painting... Nip/Tuck...
May. 2nd, 2006 02:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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1) My mom has returned home, which I am both sad and relieved about. I enjoy spending time with her, but I don't think I'm meant to spend 24/7 with anyone unabated. I need my 'me' time ... without interruptions (particularly in the form of nagging and/or guilt trips). It's best if I live about an hour away from my parents, and about 15 min away from friends.
2) I'm going to have my house painted! I'd mentioned that I wanted this done, but that I would wait as it's less important than the lawn ... well, sometimes life has its own plans. My neighbor got their house newly painted, and my mom and I caught the painters one afternoon. They quoted us $1,900 to paint the whole exterior of the house, which I think is pretty reasonable (anyone confirm/deny?). I'll consider it an investment, since I don't like the current colors and it's definitely been awhile since its last paint job. But even more exciting is that one of the painters says he has a relative who might be able to do lawn maintenance for me. W00t! But probably it wouldn't start until after the painting was complete, since that is bound to leave traces no matter how careful they are, and anyway I've waited this long to take care of the grass; what's a few more weeks? I'd also still like to get the house interior painted, but now that is *really* getting to be low priority. They're going to start the process TOMORROW! Eeee!
3) Can't wait till summer's really here and I can have my first BBQ on the deck!
4) I've watched all of S1 of Nip/Tuck, most of S2, and spoiled myself rotten on S3. I love Christian, and I'm really into Christian/Julia, which is why I stopped my DVD marathon after "Julia McNamara." It was v. dissatisfying, the way they resolved it, and from S3's episode synopses, I can see that they don't even revisit the triangle, and Julia and Sean even get a divorce!! WTF. Why nix Julia/Christian if they weren't going to even keep Julia/Sean together??
They could never seem to make up their minds about how they wanted Julia and Sean to work out. Every single freakin' time it would appear to be the end -- "We lost each other a long time ago, Sean" "We haven't been family for a very long time" etc. -- the next episode would have them acting like a normal married couple. But in the end I just hated the way it was resolved, with that stupid 'dream' of Julia's. I hate it when TV shows use the bullshit gimmick of doing a 'what if' episode in order to show why it wouldn't have worked out between a certain couple. It's lazy and self-indulgent. And in this case, doesn't even really WORK. Their point was that Julia needed to find strength within herself. If Christian and Julia had gotten together back then, I would buy that it would have been a disaster, because they hadn't fully grown into the people they are, yet. We see Sean rejecting Julia years later after she's married Christian (though interestingly, he and Megan are apparently the perfect, happy couple, and he refuses to cheat on Megan even though in this life, he totally cheats on Julia with Megan). We *currently* see that Julia/Sean aren't working out (and in S3 get a divorce). But what about this life, exploring Julia/Christian after Julia and Sean have been together?? Why's that being dismissed so easily??? If they're planning to go there later in the series, why wait? They might be canceled! Instead she gets involved with someone else and he's marrying Kimber?! WHAT?! I mean, the dynamic of the trio is what made the show and the characters interesting to me. The possibility of Julia/Christian made it interesting. If there's none of that, I'm just not sure I'm into it enough to keep going.
I like Joely Richardson, but I'm not sure she was really the best choice to play Julia. I like the idea of Julia being homely ... except they don't really portray the character as such. She's got all these men interested in her, after all. And yet, Joely *is* homely. I'm sorry but it's true. I love the idea of Christian, this total asshole playboy who is superficial in every other aspect of life, being in love with his best friend's plain Jane wife. In any case, I hate where they took her character. Initially she seemed to have her own kind of strength, when she was going to school, etc., but then she became this total pathetic ninny wrt Sean and I hated her! Stand up for yourself, jeez. I mean, where did Sean GET OFF in being so righteously upset that Julia had slept w/ Christian 17 years ago (especially since they never bring up the reason that *I* would have been upset about -- the fact that they might not have ever married if not for the fact that she was pregnant), when he had JUST HAD AN AFFAIR HIMSELF!!! Julia never cheated on Sean after they were married, and HE DID!! Yet he barely got punished for that!
