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« Reply #60 on: May 12, 2008, 05:07:59 pm » |
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Daphne: You can do this. You just have to stand up on it.
Chaz: Can't.
Daphne: Stand up on it, damn you.
Chaz: On belay?
Daphne: Belay on.
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« Reply #61 on: May 12, 2008, 06:17:22 pm » |
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OMG Chaz!
I really like Lau after this episode, too.
That's about all I have, except thank god this isn't in a visual medium (yes, I do use my eyes to read it. quiet.) or I wouldn't have got past that scene. I will probably reread it, but, um, not all of it. Yikes.
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« Reply #62 on: May 12, 2008, 07:26:33 pm » |
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Not a squee but a "Whoa!"
Just caught the ep on my fictional TIVO, and it'll be a while until I can handle rational comment.
So, thanks for bringing out my inner Keanu, I guess.
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"I wanted to tell you both. I've met someone."
"Danny, that's good," his mother said, sounding strange and strained and cautious. "What's--"
"His name's Grayson. He works for the State Department."
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Nicholas
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Robots!
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« Reply #63 on: May 13, 2008, 12:22:03 am » |
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Side note: Noticed another passing reference to Jessica Kelly. Here's hoping that story makes it into a future season, if there's a flashback episode. (How did that line in Goldfinger go? "Once is happenstance, twice is foreshadowing", right?  ) |
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« Reply #64 on: May 13, 2008, 03:15:25 am » |
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That'll teach me to read this kind of stuff at night. I don't usually get that creeped out but I was so disturbed by this I couldn't look at the message board or even talk about it. I had to try and wash my brain out with Britain's Next Top Model instead.
And then I lay in bed nagging my other half about making sure both the front and back door were locked and had he checked and did I need to check? Thank goodness he wasn't on nights - otherwise I think I might have called him to come home!!
My worst fear as a parent is not something happening to my kids, it is something happening that I cannot protect them from. Which isn't the same thing, if that makes any kind of sense. I had to spend a little time in each of their rooms last night just watching them sleep - this episode really pushed my buttons.
The concept of an unsub that you cannot see was fascinating and I liked how hard Chaz had to try to keep him in sight - knowing that if he lost focus at all, it was all over. Interesting points that have been made about LJ-Chaz and Episode-Chaz - how he presents himself in his LJ being different to how he is.
Don't know why I can't feel the Lau-Love, but I guess you can't love all of them. I don't connect with her, whereas all the others have given me something to connect to. I never thought I would love Brady as much as I do.
Oh, and Guinness and Black? Ewww.
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« Reply #65 on: May 13, 2008, 06:17:08 am » |
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Side note: Noticed another passing reference to Jessica Kelly. Here's hoping that story makes it into a future season, if there's a flashback episode. (How did that line in Goldfinger go? "Once is happenstance, twice is foreshadowing", right? ) Jessi's been mentioned off and on in the livejournals, too, if you want to know a bit more about her. She, um. Kind of has a crush on Chaz. To his despair. |
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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 #66 on: May 13, 2008, 08:58:21 am » |
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Nebula, et. al.--
I'm sort of sorry this episode creeped you out so badly. That wasn't actually my goal: I wanted to write something that was triggery and hard for the team, but I didn't mean to freak out the fans! I guess I don't know my own strength, because mostly I was worried it was so over-the-top it would be ridiculous.
I guess I don't know my own strength!
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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 #67 on: May 13, 2008, 08:59:44 am » |
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Oh, hah! Thank you. I'd forgotten that Touching Evil should be on the list of my influences for this show.
