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C. Happy birthday to

stultiloquentia! She's an excellent writer and thinker and wit, and she makes me incredibly happy when ever I see her soup can. That was not a dirty innuendo.
I. The IWRY Marathon kicked off today! The story is Letters, by Jo (

librarian2003). I haven't read it yet, but I'm really excited because Jo's a fabulous writer. She's one of the first Jossverse fic authors I've ever read! So hop to it, kids!
N. Tomorrow

lostakasha posts. She wrote B/A, y'all. I'm aquiver with excitement.
D. Does anybody know what happened to Spy!Daddy? I mean, that show, Justice, that used to come on after Bones?
E. Speaking of Bones, this ep was a little hard to watch for me because sometimes every woman I know seems so intent on changing themselves, especially getting thinner. It makes me sad. Also, I'm doing this writing thing where I have to do body modification research, and it's really icky. Like, some of the photos I looked at, with men and 19" waists. I think that's why I'm nauseous.
R. On the other hand, DB. Fuck, that man's arms. No, seriously. I'd do 'em.
E. S4 of AtS OWNS me. It owns me like an owning thing. And long, woe-is-me, what-am-I-now, on-and-on, in-the-church monologues, which JM and that whole scene just, I'm sorry, utterly lamed up for me, VK and that whole other scene made shiny and new for me.
L. Did you guys know T.J. Thyne (Hodgins from Bones) was on AtS?
L. I hate Angel's hair at the beginning of S5. And his clothes.
A. On Oprah, Denzel Washington talked about the art of a single perfect tear.
! Do you guys think Baltar, Joaquin Phoenix, and VK have an uncanny ability to cry?

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It is, hands down, the best season of television in the HISTORY OF TELEVISION. Nothing will ever, ever, ever again be that good. VK is the kind of talented that is actually SCARY.

I loved it when I saw it the first time around, but I don't think I really managed to feel it all because I wanted so much to know what was going to happen (I knew the general outline, but no specifics). And I don't rewatch often because even with things I love, I usually feel like they might lose their shine or something. But anyway, this time around, god, I felt like every episode left me with bruises. Particularly the Jasmine ones--the first time I saw them I didn't know Connor wasn't under her spell. Then I knew, and thought about it a lot, but it's different *watching* and knowing. It's fucking painful. And yeah VK really managed to carry, like, everything. Most of the times he didn't even need to say anything; every single layer of lie and terrible truth was there on his face and in his body. gah

Like, William Dafoe. Or Ed Harris.

I don't think I've ever seen either one of them cry! Huh. Must've not been watching the right movies. Baltar and Joaquin Phoenix don't gut me; I'm just amazed by how often they seem to be able to call up tears. VK too. They get this shiny eyed look.

Liam Neeson and Samantha Morton gut me when they cry. Now that's a weird combination.

I felt like every episode left me with bruises.

Yes, yes, yes. And in various ways. There's the tragedy of every one of the those characters' storylines, and then there's the amazingness and complexities of the relationships and the way the dialogue zings and zings and makes little squees of delight go off in two dozen different parts of your brain. And everything. I re-watched it when I came back from the VK con and really, I was the kind of wide-eyed and hinged-jawed at how even more incredible Connor was the second time around. And this is ME talking here.

Baltar and Joaquin Phoenix don't gut me; I'm just amazed by how often they seem to be able to call up tears. VK too. They get this shiny eyed look.

The thing for me is not the ability to call up tears, but the sincerity with which they're able to cry. There's nothing artificial in the way that VK and Phoenix and the guy who plays Baltar cry. They all have this thing where their whole faces crumple up and their shoulder hunch inward and their whole bodies sort of shake and the *reaility* of those moments gets me every time.

then there's the amazingness and complexities of the relationships and the way the dialogue zings and zings and makes little squees of delight go off in two dozen different parts of your brain.

Exactly. I've spent a lot of time, since I've become familiar with the canon, digging out mirrors and playing in parallels, looking for the parts where so-and-so is a stand in for someone else and a reflection of yet another, and I watched this again and yeah, suddenly there were so many new and different things that tied knots and threads to each other. Interconnectivity always really gets me high.

even more incredible Connor was the second time around. And this is ME talking here.

ha, yeah, I didn't know you could find him more incredible. ;o)

There's nothing artificial in the way that VK and Phoenix and the guy who plays Baltar cry.

The thing is with all three of them that sometimes I think they are so truly *in* it that they have no idea their eyes are even filling.

But, I must say, Baltar crying does not get to me. It just makes me want to slap him around and tell him to buck the fuck up.

VK with the tears, I'd give him my kidneys if it would make him not be sad. And . . . that's kinda gross.