thoughts about things, TV-related
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1) So today I watched an episode of The Big Bang Theory because
irrel and
rashaka keep drawing/writing hot makeout art/fic between Sheldon and Penny. This particular episode was the one in which Penny gets banished for sitting in his spot in the couch.
The show has some funny things, and the nerdy things are fun, and I like the fact that Penny is round-faced-and-armed (as in, her actress isn't super-skinny). Although I can now officially say that everything about Leonard in relation to Penny turns me off (I mean, his posture in general is a huge turn-off, but dude, nerd guys like that, pedestals, etc. etc. etc., I get it now), and at least they admitted they were total creepsters for stalking the America's Next Top Models, but basically I have to admit that at the end of the episode I totally imagined that, after turning their backs on each other, Sheldon and Penny ran back and made out.
Also the whole time they were in the laundry room I could only think of this fic.
DAMN YOU, IRREL AND RASHAKA. DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU (also plz finish that fic kthxbai).
2) I am sort of kind of addicted to Bones. In "I've watched some episodes from season 2 and season 3" way. In a "this show sometimes has faulty/lame sentences, and I usually don't like gruesome crime shows, but the characters are awesome and the writers don't shy away from the Big Stuff" way. In a "DAVID BOREANZ YOU ARE SO AWESOME WHEN YOU ARE NOT TRYING TO BE WITH BUFFY" way. In a "I have spent over half an hour looking for a decent version of this particular scene I watched today IN ORDER TO SHARE ITS AWESOME WITH YOU" way.
SUCCESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.
Well, not total, because it would work better with the lead-in, but anyway.
I will admit that like three episodes into watching it I figured out how this show works. Namely, like this:
1. Bones (the nickname of Brennan, the anthropologist chick) and Booth (the FBI dude): *start a conversation while investigating a crime scene*
2. Bones and Booth: *have to deal with crime scene*
3. Other characters: *have lives, deal with dead bodies*
4. Bones: *does something with dead bodies, probably talks about Booth*
5. Booth: *does something with suspects, frets and/or talks about Bones*
6. Other characters: *are awesome in their own right*
7. Bones and Booth: *continue previous conversation, get cut off right before they can say anything important*
8. Plot: *happens, maybe referencing the Season Plot*
9. Previous Three Steps: *repeat until ending scene of episode*
10. Ending Scene: *Bones and Booth finish at least part of the conversation they have been having all episode, BUT NOT ENOUGH to examine how it relates to their relationship*
THIS IS THE FORMULA, AND IT IS BRILLIANT, BECAUSE THE UST CAN LAST FOREVER THIS WAY. I mean okay I have no idea what the show is doing in prime-time land (I'm watching it on TNT, and trying to keep Goose from watching it half the time, though she's the one that got me hooked), so maybe they've hooked up by now, but even then you can still keep their arguments fresh. Because they never finish a conversation. Oh, sure, the overall theme gets finished, but they so very rarely have a chance to discuss it in terms of themselves.
(Also secretly I want them to get together with something like this, around step 7:
Bones: Booth, I have a question.
Booth: *eying suspicious figure or whatever* Yeah?
Bones: Are we in love?
Booth: *still eying suspicious figure* What?
Bones: I said, are we in love?
Booth: *still staring in general direction of suspicious figure, not seeing him* ...what?
Bones: It just seems, if you sit down and add up all the facts--
Booth: ...what facts?
Bones: *starts to list them*
Suspicious Figure: *runs off somewhere*
Booth and Bones: *have to put off conversation until later*)
Anyway, most of what I would like to say about this show has been better-said in this article, but it contains spoilers. It is safe until just after the second quote box, but the first paragraph sets the stage for my second favorite element of the show:
It’s Christmas at the Jeffersonian Museum, and a team of freakish forensics scientists is clashing over the meaning of Christmas. Seely Booth, the Catholic, sees it as a time to revisit the man upstairs. T.J. Hodgins, the paranoiac, says just because organized religion is another political movement designed to control the masses, “that doesn’t mean God doesn’t love me.” And Zach Addy, the least socially adjusted scientist, says, “I’m an empirical rationalist all the way, unless you talk to my mother. Then I’m Lutheran.”
