many levels of guh
Jan. 26th, 2005 03:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
corilannamDear SciFi Channel,
Renew my show now, please. I'm asking nicely, but if you cancel it after that finale, then all the Ben Browder in the world will not save you from my wrath.
Love,
Cori
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I am now thoroughly obsessed with House. This is entirely the fault of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tzikeh, astolat, and basingstoke, who have talked about almost nothing else for weeks, and of course chelseafrew, who when I mentioned that I was thinking of trying House, promptly handed me a tape with the first six episodes on it.
I really didn't need another fandom (no, really), especially since I have several new ones already fighting for the limited space in my brain, yet I find myself with two stories started and a small voice in the back of my head chanting "house house house house" at all hours.
Damn that Hugh Laurie.
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Also in the realm of new addictions, I'm still working my way through the Coldfire trilogy, and am now almost done with book two. To those who know me well, it should be no surprise which character I've become most attached to.
Gerald Tarrant is one of those characters who could have been written for me to become obsessed with. Tormented and fallen from grace, now ambiguously evil, yet reluctantly doing good and helping/saving the hero. And of course, Damien believes he can redeem Tarrant through the power of God's love -- or Damien's love, more like, given the sheer amount of time Damien spends obsessing over Tarrant, and how Tarrant so romantically refrains from slaughtering helpless children just because Damien asks him not to (awww!). This is one of my strongest bulletproof emotional hot buttons. Oh yeah. Not the slaughtering children thing, but the reluctant redemption thing. *g*
I'm reasonably confident at this point that Tarrant will get his redemption, or something resembling it, by the end of the last book -- and I'm equally as confident that he's going to die doing it. There's really no other way it can end other than with his death, and the fact that he's my favorite character only makes his demise that much more certain. I'm looking forward to it.
And then to the alternate ending fan fiction!
Renew my show now, please. I'm asking nicely, but if you cancel it after that finale, then all the Ben Browder in the world will not save you from my wrath.
Love,
Cori
***
I am now thoroughly obsessed with House. This is entirely the fault of
tzikeh, astolat, and basingstoke, who have talked about almost nothing else for weeks, and of course chelseafrew, who when I mentioned that I was thinking of trying House, promptly handed me a tape with the first six episodes on it.I really didn't need another fandom (no, really), especially since I have several new ones already fighting for the limited space in my brain, yet I find myself with two stories started and a small voice in the back of my head chanting "house house house house" at all hours.
Damn that Hugh Laurie.
***
Also in the realm of new addictions, I'm still working my way through the Coldfire trilogy, and am now almost done with book two. To those who know me well, it should be no surprise which character I've become most attached to.
Gerald Tarrant is one of those characters who could have been written for me to become obsessed with. Tormented and fallen from grace, now ambiguously evil, yet reluctantly doing good and helping/saving the hero. And of course, Damien believes he can redeem Tarrant through the power of God's love -- or Damien's love, more like, given the sheer amount of time Damien spends obsessing over Tarrant, and how Tarrant so romantically refrains from slaughtering helpless children just because Damien asks him not to (awww!). This is one of my strongest bulletproof emotional hot buttons. Oh yeah. Not the slaughtering children thing, but the reluctant redemption thing. *g*
I'm reasonably confident at this point that Tarrant will get his redemption, or something resembling it, by the end of the last book -- and I'm equally as confident that he's going to die doing it. There's really no other way it can end other than with his death, and the fact that he's my favorite character only makes his demise that much more certain. I'm looking forward to it.
And then to the alternate ending fan fiction!
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Date: 2005-01-26 08:13 pm (UTC)I really didn't need another fandom (no, really), especially since I have several new ones already fighting for the limited space in my brain, yet I find myself with two stories started and a small voice in the back of my head chanting "house house house house" at all hours.
YAY!!!! *g*
I need to start making tapes for people. And not deleting episodes off my TiVo.
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Date: 2005-01-26 08:35 pm (UTC)On the bright side, I did manage to pimp my mother into it last night, which is a rare accomplishment. *g*
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Date: 2005-01-26 08:46 pm (UTC)Heh. So, the bad erotic poetry got to her, too? *g*
Oooh, and Coldfire. Yeah, Tarrant and Damien are fascinating characters. I find Tarrant especially interesting because he really did something truly evil. Not a little evil with mitigating circumstances. EVIL. And he doesn't ever apologize for it. He's allowed to be that bad. And yet, you still cheer for him, and want Damien to save him. And, hell, Damien wants to save him, which is fascinating as well.
I should read those books again.
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Date: 2005-01-26 09:30 pm (UTC)I totally find it fascinating how badly Damien wants to save him, considering how badly he wanted to destroy him when they first met. Not just on a slashy level, but also looking at Tarrant as the Prophet of Damien's religion, the man whose ideas Damien has based his entire life and spiritual being on. It's an amazing dynamic.
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Date: 2005-01-26 09:47 pm (UTC)She did enjoy the poetry, though I suspect not on the same level as I did.
Aw! You never know. *g*
Not just on a slashy level, but also looking at Tarrant as the Prophet of Damien's religion, the man whose ideas Damien has based his entire life and spiritual being on. It's an amazing dynamic.
It really is. It would be pretty devastating, for instance, if a Christian were to meet Jesus and then find out that He's really psychotic, and everything you've based your belief system on is, if not a lie, then not what you've always thought it was. Trying to reconcile the ideas from what the person who came up with ideas did would be difficult.
And there's got to be a certain level of "I have to save you in order to prove that everything I have built my life on is not lie, that you are not irredemeable, and therefore I have not wasted everything." A sort of redemption by proxy, if that makes sense.
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Date: 2005-01-26 08:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-26 09:24 pm (UTC)House
Date: 2005-01-26 09:02 pm (UTC)-J
Re: House
Date: 2005-01-26 09:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-26 09:22 pm (UTC)Damn that Hugh Laurie
I too have fallen under the spell of House. I knew when I first started reading about it in magazines talking about new shows this season that I would come to love it.
I was not mistaken. I adore the show. It has become my favorite new show of the season.
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Date: 2005-01-26 09:28 pm (UTC)Then I watched it, and guh. Hook, line, and sinker. *g*
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Date: 2005-01-28 02:23 am (UTC)I was caught hook, line, and sinker from those descriptions months before it aired. I was just waiting in antici...pation for it.
I always love to hear when someone else gets sucked in. The more fans the better. I just love the show so much.