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Also, a very happy birthday to mygnrationfo, who is 32! His birthday was actually yesterday, but since he had to work and is celebrating today by going to Magic Mountain w/ Jade and Robbie, I'm pretending that I'm not late at all.
I don't think I should have loved this episode, but I did. It wasn't actually very good, and Julie Benz and Juliet Landau were wasted (well, not wasted, but I would have liked to have seen a lot more of them than we did), but I LOL'ed throughout, and there's not a lot of entertainment you can say that about.
The funniest thing was that it was penned by Goddard and DeKnight, so while watching Angel and Spike banter (OMG <333 them bantering), I was really just picturing Goddard and DeKnight. They're so Mary Joes. I so dug the way Spike and Angel alternately were at odds and then supported one another. Particularly when they had a common enemy. *laughs to think of Spike insisting that nuns are Angel's thing* *and also, "My girl. Er...our girl."* So wrong. Yet so right.
I don't know; what can I say? I'm a little bleh on them both being in love w/ Buffy still, simply because that triangle has never interested me that much (it makes me feel icky!), and also because when Buffy's not on screen (and sometimes, even when she is), I revert back to not liking her v. much. And definitely not understanding why both of these hotties are so into her. However, this was an ep that I was as close to shipping them as a trio as I've ever been. (And I had to laugh at Angel sulking about waiting for Buffy to bake, and that the Immortal is getting to eat cookie dough.) Though that Buffy double was such a terrible double.
So who is this Immortal dude? Have we heard of him before this? What's with this "walks the line of good and evil" business? And why is Buffy sucked into yet another man like this? You know, the more she does this, the more annoyed I would be if I were a B/A shipper, because now it's not like she has true love w/ Angel ... it's more that she's attracted to a type. In fact, they kind of go through this a bit, when Angel and Spike are grousing about what she could possibly see in this Immortal dude, only to realize that it sounds exactly like them. (I wonder if Buffy listens to Evanescence and "My Immortal" comes on, and she sighs and is like, "That's my man." I bet it's exactly like that.)
Short though it was, I completely dug the scene w/ the Evil Foursome. I adore them. Angel/Darla is the BEST. (Though if they had done Angel/Cordy right, I would have said that was the best.) Plus I love being given backstory on them. I was shocked to hear that Darla and Dru had never let Spike or Angel sleep w/ them concurrently ... bet that disappointed dozens of fanfic writers all across fandom.
The whole thing w/ Fred's parents, I'm afraid, bored me. It was worse than my usual indifference to Ilyria. It was predictable. The moment they showed up I just knew Ilyria was going to find some way to be Fred, Wes was going to angst out, blah blah blah. I like/am impressed w/ Amy Acker -- particularly when she switches back and forth, but I really have no interest in watching her be Ilyria pretending to be Fred, and then finding out that she really likes being Fred, and Wes falls in love w/ her all over again, etc. yawn boring. And now her poor parents don't even know she's dead.
Can I just say that I am unspeakably bitter at the whole Nina thing? Well I am. Dating her MY ASS. I mean, Angel is clearly not in love with her, he's completely over the moon re: Buffy, but that just somehow makes it worse. Angel is NOT a casual dater. I hate seeing him that way.
Wait, so did that bomb explode? In which case, why aren't Angel and Spike dust? Grrr. Though the thing re: Spike's duster was pretty good. :D
I liked the Italian CEO lady. It looked like the front part of her breasts was all padding so that she could look like she had a huge rack, but she was entertaining nevertheless.
Andrew! I love seeing Andrew, even if he, too, was wasted in this ep.
I really like imagining Buffy and Dawn and the rest of them in Europe. How much fun would that be? It's exactly the kind of thing I'd love to do, particularly if I could afford an apartment as nice as theirs.
And I finally saw Peter Pan. I didn't love it for the same reason everyone else loved it, but I enjoyed it very much all the same. Most people like it for Jason Isaacs, who is, of course, great. But I don't bear a great and t00by love for him, so he alone wouldn't have done it for me.
What did it for me was the enormous Wendy/Peter UST there was!!! I've never really been into Peter Pan, because none of the things I want to see happen ever really happen. First, I'm a total Wendy/Peter shipper, and it's completely hopeless to ship them. Sometimes they're portrayed as being USTy, but nothing can ever come of it, and anyway they're kids, blah blah. Plus Peter's never been v. attractive in any of the incarnations I've seen. I mean, he's a bit too prancey, you know?