I liked Sean/Megan though. And I even like Sean/Kimber. Though, sigh, I've seen that in S3 Christian and Kimber get back together. I like Kimber, especially after she showed up again to have that mini-affair with Sean, but I'm not into her with Christian. And I like Sean, even when he's being an ass, but I love Christian.
The problem is, the way they set up the characters, Sean had nowhere to go but down, and Christian had nowhere to go but up. I despise nearly all of Christian's conquests, however. Especially Grace Santiago (kind of bizarre how she stopped showing up near the end of S1 and then was seemingly forgotten soon after that) and that annoying Gina Russo. I can't stand the actress who plays Gina -- she was the reason I couldn't watch Boston Public -- and the idea that anyone, much less Christian Troy, would stand by a bitch like that and raise some baby that wasn't even theirs is just so lameass. Yeah, yeah, Christian grew as a person, blah blah. He could have grown another way!
And what is with their obsession on this show of getting women pregnant? So soon after the whole Wilbur thing (thank God his biological father took him away, if only because he then got to be named Gabriel instead of Wilbur), Christian offers his sperm up to Liz (who I love) and she accepts and gets pregnant?! And then has an abortion?! WTF. Was that storyline really necessary?????? And of course there was Julia's miscarriage, and apparently she gets pregnant again in S3. O.o
The fact that Matt is Christian's son is a Big Deal, and yet nothing came of it except Julia/Sean angst. We got no reaction from Christian about the revelation, Christian and Matt haven't even had a scene together after the reveal, and Christian and Julia have had no heart to hearts about it. And don't even get me started about how wrong it is that Sean apparently completely forgave Christian, but had to be a total dick to Julia. The worst part about that, of course, is how absolutely pathetic she became when she was trying to win him back. Ugh.
Wow, I've gone on way longer about this than I intended. Shutting up now.
2) I'm going to have my house painted! I'd mentioned that I wanted this done, but that I would wait as it's less important than the lawn ... well, sometimes life has its own plans. My neighbor got their house newly painted, and my mom and I caught the painters one afternoon. They quoted us $1,900 to paint the whole exterior of the house, which I think is pretty reasonable (anyone confirm/deny?). I'll consider it an investment, since I don't like the current colors and it's definitely been awhile since its last paint job. But even more exciting is that one of the painters says he has a relative who might be able to do lawn maintenance for me. W00t! But probably it wouldn't start until after the painting was complete, since that is bound to leave traces no matter how careful they are, and anyway I've waited this long to take care of the grass; what's a few more weeks? I'd also still like to get the house interior painted, but now that is *really* getting to be low priority. They're going to start the process TOMORROW! Eeee!
3) Can't wait till summer's really here and I can have my first BBQ on the deck!
4) I've watched all of S1 of Nip/Tuck, most of S2, and spoiled myself rotten on S3. I love Christian, and I'm really into Christian/Julia, which is why I stopped my DVD marathon after "Julia McNamara." It was v. dissatisfying, the way they resolved it, and from S3's episode synopses, I can see that they don't even revisit the triangle, and Julia and Sean even get a divorce!! WTF. Why nix Julia/Christian if they weren't going to even keep Julia/Sean together??
