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Mar. 19th, 2007 01:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vaznettiI should post something, shouldn't I? Consider this a placeholder, like the title says. BH arrived safely, and stayed awake long enough to watch BSG and Rome. I will post about Rome at some later point. Really. For some reason I am kind of sleepy this morning; I'm trying to write reference letters, but they're going slowly.
I think my love for BSG is gone, and along with it my interest in the show. Part of the problem is that it's on late here, and after Rome, but I just have trouble paying attention: I can't seem to care about whatever story they're telling.
But I am really enjoying Primeval, which BH encouraged me to watch. It is awesome, and has dinosaurs and every kind of UST you can imagine and (BH assured me) a cool plot arc. I will have to do some kind of pimping post later this week, because it really does have something for everyone, all wrapped up in a shiny genre package.
I should not be yawning like this, considering how much coffee I've had this morning. Woe!
I think my love for BSG is gone, and along with it my interest in the show. Part of the problem is that it's on late here, and after Rome, but I just have trouble paying attention: I can't seem to care about whatever story they're telling.
But I am really enjoying Primeval, which BH encouraged me to watch. It is awesome, and has dinosaurs and every kind of UST you can imagine and (BH assured me) a cool plot arc. I will have to do some kind of pimping post later this week, because it really does have something for everyone, all wrapped up in a shiny genre package.
I should not be yawning like this, considering how much coffee I've had this morning. Woe!
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Date: 2007-03-19 04:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-19 05:57 pm (UTC)Really, it's just fun.
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Date: 2007-03-19 05:35 pm (UTC)...Oookay, I just went and found Primeval on tv.com, and...really? The Forest of Dean? Pardon me while I snicker. But the clip on the itv site does look fun.
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Date: 2007-03-19 05:59 pm (UTC)The show is really a lot of fun. and thank you! Mmmm... cake.
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Date: 2007-03-19 08:37 pm (UTC)Eventually all the good shows come to Mama, though ;)
Very happy birthday *hugs you and showers you with rose petals*
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Date: 2007-03-19 09:25 pm (UTC)Thank you! ::hugs you back::
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Date: 2007-03-19 09:19 pm (UTC)I can almost guarantee that you will like Primeval even more after episode...3?
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Date: 2007-03-19 09:26 pm (UTC)And thank you!
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Date: 2007-03-19 09:31 pm (UTC)Nick is less Jack than Helen is Irina. Don't know what he sees in the stultifyingly dull Claudia. But Jack/Stephen! Stephen/Helen! Lester/Everybody!!
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Date: 2007-03-19 11:49 pm (UTC)Stephen/Helen!
Oooh. I hadn't thought of that, at least not yet.
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Date: 2007-03-19 09:53 pm (UTC)I can definitely see the Helen Cutter/Irina Derevko parallel. I think it's the first thing I've seen Juliet Aubrey in since Middlemarch, and she's magnificent at doing playfully untrustworthy. You can't help but like her, even though she's clearly Bad News.
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Date: 2007-03-19 11:48 pm (UTC)The dodos were terribly cute.
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Date: 2007-03-19 09:48 pm (UTC)For your birthday I offer up a handful of Stephen pics as a kind of taster for the final episode, which I gather you haven't seen yet. Happy birthday!
I think one of my favourite improbabilities about the giant crocodile episode was the way that Nick Cutter just swam through an anomaly, towing a rope behind him, and the rope remained taut despite spanning a few million years!
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Date: 2007-03-19 11:51 pm (UTC)The whole thing with the rope was amusing, but not quite as amusing as the fact that Helen had clearly been popping back to Tesco to pick up coffee and to Boots for eyeliner.
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Date: 2007-03-20 12:03 am (UTC)And of course Helen's been popping back for supplies whenever she feels like it. She certainly seems to be a lot further along in predicting when and where they're going to than anybody else, though she has of course had eight years in which to formulate a theory, whereas Nick has only had a few months.* So long as she catches an anomaly to somewhere/when that she'd never visited in her previous life as a paleontologist, there won't even be any awkward questions or people reporting sightings back to hubby.
* I do wonder why the paleontologists are in charge of figuring out the anomalies though, even if they're useful for their expertise with the dinosaur invasions. You'd think that they'd have drafted in a physicist or two by now.
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Date: 2007-03-20 12:42 am (UTC)Oh, you and your pesky earth-logic! Don't you know that all forms of science are completely interchangeable? (See under: Dana Scully)
And yes, it took me a while to realize that time traveling was roughly as much trouble for Helen as walking up to the corner store for a candy bar and some milk.
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Date: 2007-03-20 01:39 pm (UTC)And of course it's always an option in later seasons if they need to do any cast reshuffles - wheel in a physicist as a consultant to the team.
Helen clearly watched a lot of Doctor Who as a child, and thus was mentally prepared for time travel from the outset. She probably went into science in order to make sure that when her moment came, she was eminently qualified to be an assistant to the Doctor who was respected in her own right.
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Date: 2007-03-19 10:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-19 11:45 pm (UTC)Who cares? He ran into a dinosaur with a truck! (Running into things with trucks is my new favorite stratagem, ever since the SPN finale.)
I thibnk he has secret manpain. But really, Nick has enough for two.
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Date: 2007-03-20 12:23 am (UTC)* Passionate though depressed supporter of Leeds Utd
* Had his heart broken when he fell in love as a student and has never really got over it
Yep, I guess he's got a sizeable helping of manpain behind that stoic exterior. :-)
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Date: 2007-03-19 11:00 pm (UTC)I'm in the same place you are with regard to BSG, or even a bit more bitter. It makes me sad, but what can you do when a show betrays you so?
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Date: 2007-03-20 01:20 am (UTC)Yeah, I dropped BSG this season. I didn't quite intend to, but...eh.
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Date: 2007-03-20 01:52 am (UTC)I'm still watching, but I can't bring myself to pay attention or to care.
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Date: 2007-03-20 12:51 pm (UTC)Yes, I have the same reaction. It's just that I don't quite understand why anything is happening any more, and don't think the writers know or care either. And I find that my eyes glaze over, a lot.
I missed your birthday! I suck!
Date: 2007-03-20 03:59 pm (UTC)Here's some pretty pretty Victor Mansfield for your delectation.
No, you certainly do not!
Date: 2007-03-21 12:53 am (UTC)And thank you!
Re: No, you certainly do not!
Date: 2007-03-21 01:20 am (UTC)Although I must say the hockey dream was pretty awesome too.