And while this Peter wasn't exactly hot, he was attractive enough ... and most importantly, he had good chemistry w/ Wendy and I could certainly believe that they found each other attractive, which is good enough. And that's saying something for the girl, because I did not like the look of her in the previews at all, and seeing her at the beginning of the movie brought it all back. But I liked her by the end.
Random note: How gorgeous is Olivia Williams?
But it was so wonderfully USTy, and twu wuvy, and ... everything that I ever want to see in a version of Peter Pan. The only problem is, of course, that I don't understand at ALL why this Peter would choose to stay in Neverland. If that's the case, why do all this subtext re: feelings, and Wendy's kiss, and most significantly, her accurate assessment -- at least, we have to assume it's accurate, or it's dramatically useless -- that he keeps telling himself he wants to stay a boy, but it's his "greatest pretend of all." I just couldn't understand -- or buy -- that this Peter, by the end of it, wouldn't choose to return, especially for his Wendy.
I've never read the book (though I've started it a few times), but I don't remember a point where the Lost Boys are calling Wendy their mum and Peter's their dad. Again w/ the wrong USTiness, considering their ages ... but I don't care. For a second I considered writing Wendy/Peter NC-17, but the urge seems to have passed.
I could have done w/o the chanting of believing in fairies to bring Tinkerbell back. The one good thing she ever did was drink that poison for him. (Tinkerbell is always jealous of Wendy ... it's always seemed "obvious" to me that it's a sexual jealousy, but maybe I'm just too into Wendy/Peter and see things to support that as much as possible.)
The flying was a bit lame-looking, and none of the kids were really all too convincing w/ their swords. I really liked John -- he reminded me of Harry Potter w/o the scar. <g> So watching Lucius Malfoy hug him was a bit surreal. Heehee.
I am nearly done w/ The Wedding, and it is not nearly the GP read I thought it was going to be. Nicholas Sparks's writing is just painful. He's so preachy and simplistic and ... blah. I don't know how someone who writes so terribly can be this successful. It's either depressing or hopeful, depending on how you look at it.
OMG there is Lex/Lana afoot on Smallville. I never watch it any more, but Jade transcribes the L/L stuff for me when/if it happens. Is rather nice, actually. May have to tune in for the finale.
rainpuddle13. I love you!! Am constantly thinking of you.Also, a very happy birthday to my
gnrationfo, who is 32! His birthday was actually yesterday, but since he had to work and is celebrating today by going to Magic Mountain w/ Jade and Robbie, I'm pretending that I'm not late at all.I don't think I should have loved this episode, but I did. It wasn't actually very good, and Julie Benz and Juliet Landau were wasted (well, not wasted, but I would have liked to have seen a lot more of them than we did), but I LOL'ed throughout, and there's not a lot of entertainment you can say that about.
The funniest thing was that it was penned by Goddard and DeKnight, so while watching Angel and Spike banter (OMG <333 them bantering), I was really just picturing Goddard and DeKnight. They're so Mary Joes. I so dug the way Spike and Angel alternately were at odds and then supported one another. Particularly when they had a common enemy. *laughs to think of Spike insisting that nuns are Angel's thing* *and also, "My girl. Er...our girl."* So wrong. Yet so right.
I don't know; what can I say? I'm a little bleh on them both being in love w/ Buffy still, simply because that triangle has never interested me that much (it makes me feel icky!), and also because when Buffy's not on screen (and sometimes, even when she is), I revert back to not liking her v. much. And definitely not understanding why both of these hotties are so into her. However, this was an ep that I was as close to shipping them as a trio as I've ever been. (And I had to laugh at Angel sulking about waiting for Buffy to bake, and that the Immortal is getting to eat cookie dough.) Though that Buffy double was such a terrible double.
So who is this Immortal dude? Have we heard of him before this? What's with this "walks the line of good and evil" business? And why is Buffy sucked into yet another man like this? You know, the more she does this, the more annoyed I would be if I were a B/A shipper, because now it's not like she has true love w/ Angel ... it's more that she's attracted to a type. In fact, they kind of go through this a bit, when Angel and Spike are grousing about what she could possibly see in this Immortal dude, only to realize that it sounds exactly like them. (I wonder if Buffy listens to Evanescence and "My Immortal" comes on, and she sighs and is like, "That's my man." I bet it's exactly like that.)
