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iaria• White Collar 2x05 ‘Unfinished Business’: I loved this episode. It was my favourite of the season. I love Sara – she’s awesome and I really hope that we get to see her again soon and then get to keep her for awhile. Like, maybe she could quit her job and join the FBI as a consultant? I loved the interplay between Sara/Neal and Sara/Neal/Peter especially. A Neal/Sara relationship could be interesting and fun. I liked the case in this one too. Neal/Peter was great as always. I miss Elizabeth. I continue to love having Diana back even though she didn’t have tons to do this week. I liked assassin Neal but wow, he is not comfortable with guns, is he?
• There’s this ridiculous dating show on GSN who’s name I don’t know, though I have seen it before, in which the main person is given several options to date, each of them with their own ‘baggage’. As their ‘baggage’ is revealed the options are narrowed down until the main person picks one of them. Then it’s turned around and the main person’s baggage is revealed and the person they chose has to in turn choose them. I caught the end of an episode as I making something to eat. After she picked a guy the woman’s ‘baggage’ was revealed to be either a) ‘she faked a serious illness to get money from an ex’, b) ‘worked as a stripper’, or c) her father is a woman. When asked before the reveal which he would have the most trouble with he responded 'a' which was the one that bothered me too.
The answer was c) and I loved how it all played out from that point. The woman stated that her father, Alexis, was transgender and a very important part of her life. So important that they talk every day, they’re best friends, and she could never date someone who couldn’t accept her dad. What I loved was that she called her dad both ‘her’ when she talked and ‘my father’. And then she brought her out and introduced her and he accepted her baggage (though he stated his family was conservative). I just loved the... normalisation of Alexis’s transgender status by her daughter.
Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire
I finished the first book in the October Daye series and I enjoyed it.
I did have a couple issues.
One, a lot of the tragic results could have been avoided if Toby had acted different. In almost all cases she was causing her own (and others) grief. If she had called the Knights like she was supposed to she might not have spent fourteen years as a fish. I understand her despair and grief and need to cut herself off but if she hadn’t the book plot might not have happened, or if she’d just answered her phone Evening might have survived. If she had responded to Lily sending two non-combatants to ‘protect’ her by refusing to either let them accompany her or leave then Ross would be alive. The biggest however was the end. The others I just waved away, people make mistakes. But the end... *shakes head* If Toby had waited for Sylvester and his knights Dare’s death never would have happened. Hell, if she’d shot Devin instead of spending so long chatting with him Dare would have survived. But it’s really that first point that irritates me the most. Manuel also shares a blame – he’s the one who pointed the gun at Toby. If he’d stayed out of it, or taken a stand against Devin she’d still be alive.
Two, the book ended with Toby trying to get back her private detective license while the only mention of Home was when they went to burn it. Um, what about all those Changelings that have nowhere to go? No mention is made of them. It would have made far more sense to me for Toby to learn that Evening left her everything she owned (she knew she was going to die so I don’t believe that she wouldn’t have everything ready, and, for at least her human holdings, Toby is the most logical heir) and that she then turned around to use that money/buildings to create a new Home, a better Home than Devlin’s where Changelings could be safe, and learn and grow. That seems like a far more logical ending then her going back to being a detective and no mention made of all those kids. It was repeated over and over how ‘you always return to home’, we have Toby’s feelings of responsibility for the other Changelings, we have her missing her daughter... I just think this ending would fit so much better.
My reaction to Devlin being the bad guy and his death was ‘well, that takes one man off Toby’s list’ because in the first book we’d already been given three men as serious potential love interests and that really felt like too much to me. I do think that between the two survivors Tybalt is the most likely candidate for the one she ends up with, and my choice as of now. I never really got the sense of Connor – that is he’d kind of just there but I don’t really understand who he is.
• There’s this ridiculous dating show on GSN who’s name I don’t know, though I have seen it before, in which the main person is given several options to date, each of them with their own ‘baggage’. As their ‘baggage’ is revealed the options are narrowed down until the main person picks one of them. Then it’s turned around and the main person’s baggage is revealed and the person they chose has to in turn choose them. I caught the end of an episode as I making something to eat. After she picked a guy the woman’s ‘baggage’ was revealed to be either a) ‘she faked a serious illness to get money from an ex’, b) ‘worked as a stripper’, or c) her father is a woman. When asked before the reveal which he would have the most trouble with he responded 'a' which was the one that bothered me too.
The answer was c) and I loved how it all played out from that point. The woman stated that her father, Alexis, was transgender and a very important part of her life. So important that they talk every day, they’re best friends, and she could never date someone who couldn’t accept her dad. What I loved was that she called her dad both ‘her’ when she talked and ‘my father’. And then she brought her out and introduced her and he accepted her baggage (though he stated his family was conservative). I just loved the... normalisation of Alexis’s transgender status by her daughter.
Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire
I finished the first book in the October Daye series and I enjoyed it.
I did have a couple issues.
One, a lot of the tragic results could have been avoided if Toby had acted different. In almost all cases she was causing her own (and others) grief. If she had called the Knights like she was supposed to she might not have spent fourteen years as a fish. I understand her despair and grief and need to cut herself off but if she hadn’t the book plot might not have happened, or if she’d just answered her phone Evening might have survived. If she had responded to Lily sending two non-combatants to ‘protect’ her by refusing to either let them accompany her or leave then Ross would be alive. The biggest however was the end. The others I just waved away, people make mistakes. But the end... *shakes head* If Toby had waited for Sylvester and his knights Dare’s death never would have happened. Hell, if she’d shot Devin instead of spending so long chatting with him Dare would have survived. But it’s really that first point that irritates me the most. Manuel also shares a blame – he’s the one who pointed the gun at Toby. If he’d stayed out of it, or taken a stand against Devin she’d still be alive.
Two, the book ended with Toby trying to get back her private detective license while the only mention of Home was when they went to burn it. Um, what about all those Changelings that have nowhere to go? No mention is made of them. It would have made far more sense to me for Toby to learn that Evening left her everything she owned (she knew she was going to die so I don’t believe that she wouldn’t have everything ready, and, for at least her human holdings, Toby is the most logical heir) and that she then turned around to use that money/buildings to create a new Home, a better Home than Devlin’s where Changelings could be safe, and learn and grow. That seems like a far more logical ending then her going back to being a detective and no mention made of all those kids. It was repeated over and over how ‘you always return to home’, we have Toby’s feelings of responsibility for the other Changelings, we have her missing her daughter... I just think this ending would fit so much better.
My reaction to Devlin being the bad guy and his death was ‘well, that takes one man off Toby’s list’ because in the first book we’d already been given three men as serious potential love interests and that really felt like too much to me. I do think that between the two survivors Tybalt is the most likely candidate for the one she ends up with, and my choice as of now. I never really got the sense of Connor – that is he’d kind of just there but I don’t really understand who he is.
