The Skeleton Exploded
Nov. 9th, 2006 10:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
talkingsoupSenate too! Senate too! Eeeeeeeee!! And Rumsfeld is gone! Much as I hate the bastard, I would have rather seen Karl Rove be the one to take the guillotine. Oh well. Rumsfeld is good enough.
Kate has gotten Julie and I into Avatar: The Last Airbender. Which is the kind of show that reminds you of the good old days of kid's programming. The show is cute, fun, and actually has a storyline, which is the only non-anime cartoon that comes to mind that has one. It borrows a lot from Japanese animation, but at the same time it's got its roots in the West. It's definitely geared toward kids, but you think about cartoons, right--Rugrats, Hey Arnold, Loony Toons, all the rest of them. None of them exactly had a storyline that continued from one episode to the next. That's Japanese influence right there, continued storylines in animation. Woot! Plus the storyline is actually interesting, complex and the setting/world is also very rich. The writers really put their time into it.
Plus, like I said, it's fun and cute. It's got a giant fluffy flying bison, how can it be bad??
And, in other news, Lost. Yesterday was the mid-season ender, and
holy shit it was insane! It was a Kate episode, so we finally got flashbacks about when she was married!! And dude, her husband was played by Nathan Fillion (sp?) from Firefly, which was totally fucking awesome. Pretty much, Kate married this guy, but you could tell she was tense because she was using a fake name and all. She ends up calling the US Air Marshall, whatshisname, and asking him to just leave her alone. He tells her if she can stay put, he will. But Kate has a thing for running, so she tells her husband the truth and that she really loves him, and runs.
Meanwhile on the Island, Locke and company bury poor Mr. Eko. Sayid asks Locke what killed him, and Locke tells him it was the monster. They go out to get the Jesus Stick and use it as a grave marker. They bury him in the jungle, without the people on the beach knowing. As Locke is planting the Jesus Stick into the ground he notices something written on it--something to the effect of "Look to the North."
With the Others, Ben is still trying to convince Jack to operate on him. Jack is acting like he'll do it at first, but then he turns around and is like, "I have no guarantee that you'll actually do anything for me if I do this" and pretty much tells Ben to fuck off.
So, Juliette being the bitch she is, comes up with a solution, since she also wants Jack to do the operation and kill Ben in the process (supposedly).
Kate and Sawyer are out working with the rocks when Alex--Danielle's daughter--appears out of nowhere, slingshotting the Others and saying she wants to see Ben. They knock her down and as they're dragging her away she yells to Kate and Sawyer not to ever believe what they say, and that they're going to kill them.
One of the other Others, the guy whose wife was shot by Sun, has it in for Sawyer and wants to kill him. So Juliette goes and tells Kate that she needs to help them, or the guy will kill Sawyer. Kate agrees and Juliette brings Kate to Jack, and they have a moment of reunion. Kate begs Jack to do the operation in order to save Sawyer. So pretty much they use Sawyer against Kate, and Kate against Jack, because Juliette and Ben are that big of assholes.
Anyway, Jack gets pissed and tells Kate to go away. So Kate goes back to the cage and she's crying, and she tells Sawyer what's happening. Sawyer says that it's good that Jack had the brains not to take the Others up on the offer, but Kate tells him that she tried to convince him, and Sawyer yells at her, asking why she would bother to try and save his life and all. Kate gets pissed and climbs out of her cage and breaks Sawyer out and she tells him to run, and they're arguing, and then suddenly they're kissing and, well, let's just say that Kate has chosen Sawyer.
With Jack, he's in his fishtank and he hears a voice on the intercom telling him to try the door, so he does and he breaks out. He finds his way down the hall to the room with all the TV monitors where Ben watches everything that happens. Jack finds a room with some guns and takes one, then goes back to the TVs and sees Kate with Sawyer and he gets this kind of "Well...shit" look on his face. The Ben appears behind him, Jack pulls the gun on him, and Ben is like "Well this is it." Then Jack lowers the gun and says to have everything ready for tomorrow so he can operate on Ben. Ben is like "Dude, WTF?" and Jack says he needs Ben's word that he'll get Jack off the Island. Ben says "Done."
Then, operating room. Jack is all getting ready, and he makes it clear to Juliette that she has to do what he says, instead of letting Ben die, which is apparently what she wants. So he starts the operation. And meanwhile, the Other--the guy who wants to kill Sawyer, let's call him Sawyer Hater for simplicity's sake--Sawyer Hater goes out and heads to the cages, where Kate and Sawyer are still together. And Kate's like "No!" and Sawyer's like "No avoiding it" and Sawyer Hater is all like "Ima fucking kill you!"
