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ebonlockI have been good, I mean seriously, ridiculously good this week and I have fuck-all to show for it according to my scale. I'm hoping some walking around in Vegas on Saturday will help me burn off a few extra calories but I'm not holding my breath. Jesus, if I have to watch every little thing I eat just to hold my own I'm in serious trouble.
Nice evening anyway, had dinner with E- (mmm, Indian!) and exchanged DVD/VCDs so I have some new anime to sink my teeth into when I get back. Should give me something to do next weekend as I'm delightfully short on plans. Though it feels odd not to have some huge craft-type thing hanging over my head.
Also managed to get all of my Xmas gifts wrapped in a single sitting. I now have something for everyone and most people completely done. By next weekend I expect to be completely done. Fear me.
How is it that Hurley inevitably gets the best line in any episode? Not that he doesn't deserve it, mind you. Charlie came in a close second with his, "You didn't hear about the polar bear?" Heh.
Sawyer-not-Sawyer was his usual shitty but gah-so-sexy-anyway self and when he referred to Dr. Jack as "Dr. Quinn" I considered it a shout-out and couldn't help liking him a little. This increased to thinking he was downright adorable when Dr. Jack pointed out that nobody really liked him and to take care of his own damn bandages. He looked all...well...vulnerable and sad...Yeah, I know, I'd be just the type of chick to fall for that and lose all my money to him.
And then we got Sayid goodness, oh my how I've looked forward to Backstory!Sayid. I do love a man in uniform, even if it is a Republican Guard uniform, which I know is very, very wrong. I do. Really. So Sayid finds a cable (really long extension cord?) running up the beach which, you know, is interesting, but I'm more curious about where the other end was plugged up. I mean it went off into the ocean! But he chose to take the dry route and follow it on land. Of course we all know it's going to end up in a rope trap and some serious Sayid!Torture, which just couldn't come soon enough for me. Sure enough he springs the trap and gets his ass captured for which I forgive him 'cause though he's a soldier he comes from Iraq where he couldn't have had a lot of tropical jungle training.
Flashbacks show us the story of young soldier/interrogator Sayid and I couldn't help thinking back to Garak from DS9 and the whole staring at a prisoner for hours until they broke whimpering, "His eyes...his eyes..." Now he was a master, but Sayid gets the job done interrogating a possible terrorist and gets himself a promotion to boot just in time to see a beautiful and hauntingly familiar woman brought in for questioning. Oooh, picture lady! Of course he gets assigned to interrogate her then discovers that they knew each other as kids and she admits she used to shove him into the mud kinda frequently. Not necessarily what I would've chosen to bring up under the circumstances, "Hey, remember when I bullied you as a kid? Wasn't that fun? No hard feelings, right?"
Of course Sayid is a big ol' softie and actually brings her some food when he's supposed to be torturing her and you just know he's going to help her escape when his superior orders her death. Which he does and I moan and wonder if the man has ever actually watched a film or t.v. show in his life. When he walks up and asks Sayid what he's up to what with letting the chick go he might just as well be saying, "Sayid, just shoot me ok? Here, lemme present a nice still target."
But back to the island Sayid!Torture involves electricity, bondage, some wacky voices, someone named "Alex" and a lot of extreme, shaky close-ups. We are eventually shown that it's a chick who's chained him to the Bed of Pain, and several women in the audience (myself included) think, well who can blame her? Of course it's not the exact kind of bed I'd choose to chain him to myself (unless he was very naughty), but still the idea is sound. One wonders if she has had a great deal of cause to use said device, I mean why go to all the trouble of making it otherwise?
Eventually we find out her name is Danielle Rousseau, or Crazy Danielle as I've taken to calling her and that she was hooked up with a guy (I want to say "Roger", but I'm blanking) who is dead, everyone's dead, only it's not clear why until a bit later. Sayid tries to get something coherent out of her about the following:
1) Who's Alex?
2) What happened to the others in her party?
3) What's up with the crazy monster?
4) Sickness? What is this sickness she refers to?
5) What were she and her group doing on the island?
6) What the hell is the Black Rock?
7) Why does she still have functional batteries after 16 years?
8) What's up with the cable? (Ok, I don't think he actually asked, but I'm sure he wondered)
9) So you hear voices, huh?
10) Why the hell was she torturing him anyway?
