Bear with me for a tangent.
The first look stuff for 9-1-1: LONE STAR reminded me that my great aunt was a firefighter in Texas. I went looking for info to confirm where she was and it turns out she was the first female firefighter in Galveston!
Wesley: Feng Shui. Gunn: Right. What's that mean again? Wesley: That people will believe anything. Actually, in this place, Feng Shui will probably have enormous significance. I'll align my furniture the wrong way and suddenly catch fire or turn into a pudding.
'Conviction (1)'
The Minearverse 6: Fiery Thread of Death
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath. Oh, and help us get Terriers dvds!
aurelia - Dec 08, 2019 5:41:37 pm PST #4480 of 4535
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Jesse - Dec 09, 2019 7:28:55 am PST #4481 of 4535
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Wow!
quester - Dec 09, 2019 2:59:51 pm PST #4482 of 4535
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Awesome Kristen!
I might have to give it a try.
brenda m - Dec 12, 2019 3:51:22 pm PST #4483 of 4535
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
Oh that's so cool.
sj - Apr 13, 2020 4:37:27 pm PDT #4484 of 4535
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
9-1-1 tonight was excellent!
beekaytee - Apr 16, 2020 7:27:15 pm PDT #4485 of 4535
Compassionately intolerant
I'm really enjoying 9-1-1 and Lone Star.
Such a comforting call back to my favorite show of yesteryear. And, pretty people!
esse - May 04, 2020 1:43:32 am PDT #4486 of 4535
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
9-1-1 and it's Lone Star counterpart are appointment television for me. I love them.
Knowing that Connie Britton is slated to return next season, I'm watching the reintroduction of Abbie at the tail end of this season with a side-eye. I love Abbie, and I loved Connie Britton so much -- I think it was my favorite role she's ever done. But the show has grown and changed since the first season that the first season almost feels like a separate, complete show in and of itself; and the subsequent seasons almost feel like a spin-off.
aurelia - May 05, 2020 5:06:12 pm PDT #4487 of 4535
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Well done, Kristen!
msbelle - May 06, 2020 9:17:42 am PDT #4488 of 4535
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I am still catching up on this season of 9-1-1. I love the guest stars they get Greg Evigan and Shari Belafonte for tiny parts. So nice to see them on the screen.
esse - May 06, 2020 1:23:52 pm PDT #4489 of 4535
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
That was a really good episode of 9-1-1 -- excellent pacing, the right 9-1-1 style balance between heartwrenching and feel good, and one hell of a cliffhanger. Long reaction post is long:
Spoilery for 3x17: I was so relieved that the incident between Athena and the serial rapist didn't include sexual violence. It would have been easy to go there, even just verbal threats; but I think the wordless audio of the incident was perfectly horrifying. I did like at the end how May insisted that Athena be in her prom photos, and that she was proud of her mom for doing her job; it felt just slightly bitter because of how thoroughly May went after Athena and Athena's job for a sensationalized college essay. And I mean -- that felt right, teenagers are absolutely that fickle and emotionally variable, but my grown-ass adult self was side-eyeing May's earnestness like "Oh *now^ you find value in what your mother does and the pride Athena has in her work." Like it took Athena being beat to shit and getting a brilliant nearly single-handed collar on a violent rapist that wasn't on anyone's radar for May to be circumspect about her mom's work. Too real, lol.
As for the cliffhanger, I didn't realize until I saw Connie Britton's name on the credit scrawl that Abbie was returning *this season*, for more than a cameo -- I thought Abbie was slated to return *next* season, so this was a delight. Abbie is, I believe, my favorite character that Connie Britton has ever played, which is saying something because I have watched things specifically because she was acting in them!
Spoiler that was in the promo for the finale: I was DELIGHTED by the line drop in the trailer: "I'm looking for my fiancé!"
I started writing...a really long thing about Buck's relationships tied my reaction to the above promo, but it started to get rambly, so I dumped it in notepad to noodle at later for a future post.