It’s so delightfully sappy.

Pretty much. I mean, just look at Ned and Chuck; their entire relationship is often just “da’www look at how much they love each other!” and yet it’s still so charming and heartwarming and it just makes me smile.

No, I want to see them able to cuddle each other!

Wait that sounds creepy.

So I finished season 5 of The Wire.

The adorable levels would be so much off the charts CANNOT COMPUTE.

For a couple that can’t touch even each other, they managed to be too cute to be allowed.

Yes, he does. I hate that I can never remember any of the great lines the show has… oh well, they lose a lot without the atmosphere anyway.

Olive is pretty great too, though.
and hot

I blame the actors. Such great chemistry, just in general on that show.

Also both Lee Pace and Anna Friel are adorable people anyway. squee

She is hilarious. Her with Emerson Cod… pure gold.

Yes.

I love Lily and Vivian, too.

Eh, maybe not so much on Pace.

But but when he smiles it’s the most adorable thing ever. Just…just….awwww.

Lily is so adorable! But I always get their names mixed up—I actually might not have them straight right now. Redhead’s… Vivian? I always feel like they should have the opposite names and it bothers me

Lily is the redhead. I keep getting them mixed up, too. I have to google to remember which is which.

But the rest of the time he can’t decide whether or not to be handsome or gangly and it’s weird.

Gangly can be handsome. Sometimes. Just saying.

Watching Dexter.

Gangly can be handsome. Sometimes. Just saying.

Okay, sure. But you know what I mean?

So I finished season 5 of The Wire.

You’re a man now.

The biggest problem with Season 5 is that it’s the only season where some of the didactic elements of the show start to interfere with the storytelling. The previous four seasons are also heavily didactic, but character and story are always the foremost priority. You can see some of the seams in S5, and there’s more things happening just to illustrate the point being made instead of the point being made through natural consequence.

I should really watch some more documentaries. I see some very interesting titles, but then switch to total rubbish when I don’t feel like concentrating.

It does have some lovely moments, though. When you’ve finished Season Two, you have to watch the special Christmas episode, which isn’t on the season two dvd. It has some major events in it.

COWBOY BEBOP

Both of the first Ghost in the Shell movies, GiTS and GiTS: Innocence.

Full Metal Panic was idiotic but entertaining.

Legend of the Galactic Heroes.

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann(obviously).

I love Hetalia, personally.

Saw all of Princess Tutu, and season 1 of Kaleido Star. But…

WHERE IS YUYU HAKUSHO? I AM DISAPPOINT.

Also, Digimon. But only seasons 1 and 2 (the Adventure series).

Gus Fring just keeps becoming more and more of a fantastic character for me. Unfortunately, I have to wait for one episode per week as I can’t download anything. Can’t wait for tonight! I didn’t think it was possible, but things are getting even more interesting.

Gus Fring just keeps becoming more and more of a fantastic character for me. Unfortunately, I have to wait for one episode per week as I can’t download anything. Can’t wait for tonight! I didn’t think it was possible, but things are getting even more interesting.

Gus is the fucking Terminator pretty much. What episode are you stuck on?

Happy Endings referenced the Wire for an entire subplot, so that counts for something?

WHAT PLEASE EXPLAIN

WHAT PLEASE EXPLAIN

Alex thought the Chinese food place opposite her store was a brothel so she got Brad and Max to help and they referenced the Wire extensively, mostly by yelling at people.

Oh man, you’re right on the cusp. I don’t care if you don’t care about spoilers. I’m not spoiling that for you. You’re just gonna have to tough it out, but it will be worth it.

Just make sure you’ve braced yourself.

Breaking Bad spoilers ahead. Sort of, since I’m so behind with this. :P

Sherlock.

Holy crap. I friggin’ love this show.

I finished the second season today. The end is twisty. D:

@Willow: well, it’s just that when I watched Princess Tutu, we pretty much marathoned it in, like, a day. So somewhere 3/4 into the show I came up with the idea that it was less about fate and freewill and fairy tales, and really all about the struggles of the creative progress—whether or not to force your characters into your plot or just go with it, etc. I had all sorts of arguments, but it’s been awhile and I never wrote them down. :(

My friends had me watch an episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender. It was pretty good- the characters were surprisingly interesting for a show targeted to kids. I especially liked Toph.

