I've never heard of the band before, but methinks I need to check them out.
You can listen to basically everything they've ever recorded at Grooveshark. They haven't ever made a bad song, IMO, but some of my favorites are "Pacific Street," "Redwing," "Strays," "He Came to Meet Me," "Half Acre," and "Leave Me Here." /pimping :D
But a well-written romantic arc skillfully written into an already intriguing A plot? That's like icing on the cake for me.
I feel the same way.
And...I just don't get all the denial during S1, unless they don't have things as well planned out as I wish they did.
Wasn't there quite a bit of creative turn-over at the end of S1? I seem to recall reading that Abrams and several others left to make other shows then. Maybe things changed. I don't think they'll give us a horrible downer ending where Peter/Olivia is concerned, though; not only do so many of the episodes end rather hopefully for a series that can be kinda grim, but they probably know they'd have a bunch of pissed off fans beating down their metaphorical doors if they did. ;) Personally, I want an epilogue with Peter, Olivia, and the "little tribe of Bishops" he mentions in "The Day We Died." :D
(Heck, at one point in season three, Sam even tells Nina that the fate of the universes depends on which Olivia Peter chooses.)
I have to admit, that didn't thrill me. Here we were with this amazing woman who got all this agency and development (in both universes!), and suddenly the fate of the universe is reduced to which version of her the guy chooses? I was so glad that wasn't the case at all. (Heh, I might have cheered loudly at the point in the final trilogy last season when Nina says, "But I thought our universe was going to be okay because you and Peter are together!" and Olivia just gives her this look like, "Excuse me?")
But I really like that, for instance, Walternate couldn't have started the machine without Henry's blood, and Henry wouldn't have happened had Peter not loved Ourlivia and believed Fauxlivia to be her. And once the machine was started, Peter couldn't do anything on our side until Olivia unlocked it, and she can't use her powers unless she feels a specific combination of fear and love, which Peter provides. Sometimes I have a hard time believing there's a show on network TV that actually giving us things like that.
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Date: 2011-10-09 05:07 am (UTC)You can listen to basically everything they've ever recorded at Grooveshark. They haven't ever made a bad song, IMO, but some of my favorites are "Pacific Street," "Redwing," "Strays," "He Came to Meet Me," "Half Acre," and "Leave Me Here." /pimping :D
But a well-written romantic arc skillfully written into an already intriguing A plot? That's like icing on the cake for me.
I feel the same way.
And...I just don't get all the denial during S1, unless they don't have things as well planned out as I wish they did.
Wasn't there quite a bit of creative turn-over at the end of S1? I seem to recall reading that Abrams and several others left to make other shows then. Maybe things changed. I don't think they'll give us a horrible downer ending where Peter/Olivia is concerned, though; not only do so many of the episodes end rather hopefully for a series that can be kinda grim, but they probably know they'd have a bunch of pissed off fans beating down their metaphorical doors if they did. ;) Personally, I want an epilogue with Peter, Olivia, and the "little tribe of Bishops" he mentions in "The Day We Died." :D
(Heck, at one point in season three, Sam even tells Nina that the fate of the universes depends on which Olivia Peter chooses.)
I have to admit, that didn't thrill me. Here we were with this amazing woman who got all this agency and development (in both universes!), and suddenly the fate of the universe is reduced to which version of her the guy chooses? I was so glad that wasn't the case at all. (Heh, I might have cheered loudly at the point in the final trilogy last season when Nina says, "But I thought our universe was going to be okay because you and Peter are together!" and Olivia just gives her this look like, "Excuse me?")
But I really like that, for instance, Walternate couldn't have started the machine without Henry's blood, and Henry wouldn't have happened had Peter not loved Ourlivia and believed Fauxlivia to be her. And once the machine was started, Peter couldn't do anything on our side until Olivia unlocked it, and she can't use her powers unless she feels a specific combination of fear and love, which Peter provides. Sometimes I have a hard time believing there's a show on network TV that actually giving us things like that.