glinda_w
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Why, this is Hell, nor are we out of it.
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« Reply #30 on: May 12, 2008, 12:58:13 am » |
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I see you = "You have no power over me!" (Bonus points for quote recognition  ) Labyrinth.  |
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Still will I harvest beauty where it grows... --Edna ST. Vincent Millay
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saoba
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« Reply #31 on: May 12, 2008, 01:00:53 am » |
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I see you = "You have no power over me!" (Bonus points for quote recognition ) Labyrinth! Yeah- What we see, what we allow others to see, being seen. The invisible UNSUB. The blinded vics, the blindman's bluff of the final showdown. The power of mirrors and names. |
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« Reply #32 on: May 12, 2008, 01:01:49 am » |
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I see you = "You have no power over me!" (Bonus points for quote recognition ) Labyrinth. The winner, it's you! |
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I carry a gun because I can't fit Sol Todd in my pocket.
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MadGastronomer
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« Reply #33 on: May 12, 2008, 03:27:46 am » |
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I see you = "You have no power over me!" (Bonus points for quote recognition ) Ha. Sarah might have forgotten that line, but I'm unlikely to do so. Especially as I've had it used <I>on me</I>. In all seriousness. (Long story, but at the time, it baffled me, too.) On a side note, I was surprised to find that so many of the team liked Guinness. I would have figured someone would drink a Strongbow or a Smithwick's. Can I redeem my bonus points for a pint of either of those? Bah, I see Glinda got there first, and saoba. I just spent way, way too long going through the LJs, and I come up with at least 5 UNSUBs at 4 different times (one being the dual Danville, VT/Paine Lake, MN time when the team was split, and Wonder Woman jumped out of a helicopter), plus an extremely mysterious mission that Reyes and Hafs went on January 20th-ish that had no definite conclusion, and lots of references to flying places on weekends that gets us no details at all, all since Thanksgiving. Since all of those, and especially the Quantico one, look really juicy, I shall be extremely interested to see how Our Esteemed Authors handle the timing... |
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« Reply #34 on: May 12, 2008, 05:39:53 am » |
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OK, so does anyone (besides our authors, who Aren't Telling, I suspect) know what that knotted hemp band is about?
I understood it to be a cilice, otherwise known as a hairshirt: a device meant to cause pain or discomfort without actually causing harm. It's a particularly Catholic form of mortification of the flesh. An offhand guess, based on events in the rest of the episode (and in prior episodes), is that Chaz is using the cilice to remind himself of his need to eat and his girlfriend - particularly sad given that he manages to go into ketosis and lose his girlfriend over the course of the episode. (The irritation from a cilice can also be maddening after a while - which may help to explain his behavior at the climax, too, physically attacking the gamma instead of shooting him.) |
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Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
- Sarah Williams, "The Old Astronomer to His Pupil"
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txanne
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« Reply #35 on: May 12, 2008, 06:55:38 am » |
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(The irritation from a cilice can also be maddening after a while - which may help to explain his behavior at the climax, too, physically attacking the gamma instead of shooting him.)
He doesn't shoot the gamma because he lacks fine motor control; he's afraid he'll hit Lau instead. |
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Elizabeth Bear
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« Reply #36 on: May 12, 2008, 07:47:41 am » |
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Re: Hemp bands. I can answer that, actually. It's an anklet very much like these ones: http://www.hempjewelryshop.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=979Which was made for him by a friend before he joined the FBI. Just a little counterculture jewelry under his business clothes, is all. |
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Chaz: "As if puberty weren't stressful enough."
Todd: "See? That's why we're better than all those other law enforcement agencies. Correct use of the subjunctive."
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AndrewJ
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« Reply #37 on: May 12, 2008, 08:58:13 am » |
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I was looking at the episode playlist, and I thought, "Huh. No 'Nowhere Man'." Then I thought, "They probably couldn't afford the license fee . . ."  "As I was going up the stair, I met a man who was not there. He wasn't there again today; Oh, gee, I wish he'd go away." This episode creeped me out, but in a good way. |
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"If you want to be famous, you have to do whatever you're doing worse than anyone else in the whole world." -- Czech photographer Miroslav Tichy
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Elizabeth Bear
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« Reply #38 on: May 12, 2008, 09:01:00 am » |
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Actually, David Bowie's "The Man Who Sold The World" is a riff on the same nursery rhyme....
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Chaz: "As if puberty weren't stressful enough."
Todd: "See? That's why we're better than all those other law enforcement agencies. Correct use of the subjunctive."
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yatima
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« Reply #39 on: May 12, 2008, 09:45:30 am » |
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Oh my Chaz! *weeps*
Awful awful Thanksgiving scene. Very "In Cold Blood" and gut-wrenching. I, too, have trouble when it's the children.
The eyes!
Peter Shaffer, Equus. "God sees you, Alan."
Of *course* Esther drinks Guinness-and-black. My kinda woman. Ma'am.
I love all the threads of friendship binding them together. I hate the sense of foreboding this gives me. (But in a good way.)
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Elizabeth Bear
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« Reply #40 on: May 12, 2008, 09:48:21 am » |
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Oh, man, the Equus thing is smart. You know, I bet you're right, and that's totally where I lifted that, and I did it absolutely subconsciously. That play scarred me. (Bad choice of words, Bear...)
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Chaz: "As if puberty weren't stressful enough."
Todd: "See? That's why we're better than all those other law enforcement agencies. Correct use of the subjunctive."
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« Reply #41 on: May 12, 2008, 11:06:51 am » |
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On a side note, I was surprised to find that so many of the team liked Guinness. I would have figured someone would drink a Strongbow or a Smithwick's. It would be wrong not to drink Guinness at The Field, if at all possible. They pour it exactly right. Nom nom nom. |
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Falkner to Worth: "'Competent'" is not an insult."
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« Reply #42 on: May 12, 2008, 11:19:21 am » |
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I take it this represents extensive on-the-ground research? |
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Elizabeth Bear
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« Reply #43 on: May 12, 2008, 11:20:04 am » |
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But of course. *g*
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Chaz: "As if puberty weren't stressful enough."
Todd: "See? That's why we're better than all those other law enforcement agencies. Correct use of the subjunctive."
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AndrewJ
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« Reply #44 on: May 12, 2008, 11:44:11 am » |
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Oh, man, the Equus thing is smart. You know, I bet you're right, and that's totally where I lifted that, and I did it absolutely subconsciously. That play scarred me. (Bad choice of words, Bear...)
Wasn't Equus based in part on something that had actually happened? I also remember a similar plot point with horse killings in the last two episodes of the first series of the BBC's Touching Evil. Now there was a creepy, atmospheric show about cops tracking serial killers. It wouldn't surprise me if the Organised and Serial Crimes Unit had its own version of WTF, for the cases too freaky for DI Creegan (Actually, now that I think about it, Creegan could be a beta . . .). |
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