I wanna hurt you, but I can't resist the sinister attraction of your cold and muscular body!

Buffybot ,'Dirty Girls'


Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns  

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 - Aug 24, 2007 6:27:19 pm PDT #6735 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

Yowsa. At least I hadn't gotten to the naked when I wrote that post.


Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 24, 2007 6:30:38 pm PDT #6736 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Does Jeffrey Donovan set off your gaydars?

Not mine, but I admit that may be a case of wishful thinking on my part.


§ ita § - Aug 24, 2007 6:32:28 pm PDT #6737 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I hadn't gotten to the naked when I wrote that post.

For a moment I panicked that I'd somehow posted naked Colin pictures on the internet.

::whew::

I admit that may be a case of wishful thinking on my part.

I'm guessing he's supposed to be hot, but I just don't get it. And the more I try, the more alien he looks.


msbelle - Aug 24, 2007 6:36:12 pm PDT #6738 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I am having some issues opening rar files, any help via IM?


Vortex - Aug 24, 2007 6:55:39 pm PDT #6739 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

For a moment I panicked that I'd somehow posted naked Colin pictures on the internet.

does that mean they exist?


Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 24, 2007 6:59:08 pm PDT #6740 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Yes, and available on the internet.


DebetEsse - Aug 24, 2007 7:00:32 pm PDT #6741 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.

Vortex, while it may be happy making, I'm figuring they will only exist in the abstract for us, as I'm pretty sure none of us can out-fu ita, in digital or meat-space.


Strega - Aug 24, 2007 7:25:08 pm PDT #6742 of 10001

It...it...why? I mean, what's the why of the story? Who do I care about? What's interesting.

It's very shiny?

Characters aren't what pull me in generally, although Tom's closed-off-ness is kind of attractive to me (see also, Rebecca on The Inside). It's the overlapping love triangles and the dialogue and that gorgeous dress, and the goofy moments, and never being sure how far (or if) Tom's planned things, and watching him manage to pull himself out of a mess and still lose everything. And that final shot when for once, he's not masking his feelings. And Eddie Dane.

I guess I love it because it's never gotten boring to me. I like things i can watch (or read) over and over, and still get surprised by something. Sometimes the same thing multiple times. (I think I've finally stopped going, "Hey, that's Frances McDormand!")


Strega - Aug 24, 2007 7:32:29 pm PDT #6743 of 10001

And random: one of the writers or creators or somesuch of Burn Notice is over on Warren Ellis's board. So I watched the first episode and enjoyed it and have totally failed to catch it since. I want to go see what he has to say about it but I'll get all spoiled.

Anyway, Donovan did not ping my gaydar but I don't know that mine's very finely tuned. Plus I was distracted because he kept reminding me of Guy Pearce.


§ ita § - Aug 24, 2007 7:40:48 pm PDT #6744 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

never being sure how far (or if) Tom's planned things

See, if he'd done the whole thing without ever hitting first or hitting back or firing a gun, I'd have been more interested in whether that's what he was angling to do the whole time or not. Since actually killing someone didn't seem to come difficultly to him (or as a result of what we've seen happen to him) I was left in a vague place by the end. I felt I knew less about his motives and methods than I did halfway through.

There wasn't enough love in it for me to get caught up in triangles either. I liked the Dane. I almost started rooting for him, but it was too clearly going to be a letdown so I stopped.

Burn Notice--I've been watching it, but I'll let episodes pile up without feeling like I've missed much. Most I've liked Bruce Campbell since Brisco County Jr (not actually a fan of his, all told), and it's great to see Sharon Gless (I think I last saw her kick ass in State of Play The State Within, so this contrast is wonderful). I don't know if I hate Gabrielle Anwar, but I surely do hate her character and am very glad they backed off her accent (even though she's still from there). The lead--well, he has a certain something about him, but if I look too closely it's like rubber skin stretched over a skull and I feel like I'm having a bad acid trip.

Which reminds me--where the hell is my Percocet? My head hurts.