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It appears that I'm only updating roughly once a week, usually to talk about White Collar. Now that White Collar is over for a while, I'll have to find other things to talk about or you'll never hear from me again!
Lately I have been up to things like: watching Burton's Alice in Wonderland, fighting my way through my schoolwork, staying up late rewatching New Who and writing my End of Time fic in increments, running errands and sorting out my life so that I will not be at loose ends in two months, and mainlining Babylon 5. Third season here I come! Life is good even though the warm sunny weather makes me unaccountably cranky.
Anyway, I am going to talk about White Collar!
"We all have our weakness. Kate's yours." I don't know whether it's DeKay's delivery or just my inability to convince myself that the show isn't made of sparkly OT3, but the way Peter said that made it sound like the unspoken end of the thought was And you're one of mine.
I ... am not quite sure what I am supposed to do with a scene of shirtless Neal caressingly creating the statue of a naked man. Is it that Neal too is art? Is it just eye candy for all? Is it supposed to be vaguely homoerotic? Who knows!
There are no words for how much I love Peter in this episode. He knows exactly what Neal's up to all the time; he walks into Fowler's trap because he loves El just that much; he's disappointed in Neal but he understands Neal and all his motivations. I suspect that deep in his soul Peter's actually a little pleased that Fowler took his badge, because it means he can't arrest Neal (which he clearly didn't want to do) and that he can do much sneakier things than he might've otherwise. PETER. <3
DIANA IS BACK. I KNEW THAT BUT THEN I FORGOT AND SO I AM ALL AGLOW WITH JOY. I am so hugely pleased that she has Christie the Offscreen Girlfriend, too, and I don't mind if said Christie is never actually on-screen as long as she just plain exists and doesn't die or vanish.
I spent the Alex half of this season fairly unsure of her, but okay, I think she's a class act after all. I'm not that terribly interested in her, and now that I think on it, the only woman I'm sold on Matt Bomer really having chemistry with is El, so I hope to god that they never try to pursue anything approaching a Neal/Alex plotline, but that said: I like Alex! She makes smart life choices and I approve.
Wow, Mozzie is so in love with Neal. Don't cry, Moz! Neal appreciates you! Also at this point I don't need to know what Mozzie's deal is, or his background, or any of that -- I'll just accept that he's in love with Neal and leave it there. (Meanwhile I might have to do a season rewatch to figure out wtf Fowler's motivations are given that he switches tactics so often. Maybe he just wants to kill Neal and Peter and everyone they hold dear as a ... hobby or something?)
Neal sent Elizabeth flowers! He fixes what he broke! And El can identify the difference between loving the idea of someone and loving who they really are, which is really goddamn important and Neal should listen to her.
And the last scene! THE LAST SCENE. Peter is the only one who might change Neal's mind, and there's something so ridiculously rending about Neal sort of hovering on the airstrip halfway between two choices because he loves them both. Of course it follows that Peter saved Neal's life by keeping him on the airstrip that much longer, which -- that's going to keep Peter up at night, good god.
I suppose I want to know who blew up that plane and why? I hate that almost non-existent Kate had basically no agency ever, though, and that they fridged her. THUMBS UP, GUYS.
So when does it come back?
Lately I have been up to things like: watching Burton's Alice in Wonderland, fighting my way through my schoolwork, staying up late rewatching New Who and writing my End of Time fic in increments, running errands and sorting out my life so that I will not be at loose ends in two months, and mainlining Babylon 5. Third season here I come! Life is good even though the warm sunny weather makes me unaccountably cranky.
Anyway, I am going to talk about White Collar!
"We all have our weakness. Kate's yours." I don't know whether it's DeKay's delivery or just my inability to convince myself that the show isn't made of sparkly OT3, but the way Peter said that made it sound like the unspoken end of the thought was And you're one of mine.
I ... am not quite sure what I am supposed to do with a scene of shirtless Neal caressingly creating the statue of a naked man. Is it that Neal too is art? Is it just eye candy for all? Is it supposed to be vaguely homoerotic? Who knows!
There are no words for how much I love Peter in this episode. He knows exactly what Neal's up to all the time; he walks into Fowler's trap because he loves El just that much; he's disappointed in Neal but he understands Neal and all his motivations. I suspect that deep in his soul Peter's actually a little pleased that Fowler took his badge, because it means he can't arrest Neal (which he clearly didn't want to do) and that he can do much sneakier things than he might've otherwise. PETER. <3
DIANA IS BACK. I KNEW THAT BUT THEN I FORGOT AND SO I AM ALL AGLOW WITH JOY. I am so hugely pleased that she has Christie the Offscreen Girlfriend, too, and I don't mind if said Christie is never actually on-screen as long as she just plain exists and doesn't die or vanish.
I spent the Alex half of this season fairly unsure of her, but okay, I think she's a class act after all. I'm not that terribly interested in her, and now that I think on it, the only woman I'm sold on Matt Bomer really having chemistry with is El, so I hope to god that they never try to pursue anything approaching a Neal/Alex plotline, but that said: I like Alex! She makes smart life choices and I approve.
Wow, Mozzie is so in love with Neal. Don't cry, Moz! Neal appreciates you! Also at this point I don't need to know what Mozzie's deal is, or his background, or any of that -- I'll just accept that he's in love with Neal and leave it there. (Meanwhile I might have to do a season rewatch to figure out wtf Fowler's motivations are given that he switches tactics so often. Maybe he just wants to kill Neal and Peter and everyone they hold dear as a ... hobby or something?)
Neal sent Elizabeth flowers! He fixes what he broke! And El can identify the difference between loving the idea of someone and loving who they really are, which is really goddamn important and Neal should listen to her.
And the last scene! THE LAST SCENE. Peter is the only one who might change Neal's mind, and there's something so ridiculously rending about Neal sort of hovering on the airstrip halfway between two choices because he loves them both. Of course it follows that Peter saved Neal's life by keeping him on the airstrip that much longer, which -- that's going to keep Peter up at night, good god.
I suppose I want to know who blew up that plane and why? I hate that almost non-existent Kate had basically no agency ever, though, and that they fridged her. THUMBS UP, GUYS.
So when does it come back?
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White Collar is pretty awesome, if sometimes absurd! I think you would like all the main characters, although I have no idea if the show itself is the sort you'd like. Give it a go, anyway.