By the end of the episode we're clear on the Alex question (it's her kid) but that's about it. She lets him fix her music box and they start to make nice until we hear something growly outside and both Sayid and I think, "Shit, monster!" but Crazy Danielle thinks it's just bears as there are "no such things as monsters". Weird voices, yes, but monsters, no. Right.
Off she trots with a damn fine looking gun presumably to shoot herself a bear while Sayid escapes, making off with her nifty island map and a gun that so obviously does not work that I just want to cry. Dude, do you honestly think she'd have left that lying around if it did work? Before you rely on a weapon you make sure the damn thing works! Jeez, even I know that and I'm not even a soldier. Bad Sayid.
Of course there's a stand off and as soon as she raises her gun I'm like, "Now, now do you understand that your gun doesn't work, Sayid?" Apparently not as he Han Solos her and shoots first. There's a soft little snap and nothing else and finally he gets it. At least he has the good grace to look embarassed by his stupidity, I take comfort in that. He talks her out of shooting him and he tries to convince her to go back with him which she refuses to do 'cause of the sickness I presume. She warns him to watch the others before sadly accepting that he's not going to stick around as her companion/sex slave and she trudges back to her secret lair.
Oh there was a subplot about the island folks creating the first golf course and having a little fun for a change, but I hate golf with a passion so I ignored a lot of it. Though it did lead to one of the cutest moments in the ep when Sawyer-not-Sawyer shows up and bets against Jack as a way of kinda rejoining the human race. Both Kate and I go, "Awwwww."
And a secondary subplot wherein little Walter bonds with Locke in a creepy sort of Lord of the Flies way that bodes ill for the future.
Then we get our cliffhanger which comes right before a ONE WEEK HIATUS, ARG!!!! Sayid is scrambling through the Forest of Mystery and hears something that sounds suspiciously like the Invisible Island Monster. I end up praying my Karl Rove theory is wrong as he's not too fond of Iraqis in general and I don't want Sayid ending up broken and bloody atop some tree. Run, Sayid, run!
Scenes for two weeks from now involve Baby Momma going a bit funny in the head (maybe) and possibly going into early labor. I predict lots of Cute!Charlie.
Now my mantra for today is that I will not spend this evening looking for Sayid!Torture pics. Really.
Nice evening anyway, had dinner with E- (mmm, Indian!) and exchanged DVD/VCDs so I have some new anime to sink my teeth into when I get back. Should give me something to do next weekend as I'm delightfully short on plans. Though it feels odd not to have some huge craft-type thing hanging over my head.
Also managed to get all of my Xmas gifts wrapped in a single sitting. I now have something for everyone and most people completely done. By next weekend I expect to be completely done. Fear me.
How is it that Hurley inevitably gets the best line in any episode? Not that he doesn't deserve it, mind you. Charlie came in a close second with his, "You didn't hear about the polar bear?" Heh.
Sawyer-not-Sawyer was his usual shitty but gah-so-sexy-anyway self and when he referred to Dr. Jack as "Dr. Quinn" I considered it a shout-out and couldn't help liking him a little. This increased to thinking he was downright adorable when Dr. Jack pointed out that nobody really liked him and to take care of his own damn bandages. He looked all...well...vulnerable and sad...Yeah, I know, I'd be just the type of chick to fall for that and lose all my money to him.
And then we got Sayid goodness, oh my how I've looked forward to Backstory!Sayid. I do love a man in uniform, even if it is a Republican Guard uniform, which I know is very, very wrong. I do. Really. So Sayid finds a cable (really long extension cord?) running up the beach which, you know, is interesting, but I'm more curious about where the other end was plugged up. I mean it went off into the ocean! But he chose to take the dry route and follow it on land. Of course we all know it's going to end up in a rope trap and some serious Sayid!Torture, which just couldn't come soon enough for me. Sure enough he springs the trap and gets his ass captured for which I forgive him 'cause though he's a soldier he comes from Iraq where he couldn't have had a lot of tropical jungle training.
Flashbacks show us the story of young soldier/interrogator Sayid and I couldn't help thinking back to Garak from DS9 and the whole staring at a prisoner for hours until they broke whimpering, "His eyes...his eyes..." Now he was a master, but Sayid gets the job done interrogating a possible terrorist and gets himself a promotion to boot just in time to see a beautiful and hauntingly familiar woman brought in for questioning. Oooh, picture lady! Of course he gets assigned to interrogate her then discovers that they knew each other as kids and she admits she used to shove him into the mud kinda frequently. Not necessarily what I would've chosen to bring up under the circumstances, "Hey, remember when I bullied you as a kid? Wasn't that fun? No hard feelings, right?"
