It's raining with steady determination here at the moment (hardly a surprise, in November in the UK), and what I really, really feel like doing is taking my laptop and spending the day sat in a coffee shop. I'm going to see if I can take this Friday off, to do just that. I hope it's still raining by then.
I'm also thinking about going ice skating. I love it (even though I sometimes end up with bruises when friends take me down with them,
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redial_the_gate tomorrow. Damn I love that one (although I'm curious as to how much they broke science with Daniel and Siler's explanation of wormhole physics). I rewatched Enigma, too, belatedly. I like Omoc. He's very honest - and his disapproving expressions make me laugh. Narim, however, I find borderline repellant. I feel like he'd be very controlling, were Sam to actually get into a relationship with him - in a "Why don't you wear this? You'd look lovely in it," sort of way. Ugh. I'd like to know what someone else - Janet, Daniel, or Vala, maybe - would have made of his emotion recording device. And how accurate is it? Does it record every emotion? Will she get a mish-mash of 'Samanthalookslikeanangel/thiscathaslovelysoftfur/i'dlikeasandwich'? Or is it editable? Creepy. I would run a mile, I tell ya.So, yeah - as you can probably tell, I haven't really got anything to say. I just felt like I'd not been posting in a while. :)
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I think it'd be hilarious if someone wrote a post-Enigma fic where Sam was playing with the emotion recording device and suddenly came across the 'thiscathaslovelysoftfur' emotion, along with the 'idlikeasandwich' one.
I actually like rain - which is lucky, I guess, living here. Although I don't like being cold and wet. But I love the sound of the rain - and I tend to want to go out and play in it, if it's really bucketing down. I've never grown out of the jumping-in-puddles stage. *g* So long as I don't have to wear soggy shoes all day, 'cause that's really, really not fun.
I... like rain in spring and summer. Fall is okay, but I've had to run races in it too often to truly love it anymore. I'm definitely not a fan of winter rain though. So it's probably a good thing I'm missing most of winter here ^^;; And from what my family & friends are saying, it's been snowing at home fairly regularly so I'm getting pumped for that!
*fires plot bunnies in your direction*
Grr... you evil, evil enabler. But first, essays ^_^
secretrebel ;-)
Surely those bruises have healed by now!
I miss many things about the UK, but gray, rainy winter days when it's dark by 4 o'clock are not among them. I always tried to escape to the leisure center to swim and forget how icky it was outside.
I find knowing that it's raining outside very comforting, personally. It makes being inside in the warmth all the nicer. And think of all the plants going "Mmm, yumyumyum, rain!"
"Narim very much hoped to trick Samantha into his bedroom while she was on Tollana for Omoc's funeral, but his feelings confused him. On the one hand, he hadn't had sex in twenty years, because all the Tollan girls kept taking out restraining orders, and Samantha was way hotter than a member of a primitive society had a right to be. On the other hand, the Tollan didn't believe in closets, so he had nowhere to hide the full-size Samantha sex doll. Maybe she wouldn't notice?"
Narim is not too bad in some ways, and really creepy in others. The love-at-first-sight that is so one-sided is just full of creepy obsessiveness, but I think he is ultimately a good guy (though, yes, it probably would be a bad relationship - I think Sam knows that too). I still love Daniels "whoops!" when he runs in and find them kissing though :)
(and the emotion device is just weird)
Solitudes though....I love it so much! Totally the episode that pushed me over from "this show is okay" to "oh, wow, this show is great, can I have more" but then, "x people stuck together somewhere with injuries trying to survive" is one of my bulletproof kinks in stories.
And yay Solitudes! I don't know if I was just paying closer attention than normal or what, but I got very involved when watching it yesterday. Sam and Jack, thinking they're on an ice planet, laying down to die! And Daniel and Teal'c, desperately trying to find their friends before it's too late! *squishes the team*
I was also finding Cor-ai (I watched that, too - Teal'c cries!) and Enigma quite involving, so it was probably me concentrating more, so I'd have something to say for Redial. :)
I get very involved with Solitudes every time I watch it. I love, love Daniel and Teal'c not giving up (and Daniel waking up to find Teal'c looking at him and his leap of idea with the water glass). And I LOVE Sam and Jack in the cave and Sam splinting his leg and talking about Iran/Iraq and Sara and chipping out the DHD and everything so much.