I started in the middle, so it was a bit disorienting, but I’m sure my Avatar-crazy friends would be glad to have a marathon at some point. :)

Definitely begin at the beginning, SWQ.

Anyone ever see Talespin?

Who hasn’t seen Talespin?

I had no childhood.

No, seriously. My parents didn’t believe in television. Not that that’s a bad thing, I just think I missed out on a lot of the greats.

@SWQ – which episode, do you know? Season 2 or 3, because it had Toph in it, but I like pestering people for specifics. :)

Anyway, I concur with Puppet. Watch from the first season all the way through. The first season—especially the beginning of it—takes a bit to find its feet, but season 2 is nearly perfect, and season 3 has a lot of awesome too.

I also never saw Talespin, for the same reason as Spanman. This is why I have to make up for it by watching ten times as much of classic stuff now that I’m older. On the plus side, it means I’m watching a lot of stuff for the first time only once I’m old enough to really appreciate it!

Sansa: Apparently, swenson and Spanman.

Since I’m homeschooled, I don’t have a lot of rules of thumb for those kinds of questions. For all I know, Cool People might never have heard of it. :P

450 acres? I am so envious.

Oh wow I remember Tailspin!

I had tv, but only the Disney channel. I even remember watching it when they didn’t have commercials in the middle of a movie. But even that wasn’t all that often. My best friend had a couple acres and we still trespassed to go to her neighbor’s ‘pond’. Otherwise I was reading. Amazing how much more I did back than really.

Oh and Clib’s rock formations reminded me of another friend whose dad had also a number of acres and we used to wander down this culvert of limestone, I think, and catch lizards. A college friend said we were lucky not to be washed away in a flash-flood, but though she also had many acres to play on, she grew up on the bottom of a mountain instead of the top. And and desert.

Good memories :)

bq. Good memories :)

Indeed : )

I lived in Missouri; it was mostly forest but there were some crops, tree nurseries, and several ponds and things. It was huge. There were a lot of places I didn’t get to explore because I was too young/it was too dangerous. We had a lot of snakes and snapping turtles and such.

Dammit sansafro, you just ruined my sales pitch.

Shoooooot, Americans make their meth in real live labs?

Americans make their meth in real live labs?

Well, “lab” is an extremely generous description, but yes.

bq. Why on earth would anyone start using meth anyway? I’ve never understood that. The stuff is made with more lethal chemicals than most biowarfare projects. Crack at least _starts out_ as a plant.

This. And I've seen people who are on meth, it's not a pretty sight.

bq. Well, that’s a bit of a rhetorical question.

Yeah, well, I like to answer rhetorical questions just for the hell of it.

Ah man, that made my night.

Hm, I’ve never heard of that TV show.

Puppet: Huh?

Clib: Yep, that’s the one. I feel like that was one of those My Hobby strips.

Yellow lab looks like it wants my soul.

Re: meth labs: true story, I have cousins who live in the vicinity of a not-so-nice city. One day, we were driving through a not-so-nice part of that not-so-nice city and my cousin casually points at a house that doesn’t have a porch. “See that house?” she asks. “There was a meth lab in the basement. Blew the porch right off.” Literally blew the thing right off—you could see that something had been attached, but the debris had been cleared up, and if somebody’d painted over the marks and put in new steps, you never could have told there was a porch there originally.

The moral of this story is to not do drugs, or your porch will blow up.

The moral of this story is to not do drugs, or your porch will blow up.

That might be the effect some of them are aiming for.

Yeah, Amy’s only slightly better than Rose to me. My favorite is Donna (perhaps because she was never in love with the Doctor, but probably because she was the most average person, and I liked that). I liked Martha too, and she was the least bitchy (not really bitchy at all, actually).

Been delving into the audios a bit more. I quite enjoy Sara Kingdom’s character, and Charley’s a very good prototype for the modern companion. Even Peri and Mel are made likable.

Start from the begining. They arn’t that hard to keep straight. ;-)

Yeah, though the episodes aren’t technically in order, except for the first two, so watch those first.