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OMG! I LOVE CANADA!
Mar. 12th, 2010 01:21 pmThe whole thing where there are only, like, twenty actors? I love it. Because it means, yes, Paul Gross and CKR are in a movie together.
*FLAILS*
*FLAILS*
So, while ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
frostfire_17 (among others) was over here for Sci-Fi Friday, I had her watch the first episode of S&A and she really liked it. Yay! I love it when show pimpage works.
Also -- Paul Gross is so pretty. I love the way he is in this series, so wild and openly passionate, so different from Benton Fraser, who was more secretly passionate.
If you like the theatre at all, if you like Shakespeare at all, or if you just find complex human relationships interesting, there is a good chance that you will like S&A. It's a great show, with some nice stereotype reversals, lots of good humor, and some really great drama queen moments.
I really should make or otherwise acquire an icon of Paul Gross as Geoffrey, because I love his hair in this series.
frostfire_17 (among others) was over here for Sci-Fi Friday, I had her watch the first episode of S&A and she really liked it. Yay! I love it when show pimpage works.Also -- Paul Gross is so pretty. I love the way he is in this series, so wild and openly passionate, so different from Benton Fraser, who was more secretly passionate.
If you like the theatre at all, if you like Shakespeare at all, or if you just find complex human relationships interesting, there is a good chance that you will like S&A. It's a great show, with some nice stereotype reversals, lots of good humor, and some really great drama queen moments.
I really should make or otherwise acquire an icon of Paul Gross as Geoffrey, because I love his hair in this series.
Slings and Arrows (S1) has arrived!
Jun. 8th, 2006 04:00 pmI'm off work tomorrow, so I'm hoping to have a chance to check it out. I've seen the episodes already, but the quality with dvd is so much better, plus the case tells me that it has a 'trailer, bloopers, deleted and extended scenes' and so forth. Yay!
A few notes:
Mar. 29th, 2006 04:34 pmI'm in the process of quitting caffeine. I'm down to one can a day, and plan to be entirely quits of the addiction as soon as my current twelve-pack runs out. I believe that this is why I've had several low-grade headaches over the past few weeks (painful enough to make the idea of being social almost unbearable but not painful enough to make me give up on quitting, which is what happened every time I tried to give it up cold turkey). So, that'll all be done with soon, hopefully, and I can begin to again behave like an actual human being who is capable of two-way communication.
Just watched the first season of Slings and Arrows (a Canadian series about directing Shakespeare. In the first season, Paul Gross plays a director who comes back to direct Hamlet, the play that drove him to a nervous breakdown when he played the lead). It's fantastic (as can be judged by the fact that I watched all six episodes straight though and couldn't have stopped myself if I'd tried). Paul Gross is fabulous and beautiful and utterly unlike Benton Fraser (though, amusingly enough, his character in this also sees a ghost).
I'm up to the beginning of Season Six of SG-1 in my viewing with my mother (who was spoiled only to the extent that Daniel's character was leaving and coming back). She was actually really happy when Jonas got to be fourth on SG-1, as she was kinda nervous that they'd add another soldier or someone who was as unlike Daniel as possible (I refused to tell her who would be replacing Daniel, which, on reflection, comes across as a good move).
I've been rewatching due South with my roommate (jic) and our most recent episode was Perfect Strangers, wherein Ray is really cute in Canada and Fraser is really, really hot (though, honestly, I can say that about every single episode -- Fraser's hotness is a constant). I love RayK. So much. I love the RayK years. I love his playfulness with Welsh, the way his relationship develops with Frannie (I love, so much, that they moved Francesca into the station, and I adore her dynamic with Welsh an almost unbelievable amount), and, of course, with Fraser. I love just about everything about how Fraser and RayK develop as partners and friends.
Finished up Freaks and Geeks (conclusion: Lindsay should just have scenes with everyone, ever. She's great. And I loved especially loved her ending and also Daniel's, which was possibly the sweetest thing ever. "cool guys" Aw.).
Next up, I'm checking out Arrested Development. Will let y'all know how it goes.
Paul Gross is amazing.
Nov. 27th, 2002 12:25 amMen With Brooms was better than I could have ever guessed. Funny and touching and sexy and... just great. And there was a f/f kiss! I love Paul Gross.
Plus, every five minutes, I went, "Fuck, Paul Gross is sexy." Because. Wow. He is.
And I got so involved with Cutter. I cared about his moral growth.
The movie just left me with this huge smile on my face. It was just about as perfect as a movie can be.
And have I mentioned that the case is signed? It says, "Sweep! Paul Gross" Gah. In Love.
Also, I really enjoyed watching the curling. It's such a graceful thing. Beautiful.
I'm thinking of making some MWB icons.
Plus, every five minutes, I went, "Fuck, Paul Gross is sexy." Because. Wow. He is.
And I got so involved with Cutter. I cared about his moral growth.
The movie just left me with this huge smile on my face. It was just about as perfect as a movie can be.
And have I mentioned that the case is signed? It says, "Sweep! Paul Gross" Gah. In Love.
Also, I really enjoyed watching the curling. It's such a graceful thing. Beautiful.
I'm thinking of making some MWB icons.
End of an era...
Nov. 12th, 2002 11:05 amI've now seen all of the Kowalski episodes (at least)once through.
I'm thinking of doing the Vecchio ones now. Concentrate on really examining the way Fraser grows and changes. Also, looking at how his dad and Dief are parts of his psyche. Though, naturally, that's not all they are. But all characters in a series are there to illustrate the character of the main character(s). Everyone and everything in Buffy is about Buffy, ditto with Angel in Angel.
