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brokenrecordApparently Peter Berg is coming to speak at graduation here in May. If you don't know who he is, he's been in various movies that you can find on imdb (none of them I've seen), but more importantly, he wrote the Friday Night Lights movie screenplay, is involved in the development of the show, and he directed both the movie and the pilot episode of FNL. It turns out that he went to my school, which I feel like I knew before but forgot. Unfortunately graduation is at least a week after I'm planning on leaving, so I don't get to hear him speak. Pretty cool, though.
...I did not like that. Just... kind of a let-down? I don't know. I have many issues with it.
The first being that WTF JACK SPENT 1900 YEARS BURIED ALIVE, DYING AND THEN REVIVING OVER AND OVER AGAIN? I might be more okay with this if I thought that the writers would ever revisit the fact that Jack spent 1900 years away from his team and that would HAVE to have some sort of implication on his relationships with them. I mean, I feel differently to people I haven't seen in 10 years, let alone 1900. Good god. Just... that should have some sort of EFFECT, you know? But it seems like his relationships with Gwen and Ianto are EXACTLY what they were beforehand. ugh.
Then, of course, there's the fact of WTF BOTH TOSH AND OWEN DIED?! WHAT? Owen is less surprising, just because for starters, he's already dead, and I was wondering if they'd be able to fix that or how long they'd be able to go with him in that state. I mean, his hand is already broken. I can't imagine he'd last very long in Torchwood being unable to heal himself. Plus, (and this is TOTAL speculation, not based on any spoilers out there) it did seem like they were kind of setting up Martha to replace him as Torchwood's doctor in her episodes. Which... I may have some issues with, but mostly love. I'll get back to that, though. But TOSH? WHAT? I mean, I never particularly loved her, but I never hated her either, and it's just so awful for her character. She lived this pathetic life and barely seemed to ever be happy. She never got a love interest for more than an episode (unless you count Owen, but nothing ever really happened between them, so that's just one more thing that sucked in her life). God. Poor Tosh. I don't know who they'll get to replace her. Someone totally new? That could be interesting. But at the same time, it feels so weird, like it's not the same show anymore. I don't know.
Also, there was VERY minimal Jack/Ianto (basically just the half-hug once Jack emerged from being frozen for 100 years after being buried for 1900 years [ajsldf never going to get over that!] which he also gave to Gwen). I mean, it's not the only thing I watch for (although... it kind of is a huge part), but as I said after I watched the premiere, I can pretty much forgive anything in this show as long as there's some substantial Jack/Ianto. Or even just Ianto. There wasn't much of him, either.
Ok, back to the Martha spec I said I'd come back to. I mostly think it would be awesome just because I love Martha and she'd be fun to have around with Jack. But I don't know. I kind of also have issues with that. She wasn't as awesome in the second or third episodes she was in just because... she was more part of the team? I don't know. I have no idea what my issue is, really. I just like her being more at the forefront, maybe? And maybe that was more because she was only in 3 episodes and it felt like they were wasting 2 of them, and that might be solved if she actually was apart of the show. Then again, they very well may not have her replace Owen, and then all this speculation and ambivalence would be for nothing.
Um, yeah. Just, overall, not happy. I loved the season 1 finale so much, and I loved the majority of the episodes this season, so I was pretty let down by this finale. I also hope they aren't changing season 3 to be more kid-friendly and such, as has been rumored, because I would hate that incredibly.
I watched the season premiere of Battlestar Galactica and totally loved it, but I actually think I have more to say about the last 15 minutes of the season 3 finale. I watched the end of the finale right before the premiere since it was showing on SciFi, and I didn't talk much about the episode when it originally aired, but holy crap, the end just kills me. I totally just have goosebumps for the entire last quarter of that episode. Everything is just brilliant and amazing and reminds me why I love the show so much. And now I desperately need to rewatch the entire series, especially since I've only seen season 1 and the first half of season 2 twice, and season 3 and the second half of season 2 once. This is, of course, in no way feasible considering the ridiculous amount of work I have left this semester. I'm hoping to be able to do it once the semester is over. I should be able to, but there are like a million shows I've gotten the urge to rewatch in the past few months, so I don't know if I'll still want to in a month.
I've actually managed to get some work done today already, which I'm really proud of. I usually only get anything done on Saturdays if I have a paper due the following week. So far I've finished the reading for Film Analysis that... ok, was due Thursday (but I didn't have time to finish it during the week because of my Drugs and Society test and... my incessant procrastinating), but I've also finished the reading for Engilsh that's due on Tuesday. I'm going to keep working on various things until dinner (so, another 2-3 hours) and then I can relax for the rest of the night and hopefully have less work to do on Sunday and during the week as a result. I totally said I was going to post the photo meme today and that's clearly not happening. The plan is to post it tomorrow, but at this rate, it'll probably be up by, like, July. ugh. I fail.
Impatiently waiting for the Doctor Who premiere to pop up! I want it desperately (even though I'm supposed to still work for another few hours and wouldn't be able to watch it until after dinner anyways).
