Did You Try Looking Inside The Sofa In Hell?

[rionaleonhart]

Congratulations to the Netherlands on their Eurovision win! It was a good song, although I'll admit my favourite was Norway's entry, with the couple and the incredible bald third wheel, which I keep dancing along to when there's no one else around.


'Doppelgangland' is a fun Buffy episode. I love Giles, Buffy and Xander grieving over Willow being turned, and then their reaction when they realise she's okay. I went 'aww' aloud when Giles hugged her.

I want to know which of the gang changed Vampire Willow's clothes.


On a whim, I've started rewatching Scrubs, which I haven't seen in at least a decade.

It's always weird to experience a canon when you're younger than the characters and then go back to it when you're older. I'm still not over going from 'Squall Leonhart is cool and grown-up and four years older than me' to 'Squall Leonhart is ONLY SEVENTEEN.' That's been on my mind with Life Is Strange 2, actually; it probably feels very different to people who are younger than Sean and not necessarily going 'oh, my God, this kid is sixteen and trying to raise his nine-year-old brother in the wilderness.'

So now I can look at JD and go 'no wonder this kid's so overwhelmed' rather than 'okay, JD's sort of a mess, but most people in their mid-twenties are adults who have their lives together, right? right???' (Spoiler: nobody's got their lives together.)

I'd completely forgotten that Carla and Elliot didn't get along at first!

JD and Turk's behaviour around women bothers me more nowadays, but I do like that JD, after concluding he's in the friendzone with Elliot, goes 'well, I guess I could do with more friends.'

One of the Ghostfacers from Supernatural is a patient in an early episode! (He does not survive it. Now he's a ghost, and he can face himself.)

Jordan responding to JD's attempt to assert himself with 'okay, well, now we're going to bang' and then turning out to be Cox's ex-wife is considerably more up my street now than it was when I first watched Scrubs.

Jordan: Even though you're terrified the good Dr Cox'll find out, if I wanted you to go to his apartment right now and have sex with me in front of him, you would.
JD: Please don't do that.

Look at this perfect fic concept that completely escaped my notice when I was seventeen!

I haven't reached 'My Screw Up' yet (I'm still early in the first season), but that episode was very formative for me. I played Silent Hill 2 when I was sixteen, I watched 'My Screw Up' when I was seventeen, and that was it; I'd been defined as a person. I've been writing about characters being guilt-ridden and delusional ever since.


While I'm talking about assorted television: I've now actually watched the final episode of Community at last! I watched up to the penultimate episode a few years ago and then just... never watched the finale, perhaps because then there would be no more Community, which is clearly an unacceptable state of affairs.

I wasn't that into seasons five or six, so I wasn't sure whether I'd actually enjoy the finale, but I liked it a lot! I think it was a good way to close out the show (and it had a nice scene for my inappropriate OTP, which I wasn't expecting!). Jeff and his fear of abandonment absolutely broke my heart.

Comments

[thenewbuzwuzz]

"I want to know which of the gang changed Vampire Willow's clothes."
Wow, you're asking the real questions! :)

[rionaleonhart]

The second Willow turned up in Vampire Willow's clothes, it was all I could think about! My housemate thinks it was probably Willow with Buffy's help, which would make sense.

[samuraiter]

They were in the same closet of secrets as Xander's skateboard.

[dracothelizard]

I liked Norway's entry too! Apparently they had problems during their final rehearsals for the jury: http://esctoday.com/175788/norway-technical-issues-faced-during-jury-rehearsal-second-performance-denied/

Which kinda sucks! It's kinda unfair that the public and the juries are voting based on different performances.

(On the other hand, WE WON \o/)

[rionaleonhart]

It's kinda unfair that the public and the juries are voting based on different performances.

It really seems odd! And it doesn't entirely seem right to take money from televotes when the victory of some acts will already have been rendered impossible by previously-cast jury votes.

[dracothelizard]

I guess it has its practical reasons - they can do the jury votes while the televotes are being counted, but on the other hand, if all the jury members are there watching the shows, surely they can get their votes in while the televoting happens?

You can't exactly go 'okay the juries have voted and these thirteen acts aren't in with a chance anymore so you can't vote for them' either since then what would be the point of having them perform. Besides, it would mean missing out on things like Germany getting zero points from the televotes :p.

Best solution would obviously be the jury voting for the final performance and letting the rehearsal actually be a rehearsal!

[rionaleonhart]

Honestly, if it were up to me, I'd get rid of the juries entirely (Eurovision isn't supposed to be about which acts are good!), but having the juries and the public both vote on the final performance would be a good compromise.

Poor Germany! Even the UK got three. (All from Ireland, naturally.)

[dracothelizard]

I'm not sure if the jury votes for the good acts either!

[marginaliana]

Yesss, get rid of juries entirely! I find it SO annoying that it's not just popular vote. Democracy!!!

(I did like Norway a lot, but I'm coming around to the winning song.)

[samuraiter]

I need to go back to Community. Enjoyed that show, especially Troy and Abed.

Also need to replay FFVIII. Haven't been through the whole thing since it first came out almost two decades ago. ^_^;

[rionaleonhart]

Community didn't manage to keep up its quality the whole way through, but the first three seasons are stellar, and I think the first season in particular is the best season of television I've ever watched. Troy and Abed are delightful!

I'm always in favour of Final Fantasy VIII replays! It was my first Final Fantasy, and it's extremely dear to me, even if the junctioning system's a bit of a mess. I sort of hope Square remakes it, just to give me an excuse to replay it; I can't really justify replaying the original when I've played it so many times I almost know it off by heart. (I had to buy a second copy because I played it so much the discs stopped working.)

[ghosthack]

Squall Leonhart was the first fictional character that 12/13yo me ever really related to on a personal level, and that really went a long way to cementing my obsession with the game. FFVIII wasn't just my first FF, it was also my first RPG of any kind, and the first game I ever played that really went all in with the FMV cut scenes, so I was pretty enthralled with it for a number of years.

Took me a long time to wrap my head around the junction system tho. I was flying blind for the entirety of my first playthrough, and I got through most boss battles by the skin of my teeth. (still my fav ff where's my remake!?!)

[rionaleonhart]

Oh, wow, I could have written this (apart from 'first RPG' - mine was Pokémon Red!). I was basically incapable of talking to people when I was thirteen; there seemed to be all these rules of conversation I didn't understand, and I had no idea how to read people's reactions. And then I met Squall Leonhart, and my world was shaken. I understood this guy! I could hear his thoughts, and his thoughts were my thoughts! Maybe that meant I was capable of understanding other people as well? Maybe they didn't have to be an impenetrable mystery?

It sounds ridiculous, but I can honestly say that FFVIII taught me empathy.