night.

I'm still a little whiplashy over the Fiona/Michael relationship. I can't quite follow their ups and downs.


Daisy Jane - Jul 30, 2010 7:30:39 am PDT #6147 of 12003
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

I have to say, I do like that Annie gets beat up and beats back like a wild animal rather than having all of her moves planned.


Vortex - Jul 30, 2010 7:35:45 am PDT #6148 of 12003
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

The Company might as well just paint a target on her, and have her walk up and down the mall, and wait for foreign agents to appear.

I think that's next week's episode.

I don't understand why she never carries a gun if she's going to be put in these dangerous positions where she is likely to get shot at.

I also was a little annoyed over the driving thing. Why did she have to pretend that she didn't know how to drive a high performance car? If she did have to pretend, then why didn't she just say that she didn't know how to drive stick?

I'm still a little whiplashy over the Fiona/Michael relationship. I can't quite follow their ups and downs.

I think that's the point. I loved Madeline last night when she said "Sometimes they love each other, sometimes they hate each other, but it's always each other."

I didn't see the Jesse crush from him, but I definitely saw Madeline selling it. When she told the billionaire guy "I think he knows exactly how you feel" I said "bwah? Is she saying that Jesse has a thing for Fiona? Where did that come from?" (I mean, I totally get how he might, but I didn't see it in the show)


Daisy Jane - Jul 30, 2010 7:42:50 am PDT #6149 of 12003
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

also was a little annoyed over the driving thing. Why did she have to pretend that she didn't know how to drive a high performance car? If she did have to pretend, then why didn't she just say that she didn't know how to drive stick?

I think because where would a lower level government employee get experience with that kind of car?


Vortex - Jul 30, 2010 7:47:49 am PDT #6150 of 12003
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

She lives in DC, weird shit happens. All she had to say is "my old boss had one of these"


§ ita § - Jul 30, 2010 7:50:56 am PDT #6151 of 12003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

"Sometimes they love each other, sometimes they hate each other, but it's always each other."

I get the premise of an unpredictable on-off relationship. I just don't feel any consistent chemistry between the two leads. I don't think chemistry should be on-off too. I want to always know these people are emotionally engaged with each other, even when they're being businesslike and cool and stuff.

I don't want to have to be talked back into it. I want to feel it.


Zenkitty - Jul 30, 2010 8:10:12 am PDT #6152 of 12003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

I find Fiona so very unattractive, I probably couldn't see chemistry even if ti was there.


Tom Scola - Jul 30, 2010 8:12:46 am PDT #6153 of 12003
hwæt

Fiona is much more passionate talking about her weapons than she is talking about Michael.


§ ita § - Jul 30, 2010 8:17:59 am PDT #6154 of 12003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I find Fiona so very unattractive

God, me too. She's a big fail for me on the kick-ass woman front. They've toned down her psycho-exness, but for a while there it was overwhelming, and I haven't quite forgiven the character.

She gives decent "I'm going to kill you all" face, but she's such a cardboard cutout of a character (and physically unconvincing as a combatant) that I just can't dig here.

I do get that Michael wants her, but not that often, and she's not that high on his list of priorities.


§ ita § - Jul 30, 2010 8:34:51 am PDT #6155 of 12003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Leverage officially renewed!