(I meant to rewatch Cor-Ai for redial and didn't manage it. I still barely remember it...)
I'd bet Omoc thought he was weird, though - chasing after some primitive, claiming she looked like an angel. :)
I was squeeing a lot about the mentions of Sara, this time around. And I'm with you; I love those 'stuck somewhere, injuries, trying to survive' stories, too. The Fifth Man has a similar feel. And, um, thingy - the one this icon is from. The name is escaping me. I love the pared-down storytelling. Mmm.
Oh, yeah, I'm SURE Omoc wanted to smack him.
SARA! yes.
("Death Knell" I believe)
It's hard to tell, really, what the Tollan standards are - the only other ones we really meet are Omoc and Garwin, who do seem quite uptight. But that might just be them being Big Important Tollan Bods. :)
I wonder how many Tollan there were in the first place. There weren't many survivors, but I wonder if they lost a lot of people, or if they were already a tiny population? Hm.
The hot cocoa bit is fun, too, I agree. :)
As for the emotion recorder, there's a really great fic where Jack gets his hands on it and much angsting ensues. The Red Triangle by TM Potter. There are several sequels as well.
http://sg1-heliopolis.com/archive/viewstory.php?sid=2684&chapter=1
We're in a bit of a drought here, though it's not as bad in my area as it is in the northern part of the state. It's also a ridiculous 75 degrees here today. It was cooler over the weekend and I got to briefly wear my cool new cape/coat thing. I'm tired of the warm weather. It's November, for cryin' out loud.
YES. That's it exactly. It's not that he's evil - far from it - but he'd still make a terrible boyfriend. Too clingy. It's the angel thing - I just can't bear it. He doesn't know her, he's just basing it on appearances. (Well, and the fact that she and her team rescued his people, I guess - but he doesn't go around hero-worshipping Daniel, Teal'c or Jack.) Ta for the story rec, I'll have a look later.
*tries to usher our clouds your way* It's soggy here, permanently from about October through to March. But we have droughts in the summer, regularly. I've never understood how we can have all this rain and still have droughts.
A huge ice rink opens in Princes Street Gardens this week. It's the start of the offical Christmas events here. The City Christmas Lights get switched on, on Thursday. I'm very wary of ice skating. Broke and disclocated my right wrist skating. But, am always persuaded to give it a try every year at this time. Even though I spend most of my time clinging to the barrier :)
Ah Nairm....very creepy...never liked him.
Oh, NaNo...
(Well, okay, it didn't snow on me, but my mum oh-so-kindly rang me to tell me that it was snowing on her and not on me so nyer. And that the sky was eerily quiet cos the airport was diverting flights to runways without ice on.)
And.. if Narim would be controlling, it wouldn't be anything personal. It's just that we Tau'ri are a bit neanderthal-ish, even if we are amusing in our primitive thinking.
Ack, yes, about Narim. Really, how patronising? Gah. I would be hard-pressed not to tell him where to shove it, if I was told, "What your mind doesn't know, your heart fills in."
a.k.a. "You're very sweet, but still retarded"
Smooooooth, Narim.
I think we bought a sledge (after many years on binbags) a few years back, and it hasn't snowed enough to use it since (but I will give Leicestershire this - it's hilly enough that the snow isn't so much of a necessity as merely... preferred). It sits in my parent's shed a lot. Whereas Liverpool... snow isn't as much fun in a city. I ended up on my arse at least once last year.
Narim is kind of creepy, I think that overly-mannered way of speaking he had really bugged me, it made his interest in Sam seem like he was interested in a rare artifact (or that she was just another fascinating but primitive species like Schrodinger. Ew!).
And I would love to know what the casting director was thinking when s/he brought the actor back and cast him as Weir's significant other in the first season of Atlantis. Narim was a relatively memorable recurring role, only a few years before. And the actor's not a bad looking person, but it strains the imagination that two really hot, really intelligent women would pick him.
Yeah, there was a bit of rare artifact attitude in his interest in Sam. The idea that he thinks of her on a similar level to Schrodinger is disturbing! *g*
Yay Solitudes tomorrow! From what I hear, it was a lot of people's turning point. You know, I wish they'd issue DVDs with commentary for the first few seasons. Bah.