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January 1st, 2020
 | 12:01 am - FRIENDS ONLY
Because of recent changes at LiveJournal I am now routinely flocking all entries and have recently purged my journal.
Comment to be added; all comments are screened.
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September 28th, 2013
September 17th, 2013
| 08:01 pm - Burn Notice
I decided to start watching Burn Notice recently.
First, the goods :)
- I like the format of a mixture of an overarching plot arc of Michael trying to dig deeper about who "burned" him and for what purpose, and the more mundane day-to-day business of picking up a few bucks here and there helping people out of a jam. It's kind of like Leverage in a way.
- Sam and Fiona really round out the "crew" Michael has, and in a good way. I like Sam's world-weary wise-assery and Fiona's occasional mercurialness. :)
- The bad guys sometimes prove interesting when they just manage to slip through Michael's gambits only to be caught at the end anyway.
Now for the bads.
- The family relations in this series are absolutely toxic. I particularly don't like that Michael seems to be a willing doormat for his brother, who's a known slacker and somewhat unintelligent to boot, and for his mother, who purposely manipulates him to get whatever emotional satisfaction she derives from getting him to drop everything at once and rush over to see her.
- Fiona meddling with the interactions between Michael and his mother.
- Finally, Michael's behavior. Specifically I just cannot stand how he gets this total douchebaggily fake smile on his face whenever he gets stuck with something he doesn't want to do. And I know it's fake because he uses the exact same smile with people he's using a cover identity to interact with. C'mon, producers, you couldn't have had Donovan adopt a broader repertoire of facial expressions between darkly-frowny, neutral, and fake-smiley?
Verdict: While it's not as memorable as Breaking Bad, it's at least a series I can sit down with and spend a few hours watching here and there to kill time. :)
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September 16th, 2013
March 2nd, 2013
| 10:15 pm - Hey everyone! Vote for your fave BB Episode!
THERE ARE SO MANY OMFG HOW DO I DECIDE
Well, we'll see! There's a kind of elimination-style system being used, set up over on the breaking bad comm by  falafel_musings. Go on over here to March Badness! :D
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December 23rd, 2012
 | 09:30 am - So I was watching "The Recuit"...
... and Al Pacino plays this guy named Walter Burke:
And I just couldn't help but keep thinking it was Mike Ehrmantraut in the CIA X-D
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November 18th, 2012
 | 02:02 pm - Parallels between Breaking Bad and Homeland (Part 2)
The story of Walter and Hank is in some ways a parallel to the story of Nicholas Brody and Carrie Mathison.
Just as Hank, the nail who doesn't quite stay nailed down, gets in trouble for single-mindedly pursuing "Heisenberg", experiences problems in his personal life, and ultimately finds vindication and realization with one single, crashing revelation, so too does Carrie. She single-mindedly pursues Brody and Nazir, steps on toes, has problems finding love and affection and nearly hits rock bottom even harder than Hank does, and then in one simple, blinding piece of insight, discovers she was right all along.
And on the other side, we have Walter, the mild-mannered (so Hank originally assumes!) chemistry teacher who 'breaks bad' and becomes the semi-mythical Heisenberg, the cook who has dreams of grandeur and wealth - all the while carefully trying to escape notice even as he almost can't help but drop hints about his true self, while Hank chases a will-o-the-wisp that the DEA isn't entirely sure exists.
Similarly, Brody, on the surface, is a recovering war hero, welcomed into circles of power, but almost purposely seeking to be found out; it's only a miracle nobody figured out he had converted to Islam before Dana did, which would sink his career harder than almost anything else, and almost certainly grab the attention of every intelligence agency in D.C. And he works undercover plots for Nazir while worming his way into an almost-certain shoo-in for the Vice-Presidential job, and trying to keep some semblance of control as he gets pulled in a hundred directions at once.
It would appear that the TV shows' respective Captain Ahabs have both found their whales, but their whales have no intention of coming quietly. :P
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November 12th, 2012
 | 02:52 pm - Parallels between Breaking Bad and Homeland (Part 1)
I'm first going to just list out the characters quickly and see who lines up with who. :)
Carrie Mathison - Hank Schrader (and shades of Heisenberg)
Dana Brody - Jesse Pinkman
VP Walden - Gus Fring
Nicholas Brody - Walter White (But she could become Carrie's "Jesse")
Jessica Brody - Skyler White
I'm going to think more on the parallels and come up with a part 2. Meantime, I'll take suggestions on who best lines up with who. There's still a lot out there! :)
Breaking Bad
Hector Salamanca
Tuco Salamanca
Lydia Rodarte-Quayle
Mike Ehrmantraut
Marie Schrader
Walter White Junior ("Flynn")
Todd
Homeland
Saul Goodman
David Estes
Chris Brody
Quinn
And if I'm missing anyone let me know. :D I look forward to comments. :)
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November 7th, 2012
 | 12:51 pm - Gankable Icon Is Gankable
If anyone likes this Lydia icon, go ahead and snag away! :) You don't need to credit me either.
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November 6th, 2012
| 11:01 pm - Salon Recap of "A Gettysburg Address"
Full article here.
I want to extract a segment from it, so spoilers abound:
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That's actually pretty fascinating! Especially since they also explicitly compare Carrie Mathison to Walter White and how similar their methods of manipulation are. :)
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