Bethany

When did I become such a facebook whore? I used to keep such a strict LJ = fandom / FB = real life divide that basically ensured that I never used FB because... well, we all know my fandom >>>> RL priorities; but somehow I migrated all of my TV talk over there and I'm not sure how it happened. WILL BE REMEDIED SOON. Also, this possibly makes me a total bitch, but am I the only one who gets so annoyed when people make completely boring facebook updates? "____ went to work all day, then the grocery store to pick up paper towels, and now I'm going to bed. Tomorrow I'll stop by the post office." UMMM SORRY, NOBODY CARES. (Haha, this is probably how 95% of the people I'm friends with who don't watch Lost have probably felt about me for the past week or two, but... whatever. I demand to be entertained. How dare my friends expect that I be interested in their lives. Psssht! ...Yeah, all right, this does make me a total bitch.)

lalumena gave me some interview questions that I have been stalling on answering because they are just so hard-hitting! I am anguishing over choosing the perfect response for them! Girl, journo has made you positively ruthless.

( Meme! )

Swiped from sistergrimm36:

Pick your five favorite TV shows (in no particular order) and answer the following questions.
Don't cheat!

(I HATE NARROWING DOWN FAVORITES. This is too hard. I decided to leave off Merlin and Star Trek because I included them in the last meme I did, but it still hurts. And Psych! I thought of it too late!)

1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
2. Lost
3. Chuck
4. Stargate (I was just going to do Atlantis, but I've been on an SG-1 kick lately so I'll go ahead and smoosh them together)
5. Robin Hood

( The questions... Also, um spoilers for all of the shows listed. )

I swear one day I will be able to say I HATE YOU, ROBIN HOOD and really mean it, but... today is not that day.

I decided to go ahead with the "Hells Bells" vid, and dang diggity this song is just so much fun! It's also going to take about a million years to finish because it's over five minutes long and right now I've only gotten through about the opening 20 seconds. I'm spending way too much time combing through old episodes to exploit all of the gorgeous religious imagery, especially in regards to Guy (a surprisingly consistent character quirk for Giz, and it makes such an interesting contrast with Vaysey's self-proclaimed godlessness. Eeee vid fodder!). For the most part I already watch episodes with "Team Castle" blinders on, but doing it now with actual purposes reminds me of just how entertaining and dark and action-filled and wily and twisted and sexy and fun they all are. Golly. "Evil People Being Evil (or Maybe Occasionally Just Morally Ambiguous, or Maybe Even Justified in Many Ways But Still Not Very Nice)" should be its own show and I would watch that mess every day of the week. While cruising my YouTube favourites for inspiration I stumbled across an edit of 2.06 with just Guy/Marian/Allan/Sheriff scenes and I'm pretty sure my brain exploded from sheer awesome. After 2.13 I worried that everything I loved about S2 would be forever tainted, but... nope. (Well, okay, that's partially a lie -- when I was going back through 2.12 I got sucked into watching all of the Guy/Marian scenes over again, as seems to happen so often, and THEY ARE KILLING ME SLOWLY. STILL. The scene at the inn and their long silent look and Guy's desperate, "I need to know," to Allan kind of make me want to throw up my insides.) 2.06 is still as delightful as ever, from Guy and Marian getting all Beauty-and-the-Beast over her wardrobe to SUSSEX!!!!! to gladiator battles over massive vats of boiling oil to Guy rescuing Marian while Robin sulks in the forest AHAAAHA BEST PART OF THE EPISODE -- okay. Ahem. I just really, really love it, okay? And I don't care what it says about me as a person that I even now still cling to Guy/Marian, because I will love them forever and ever amen.

Then I also made some progress on my proper rewatch starting back with series one. Right now I'm through "Turk Flu." (So, yes, I did finally sit through the entirety of "Parenthood" again. WHY GOD WHY, that episode is so terrible, once again redeemed only by Marian and her greatness.) I freaking LOVE that episode, possibly because it is the first time I feel kind of sort of not guilty for maaaaybe shipping Guy/Marian...? I mean, as plausible as it seems in later episodes, there at the beginning when Guy was all STABBING DUDES and ABANDONING BABIES and HAVING BAD HAIR... I tend to feel a little sheepish about my investment in them. By the time Guy invites her to the fair, though, my heart is filled by their awkward-but-somehow-hot chemistry. Another thing that struck me in this episode was the opening confrontation between Guy and the Nightwatchman, who he instantly assumes is a subordinate of Robin Hood. My first thought was, wait, how exactly does that make any sense? Hasn't NWM been around about a zillion years longer? And then I realized that, snap, Marian really was right about the extreme discretion she used with that guise, because it would seem that not even the tiniest rumor of her actions had reached the castle -- at least not before the whole kerfuffle in 1.03, when I'm sure Robin probably even name dropped NWM to the Sheriff. But before that? Completely under the radar. Ugh, Marian, just try to be more perfectly awesome, why don't you?

I completely forgot about Allan being stoned off his gourd at the end of that episode, ahaha. Good lessons for the children: don't ingest strange fungi you encounter in the forest.

And Djaq! Bweee!

And Will and Allan squishing together in a tiny barrel cart to sneak into the castle! Double bweee!! (ETA: Or, wait, whoops, that was 1.04. Okay, so maybe that episode has more than one redeeming value.)

And wow is this post rather pointless. Hey, I bet you guys didn't know I was completely over-invested in this cheesy reboot of a medieval legend, did you? Oh, wait...

I've been experiencing this weird resurgence of interest in Robin Hood -- and quite a motivating drive at that, so hopefully within the next few days I'll be ready to post my Giant Girl!crush Picspam of Doom and my Multimultifandom Meta on Endings and Female Characters I Love and Other Things That Kind of Relate in My Brain but Won't Quite Coalesce on Paper So Okay it Might Be a Little While Before You See an Organized Version of This.

But anyway, in preparation for this I was trying to fatten up my collection of Lucy Griffith non-screencap pictures (seriously, are there only like a dozen pictures of this girl on the whole internet? I call shenanigans!) and OH MY GOD this is the most hilariously bad promo shot in the history of ever: love triangle of pale awkwardness. God help me but I WILL NEVER STOP LOVING THIS SHOW even though it'd probably do wonders for my sanity if I could just get over it already. Sigh.

ETA: To balance out that horrible promo, I've been kind of in love with this Guy/Marian vid for the last few days: Uninvited (quite heavy on finale spoilers).

Again, spoilers for the Robin Hood series two finale; and again, I'm cobbling together a lot of observations from my comments to other posts over the past few days, so sorry if you've already read some of them. There are also several large-ish images behind the cut.

( An Analysis of the Visuals of Guy/Marian's Last 2.13 Scene )