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My carefully considered thoughts on last night's Life: ( Life 2x02, Everything... All the Time )Oh, also, I'll do this meme everybody's doing: Comment to this post with a subject for a top 5 (ships, songs, movies, characters, whatever, etc.) you would like to see me post, and I will reply in a post sometime in the imminent future. Ask as for as many as you'd like.Tags: episode commentary, life
Current Music: that familiar roaring in my ears
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Very late reaction posts! Shut up, I've been busy. ( The Office Premiere )Life! This is my new favorite show, guys. Or, tied for my favorite. This week and next week there are new episodes on Monday night and Friday night, before it settles down on Friday, and you all need to watch it because you are missing OUT and because also if it gets cancelled I will cry. Here are some awesome things about it: 1) The premise. It's about a cop who was in prison for 12 years for a triple murder he didn't commit, but DNA evidence exonerated him, so now he's rich due to his settlement, and back on the police force, and also tracking down the real killer and the people who framed him. He is a giant ball of rage who tries to use Zen to keep himself in check, but is mostly unsuccessful. And weirdly, even though that premise should be dark, it's a very funny and joyful and light kind of show, where the characters are messed up but are dealing and managing to be happy quite a bit. Because when you've just gotten out of prison after 12 years, you're going to be pretty happy about that regardless of other issues. Gooooood times. 2) The characters are really complex and layered, and the acting is excellent. Even though it's structured like a procedural, the characters are really the center of the show, and they're written really well. 3) It's extremely, extremely pretty. Really stylized and beautifully shot, set in LA with the city another character, it's bright colors and gorgeous to look at. ( ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) _jems_ put it in her top five prettiest TV seasons, and you should check out her caps of it, because they're prettier than I can do, haha.) 4) They use music really nicely. I'm usually sort of opposed to TV shows over-using music, because after 30000000 maudlin Grey's Anatomy closing montages, I feel like it's pretty lazy writing. (One time, I found a montage of montages, where someone had pieced together all the TV closing maudlin montages to covers of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" and it was like the funniest thing ever.) But Life doesn't tend to use music to be maudlin, but to be clever or even make visual jokes, and it all ties into the show really well. 5) Damian Lewis's hair. It's very red. WHAT, I HAVE AN ILLNESS. 6) Charlie Crews is maybe as close to being my One True TV Character as anyone has ever come. Which is a little disturbing to me, due to how he's CRAZY, but what can you do. I just love him is all. Also, he eats a lot of fruit which always makes me want to eat fruit, so... due to this show I will never get scurvy. 7) There are many strong and complex female characters, which is a nice change of pace, TELEVISION. 8) Both the cop partners totally sleep around a lot, which is a nice change of pace from most procedural shows where everybody is a monk and married to their work. ( Aaaaand spoilers for the premiere )Tags: episode commentary, life, the office (us)
Current Mood:  hungry
Current Music: I'm a Lady, Santogold
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So I'm going to go ahead and call it: Worst Emmys Ever?????? Eight words: "Josh Groban performs 30 classic TV theme songs." And I can't believe that was EVEN WORSE THAN IT SOUNDS LIKE IT'S GOING TO BE. Literally the only good part was Ricky Gervais talking about THE ONLY GOOD PART FROM LAST YEAR. Emmys, you are eating your own tail. Well, okay, it was also funny when Heidi Klum called David Boreanaz's show "The Bones." I'm not going to lie to you, that is canonically what I am going to call that show from here on out. God, and I thought last year's Emmys were bad. moireach just emailed me and said, " The summer after she turned 16, Ninotchka "Nina" Garcia found herself in the crossfire of a mafia shoot-out. [ source] Doesn't that sound like the first line of a fic from an amazing alternate universe where there's a huge HP-esque Project Runway fandom?" YES, YES IT DOES. It makes me want a series of