{ you look nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocket chairs. }

[delga]

Been a while, been a while.

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So... how much of Amsterdam's recovery was due to his still being immortal, and how much of it was the pure chance fluke that often happens in real life? Because if it's more the latter, then he's just severed ties with the woman that he's supposed to be soulmates with. And how do you crawl back from that? (Ugh, especially after all the effort that went into pursuing her in the first place?)

That said, I wish she'd just get to grips with the 400 years old thing. What I don't understand is why, once she came back to him, he didn't offer her some sort of proof - the photographs, for example, the family tree. Omar's blood! Is it because he really wasn't sure if she was the one?

Anyway, if the show comes back, it'll be nice to see other people. If not, this romance plot is becoming trite really quick. (I'm not a fan of watching on-again, off-again relationships. I have no interest in them.)

I did enjoy watching Eva and Burnett this week; they're pretty fierce, the two of them. I'd like to see more of them. You know. If this doesn't get canned. (Other things I'd like to see: yes, still more Amsterdam offspring; other immortals.)

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Hee, bless Zack. He got a wonderful amount of dialogue this week.

LOLS, DOUBLE-DATING. Poor Sweets. "I'm cobalt!" What is it with making Brennan ever more out of the loop? She wasn't like that in the first season. And she's not Ziva; the woman can put together a basic idiom. I'm pretty certain she knows that it's a bowling alley, and not a rink, so who knows what that was about.

I remember nothing of this week's case other than whatever Cam was wearing in the first couple of acts was hott. Either way, it was just nice to have a new episode, I think.

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A Reid episode that dealt with the aftermath of his drug addiction in a way that didn't make me want to repeatedly smack my head against a wall.

I enjoyed the episode a lot, even though I found a lot of the (implied) violence quite rough - that's pretty rare considering how dark this show can get, and how light-weight this week's episode was. I liked Reid's need to connect with the unsub; I liked Hotch's talk with him at the end; I liked Morgan reaching out a little way. The story about Reid's ritual humiliation was horrible, as was the point, if not a little anvil-y.

All in all, a good episode; I was into the case, I was into the character plot, and I wasn't bored.

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How much do I love Stella Bonasera? If it had been Catherine Willows under scrutiny then no doubt she would have started up a beef with Quinn even before she entered the room. Stella just calmly slides to the side, asks for input and shares a smile about tequila. I love her, and I love how open and kindly she is.

Someone somewhere threw out the idea that Quinn was the killer and then suggested that was cracked; um, not so much? I certainly played with that as a concept more than once. I quite liked her character, actually.

Poor Lindsay. I don't really have anything else to say about that. I just felt badly for her. And that conversation she had with Mac made me ache for her even more. What I liked about that was Mac's distant - but available - concern for her, and his face when she walked away.

Note to self: do not sit down to watch this show with food. Man, the first act was disgusting.

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First off: I enjoyed the episode. I would have liked more about the cylons than the rest of it, but it was a good episode. I was surprised when it finished because it seemed to go by quite quickly.

That said, Cally's death freaked me out. Treatment of female characters on this show freaks me out. Treatment of minorities on this show freaks me out. I understand the plot motivations for what happened to Cally; it just disappointed me that another female character was degraded and then killed. I love me some Roslin and Starbuck and Six, I really do, but I'm waiting for one of the other female characters to not get treated like shit. (If you can have Helo going around being basically the guy who keeps his head down and has his shit sorted, there has to be a female equivalent. If the closest we have to that is Dualla - who was second-best to Kara Thrace... guys, come on, that stinks - then I think the female characters on this show are frakked.)

To conclude: Rekha Sharma is a badass and I kind of love her. (Also, what the heck was Adama reading to Roslin, lols?)

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Sarah Connor Chronicles looks like it'll be back. Fuck yes.

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Have yet to watch the latest NCIS; caught a couple of old school X-Men cartoon episodes. I love everybody's funky 80s hair. And Gambit! Mostly I forgot how weirdly everyone spoke.

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[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Haha, for me it was the cuts in the dead body's shoulder. Ugh. I don't know what it is but some visual patterns make me feel ill. Like stippling in wood? That freaks me out. And those gashes in the corpse were just too much, lols.