They're all twinkly together!
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gwynWhat a weird day. I just found out that a) I am apparently the only person who did not know that there was a special about The Two Towers last night on television, and I missed all that Viggo and everyone else lusciousness, and I'm really annoyed by all the friends I have who knew about it but refused to tell me and I have now subsequently removed them from my "nice" list for Christmas gifts; and b) Glenn Quinn died, who played Doyle on Angel in the first half of the first season. I never knew the backstory of why he left, and the fan friends I know who did would never talk about it, so I didn't know if the drug abuse accusation was true or not, but apparently it must have been, because he died of an overdose. He was a truly talented guy and I adored Doyle, just adored him, and I'm so sad that he had this problem that ruined his life like that. I hope he is at peace now.
And I'm recovering from a slight slashy hangover from the return of MDs last night. Holy moly, the slash quotient went into the high digits! Kellerman and Dalgety spent an awful lot of the episode together, which was great, but the conversations they had, the way they looked at each other, the fact that Dalgety appears to actually be able to see inside Kellerman's soul, and then the way they positively twinkled at each other over their surgical masks at the end just left me breathless! Those females at the Mish can just move on over; they don't stand a chance in the face of such an obviously meant to be relationship.
Of course the rest of the show still sucked, and their storylines were... well, wretched. Touched by an angel, indeed. I mean, I wonder if they could have hit us over the head any harder with the medical marijuana story? The nice volunteer who does good for the poor patients, but of course because drugs are still part of the Bad Element, she gets shot by Evil Drug Dealers even though she's just helping people... I just wanted to cover my eyes. Oh, poor, dear William Fichtner, having to deliver those sanctimonious and unintentionally funny lines. I want to hug him and tell him it'll be okay, his career isn't completely destroyed when it's still got Black Hawk Down and Contact on his resume. (And wanting to hug him would have nothing to do with how he looked in his sweatshirt and jeans last night, nor how his incredible arms look in scrubs. Nothing, I tell you!) I can't even talk about the angel wings storyline, because it's too painful. Avert your eyes is my motto when watching, until I hear Hannah's dulcet Scottish burr. (And a pointless aside: Why does a hospital have so much glass? I've spent a lot of time in hospitals in the past decade, and the only places I see so much glass are in ICUs and even then, it's less than on this show. I'd be nervous about staying at the Mish in earthquake country.)
I loved the conversation on the roof (filmed in a golden bath of sunset illumination, of course, because they're heroes and they're golden) and how Dalgety, in this short time of knowing Kellerman, is able to pinpoint exactly who Kellerman is and what motivates him -- he sees into his soul, and they know each other, and it just makes my heart go pitty-pat. And I find it curious that Kellerman, a cardio-thoracic surgeon, is always assisting on regular garden-variety surgeries these days with Dalgety -- I mean, could they telegraph their need to be together any louder? It's like they can't stand to be away from each other even though their surgical specialties have nothing whatsoever to do with the other's.
But it was the ending, where they were gazing into each other's twinkly, adoring eyes, that really got me. I don't normally see slash in things -- it usually has to be pointed out to me, otherwise -- whoosh -- right over my head. But these sparkling, smiling, adoring looks they give each other in surgery are like huge neon signs blinking out "slashy love" all over the place. When they look at each other over the lovey dovey lines that Macy Gray is singing, and Dalgety hands Kellerman the scalpel and they gaze at each other... well, golly. I'm so there it hurts.
At least there's one more new episode and they haven't cancelled it just yet. Maybe it'll be 13 that's the magic number and then, pow. I'll probably never get the first 5 eps on tape, dammit, to vid with, but I can hope. Such an awful show with such a wonderful relationship. (And frankly, when my friends say they won't watch it because it's a bad show, I'm like, get off the high horse, toots! It's certainly no worse than the other crappy slashy shows out there, just crappy in a different, medical drama way.) We wade through a lot of crap, but they deliver on this relationship, I can't fault them for that.
And I'm recovering from a slight slashy hangover from the return of MDs last night. Holy moly, the slash quotient went into the high digits! Kellerman and Dalgety spent an awful lot of the episode together, which was great, but the conversations they had, the way they looked at each other, the fact that Dalgety appears to actually be able to see inside Kellerman's soul, and then the way they positively twinkled at each other over their surgical masks at the end just left me breathless! Those females at the Mish can just move on over; they don't stand a chance in the face of such an obviously meant to be relationship.
