Red vs. Bluuuuuuueee askahgslkdghslkfjs!!
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Every Freelancer-centric episode is a nerdgasm greater than the last. I lost track of how many times I watched episode fifteen. I have the distinct impression this is going to happen again.
This is why I love Mondays.
MONTY I'MMA JUST KEEP PROPOSING FOR AS LONG AS IT TAKES. I'M NOT AFRAID TO SOUND DESPERATE. CALL ME.
ETA: Hawaii Five-0oooooooohhh asghlskhaslhgsljfdsk!!
This is also why I love Mondays.
THIS EPISODE. SO EXCELLENT. See, this is everything I love about this show. This episode was over-the-top excessive stupid ridiculous, and there was high-speed driving and Steve wasn't wearing a shirt and people got punched and there were gratuitous references to island culture and the script was terrible and Danny was an anxious wife AND I DIDN'T FEEL LIKE PUNCHING ANYONE IN THE FACE FOR A CHANGE.
My only beefs are:
-WHHHHHHHHYYYYY would they ruin a Wo Fat fight scene with a bunch of shaky cam and inappropriate zoom, that is a criminal waste of Mark Dacascos' talents, have you seen the man fight, he is grace and beauty and sex, if anything he is a martial artist first and an actor second and why would you take that away from me WHY.
-Kono WHAT ARE YOU WEARING.
...Anyway. I love that they keep feeding all of the pidgin lines to DDK because he's the only one who can hack it. I love the gratuitous fan service asldhgskgjasgkslaghnggh AOL what even are you. I love the way Lori puts her hair up in a tight, neat little bun whenever it's ass-kicking time. And. Did I mention anxious wife Danny? He is such an anxious wife. AND HE IS SUCH A GOOD EGG OMG HIM AND THAT KID. TT_TT
Also Joe White's totally evil, right? He is. Totally evil. Right? Totally.
I AM GLAD I CAN LOVE MONDAYS UNRESERVEDLY AGAIN.
This is why I love Mondays.
MONTY I'MMA JUST KEEP PROPOSING FOR AS LONG AS IT TAKES. I'M NOT AFRAID TO SOUND DESPERATE. CALL ME.
ETA: Hawaii Five-0oooooooohhh asghlskhaslhgsljfdsk!!
This is also why I love Mondays.
THIS EPISODE. SO EXCELLENT. See, this is everything I love about this show. This episode was over-the-top excessive stupid ridiculous, and there was high-speed driving and Steve wasn't wearing a shirt and people got punched and there were gratuitous references to island culture and the script was terrible and Danny was an anxious wife AND I DIDN'T FEEL LIKE PUNCHING ANYONE IN THE FACE FOR A CHANGE.
My only beefs are:
-WHHHHHHHHYYYYY would they ruin a Wo Fat fight scene with a bunch of shaky cam and inappropriate zoom, that is a criminal waste of Mark Dacascos' talents, have you seen the man fight, he is grace and beauty and sex, if anything he is a martial artist first and an actor second and why would you take that away from me WHY.
-Kono WHAT ARE YOU WEARING.
...Anyway. I love that they keep feeding all of the pidgin lines to DDK because he's the only one who can hack it. I love the gratuitous fan service asldhgskgjasgkslaghnggh AOL what even are you. I love the way Lori puts her hair up in a tight, neat little bun whenever it's ass-kicking time. And. Did I mention anxious wife Danny? He is such an anxious wife. AND HE IS SUCH A GOOD EGG OMG HIM AND THAT KID. TT_TT
Also Joe White's totally evil, right? He is. Totally evil. Right? Totally.
I AM GLAD I CAN LOVE MONDAYS UNRESERVEDLY AGAIN.
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Date: 2011-10-25 04:48 pm (UTC)YOU KNOW NOT WHAT YOU DO
Date: 2011-10-25 09:33 pm (UTC)And then Reconstruction (season six) kicks off the Recollection series and you realize that Burnie has been working on an epic plot since a few episodes into season one, and The Blood Gulch Chronicles are basically the prologue, and in between the funny are actual important plot points. And Reconstruction is EPIC and doesn't lose the funny but the season finale EXPLODES YOUR BRAIN and it's AMAZING.
And then in Revelation (season eight) they hired this genius kid named Monty who
never sleepsaugments the machinima with pre-rendered character animation, and it's beautiful and gorgeous and his choreography is amazing and he does all the motion-capture himself, and this fundamentally changes the show again and is the source of most of my recent flailing. We're on Season 9 now and between Monty's animation and whatever story Burnie is weaving for us I am just, like, in constant throes of nerdy ecstasy....So yeah, basically this show sneaks up on you, slowly evolves from "Ha ha, this show is funny" to "OH MY GOD HOLY SHIT DID YOU SEE THAT, AND OH MY GOD MY BRAIN, OH MY GOD", with writing and production values that are frankly impressive. This has become one of my favorite science fiction shows ever. I totally recommend going ahead and watching the whole damn thing. ...The nice thing is the eps are so short that even with eight-seasons-plus it doesn't take long to get through them all... I had a marathon with my friends of the whole thing up through season six, and it took, like... fifteen hours.
I can't really give you any sneak peeks of Awesome Plot, because ohmigod spoilers, you really don't want them, but if you'd like an idea of the sort of production values we have now and the omg face-melting action that is possible (Monty I looooooovvvee yooooouuuu), these episodes are AWESOME but are pretty spoiler-free, at least when viewed completely out of context.
Season 8 Episode 10: This One Goes to Eleven. Only spoilery in the context of, like, most of the Recollection series. Out of context, just awesome. Just try to forget you saw it later, or something.
Season 9 Episode 15: The Sarcophagus. This has got a bunch of characters you haven't met yet, so in that way it's spoilery, but other than that fairly harmless. All you need to know is it's a bunch of Freelancers on a mission to
stealretrieve something... that's all I really know at this point, actually./excessive fanflailing
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Date: 2011-10-26 03:08 am (UTC)Also, one-handed typing. :) Pics later once photoshop works again. Her name is Pele. ;D
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Date: 2011-10-26 03:17 am (UTC)a;khsg;lkahsklghskljaf ohmigod eeeeeeeeeeeee~!! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyy!! AND NOW I AM HAPPY AGAIN! :DDDDD I am excited to see her and hear all about her! CONGRATULATIONS!! \o/