Wrasslin' with LJ

[itsallovernow]

Okay, I've managed to create a community for the_sporkys. Dude, I just cannot get the whole techno navigation thing.

So go, sign up, send feedback, give us input and suggestions and snark and see if I'm on the right track!!

I'm working on commentary for Undertones, and rewriting large sections of Blue Eyes. What I really need is about eight uninterrupted hours to write and edit, but that's a pipe dream extraordinaire.

There was some TV viewage, and as usual, I have more thoughts on West Wing than Angel, although I liked the ep well enough.

First of all, though, I really have to wonder if having lived with dumb ass midwestern boys makes That '70's Show funnier, because it cracks me up. I know those boys. Stereotypes or not, I've lived with variations of all of them and it's just really funny to see it onscreen, but I often wonder if it's just me:)



It's just, well, it was such a construct, and while I was glad to see Cordelia - without the happy, floaty higher power mutating aspect of her personality - the episode itself didn't do a lot for me. I did get weepy over the Doyle footage, and loved Spike testing her out, describing the taste of demons, and Wes and Cordy pooring over the books. That was without a doubt my favorite scene. However, wow, Charisma Carpenter's boobs should have gotten their own Special Guest Appearance headline:) They're lovely, and were very, very prominent.

I hope that the Lindsey arc ends up meaning more than those few eps, otherwise, pppbbt. I like Lindsey and his ambiguity, and wow was he ever lying to Eve when he said she was the center of his universe. But the plot felt like a let down after last week, although I think Cordy got the send off she deserved, snark and spunk (not that kind) and smarting off and saying goodbye, love and forgiveness and rallying the troops.

Toby saving Social Security, that pushed my buttons and rattled my chains. They've done so many good things with this season, despite the wretched previews that set up each week. The quiet, the stillness, the lasting ramifications of a presidential legacy and where politics becomes something entirely different than policy.

I liked the tension in this ep, although I wish they would have drawn it out a little more, covered a couple of eps and not wrapped it up so neatly. But Toby, sitting in the dark, telling Josh that until then he'd always been on losing campaigns and knew what he was fighting for, Toby the rallier, the revolutionary, concerned about making history, and yet still willing to do the right thing even if their names wouldn't be on the books. I just loved that. And CJ with the reporter. Clearly the world's dumbest reporter, running out of the room, saying, "So there's no crib." Snort.

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[raithen.livejournal.com]

*sigh* missed last night's TWW because the neighbor's house had flu in it earlier in the week, and I was not risking illness for a TV show. Sounds like it was good, though. *sigh*

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

It was - of course, it was Tobycentric, so that's almost always a way to my heart. I wanted to smack Josh ( which isn't uncommon) and the problem was resolved a bit too easily, but Toby striving for progress, to make history and effect change instead of playing politics will get to me every single time:)

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[raithen.livejournal.com]

ah well, perhaps I will see it someday. It joins a select few eps I have not seen. I have learned one thing, as I get older: if you are meant to see something, you WILL see it. like, for example, a certain sister of a certain accused child molester.... I did NOT watch the superbowl. Normally, wouldn't care. actually, still don't. But can I avoid the replay after replay after replay. Um, NO! Of course, at least Toby has redeeming qualities. And at least with TWW, I shan't be totally lost in the plot for missing 1 ep, like one might be if I say, still followed Angel....

The lack of coherence in this post is brought to you by writerly frustration and many failed attempts to clearly articulate how rhetoric, discourse, the environment and ethics all come together and matter in my analysis of travel guidebooks. *eyeroll* I think I have done too much research. Yep, that's my problem. I have too many ideas to incorporate. If I was all narrow-minded and stuck with one perspective, this would be SOOOO much easier. *snerk*

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[thassalia.livejournal.com]

But that, of course, would not be a proper diss:) What you really need is some good Farscapian eye candy to distract you and get your mind to coalesce:)

[riarambles.livejournal.com]

The people I know who like That 70s Show enough to watch it in syndication were born in Illinois, MIssouri, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Make of that what you will...

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Hmm, perhaps my theory falls down then:) It's just, living with a boy who's made and blown up a potato gun, having lived in the Midwest with boys that same age and mentality, the show just really just cracks me up:)

[pdxscaper.livejournal.com]

I hope that the Lindsey arc ends up meaning more than those few eps, otherwise, pppbbt. I like Lindsey and his ambiguity, and wow was he ever lying to Eve when he said she was the center of his universe. But the plot felt like a let down after last week...
Oh, I so agree. I love Lindsey and there is so much potential there. I hope that this isn't the last we see of him.

LMAO re: CC's boobs...SO true. But I did enjoy seeing her back to the wise ass Cordy...last season was just too weird for words. Didn't work for me at all.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there were selected episodes last year that I really enjoyed, but otherwise, the season and a half of personality transfer from Cordelia to something else entirely just didn't do it for me. I want her snarky and sarcastic and a little self-centered!!

[simplystars.livejournal.com]

I stopped watching Angel regularly when all that happened... but I liked (not loved) last night's ep for all the reasons you mentioned.

After all the Janet Jackson hubbub, my eyebrows did jump a bit at the gratuitious cleavage. But CC looked gorgeous, and despite the somewhat contrived dialogue, the two of them were great together.

I couldn't watch TWW because I haven't ever figured out how to tape one program while watching another. I'll catch it in reruns. *g*

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Boobs are boobs, and I find them unoffensive. I'm a little aggravated that this whole controvery stems over someone's piss poor judgement and a flapping boob when the halftime show pretty much showcased the epitome of manly posturing, capitalist excess, crotch grabbing, and Kid Rock, who remains oddly fascinating but certainly not anyone I'd hold up as a moral example of anything.

And it was in the middle of a game whose sole purpose is for the players to knock the crap out of each other. So basically, violence and posturing are fine, but boobs are a no no. Sorry:)

Apparently, boobs are fine as long as their pushed up and plumped up and not displayed fully:) CC did look lovely. Someone finally did good things to her hair!

[simplystars.livejournal.com]

Apparently, boobs are fine as long as their pushed up and plumped up and not displayed fully:)

That explains it! It's a WonderBra conspiracy!!!!

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Hee hee. You're so right:)