I thought that was obvious. I did it for you. - Lex to Lana *sighsigh*

[sarea]

*HUGE, ENORMOUS HUGS* for 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.

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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.

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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.

Comments

[jade-okelani.livejournal.com]

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.

Come on, you've gotta watch next week; next week, Lana's trapped in a GLASS BOX.

Oh, I can't make this stuff up.

[xanderave.livejournal.com]

[rainpuddle13.livejournal.com]

I love you, too. Thank you. *hugs*

[sevenfourteen.livejournal.com]

ok...i could elaborate on this, but i have a presentation in 2 hours *sob*

I totally and absolutely love Peter Pan...I explain why somewhere in my journal, and I adored this movie...I adore the book too...

but then it's the unreal person in me :D the person that loves romantic comedies and romance novels despite their inevitable endings and hardcore cliches...life sucks too much to watch other people's lives be sucky :p

as for Nicholas Sparks..eh...never got interested...so i couldn't tell ya, sorry!

ok enough procrastination for me

*MMMWAH*

[akscully.livejournal.com]

It was totally sexual jealousy. Wendy/Peter 4evah!

[angylinni.livejournal.com]

From the reviews that I saw pre release, the sexual tension is one of the things they were going for, only it wasn't supposed to be between Peter and Wendy, it was supposed to be between Hook and Wendy. I haven't seen it yet, but a lot of people I know that did said they were very disappointed in the movie as a whole.

[kirixchi.livejournal.com]

Oooh, very interesting to hear your thoughts on Peter Pan. Of course, I was watching it for the..uhm....Mr. Smee *innocent halo* but I sort of agree with what you said about Peter/Wendy...I /can/ see the Wendy/Hook thing a tiny bit, esp. the part just after the fairy dancing (which Jess calls "The sex scene"...he gets terribly squicked by "Wendy's Elektra complex" :P)...but it is mostly Wendy/Peter. I LOATHED Tinkerbell. She almost put me off the entire movie.

Anyhow *hugs* glad you semi-liked it :D

-Kiri

[seldon.livejournal.com]

the sexual tension is one of the things they were going for, only it wasn't supposed to be between Peter and Wendy, it was supposed to be between Hook and Wendy.

Ack, ack, ack, ack, ack, ack. That sounds so wrong in so many levels >_

[seldon.livejournal.com]

Word.

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

V. interesting; I had only heard good things about the movie going in. Even pre-release, I saw Peter/Wendy UST (when he's whispering in her ear to come away with him), and that's what initially got me interested... however, while during the course of the movie I definitely saw some spotty moments of almost-UST between Hook/Wendy, it was nowhere as transparent as the Peter/Wendy. Not sure if you ever saw the movie -- but if you did, you'd know they were actively going for Peter/Wendy UST. The entire movie was absolutely suffused w/ it -- that aspect was the heart of the story. Did the people you know want to see Hook/Wendy? Might explain why they were disappointed. <g>

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

*tackles for another hug*

[angylinni.livejournal.com]

No, the whole premise of the USA Today article I read was that they were trying to keep to Barie's original view of the story which was interpreted as being lots of tension and such between Wendy, a girl on the cusp of womanhood and the eternal bad boy Hook.

I haven't seen the movie yet and really want to. I think all of the versions thus far have shied away from the sexual aspects of Peter and Wendy, focusing instead on the childrens theme of never growing up and the like.

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

We will always have Anne/Gil and Wendy/Peter.

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

Hahahahaha, Mr. Smee. I totally saw some bits of Wendy/Hook, but it was v. subtle to the point of almost being nonexistent. I mean, I kind of think I can only see it at all because of fandom teaching me to look for such things. But the story itself was really all Wendy/Peter. I can't recall the fairy dancing ... or at least, I can sort of remember two parts where fairies dance, but can't think how Hook played into it ... mostly I saw the UST when he was threatening her. :D

Dude, I didn't semi-like it; I really liked it. I may have been unclear in how I phrased it, but just because I didn't love it for, um, Mr. Smee, doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it -- I was just captivated by a different part, that's all. <g>

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

I actually rather agree; there's quite a bit of sex and violence (though told in a cartoony way), and I'm not sure it ever really gives a good reason why kids should grow up -- or want to grow up. I mean, after the story's over I don't think, "Wow, growing up is a good thing and I really want to grow up even though Peter doesn't." I'm more of the "I wish Wendy weren't so st00pid and would just stay in Neverland and have fun forever" school of thought. Or if I give in to my shipper instincts, that Peter ought to grow up -- not for his own good, but because he ought to be w/ Wendy and she seems really gung ho about growing up. <g>

[kirixchi.livejournal.com]

Hot, yummy

SMEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[significantowl.livejournal.com]

I'm a little bleh on them both being in love w/ Buffy still

*grins* My s.u. and I are totally going with the interpretation that - they're not. Not really. To us, it was about Angel and Spike being Angel and Spike, which means bickering and fighting for status. And since the champion thing was done in Destiny - Buffy's all that's really left.

And yeah, our interpretation of the text may not be what was intended (who cares?) but then, maybe it was. I mean, honestly. could it have been any gayer?

[sydney-lynne.livejournal.com]

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.

Who are these "most people" you speak of? thena and I are all about the Wendy/Peter.

Anyway.

Oh and word that Nicholas Sparks is preachy. I don't take it seriously though so it doesn't bother me. His "simple style" of writing makes me feel like I'm reading a children's book sometimes because you can just tear through it. I don't know if that's a good or bad thing.

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

I don't know who the "most people" are now! I just remember, when it first came out, seeing a general wave of squeeyness, and most of it was about Jason (who is fantastically funny as a person, but whom I don't really find attractive). Wow, you mean you and I agree on a ship? How odd.

Yeah...and you know, I really don't have anything against simplicity per se. It's just that in his world, everything is always so pat and easy. That's what annoys me the most.

[xanderave.livejournal.com]

[xanderave.livejournal.com]