Of course Sayid is a big ol' softie and actually brings her some food when he's supposed to be torturing her and you just know he's going to help her escape when his superior orders her death. Which he does and I moan and wonder if the man has ever actually watched a film or t.v. show in his life. When he walks up and asks Sayid what he's up to what with letting the chick go he might just as well be saying, "Sayid, just shoot me ok? Here, lemme present a nice still target."
But back to the island Sayid!Torture involves electricity, bondage, some wacky voices, someone named "Alex" and a lot of extreme, shaky close-ups. We are eventually shown that it's a chick who's chained him to the Bed of Pain, and several women in the audience (myself included) think, well who can blame her? Of course it's not the exact kind of bed I'd choose to chain him to myself (unless he was very naughty), but still the idea is sound. One wonders if she has had a great deal of cause to use said device, I mean why go to all the trouble of making it otherwise?
Eventually we find out her name is Danielle Rousseau, or Crazy Danielle as I've taken to calling her and that she was hooked up with a guy (I want to say "Roger", but I'm blanking) who is dead, everyone's dead, only it's not clear why until a bit later. Sayid tries to get something coherent out of her about the following:
1) Who's Alex?
2) What happened to the others in her party?
3) What's up with the crazy monster?
4) Sickness? What is this sickness she refers to?
5) What were she and her group doing on the island?
6) What the hell is the Black Rock?
7) Why does she still have functional batteries after 16 years?
8) What's up with the cable? (Ok, I don't think he actually asked, but I'm sure he wondered)
9) So you hear voices, huh?
10) Why the hell was she torturing him anyway?
By the end of the episode we're clear on the Alex question (it's her kid) but that's about it. She lets him fix her music box and they start to make nice until we hear something growly outside and both Sayid and I think, "Shit, monster!" but Crazy Danielle thinks it's just bears as there are "no such things as monsters". Weird voices, yes, but monsters, no. Right.
Off she trots with a damn fine looking gun presumably to shoot herself a bear while Sayid escapes, making off with her nifty island map and a gun that so obviously does not work that I just want to cry. Dude, do you honestly think she'd have left that lying around if it did work? Before you rely on a weapon you make sure the damn thing works! Jeez, even I know that and I'm not even a soldier. Bad Sayid.
Of course there's a stand off and as soon as she raises her gun I'm like, "Now, now do you understand that your gun doesn't work, Sayid?" Apparently not as he Han Solos her and shoots first. There's a soft little snap and nothing else and finally he gets it. At least he has the good grace to look embarassed by his stupidity, I take comfort in that. He talks her out of shooting him and he tries to convince her to go back with him which she refuses to do 'cause of the sickness I presume. She warns him to watch the others before sadly accepting that he's not going to stick around as her companion/sex slave and she trudges back to her secret lair.
Oh there was a subplot about the island folks creating the first golf course and having a little fun for a change, but I hate golf with a passion so I ignored a lot of it. Though it did lead to one of the cutest moments in the ep when Sawyer-not-Sawyer shows up and bets against Jack as a way of kinda rejoining the human race. Both Kate and I go, "Awwwww."
And a secondary subplot wherein little Walter bonds with Locke in a creepy sort of Lord of the Flies way that bodes ill for the future.
Then we get our cliffhanger which comes right before a ONE WEEK HIATUS, ARG!!!! Sayid is scrambling through the Forest of Mystery and hears something that sounds suspiciously like the Invisible Island Monster. I end up praying my Karl Rove theory is wrong as he's not too fond of Iraqis in general and I don't want Sayid ending up broken and bloody atop some tree. Run, Sayid, run!
Scenes for two weeks from now involve Baby Momma going a bit funny in the head (maybe) and possibly going into early labor. I predict lots of Cute!Charlie.
Now my mantra for today is that I will not spend this evening looking for Sayid!Torture pics. Really.
