"Nothing's permanent, son."
Mar. 17th, 2007 05:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieRats. It got cold again.
So of course, I spent last night ensconced by the woodstove, watching the last episode(s) of due South.1
- Preamble: I love the stealing of the title. I remember reading that book all in one night when I was fourteen (it was summer reading for ninth-grade English). Great book.
- RAYV! I missed you! *squishes* And of course Benny would end up blowing your cover. Naturally.
- "I knew you two would hit it off." BWAH! Ya-huh. Oh, Fraser, blinded by love/friendship.
- The fight over whose desk it was electrifying. Couldn't we have seen more scenes with both Rays? (Also liked, "How the hell did we work this with Fraser?" / "I dunno. Go!")
- Aw, RayK. Now you've been kicked out of your own life. Ouch.
- Hi, Real!Competent!Meg! I missed you, too!
- But...RayV got shot? Again? And then spent the entire second half mooning over Stella? Oh, LAME. Vaguely amusing, perhaps, but I would've much rather he gone up with everyone else to the NWT. *pouts*
- The plot was...a bit tired-feeling. Did we really need another Bolt relative? Come on. Muldoon should've been bad enough on his own. Not that I usually ever give a whit about plots on this show, except when they end amusingly--and yes, a dozen Mounties and Diefenbaker parachuting down to the rescue was pretty amusing--but this...lacked. Ah, well. It was never really about the plots anyway, really; for me, at least, the whole cop show/mystery aspect was purely a device used to get these people to interact.
- Hee, jumping out of a plane with no parachute. And then it immediately lost the humor and became beautiful. Fraser really was home.
- Oh, Meg, why did you interrupt Fraser and Ray at the camp? Argh. Although I liked the ensuing scene between her and Fraser. She was very graceful there.
- Did Paul Gross win a Gemini for that scene with his parents? If he didn't, he should've. I'm still a bit shaky after watching it again. Asjdkl;fl! That's what this show was all about.
- I have mixed feelings about the ending. I kind of wish it hadn't ended with everyone splitting up--but then again, there's nothing to say that they don't come back together afterwards. It manages to be both conclusive and inconclusive at the same time. Not bad. (Although I totally see why it managed to piss off just about everybody in some way.)
- I like the idea of Thatcher kicking ass and taking names, but as a spy? I figured she'd be promoted to commander of a significant chunk of the RCMP, and then set to weeding out corruption, harrassment, etc.
- There must be a joke I'm not getting about Frannie's babies. It was very WTF-y. (Slightly less WTF, but no less head-shakingy, was RayV and Stella moving to Florida to start a bowling alley. I...what?) Welsh's ending was perfect, though.
- I loved Fraser and Ray setting off on a dogsled to find the Hand of Franklin. Really, it was a perfect ending to the show, whether you slash them or not. They go off on an adventure, and also to find themselves--Ray to discover the real Ray Kowalski, Fraser to see who he is when out of his father's long shadow. I'm kind of glad that I have no particular cultural connection to the Northwest Passage and had never heard that song before, because the ending was intense enough as it was.
- And again, nothing saying they can't all come back together afterwards...that's nice. I like that.
And now I have no more new episodes to watch. :( I never thought I would come to like this show as much as I did. Never in a million years. It was so much better than any show about what![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sleepingcbw has characterized as "Spock, if Spock were a Mountie living in Chicago" has any right to be.
*
In closely related news, I...may have found the song and series combination that actually makes me attempt to figure out how to make a vid. Particularly since I have all of the source material on DVD. Um. Anyway, the song is Hem's "Half Acre," which, if you read the lyrics and listen to the song (go here and use your browser's find feature to search for "half acre" to get an mp3 link), I think you will find it just as perfect for Benton Fraser as I do.
1 Well, I also watched "Say Amen," but really, the less said about that, the better, right?
So of course, I spent last night ensconced by the woodstove, watching the last episode(s) of due South.1
- Preamble: I love the stealing of the title. I remember reading that book all in one night when I was fourteen (it was summer reading for ninth-grade English). Great book.
- RAYV! I missed you! *squishes* And of course Benny would end up blowing your cover. Naturally.
- "I knew you two would hit it off." BWAH! Ya-huh. Oh, Fraser, blinded by love/friendship.
- The fight over whose desk it was electrifying. Couldn't we have seen more scenes with both Rays? (Also liked, "How the hell did we work this with Fraser?" / "I dunno. Go!")
- Aw, RayK. Now you've been kicked out of your own life. Ouch.
- Hi, Real!Competent!Meg! I missed you, too!
- But...RayV got shot? Again? And then spent the entire second half mooning over Stella? Oh, LAME. Vaguely amusing, perhaps, but I would've much rather he gone up with everyone else to the NWT. *pouts*
- The plot was...a bit tired-feeling. Did we really need another Bolt relative? Come on. Muldoon should've been bad enough on his own. Not that I usually ever give a whit about plots on this show, except when they end amusingly--and yes, a dozen Mounties and Diefenbaker parachuting down to the rescue was pretty amusing--but this...lacked. Ah, well. It was never really about the plots anyway, really; for me, at least, the whole cop show/mystery aspect was purely a device used to get these people to interact.
- Hee, jumping out of a plane with no parachute. And then it immediately lost the humor and became beautiful. Fraser really was home.
- Oh, Meg, why did you interrupt Fraser and Ray at the camp? Argh. Although I liked the ensuing scene between her and Fraser. She was very graceful there.
- Did Paul Gross win a Gemini for that scene with his parents? If he didn't, he should've. I'm still a bit shaky after watching it again. Asjdkl;fl! That's what this show was all about.
- I have mixed feelings about the ending. I kind of wish it hadn't ended with everyone splitting up--but then again, there's nothing to say that they don't come back together afterwards. It manages to be both conclusive and inconclusive at the same time. Not bad. (Although I totally see why it managed to piss off just about everybody in some way.)
- I like the idea of Thatcher kicking ass and taking names, but as a spy? I figured she'd be promoted to commander of a significant chunk of the RCMP, and then set to weeding out corruption, harrassment, etc.
- There must be a joke I'm not getting about Frannie's babies. It was very WTF-y. (Slightly less WTF, but no less head-shakingy, was RayV and Stella moving to Florida to start a bowling alley. I...what?) Welsh's ending was perfect, though.
- I loved Fraser and Ray setting off on a dogsled to find the Hand of Franklin. Really, it was a perfect ending to the show, whether you slash them or not. They go off on an adventure, and also to find themselves--Ray to discover the real Ray Kowalski, Fraser to see who he is when out of his father's long shadow. I'm kind of glad that I have no particular cultural connection to the Northwest Passage and had never heard that song before, because the ending was intense enough as it was.
- And again, nothing saying they can't all come back together afterwards...that's nice. I like that.
And now I have no more new episodes to watch. :( I never thought I would come to like this show as much as I did. Never in a million years. It was so much better than any show about what
sleepingcbw has characterized as "Spock, if Spock were a Mountie living in Chicago" has any right to be.*
In closely related news, I...may have found the song and series combination that actually makes me attempt to figure out how to make a vid. Particularly since I have all of the source material on DVD. Um. Anyway, the song is Hem's "Half Acre," which, if you read the lyrics and listen to the song (go here and use your browser's find feature to search for "half acre" to get an mp3 link), I think you will find it just as perfect for Benton Fraser as I do.
1 Well, I also watched "Say Amen," but really, the less said about that, the better, right?