And due South is about Benton Fraser's journey to Chicago and then back home, and how he changes in the process. He develops a relationship with his father, most notably, he learns how to forgive his father for not being present. He discovers that he does have a family connection in the Great North. And he finds love. And he finds out that home is just where you left it, but maybe you need to get lost to really know that.
And as the show is about Ben's journey, every character is, at least in theory, a reflection of Ben or of something that he needs to face. This is both less and more true in the third season, where Paul Gross made it more of an ensemble show (I love Paul Gross). Because everyone we know has been changed by Fraser in a few ways. And he by them. Rather like life, but since the show focuses on Fraser (though also on Ray, especially in the third season, as I understand it), his view of life is what we see.
We see what Fraser is like with his walls down. Vecchio doesn't. He doesn't see Ben crying. In the crying Vecchio episode, is Fraser there? (I have not seen it.) Fraser is there to see Ray cry in The Ladies' Man.
Also, Vecchio is not in the livejournal dictionary, but Kowalski is.
I'm thinking of doing the Vecchio ones now. Concentrate on really examining the way Fraser grows and changes. Also, looking at how his dad and Dief are parts of his psyche. Though, naturally, that's not all they are. But all characters in a series are there to illustrate the character of the main character(s). Everyone and everything in Buffy is about Buffy, ditto with Angel in Angel.
And due South is about Benton Fraser's journey to Chicago and then back home, and how he changes in the process. He develops a relationship with his father, most notably, he learns how to forgive his father for not being present. He discovers that he does have a family connection in the Great North. And he finds love. And he finds out that home is just where you left it, but maybe you need to get lost to really know that.
And as the show is about Ben's journey, every character is, at least in theory, a reflection of Ben or of something that he needs to face. This is both less and more true in the third season, where Paul Gross made it more of an ensemble show (I love Paul Gross). Because everyone we know has been changed by Fraser in a few ways. And he by them. Rather like life, but since the show focuses on Fraser (though also on Ray, especially in the third season, as I understand it), his view of life is what we see.
We see what Fraser is like with his walls down. Vecchio doesn't. He doesn't see Ben crying. In the crying Vecchio episode, is Fraser there? (I have not seen it.) Fraser is there to see Ray cry in The Ladies' Man.
Also, Vecchio is not in the livejournal dictionary, but Kowalski is.
*embarrassed cough*
Nov. 5th, 2002 04:44 pmI seem to be... um. wallowing in the joy of due South. It rules mightily.
Paul Gross is just great. Great actor, great singer, great writer.
And I planned on watching the Vecchio episodes first. But Kowalski was irresistable. I did watch the pilot, Some Like It Red and Victoria's Secret but other than that, it's been Kowalski all the way.
( While I'm talking about SLIR and VS... )
And on a slightly different note, Paul Gross also rules as a person.
"I suppose the character is public ground. If you're willing to bring it into people's houses every week, the [fans] are entitled to certain liberties, wherever their imagination is carried by those characters." -- Paul Gross, quote from the Toronto Globe & Mail, August 8, 1998.
'wherever their imagination is carried'
I like that.
Paul Gross is just great. Great actor, great singer, great writer.
And I planned on watching the Vecchio episodes first. But Kowalski was irresistable. I did watch the pilot, Some Like It Red and Victoria's Secret but other than that, it's been Kowalski all the way.
( While I'm talking about SLIR and VS... )
And on a slightly different note, Paul Gross also rules as a person.
"I suppose the character is public ground. If you're willing to bring it into people's houses every week, the [fans] are entitled to certain liberties, wherever their imagination is carried by those characters." -- Paul Gross, quote from the Toronto Globe & Mail, August 8, 1998.
'wherever their imagination is carried'
I like that.
Sorry, Lance.
But... damn.
See, you need to sing more, Lance. Otherwise, how will you be able to compete? Come back and sing! Sing, damn you!
There's this break on "weep" that just, like, utterly kills me.
You know, before I started reading due South fanfic, I hadn't a clue about curling. I still don't have much
of a clue, I'll admit. But. Yes. I want Men With Brooms. Amazon, of course, tells me that it is not yet released. Because it hates me. Or wants me to move to Canada. One of those.
And I really do need to see more than Mountie on the Bounty. And I've only ever seen that the one time.
I am so hooked, and on so little, comparatively. I'm used to having so much stuff available on my obsessions and Paul Gross is tough to get fixes of.
I ordered the second due South soundtrack. So that I can listen to it in the car. Specifically, 32 Down on the Robert Mackenzie. I just bought an album because of one song.
You know, I just noticed that I use the word album when I should probably use CD. Ah, well.
Also, I'm really thinking of making a Fraser icon of some kind. Because of the 'gah'.
But... damn.
See, you need to sing more, Lance. Otherwise, how will you be able to compete? Come back and sing! Sing, damn you!
There's this break on "weep" that just, like, utterly kills me.
You know, before I started reading due South fanfic, I hadn't a clue about curling. I still don't have much
of a clue, I'll admit. But. Yes. I want Men With Brooms. Amazon, of course, tells me that it is not yet released. Because it hates me. Or wants me to move to Canada. One of those.
And I really do need to see more than Mountie on the Bounty. And I've only ever seen that the one time.
I am so hooked, and on so little, comparatively. I'm used to having so much stuff available on my obsessions and Paul Gross is tough to get fixes of.
I ordered the second due South soundtrack. So that I can listen to it in the car. Specifically, 32 Down on the Robert Mackenzie. I just bought an album because of one song.
You know, I just noticed that I use the word album when I should probably use CD. Ah, well.
Also, I'm really thinking of making a Fraser icon of some kind. Because of the 'gah'.
