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1. So I was going to formally boycott The Mentalist, on account of how it was clearly a rip-off of Psych only less awesome and with your typical Traumatized Hero With Dead Wife And/Or Child. Even the couple of times Mom's watched it, I have determinedly ignored it and focused on my typing.
And then we watched it last night in the hotel room, on account of how we were bored and couldn't move in yet and there was nothing else on.
And yeah, it's pretty much a serious version of Psych. And Thomas Jane is pretty well in the vein of the aforementioned Traumatized Hero, though he's a bit more visibly disfunctional. And...
...and...
...and Simon Baker is really pretty. I mean, damn, his hair. And his gorgeous eyes. And his business suits and his slim, nippable neck and his hair.
I have no principles at all.
2. I am in fact watching Psych right now and Gus just bruised his coccyx. I should not think of this as a Doctor Who reference, but I do. Also, really, go watch Psych, it's an amazing show and so sharply written.
3. So. So. Brig/Leela would be an excellent idea, y/y?
I am thinking that the Brig could summon the Doctor back for another mission sometime after The Face of Evil, so Leela comes along with him and gets somewhat informally introduced to UNIT. She is alternately intrigued by the Brig's gentlemanly solicitousness an unimpressed when he tries to give her orders. Tension happens.
Alternately I want them to wrestle.
And now I must go to bed, as move-in happens tomorrow morning.
And then we watched it last night in the hotel room, on account of how we were bored and couldn't move in yet and there was nothing else on.
And yeah, it's pretty much a serious version of Psych. And Thomas Jane is pretty well in the vein of the aforementioned Traumatized Hero, though he's a bit more visibly disfunctional. And...
...and...
...and Simon Baker is really pretty. I mean, damn, his hair. And his gorgeous eyes. And his business suits and his slim, nippable neck and his hair.
I have no principles at all.
2. I am in fact watching Psych right now and Gus just bruised his coccyx. I should not think of this as a Doctor Who reference, but I do. Also, really, go watch Psych, it's an amazing show and so sharply written.
3. So. So. Brig/Leela would be an excellent idea, y/y?
I am thinking that the Brig could summon the Doctor back for another mission sometime after The Face of Evil, so Leela comes along with him and gets somewhat informally introduced to UNIT. She is alternately intrigued by the Brig's gentlemanly solicitousness an unimpressed when he tries to give her orders. Tension happens.
Alternately I want them to wrestle.
And now I must go to bed, as move-in happens tomorrow morning.
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I am thinking that the Brig could summon the Doctor back for another mission sometime after The Face of Evil, so Leela comes along with him and gets somewhat informally introduced to UNIT. She is alternately intrigued by the Brig's gentlemanly solicitousness an unimpressed when he tries to give her orders. Tension happens.
Alternately I want them to wrestle.
WORDS FROM MY OWN MOUTH, WOMAN.
Or at least, I wish they were. Oh gosh, can you just imagine how stroppy the Brig'll get when Leela gets all tarty with him? And the Doctor will be SO CONFUSED that he's not involved in the argument for once.
Benton will be there, right? The Brig assigns him to keep and eye on Leela, right? I can't decide if that will be disaster or work out surprisingly well.
Oh, and re: 2-- THE FUNNY BITS OF PSYCH ARE WHY IT'S AWESOME. And I just do not get the Traumatized Hero with Dead Wife/Child thing. I don't. I can roll with Traumatized Hero sans Dead Wife/Child a little bit but COME ON. Make the trauma interesting, dammit.
Edited b/c the Brig is TOO COOL FOR ARTICLES apparently. :/
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I am not sure how Benton and Leela would get along. I suspect this would have something to do with what sort of mood Leela's in, but Benton desn't have the same investment in being in a position of authority that the Brig does, and would be rather sweet and deferential (to a degree) to Leela while trying very very hard not to look at her legs. They might get on rather well.
Psych is one of the only shows I know that is still as funny in its third season as it was in its first. The other show like that is Monk. :D And yeah, I can deal with the Traumatized Hero With Dead Wife/Child thing, if only because it crops up so often (and I really can't begrudge Monk that plot device because the scenes with Trudy make me cry big baby tears) but it'd be nice if there was a little variety amongst the traumatized heroes. For that matter, it'd be nice if some of the heroes *weren't* traumatized from the get-go, and were ordinary people working through ordinary people's psychological strains - divorce, estrangement, jobs, budgets, health issues, etc. But I suppose that's why it's TV.
P.S. Hey. Hey. I have maybe started outlining Chapter 3 of The Memory Always Lies (like five months after the fact, lols) and I need someone to bounce ideas off of and tell me if I'm completely out of my mind. Might I be able to e-mail you, or is school and work and such keeping you down?
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...stupid Simon Baker and his stupid pretty hair. >:( *slinks back*
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Aaaaaand this post just got 1000000000 times more AWESOME. DOOOO EEEET.
(And good luck with senior year! Mine was crazy busy, but loads of fun.)
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Already my senior year looks insane. I'm a bit nervous, not gonna lie.
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*looks at pictures of Jon Pertwee*
*looks back*
O___O
OH MY GOD. I have a type. *hangs head*
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Ah, Brig/Leela... now there's a potent mix for you, I can see it turning explosive quite quickly, and they should totally wrestle, possibly with the Doctor and Benton hovering over them helplessly and the Doctor repeatedly failing at getting either of them to even pay attention to him. Rar!
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