Fishnets & Malice

Insomiac Theater

2016-05-31T07:22:55Z

Does anyone still use this thing? I have been informed that fandom has Moved to Tumblr so I moved too but since I don't really make gif sets, I'm not entirely sure what to do there.

This situation is not helped by work being stupid, my commute being lengthy, and my niece and nephew being super adorable and interesting.

So what up, LJ?

Failing at Fandom

2014-08-06T01:29:41Z

Whew. So, that was what, six months or so?

So, I started a new job. I went to New Orleans, New York, Dallas, and India. And New Jersey a couple of times. On Friday, I go back to India for three weeks. I'm really kind of looking forward to 20 hours of travel and three weeks of minimal social life (I say that, and now everyone there is going to have someplace awesome to show me, which I'm all about, I swear) because I am really kind of tired. And I want to read some stuff. And maybe write some stuff.

Also I may have fallen into a Captain America: The Winter Soldier pit and been unable to find my way out. Because yeah. I liked that movie. I liked Guardians of the Galaxy, too, although I'm not sure how to interpret the fact that the majority of my feels were about the raccoon. And honestly, I did not know I had so many feels to be had for Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes. And Sam Wilson. I knew I had that many feels for Natasha Romanoff.

In other news, Trader Joes now sells Chicago-style popcorn and it is almost a perfectly equal proportion of cheddar corn to caramel corn. I am doomed.

This entry was originally posted at http://smittywing.dreamwidth.org/12765.html. If you wish, you may comment there using OpenID.

21/31

2014-01-31T06:09:49Z

Where can I find stories about the moon and its influence on women? Folk tales or myths or whatever? Internet, find me things, stat!

This is totally werewolf related.

This entry was originally posted at http://smittywing.dreamwidth.org/12344.html. If you wish, you may comment there using OpenID.

20/31

2014-01-30T13:17:39Z

Things you never knew you wanted: Wil Wheaton (and his wife!) modeling steampunk.

This entry was originally posted at http://smittywing.dreamwidth.org/12089.html. If you wish, you may comment there using OpenID.

19/31

2014-01-28T10:41:44Z

Dear HIMYM,

Thank you for not sucking for one episode this season! (Okay, some of them have had great parts but overall, OMG, shoot this show, already.) Also can we talk about how much I love the mother? When we first saw her, I was like, "Yeah, you have a lot to live up to, lady." But tonight's episode rocked. (Also the scene in an earlier one where Ted saw her pull a croissant crumb out of her bra to eat it because c'mon, 2-second rule.)

Love,
Me

PS: If she doesn't have a name by the season finale, we will talk, Carter Bays. We will talk.

This entry was originally posted at http://smittywing.dreamwidth.org/11891.html. If you wish, you may comment there using OpenID.

18/31

2014-01-27T04:51:56Z

I'm behind on posting every day, but overall I feel like I made a lot of progress toward re-engaging with my fannish friends, which was the ultimate goal. I may post a lot over the next couple days, especially if I am feeling chatty about Sleepy Hollow, but I could just as easily get distracted again. ;)

The latest public shooting you may have seen was at a mall in Maryland, yesterday. That's one of the places I go a lot. And my friends and certain members of my family go. I'm a little freaked out about that, although possibly not as much as I should be. Like, I actively feel weird that I'm not more freaked out. When I heard about it, it was all over, and the names of the victims had already been published and I didn't know them. I guess that it was already in the past helps explain the dissociation a little bit. Maybe it feels like lightning doesn't strike twice so now it's perfectly safe to go again? Ugh, I don't know. I have no plans to shop up there any time soon so I guess I can delay that particular bit of navel-gazing indefinitely.

This entry was originally posted at http://smittywing.dreamwidth.org/11662.html. If you wish, you may comment there using OpenID.

17/31

2014-01-23T20:41:20Z

Victory! They didn't move on the base salary but offered a signing bonus so I took it. It was more than I would have gotten without asking, right? Also, I got a fabulous welcome/introduction email from the team leader, copying the team, and just about everyone on the cc sent me a "hi!" or a "welcome aboard!" or some nice little message. It was really great.

Thank you, everyone who cheered for me last night when I was feeling fidgety. I'm feeling pretty good now, and waiting for my mom to call me back so I can tell her the good news. :D

This entry was originally posted at http://smittywing.dreamwidth.org/11334.html. If you wish, you may comment there using OpenID.

