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phineasjonesso. last night's angel. i've read only one reaction to the ep so far and it was very positive. i'm willing to believe my reaction had a lot to do with my situation - the creepy house and my brain being largely elsewhere. but... eh. i never believed angel had gone really bad. i was only mildly curious as to when and how this would be revealed to the others. i'm not interested in nina. lindsey finally returning was entirely anti-climactic.
there were some good things - spike's 'once' re: intimacy with angel. heh. the tying in of the kiss from cordelia etc was exciting. but it was a faint glimmer in an otherwise grey and dull episode for me. also, i used to believe that joss and co. were feminists to some degree at least. but. the graphic beating of illyria followed shortly by gunn's 'senator bitch' made me sick to my stomach. there are a lot of things you can call a hellbeast in the body of a woman. 'bitch' was a poor choice, i feel. this after seeing the whole team standing there together and noticing the all-men-ness of them yet again. and the beating was just so... awful. i suppose it was supposed to be. but. it was only she-the last woman in the frickin show-who was beaten so graphically. i didn't like that. her thing about playing the game was completely hilarious though, i'll give them that.
i suppose i should leave this cafe someday. but it's nice and cool and... internet. oh! there's been good news! my wonderful mum has offered to put rach and i up in a b&b when rach gets here. ohthankgoodness. i couldn't be happier. and, craziness, the b&b in question is lesbian-owned, one of the owners went to my high school and it's vegan-friendly! eee! i'm so excited to get out of that house!
another reason why: last night, as i'm walking from the kitchen to the tv room, i glance at the puppet-stand that i keep trying not to look at because something about a stand full of old puppets creeps me out. but i accidentally glanced at the top one which happened to be a very old cat hand puppet. the head was black and rubbery and the one remaining eyeball was huge and yellow. thanks. i needed that nightmare material. also, while i was making dinner, i heard a bird tweeting, loudly, right there in the kitchen. after i recovered from my heart attack, i realized it was the clock which had a different bird marking each hour and on the hour it chirps that bird's chirp. i guess i hadn't been in the kitchen for the turning of an hour before. it explained the owl i had heard the other night.
my actual nightmares were about rach missing her flight. wah! i hope nothing like that happens. i miss my lady like crazy. in the dream, she missed because she was giving a piano recital in a huge hall. that doesn't seem terribly likely.
there were some good things - spike's 'once' re: intimacy with angel. heh. the tying in of the kiss from cordelia etc was exciting. but it was a faint glimmer in an otherwise grey and dull episode for me. also, i used to believe that joss and co. were feminists to some degree at least. but. the graphic beating of illyria followed shortly by gunn's 'senator bitch' made me sick to my stomach. there are a lot of things you can call a hellbeast in the body of a woman. 'bitch' was a poor choice, i feel. this after seeing the whole team standing there together and noticing the all-men-ness of them yet again. and the beating was just so... awful. i suppose it was supposed to be. but. it was only she-the last woman in the frickin show-who was beaten so graphically. i didn't like that. her thing about playing the game was completely hilarious though, i'll give them that.
i suppose i should leave this cafe someday. but it's nice and cool and... internet. oh! there's been good news! my wonderful mum has offered to put rach and i up in a b&b when rach gets here. ohthankgoodness. i couldn't be happier. and, craziness, the b&b in question is lesbian-owned, one of the owners went to my high school and it's vegan-friendly! eee! i'm so excited to get out of that house!
another reason why: last night, as i'm walking from the kitchen to the tv room, i glance at the puppet-stand that i keep trying not to look at because something about a stand full of old puppets creeps me out. but i accidentally glanced at the top one which happened to be a very old cat hand puppet. the head was black and rubbery and the one remaining eyeball was huge and yellow. thanks. i needed that nightmare material. also, while i was making dinner, i heard a bird tweeting, loudly, right there in the kitchen. after i recovered from my heart attack, i realized it was the clock which had a different bird marking each hour and on the hour it chirps that bird's chirp. i guess i hadn't been in the kitchen for the turning of an hour before. it explained the owl i had heard the other night.
my actual nightmares were about rach missing her flight. wah! i hope nothing like that happens. i miss my lady like crazy. in the dream, she missed because she was giving a piano recital in a huge hall. that doesn't seem terribly likely.
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Date: 2004-05-13 09:19 am (UTC)ah, the joys of being online. praised be for the library!
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Date: 2004-05-13 09:44 am (UTC)(I actually dreamed that scene over again last night and in Dream World, Harmony was there and she raised her hand - and it took me a minute in the morning to realize that hadn't actually happened in the episode.)
Where are all the kick-ass women?
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Date: 2004-05-13 05:58 pm (UTC)yeah! it seems like they're all either too good for this world, like cordelia (and possibly fred), or too evil, and needing to be slain/de-powered (because ok, disempowered would just be redundant here), like ilyria, harmony ("what can i do for you, boss?"), or jasmine. remember buffy, the slayerettes, the grrlpower ending? wtf, joss? grrr.
i love the idea of harmony being there for it the hand-raising. or ilyria. or nina. or anybody. and dude, why does jayne (i forget his real name) have the ability to beat up ilyria? how is that necessary? grr.