Of course the rest of the show still sucked, and their storylines were... well, wretched. Touched by an angel, indeed. I mean, I wonder if they could have hit us over the head any harder with the medical marijuana story? The nice volunteer who does good for the poor patients, but of course because drugs are still part of the Bad Element, she gets shot by Evil Drug Dealers even though she's just helping people... I just wanted to cover my eyes. Oh, poor, dear William Fichtner, having to deliver those sanctimonious and unintentionally funny lines. I want to hug him and tell him it'll be okay, his career isn't completely destroyed when it's still got Black Hawk Down and Contact on his resume. (And wanting to hug him would have nothing to do with how he looked in his sweatshirt and jeans last night, nor how his incredible arms look in scrubs. Nothing, I tell you!) I can't even talk about the angel wings storyline, because it's too painful. Avert your eyes is my motto when watching, until I hear Hannah's dulcet Scottish burr. (And a pointless aside: Why does a hospital have so much glass? I've spent a lot of time in hospitals in the past decade, and the only places I see so much glass are in ICUs and even then, it's less than on this show. I'd be nervous about staying at the Mish in earthquake country.)
I loved the conversation on the roof (filmed in a golden bath of sunset illumination, of course, because they're heroes and they're golden) and how Dalgety, in this short time of knowing Kellerman, is able to pinpoint exactly who Kellerman is and what motivates him -- he sees into his soul, and they know each other, and it just makes my heart go pitty-pat. And I find it curious that Kellerman, a cardio-thoracic surgeon, is always assisting on regular garden-variety surgeries these days with Dalgety -- I mean, could they telegraph their need to be together any louder? It's like they can't stand to be away from each other even though their surgical specialties have nothing whatsoever to do with the other's.
But it was the ending, where they were gazing into each other's twinkly, adoring eyes, that really got me. I don't normally see slash in things -- it usually has to be pointed out to me, otherwise -- whoosh -- right over my head. But these sparkling, smiling, adoring looks they give each other in surgery are like huge neon signs blinking out "slashy love" all over the place. When they look at each other over the lovey dovey lines that Macy Gray is singing, and Dalgety hands Kellerman the scalpel and they gaze at each other... well, golly. I'm so there it hurts.
At least there's one more new episode and they haven't cancelled it just yet. Maybe it'll be 13 that's the magic number and then, pow. I'll probably never get the first 5 eps on tape, dammit, to vid with, but I can hope. Such an awful show with such a wonderful relationship. (And frankly, when my friends say they won't watch it because it's a bad show, I'm like, get off the high horse, toots! It's certainly no worse than the other crappy slashy shows out there, just crappy in a different, medical drama way.) We wade through a lot of crap, but they deliver on this relationship, I can't fault them for that.
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GAH!
Date: 2002-12-05 01:37 pm (UTC)It was ON last night?
And I MISSED IT?
GAH!
I went to bed. I would have stayed up had I realized it wasn't still in pre-cancellation rerun Hell.
I missed their eyes twinkling at one another to the sounds of Macy Gray?
Oh, the humanity.
Re: GAH!
Date: 2002-12-05 02:07 pm (UTC)Re: GAH!
Date: 2002-12-06 11:10 am (UTC)Thanks for the offer! I think I'll live without the ep, lol, but I'm just disappointed that I missed it. Will have to make a HUGE note so I don't miss next week's. :-).
"Go" was running last night on VH1 and I had no idea that Fichtner was in it. Hadn't remembered because when I first saw the movie I was squee-ing over Jay Mohr and Desmond Askew. WF is MUCH more attractive on "MDs." Sexy and vulnerable and SOINLOVE with John Hannah. And, really, who could blame him?
Re: GAH!
Date: 2002-12-06 12:56 pm (UTC)WF is MUCH more attractive on "MDs." Sexy and vulnerable and SOINLOVE with John Hannah. And, really, who could blame him?
Oh, I so cannot argue with you there. They were meant to be together -- I really wish they could transplant them into a nifty new show with just them.
Re: GAH!
Date: 2002-12-06 12:58 pm (UTC)You are not alone
Date: 2002-12-05 02:56 pm (UTC)Of course, I cannot look at it until the movie. Cause I am still deferral girl.
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Date: 2002-12-05 04:51 pm (UTC)MMM.... I'll agree with you there. He's a honey. Don't know what it is about him, but there's something that just calls to me and makes me take notice of all his good parts (which are odd-good, but very good). I'm enjoying your take on their 'ship since I don't watch the show (though I would if I could just to take in the slashy stuff!). And I missed the LoTR thing too. Damn. I take every opportunity (and many of them) to listen to Viggo Mortensen (and, okay, to oggle him, but hey...)
:-D
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Date: 2002-12-06 10:41 am (UTC)You're lucky you're not watching MDs. Really. It's painful, it's so bad. But damn Fichtner and Hannah are great. Neither of them fits that traditionally handsome guy model, but I find it doesn't matter to me. Fichtner especially has that hangdog, sweet face I like so much, and that kind of perpetually bewildered voice. Yum.
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Date: 2002-12-06 02:52 pm (UTC)Thanks! I've been lurking around for a while, and really enjoying your takes on the Buffy episodes. :-)
Trisha