16/31

2014-01-23T04:17:06Z

The interview process is actually over, yay! Aaaand they made me an offer, yay! Aaaand I counteroffered. Which I have never done before, because it's kind of my policy not to argue with people who want to give me a job. But I've also been reading a lot of finance stuff and one of the new ways to blame gender pay inequality on women is to say that we don't negotiate our starting salary or raises. So. Here I am. I am sure it will be fine and not cause any strife or whatever and they will call me back tomorrow with either great news or to say, "Sorry, we can't do it," and I'll just say, "I'll just take the original offer, then," but in the meantime, I am kind of freaking out a little. Ugh, life, why so hard?

This entry was originally posted at http://smittywing.dreamwidth.org/11140.html. If you wish, you may comment there using OpenID.

15/31

2014-01-19T23:38:29Z

I have some catching up to do.

To-Do
1) Answer all the comments.
2) Write four more posts.
3) Call my grandfather, who turned 92 today.
4) Yet another work assignment I'm not quite sure how to do but have set an artificial deadline of midnight for myself.
5) Die of the plague. Every time I think I'm about to get really sick this winter, I sleep a lot and magically get better, except for one of the times, but even that was over relatively quickly. So this might just be a false alarm again but my throat feels pretty gummy so I'm displeased about that.

In better news, I will be hanging with my nephew tomorrow, I have just spent a week with my (apparently) significant other (who lives a thousand miles away), and the last interview went well. No offer yet, though.

This entry was originally posted at http://smittywing.dreamwidth.org/10754.html. If you wish, you may comment there using OpenID.

14/31

2014-01-16T06:15:07Z

1) So, so behind.

2) 4th interview is tomorrow. (Well, the sun-up side of today, since I guess it's the 16th now.)

3) I am trying to get a work thing done that is taking forever and I'm not entirely sure I'm doing it right and um, anyone particularly good at responses to interrogatories out there? You could PM me?

This entry was originally posted at http://smittywing.dreamwidth.org/10694.html. If you wish, you may comment there using OpenID.

13/31

2014-01-13T19:16:07Z

Posting early today because I have stuff tonight, and skipping ahead in line to shetiger because I know that rage that is, "WHERE ARE MY AWESOME LADIES, [INTERNET PLATFORM OF YOUR CHOICE]???"

So I will talk about the Mills sisters in Sleepy Hollow.

ABBY. So, because I rewatched the pilot this weekend, I was reminded that Abbie was slated to go to Quantico and YOU KNOW, THEN THE FBI. So she's crazy smart, in great shape, and managed to impress some fairly important people. Sheriff's deputies from sleepy little hamlets don't generally get into the FBI unless they blow people away. Also, she had a keen sense, even as a kid, of how your actions affect how people treat you - she knew telling the truth about what she saw in the forest would lead to problems, so she denied it. And later she knew that Corbin was right about her prospects if she kept acting out so she turned her behavior around and became this person who gets invited to Quantico.

I love that she knows she did wrong by her sister and when she has the proof to back it up, she goes to Jenny and admits her fault. (I think she apologized? I'd have to rewatch that ep for sure.) I love that she still tried to protect her sister, is still trying to do the things to make it right, and knows she isn't really there yet.

Also it makes me happy when she gives Ichabod what for, because that boy thinks he is super liberal and he is nothing of the sort by modern definition but she sees family in him, too, and she's going to fix him, she is.

JENNY. Crud, I am out of time, but I will talk about Jenny in an addendum. Because holy crap, she is amazeballs. And tries to cook Thanksgiving dinner even though she is slotted into the "badass" category and even though it's going to suck, she is doing it to do her part in helping to knit their found family together and I promise, I will be back with more awesome.

This entry was originally posted at http://smittywing.dreamwidth.org/10435.html. If you wish, you may comment there using OpenID.

12/31

2014-01-13T08:05:25Z

I really should have done that "talk about anything" meme because I am totally drawing a blank on what to post about today and also I am up at 3am, WTF. Are there things people want to hear about?

This entry was originally posted at http://smittywing.dreamwidth.org/10054.html. If you wish, you may comment there using OpenID.

11/31

2014-01-12T07:14:58Z

Things watched tonight with greenygal:

* Disney's "Robin Hood"
* Arrow 1x01
* Scooby Doo: Mystery Inc. 1x01
* Sleepy Hollow 1x01
* Justice League Unlimited: Double Date (possibly Best Episode Ever)
* A thing where nerd dudes despaired over the terribleness of the 1997 Justice League movie. 'Fess up, who's seen it? (The movie/unaired pilot, not the thing with dudes making fun of it.)

