It's happening...
Sep. 2nd, 2016 02:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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My soapmaking books have arrived and I've ordered some (hella expensive) molds. I'll need to get soapmaking equipment next, so a trip to Goodwill this weekend is on the docket. (And some supplies have already been ordered on Amazon.) Eeee! This will be SO FUN! And only slightly dangerous! Right now, I love the idea of making the soap more than the idea of using the soap. Which is often true of my cooking projects, too. I'm such an unrepentant hobbyist, and yet I never really do anything with the hobby other than just have fun with it (which is OK, I guess). Though I love the idea of having a little soap business! It seems far more viable than a baking business, primarily because the goods are far less perishable. I guess I better slow my roll here, as I haven't even made a single batch of soap yet! LOL. I'm a planner! *dreams of selling handmade soap in my escape room/Salt & Straw location/poke bar*
I've been slowly catching up on Orphan Black.
- Wow, they finally killed Paul. Or at least, I assume he's dead. He was shot and then blown up, but I guess we didn't actually see his charred remains or anything. I can't say I'm sorry. I never really liked him all that much, he was a vaguely good/sinister character, and nothing involving him made that much sense.
- I am, however, sorry that Rudy is gone. He was so cray cray, yet a) he was distinguishable from the other Castor boys due to his scar; and b) he seemed the most unique of the Castor clones -- meaning, if someone told me to write a fanfic about the Castor clones, he'd be the easiest to do, as he's so distinct. Anyway, part of what made him interesting was that he was so devoted to his brothers and "mother" despite his sociopathic tendencies.
- I keep waffling on Gracie. I want to like her, because she was raised by nutjobs and she's only a young girl. But then she keeps doing things that are so very annoying, like splitting back to her crazy family when she found out Mark was a clone.
- OHMYGOD COSIMA'S LOVE LIFE IS SO BORING. I swear to god, I want to be interested in it because same-sex relationships are so poorly done on TV... but this is not helping the cause. She's fucking SICK and her sister is MISSING and there's so much shit going down, and yet she's going on blind dates?!?! WHO FUCKING CARES OMG. There are MORE IMPORTANT THINGS THAN DATING. Jesus Christ. And then it doesn't help that every single person she's ever been interested in -- Delphine and now this new girl -- is so obviously a plant. Or could be a plant, to the point where if you were her, would you risk it?! She's such a smart girl and yet in this she is so stupid.
- Is this all to create angst for her and Delphine? Because while Delphine is slightly more interesting now, she's not actually around enough to truly get me excited about her presence. And anyway I'm not sure that I really understand her reasoning for breaking up for Cosima. It's so that she can love all of Cosima's sisters, ostensibly, but I have no idea what that means.
- I'm glad Helena went back for Sarah. I was really disappointed that she left her there in the first place. Even if you're mad at your twin, you don't leave them to rot in the hands of those assholes. And of course, we know that Sarah didn't even do what Helena thinks she did. Also, despite everything she's done, in some ways Helena is the most innocent/idealistic of them all.
- I am Donnie's anti-fan. He's more tolerable than Paul, but only slightly. I do not get why Alison would have married him.
Okay, have now finished out S3.
- Other than what happened to Delphine at the end and Rachel being reunited with her mother, this would have made a good series finale. They seemed to resolve everything (to most people's satisfaction, anyway), and Sarah was reunited with Kira. But of course, there's two more seasons to go...
- I've enjoyed the show, and I've REALLY enjoyed Tatiana Maslany, but I'm just not sure how much I'm looking forward to the next two seasons. I feel like most of the storyline is played out, so unless they introduce something incredibly compelling, I feel like there's no point dragging it out.
- Is this the end of Ari Millen? The bitch doctor and the other clones are dead, and Mark will ostensibly be cured because of the Castor original, so he can just ride off into the sunset with Gracie... right?
- And if he's cured, that means Cosima and the other clones who harbor the same genetic weakness (though conveniently, none of the ones we know other than her ever came down with it) will be cured as well... right?
- What ever happened to the clone who was transsexual?
- This reminds me of something I've been meaning to bring up... how are the clones so different, anyway? I could understand if they were multiples, but they're clones. Doesn't that mean they should be identical? And sure, I'll even account for nurture vs nature. But shouldn't they all be gay, or all be trans, or all be het? If they're CLONES, and sexuality isn't a choice, then... their sexual preferences, in theory, should all be the same. Right???
- I wish I gave more of a fuck what the deal is with Rachel and her long-lost mother, but I don't.
- I really liked the new clone, Crystal. I hope she gets to find out what's going on, despite how she feels about twins, because she was keeping that little notebook and everything of her investigations. Plus, of course, she woke up at Dyad.
- Just when I finally gave a shit about Delphine, they go and kill her. Of course, she was dying and not dead when we last saw her, so I suppose she could pull through, the way bitch doctor and Rudy did, but who shot her and why?? I'm not really sure I understood Delphine's arc at all, why she ended up having to be Rachel, and how she did it so well, and WHY she did it so well, etc.
- I really liked the final scene between Rudy and Helena. I wish they could have made something of the brother/sister connection between the clones, even though that's not exactly what they were, but oh well.
