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hawkwing_lb) wrote2007-11-24 06:48 pm
hawkwing_lb) wrote2007-11-24 06:48 pm
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the people you've been before that you don't want around anymore
Books 172-173, Fiction 162-163:
162, 163. Seraphs and Host, Faith Hunter.
Second and third book after Bloodring. They're good, but they don't give me the same kind of narrative squeefulness as the first book.
Not that I have any objections to ramping up the tension, but after you've fought the devil itself in book three, the only thing left is to assail the gates of heaven. And there's only so much victory over impossible odds I'm prepared to believe in before my suspension-of-disbelief muscles get a bit strained.
Falling off walls is fun. Today, I had a lesson! in how to climb, make safe, and belay. I now have burgeoning blisters on all my fingers from feeding the rope through the device. But I also made it to the top of the easy wall and halfway up the second easiest, so it's all good.
Criminal Minds 3.09, 'Penelope', takes the biscuit as the best episode of the season so far.
1.14, 'Riding the Lightning'
2.01, 'The Fisher King Part II'
2.07, 'North Mammon'
2.10, 'Lessons Learned'
2.11, 'Sex, Birth, Death'
2.15, 'Revelations'
2.17, 'Distress'
2.21, 'Open Season'
3.02, 'In Birth and Death'
3.04, 'Children of the Dark'
3.07, 'Penelope'
So it turns out I really like strongly character-centred episodes, especially ones where the team's (or members thereof) backs are really up against the wall, victims who fight back, human evil that sometimes turns out to be not as evil as it looks, and lots of Prentiss, JJ and Garcia.
Seriously. Those women are made of win.
I am in no way averse to Morgan, Reid and Hotch either. But please, can we feed Rossi to the alligators? Soon?
I mean, I get part of what the writers are doing with him. Pointing out that being an arsehole doesn't in itself make you of the devil's party is a fine thing, truly. Being an arsehole and being one of the good guys doesn't make him any less an arsehole, though, and abrasive male authority figures have rarely, if ever, appealled to me in fiction or in real life.
I'll cop to something of an allergy.
Now maybe I should go do something productive with my evening?
162, 163. Seraphs and Host, Faith Hunter.
Second and third book after Bloodring. They're good, but they don't give me the same kind of narrative squeefulness as the first book.
Not that I have any objections to ramping up the tension, but after you've fought the devil itself in book three, the only thing left is to assail the gates of heaven. And there's only so much victory over impossible odds I'm prepared to believe in before my suspension-of-disbelief muscles get a bit strained.
Falling off walls is fun. Today, I had a lesson! in how to climb, make safe, and belay. I now have burgeoning blisters on all my fingers from feeding the rope through the device. But I also made it to the top of the easy wall and halfway up the second easiest, so it's all good.
Criminal Minds 3.09, 'Penelope', takes the biscuit as the best episode of the season so far.
1.14, 'Riding the Lightning'
2.01, 'The Fisher King Part II'
2.07, 'North Mammon'
2.10, 'Lessons Learned'
2.11, 'Sex, Birth, Death'
2.15, 'Revelations'
2.17, 'Distress'
2.21, 'Open Season'
3.02, 'In Birth and Death'
3.04, 'Children of the Dark'
3.07, 'Penelope'
So it turns out I really like strongly character-centred episodes, especially ones where the team's (or members thereof) backs are really up against the wall, victims who fight back, human evil that sometimes turns out to be not as evil as it looks, and lots of Prentiss, JJ and Garcia.
Seriously. Those women are made of win.
I am in no way averse to Morgan, Reid and Hotch either. But please, can we feed Rossi to the alligators? Soon?
I mean, I get part of what the writers are doing with him. Pointing out that being an arsehole doesn't in itself make you of the devil's party is a fine thing, truly. Being an arsehole and being one of the good guys doesn't make him any less an arsehole, though, and abrasive male authority figures have rarely, if ever, appealled to me in fiction or in real life.
I'll cop to something of an allergy.
Now maybe I should go do something productive with my evening?