Also I realized I have four more icon spaces on DW. Should I move old ones over or find new ones? I don't even know where you find icons anymore. Tragedy.

This entry was originally posted at http://smittywing.dreamwidth.org/9819.html. If you wish, you may comment there using OpenID.

10/31

2014-01-11T06:06:35Z

So, at some point during the first season of Elementary, I decided that it would be awesome if Gregson had met BBC's Greg Lestrade while he was working with Scotland Yard and they hooked up. And then sort of called each other to talk over cases when there was really no one else to talk to, and when Elementary-Sherlock moved to New York, BBC-Lestrade called Elementary-Gregson and was like, hey, our buddy's coming your way. Maybe you can throw some cases his way, yeah?

I kind of got jossed by the awesomeness that is Cheryl Gregson, and to a lesser extent (because meh) by the Elementary-Lestrade from 2x01. But I might still write it as an AU. Or something.

The day he met Tommy Gregson, Lestrade was wearing a hat. It was the only explanation, really.

"Hey! Excuse me. 'Scuse me."

"Yes?" Lestrade had been at a crime scene. It was his crime scene. He was directing his people. He was, in fact, directing Anderson to stop being an ass, when a broad-shouldered type in plain clothes demanded his attention.

"Tom Gregson, NYPD. I'm attached to Scotland Yard. Can you point me to Detective Inspector Lestrade?"

"I'm Detective Inspector Lestrade," he'd said flatly. Scotland Yard at his crime scene meant a jurisdictional tussle in the making. He hoped that sending an American meant that said tussle would be short and result in his own triumph.

"You? Really?" The American's face cracked into a broad smile and he actually chuckled. Lestrade would have been mystified if it hadn't been so damn annoying. Apparently it showed, because the American, Gregson, held up both hands, palms turned out. "Sorry, sorry. I was looking for someone older. You've got a bit of a babyface, there."

"Do I?" Lestrade said. It wasn't anything he hadn't heard before but he was on the high side of forty these days and he'd been a DI for eight years. Gregson himself wasn't much older than Lestrade. His hair wasn't even completely gray. He was six foot, barely taller than Lestrade, with sandy brown hair being rapidly faded by age. He had a boxer's build, wide shoulders and trim waist, though starting to thicken around the middle, Lestrade though with an unbecoming but unapologetic viciousness. But what stuck with you about Gregson was the eyes. Pale blue and intense, the kind that seem to gaze right through you because of the peculiar color and the way they react to light. Disconcerting, or would be if Lestrade didn't know folks far more disconcerting. He was immune.

"Look, I don't want to get off on the wrong foot here," Gregson said, sticking out a paw. "Tom Gregson. NYPD. Thanks for letting me on your crime scene."

Lestrade shook his hand to avoid the appearance of rudeness. "Which begs the question," he said. "What are you doing on my crime scene?"

And THAT, ladies and gentlemen, would have required me to write an actual crime. So yeah.

This entry was originally posted at http://smittywing.dreamwidth.org/9559.html. If you wish, you may comment there using OpenID.

9/31

2014-01-10T06:28:36Z

Mmmph. Still haven't replied to things. I blame the lure of tumblr. I'm staring to find Benedict Cumberbatch attractive, which I hadn't really before. Dammit, interwebs!

In other news, the interview went well, but I may have to meet with two other people. Which is probably a good sign, but will be interview #4, so I'm getting a little antsy.

I will answer things as soon as I have a working draft of that thing I'm supposed to be doing. SIGH.

This entry was originally posted at http://smittywing.dreamwidth.org/9432.html. If you wish, you may comment there using OpenID.

8/31

2014-01-08T21:37:29Z

I sort of haven't logged into Twitter in about two years and it seems that my account was hacked. About 20 minutes ago, my account started posting some messages in Russian and since my Russian is limited to "glasnost" and "dosvedanya", clearly something happened. I also seem to be following 802 accounts, which is not right. I will be unfollowing quite a few of them in the next few days. If I accidentally unfollow you, it's probably not intentional!

Maybe this is a clue I should be paying attention to Twitter. The chances of my actually tweeting anything are probably slim but I'm (dum dum dum!) smittywing. Thanks to those who sent me a heads-up!

This entry was originally posted at http://smittywing.dreamwidth.org/9031.html. If you wish, you may comment there using OpenID.

