being seven is where it's at

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So, important question for you, internet: has anyone seen the most reason "season" of Psych? I airquote that because DON'T THEY HAVE LIKE, HALF SEASONS OR SOMETHING NOW? There was stuff that aired last summer/fall and stuff that aired in spring? (Ugh I hate the concept of half seasons, god damn Battlestar Galactica, if you are even going to sell the DVDs separately, STOP IT WITH THIS 2.5 B.S, THAT IS YOUR THIRD SEASON). Anyway what I mean by "season" is the spring episodes, and what I am curious about there specifically is how deeply those episodes were pushing the Shawn/Juliet. Enquiring minds want to know! For reasons.


I FINISHED THIS SHOW LIKE, a week ago, possibly a week and a half ago after ZIPPING THROUGH IT AT AN UNMENTIONABLE RATE, and I keep meaning to talk about it but everything keeps coming out wrong. I feel like all the things I come up with to express my ♥_______♥ feelings are things like "this is exactly the kind of show I would get into on rerun", which actually means "I LOVE IT SO MUCH" but sounds like "this is mildly entertaining I guess!". There is also this certain ~feeling~ to the show that I cannot explain in words at all, because it is... a feeling. It's low key, I guess? Kind of old school? NICE? SEE, I CAN'T FIND WORDS FOR IT, NONE OF THOSE WORK RIGHT. AAAAAAARGH. The other problem was that I was trying to pretend I cared about things other than the ship. HAHAHAHA OKAY. (I mean I kind of do, I am never bored by any part of it and I am fond of a lot of people and there were like, two episodes where I kind of shipped Kalinda/Cary, until I changed my mind and started shipping Kalinda/the FBI girl, because uh, that was... pretty hot.) And even there, I was trying to express feelings in MATURE and ARTICULATE ways when clearly that was not ever the way to go about this, which I realized today. So let's do this the right way, SECOND GRADE STYLE:



THEN YOU HAVE TO HAVE AN ~INTROSPECTIVE PAUSE~ TO LET EVERYTHING ~SINK IN~



AND THEN


FEELINGS EXPLOSION!!!!

Seriously though, as much as I am a unrepentant lover of unresolved sexual tension on television shows, I AM JUST SO GOD DAMN SICK OF IT LATELY. Maybe it's the shows I've been watching over the last couple of years, but everything ends up coming to this really delibrate, and in many ways manipulative head and then the making out starts and then the making out ends for contrived reasons and I JUST, I DON'T KNOW, want to go back to the place where UST is slow burny and comfortable and easy? And the answer to that: PROCEDURALS. If by "proceduals" we mean shows that have ~*plot*~ going on that is not consistently character-driven. