Yesterday was fangirl heaven!

[scribblinlenore]

So much good stuff! I felt like I'd overloaded my squee circuit by the time I was finished.

First of all, I spent most of the day daydreaming about Firefly, which I really, really enojyed. A lot. Oh, oh, and I realized that my picfor1000 story is going to be Mal/Simon, and I have a vague outline hashed out in my head. Whee!

Then, when I was finished (ostensibly) working, I watched "Safe" twice because honestly? I don't ever think I could see the end of that episode enough. When Mal and Zoe come striding out of the smoke? Eeeee! And Simon looks so astonished that they've come back for them. And the Mal-Zoe banter, which is in my opinion always the best banter on a show filled with really, really fabulous banter:

MAL
Well, look at this! Appears we got here just in the nick of time. What does that make us?

ZOE
Big damn heroes, sir.

MAL
Ain't we just.

And then later, when they're back on the ship, and Simon asks Mal why he came back for them, and Mal says, "You're on my crew." And Simon just can't comprehend it, because even his own father has abandoned them. Oh, my heart. Oh, how it breaks.

I know you guys probably can't tell, because I'm very subtle about it, but I LOVE ME SOME FIREFLY!!!!



Okay, so if that wasn't enough, then it was Supernatural night with a brand new, shiny episode. (Yes, I will be using the word "shiny" a lot!)



I have waited and waited and waited for this show to come back, and yay! Here it is! The beginning was way too gross for me not to look away from the screen, but then we got to the important brother stuff, and I was happy. My heart was obviously in the mood for breaking, but when Sam tells Dean he's trying to become more like him? *clutches chest* Then when he raced off to go shoot him some witches...just, wow. Dean is more bad-ass than Sam, but Sam is a hell of a lot scarier. You take the gloss of civilization off him, strip away his values, and he's not going to need any demon powers or demon blood to be incredibly dangerous. (And I really kind of love him a lot.)

The insight into Ruby was fascinating. I'm not sure whether I believe her or not, but if she is telling the truth, that's just incredibly poignant, a demon who remembers what it's like to be human. And oh my God! That final scene with Dean when he learns that he's not just going to hell, he's going to become what he hates, what he hunts down and kills. His face! His little face! Oh, my heart. And of course, Dean is going to be like Ruby. He'll remember what it feels like to be human. He'll remember what it is to love someone, to love Sam. I can't wait to see whee they go with this story line. It's just so, so cool.

It does make me wonder about their dad, though. I mean, he got out of hell, but did he become a demon? Does that only happen when you've been in hell a long, long time? Is John actually free or doomed to be betwixt and between like Ruby? *ponders*

Finally, on a totally shallow note, Jared looked AMAZING!



Okay, and then after that, I watched Torchwood, and that's when I think my squee actually burst into flames.



I've been wishing for a while now, as so many do, for Tosh to get some action, and this was just perfect, heart breaking, perfect. She's such an understated character, and it makes her strength and courage all the more affecting, because it's so quiet. That she takes Tommy home with her for that night, the way she lifts her chin when she announces her decision, not asks, not really. And then making sure he goes through with what he has to do, even though she knows there's nothing but the end waiting for him on the other side.

I also really enjoyed the Tosh-Owen moments, with Owen being the decent human being he occasionally knows how to be. When he's gentle with her, it's so incredibly touching, and it makes me wonder if the show is going to go to the Tosh/Owen place, although I totally believe that would break Tosh.

And then! Then! Oh my God! The kiss, THE KISS! I've only watched it like 3,056 times! Wow. More than a few synapses blown from that one. I loved that Ianto takes charge of the kiss, and as I was saying to linaerys earlier, it's very interesting to see the change in Ianto from the first season, where he was by turns attracted to and horrified by Jack. There's no hint of ambivalence now. As Lin said, he's not holding anything back. It's just incendiary on the screen, and yet there are so many ways it could go wrong, wrong, so very wrong. It adds a subtle vunerability to Ianto that is for me much more interesting than his emo pain of last year. (And yes, I did just use the word "emo." *g*)

I'm not quite as sure what to make of Jack in that scene. I mean, there is definitely affection for Ianto, and the sexual chemistry between them is sizzling. But it doesn't quite feel to me that he's in love with Ianto, or maybe he is, and there's this detached sort of weariness that goes along with it, because as much as he's celebrating all the people he's known and loved because he didn't stay where he was, he also knows that he's going to outlive everyone he cares about. And of course, he's Jack. So he'll never belong to any one person. But Ianto seems so open-eyed about the whole thing that I don't mind. Ianto is being as brave as Tosh, throwing himself into what he wants, knowing it won't, it can't last forever.



And then I went to bed and couldn't sleep at all, because I was all giddy and fangirly and filled with happy, happy thoughts!

Comments

[amireal.livejournal.com]

*G* And women who just RANDOMLY TAKE THEIR CLOTHES OF.

[scribblinlenore.livejournal.com]

Hee! Yes, yes, they have so much in common. I'm imagining Saffron getting her hooks into John and nearly peeing myself it's so funny.