hypothetical first lines of fic from small fandoms, if the fandoms were HP-esque. -- The morning Barnabas "Barney" Stinson woke up to find himself a woman was in all other respects completely average. -- No one knows what Pam Beesly once was, and that's the way she likes it and that's why she's so displeased when the ghost of Michael Scott shows up in her closet on Tuesday. -- The worst thing about being a vampire, Liz Lemon discovers, is that sandwiches have lost their taste. -- If there's one thing that Dick Winters didn't anticipate, it was the black hole in his back 40. NOW YOU PLAY. Moving on: SEASON TWO OF LIFE PREMIERES ON HULU TODAY. You guys should go watch it, it is an AWESOME SHOW in general, and I'm super psyched for season 2. In conclusion, wow, I did not know that Stephen Colbert and Jason Jones are so comfortable with each other's personal space.Tags: emmys, first lines, small fandoms
Current Mood:  disappointed
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You guys, I have to be the videographer at a friend's wedding tomorrow (it is a very informal and last-minute wedding, but even so), and I am a LITTLE STRESSED about it. The bride works in TV! And even though they told me ten times that they don't care about the wedding video, I am still a human, and with this insider knowledge I know that humans care about wedding videos regardless of the tricksy polite lies they tell. Ahhhhhhhhh wish me luck ahhhhhh. In other video-related news, it is really hard to quit vidding once you get decent software, and when there are pretty pictures of sexy soldiers to be had. I-I do wish I hadn't stayed up so late finishing it, but WHATEVS. Anyway, here is a Band of Brothers vid, to Josh Pyke's "Memories and Dust." It's ensemble-y, with a Winters focus, a-and some Winters/Nixon. What, I'm not made of stone, you guys. Be thankful it's not a Jonas Brothers vid. If for some reason the embed doesn't work, it's also streaming on imeem and youtube. And if you'd like to download a higher quality file, right-click and save-as. Tags: band of brothers, vid: bob
Current Mood:  we're blowing through naptime
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I think I've mentioned that me and agate (and lately pennylane83) have spent the spring and summer marathoning, oh, everything Damian Lewis has ever been in. I don't know, he has red hair and he's intense and I am more obsessed with him than I think I ever have been with any actor, even when I was 14. So... I don't know what that's about, except hitting puberty at my late age is weird and off-putting, & I don't know what's happening to my changing body, etc. Anyway, here are brief reviews and picspams of the first half of the many (mostly terrible) things that I've watched in the course of said marathon (except for Life, about which a post is forthcoming, and Band of Brothers which I already posted about): ( The Forsyte Saga )( Much Ado about Nothing )( Chromophobia )( Keane )( Friends and Crocodiles )( The Situation )OKAY, I THINK THAT'S ENOUGH FOR TODAY. Tags: damian lewis
Current Mood:  why isn't "shamed" a mood?
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"Now it is common knowledge that cowards and brave men are born in all places. However, nation surpasses nation in warfare, and climate exerts an enormous influence on the strength of minds and bodies. In this connexion let us not omit what has won the approval of the most learned men. They tell us that all peoples that are near the sun, being parched by great heat, are more intelligent but have less blood, and therefore lack steadiness and confidence to fight at close quarters, because those who are conscious of having less blood are afraid of wounds. On the other hand the peoples of the north, remote from the sun's heat, are less intelligent, but having a superabundance of blood are readiest for wars. Recruits should therefore be raised from the more temperate climes. The plenteousness of their blood supplies a contempt for wounds and death, and intelligence cannot be lacking either which preserves discipline in camp and is of no little assistance with counsel in battle." -- Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Epitoma Rei Militaris (late 4th or early 5th century C.E.) Tags: history
Current Mood:  amused
