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Sep. 22nd, 2006 09:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
girlofpreyI called in sick today for period pains. God appears to be making it worth my while.
Last night I was a bit asskasjajajsh over the Emmerdale Kidnap Drama hour-long special. Because spoilers promised me Sadie would die (I don't like her) , and Tom would die (it would do interesting things to Matt and Carl) and that Cain would get away realistically and grottily somehow from a quarry. Instead, Tom lived, Sadie was in on it the whole time (though Cain did dump her at the last minute), and Cain escaped IN A SEA-PLANE WHICH FLEW OVER EMMERDALE AS IT LEFT. And it was just '...???', and I wanted to cry at the unfairness of it. OH GOD, THEY PROMISED ME DEATHS. Damn them. But I just generally wasn't pleased with how they handled the Kings, either. Because if there's one thing I can usually count on the King boys for, it's complete emotional dysfunction when something happens to the family. And all Carl and Matt really did was shout at each other, Cain's family (the Dingles), and policemen. And it was so clear the show was loving on the Dingles, and omg their poor but fabulous family politics and honour, and oooh doesn't Cain have nice hair, and SO ON, and the Kings were just sort of money-grubbing bad guys. Carl almost hit Chastity (his fiancee) - what's that about? And just, oh, they couldn't all get to be dysfunctional and great together could they? Not when the Dingles did euthanasia and are OMG POOR! >:(
But - there were nice bits. Zak Dingle (Cain's father) kept calling Matt 'son' and 'lad' when he got upset, and Matt wouldn't let him at first but eventually did (while over in the woods, Cain wouldn't let Tom King call him 'son'), and it was eee, daddy issues! And Carl did, eventually, break down and start crying - right after he almost hit his fiancee and didn't. He clung to her and was all 'He's going to die, I know he is!', and it was great and almost made up for the traumatic violence beforehand. Then Cain called Chastity to make a demand, and she and Carl had their own little heist with the money, and when Matt found out about it and started shouting Carl cried again and said he was glad he'd done it and he hoped Cain was away with the money by now - because at that point they thought Sadie was dead and Tom would've been next. Also they'd gotten Matt and Carl out of shirts and into t-shirts and jeans at that point, and it's amazing how much that improves my viewing experience. So those parts were in fact quite shiny and I enjoyed them very much :D
And today I rewatched the episode, and came to terms with some things. Like that the kidnap wasn't so much about family as about family and business/money, which is probably why they were being to odd and restrained. Tom is totally going to die at some point this autumn, so I guess I'll just have to wait for my emotional fallout. And while Matt was being very shouty and almost told the police about the Dingles' euthanasia, it was made pretty clear that it was mostly due to stress from the kidnapping - and Carl's situation actually confirmed some of my own ideas about him lately. He's pretty much gone from the unambitious amiable brother to having a professional role in the family business which he's gotten quite protective over - so his businesslike's "front" is pretty new, and just doesn't gel with his inherent tendency to completely break down in traumatic situations. So, he tried to keep it up, repressed all his usual panic, and ended up going off the deep end with terrible, extreme behaviour before finally giving in and letting it all out (with clinging). Then he was back to panicky crying Carl, and it was a nice, believable bridge for his character really - and hopefully not foreshadowing big emotional problems in his future. So, well done Emmerdale script-writers. And it wasn't that bad. They should just TOTALLY PAY MORE ATTENTION TO MY FAVOURITE CHARACTERS NEXT TIME, ALRIGHT?
Anyway. Tonight they were back to hashing it out with each other sarcastically, and Tom was repressed and rubbish and Carl shouted that he loved him across a garden and it was great. Tom and Matt tried to either get rid of Chastity or make her (and to a lesser extent Carl) choose whether she was a King or a Dingle. Which she did. And I get that this won't make a lick of sense to most people, but I love it very, very much. It would be great if Carl decided he was really a Dingle. And went off to live in their big stone house. He'd be upset for a while about the lack of nice clothes and sports cars, but then he'd get a normal job and add money to the Dingle pot, and sleep with Chas at nights which would cheer him up immeasurably, and the Dingles wouldn't trust him at first but he'd get drunk with them a few times, and help take care of little Samson, and it'd be all fine. And Matt would occasionally swoosh down to the house in his fancy car, and stand outside and ask for Carl to come out and have a word with him, and they'd stand a bit far apart and Matt would sarcastically mock his new life and clothes and the Dingle family, and then suddenly lose the sarcastic face and ask him when he was giving it up, when was he coming home, isn't he ready to come home yet? And Carl would just stand and smile at him, and shake his head. Possibly he would be shirtless from chopping wood. Though he'd totally still love Matt because omg, King family, and they'd all secretly pine for each other, and Matt would watch him drinking in the pub with the Dingles, and corner him in the men's toilets for more "talks", and it would be GREAT. Yay.
