The Baby Jesus was Plastered
Dec. 25th, 2006 11:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annundrielMerry Christmas!
We actually managed a white Christmas this year. In fact, it's snowing as I type.
An uneventful couple of days. Yesterday was spent watching Eddie Izzard and Dylan Moran on BBCAmerica and reading David Sedaris. It all worked really well for my mood. Then the whole family went to evening mass where instead of Joseph and Mary we had Joel and Terri. My parents, being the closest married couple to the front of the church, where asked to hold the plaster baby Jesus so we could all worship. If we wanted. Tom and I didn't go up. One, because I'm a little uncomfortable doing that sort of thing and two, because it was our parents and that's even weirder and we couldn't stop laughing. Especially funny because Mom is the only non-Catholic, un-baptized one in the immediate family. Oh, church. Plus, when we got there everything was all locked up. The priest apparently didn't even have a key. Seriously. Only in Royal City.
Then we came back and I stayed up late watching The Soup and Drop Dead Gorgeous and finally writing something after not being at all in the mood for it for days. This morning we all got up, did the present thing, than I lazed about all day because it's Christmas and who needs to actually do things? Not me, that's who.
Had a family dinner, which was very good, and pie, which got stuck in my teeth. Watched Torchwood with Mom. When I first watched it, I was happily surprised to see Noel Clarke's name under the ep title. Last week I d/led and listened to his podcast/commentary with Steven Moffat for DW's "The Girl in the Fireplace." Depending on the episode, I couldn't really care either way about Mickey, but he really grew on me in the end. He grew on me enough so that when he showed up again in "Army of Ghosts" I may have gotten a little excited.
Anyway, so I hadn't seen Noel Clarke in anything else and I wasn't sure what to expect from him in a commentary, but it was just silly enough and just serious enough that I didn't think he was an idiot or anything. The point being, in the commentary they mentioned that he was going to write for Torchwood, so when his name came up I thought, "Well, here's hoping it's not trash." And it wasn't! I really enjoyed it! It was especially nice to see all of the team members with things to do.
But what is going on with Owen?
Gwen has never really been a favorite of mine. I don't hate her or anything, but I'll spend half of an episode liking her and the other half wondering what exactly is going on in that head of hers. She definitely lost points with me this episode. I mean, I don't know what I'd do if I had amnesia pills at my disposal, so I don't know if I can judge. (I'd be too afraid to use them, actually.) But what she did to Rhys was wrong wrong wrong. She was clearly not thinking. Because even if they do get everything out in the open, air all of their dirty laundry, it's all going to be swept under the rug of the BIG LIE she's telling him by making him forget. Okay, yes, she had thought that would be fine because he would forgive her and so the amnesia pill lie is the only one she's dealing with, but that's not what happened. She assumed he'd forgive her. She thought it would all take no time at all. And now she's stuck with the lie on top of the lie.
Obviously this part really bugged me. I thought it was a really crappy way to treat her boyfriend. Like he said, "selfish."
Randomly, I loved the little look of "well, yes, Janet makes more sense than Barbara" that Ianto had. Tiny little side detail. I love watching people reacting in the background of scenes.
Really interested in next week.
The plan is to head back to Seattle on Friday. Winter quarter starts January 3. It's going to be interesting.
We actually managed a white Christmas this year. In fact, it's snowing as I type.
An uneventful couple of days. Yesterday was spent watching Eddie Izzard and Dylan Moran on BBCAmerica and reading David Sedaris. It all worked really well for my mood. Then the whole family went to evening mass where instead of Joseph and Mary we had Joel and Terri. My parents, being the closest married couple to the front of the church, where asked to hold the plaster baby Jesus so we could all worship. If we wanted. Tom and I didn't go up. One, because I'm a little uncomfortable doing that sort of thing and two, because it was our parents and that's even weirder and we couldn't stop laughing. Especially funny because Mom is the only non-Catholic, un-baptized one in the immediate family. Oh, church. Plus, when we got there everything was all locked up. The priest apparently didn't even have a key. Seriously. Only in Royal City.
Then we came back and I stayed up late watching The Soup and Drop Dead Gorgeous and finally writing something after not being at all in the mood for it for days. This morning we all got up, did the present thing, than I lazed about all day because it's Christmas and who needs to actually do things? Not me, that's who.
Had a family dinner, which was very good, and pie, which got stuck in my teeth. Watched Torchwood with Mom. When I first watched it, I was happily surprised to see Noel Clarke's name under the ep title. Last week I d/led and listened to his podcast/commentary with Steven Moffat for DW's "The Girl in the Fireplace." Depending on the episode, I couldn't really care either way about Mickey, but he really grew on me in the end. He grew on me enough so that when he showed up again in "Army of Ghosts" I may have gotten a little excited.
Anyway, so I hadn't seen Noel Clarke in anything else and I wasn't sure what to expect from him in a commentary, but it was just silly enough and just serious enough that I didn't think he was an idiot or anything. The point being, in the commentary they mentioned that he was going to write for Torchwood, so when his name came up I thought, "Well, here's hoping it's not trash." And it wasn't! I really enjoyed it! It was especially nice to see all of the team members with things to do.
But what is going on with Owen?
Gwen has never really been a favorite of mine. I don't hate her or anything, but I'll spend half of an episode liking her and the other half wondering what exactly is going on in that head of hers. She definitely lost points with me this episode. I mean, I don't know what I'd do if I had amnesia pills at my disposal, so I don't know if I can judge. (I'd be too afraid to use them, actually.) But what she did to Rhys was wrong wrong wrong. She was clearly not thinking. Because even if they do get everything out in the open, air all of their dirty laundry, it's all going to be swept under the rug of the BIG LIE she's telling him by making him forget. Okay, yes, she had thought that would be fine because he would forgive her and so the amnesia pill lie is the only one she's dealing with, but that's not what happened. She assumed he'd forgive her. She thought it would all take no time at all. And now she's stuck with the lie on top of the lie.
Obviously this part really bugged me. I thought it was a really crappy way to treat her boyfriend. Like he said, "selfish."
Randomly, I loved the little look of "well, yes, Janet makes more sense than Barbara" that Ianto had. Tiny little side detail. I love watching people reacting in the background of scenes.
Really interested in next week.
The plan is to head back to Seattle on Friday. Winter quarter starts January 3. It's going to be interesting.
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Date: 2006-12-27 05:13 am (UTC)interesting.
i think i noticed that at church this year-- this never usually happened until we got our NEW monsenior.
i felt like crap at midnight mass this year. i ate cheese-- as a bad lactose intolerant individual SHOULDN'T DO-- and i kept falling and out of consciousness.YAY!
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Date: 2006-12-27 05:19 am (UTC)I kept falling in and out of consciousness without the excuse of cheese and lactose intolerance, although the homily was good. Or midnight mass. We are so small we don't do midnight mass!
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Date: 2006-12-28 05:38 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-12-28 08:04 pm (UTC)I would have talked last night, but our internet router has decided it doesn't like being used.
See you soon!