7/31

2014-01-08T05:45:30Z

Thank you to everyone who responded to last night's post! I very much appreciate all the links and personal experiences and virtual hugs. I spent a lot of today reading them and thinking, and also catching up on sleep and reading a book just because I wanted to.

I have a work project I need to put some hours into tomorrow and a big interview on Thursday to prepare for so it might be a couple days before I can answer directly but I am not freaking out and I know I can do it on Thursday and it will be fine. So, yeah. It's a start anyway.

This entry was originally posted at http://smittywing.dreamwidth.org/8789.html. If you wish, you may comment there using OpenID.

6/31

2014-01-07T05:23:44Z

In the last couple of months, two of my closest friends have told me that I am too hard on myself. And not in the joking, casual way, but in that, "If this was How I Met Your Mother, this would be an intervention" kind of way. reccea threatened me with a daily affirmation calendar. ;)

It's true that have always been kind of hard on myself and more so lately because I did something wrong and am kind of disappointed in myself. I know for a fact that a bunch of you out there are just as rough on yourselves as I am on me...(I have seen your journals!) So, how do you cut yourself some slack? I need better coping mechanisms.

This entry was originally posted at http://smittywing.dreamwidth.org/8505.html. If you wish, you may comment there using OpenID.

5/31

2014-01-06T05:05:51Z

Day Five and already behind! But that's okay, because I'll have some time tomorrow to catch up on comments.

Thanks to everyone who is following me on tumblr! I shall follow you back and we can all reblog gif sets together. Probably tomorrow because I am already tired.

I am so not interesting tonight but I had a great weekend of dogs and football and nephew, and now I plan to stay in my house for 3 days straight because OMG, what is this weather? (I know those of you from Minnesota and Wisconsin and the like are laughing at me but I am a delicate flower and am very pathetic wrapped up in hoodies and sweaters and blankets.)

Um, I know! Who remembers bitty fic? I...need to go look up the rules. Hold on.

Okay, I'm back! Last bitty fic was almost 2 years ago? Really? Eugh.

The rules of bitty fic, if you haven't seen them before, is that you give me a prompt of a character or pairing and a word, event, episode, etc., and I write a fic in 10 words, haiku, or limerick. It's kind of lame, admittedly, but you've got a far better chance of getting an answer than you would if we go for the regular drabble prompts, which tend to result in me going, "Oh, this would make a GREAT 20K word fic..." and never getting done. :) Regarding fandoms - for bitty fics, if I know the names of the characters, I can probably cough something up. So fly free.

This entry was originally posted at http://smittywing.dreamwidth.org/8195.html. If you wish, you may comment there using OpenID.

4/31

2014-01-05T05:47:34Z

Watching the Eagles game tonight was like going on a date with an ex-boyfriend and thinking, "Oh yeah. This is why we broke up."

This entry was originally posted at http://smittywing.dreamwidth.org/8048.html. If you wish, you may comment there using OpenID.

3/31

2014-01-04T04:51:32Z

3 days of success!

So this Tumblr thing. I have one. I have even reblogged a few things. And I like reading it! But there are things that puzzle me.

1) How do you put in the box where people can ask you questions off-tumblr? Or is it not really off-tumblr? Do I just have the wrong theme? Probably I could solve this problem myself by reading an FAQ or googling, but I'm not even sure what search terms to use? Or maybe I'm just a weenie.

1a) Tangentially related, why is my Dreamwidth title and links all out of whack? Did I mess up my html? Did they mess up my html? Were they always that font/color? Yikes, I've really been out of it.

2) So. Fic. It looks like people either just post a link to AO3, make some kind of page you can hide lots of text behind (how do you do this?) or just post a whole fic in a post and not write very long fic. (Or my favorite, post some gifs and a description of the fic they would write if they were sufficiently motivated and I'm like I WOULD ABUSE THAT SO BADLY IF I LET MYSELF DO IT, see also "If Smitty Could Vid.")

3) How do you decide what to reblog or not? Everything you think is cute/funny/cool? Because I find a LOT of things cute/funny/cool. I tried to sort of make a theme of reblogging adorable doodles but I haven't seen as many of them on my dashboard lately. And whenever someone posts a "Reblog this or else you don't love robots!" I pretend I don't see it, because the idea that people are judging me on whether I reblogged a specific thing or not really bugs me and then you don't know if I don't love robots or if I just didn't see it. When really, I love robots but I am naturally contrary. (Yes, Facebook often hurts my soul, why do you ask?)

