Is that an OB icon? I see OB gifs and icons in my future. BTW, I got my sweetie to watch eps 2 and 3 with me GO ME! (She confessed to me that drama/suspense shows like that make her physically jittery and she has no idea why. So we watched some Anthony Bourdain to relax afterwards.)
And holy SHIT - I'm so excited I've got to keep myself from spoiling it for anyone here who isn't watching it because I am SO HOOKED. Totally. It's a suspense/mystery/sci-fi drama with wonderful comedy interwoven into it. You win EVERYTHING for rec'ing it to me.
And you know I do not fall easily for male characters but Felix is LOVE. TOTAL LOVE.
One nitpick:
(*MILD SPOILERS*) the scene with Sarah and the psychiatrist in ep3? Pretty damn awesome on Sarah's end - my sweetie keeps saying "she's not too bright" but I'm continually impressed by how quick-thinking and clever she is. A smart girl who's probably been written off by the entire world (except Felix) and is now getting to really show everyone what she's made of. But the depiction of the psychiatrist - or of the psychiatry and meds - kind of bugs because it falls in line with the trope I see a lot. (Even Ringer managed to avoid that one.) That docs mix meds and hand them out like candy, etc. I've never had that problem with the psychiatrists I've gone to; I have had it and seen it with my partner with regular docs for physical ailments. Everything else is gold though (Gah, that last scene in ep 3, what the HELL is that thing? Not who, what? Like a cross between an anime villain and a prehistoric leviathan rising from the mud.) /*END SPOILERS*
Somebody hand Tatiana an Emmy, please. Or a Golden Globe or SOMETHING.
And I spoiled my friends for "Surprise/Innocence" because I thought "Angel loses his soul" was one of those widely-known pop culture things like "soylent green is people" and "Bruce Willis was dead the whole time." It was probably also mean-spirited on my part because I got sick of them sighing over Angel when I made them watch BtVS. Less justified than spoiling IWRY for righteous indignation reasons.
Soylent Green is people? *LMAO*
I try to avoid spoilers because I've been spoiled in the past - in college my friend saw War of the Roses at the theater and HATED it, because it was totally outside of her life experience, so she spoiled it for everyone so they "wouldn't see it". Well of course I saw it eventually, and my mom took her then-boyfriend to see it as well. He was as shaken as my friend was. Mom and I just said to one another "Thank god we're not in that situation anymore." So I try to avoid spoiling things out of malice - with my friend I asked her permission and got her permission first to talk about IWRY (she knows the series Angel exists anyway - actually she's seen Dollhouse and Firefly but never the buffyverse); and it was in a specific context.
You will be interested to know that she is NOT amused by Xander, either, because she said she's known guys like that "who think that you should be in love with them just because they want you to." When I watched Season 1 I thought "Xander why don't you notice that pretty girl pining for you?" and she's thinking "Willow you can do SO MUCH BETTER."
I think my feminism might need a tune up. Or a major recalibration.
You and kwritten make pretty icons,
Thank you hon, but I'm nowhere near to her in that regard. Have you seen clockwork_hart1's latest icons btw? Works of art in miniature.
They're very pretty together, aren't they?
And you know, there's a teensy bit of discomfort in me about that - culturally we can only accept or depict lesbians if they are pretty enough to appeal to both genders - but that's overwhelmed by the fact that they exist and everything they are, by the fact that in college it was constantly assumed I was straight because I was "too feminine" to be a lesbian so I've been there myself, and also - bifurcated tongue! Samari swords! Gah. Being a feminist and a lesbian doesn't mean I'm blind.
See, I don't want to watch Doctor Who. I want to watch Vasta and Jenny. I want that series NOW.
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Date: 2014-04-24 01:04 pm (UTC)And holy SHIT - I'm so excited I've got to keep myself from spoiling it for anyone here who isn't watching it because I am SO HOOKED. Totally. It's a suspense/mystery/sci-fi drama with wonderful comedy interwoven into it. You win EVERYTHING for rec'ing it to me.
And you know I do not fall easily for male characters but Felix is LOVE. TOTAL LOVE.
One nitpick:
(*MILD SPOILERS*) the scene with Sarah and the psychiatrist in ep3? Pretty damn awesome on Sarah's end - my sweetie keeps saying "she's not too bright" but I'm continually impressed by how quick-thinking and clever she is. A smart girl who's probably been written off by the entire world (except Felix) and is now getting to really show everyone what she's made of.
But the depiction of the psychiatrist - or of the psychiatry and meds - kind of bugs because it falls in line with the trope I see a lot. (Even Ringer managed to avoid that one.) That docs mix meds and hand them out like candy, etc. I've never had that problem with the psychiatrists I've gone to; I have had it and seen it with my partner with regular docs for physical ailments. Everything else is gold though (Gah, that last scene in ep 3, what the HELL is that thing? Not who, what? Like a cross between an anime villain and a prehistoric leviathan rising from the mud.) /*END SPOILERS*
Somebody hand Tatiana an Emmy, please. Or a Golden Globe or SOMETHING.
And I spoiled my friends for "Surprise/Innocence" because I thought "Angel loses his soul" was one of those widely-known pop culture things like "soylent green is people" and "Bruce Willis was dead the whole time." It was probably also mean-spirited on my part because I got sick of them sighing over Angel when I made them watch BtVS. Less justified than spoiling IWRY for righteous indignation reasons.
Soylent Green is people? *LMAO*
I try to avoid spoilers because I've been spoiled in the past - in college my friend saw War of the Roses at the theater and HATED it, because it was totally outside of her life experience, so she spoiled it for everyone so they "wouldn't see it". Well of course I saw it eventually, and my mom took her then-boyfriend to see it as well. He was as shaken as my friend was. Mom and I just said to one another "Thank god we're not in that situation anymore." So I try to avoid spoiling things out of malice - with my friend I asked her permission and got her permission first to talk about IWRY (she knows the series Angel exists anyway - actually she's seen Dollhouse and Firefly but never the buffyverse); and it was in a specific context.
You will be interested to know that she is NOT amused by Xander, either, because she said she's known guys like that "who think that you should be in love with them just because they want you to." When I watched Season 1 I thought "Xander why don't you notice that pretty girl pining for you?" and she's thinking "Willow you can do SO MUCH BETTER."
I think my feminism might need a tune up. Or a major recalibration.
You and kwritten make pretty icons,
Thank you hon, but I'm nowhere near to her in that regard. Have you seen
They're very pretty together, aren't they?
And you know, there's a teensy bit of discomfort in me about that - culturally we can only accept or depict lesbians if they are pretty enough to appeal to both genders - but that's overwhelmed by the fact that they exist and everything they are, by the fact that in college it was constantly assumed I was straight because I was "too feminine" to be a lesbian so I've been there myself, and also - bifurcated tongue! Samari swords! Gah. Being a feminist and a lesbian doesn't mean I'm blind.
See, I don't want to watch Doctor Who. I want to watch Vasta and Jenny. I want that series NOW.