nice one, assface
Sep. 26th, 2006 09:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lizzy_copycatWell, fuck that.
All summer I've been completely spoiler free. Everywhere. For EVERY show. I know nothing. Except that they DO apparently manage to escape in Prison Break, but we're in season one, unlike the rest of the known universe, so it's a different story. People will talk, ads are everywhere.
I don't even know when Veronica Mars comes back on, because, well, I'm not risking hearing anything I don't want to know.
With Without a Trace I've been especially adamant. I've navigated Destined with some trepidation all summer for fear of accidentally falling on something more substantially spoiler-y than "Zomg! Is Sam pregnant?" (Here I was not upset by the possible spoiler, but rather by the fact that people are stupid enough to believe that.) This morning, in my search for a good cast photo that isn't already on EVERY goddamn WaTpage, I go to the Cast Photo thread. It seems safe, right? Wrong. There's some scanned article (how that is a cast photo I don't know...) which obviously has spoilers. And there are people writing COMMENTS ABOUT THE FUCKING SPOILERS! And then there's someone saying something about one of the pics, and I'm an idiot and have to see it. Well, I don't find the pic, but I do find spoilers about almost everything I didn't want spoiled.
This is why I don't go to the spoilers section. I don't want to know this shit!! I don't want the good news because I want to be pleasantly surprised, and I don't want the bad news because I don't want to agonize over it until it's actually there. Any excitement I had managed to imagine feeling about season five has shriveled up and died.
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So, it wasn't a BAD episode. It was sooooo predictable, but okay. Where did they steal the plot? I was chanting "Kissing place, kissing place" at the beginning (from that movie with that boy who only remembered that about who he really was. Possibly it's a crappy Lifetime movie I once watched with my mother), and it was basically the same, or this was PART of that movie, but there's something else as well...
I loved that Jack was an insensitive asshole, because I like him better when I get to hate him for a reason other than just existing. I liked that Sam got to be the one to bond with the kid, because I like it when she shows some understanding for other people. (I'd prefer it if that person were Martin, but you take what you can get, right?) I was a little confused at the beginning though. I just couldn't decide if it was that Sam was uncomfortable around the boy to begin with or that this was the first scene they shot and Poopy had gone and forgotten how to act over the summer. I'm still on the fence, actually. Reportedly, in that scene, there was a 'moment'. I missed that and just thought they looked very uncomfortable and awkward in general (which just gave me the corniest most predictable idea for a fic. Hee. It's contagious.), so I will watch it again. Maybe it was just the shock of seeing Sam and Martin in the same shot that confused me. (Even if now, my interpretation amuses me more...)
Oh, yes, and I loved that they haven't changed their opinion of continuity and don't mention Anne at all. Go, team, go.
All in all, I didn't hate this episode, but it isn't one I will really remember in six months I think.
All summer I've been completely spoiler free. Everywhere. For EVERY show. I know nothing. Except that they DO apparently manage to escape in Prison Break, but we're in season one, unlike the rest of the known universe, so it's a different story. People will talk, ads are everywhere.
I don't even know when Veronica Mars comes back on, because, well, I'm not risking hearing anything I don't want to know.
With Without a Trace I've been especially adamant. I've navigated Destined with some trepidation all summer for fear of accidentally falling on something more substantially spoiler-y than "Zomg! Is Sam pregnant?" (Here I was not upset by the possible spoiler, but rather by the fact that people are stupid enough to believe that.) This morning, in my search for a good cast photo that isn't already on EVERY goddamn WaTpage, I go to the Cast Photo thread. It seems safe, right? Wrong. There's some scanned article (how that is a cast photo I don't know...) which obviously has spoilers. And there are people writing COMMENTS ABOUT THE FUCKING SPOILERS! And then there's someone saying something about one of the pics, and I'm an idiot and have to see it. Well, I don't find the pic, but I do find spoilers about almost everything I didn't want spoiled.
This is why I don't go to the spoilers section. I don't want to know this shit!! I don't want the good news because I want to be pleasantly surprised, and I don't want the bad news because I don't want to agonize over it until it's actually there. Any excitement I had managed to imagine feeling about season five has shriveled up and died.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
So, it wasn't a BAD episode. It was sooooo predictable, but okay. Where did they steal the plot? I was chanting "Kissing place, kissing place" at the beginning (from that movie with that boy who only remembered that about who he really was. Possibly it's a crappy Lifetime movie I once watched with my mother), and it was basically the same, or this was PART of that movie, but there's something else as well...
I loved that Jack was an insensitive asshole, because I like him better when I get to hate him for a reason other than just existing. I liked that Sam got to be the one to bond with the kid, because I like it when she shows some understanding for other people. (I'd prefer it if that person were Martin, but you take what you can get, right?) I was a little confused at the beginning though. I just couldn't decide if it was that Sam was uncomfortable around the boy to begin with or that this was the first scene they shot and Poopy had gone and forgotten how to act over the summer. I'm still on the fence, actually. Reportedly, in that scene, there was a 'moment'. I missed that and just thought they looked very uncomfortable and awkward in general (which just gave me the corniest most predictable idea for a fic. Hee. It's contagious.), so I will watch it again. Maybe it was just the shock of seeing Sam and Martin in the same shot that confused me. (Even if now, my interpretation amuses me more...)
Oh, yes, and I loved that they haven't changed their opinion of continuity and don't mention Anne at all. Go, team, go.
All in all, I didn't hate this episode, but it isn't one I will really remember in six months I think.
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Date: 2006-09-26 04:42 pm (UTC)And I totally agree about the premiere. I just watched it... Very familiar... Almost like a combination of other WaT eps as well.
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Date: 2006-09-26 04:59 pm (UTC)I thought about saying something, but I was just too pissed off to write anything even remotely polite, so I decided I had better not. (Oh, right, so this is what being grown up and having impulse control is all about? I get it now. Very cool.)