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First thanks [livejournal.com profile] moonlightnrain for pointing me at this:



Then a big thanks to my friend D- who sent me a signed copy of Stephen Colbert's "I Am America, and So Can You!" along with a Wrist Strong! bracelet. Of course Pye has already made off with said bracelet, as plastic bracelets are his favorite toy EVAR. Literally he's racing around the apartment with it in his mouth as I type this. My cat is a complete headcase.

I'm thoroughly enjoying my impromptu holiday off, I have to admit. I'm watching "You Are What You Eat", another BBCA reality series that I'm addicted to. But soon I'll be finishing off the last two episodes of season two of Dexter.

I don't think it's quite as coherent a season as the first, but I have found myself really enjoying the twists and turns. I've also loved getting to meet Agent Lundy (who I have a raging crush on), and watching Deb's Electra complex bloom into her first real grown up relationship. Indeed I've adored Deb this season, whereas the first I mostly just wound up annoyed by her.

Watching Doakes melt down in the face of Dexter's superior intellect and calm outmaneuvering. And I like that Dexter's finding out that he actually does have feelings, a conscience, and people he cares about and wants to protect. Watching the interplay between hostage Doakes and Dexter is just fascinating, especially when Doakes really understands for the first time just what Dexter is. And the revelations about dear old Harry are just fascinating. Left off last night with Dexter realizing that he was the cause of Harry's suicide, watching it hit him was just fantastic.

I have to say the Lila freak out really didn't strike me as all that unexpected, she was screaming "I am batshit!" right from the start. Her stalker routine wasn't too terribly surprising, I just hope Dex was paying attention when she told him the story about setting her ex-boyfriend's house on fire and killing him. I didn't find the whole subplot where Dexter confronts the guy who murdered his mom and left him so utterly broken too terribly interesting, but his attempts to stay one step ahead of an actually worthy foe, Lundy, is well worth waving off the other stuff.


This one was definitely better than the last, which isn't really saying all that much, but I'll take what I can get. I liked the way people were split up during the emergency situation (a quarantine false alarm), as it led to some fun interpersonal moments. Watching John squirming around Teyla, and literally climbing out of the window and up the side of a building to escape was a hoot. Keller continues to underwhelm me as a chief physician (and is it just me or is she a scifi knock off of Dr. Elliot Reid from Scrubs or is it just me?), but I admit that part of it is the fact that OMG I miss Carson. But setting that aside I rather liked her and Ronon hooking up, mostly because Ronon and pretty much anyone hooking up is adorable beyond words. You literally expected him to duck his head and gruffly mumble, "You're pretty."

Radek is always adorable, I mean there's just no two ways about that, but his pigeon wallpaper on his tablet just about did [livejournal.com profile] moonlightnrain and I in. And then the moment when Sam takes off her jacket and you can see the lightbulb go off over Radek's head that she is a WOMAN and has BREASTS was one of the funniest things I've seen in ages. I was literally howling. Also can't wait for the transcript for his scenes in the ducts, cursing his head off in Czech to be posted with the translations. I'd love to know what he was muttering the whole time.

Of course the real story, IMHO was going on in the botany lab. I loved the subtlety of the scenes between Rodney and Katie, how it slowly became apparent that Katie had been dating the guy for a year and yet didn't know the first damn thing about him. Watching her become slowly aware of who she'd been dating, his very real faults, and her own willful blindness all this time was astonishingly entertaining. I've never been at all impressed by the actress playing her, but I have to admit she did a nice job with what the writers had given her in this one. It was also interesting watching Rodney for the first time completely unable to act, and just falling apart. Give him a computer and some tools and regardless of how grim things seem he can hang on and get the job done. Take those away from him and he descends into despair. It was almost a nod back to "Grace Under Pressure", he doesn't trust anybody else to save him, even now. He's got to be the one getting the poor bastard out of the bad situation, it's not just his job it's who he is, take it away from him and he lays down to die.

And I loved how everyone kept saying, "Rodney will save us", it's just the assumption that if there's a problem he's somewhere doing something about it. Indeed it wasn't until John figured out that Rodney was trapped that he flew into action.

But the end was probably my favorite bit, where Rodney recognizes that he was just asking Katie to marry him because he likes the idea of marriage in general, and that ultimately he's not ready for it. Indeed, admitting flat out that he's still a work in progress as a human being was a major step for him. And I have to think Katie's last "Bye" was really, "It's over", and frankly it should be. Thank god the series writers actually made the smart choice here.

Right, now I'm getting back to Dexter!
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