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May. 3rd, 2013 12:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
girlofpreySo, today was the day when my sister decided to show up at the house. She suddenly shouted from the bottom of the stairs that she was here, and thought she'd tell me so I wasn't terrified when I realised someone was in the house. I said she could have called before she came, and she looked away and said "Well I don't have to do I?", and I said no she didn't. She said she'd run out of washing powder so she'd come down to get some 'and things'. I went back to playing on the Playstation rather than hover over her shoulder, as far as I could tell she and one of my nephews were downstairs for about twenty minutes. When I came down, from what I could see, she'd taken the last of the washing powder tablets, she'd raided the cupboards for snacks, and she taken an envelope mum had left with money in it for a man who'd done some work on our tree, taken the money out, and left the envelope on the table. Good times.
Anyway. My week without my parents is almost over, and it's been pretty nice really. The only fiasco I had was on Tuesday, when I had to get up and go out to a jewellery course I do. It starts at 1 in Leeds, so I have to be up and out so I can be in Leeds for around 12-ish. But I remembered that I had to feed the dog and take him out and stuff, so I set my alarm for half an hour before I usually set it for. On Tuesday morning, I woke up early, couldn't get back to sleep, then couldn't work out why my alarm had gone off. I got up and started getting ready, and realised I'd gotten up at the time I set my alarm for, when I usually set the alarm, give myself half an hour to wake up in bed, and then get up. But no matter, I continued to get ready. I went downstairs, and it turned out to be the only day of the week (so far, fingers crossed) that the dog had made a mess in the kitchen. Even though it was around the time he usually barked to go out, so if anything I'd had a better chance of getting him out in time. But I didn't. I fed him, took him out, and cleaned it up, which I almost never do in the kitchen. I washed my hands, had a breakfast bar, and managed to get out in time for the bus to the bus station. However, they'd changed the bus times slightly from last year, so the connection I easily made when I went on this course last year, I missed, and had to wait half an hour for the next bus. I went into town, bought a few books on clearance, came back to the bus station and sat down to wait for the bus. And it wasn't until 12:33, when I was looking at a bus station clock, that I thought "Wait - 12:33?". And then I realised that instead of setting my alarm for half an hour before I usually did, I'd gotten confused and set it half an hour later. But then got up half an hour early anyway. But then either spent so much time cleaning up after the dog, or thought I had loads of time since I was 'early', that I completely missed the actual bus I wanted to get. And then missed the bus after that anyway. So I missed an hour of my jewellery course. But it's all pretty laidback, so it was alright really. But it was a confusing few hours.
In other news, I'm kind of freaking out about Dragon Age. Here's the thing - I love Alistair, and even though he's kind of annoying, I've decided my character would love him too. Things got off to a rocky start when I didn't know what kind of gifts he liked and I sort of got his aunt (by marriage) killed. But now we're having the romance plotline. But! Alistair is going to be king! And I kind of don't want him to be, because I think it will change him, but it would also be good for him to have a chance to believe in himself. But my character's an elf, and human's are racist towards elves, and I just don't think it's going to go down well that the new king has an elf girlfriend. EVERYTHING I CAN THINK OF FOR HOW THIS STORYLINE WILL GO JUST SEEMS LIKE THE MOST TRAGIC THING IN THE WORLD. Like, I am obviously fanficcing it, BUT I DON'T SEE HOW IT CAN BE FINE? I mean it might be fine, because the game regularly seems to forget that I am a woman, never mind an elf, but if it just doesn't notice the king has an elf girlfriend that's kind of just going to be unsatisfactory. I'M FREAKING OUT. IN A GOOD WAY. IT'S SO ANGSTY AND POTENTIALLY ANGSTY, AND I LOVE IT, AND ALSO HATE IT.
We have just got to the point of the story where we go to the Elven Alienage in Denerim though. This seems like it's going to be pretty grim, but maybe it will be a point where Alistair vows that when he is king discrimination against elves will stop (even though it wouldn't be that easy), and it will seem like a slightly better prospect, for the king to have an elf girlfriend. And for an elf to be the human king's girlfriend. SO ANGSTY. OH.
NO SPOILERS PLEASE.
In other other news, I am watching Hannibal. It is extremely gory! But very good. I kind of wasn't holding out a lot of hope for Hugh Dancy, I think because he is pretty and reminds me of Jack Whitehall. But he's actually amazing. It is really good. But very gory.