Oh my god it was tense right here. Sawyer Hater dragged Sawyer out of the cage and some other guy had Kate pinned, and Sawyer Hater held a gun to Sawyer's head, and Sawyer was like, "Close your eyes, Freckles," ohhhhhhh man.
In the operating room, Jack is operating, and then suddenly the heart monitor thingy shows a problem. And the nurse guy in there is like "blood pressure's dropping" and Jack's like, "Well, huh," and then clobbers him and knocks him out. Juliette and the Bearded Other are like "Holy shit!" and Jack is like, "I just made this little incision. If I don't fix it in an hour, Ben is dead. Give me the walkie talkie!"
So Bearded Other comes down and Jack tells him to radio Sawyer Hater, which he does--just as Sawyer Hater is about to pull the trigger. He talks into the walkie talkie, and Jack tells him to give it to Kate. Jack tells Kate that she and Sawyer have an hour head-start. He tells Kate to take the walkie talkie and run and to radio him when they're safe, and to tell back the story that Jack first told her when they first landed on the Island (the counting to five story). Kate's like, "No, I can't leave you!"
And the very last line is Jack yelling, "Dammit, Kate, run!"
OMFG. And the next episode isn't until February. HOOOOOWWWW can we live that long, augh!
Oh man, though, Jack totally redeemed himself. I wanted to smack him for taking Ben up on the offer, but who knew he had a plan up his sleeve! And he's like taking the fall so that Kate and Sawyer will be safe! Oh man! Oh man!
Brilliant episode.
Meanwhile, I'm actually working on the next chapter of the fic, and ideas and tidbits are spinning around my head for Desert, Spirits and Mot. I also want to keep going with the Penta rewrite. Plot bunnies are breeding in my head!
Oh, and dude. In Fiction today we had to bring in a bit of writing in which the theme was violent. So one kid who read today went totally over the top and it was actually a short thing about Mortal Kombat. I was laughing the whole time. I mean, you want over-the-top violence, MK is the place to look for it. He had lines like "buckets of blood gushed from the opponent" and "the skeleton seemed to hesitate before it exploded" which was so fucking brilliant. I remember the Fatalities in that game, oh man, so fun.
Julie wants me to bring back Secret of Mana after break. Fuck yes.
Kate has gotten Julie and I into Avatar: The Last Airbender. Which is the kind of show that reminds you of the good old days of kid's programming. The show is cute, fun, and actually has a storyline, which is the only non-anime cartoon that comes to mind that has one. It borrows a lot from Japanese animation, but at the same time it's got its roots in the West. It's definitely geared toward kids, but you think about cartoons, right--Rugrats, Hey Arnold, Loony Toons, all the rest of them. None of them exactly had a storyline that continued from one episode to the next. That's Japanese influence right there, continued storylines in animation. Woot! Plus the storyline is actually interesting, complex and the setting/world is also very rich. The writers really put their time into it.
Plus, like I said, it's fun and cute. It's got a giant fluffy flying bison, how can it be bad??
And, in other news, Lost. Yesterday was the mid-season ender, and
holy shit it was insane! It was a Kate episode, so we finally got flashbacks about when she was married!! And dude, her husband was played by Nathan Fillion (sp?) from Firefly, which was totally fucking awesome. Pretty much, Kate married this guy, but you could tell she was tense because she was using a fake name and all. She ends up calling the US Air Marshall, whatshisname, and asking him to just leave her alone. He tells her if she can stay put, he will. But Kate has a thing for running, so she tells her husband the truth and that she really loves him, and runs.
Meanwhile on the Island, Locke and company bury poor Mr. Eko. Sayid asks Locke what killed him, and Locke tells him it was the monster. They go out to get the Jesus Stick and use it as a grave marker. They bury him in the jungle, without the people on the beach knowing. As Locke is planting the Jesus Stick into the ground he notices something written on it--something to the effect of "Look to the North."
With the Others, Ben is still trying to convince Jack to operate on him. Jack is acting like he'll do it at first, but then he turns around and is like, "I have no guarantee that you'll actually do anything for me if I do this" and pretty much tells Ben to fuck off.
So, Juliette being the bitch she is, comes up with a solution, since she also wants Jack to do the operation and kill Ben in the process (supposedly).
