Big Damn Heroes and Coffee and Such

[annundriel]

Y'know, I'm not a big coffee person. The taste has always kind of put me off unless I can get milk and chocolate in the equation. But everyone here drinks coffee. Am I missing out? Should I expand my beverage-related horizons? Should I find some place that makes a good cup of coffee and just try it again? Do I really need a caffeine addiction?

All I know is right now I could really really use a cup of coffee. Or, rather, a mocha. So why don't I get my ass across the street to Starbucks?

Because if I have caffeine now, I'll be up even later than I usually am. Which will only lead me back to the problem I'm having today of feeling dead on my feet.

Bah. Vicious cycle and all that.

So instead I'll go to dinner in ten minutes and maybe watch some X-Files. Maybe I'll work a little on my English notes for tomorrow, study for the Spanish exam. Or maybe I'll just rest up for work at seven. That last one's probably going to end up being the one I go with. I'm just lazy like that.

Tomorrow Smallville starts showing new episodes again. Double the Lex. I can't seem to get my self suitably excited about that. Still haven't watched the last new episode they aired before I went on spring break. Am simply...uninterested at the moment.

I blame Stargate. I've been watching season two since yesterday, or whenever, and reading fanfiction left and right for both shows and it really just makes me happy. Even the angsty, character-death filled ones. (Which is probably sick and twisted.) I'll explain using SG-1.

With SG-1 there's this tight-knit group of four people and have been through terrible things together and done amazing things together and they are there for one another. They're bonded. Last night on Sci-fi they showed "Need" (ep 2.05) and today I watched the end of it. Whether your for slash or not, and I can go either way in that regard, Jack loves Daniel. Just as Jack loves Sam. (Though the Sam/Jack romantic love is canon.) As Jack loves Teal'c. But Jack canonically loves Daniel as a friend, as a brother, as a son. (I'll argue that canon thing, I really will. Even though I've got no one here to argue with. *g*) It's probably visable in season one, but I've only really started noticing it in season two and that may have something to do with the slash I've been reading. It makes me pick up on "moments." In "The Serpent's Lair," the platonic love is there when Jack doesn't want to leave Daniel Goa'uld ship to die alone and in the grin and hug and "spacemonkey" in the end. In "Need," it's there as Daniel suffers from sarcophagus withdrawal, among other things, and Jack just holds him, understanding. There are moments where you just get this overwhelming feeling of protection coming from Jack for all of his team, but mostly I get it for Daniel.

And that's not just the slash talking.

But those moments are there for all of them because they are a *team* and they care about one another. Same thing happens on SGA. Season one ended, after all, with Sheppard on a suicide mission to do his best to save his team, his people. His city.

They are all big damn heroes and apparently that's a big attractor for me. They're out there saving the world and being cool and flawed and geeky and sarcastic. And I've got massive love for them.

I love Smallville, too. But right now it's just not giving me what I'm looking for. And part of that has to do with the crappy way the writers/creators are dealing with characters and issues (arguably trivial) on the show, with the insistence on a certain teenage audience (hence the issues), with the lack of world-saving. Because, really? I'm over the stage where I want TV executives to tell me that sex is bad and that if I have it I am evil and naughty. Whatever, dudes. Give me a show where the characters are grown up and make choices and pay for those choices, even if the choice is just "one sugar or two?" in their morning coffee and the price is how long it takes them to decide. At least they won't angst over it.

This is all stemming from the fact that apparently I'm not over the "omg Lex had sex at different times with thirteen consenting adult women in the past year he is evil omg" episode. It was a year - that's, like, one woman a month and an extra at New Years. It was a bad year and it's not like he's a pedophile or a rapist. So just shut up. And the Alicia thing. That was annoying also.

And, y'know, I wasn't *that* annoyed when/after watching them, but now I kinda am.

Ugh.

I'll just go back to the shows where people have issues (sometimes) and are (sometimes) angsty because their wife was kidnapped and possessed by an evil alien, because they had to shoot their superior officer to save him from even slower death by an evil life-sucking alien. Those are reasons to be upset.

Give me a show where the characters talk and grow and change and care. Give me a show where I'm happy just to see the characters together.

Give me a show where big damn heroes exist and they save the world.

Well, that turned kind of ranty and wasn't at all what I expected to write when I thought "hey, let's post something on LJ." Huh. Life's funny like that I guess.

Sci-fi's showing all six hours of Dune tonight. I wish I could stay and watch it. I read the book last summer. (Was it really only last summer?) It was good, if a little slow at times. Never seen any of the adaptations all of the way through. House is also on tonight. I think it may be a repeat, but I'm going to set the VCR to tape it anyway. There are several I've never seen. (Speaking of Hugh Laurie - apparently House filming schedules conflict with the new Superman movie and so he will not be Perry White. This makes me a sad panda.)