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Date: 2004-11-18 06:45 pm (UTC)It's 'Robert' BTW. :)
And even though I don't particularly care for the sport of golf, I kind of enjoyed that part of the show. However, Mercutio completely ignoring Walt...that really creeped me out, actually. Maybe it was because I knew as soon as Michael said 'that's nice, son' and went back to his game that Walt was going to wander off and find Locke, but the whole dynamic there was just...really broken.
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Date: 2004-11-18 07:23 pm (UTC)Yep caught that on
And even though I don't particularly care for the sport of golf, I kind of enjoyed that part of the show. However, Mercutio completely ignoring Walt...that really creeped me out, actually. Maybe it was because I knew as soon as Michael said 'that's nice, son' and went back to his game that Walt was going to wander off and find Locke, but the whole dynamic there was just...really broken.
I think Mercutio is broken in many ways, but I can't really blame him too much. I mean becoming an instant dad with a kid who clearly resents you can't be easy. Of course I'd like to know where the hell he's been for the past few years and why he had to be forced to take on his son, but until we get the backstory I'm prepared to let it slide.
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Date: 2004-11-18 09:37 pm (UTC)"Ebon' must be climbing up the walls watching this episode!"
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Date: 2004-11-18 09:52 pm (UTC)"Ebon' must be climbing up the walls watching this episode!"
You have no idea...seriously. I've desperately missed my Mulder!Torture, I'm very happy to have Sayid!Torture to replace it :)
It also makes me happy to know I'm not the only one who talks to my cats while watching "Lost"...
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Date: 2004-11-18 10:01 pm (UTC)Strangely, last night Checkers got really interested in West Wing. She got on the edge of the coffee table on the edge nearest the TV and watched everyone walking to and fro for a good 15 minutes. Heh. There's lots of walking around on that show.
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Date: 2004-11-18 10:13 pm (UTC)Pye does that for those animal police shows on Animal Planet. I'm not sure what it is that attracts him, maybe the combination of odd sounds and movement, but he'll sit and watch almost an entire episode without moving. Given that he's a hyperactive snowshoe Siamese that's saying something.
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Date: 2004-11-18 10:18 pm (UTC)but maybe I should let the kits watch it one day just to see how they respond. you know, in the interest of science. ;)
what's a snowshoe Siamese? do they have really wide hind legs? =)
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Date: 2004-11-18 10:26 pm (UTC)Oh I get weepy too, but I figure it's important to know what goes on in the world even if it breaks my heart.
but maybe I should let the kits watch it one day just to see how they respond. you know, in the interest of science. ;)
Hmm, maybe we could get federal funding for a study... :)
what's a snowshoe Siamese? do they have really wide hind legs? =)
It means he's half Siamese half domestic shorthair. Some look just like regular shorthairs, only with slightly more angular faces, but Pye looks entirely Siamese with white feet, a white chest and a little white splotch on his nose.
Piccys here:
Centerfold (http://www.logrus.com/~faerie/images/misc/pyewacket/centerfold.jpg)
Me and my boy (http://www.logrus.com/~faerie/images/misc/pyewacket/mom_and_son.jpg)
I need a good shot of him gazing up longingly in his "Love you!" pose at some point. I'm a total sucker for those big blue eyes.
rambling now
Date: 2004-11-18 10:57 pm (UTC)I get all my important (non animal-related) news off NPR where every news item isn't spun to induce as much fear as possible. I really do like knowing what's going on in the world, honest I do. but I don't think I can tolerate another "oh my god, water is falling from the sky!!!!" news report in my lifetime.
that said, I would be willing to get my animal-related news from Animal Planet if I could get federal funding. maybe I should contact that weird guy in that infomercial who wears the suit with ?s all over it. but he always makes me wonder when Batman's going to show up....
Re: rambling now
Date: 2004-11-18 11:27 pm (UTC)I should take a moment to point out that I'm a woman who likes to keep her options open...very open if you catch my meaning. I have waxed just as rhapsodic over Zhang Ziyi whom I worship like the gorgeous goddess she is, if you'll recall ;)
I get all my important (non animal-related) news off NPR where every news item isn't spun to induce as much fear as possible. I really do like knowing what's going on in the world, honest I do. but I don't think I can tolerate another "oh my god, water is falling from the sky!!!!" news report in my lifetime.
I rather like the Lehrer News Hours myself, it's nice to see grown ups talking in a calm, rational way about world events. It almost makes me feel optimistic. Almost. Yay PBS!
that said, I would be willing to get my animal-related news from Animal Planet if I could get federal funding. maybe I should contact that weird guy in that infomercial who wears the suit with ?s all over it. but he always makes me wonder when Batman's going to show up....
