Same with The Big Valley. Thrown from horse, drowned in river, shot by hitherto unknown enemy . . . Hooking up with a Cartwright or Barkley boy was fatal. Winchester love interests don't do too well, either.
Fred: It's the pictures in my mind that are getting me. It's like being stuck in a really bad movie with those Clockwork Orange clampy things on my eyeballs. Wesley: Why imagine? Reality's disturbing enough.
'Shells'
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Connie Neil - Oct 10, 2014 1:25:15 pm PDT #26021 of 30001
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Typo Boy - Oct 10, 2014 5:14:01 pm PDT #26022 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Neither do Winchester friends, casual acquaintances or passing strangers. Get within 100 yards of a Winchester, and the odds of your dying in the next few seconds rise drastically. Of course if you are already in trouble, your odds of rescue also rise drastically.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 11, 2014 5:52:06 pm PDT #26023 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Wow, I'm still amazed how Who can start these episodes that seem so throwaway and yet make them deeply significant to the series (I'm looking at you, way too many Xmas episodes). I wish we'd gotten a little more hint that Clara and Danny were that far along in a relationship, but still cool, and disturbing that she basically lied to him about what was going down.
Kalshane - Oct 11, 2014 6:00:23 pm PDT #26024 of 30001
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
I will say, beyond the Fridgey-nature of Sara's death, the other thing that bugs me is the way she seemed caught off guard at getting shot. You'd think a trained assassin in a universe where sufficiently badass people can catch arrows would be able to take some sort of effort to defend herself in the time someone she was looking directly at took to pull an arrow from a quiver, knock it, raise the bow and fire. (This is under the assumption that her reaction to seeing someone with bow already drawn and arrow knocked would not be to say "What are you doing here?") A bow is a big, obvious weapon if you're close enough to have a conversation.
Vortex - Oct 11, 2014 6:17:08 pm PDT #26025 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I was pleasantly surprised by Who tonight, I really enjoyed it. It could be my love of the Orient Express.
I still don't like the crazy, absent minded, ruthless Doctor (the conversations with himself, etc.). Or the jilted boyfriend bit. But, more episodes like tonight's, I'm in.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 11, 2014 6:29:11 pm PDT #26026 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
the conversations with himself
That part threw me off. But I liked all his other curmudgeonly bits quite a bit.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 11, 2014 6:32:08 pm PDT #26027 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Or the jilted boyfriend bit.
I'm suddenly envisioning a series of Who that's a cross between Who and Gone Girl. I'm not sure how I feel about that except I want to see a fic.
ETA - Oh, wait, wasn't that basically the last season with ALL the Ponds?
Frankenbuddha - Oct 12, 2014 2:03:00 pm PDT #26028 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
OK, watching Graham Norton and can someone explain to me why Hugh Grant looks almost no different than he did in Lair of the White Worm, apart from a few crinkles, and Peter Capalidi, who looked younger than Hugh in that movie by my recollection, now looks at least 10 years older? Portrait in the attic or what?
Typo Boy - Oct 12, 2014 3:28:01 pm PDT #26029 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
The comment someone made upthread about how old the last doctor's eyes were how young this one's are still applies. In fact I'm earwormed with a Dylan song:
I was so much older then.
I'm younger than that now.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 12, 2014 4:39:16 pm PDT #26030 of 30001
"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
The Walking Dead Season 5 has one commandment: Thou Shalt Not Fuck with Carol.