I told you when I came I was a stranger

[rachg82]

Oh, High School reunion tropes. ♥ Show, you shouldn't have! It's not even Christmas yet. I do love you so.

However, with that said, I wish that you would stop trying to torture me by throwing man-shaped suitors at my ladies all the time. At least when it comes to Jane, anyway. With Maura, I get it--I can easily see her as bi--but with Jane it wigs me out. It just doesn't feel right. I want to start yelling at her to come out of the closet or something. Haha.

Gotta appreciate the show's obvious nod to us shippers though with the return of the mechanic. Ahh. ALL THE JOY IN THE WORLD. I can't even. And seriously, Angela's face in response to the "you can appreciate her tits too" comment? HA.

Also: HOW MANY TIMES DID JANE BASICALLY FEEL MAURA UP IN THAT DRESS. FFS. I counted at least two boob swipes, not to mention her ushering her around with both hands on her hips/ass. Subtle, Rizzoli. Real subtle.

(You know she totes turned around to ogle her tennis outfit at the end, too)

Ooh, and! Right after I mentioned her last week? Dana from The L Word showed up! ~Like magic~ Only unfortunately without Tegan & Sara this time.

I love, too, how Maura phrased it as "she broke up with you" when asking about Jane's ex BFF. I legit gasped over that. It's like the writers got together and were like, "we've GOT to throw in a bit more ambiguous subtext -- there's just not enough. Let's have Jane reunite with an old "friend", and then she can mention her boobs a hundred times…y'know, just like a typical straight woman would do. Ahaha. Sounds like a plan."

P.S. Did we already know Maura went to an all-girls school? I can't even imagine the fanfic to come out of that.

I don't have much else to talk about today, so let's skip right to that meme now.



The X-Files

I must be some kind of masochist to have come up with this meme, I swear. Choosing only three eps for this show is SUPER difficult. But here are the three I'm goin' with:

-"Eve" (season 1)
-"Pusher" (season 3)
-"Bad Blood" (season 5)

Choosing between "Ice" & "Eve", btw, was especially hard. I wanted to include an early classic, and they're both excellent options. There are so many wonderful dramatic AND comedic eps from which to choose, too, but I really don't think you can go wrong with the ones above, so, hey. For what it's worth, "Bad Blood" is still probably my favorite episode from ANY series, period. And Pusher is one of my fave baddies from the show overall. CERULEAN BLUE IS A GENTLE BREEZE. Heh. I'll never forget that.

Luckily, picking three vids was pretty easy, because anything by LyleXF is pretty much a winner. Hence why all three of these were made by him. One could consider the third as being spoilery, just as a heads-up, but I doubt anyone out there has existed online since the '90s without knowing about this plotline in some capacity.

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…I may have to start up my XF Rewatch again, yo. These vids are striking a sentimental nerve like nothing else. I don't know if I'd have the motivation to keep up with the recaps anymore though. Maybe I could just recap specific eps? We'll see. I still have the second half of the BSG finale to recap, from way back, so I should really do that first. Otherwise it'll bug me.

Community

Here's where it comes in handy to only be on season 3 of a show. Fewer episodes, fewer choices -- less hand-wringing. Still tough, however, because the first two seasons were so brill. But I shall perservere!

-"Pilot (Extended Cut)" (season 1)
-"Modern Warfare" (season 1)
-"Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas" (season 2)

I can't even convey how hard it is for me to leave out some of my other favorites here, because there's a few that *really* touched me, emotionally (e.g. "Introduction to Film", "Advanced Dungeons and Dragons," "Critical Film Studies"), and a few that made me laugh harder than these did, but nevertheless, the pilot sets the tone & the next two are just plain epic. It wouldn't feel right to leave out one of the paintball eps. Plus, "Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas" both moves me AND makes me laugh, so it covers all the bases.

For vids, I'm gonna let the show kinda speak for itself here. The first vid includes clips from season 1, the second focuses on season 2, and the third is a single extended clip from "Introduction to Film" (which I mentioned above -- it's the short film Abed creates within the episode, wherein he casts Jeff & Britta as his parents. The first time I saw it, *before* I'd even watched the episode, I cried.)

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Comments

[rachg82.livejournal.com]

Ha, Maura was definitely eager about "pretending" to be Jane's girlfriend again, wasn't she?

[scifi-mel.livejournal.com]

Or rather enjoyed not having to pretend not to be her girlfriend ;) But instead was able to let her true feelings show. And there was much boob grabbing!!!