...I did not like that. Just... kind of a let-down? I don't know. I have many issues with it.
The first being that WTF JACK SPENT 1900 YEARS BURIED ALIVE, DYING AND THEN REVIVING OVER AND OVER AGAIN? I might be more okay with this if I thought that the writers would ever revisit the fact that Jack spent 1900 years away from his team and that would HAVE to have some sort of implication on his relationships with them. I mean, I feel differently to people I haven't seen in 10 years, let alone 1900. Good god. Just... that should have some sort of EFFECT, you know? But it seems like his relationships with Gwen and Ianto are EXACTLY what they were beforehand. ugh.
Then, of course, there's the fact of WTF BOTH TOSH AND OWEN DIED?! WHAT? Owen is less surprising, just because for starters, he's already dead, and I was wondering if they'd be able to fix that or how long they'd be able to go with him in that state. I mean, his hand is already broken. I can't imagine he'd last very long in Torchwood being unable to heal himself. Plus, (and this is TOTAL speculation, not based on any spoilers out there) it did seem like they were kind of setting up Martha to replace him as Torchwood's doctor in her episodes. Which... I may have some issues with, but mostly love. I'll get back to that, though. But TOSH? WHAT? I mean, I never particularly loved her, but I never hated her either, and it's just so awful for her character. She lived this pathetic life and barely seemed to ever be happy. She never got a love interest for more than an episode (unless you count Owen, but nothing ever really happened between them, so that's just one more thing that sucked in her life). God. Poor Tosh. I don't know who they'll get to replace her. Someone totally new? That could be interesting. But at the same time, it feels so weird, like it's not the same show anymore. I don't know.
Also, there was VERY minimal Jack/Ianto (basically just the half-hug once Jack emerged from being frozen for 100 years after being buried for 1900 years [ajsldf never going to get over that!] which he also gave to Gwen). I mean, it's not the only thing I watch for (although... it kind of is a huge part), but as I said after I watched the premiere, I can pretty much forgive anything in this show as long as there's some substantial Jack/Ianto. Or even just Ianto. There wasn't much of him, either.
Ok, back to the Martha spec I said I'd come back to. I mostly think it would be awesome just because I love Martha and she'd be fun to have around with Jack. But I don't know. I kind of also have issues with that. She wasn't as awesome in the second or third episodes she was in just because... she was more part of the team? I don't know. I have no idea what my issue is, really. I just like her being more at the forefront, maybe? And maybe that was more because she was only in 3 episodes and it felt like they were wasting 2 of them, and that might be solved if she actually was apart of the show. Then again, they very well may not have her replace Owen, and then all this speculation and ambivalence would be for nothing.
Um, yeah. Just, overall, not happy. I loved the season 1 finale so much, and I loved the majority of the episodes this season, so I was pretty let down by this finale. I also hope they aren't changing season 3 to be more kid-friendly and such, as has been rumored, because I would hate that incredibly.
I watched the season premiere of Battlestar Galactica and totally loved it, but I actually think I have more to say about the last 15 minutes of the season 3 finale. I watched the end of the finale right before the premiere since it was showing on SciFi, and I didn't talk much about the episode when it originally aired, but holy crap, the end just kills me. I totally just have goosebumps for the entire last quarter of that episode. Everything is just brilliant and amazing and reminds me why I love the show so much. And now I desperately need to rewatch the entire series, especially since I've only seen season 1 and the first half of season 2 twice, and season 3 and the second half of season 2 once. This is, of course, in no way feasible considering the ridiculous amount of work I have left this semester. I'm hoping to be able to do it once the semester is over. I should be able to, but there are like a million shows I've gotten the urge to rewatch in the past few months, so I don't know if I'll still want to in a month.
I've actually managed to get some work done today already, which I'm really proud of. I usually only get anything done on Saturdays if I have a paper due the following week. So far I've finished the reading for Film Analysis that... ok, was due Thursday (but I didn't have time to finish it during the week because of my Drugs and Society test and... my incessant procrastinating), but I've also finished the reading for Engilsh that's due on Tuesday. I'm going to keep working on various things until dinner (so, another 2-3 hours) and then I can relax for the rest of the night and hopefully have less work to do on Sunday and during the week as a result. I totally said I was going to post the photo meme today and that's clearly not happening. The plan is to post it tomorrow, but at this rate, it'll probably be up by, like, July. ugh. I fail.
Impatiently waiting for the Doctor Who premiere to pop up! I want it desperately (even though I'm supposed to still work for another few hours and wouldn't be able to watch it until after dinner anyways).
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SPOILER!!!!
Date: 2008-04-06 01:23 am (UTC)i know for sure that naoko mori is leaving, but they haven't announced burn gorman. torchwood declassified have insinuated that owen ecaped through the sewer system. if own became a teenage mutant ninja turtle, that would be awesome. and yes, i hope martha doesn't join full time.
Re: SPOILER!!!!
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Date: 2008-04-06 11:17 pm (UTC)