Short though it was, I completely dug the scene w/ the Evil Foursome. I adore them. Angel/Darla is the BEST. (Though if they had done Angel/Cordy right, I would have said that was the best.) Plus I love being given backstory on them. I was shocked to hear that Darla and Dru had never let Spike or Angel sleep w/ them concurrently ... bet that disappointed dozens of fanfic writers all across fandom.
The whole thing w/ Fred's parents, I'm afraid, bored me. It was worse than my usual indifference to Ilyria. It was predictable. The moment they showed up I just knew Ilyria was going to find some way to be Fred, Wes was going to angst out, blah blah blah. I like/am impressed w/ Amy Acker -- particularly when she switches back and forth, but I really have no interest in watching her be Ilyria pretending to be Fred, and then finding out that she really likes being Fred, and Wes falls in love w/ her all over again, etc. yawn boring. And now her poor parents don't even know she's dead.
Can I just say that I am unspeakably bitter at the whole Nina thing? Well I am. Dating her MY ASS. I mean, Angel is clearly not in love with her, he's completely over the moon re: Buffy, but that just somehow makes it worse. Angel is NOT a casual dater. I hate seeing him that way.
Wait, so did that bomb explode? In which case, why aren't Angel and Spike dust? Grrr. Though the thing re: Spike's duster was pretty good. :D
I liked the Italian CEO lady. It looked like the front part of her breasts was all padding so that she could look like she had a huge rack, but she was entertaining nevertheless.
Andrew! I love seeing Andrew, even if he, too, was wasted in this ep.
I really like imagining Buffy and Dawn and the rest of them in Europe. How much fun would that be? It's exactly the kind of thing I'd love to do, particularly if I could afford an apartment as nice as theirs.
And I finally saw Peter Pan. I didn't love it for the same reason everyone else loved it, but I enjoyed it very much all the same. Most people like it for Jason Isaacs, who is, of course, great. But I don't bear a great and t00by love for him, so he alone wouldn't have done it for me.
What did it for me was the enormous Wendy/Peter UST there was!!! I've never really been into Peter Pan, because none of the things I want to see happen ever really happen. First, I'm a total Wendy/Peter shipper, and it's completely hopeless to ship them. Sometimes they're portrayed as being USTy, but nothing can ever come of it, and anyway they're kids, blah blah. Plus Peter's never been v. attractive in any of the incarnations I've seen. I mean, he's a bit too prancey, you know?
And while this Peter wasn't exactly hot, he was attractive enough ... and most importantly, he had good chemistry w/ Wendy and I could certainly believe that they found each other attractive, which is good enough. And that's saying something for the girl, because I did not like the look of her in the previews at all, and seeing her at the beginning of the movie brought it all back. But I liked her by the end.
Random note: How gorgeous is Olivia Williams?
But it was so wonderfully USTy, and twu wuvy, and ... everything that I ever want to see in a version of Peter Pan. The only problem is, of course, that I don't understand at ALL why this Peter would choose to stay in Neverland. If that's the case, why do all this subtext re: feelings, and Wendy's kiss, and most significantly, her accurate assessment -- at least, we have to assume it's accurate, or it's dramatically useless -- that he keeps telling himself he wants to stay a boy, but it's his "greatest pretend of all." I just couldn't understand -- or buy -- that this Peter, by the end of it, wouldn't choose to return, especially for his Wendy.
I've never read the book (though I've started it a few times), but I don't remember a point where the Lost Boys are calling Wendy their mum and Peter's their dad. Again w/ the wrong USTiness, considering their ages ... but I don't care. For a second I considered writing Wendy/Peter NC-17, but the urge seems to have passed.
I could have done w/o the chanting of believing in fairies to bring Tinkerbell back. The one good thing she ever did was drink that poison for him. (Tinkerbell is always jealous of Wendy ... it's always seemed "obvious" to me that it's a sexual jealousy, but maybe I'm just too into Wendy/Peter and see things to support that as much as possible.)
The flying was a bit lame-looking, and none of the kids were really all too convincing w/ their swords. I really liked John -- he reminded me of Harry Potter w/o the scar. <g> So watching Lucius Malfoy hug him was a bit surreal. Heehee.
I am nearly done w/ The Wedding, and it is not nearly the GP read I thought it was going to be. Nicholas Sparks's writing is just painful. He's so preachy and simplistic and ... blah. I don't know how someone who writes so terribly can be this successful. It's either depressing or hopeful, depending on how you look at it.
OMG there is Lex/Lana afoot on Smallville. I never watch it any more, but Jade transcribes the L/L stuff for me when/if it happens. Is rather nice, actually. May have to tune in for the finale.