I also watched the end of The Following. What a shit ending. Like, they didn't tie up anything, really. I mostly don't believe Joe is dead? I mean, him dying in the same way his character died, by sheer accident? Come on. I mean, I don't know how they matched up the DNA and dental records, but the fact they were banging on about making sure just makes me think he's not dead even more. He probably has cult members in the forensics department. You know he does. And they didn't do anything with his shared history with Ryan, really. Like, either he's not dead and it's shit, or he is dead and it's even shitter.
Also I loved the fact they made an effort to make sure only the two white guys remained alive and/or onscreen. Good job there show. The lady playing Debra Parker was amazing in the box though. Like, way better than she's ever been out of the box, from what I remember.
Two things I did like in the ending: Joe's line about having been stabbed with a knife, and a fork, and the bit where Claire was crying and Joe tried to comfort her, and then he just went completely psychotic about it, and then just completely psychotic. That really brought home just how crazy and terrifying Joe really is, and was about a thousand times better than any of his wrangling over his book and any of the 'hilarious' Dotty Professor type lines he used at the cult. And I did appreciate him basically hitting on Ryan at the end there. After all those weeks of watching his sex tapes. 'Who'd ever love two damaged souls like us?' indeed. So Joe somehow became the star character for me in the last episode, somehow. Also, I really like Emma. I mean, not like like her, but I like her character. Most of the internet doesn't seem to. But I do, and I'm glad she'd lived.
So. Assuming that Joe isn't dead, I am going to guess that Claire dies before the next season. I mean, Ryan isn't going to, and if she dies, their shared history with her will probably be the thread pulling him and Joe together, since they couldn't do the 'kidnapping Claire and Joey' thing again. I think I was always genuinely more interested in Ryan and Joe's relationship without Claire in the middle of it though, but they kind of didn't give them one, and sort of ruined even what they did have in the last episode. Saying Ryan followed Claire hoping she'd lead him to Joe kind of erases the stuff he said at the beginning of the series about how it feels to have been 'seduced and charmed' by Joe, and his guilt at not knowing Joe was the killer earlier. Like, if he thought Claire would lead him to the killer, and she led him to Joe, wouldn't he have always suspected Joe? It doesn't really make any sense. But then this is The Following, I guess. And the beginning of the series was a long time, and a different show, ago.
But anyway. It's over. Season 1 at least. Either Joe is dead and their expert on cults is dead, and I really don't know what they're going to do in Season 2, or Joe is alive and what I feared would happen has happened, and in dragging it our for another season they've basically had to rewrite their story so you never get emotional resolutions when it feels like it would be right to get them. Or maybe it's just bad writing, and we'll never get them. In any of these cases, it sucks.
Anyway. My week without my parents is almost over, and it's been pretty nice really. The only fiasco I had was on Tuesday, when I had to get up and go out to a jewellery course I do. It starts at 1 in Leeds, so I have to be up and out so I can be in Leeds for around 12-ish. But I remembered that I had to feed the dog and take him out and stuff, so I set my alarm for half an hour before I usually set it for. On Tuesday morning, I woke up early, couldn't get back to sleep, then couldn't work out why my alarm had gone off. I got up and started getting ready, and realised I'd gotten up at the time I set my alarm for, when I usually set the alarm, give myself half an hour to wake up in bed, and then get up. But no matter, I continued to get ready. I went downstairs, and it turned out to be the only day of the week (so far, fingers crossed) that the dog had made a mess in the kitchen. Even though it was around the time he usually barked to go out, so if anything I'd had a better chance of getting him out in time. But I didn't. I fed him, took him out, and cleaned it up, which I almost never do in the kitchen. I washed my hands, had a breakfast bar, and managed to get out in time for the bus to the bus station. However, they'd changed the bus times slightly from last year, so the connection I easily made when I went on this course last year, I missed, and had to wait half an hour for the next bus. I went into town, bought a few books on clearance, came back to the bus station and sat down to wait for the bus. And it wasn't until 12:33, when I was looking at a bus station clock, that I thought "Wait - 12:33?". And then I realised that instead of setting my alarm for half an hour before I usually did, I'd gotten confused and set it half an hour later. But then got up half an hour early anyway. But then either spent so much time cleaning up after the dog, or thought I had loads of time since I was 'early', that I completely missed the actual bus I wanted to get. And then missed the bus after that anyway. So I missed an hour of my jewellery course. But it's all pretty laidback, so it was alright really. But it was a confusing few hours.
