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webbgirlHowdy there. Remember me? Yes, I'm still alive. Been hanging out mostly on Twitter these days. There's something slightly appealing of not being expected to write more than one or two sentences at a time.
I am finally getting to the place where I'm feeling a bit more broadly social again though and thought I'd check in here to see if anyone was still hanging around. :)
What I've been doing these days...World of Warcraft, reading, work, rinse, repeat. More work than anything else today. I actually had to sit on an 8 hour conference call. They needed me for literally the last 20 minutes of the call. Yeah. That was totally worth it. And the really fun part is I get to do it all over again tomorrow! Umm...my meter may be stuck on sarcasm at the moment.
Fannishly I'm still watching the BROMANCE that is Hawaii 5-0. Steve and Danny are just beyond cute and beyond married. I think they may actually out "married couple" Sam and G. *g* I want to know what would happen if the four of them ever went to couples therapy.
Sam and Steve would bond over their days as SEALs while G and Danny would bond over how difficult their "husbands" could be. :D
Other fannishly, I watched NCIS tonight for the first time in awhile. I can't even begin to say how worth it it was. I will say that this is now a heavy contender with "Call of Silence" as best episode ever on my list. It was also more than a bit reminiscent of that ep as well.
I tuned in mainly because Bob Newhart was the guest star. I've always been a big fan and I kept hearing/reading how wonderful he was in this episode and how different the role was for him. I rarely say this about anyone on NCIS, but he deserves an Emmy liek woah.
BN was the B story as the former NCIS ME. He showed up somewhat out of the blue to visit with Ducky. I won't go into the whole thing because the story needs to be watched to get the full impact, but it was beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time.
The A story was about a Navy recruiter who was killed on a high school campus. While it wasn't the most complex story, it was amazingly well done. It involved DADT. Given some of the past episode content and comments made, I was more than a little concerned on how this would be handled. Gary Glassberg did an AMAZING job. It wasn't played for shock or for laughs. If anything, it made me start to fall in love with Gibbs' character again. The final scenes with him were great and I hope a sign that they FINALLY have him truly moving forward again.
I'll be interested to see what kind of epilogue fic comes out of this storyline. There's some meaty stuff with Gibbs to really work with there.
Everything in this episode was played with wonderful subtlety. That's not something that I've been able to say about NCIS in a very long time. If the episodes going forward even approach this level I could actually start watching again.
I am finally getting to the place where I'm feeling a bit more broadly social again though and thought I'd check in here to see if anyone was still hanging around. :)
What I've been doing these days...World of Warcraft, reading, work, rinse, repeat. More work than anything else today. I actually had to sit on an 8 hour conference call. They needed me for literally the last 20 minutes of the call. Yeah. That was totally worth it. And the really fun part is I get to do it all over again tomorrow! Umm...my meter may be stuck on sarcasm at the moment.
Fannishly I'm still watching the BROMANCE that is Hawaii 5-0. Steve and Danny are just beyond cute and beyond married. I think they may actually out "married couple" Sam and G. *g* I want to know what would happen if the four of them ever went to couples therapy.
Sam and Steve would bond over their days as SEALs while G and Danny would bond over how difficult their "husbands" could be. :D
Other fannishly, I watched NCIS tonight for the first time in awhile. I can't even begin to say how worth it it was. I will say that this is now a heavy contender with "Call of Silence" as best episode ever on my list. It was also more than a bit reminiscent of that ep as well.
I tuned in mainly because Bob Newhart was the guest star. I've always been a big fan and I kept hearing/reading how wonderful he was in this episode and how different the role was for him. I rarely say this about anyone on NCIS, but he deserves an Emmy liek woah.
BN was the B story as the former NCIS ME. He showed up somewhat out of the blue to visit with Ducky. I won't go into the whole thing because the story needs to be watched to get the full impact, but it was beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time.
The A story was about a Navy recruiter who was killed on a high school campus. While it wasn't the most complex story, it was amazingly well done. It involved DADT. Given some of the past episode content and comments made, I was more than a little concerned on how this would be handled. Gary Glassberg did an AMAZING job. It wasn't played for shock or for laughs. If anything, it made me start to fall in love with Gibbs' character again. The final scenes with him were great and I hope a sign that they FINALLY have him truly moving forward again.
I'll be interested to see what kind of epilogue fic comes out of this storyline. There's some meaty stuff with Gibbs to really work with there.
Everything in this episode was played with wonderful subtlety. That's not something that I've been able to say about NCIS in a very long time. If the episodes going forward even approach this level I could actually start watching again.
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on 2011-01-19 05:57 am (UTC)no subject
on 2011-01-19 06:04 pm (UTC)I'm going to watch it again today. :) It was such a great show.
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on 2011-01-19 06:04 am (UTC)The NCIS was hard to watch in many ways, but very powerful. One of the best episodes in a long time.
Great to see you back!
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on 2011-01-19 06:05 pm (UTC)It was a hard episode, but they did such a wonderful job with the topics.
Glad to be back. :D
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on 2011-01-19 03:00 pm (UTC)And yes, NCIS was stellar.
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on 2011-01-19 06:10 pm (UTC)LOVED the episode last night. I'll be watching again today.
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on 2011-01-19 05:52 pm (UTC)Can you read or knit when on the conference call? Or...write? :)
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on 2011-01-19 06:11 pm (UTC)First I need coffee and food though.
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on 2011-01-19 06:45 pm (UTC)