Also if you reblog things I like, including but not limited to things about comic characters in any universe, any of the shows I listed yesterday, Inception, Lord of the Rings, Hunger Games, James Bond, kittens, ferrets, tiny pigs eating ice cream, animals in hoodies, or well, basically anything I've ever mentioned liking, let me know what your tumblr name is. I always need more glee in my life.

This entry was originally posted at http://smittywing.dreamwidth.org/7822.html. If you wish, you may comment there using OpenID.

2/31

2014-01-03T02:51:15Z

I am always telling reccea that I miss fandom and writing and talking about shows and movies, and once every few months I make a post and try to get some traction, but work or something just swallowed me up again. But I figured the best way to get back in was to do a little bit every day. So here I am.

I usually fail at New Year's resolutions before January runs out so I made some monthly resolutions. Scoop the litter box EVERY day (a happy cat means a happy Smitty), do a 20/10 once a day (my house isn't a pit or anything, but it's cluttered), and post to DW/LJ once a day. In February I'll try some new things.

I'm neither reading nor writing much right now but I'm watching Sleepy Hollow (I swore I wasn't, but it won me over), Almost Human (which was supposed to be reccea's Show of Love, but Dorian is totally outshining John Kennix in that one), 30 Rock (IDK, it's on Netflix, and there was a lot of it.) I watched Homeland and Masters of Sex, and I'm still watching Castle, HIMYM, 2 Broke Girls, The Big Bang Theory, The Mindy Project, Scandal, and Elementary. I'm really kind of behind on Arrow but I have every intention of fixing that shortly. And I've been slowly rewatching Doctor Who on Netflix in hopes of getting past series 4 this time. And of course I have the standard Fandom Mixed Feelings on Agents of SHIELD and Teen Wolf. Clearly I don't actually need any more tv but I've had a lot of free time lately and if you're watching something awesome, I'd be happy to put it on my list.

This entry was originally posted at http://smittywing.dreamwidth.org/7454.html. If you wish, you may comment there using OpenID.

1/31

2014-01-02T04:15:28Z

Happy New Year!

This entry was originally posted at http://smittywing.dreamwidth.org/7254.html. If you wish, you may comment there using OpenID.

Star Trek 1x04: The Naked Time

2013-06-01T05:38:56Z

Oh hey. They made another Trek movie so you get more Old Skool Trek Reviews.

reccea already reviewed this one. But I was a lazy bum that week so I'm doing it now and we will probably watch another one or two before I go off on vacation next week and fail to pick this up again. :P

Star Trek 1x04: The Naked Time

The opening premise is that the Enterprise is supposed to pick up the scientific crew of an outpost of a dying world and then watch the planet disintegrate. Because that sounds safe. They beam down in some sort of glittery hazmat suits with hoods that don't actually seal at the bottom and find that everyone is dead where they stand and the whole thing is iced over.

To add idiocy to poorly designed hazmat suits, Random Landing Dude takes his glove off to use his tricorder and a sekrit germ that looks like blood, but sizzles subtly, jumps onto his hand. He does not notice.

Apparently a normal Vulcan pulse is 240 and the blood pressure is super low compared to humans. Considering how counter-intuitive that seems, no wonder McCoy is grumpy and confused. (Maybe Vulcan blood is really viscous?) Majel Barrett shows up as Nurse Chapel with this sideswept ponytail that makes me think of Glamor Shots.

So my first Mary Sue programmed food replicators. Because I thought they were AMAZING.

So idiot dude who took his glove off flips out over humans not meant to be in space and accidentally stabs himself with a butter knife. (Sulu and another crewmember help.) The sizzling germ hops over to the other crewmember who finds it incredibly itchy. McCoy does V. Srs. Surgery on the butter knife wound. Dude dies anyway. McCoy blames a lack of will to live.

There is exposition about how they all need to be on their toes or doom will come about. Sulu starts sizzling and decides to go work out, leaving the helm unmanned. The random crewman is Riley and he goes crazy next. My favorite part is where he announces that women should work too, universal suffrage! Because Spock has Uhura drive the ship. Because she can do everything.

Riley goes around infecting people and charming pretty ladies. He then exhibits some Irish pride and starts singing "Take Me Home Again Katheleen" which appears to be the Irish version of Lilli Marleen. (The Federation of Planets was supposed to show that people were letting go of PLANET allegiances, but it seems like that might be a pipe dream more than a reality if Riley's blaming someone's non-Irishness for his death.)