In other news, I'm kind of freaking out about Dragon Age. Here's the thing - I love Alistair, and even though he's kind of annoying, I've decided my character would love him too. Things got off to a rocky start when I didn't know what kind of gifts he liked and I sort of got his aunt (by marriage) killed. But now we're having the romance plotline. But! Alistair is going to be king! And I kind of don't want him to be, because I think it will change him, but it would also be good for him to have a chance to believe in himself. But my character's an elf, and human's are racist towards elves, and I just don't think it's going to go down well that the new king has an elf girlfriend. EVERYTHING I CAN THINK OF FOR HOW THIS STORYLINE WILL GO JUST SEEMS LIKE THE MOST TRAGIC THING IN THE WORLD. Like, I am obviously fanficcing it, BUT I DON'T SEE HOW IT CAN BE FINE? I mean it might be fine, because the game regularly seems to forget that I am a woman, never mind an elf, but if it just doesn't notice the king has an elf girlfriend that's kind of just going to be unsatisfactory. I'M FREAKING OUT. IN A GOOD WAY. IT'S SO ANGSTY AND POTENTIALLY ANGSTY, AND I LOVE IT, AND ALSO HATE IT.
We have just got to the point of the story where we go to the Elven Alienage in Denerim though. This seems like it's going to be pretty grim, but maybe it will be a point where Alistair vows that when he is king discrimination against elves will stop (even though it wouldn't be that easy), and it will seem like a slightly better prospect, for the king to have an elf girlfriend. And for an elf to be the human king's girlfriend. SO ANGSTY. OH.
NO SPOILERS PLEASE.
In other other news, I am watching Hannibal. It is extremely gory! But very good. I kind of wasn't holding out a lot of hope for Hugh Dancy, I think because he is pretty and reminds me of Jack Whitehall. But he's actually amazing. It is really good. But very gory.
I also watched the end of The Following. What a shit ending. Like, they didn't tie up anything, really. I mostly don't believe Joe is dead? I mean, him dying in the same way his character died, by sheer accident? Come on. I mean, I don't know how they matched up the DNA and dental records, but the fact they were banging on about making sure just makes me think he's not dead even more. He probably has cult members in the forensics department. You know he does. And they didn't do anything with his shared history with Ryan, really. Like, either he's not dead and it's shit, or he is dead and it's even shitter.
Also I loved the fact they made an effort to make sure only the two white guys remained alive and/or onscreen. Good job there show. The lady playing Debra Parker was amazing in the box though. Like, way better than she's ever been out of the box, from what I remember.
Two things I did like in the ending: Joe's line about having been stabbed with a knife, and a fork, and the bit where Claire was crying and Joe tried to comfort her, and then he just went completely psychotic about it, and then just completely psychotic. That really brought home just how crazy and terrifying Joe really is, and was about a thousand times better than any of his wrangling over his book and any of the 'hilarious' Dotty Professor type lines he used at the cult. And I did appreciate him basically hitting on Ryan at the end there. After all those weeks of watching his sex tapes. 'Who'd ever love two damaged souls like us?' indeed. So Joe somehow became the star character for me in the last episode, somehow. Also, I really like Emma. I mean, not like like her, but I like her character. Most of the internet doesn't seem to. But I do, and I'm glad she'd lived.
So. Assuming that Joe isn't dead, I am going to guess that Claire dies before the next season. I mean, Ryan isn't going to, and if she dies, their shared history with her will probably be the thread pulling him and Joe together, since they couldn't do the 'kidnapping Claire and Joey' thing again. I think I was always genuinely more interested in Ryan and Joe's relationship without Claire in the middle of it though, but they kind of didn't give them one, and sort of ruined even what they did have in the last episode. Saying Ryan followed Claire hoping she'd lead him to Joe kind of erases the stuff he said at the beginning of the series about how it feels to have been 'seduced and charmed' by Joe, and his guilt at not knowing Joe was the killer earlier. Like, if he thought Claire would lead him to the killer, and she led him to Joe, wouldn't he have always suspected Joe? It doesn't really make any sense. But then this is The Following, I guess. And the beginning of the series was a long time, and a different show, ago.
But anyway. It's over. Season 1 at least. Either Joe is dead and their expert on cults is dead, and I really don't know what they're going to do in Season 2, or Joe is alive and what I feared would happen has happened, and in dragging it our for another season they've basically had to rewrite their story so you never get emotional resolutions when it feels like it would be right to get them. Or maybe it's just bad writing, and we'll never get them. In any of these cases, it sucks.
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