upcoming: more novakcest. BUT FIRST:

[whynot]

LJ notifications are being very terrible! I'm getting notifications from like a week ago. In better news though, AAAHH OMFG: spn_nextgen. COME TO ME, AARON/CLAIRE OTP.

But Lass, what are your thoughts on TV?

Nikita

- This show is still magic, especially Amanda. I have successfully unseen her as the terrible mother from Vampire Diaries and The OC. Amanda, so amazing.

- Okay, in the first half of the season I have been meh about Michael ships, but make him encroach on Alex and I am all over that, apparently. Oh hai creepy personal space and privacy invasions. BRING ON THE INAPPROPRIATE FEELINGS AND THE MANIPULATION THEREOF. Oh, man, why are none of my ships happy (except maybe you, Mishalecki, for now)? Michael crashes Alex's dinner date and I am all >D OIC.

- But my true feelings lie with Michael/Alex/Nikita. The scene where Michael and Nikita are basically fighting over Alex, and Michael kept on saying MY AGENT? Fuck yeah. Michael just wants his agent back. His agent.

- I'm not feeling Alex's love interest. I don't even remember his name. I thought for sure he was a plant that was gonna fuck shit up. idk, something about him just screams 'douche' to me! I fully cop to my Alex/Nikita OTP goggles being in the way, though.

- That final scene with Michael in Nikita's loft? Well played. OMG WHAT HAPPENS NEXT TELL ME NOW NOW.

- BRING BACK DEVON SAWA.


The Good Wife

- NGL, every time I see Childs on-screen, I am like ARGH IT'S WAR RUN ALICIA RUUUUNNNNNN.

- Judge Abernathy still cracks my shit up. I just want to hang out and weave baskets with him.

- I was so thrilled to see FBI Agent Lana back on my screen and attempting her very best to seduce Kalinda! UNF OMG. I both love and hate Kalinda for cockblocking, though. Also, Kalinda is (still) magic because whereas before I loathed the idea of Blake/Kalinda (even hatesex) and was LOL at Cary/Kalinda, canon has made me enjoy scenes of both. CAN WE TALK ABOUT BLAKE AND KALINDA STRIPPING EACH OTHER DOWN TO UNDERWEAR? AND KALINDA SLAMMING BLAKE AGAINST THE WALL? AND THEN THE BASEBALL BAT!! She is my hero. Can we talk about Cary trying to protect Kalinda, d'aaaawwww. ahahaha I am so easy: if you try your damndest support Kalinda, I will like you.

- I love Diane/Kurt so fucking much. So fucking much do I love them. And I love that when she turned down his invitation to go away with him, he said SHE IS HIS HERO. OH MY FUCKING GOD. WHAT KIND OF A TELEVISION SHOW IS THIS, HOW IS IT SO GOOD AND EVERYTHING WE NEED TO HEAR?!??

- Wendy's nanny is gonna haunt me the same way the jury POV episode still haunts me. God fucking damn, that is cold.

- IDK, I JUST LOVE EVERYTHING, TALK TO ME ABOUT EVERYTHING


Being Human UK

- NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO AND I WAS JUST BEGINNING TO WARM TO NANCY BUT WHATEVER OH NO THE IMPORTANT THING IS THAT EVERYONE IS BREAKING UP WITH EACH OTHER NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I realize this is important for plot reasons, but mostly I just want to stab things until everyone is BFFs again. People who felt upset at the Sam&Dean relationship in S4, I understand you now!


The Good Wife is only pretending to be a show about lawyers. It's actually a show about sneaky political maneuvering. Okay, it's sometimes about bleeding-heart lawyers, whatever, but most times it's about power struggles and how to play the public and how good people sometimes lose. In a different show, these people would be antagonists. In this show, it's not that clear-cut. "Being right is the last refuge of the loser," said Will. Also, look at this clip of Lana trying to seduce Kalinda as Kalinda tries to get information from her.

In more important news, Dreamwidth has help_japan. It's not a mirror of help_japan and the bidding is in pounds. If you are an artist and also interested in doing something non-fannish to help, there is Art for Japan. The LJ help_japan community has put together a great list of various charities, and it will be continuously updated.

Comments

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

Population density is definitely a factor. Another is building codes and whether that's being held up or not. Japan knows how to earthquake-proof itself. It has the experience to have a good disaster response system. Indonesia was never that organized. Even when the tsunami warning system was put in place, it quickly sank into disrepair because no one knew how to maintain it properly. Ugh.

[august-monsoon.livejournal.com]

Maintenance is definitely the biggest problem in the devloping countries, it stems from corruption again and what's worse, because of corruption no one with strong morals and integrity gets into the government, at least not at the community/town/state level, (at least that has been my experience from India. Until things change at the grass roots level, nothinng big is going to change over all, part of the reason why Chennai and Delhi have some of the biggest software HQs in the world yet there is such great disparity in wealth and flooding still devastates the rural communities.

It is indeed ugh.

[august-monsoon.livejournal.com]

HOMG LASS, THE GOOD WIFE, I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!


KALIINDAAA!!!!!!!!!! She's so awesome and badass and that deep voice and that way of walking and the cute leather jackets and how she's so ~i got this~ and then she smiles and it's so beautiful!!! I'm in love. For reals.

ALICIA!! She's awesome too and kind and she's smart and wears sexy suits and walks like a boss, and talks like a boss, but then she's so vulnerable and fragile, but oh so brave. I also love her eyebrows (is that weird?)!

Then there's War, and he's creepy here too, and then Ava who always ends up killing someone one way or the other, and that crazy dragon 'mentor' lady who looks really familiar but I can't quite place....

Then, then, there's the camera work at the beginning with the noticing the little thread and Alicia just reaching out to brush it off but then peter's got her hand and it's like a brilliant metaphor for her life.

Those pictures of her family at the end! They look so happy! Idk, Peter still gives me the creeps, he seems shifty all round. Whatever, I love him anyway, and I love the kids, I even love the old mother in law being so delightfully mother in law-y.

I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!

Btw, I may squee my heart out to you everytime I watch an episode so be forewarned! I kid, I kid, I won't do it everytime! I think, I might, ;)

:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD YAY it makes me so happy! \o/

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

:DDDDDDDDD I am so thrilled you are enjoying it! Oh gosh, Kalinda should be everyone's hero. Also she just has great taste in clothes. And Alicia, I really love how in the beginning, the show doesn't shy away from portraying her vulnerability, but she still deals with it and gets used to the playing field. I didn't like Peter at first in the beginning. I was on Alicia's side and was dismissive of him, but I really admire this show for not skimping on characterization on any of the characters, eventually. Wait 'til Alan Cummings shows up. He is amazing.