(also I have a weakness for non-crazy Catholics in the media, BUT I will admit that I did not know Booth's denomination until I read this article)
but basically, all these characters--you basically know what they'll say, but it's how the specific characters with these generic viewpoints interact and how they conclude things that makes the show so much fun. Well, that and the Booth/Bones dynamic, which is just win because the individuals are so well-defined and their relationship is just so insane and strong at the same time.
Anyway, the video I wanted to share comes at the end of the Pony Fetish episode ("Death in the Saddle," warning, the corpse in this one is still juicy, and they WOULDN'T STOP SHOWING IT), and it comes in the middle of their exchange, so I'll post what comes before it:
Booth: I didn’t lose my appetite because you mentioned horse meat. I lost my appetite because you made me think of all those people parading around, pretending to be something they aren’t just so they could have crappy sex.
Brennan: How do you know if it’s crappy?
Booth: It’s gotta be, Bones, it’s gotta be.
Brennan: Why?
with free fun light-hearted bonus
3. Today my sisters and I are going to finish watching Ouran. Nuff said, I think.
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The show has some funny things, and the nerdy things are fun, and I like the fact that Penny is round-faced-and-armed (as in, her actress isn't super-skinny). Although I can now officially say that everything about Leonard in relation to Penny turns me off (I mean, his posture in general is a huge turn-off, but dude, nerd guys like that, pedestals, etc. etc. etc., I get it now), and at least they admitted they were total creepsters for stalking the America's Next Top Models, but basically I have to admit that at the end of the episode I totally imagined that, after turning their backs on each other, Sheldon and Penny ran back and made out.
Also the whole time they were in the laundry room I could only think of this fic.
DAMN YOU, IRREL AND RASHAKA. DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU (also plz finish that fic kthxbai).
2) I am sort of kind of addicted to Bones. In "I've watched some episodes from season 2 and season 3" way. In a "this show sometimes has faulty/lame sentences, and I usually don't like gruesome crime shows, but the characters are awesome and the writers don't shy away from the Big Stuff" way. In a "DAVID BOREANZ YOU ARE SO AWESOME WHEN YOU ARE NOT TRYING TO BE WITH BUFFY" way. In a "I have spent over half an hour looking for a decent version of this particular scene I watched today IN ORDER TO SHARE ITS AWESOME WITH YOU" way.
SUCCESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.
Well, not total, because it would work better with the lead-in, but anyway.
I will admit that like three episodes into watching it I figured out how this show works. Namely, like this:
1. Bones (the nickname of Brennan, the anthropologist chick) and Booth (the FBI dude): *start a conversation while investigating a crime scene*
2. Bones and Booth: *have to deal with crime scene*
3. Other characters: *have lives, deal with dead bodies*
4. Bones: *does something with dead bodies, probably talks about Booth*
5. Booth: *does something with suspects, frets and/or talks about Bones*
6. Other characters: *are awesome in their own right*
7. Bones and Booth: *continue previous conversation, get cut off right before they can say anything important*
8. Plot: *happens, maybe referencing the Season Plot*
9. Previous Three Steps: *repeat until ending scene of episode*
10. Ending Scene: *Bones and Booth finish at least part of the conversation they have been having all episode, BUT NOT ENOUGH to examine how it relates to their relationship*
THIS IS THE FORMULA, AND IT IS BRILLIANT, BECAUSE THE UST CAN LAST FOREVER THIS WAY. I mean okay I have no idea what the show is doing in prime-time land (I'm watching it on TNT, and trying to keep Goose from watching it half the time, though she's the one that got me hooked), so maybe they've hooked up by now, but even then you can still keep their arguments fresh. Because they never finish a conversation. Oh, sure, the overall theme gets finished, but they so very rarely have a chance to discuss it in terms of themselves.
(Also secretly I want them to get together with something like this, around step 7:
Bones: Booth, I have a question.
Booth: *eying suspicious figure or whatever* Yeah?
Bones: Are we in love?
Booth: *still eying suspicious figure* What?
Bones: I said, are we in love?
Booth: *still staring in general direction of suspicious figure, not seeing him* ...what?
Bones: It just seems, if you sit down and add up all the facts--
Booth: ...what facts?
