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I'm a fan of the spy genre in general. Alias is one of my favorite tv shows, and in general find the shennanigans of espionage in pop culture to be a lot of fun…
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This episode showcased what I find fascinating about James Steel: a strong idealistic streak laced with a certain arrogance.
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I've been watching the new episodes of the current L&O UK series, but I recently started watching from the beginning as well (this is one of the things I li…
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...And now it's really been awhile since I last updated this blog. My laptop got fixed, after three weeks, but then I sold it and got a new one. So, back now! I…
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My top 5 Kamen Riders
Kitaoka, Yaguruma, Hajime, KaGAAAmi and Hikawa.
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No computer, can't watch stuff as often as I'd like, much less blog, yada yada yada. But I did catch up on last week's Os! The episode starts off where ep 2 left off, with Ankh encountering Hina, who is the younger sister of the cop whose body he's taken over. The little encounter serves to drive home, again, just how inhuman Ankh is. He basically coldly considers the situation, accessing the cop's memories of his sister to figure out why she's run to hug him, and once he understands their relationship, determines that because she cares for his brother, she will be in the way and the easiest thing will be to kill her and be rid of her. Eiji tries to stop him, and the point is made that without the belt, Eiji doesn't stand a chance, and would be unable to stop Ankh from doing anything he pleases. So he uses his only leverage, which is to threaten to throw the belt in the river, which effectively stops Ankh from killing Hina. So once again, the pull and push between Eiji and Ankh is brought to the spotlight, and this conflict is clearly going to be the central focus of the series... at least until Ankh starts developing more of a conscience. Which I am assuming will happen at some point. And again, I really like this dynamic.
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Been computerless since Friday. Logic board is fried, yay, and it will be a week and a half before it's fixed. Anyway, makes blogging hard. However, I just watched the Chuck season premiere and just had to make a little post about it, because it seriously was just the definition of awesome. XD I have to admit that I have a complicated relationship with Chuck in that whenever I'm actually watching I invariably love it, but sometimes, I don't know, I forget that, get behind and end up losing track of the story. I actually didn't watch about half of last season, although I did watch the finale. I thought the twist with Mama Bartowski was intriguing; being a huge Alias fan, I invariably compared it to the SpyMommy, Irina Derevko, and was interested to see what Chuck did to differentiate Mama B from Irina (or alternatively to play homage to her, because that is a big part of Chuck). Anyway, I've been keeping up with casting spoilers, so I know about Linda Hamilton as Mama Bartowski, which I have to admit was great casting. After watching the first episode, may I just say that so far the execution does fulfill the promise of the casting, and Mama B is one badass broad. Well done, Chuck. I am definitely on for the ride this season. Although the search for her drove the episode, as it reportedly will drive the season, the woman herself was only onscreen a short time... the rest of the episode, however, was equally awesome.
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First of all, I am really liking Miura Ryosuke as Ankh. Awesome job. :D For some reason I didn't expect Ankh to openly show his true colors to Eiji this quickly, and yet it makes perfect sense. Eiji is perfectly aware, having heard it from his mouth, that Ankh doesn't care at all for human life, it's all a game to him, all about collecting medals, and Eiji himself is just a tool to that end. A tool that Ankh can choose to use how he pleases, when he pleases, or so Ankh believes.
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Watched Os 1 with subs. Still don't like the OP. :D In general terms, there's not that much I actually missed when I watched the raw. One thing was that Eiji sl…
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And so it begins. Watched episode 1 raw, so obviously I will have missed things. :D The first episode kind of already confirms the impression I got from the press releases and character descriptions: that many elements of Os are very obvious nods in the direction of past Riders. To be fair, Kamen Rider is a franchise that relies on a specific, limited set of tropes; but what I'm talking about isn't that exactly. A trope is an archtype basically, something honed down to its basic elements; what I'm talking about is the specific ways in which those archtypes are explored. That's not necessarily a bad thing, particularly if one liked what is referenced, and it's all revisited in a way that revamps the ideas.
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Been watching Fortysomething, because I was looking for more Cumberbatch, and it's got him and Hugh Laurie, so how could I refuse?
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It has been a long long time since a show has grabbed my attention the way Sherlock has, to the point that I've been completely neglecting, well, pretty much anything that is not Sherlock related. So I thought I'd just rec links related to this awesome little show that has pretty much just eaten my brain the past few weeks.
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Kamen Rider Os promo
Totally forgot that by now there'd be Os promos after Double. :D; Anyway, posted on YouTube a week ago, although I imagine everyone's seen this already: Miura R…
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This is an extremely belated post about A Study In Pink, which means that it's actually more about the episode in the context to the rest of the series. Really, if you start thinking about the fact that there will be more Sherlock in the future, then it's easy to guess that eventually we'll look back on these episodes and that primarily all three, not just the first one, are about how Sherlock and John's very unique relationship began and started to develop. It's actually so obvious that it might not even merit mentioning, except for how in the course of just three it begins, grows, changes, starts to crack around the edges, and ultimately deepens so much.
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"A Study In Pink" screencaps
So I went and decided to just do a quick check to see what there was in the way of Sherlock fanfic, and four days later I've neglected this blog in favor of reading MOAR FIC. To make up for it... screencaps from A Study In Pink! By which I mostly mean lots of Benedict Cumberbatch, because, well, yes.
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I turned the TV on and found a rerun of House on. It's the episode with the dad that used "male enhancement" cream and the hormones wrecked havoc on h…
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So, I kind of decided yesterday to watch the first Doctor Who ep with Matt Smith... and since then I have watched the first eight episodes of the season. :D;; S…
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Odagiri Joe released singles?
Apparently he did! This is called Cherry The Dustman and I have no idea if this was solo or with that band he was in (*insert comment about Deppiness here*), ap…
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First series/season of Sherlock finished Sunday (and Moffat confirmed there will be more on an interview today, which you can watch here). I actually watched th…
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I actually watched this a couple of nights ago, but hadn't goten around to posting about it. My bad. In this episode, Peter and Neal (and Peter-and-Neal) take a backseat to let Mozzie shine for an episode. Which is great, because Willie Garson is just amazing as Mozzie, and he's consistently the most quoteable character on the show (and the first scene culminates in one such quote :D).