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Aug. 21st, 2005 11:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
verbminxMom safely home. Oh, you didn't know she was away? Well, she went up to Cleveland Friday afternoon so as to celebrate her birthday with my uncle, the one who is currently my fave. They celebrated her birthday last night by going out to eat and then to a bunch of clubs. I think strippers were involved. Huzzah!
Everyone watched the Six Feet Under series finale tonight, and I think the show basically redeemed itself; I really liked the episode. The death montage at the end made me all teary-eyed: that baby Willa is fine, that Claire and Ted get back together 20 years in the future (when he shows up at Ruth's funeral and at first seems like one of the ghosts himself), that poor Keith gets shot to death (but doesn't die young, and seems to be a successful man at the time of his death), that poor Brenda dies listening to Billy drone on about his psychological issues (poor woman has another 40 years of that ahead of her, apparently), and that Claire dies at 102 after a lovely life.
Oh, my, that music video moment with Nate near the end. Hilarious. Also funny was Daddy-mode Olivier.
Between the time when Brenda says, "To Nate," and David says, "May he rest in peace," I mumbled, "May he rot in hell." Although she had supposedly made some measure of peace with him, her tone was markedly different from anyone else's and certainly seemed to have some of that subtext.
Also, SO GLAD that of the TWOP-board spoiler speculation based on episode descriptions (most of which has turned out to be accurate), the "consolation" that "Ruth finds" "in the truth from Maggie" was not a Maggie pregnancy by Nate. Because ew. I liked how Alan Ball flirted with it by putting her at an appointment in a medical center - but she's a prescription drug rep, she was just there on business.
Anyway, a decent payoff. Though what I saw of the leadup special reminded me that the story was a lot stranger and more intricate in the first year or two than it eventually ended up being. I miss stuff like Nathaniel and Isabelle, and Claire taking a foot to school. The last two seasons weren't as good.
They just showed the preview for The Brothers Grimm on Adult Swim. I'm pretty excited about the movie - Terry Gilliam, the kind of story that appeals to me, my girlfriend Lena Headey. But doesn't the basic outline of the plot - charlatan "ghost hunters" who then run into a real supernatural menace of some kind - remind anyone else of The Frighteners?
I have not been sleeping well the last few nights, and will probably go to bed earlyish, instead of keeping my regular, much-lamented but hard to change vampire hours.
Everyone watched the Six Feet Under series finale tonight, and I think the show basically redeemed itself; I really liked the episode. The death montage at the end made me all teary-eyed: that baby Willa is fine, that Claire and Ted get back together 20 years in the future (when he shows up at Ruth's funeral and at first seems like one of the ghosts himself), that poor Keith gets shot to death (but doesn't die young, and seems to be a successful man at the time of his death), that poor Brenda dies listening to Billy drone on about his psychological issues (poor woman has another 40 years of that ahead of her, apparently), and that Claire dies at 102 after a lovely life.
Oh, my, that music video moment with Nate near the end. Hilarious. Also funny was Daddy-mode Olivier.
Between the time when Brenda says, "To Nate," and David says, "May he rest in peace," I mumbled, "May he rot in hell." Although she had supposedly made some measure of peace with him, her tone was markedly different from anyone else's and certainly seemed to have some of that subtext.
Also, SO GLAD that of the TWOP-board spoiler speculation based on episode descriptions (most of which has turned out to be accurate), the "consolation" that "Ruth finds" "in the truth from Maggie" was not a Maggie pregnancy by Nate. Because ew. I liked how Alan Ball flirted with it by putting her at an appointment in a medical center - but she's a prescription drug rep, she was just there on business.
Anyway, a decent payoff. Though what I saw of the leadup special reminded me that the story was a lot stranger and more intricate in the first year or two than it eventually ended up being. I miss stuff like Nathaniel and Isabelle, and Claire taking a foot to school. The last two seasons weren't as good.
They just showed the preview for The Brothers Grimm on Adult Swim. I'm pretty excited about the movie - Terry Gilliam, the kind of story that appeals to me, my girlfriend Lena Headey. But doesn't the basic outline of the plot - charlatan "ghost hunters" who then run into a real supernatural menace of some kind - remind anyone else of The Frighteners?
I have not been sleeping well the last few nights, and will probably go to bed earlyish, instead of keeping my regular, much-lamented but hard to change vampire hours.