- I also liked the relationship that developed between Helena and Donnie. I don't want them to be together or anything, but I like seeing Helena care about people.
- Where are they going with Helena's pregnancy? I wish I could be more supportive of it, but considering she was forcibly impregnated with that creepy religious zealot's embryos, I sort of hope all the embryos just disappear and she can get preggers with Jesse if that's what she wants.
I've been slowly catching up on Orphan Black.
- Wow, they finally killed Paul. Or at least, I assume he's dead. He was shot and then blown up, but I guess we didn't actually see his charred remains or anything. I can't say I'm sorry. I never really liked him all that much, he was a vaguely good/sinister character, and nothing involving him made that much sense.
- I am, however, sorry that Rudy is gone. He was so cray cray, yet a) he was distinguishable from the other Castor boys due to his scar; and b) he seemed the most unique of the Castor clones -- meaning, if someone told me to write a fanfic about the Castor clones, he'd be the easiest to do, as he's so distinct. Anyway, part of what made him interesting was that he was so devoted to his brothers and "mother" despite his sociopathic tendencies.
- I keep waffling on Gracie. I want to like her, because she was raised by nutjobs and she's only a young girl. But then she keeps doing things that are so very annoying, like splitting back to her crazy family when she found out Mark was a clone.
- OHMYGOD COSIMA'S LOVE LIFE IS SO BORING. I swear to god, I want to be interested in it because same-sex relationships are so poorly done on TV... but this is not helping the cause. She's fucking SICK and her sister is MISSING and there's so much shit going down, and yet she's going on blind dates?!?! WHO FUCKING CARES OMG. There are MORE IMPORTANT THINGS THAN DATING. Jesus Christ. And then it doesn't help that every single person she's ever been interested in -- Delphine and now this new girl -- is so obviously a plant. Or could be a plant, to the point where if you were her, would you risk it?! She's such a smart girl and yet in this she is so stupid.
- Is this all to create angst for her and Delphine? Because while Delphine is slightly more interesting now, she's not actually around enough to truly get me excited about her presence. And anyway I'm not sure that I really understand her reasoning for breaking up for Cosima. It's so that she can love all of Cosima's sisters, ostensibly, but I have no idea what that means.
- I'm glad Helena went back for Sarah. I was really disappointed that she left her there in the first place. Even if you're mad at your twin, you don't leave them to rot in the hands of those assholes. And of course, we know that Sarah didn't even do what Helena thinks she did. Also, despite everything she's done, in some ways Helena is the most innocent/idealistic of them all.
- I am Donnie's anti-fan. He's more tolerable than Paul, but only slightly. I do not get why Alison would have married him.
Okay, have now finished out S3.
- Other than what happened to Delphine at the end and Rachel being reunited with her mother, this would have made a good series finale. They seemed to resolve everything (to most people's satisfaction, anyway), and Sarah was reunited with Kira. But of course, there's two more seasons to go...
- I've enjoyed the show, and I've REALLY enjoyed Tatiana Maslany, but I'm just not sure how much I'm looking forward to the next two seasons. I feel like most of the storyline is played out, so unless they introduce something incredibly compelling, I feel like there's no point dragging it out.
- Is this the end of Ari Millen? The bitch doctor and the other clones are dead, and Mark will ostensibly be cured because of the Castor original, so he can just ride off into the sunset with Gracie... right?
- And if he's cured, that means Cosima and the other clones who harbor the same genetic weakness (though conveniently, none of the ones we know other than her ever came down with it) will be cured as well... right?
- What ever happened to the clone who was transsexual?
- This reminds me of something I've been meaning to bring up... how are the clones so different, anyway? I could understand if they were multiples, but they're clones. Doesn't that mean they should be identical? And sure, I'll even account for nurture vs nature. But shouldn't they all be gay, or all be trans, or all be het? If they're CLONES, and sexuality isn't a choice, then... their sexual preferences, in theory, should all be the same. Right???
- I wish I gave more of a fuck what the deal is with Rachel and her long-lost mother, but I don't.
- I really liked the new clone, Crystal. I hope she gets to find out what's going on, despite how she feels about twins, because she was keeping that little notebook and everything of her investigations. Plus, of course, she woke up at Dyad.
- Just when I finally gave a shit about Delphine, they go and kill her. Of course, she was dying and not dead when we last saw her, so I suppose she could pull through, the way bitch doctor and Rudy did, but who shot her and why?? I'm not really sure I understood Delphine's arc at all, why she ended up having to be Rachel, and how she did it so well, and WHY she did it so well, etc.
- I really liked the final scene between Rudy and Helena. I wish they could have made something of the brother/sister connection between the clones, even though that's not exactly what they were, but oh well.
- I also liked the relationship that developed between Helena and Donnie. I don't want them to be together or anything, but I like seeing Helena care about people.
- Where are they going with Helena's pregnancy? I wish I could be more supportive of it, but considering she was forcibly impregnated with that creepy religious zealot's embryos, I sort of hope all the embryos just disappear and she can get preggers with Jesse if that's what she wants.