They could never seem to make up their minds about how they wanted Julia and Sean to work out. Every single freakin' time it would appear to be the end -- "We lost each other a long time ago, Sean" "We haven't been family for a very long time" etc. -- the next episode would have them acting like a normal married couple. But in the end I just hated the way it was resolved, with that stupid 'dream' of Julia's. I hate it when TV shows use the bullshit gimmick of doing a 'what if' episode in order to show why it wouldn't have worked out between a certain couple. It's lazy and self-indulgent. And in this case, doesn't even really WORK. Their point was that Julia needed to find strength within herself. If Christian and Julia had gotten together back then, I would buy that it would have been a disaster, because they hadn't fully grown into the people they are, yet. We see Sean rejecting Julia years later after she's married Christian (though interestingly, he and Megan are apparently the perfect, happy couple, and he refuses to cheat on Megan even though in this life, he totally cheats on Julia with Megan). We *currently* see that Julia/Sean aren't working out (and in S3 get a divorce). But what about this life, exploring Julia/Christian after Julia and Sean have been together?? Why's that being dismissed so easily??? If they're planning to go there later in the series, why wait? They might be canceled! Instead she gets involved with someone else and he's marrying Kimber?! WHAT?! I mean, the dynamic of the trio is what made the show and the characters interesting to me. The possibility of Julia/Christian made it interesting. If there's none of that, I'm just not sure I'm into it enough to keep going.
I like Joely Richardson, but I'm not sure she was really the best choice to play Julia. I like the idea of Julia being homely ... except they don't really portray the character as such. She's got all these men interested in her, after all. And yet, Joely *is* homely. I'm sorry but it's true. I love the idea of Christian, this total asshole playboy who is superficial in every other aspect of life, being in love with his best friend's plain Jane wife. In any case, I hate where they took her character. Initially she seemed to have her own kind of strength, when she was going to school, etc., but then she became this total pathetic ninny wrt Sean and I hated her! Stand up for yourself, jeez. I mean, where did Sean GET OFF in being so righteously upset that Julia had slept w/ Christian 17 years ago (especially since they never bring up the reason that *I* would have been upset about -- the fact that they might not have ever married if not for the fact that she was pregnant), when he had JUST HAD AN AFFAIR HIMSELF!!! Julia never cheated on Sean after they were married, and HE DID!! Yet he barely got punished for that!
I liked Sean/Megan though. And I even like Sean/Kimber. Though, sigh, I've seen that in S3 Christian and Kimber get back together. I like Kimber, especially after she showed up again to have that mini-affair with Sean, but I'm not into her with Christian. And I like Sean, even when he's being an ass, but I love Christian.
The problem is, the way they set up the characters, Sean had nowhere to go but down, and Christian had nowhere to go but up. I despise nearly all of Christian's conquests, however. Especially Grace Santiago (kind of bizarre how she stopped showing up near the end of S1 and then was seemingly forgotten soon after that) and that annoying Gina Russo. I can't stand the actress who plays Gina -- she was the reason I couldn't watch Boston Public -- and the idea that anyone, much less Christian Troy, would stand by a bitch like that and raise some baby that wasn't even theirs is just so lameass. Yeah, yeah, Christian grew as a person, blah blah. He could have grown another way!
And what is with their obsession on this show of getting women pregnant? So soon after the whole Wilbur thing (thank God his biological father took him away, if only because he then got to be named Gabriel instead of Wilbur), Christian offers his sperm up to Liz (who I love) and she accepts and gets pregnant?! And then has an abortion?! WTF. Was that storyline really necessary?????? And of course there was Julia's miscarriage, and apparently she gets pregnant again in S3. O.o
The fact that Matt is Christian's son is a Big Deal, and yet nothing came of it except Julia/Sean angst. We got no reaction from Christian about the revelation, Christian and Matt haven't even had a scene together after the reveal, and Christian and Julia have had no heart to hearts about it. And don't even get me started about how wrong it is that Sean apparently completely forgave Christian, but had to be a total dick to Julia. The worst part about that, of course, is how absolutely pathetic she became when she was trying to win him back. Ugh.
Wow, I've gone on way longer about this than I intended. Shutting up now.
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Date: 2006-05-02 09:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-02 10:22 pm (UTC)I just read that link you posted about the plagiarist ... wow. Why would you DO that. Though what trips me out most I think is the fact that I actually have read the books she plagiarized from. It's like, honey, if you're plagiarizing books *I've* read, you're not trying hard enough.