I now have no idea what's going on on The X-Files. Oh well. ::shrug::

Comments

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

When you drink coffee with sugar, or cream, or weird hazel-nut crap, or somesuch, it's not coffee.
I mean, what happened to coffee flavoured coffee?

I was in a gas station awhile back, and I got a cup of coffee. Simple, no problem. I walk out to the truck, get in, and I smell maple syrup. I'm thinking to myself, "Maple syrup? Why am I smelling this? I haven't eaten pancakes today. Did I spill something?" So I begin searching the truck for any kind of syrup, maple or otherwise. I search the seat, the floor, under the seat, the glove box, the little pockets on the door, even the damn window shades. Nothing. Now I'm thirsty, so I reach for the cup and take a drink.
It's my coffee. My coffee has some kind of maple flavour. Why??
I wanted coffee.
So I went in side to complain, and the guy at the counter has his hat on sideways, and his pants at his knees.
He says, "Hey, dawg, that's all the coffee we got."
I let him live after calling me "dawg".
But I got a free Mnt. Dew.

[annundriel.livejournal.com]

Does that mean that adding sugar to tea makes it not-tea as well?

Coffee flavored coffee is a thing of the past apparently. ::shrug:: I'd like to give it a try though. And not the stuff you get at 24 hour restaurantes, 'cause I've sipped that and really not liked it. I mean, I quite happy with my mochas, but I love the smell of coffee brewing and feel like maybe I'm missing out on something.

If they're going to sell a hot beverage and call it "coffee" there should be no added flavoring.

I am sorry you were called "dawg." No one deserves that. Good on you for letting him live.

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

Coffee is coffee, and tea is tea. Coffee is not tea, so you cannot compare them.

[annundriel.livejournal.com]

I see my mistake and bow to your logic.

You are, of course, correct.

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

Oh, good. I love winning.

[juliarchy.livejournal.com]

I love coffee but have given it up since I think it makes my tummy hurt. We should go get some coffee on Friday and chat after spanish since I dont have to work.

[trademybike.livejournal.com]

Coffee is the devil! It's one of the worst things one could ever drink. In my opinion at least. I hate coffee. It's so gross. No matter what you put in it to make it taste different, there's still a gross coffee taste and it's just awful. So many people have tried to get me to drink it because it's "so good" and "it's Seattle so you HAVE to drink!" Yeah, if I followed that logic I'd be a bonafide beach bunny (having lived in Hawaii) and a car buff (having lived in the Detroit area). You don't have to follow dumb trends because other people say so. If you want to drink it, drink it. But don't do it because people are egging you on. ;) How's Sin City and Nip/Tuck treating you? I love Horatio. Best thing ever.

Didn't Mean to Write a Novel....Whoops :)

[annundriel.livejournal.com]

See, I don't mind the coffee taste that's left behind in mochas and things. I don't feel compelled to drink coffee because I live in Seattle, but I do feel the need to find something that will help me wake up some more. People will tell me just to get more sleep, but I'm having trouble with that. I could drink tea I s'ppose...I loves me some tea.

I'm on the second book of Sin City. Love it. Hope you don't mind, but I let Jeff across the hall borrow one of the books. I was talking to him about it and he was like, "You have that one?" And I'm all, "A friend's letting me borrow..." Hope that's ok. He loaned me the making of book. It's pretty darn neat and now I really really *really* have to see the movie. Mom and I are going Saturday night. Yea!

I'm at the beginning of the second disc on Nip/Tuck. Would be farther, but Stargate has kinda invaded again. Will prolly watch more tonight/tomorrow. Love it!! Soooo good. Kay and I watched the last two eps of season one and the beginning of season two on FX over the weekend. I can't believe how much I love it. It's crazy. Oh! Loved the bit with the mob boss dude and how he wanted a new face and they gave him someone else's. Brilliant! And the scene right after whatever the hell her name is gives birth and Christian's all, "I'm not going to stop loving him because of something stupid like DNA" or whatever. Yeah. Massive love.

Glad you love Horatio. He needs it. :) Has Bush shown up yet? What about the crazy hats that try to eat Horatio's head?

[annundriel.livejournal.com]

Too much caffeine used to make my head hurt, so I try to avoid too much during the day. We should do coffee on Friday. I'm not out of class 'til 11:25 and am not allowed to leave campus until after five. (Stupid lecture. Meh.)