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You know, it's weird, but sometimes for certain fandoms I enjoy badfic more than mediocre fic. I mean, it's always when I'm at a place in my fandom love where my imagination is doing the lion's share of the work in any fic I read, so the quality of the prose doesn't matter so much, but still. I think it's because badfic just GOES FOR whatever wretch fic trope that the 13-year-old girl inside you loves, whereas mediocre fic is actually trying to be good and therefore usually just succeeds in being kind of boring. It's also weird when you've been in fandom long enough that your likes and dislikes are completely predictable to you. Like, I know that best friend and/or partner 'ships are always going to be the ones I love, and that if people share food or drink my heart will literally explode, and I like people sitting too close to each other and having quiet longing and inappropriate intimacy. Like, the other month I was watching Two Weeks Notice, which is fine, whatever, but then the characters just SHARE FOOD without commenting on it, total assumed intimacy and I was suddenly SO INTO the movie it was embarrassing. But then I just felt annoyed with myself, like, God, get a new trigger. Speaking of how much I love that crap, and how cop partners are my kryptonite, when I was at my parents' I watched Life with my dad, and he pointed out that the Crews & Reese dynamic is pretty much exactly the Bayliss & Pembleton dynamic from Homicide, and that BLEW MY MIND with its accuracy, good lord. Also, every time I watch H:LotS I am re-blown away by how high quality that show is. In other news, miss_bennie did a super sexy and hilarious Band of Brothers picspam of boys smoking, and ahhhhh you guys it's amazing.
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I really hate when you want something but fandom doesn't provide it, so you have to write the stupid thing yourself. It's almost as though fandom isn't a magic wish-granting machine, BUT SURELY THAT IS NOT THE CASE. Anyway, uh, that's an explanation for why I do out-of-date things like the following. P.S. Boys are pretty. Title: Like Goddamn Men Fandom: Band of Brothers RPF Rating: NC-17 for sexytimes Pairing: Damian Lewis/Ron Livingston Length: 6400 words Disclaimer: This is incredibly fictional -- there's barely any canon support for these dudes even talking to each other. Summary: From the first day at boot camp they call him Nixon, and it's a weird transition, like half of him is this drunk intelligence officer in 1942, making friends with Buck and Liebgott, and the other half is still Ron, feeling kind of silly and making a video diary for HBO. AN: Thanks to agate for the read through and, uh, the months of DLew obsessing. ( ** )Tags: damian lewis/ron livingston, damian lewis:rpf, fanfic: band of brothers rpf, fanfiction, ron livingston:rpf
Current Mood:  embarrassed
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I may have mentioned that I have a little thing for Damian Lewis these days, and by little thing I mean that over the course of the last few months I have watched almost everything he's ever been in, many of those things multiple times. What can I say, he's a fine actor whose fine... acting I very much enjoy. I am still furiously angry that he got voted Not Hot in my poll -- I also feel that voting Maj. Richard Winters Not Hot on Memorial Day weekend was basically AN INSULT TO OUR VETERANS. Whatevs, you guys. Whatevs. (Who has two thumbs and no sense of proportion? THIS GIRL.) Anyway, so this whole thing has led to a SUMMER OF BAND OF BROTHERS kick -- because there's nothing like getting into a fandom 7 years late. Just ask Due South fandom. So me and some friends have been watching it together a lot, and it's basically awesome. And I feel like I should post about it, but everything I think to say about it ends up sounding something like, I HAVE A CRUSH ON EVERY BOY. Uh, so anyway, the way I'm going to write up my thoughts on this amazing miniseries is by doing a picspam rendition of These Are a Few of My Favorite Things About Sexy Gay War. Because if there's one thing the miniseries has taught me, besides the fact that Damian Lewis is the main character of WWII who led his company to single-handedly defeating Hitler, it's that Easy "on the Eyes" Company (tm irishmizzy) was a sexy, sexy place full of sexy men doing sexy acts of heroism and also being into each other. (Sorry, veterans.) (Seriously, I'm very sorry.) Also I've learned a lot about WWII, and don't know why high schools don't harness sexiness as a learning tool, because it's very effective. Um, anyway, here we go: ( ONE OKAY )Tags: band of brothers, picspam
Current Mood:  sexy
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