Mal: Well, you were right about this being a bad idea. Zoe: Thanks for sayin', sir.

'Serenity'


Boxed Set, Vol. V: Just a Hint of Denial and a Dash of Retcon  

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Polter-Cow - Nov 03, 2012 5:43:41 am PDT #21575 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

So... Peter is the first Observer. How does this possibly end well?

Peter, you have to go baaaaaaaaaaaaaack.

I didn't get Olivia's "Yeah, it is that type of gun" line. Although it sounded badass.


quester - Nov 03, 2012 7:25:59 am PDT #21576 of 30001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.

I didn't get Olivia's "Yeah, it is that type of gun" line.

One that can kill an Observer?


Polter-Cow - Nov 03, 2012 8:25:42 am PDT #21577 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I figured that, but I don't remember when that sort of thing was discussed.


-t - Nov 03, 2012 1:47:14 pm PDT #21578 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Holy crap, Fringe!


aurelia - Nov 03, 2012 1:59:32 pm PDT #21579 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

I think that was a reference to the gun that shot September. When he couldn't catch the bullet, but Olivia could?


Polter-Cow - Nov 04, 2012 6:49:27 pm PST #21580 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Holy shit, Walking Dead.

(I just watched the original Dawn of the Dead this morning, so it sure was interesting to compare and contrast.)


Rayne - Nov 04, 2012 9:02:04 pm PST #21581 of 30001
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire

Yeah, I feel totally destroyed by The Walking Dead. I was not expecting any of that to happen during episode 4! That really felt like a season finale!


Polter-Cow - Nov 04, 2012 9:11:45 pm PST #21582 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

RIGHT? What the goddamn shit. As Zack Handlen put it:

It’s a big, bold, vicious move on the part of the writers, because at this point in the season, everyone should be relatively safe. Big changes happen in the premiere, or near the end, or right in the middle. Not in this strange no-man’s land, which on most other serialized dramas would have a lot of piece moving and table-setting. There’s a bit of that here (Merle’s chat with the Governor is pretty much a “let’s introduce a wee bit of tension between these two” moment, and not a lot else), but, well, dear lord. At this rate, I’ll be amazed if anyone’s left standing by Christmas.

Andrew Lincoln was devastating in the last scene.


§ ita § - Nov 05, 2012 2:22:52 pm PST #21583 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I thought Joss and many of the people who've crossed paths with him, and TVD, and GoT, etc, had normalised "anyone could go anytime" by now. No, it's not prevalent, but it's also not that unprecedented.

I'm not gonna lie--that last scene read a bit like "T-Boy? Oh, that as a shame. WAHT???? LORIIII????"

It's not that I don't get Carl and Rick being devastated, but nobody seemed to give much of a damn about T and Carol (except to worry if Lori was with them), and then it's 0 to 60 in no time at all for death #3. Couldn't they have spaced them out a bit, then?


Polter-Cow - Nov 05, 2012 2:26:46 pm PST #21584 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

No, it's not prevalent, but it's also not that unprecedented.

Oh, of course. But it's not the norm, and this show hadn't pulled it before, so it was surprising.

I'm not gonna lie--that last scene read a bit like "T-Boy? Oh, that as a shame. WAHT???? LORIIII????"

Heh, yeah, I got that too. I mean, obvs he cares more about Lori than T-Dog, but he didn't really seem to care at all about T-Dog. He saw his body and was like, huh, well, that happened.