I thought maybe, after trying to write Emmerdale fic, I just didn't get the characters well enough, and mostly just liked watching them flail dysfunctionally - and that I couldn't write Emmerdale fic very well because I just tend to SAY STUFF, and tell not show. But then today I wrote about 700 words I really quite like for them. So I've decided writing is just a bit hard. Especially in fandoms no-one else really knows about. Where you get new canon pretty much every day.
While I was upset last night, I did manage to find this pic from Matt and Carl's big gay break-up though:
Which is surely compensation for something :)
Today I finished the first Lucifer book, which is brilliant. I enjoyed it way more than the first Sandman book, and am into the series in a way I'm just not with Sandman. Yet. Though I think I should probably keep reading those at least until Lucifer actually gets to the part where he has a spin-off. He is icy and blond and amoral, and just knows everything about everything. And he's mostly just sticking to his version of the "truth" about the world, which is fair enough if a little harsh on human beings. So yay, I love him. And I love Mazikeen a bit too, even if I can barely understand her. She dashes up with fire extinguishers, and always carries an edged weapon. She is great.
And I caught the S5 episode of Angel where Lindsey comes back as tattooed whore mage, and they have that swordfight where he takes his shirt off for just no reason. It is amazing. I should try to track down some Angel DVDs at some point.
At the moment my nephew's here again. He's progressed from calling me 'ruh-ruh' to 'rah-rah', and I'm very, very pleased. Tomorrow I have to go pick up a recorded delivery from the post office that's possibly my new phone, and I really should get back to Connotations about modding that panel. Which I, um, haven't. I think I probably will now. Apparently my modding skills aren't THAT bad, and I've sort of started planning handouts. So, yay!
Also: TWO WEEKS, omg.
Last night I was a bit asskasjajajsh over the Emmerdale Kidnap Drama hour-long special. Because spoilers promised me Sadie would die (I don't like her) , and Tom would die (it would do interesting things to Matt and Carl) and that Cain would get away realistically and grottily somehow from a quarry. Instead, Tom lived, Sadie was in on it the whole time (though Cain did dump her at the last minute), and Cain escaped IN A SEA-PLANE WHICH FLEW OVER EMMERDALE AS IT LEFT. And it was just '...???', and I wanted to cry at the unfairness of it. OH GOD, THEY PROMISED ME DEATHS. Damn them. But I just generally wasn't pleased with how they handled the Kings, either. Because if there's one thing I can usually count on the King boys for, it's complete emotional dysfunction when something happens to the family. And all Carl and Matt really did was shout at each other, Cain's family (the Dingles), and policemen. And it was so clear the show was loving on the Dingles, and omg their poor but fabulous family politics and honour, and oooh doesn't Cain have nice hair, and SO ON, and the Kings were just sort of money-grubbing bad guys. Carl almost hit Chastity (his fiancee) - what's that about? And just, oh, they couldn't all get to be dysfunctional and great together could they? Not when the Dingles did euthanasia and are OMG POOR! >:(
But - there were nice bits. Zak Dingle (Cain's father) kept calling Matt 'son' and 'lad' when he got upset, and Matt wouldn't let him at first but eventually did (while over in the woods, Cain wouldn't let Tom King call him 'son'), and it was eee, daddy issues! And Carl did, eventually, break down and start crying - right after he almost hit his fiancee and didn't. He clung to her and was all 'He's going to die, I know he is!', and it was great and almost made up for the traumatic violence beforehand. Then Cain called Chastity to make a demand, and she and Carl had their own little heist with the money, and when Matt found out about it and started shouting Carl cried again and said he was glad he'd done it and he hoped Cain was away with the money by now - because at that point they thought Sadie was dead and Tom would've been next. Also they'd gotten Matt and Carl out of shirts and into t-shirts and jeans at that point, and it's amazing how much that improves my viewing experience. So those parts were in fact quite shiny and I enjoyed them very much :D
And today I rewatched the episode, and came to terms with some things. Like that the kidnap wasn't so much about family as about family and business/money, which is probably why they were being to odd and restrained. Tom is totally going to die at some point this autumn, so I guess I'll just have to wait for my emotional fallout. And while Matt was being very shouty and almost told the police about the Dingles' euthanasia, it was made pretty clear that it was mostly due to stress from the kidnapping - and Carl's situation actually confirmed some of my own ideas about him lately. He's pretty much gone from the unambitious amiable brother to having a professional role in the family business which he's gotten quite protective over - so his businesslike's "front" is pretty new, and just doesn't gel with his inherent tendency to completely break down in traumatic situations. So, he tried to keep it up, repressed all his usual panic, and ended up going off the deep end with terrible, extreme behaviour before finally giving in and letting it all out (with clinging). Then he was back to panicky crying Carl, and it was a nice, believable bridge for his character really - and hopefully not foreshadowing big emotional problems in his future. So, well done Emmerdale script-writers. And it wasn't that bad. They should just TOTALLY PAY MORE ATTENTION TO MY FAVOURITE CHARACTERS NEXT TIME, ALRIGHT?
