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is it a crutch that i don't need anymore? am i too busy to write? (the answer to the second one is no.) do i not want to write? (probably not.)
we walked to little tokyo for dinner and i had excellent ramen. possibly the best ramen ever. and green tea, which i haven't had in ages. and then they were showing last season's finale of heroes (since new eps start next mon, and house starts next tues OMGSQUEE even tho NOBODY SAW FIT TO GIVE HUGH LAURIE A BEST ACTOR EMMY NOW DID THEY?!!!! >:( BASTARDS), and i still thought it sucked. possibly more, since i've seen it once already. but the teaser for next week looks amazing, as it should. no peter petrelli that i could see (but he's "dead," yes?), but sylar was prominently front and center, grinning evilly as per usual.
so there's that.
i want the writing for torchwood to get better. i want the characterizations in the second series to be better, and make sense, and be logical. most of all i want them not to sink my ship, but hardcore shipper that i am, even i realize that i have to give way to canon when they state it in no uncertain terms (or do i? thanks, jkr, for killing my OTP ded! and thanks for sending the message to millions of impressionable girls that if they just dangle after their TWU WUV long enough, he'll get his head out of his ass, finally acknowledge their existence, and it'll dawn on him that he loves them! all was well, my ass). *ahem* luckily, it looks like myself and the other few billion janto shippers out there (is there any other reason to watch the show? le no) might not have to worry so much, if gareth david-lloyd's comments at recent cons are anything to go on.
i know there's a lot of talk about jack and gwen getting together (rtd much? le no again), and ianto getting a girlfriend (and almost-certainly-legit info about future tosh/owen--i don't care, i just don't want any more of The Gwen And Owen Show, and most especially no more of The Gwen Show period), but misdirection does play a huge part in controlling leaks. at this point in the game, speculation is all we have, so no rumor is too stupid. really. but gdl says he gets lots and lots more glorious screen time, and there'll be more humor in series 2 (thank god), the team will be closer, and that all of us shippy fangirls wouldn't be disappointed.
my hope is that series 2 is stellar and fully realizes the potential that was there in series 1, so that when mr. tennanty tennant goes away for the year to be hamlet, because it will be just a year (*crosses fingers really hard. and toes. and arms. and legs. everything, really.*), and we have our three little rtd-penned speshuls (durr!) instead of a proper series 5, they focus their time and energy on torchwood. and it will be good. oh yes.
just another thought: if jack/ianto is the show's canon otp, as so many of us think/hope/pray, then they'll have moments, but they won't actually get together. because that's not how tv shows work (off the top of my head, i'm think alias, frasier--but nobody cared anyway, did they?--and lots more, i'm sure). they can't get together until the very end (if they are granted a chance for closure, even). well, i guess we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.
aaand i'm back on another west wing kick. what can i say, intelligent tv programming eludes me. so i seek out the sorkin (alliteration yes!). other than the fact that tww was always a liberal's wet dream (martin sheen is the leader of the free world. and the people who work for him are smart, more than competent, and want to Change The World), sorkin's gift for writing killer dialogue makes each episode awesome. nobody writes banter like sorkin does. and after seven long years they saw fit to let my otp be canon, and now POTUS and FLOTUS have matching his-and-hers COSes (and they're married and have freakishly smart children yes!).
...it strikes me that all the shows i watch, have watched, or will watch, i watch because i ship a particular pairing. there's house (house/cuddy--you know you see it!), tww (josh/donna), sports night (dana/casey), studio 60 (danny/jordan, but to a lesser degree, i confess--that could have been written better), bsg (starbuck/apollo, which would've been far less probable in the original series), stargate atlantis (dr. weir/col. sheppard), torchwood (jack/ianto), and i could really go on but i have to stop there, because, yeah.
anyway, as far as i can tell, the only two shows that i don't have an otp in are doctor who and heroes. very important omissions, but omissions they are. because while heroes is great, i haven't seen anything major to ship yet, and even though i loved the doctor/rose to death, i can't stop watching. because it's the doctor.
and forget what i said about not writing a lot. i think it's the sugar from the cupcakes.
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