Bones: *starts to list them*
Suspicious Figure: *runs off somewhere*
Booth and Bones: *have to put off conversation until later*)
Anyway, most of what I would like to say about this show has been better-said in this article, but it contains spoilers. It is safe until just after the second quote box, but the first paragraph sets the stage for my second favorite element of the show:
It’s Christmas at the Jeffersonian Museum, and a team of freakish forensics scientists is clashing over the meaning of Christmas. Seely Booth, the Catholic, sees it as a time to revisit the man upstairs. T.J. Hodgins, the paranoiac, says just because organized religion is another political movement designed to control the masses, “that doesn’t mean God doesn’t love me.” And Zach Addy, the least socially adjusted scientist, says, “I’m an empirical rationalist all the way, unless you talk to my mother. Then I’m Lutheran.”
(also I have a weakness for non-crazy Catholics in the media, BUT I will admit that I did not know Booth's denomination until I read this article)
but basically, all these characters--you basically know what they'll say, but it's how the specific characters with these generic viewpoints interact and how they conclude things that makes the show so much fun. Well, that and the Booth/Bones dynamic, which is just win because the individuals are so well-defined and their relationship is just so insane and strong at the same time.
Anyway, the video I wanted to share comes at the end of the Pony Fetish episode ("Death in the Saddle," warning, the corpse in this one is still juicy, and they WOULDN'T STOP SHOWING IT), and it comes in the middle of their exchange, so I'll post what comes before it:
Booth: I didn’t lose my appetite because you mentioned horse meat. I lost my appetite because you made me think of all those people parading around, pretending to be something they aren’t just so they could have crappy sex.
Brennan: How do you know if it’s crappy?
Booth: It’s gotta be, Bones, it’s gotta be.
Brennan: Why?
with free fun light-hearted bonus
3. Today my sisters and I are going to finish watching Ouran. Nuff said, I think.
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Date: 2009-08-18 08:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-08-20 04:44 am (UTC)although frankly anyone is better than Leonard.
but yes, the show does amuse me. the fact there is a show with that many geeky subjects on it makes me do a little dance on the inside. :-b
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Date: 2009-08-20 05:53 am (UTC)Anyway, I'm glad you're enjoying the show! Don't tell anyone, but it makes me do some of those little dances as well. Oh wait, you said "on the inside." Oops.
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Date: 2009-08-20 04:46 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-08-18 09:34 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-08-18 10:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-08-18 11:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-08-20 04:47 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-08-18 11:16 pm (UTC)I don't know if this is ridiculous or not, but I'm going to pimp my sister
/end slightly-biased pimpage
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Date: 2009-08-20 04:48 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-08-19 04:52 am (UTC)2. Although I can now officially say that everything about Leonard in relation to Penny turns me off (I mean, his posture in general is a huge turn-off, but dude, nerd guys like that, pedestals, etc. etc. etc., I get it now), ...YES. BAD.
3. I liked the Top Model joke. It was in poor taste and creepy, but I kind of loved it anyway. A lot of the BBT humor falls flat or weak for me, or just seems mean-spirited in season 1, but the Top Model thing was genuinely amusing, maybe because I have such a low opinion of the people who go on reality tv shows anyway. Also, I don't think Raj or Howard put Penny on a pedestal. All Raj has to do is get drunk and he can get laid, and Howard is too cynical to think anyone deserves a pedestal, even a pretty girl. Sheldon occupies his own pedestal quite happily. So naturally it saddens me that the one the PTBs dictate should be Penny's love interest is the only "nice guy who puts girls on pedestals" in the gang.
4. You know that Sheldon and Penny totally made out. Now skip to season 2 and you'll REALLY start thinking that, heh. Or wishing it.
5. I love Bones and I ship Booth/Brennan so hard. But it's one of those shows where I'm content with canon and don't fangirl it much at all.
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Date: 2009-08-20 04:51 am (UTC)5. That's pretty much how I feel, but as I don't have much access to canon at the moment, I'm fanfic hopping.
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Date: 2009-08-19 09:03 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-08-19 10:19 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-08-20 04:53 am (UTC)also is this show still on the air or what.
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Date: 2009-08-20 02:08 pm (UTC)Yep! There's going to be a fifth season. :D