Would you really want that man to have your contact information? I know I wouldn't. And it just so happens that I know someone who writes grant applications for a living. I'll run the idea by her and see if she thinks we've got a shot. :)
Re: rambling now
Date: 2004-11-18 11:40 pm (UTC)excellent! and, correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't your kits both male? mine are both female, so we could feasibly conduct separate studies.
and uh, *cough*, yeah, I know you keep your options open. I just enjoy making you state it. ;)
Re: rambling now
Date: 2004-11-18 11:44 pm (UTC)excellent! and, correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't your kits both male? mine are both female, so we could feasibly conduct separate studies.
Nope, Kage's a girl (Kage= Shadow in Japanese, which was her original name), a very prissy, moody old bitch of an alpha she-cat, which is why we get along so well :) As with so many other aspects of my life I like a little variety in my pets too.
and uh, *cough*, yeah, I know you keep your options open. I just enjoy making you state it. ;)
LOL, too bad you're not local (or at least I don't believe you are as we've never met face to face) or you'd hear about it all too often. I have a decided weakness for lovely redheads ;)
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Date: 2004-11-19 12:17 am (UTC)yeah, that is a shame. I'm down in So Cal. normally I make it up to your neck of the woods a couple times a year. I was planning to come up for a Sharks game this season, but, well, that idea got shot to hell. (ha ha, the NHLPA should be concerned about *my* needs, shouldn't they?)
please apologize to Kage on my behalf for mistaking her gender. my Checkers is often mistaken for male because she has a big ol' head as evidenced HERE.
And, because I'm a "mom," Margaret Anne needs equal time (although this pic makes her look like she's got a big butt....)
Re: blushing now
Date: 2004-11-19 12:21 am (UTC)Damn them, Damn them to Hell! :)
please apologize to Kage on my behalf for mistaking her gender. my Checkers is often mistaken for male because she has a big ol' head as evidenced HERE.
Whatta' cutey, is she a calico, I can't tell if there's some orange on her or it's just the lighting?
And, because I'm a "mom," Margaret Anne needs equal time (although this pic makes her look like she's got a big butt....)
Oh now this one looks like a class clown :) Do they get along well? My two are constantly at each other's throat. Kage hates Pye and Pye is the eternally annoying little brother. If they could speak English my life would be hell.
Re: blushing now
Date: 2004-11-19 12:52 am (UTC)Maggie is absolutely a class clown. She looks nearly identical to my previous cat who got hit by a car, so I was dead set against adopting her when I saw her at the pound. But while I was visiting the cute male Siamese next to her, she dipped her paw in her water bowl and flung her paw against the cage, thus splashing me in the face. I knew then that I couldn't fight it any longer - I had been adopted.
I love having a trouble-maker in the house, I really do.
As far as getting along -- that really only happens when the weather turns cold.
Re: blushing now
Date: 2004-11-19 01:01 am (UTC)Heh, well she's adorable, very stately as well like she belongs on the prow of a ship. She and Kage would probably peer down their noses at one aother :)
Maggie is absolutely a class clown. She looks nearly identical to my previous cat who got hit by a car, so I was dead set against adopting her when I saw her at the pound. But while I was visiting the cute male Siamese next to her, she dipped her paw in her water bowl and flung her paw against the cage, thus splashing me in the face. I knew then that I couldn't fight it any longer - I had been adopted.
Ah now see that's like Pye, all mischief, curiosity, and fun (though, I will admit, also the biggest spoiled brat on the planet). I'm a sucker for personality kitties, the ones that claim you as their own and then make sure you never get the chance to forget them. I've had a few in the past (Niles, Cooper, Teddy) and now my beloved Pye.
Although he'd actually been trapped while living feral and had to be introduced to the concept of indoor living. That was...a saga, but I thank the gods daily for him, he was well worth the effort.
I love having a trouble-maker in the house, I really do.
Heh, ditto.
As far as getting along -- that really only happens when the weather turns cold.
Indoor/outdoor kitties then?
BTW, if you don't hear back from me it's cause I've scooted off to prepare for my Vegas trip, it's been absolutely delightful talking to you and I promise to respond by Tuesday when I get back :)