Man, Leverage S2 09 barely managed to finish broadcasting before all the shrieks of "Mary Sue!" and "Kill it with fire!" started rolling in. Lol fandom. Y u so predictable?

( Somewhat spoilery snark. )

Though I'm sure that despite all logic, if you stomp around and define the term "Mary Sue" for us enough times, we'll agree with you. Yeah uh no.

Aaanyway, I too am hoping for Gina Bellman's imminent return to the show, since the whole dynamic's thrown without her, but I'm kinda liking Jeri Ryan's character so far, too. I hope they don't overdo Hardison's attraction to her in order to create tension between Hardison and Parker; that would be a little too cliche for my tastes. (Although I'm curious as to how jealousy would manifest itself in Parker. She's much too bizarre for any normal kind of jealous behavior.) Approve of Eliot's longer hair, and also the merciful laying off of the hair mousse. He looks much better like this.

Am now wondering what the hell I am going to do until January. x_x How is it that if I get into an American show, it's right before or during an incredibly long hiatus? It happened with Avatar, too.

And I suppose I never said anything about last week's Leverage, either. Eh. This:



Says allll I could need to say.

So those last two episodes of Pandora Hearts? Yeah, I uh... haven't even watched them yet. I was so miffed at Sheryl being completely removed from Break's arc that I haven't worked up the motivation to watch the second part yet. Seriously, she's not young and moe, thus she's not important? And besides just wanting to see her for her sake, she's important to the duke's characterization. Without her, Barma is about as interesting as a piece of stiff cardboard.

And as for this week's episode... I don't have the courage. x_x I think I'll just wait until the series ends and find out whether the filler destroys continuity or not before I watch it. If it does, fuck it, if it doesn't, I'll watch it. I don't hate all anime-only material, but I really hate hate hate anime-only material that destroys continuity.

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Canaan episode 10: uh, wow. So, that did completely the opposite of my expectations. I was so sure/afraid that Ms. beautiful frolicking mute lady was doomed to a fridgin' so her dude could angst more, but instead, they fridged the dude. Many kudos to the writers for reversing that gender trope, even if the way it was done was... shall we say, maybe a just little bit over the top?

(Seriously. So over the top.)

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And in unrelated news, ruffwriter is running another original fiction prompt tree challenge, and I wrote a ficbit for it! This is completely random and unrelated to anything else I've written.

Prompt: The view from the back window.
Rating: G/PG-ish.

>> The thing's image went flicker-jitter, in-and-out, like a bad signal on a television set.