Anyway. Tonight they were back to hashing it out with each other sarcastically, and Tom was repressed and rubbish and Carl shouted that he loved him across a garden and it was great. Tom and Matt tried to either get rid of Chastity or make her (and to a lesser extent Carl) choose whether she was a King or a Dingle. Which she did. And I get that this won't make a lick of sense to most people, but I love it very, very much. It would be great if Carl decided he was really a Dingle. And went off to live in their big stone house. He'd be upset for a while about the lack of nice clothes and sports cars, but then he'd get a normal job and add money to the Dingle pot, and sleep with Chas at nights which would cheer him up immeasurably, and the Dingles wouldn't trust him at first but he'd get drunk with them a few times, and help take care of little Samson, and it'd be all fine. And Matt would occasionally swoosh down to the house in his fancy car, and stand outside and ask for Carl to come out and have a word with him, and they'd stand a bit far apart and Matt would sarcastically mock his new life and clothes and the Dingle family, and then suddenly lose the sarcastic face and ask him when he was giving it up, when was he coming home, isn't he ready to come home yet? And Carl would just stand and smile at him, and shake his head. Possibly he would be shirtless from chopping wood. Though he'd totally still love Matt because omg, King family, and they'd all secretly pine for each other, and Matt would watch him drinking in the pub with the Dingles, and corner him in the men's toilets for more "talks", and it would be GREAT. Yay.
I thought maybe, after trying to write Emmerdale fic, I just didn't get the characters well enough, and mostly just liked watching them flail dysfunctionally - and that I couldn't write Emmerdale fic very well because I just tend to SAY STUFF, and tell not show. But then today I wrote about 700 words I really quite like for them. So I've decided writing is just a bit hard. Especially in fandoms no-one else really knows about. Where you get new canon pretty much every day.
While I was upset last night, I did manage to find this pic from Matt and Carl's big gay break-up though:
Which is surely compensation for something :)
Today I finished the first Lucifer book, which is brilliant. I enjoyed it way more than the first Sandman book, and am into the series in a way I'm just not with Sandman. Yet. Though I think I should probably keep reading those at least until Lucifer actually gets to the part where he has a spin-off. He is icy and blond and amoral, and just knows everything about everything. And he's mostly just sticking to his version of the "truth" about the world, which is fair enough if a little harsh on human beings. So yay, I love him. And I love Mazikeen a bit too, even if I can barely understand her. She dashes up with fire extinguishers, and always carries an edged weapon. She is great.
And I caught the S5 episode of Angel where Lindsey comes back as tattooed whore mage, and they have that swordfight where he takes his shirt off for just no reason. It is amazing. I should try to track down some Angel DVDs at some point.
At the moment my nephew's here again. He's progressed from calling me 'ruh-ruh' to 'rah-rah', and I'm very, very pleased. Tomorrow I have to go pick up a recorded delivery from the post office that's possibly my new phone, and I really should get back to Connotations about modding that panel. Which I, um, haven't. I think I probably will now. Apparently my modding skills aren't THAT bad, and I've sort of started planning handouts. So, yay!
Also: TWO WEEKS, omg.
