Brace for impact!
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lotus0kidI love those doppler radar images you see on the weather report of storms coming up from the south, it looks like an enormous green amoeba is about to engulf the east coast. Look out!
That's pretty much the only good thing about the apparently horrendous snow storm breathing down Maryland's neck. I was really super going to go Christmas shopping on Saturday- now it'll have to wait until probably Tuesday after work (can't miss Monday's re-watch, of course). And then there's the appointment I made to get a photo portrait done for my dad's gift. I've already had to reschedule it for Saturday because my mom's dragging me out to the BSO on Sunday... Though, I wonder if the storm's put that in jeopardy too. Oy. Snow? Seriously, crappy timing.
Anyway, other stuff. TV! I finally sat down and watched two of the recent Doctor Who specials, "The New Doctor" and "Planet of the Dead." You know, I hate to say it, but I may be pretty much done with Doctor Who. Those two episodes were okay, but they really didn't thrill me like earlier ones have, and ending each one with "THE DOCTOR IS SOOOOOOOOOO LONELYYYYYYY! DDDX" got old really fast. So, you know, I'm interested enough to check out the first of Eleven's episodes, and whatever episode it is with John Simm and Timothy Dalton, but if they don't get the job done, that'll be about it for me.
OTOH, Syfy's Alice was really something special, I think. Surreal but still grounded, well-acted and nicely textured and cinematic. Hatter's awesome, as is Charlie, and Alice herself, though sometimes you could pick up on Catarina Scorsone's inexperience. I love that she's a black belt, but they didn't have her doing all kinds of ridiculous martial arts moves at every opportunity. Honestly, 90% of the time the moves she did seemed very realistic for someone who, despite having the knowledge, gained that knowledge in a classroom and not while actually protecting themselves from harm. So, points for that. And Alice/Hatter is adorable, there I said it.
That's pretty much the only good thing about the apparently horrendous snow storm breathing down Maryland's neck. I was really super going to go Christmas shopping on Saturday- now it'll have to wait until probably Tuesday after work (can't miss Monday's re-watch, of course). And then there's the appointment I made to get a photo portrait done for my dad's gift. I've already had to reschedule it for Saturday because my mom's dragging me out to the BSO on Sunday... Though, I wonder if the storm's put that in jeopardy too. Oy. Snow? Seriously, crappy timing.
Anyway, other stuff. TV! I finally sat down and watched two of the recent Doctor Who specials, "The New Doctor" and "Planet of the Dead." You know, I hate to say it, but I may be pretty much done with Doctor Who. Those two episodes were okay, but they really didn't thrill me like earlier ones have, and ending each one with "THE DOCTOR IS SOOOOOOOOOO LONELYYYYYYY! DDDX" got old really fast. So, you know, I'm interested enough to check out the first of Eleven's episodes, and whatever episode it is with John Simm and Timothy Dalton, but if they don't get the job done, that'll be about it for me.
OTOH, Syfy's Alice was really something special, I think. Surreal but still grounded, well-acted and nicely textured and cinematic. Hatter's awesome, as is Charlie, and Alice herself, though sometimes you could pick up on Catarina Scorsone's inexperience. I love that she's a black belt, but they didn't have her doing all kinds of ridiculous martial arts moves at every opportunity. Honestly, 90% of the time the moves she did seemed very realistic for someone who, despite having the knowledge, gained that knowledge in a classroom and not while actually protecting themselves from harm. So, points for that. And Alice/Hatter is adorable, there I said it.
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Date: 2009-12-19 04:39 pm (UTC)Oh yeah, commentaries! I will definitely order the DVDs at least. I'm not sure if we even sell them.
Especially since they were so cute in this episode before that. With the champagne in paper cups and the letting him run away.
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Date: 2009-12-19 04:46 pm (UTC)I'm surprised you didn't have it already, TBH. Tsk tsk.
Definitely. I'm trying not to come up with too many good, plausible reasons why Peter knows Kate, because Heroes has taught me anything I come up with will not happen.
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Date: 2009-12-19 04:51 pm (UTC)*laughs* Well, I had it reserved when it went up on Amazon but then I...never quite got around to purchasing it. Since I had the iTunes versions and...everything.
I think my favorite theory was that it's Peter's identical evil twin, Jeter, pretending to be him.
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Date: 2009-12-19 04:56 pm (UTC)We-ell, you better fix that quick. You're letting the side down, you know.
Hee, that would be pretty awesome.
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Date: 2009-12-19 05:03 pm (UTC)I'm so ashamed. *hangs head*
*laughs* I kind of want to see Jeter Burke running around doing Evil Things Evilly with his Ring of Evil.
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Date: 2009-12-19 05:11 pm (UTC)Well, there's an easy way to fix that.
Same here. As cracktastic as it would be. Think of the Jeter/Neal fanfic!
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Date: 2009-12-19 05:18 pm (UTC)Well, I've ordered it!
Hee. Followed by the Peter/Neal angst!
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Date: 2009-12-19 05:52 pm (UTC)It's pretty bad here too. Easily over a foot now and showing no signs of stopping, or even slowing.
Good!
Buckets of the stuff. Poor Neal, he thought he wanted a bad boy Peter, but in truth he really wanted the snuggly FBI Boy Scout (and his hot wife).