Be sure to include "Wire in the Blood" as well. Some of Dr. Hill's accidental ramblings would be really, really creepy if Frost said them. |
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« Reply #68 on: May 13, 2008, 09:11:21 am » |
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I see you = "You have no power over me!" (Bonus points for quote recognition ) Geez, you really have an oversupply of those bonus points, don't you?  My immediate thought upon reading the above was: Through dangers un-numbered and hardships untold...Seriously formative experience, that film. Not least in pointing out that saying "It's a piece of cake!" is always a Bad Idea TM  Bear, wonderful, wonderful stuff. The breadth of your repertoire impresses me more with each bit of your writing I read. Wonderful Chaz/Daphne, Lau/Brady and Sol/whoever. And the extras! I nearly choked on reading the Pleco one, and my heart really went out to Danny on reading the Lies one. My only possible quibble would be the near-complete dearth of Hafs in this episode, but I had to go looking for that one. As for something final happening to a WTF member in the finale, (which I don't feel is more than passingly likely), my money would be on it happening to Reyes. There's been the barest shadow of too many references to his age and infirmities it seems. Chaz is merely the misdirection. Of course, if something does happen, it could come totally out of left field, and happen to Sol or Esther, but I really hope not, as I like them both way too much. I guess I'm not completely sold on the idea that Reyes is irreplaceable, whereas everyone else is, to my mind. His role, whilst important (nay, vital ,) for the founding of the WTF, is no longer essential. (Which is not to say that I'm cheering for him to get UNSUB'd in the finale, by any means.) However it goes down, I find it almost unthinkable that the upcoming episode will disappoint me. Not with this team of word-smiths. |
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*watches his life get devoured like Dread Cthulhu snacking on a yacht*
Snacking, folks, snacking. I don't know where you got any other ideas, and frankly I'm not sure I want to know =)
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« Reply #69 on: May 13, 2008, 09:16:18 am » |
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would be really, really creepy if Frost said them.
To my mind at least, reading the phone book would be really, really creepy if done by Frost. Or, indeed, even a short period of silence from her. Gods forbid I should ever be on the receiving end of a long period of silence from her. *shudder* |
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*watches his life get devoured like Dread Cthulhu snacking on a yacht*
Snacking, folks, snacking. I don't know where you got any other ideas, and frankly I'm not sure I want to know =)
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« Reply #70 on: May 13, 2008, 09:18:02 am » |
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Gods forbid I should ever be on the receiving end of a long period of silence from her. *shudder*
A long period of silence, and a stare over the top of her reading glasses. Braver women than I have quailed. |
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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 #71 on: May 13, 2008, 09:36:40 am » |
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Nebula, et. al.--
I'm sort of sorry this episode creeped you out so badly. That wasn't actually my goal: I wanted to write something that was triggery and hard for the team, but I didn't mean to freak out the fans! I guess I don't know my own strength, because mostly I was worried it was so over-the-top it would be ridiculous.
I guess I don't know my own strength!
That's why I think you did such a good job - there was enough that it was hella creepy and shuddery but not so much that it became grotesque. I think I've watched more horrible stuff and not been as affected. Interesting how the lack of visual gore gets into the brain. But anyway, twas good stuff and I assume Chaz has a really crap day in the finale. |
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« Reply #72 on: May 13, 2008, 10:08:48 am » |
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Nebula, et. al.--
I'm sort of sorry this episode creeped you out so badly. That wasn't actually my goal: I wanted to write something that was triggery and hard for the team, but I didn't mean to freak out the fans! I guess I don't know my own strength, because mostly I was worried it was so over-the-top it would be ridiculous.
I guess I don't know my own strength!
That's kind of what I meant in the thing that I dread but know is inevitable. In a show like this, it's going to happen. I think most of us know that, and are prepared. And are still going to freak out when we get to the episode or scene that really gets to us. There have been other shows (Millennium, X-Files to a certain extent, etc.) that have done the same thing. If the writing wasn't as good, it wouldn't happen. Or I wouldn't stick around even though I know there's going to be something that really freaks me eventually. If you're writing something to be triggery and hard for the characters, it's going to be triggery for some of the fans, too. But we have the option of skimming over things, or hugging our loved ones or watching inane TV to get out of that experience. The characters don't have that option. |
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"We all ended up somewhere with our various uncertain lives flapping about us in tatters and our pockets full of foreign coins."
K. E. Gordon - The Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Eager, the Innocent and the Doomed
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« Reply #73 on: May 13, 2008, 10:14:38 am » |
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CJ, I see what you mean.
That reminds me that one of the reasons I love Criminal Minds so much is that it's often triggery for me--they work so very hard to deconstruct and reveal the ugliness behind torture porn--but it's triggery in a small safe way that lets me get at some of the damage and work on it, because I know it's fiction and it can't come get me.
Also, it's very therapeutic to watch broken people surviving terrible things, and still making a positive difference in the world. Sometimes I need to be reminded that that is possible.
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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 #74 on: May 13, 2008, 10:44:31 am » |
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Also, it's very therapeutic to watch broken people surviving terrible things, and still making a positive difference in the world. Sometimes I need to be reminded that that is possible.
We all do. What you said right there is a fine thing to tape to your monitor as a statement of purpose. |
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