Sulu is sizzling, metaphorically this time as he zooms through the halls with a sword and no shirt. He hits on Uhura, calls everyone he dislikes "Richelieu" (the villain in The Three Muskateers) and apparently does not have the safety tip on the sword, as Kirk finds out as he tries to bat it away. My favorite part is when he calls Uhura, "Fair maiden," and she says, "Sorry, neither." Are we sensing a trend?

It appears the Enterprise has a bowling alley - Riley tries to schedule a dance in it. He also announces that the ship's women should wear their hair down and not look too made up. I'm wondering if this display of really really overt sexism is something that is happening because the show is made in the 60s or if it's meant to be in Riley's (or certain men's) nature to want the members of his preferred sex to appear pleasing to him and a further demonstration of "These are the terrible things that happen when one's id runs wild - blatant sexism!" While I like to think it's the latter, I'm wondering how incredibly flat that fell on audiences back then. Also there's probably something hypocritical about me deconstructing that line while discussing how hot Sulu is shirtless.

(I think I summarized more in past reviews?)

Yeoman Rand's way is being blocked and instead of beating the dude with her tricorder, she tattles on him to Spock. The guy seems to have enough wherewithal to know that he has to listen to Spock, but as soon as Spock's back is turned, the guy jumps right in Rand's way again. Having my way blocked is kind of a really intense pet peeve of mine so I find this part a little upsetting.

Chapel's hair appears to move as a unit. That was probably a good thing back in the day?

Rand takes the helm next, and Uhura hollers at Kirk because Riley's terrible singing is making even the healthy folk batshit insane.

Chapel moons over Spock and says randomly strange things like, "Men on Vulcan treat their women strangely." She also confesses to being in love with him, infecting him as she does. Spock apologizes. The interesting part of this scene is actually her statements about the human and Vulcan parts of him being at war and how he does have emotions, which he insists are under control. I think this is the first mention of the nuances of the human/Vulcan conflict rather than the straight "Vulcans run on distilled logic" line. Spock isolates himself and fights through several emotions while attempting to pull back to equilibrium by reminding himself he's an officer. (He mentions six times. Do we know what that's about?)

points out that Vulcans are all about the handsex (Star Trek III, particularly) and Chapel is totally feeling up his hands. I wonder which came first, this scene or the handsex canon.

"I cannae change the laws of physics!" makes its debut.

Various people save the day in various ways. Mostly Scotty and McCoy.

Kirk shows up in Spock's wallow and smacks some sense into Spock. They hold hands and risk implosion. Spock emos some more about never telling people he loved them and being ashamed that he feels friendship for Kirk. The Shat overacts liek whoa and bemoans that he is in love with the ship and cannot have a life of his own. I sort of feel that way about my office. Only NOT SO MUCH. Uhura is totally eyerolling on the bridge even though we can't see her because being sensible is not camera-worthy.

Every so often they get a shot of graffiti with a religious bent.

Bones grabs Kirk's shirt and totally rips the shoulder away from the collar so he can stab Kirk with a hypospray. That is some cheap-ass fabric, yo. Maybe they should think about velcro tearaways if this is going to be a trend. Kirk gazes longingly at Rand (but not as longingly as he gazed at Spock) and says, "No beach to walk on." We feel sad for him. Only not.

Enterprise escapes, planet dies, dramatic music cues, everyone blinks and looks around in wonder. Spock calls Kirk "Jim" and they check in on each other's emotional well-being.

And then they do the Time Warp.

There is a few seconds of discussion about how they can now go back to any time or any planet and Kirk kind of handwaves it with a, "and we might do that one day." Which makes me go WHAT? I would do it RIGHT NOW. Or at least have a big old meeting about telling Starfleet that they discovered time travel. Or something besides casually observe the possibility. Yeesh.

I'm really not sure what they were going for here. Criticism of the rise of drug culture? Considering everyone was infected against their will, that seems unlikely here. It almost seems to be setting up future storylines but this show never seems to be planned in storylines or arcs or, well, at all. So I'm back to not being entirely sure what the secret message was. Or maybe there wasn't one. Maybe it was just some really dramatic tv.

This entry was originally posted at http://smittywing.dreamwidth.org/7130.html. If you wish, you may comment there using OpenID.

Elementary 1x22 - Risk Management

2013-05-10T03:12:35Z

CALLED IT.

The End.

Okay, also, I was really hoping the cello music while they were going through the house was from an opera, as a nod to Irene's original profession, but IMDb tells me otherwise. Ah, well.

This entry was originally posted at http://smittywing.dreamwidth.org/6877.html. If you wish, you may comment there using OpenID.