Kate and Sawyer are out working with the rocks when Alex--Danielle's daughter--appears out of nowhere, slingshotting the Others and saying she wants to see Ben. They knock her down and as they're dragging her away she yells to Kate and Sawyer not to ever believe what they say, and that they're going to kill them.
One of the other Others, the guy whose wife was shot by Sun, has it in for Sawyer and wants to kill him. So Juliette goes and tells Kate that she needs to help them, or the guy will kill Sawyer. Kate agrees and Juliette brings Kate to Jack, and they have a moment of reunion. Kate begs Jack to do the operation in order to save Sawyer. So pretty much they use Sawyer against Kate, and Kate against Jack, because Juliette and Ben are that big of assholes.
Anyway, Jack gets pissed and tells Kate to go away. So Kate goes back to the cage and she's crying, and she tells Sawyer what's happening. Sawyer says that it's good that Jack had the brains not to take the Others up on the offer, but Kate tells him that she tried to convince him, and Sawyer yells at her, asking why she would bother to try and save his life and all. Kate gets pissed and climbs out of her cage and breaks Sawyer out and she tells him to run, and they're arguing, and then suddenly they're kissing and, well, let's just say that Kate has chosen Sawyer.
With Jack, he's in his fishtank and he hears a voice on the intercom telling him to try the door, so he does and he breaks out. He finds his way down the hall to the room with all the TV monitors where Ben watches everything that happens. Jack finds a room with some guns and takes one, then goes back to the TVs and sees Kate with Sawyer and he gets this kind of "Well...shit" look on his face. The Ben appears behind him, Jack pulls the gun on him, and Ben is like "Well this is it." Then Jack lowers the gun and says to have everything ready for tomorrow so he can operate on Ben. Ben is like "Dude, WTF?" and Jack says he needs Ben's word that he'll get Jack off the Island. Ben says "Done."
Then, operating room. Jack is all getting ready, and he makes it clear to Juliette that she has to do what he says, instead of letting Ben die, which is apparently what she wants. So he starts the operation. And meanwhile, the Other--the guy who wants to kill Sawyer, let's call him Sawyer Hater for simplicity's sake--Sawyer Hater goes out and heads to the cages, where Kate and Sawyer are still together. And Kate's like "No!" and Sawyer's like "No avoiding it" and Sawyer Hater is all like "Ima fucking kill you!"
Oh my god it was tense right here. Sawyer Hater dragged Sawyer out of the cage and some other guy had Kate pinned, and Sawyer Hater held a gun to Sawyer's head, and Sawyer was like, "Close your eyes, Freckles," ohhhhhhh man.
In the operating room, Jack is operating, and then suddenly the heart monitor thingy shows a problem. And the nurse guy in there is like "blood pressure's dropping" and Jack's like, "Well, huh," and then clobbers him and knocks him out. Juliette and the Bearded Other are like "Holy shit!" and Jack is like, "I just made this little incision. If I don't fix it in an hour, Ben is dead. Give me the walkie talkie!"
So Bearded Other comes down and Jack tells him to radio Sawyer Hater, which he does--just as Sawyer Hater is about to pull the trigger. He talks into the walkie talkie, and Jack tells him to give it to Kate. Jack tells Kate that she and Sawyer have an hour head-start. He tells Kate to take the walkie talkie and run and to radio him when they're safe, and to tell back the story that Jack first told her when they first landed on the Island (the counting to five story). Kate's like, "No, I can't leave you!"
And the very last line is Jack yelling, "Dammit, Kate, run!"
OMFG. And the next episode isn't until February. HOOOOOWWWW can we live that long, augh!
Oh man, though, Jack totally redeemed himself. I wanted to smack him for taking Ben up on the offer, but who knew he had a plan up his sleeve! And he's like taking the fall so that Kate and Sawyer will be safe! Oh man! Oh man!
Brilliant episode.
Meanwhile, I'm actually working on the next chapter of the fic, and ideas and tidbits are spinning around my head for Desert, Spirits and Mot. I also want to keep going with the Penta rewrite. Plot bunnies are breeding in my head!
Oh, and dude. In Fiction today we had to bring in a bit of writing in which the theme was violent. So one kid who read today went totally over the top and it was actually a short thing about Mortal Kombat. I was laughing the whole time. I mean, you want over-the-top violence, MK is the place to look for it. He had lines like "buckets of blood gushed from the opponent" and "the skeleton seemed to hesitate before it exploded" which was so fucking brilliant. I remember the Fatalities in that game, oh man, so fun.
Julie wants me to bring back Secret of Mana after break. Fuck yes.
