where is my mind

[jmtorres]

I am habitually surprised I have no comments because I perceive myself as being fannishly active, even though I've been posting sporadically at best on fannish topics.

Things what I am reading/watching recently:

Vorskosigan: I've been rereading Civil Campaign and had to break out pen and paper to draw a family tree to keep the Vorrutyers sorted. davetheinverted spotted the tree outline in my notebook from several feet away and was all, "Oh God who are you making related now?" Heh. Heh heh. I'm banging around the plot for the V60 AU niqaeli and I have been not writing for a couple of years now and Danny and Illyan and ALYS are in my head on a regular basis lately. Have I mentioned I love Alys?

Eureka: I've caught up on the last several episodes mostly because niqaeli kept asking me if Jack was kissing his sister (he wasn't, but Tess and Lexi look a fair amount alike if you haven't been watching regularly, and also, there was that confusing bit last fall where she didn't know Lexi *was* his sister and was like, "Juls? ...who did Jack knock up?" when she moved in). We are consistently confused about how the memory block alternate universe plot line never comes back, even when they get a Kimbot.

House MD: In an effort to bond with echan, I watched the last four episodes of season 5 and the premiere last night. Bear in mind I have not regularly watched the show since sometime around season 2, I think, maybe, so most of my feelings on this are restricted to "House and Wilson, still pretty gay." (I kind of doubt that's a spoiler?) The premiere was interesting to us here at casa del crazy: echan had a lot to say on the accuracy of the, ah, environment. As usual I would prefer not to discuss the show's take on vicodin with anyone with an actual real life chronic pain issue, because I know the show is dumb and I'm sorry and trust me you don't want to know what they did now. Oh well. The character development was interesting, at least.

Merlin: Watched the series 2 premiere. Ow, the dumb. I kept thinking of plot twists and being like, "wait, no, the show is too dumb for that." Teenagers: pretty. Check. Uther: bad daddy. Check. Were we expecting anything else? I have a hilarious plotbunny in my head where Merlin and Arthur get tossed to present-day to look at "prophecy" in the form of eighty gazillion versions of Arthurian legend. Monty Python and the Holy Grail is probably the most awesome part of this plotbunny, although Arthur's confusion at how he ends up married to Gwen and "well duh" at her having the hots for Lancelot are fairly amusing too. Also future!immortal!Merlin reminiscing about how tomatoes went extinct in Europe and now everyone thinks they didn't appear in Europe until brought over from the Americas in the 1500s.

Being Human: recently rewatched all of series one in aid of making Annie vid. Is depressing vid. Am frustrated by my inability to work on it without feeling I am giving into depression. Damn, I wish I could find a song for the adorable threesome vid. I keep wishing I could write long plotty fic for Being Human but I can't find a hook I want to play with. The nearest thing I have come up with is "a stray cat follows Mitchell home; dislikes George on sight" with hilarious were-cat complications re scratching, biting, and hissing. Spent a couple of weeks reading every BH fic I could find, found some number I enjoyed...

Someone start a conversation with me?

ETA: probably spoilers in comments, yo.

Comments

[sasha_feather]

Well I do kind of want to ask about House and Vicodin even though you said not to!

ALYS. She is awesome.

[jmtorres]

He started hallucinating because of vicodin, so he goes to rehab and, uh, appears not to have any more pain off the drugs than on. Show states he has been using vicodin for his emotional pain, so now he's on an SSRI instead. That will totally deal with the physical pain, right? *headdesk*

Alys *is* awesome. Alys and Illyan double-teaming people is epic.

ETA for spoiler text. ...and an icon.

[sasha_feather]

AAaAAAAAAh!!! That is awful. Criminy. Doesn't that basically counter the canon established by the previous 5 years of the show? Actually I stopped watching somewhere around S3. But still. DO SOME RESEARCH, WRITERS. Clearly his pain results from his inner turmoil, and working on his emotions will HEAL him, or perhaps his pain is a METAPHOR. /sarcasm

[jmtorres]

I don't even know. I know they started pulling bullshit with oh House you don't really neeeeeed vicodin years ago, but apparently they flip flop on whether he needs pain meds at all or just like, magical brain surgery or jogging shoes. He is still using a cane at least? But someone sat in his lap to make out with him and I was like, "aaaagh OW?"

[niqaeli]

Here is the awesome thing. Regardless of his pain levels, they have consistently managed to forget that they established that he is MISSING A CHUNK OF THIGH MUSCLE. They excised MUSCLE.

In no pain whatsoever, emotional or physical, he still is not fucking physically stable. The fact that he collapses after a few steps unassisted is not because he is in so much ~~pain~~ but because his leg is physically incapable of carrying him stably.

This is what drives me nuts. I mean, even putting aside the massive chronic pain and painkiller issues, it STILL MAKES NO SENSE.

Sigh.

[jmtorres]

Here is a measure of how skience House is:

The Eureka eps I watched, more than once, used the same terms/symptoms and had similar treatment scenes.

[niqaeli]

*facepalm*

[kymellin]

I knew better than to highlight the spoiler, but I did. I am a bit behind in House - didn't watch much of last season much because of the Huntington's subplot (the ex- had it, and eventually the kid will test for it; I want to watch it on DVD so that I can turn it off and come back to it when I feel capable). If the spoiler lasts as an actual thing, I hope this is the last season of House before they do anything more stupid. I think the series should have ended about season 3, but I keep watching because of Hugh Laurie.

I've been enjoying Eureka, but I haven't seen the memory block AU episodes. So, even with a Kimbot, I just figured Jack's lingering looks on Alison, especially with her being pregnant, was a nod to that time...and move on. I liked the Kimbot; it gave us more Henry time onscreen, and I'm quite the fan of that.

[jmtorres]

House MD: House and Wilson are totally gay! Lalala do not need to care about plot, it are painful.

re Eureka--the memory block AU was, ah, "Once in a Lifetime" I believe? The first season finale. Only Henry and Jack ended up with any memory of it due to time travel future erasure (though properly they should have ended up with memories of different future AUs, since Jack came back in time from timeline B to stop earlier!Henry, who had back in time from timeline A, from instigating timeline B, right?) but THEN, Henry used a memory wipe doohickey on Jack so that he could be emo about being the only one to remember the future all by himself. Or something. It totally seemed like it was the first move in a plot to mess with time again except that then Henry didn't. As far as we can tell.

My favorite plotbunny was that there was someone else wandering around Eureka with spare memories, because Henry had a lab assistant at GD who got caught up in his time travel. *grins* Mmm, Zoe A...

[sasha_feather]

Because I am a pedant and I think about things too much, I want to say that sometimes antidepressants are prescribed for chronic pain: some of the same neurotransmitters are involved in depression and chronic pain; it's I think an off-label use of these drugs. And sometimes people who have chronic pain, naturally, get depressed and might also want to get treated for that. But I'm sure these are the kind of subtleties that the show ignores, because the show is not very good at being subtle, or even consistent in its un-subtleties.

[jmtorres]

As a treatment for pain it was not addressed at all, and also there was wacky funtimes where House was cheeking his meds and his doctor starting giving him placebos to test if he was actually taking his meds.

[echan]

They said in the show that after the detox they gave him a non-narcotic for the pain and that he thought it was working sufficiently well.

[jmtorres]

I don't remember that. Huh.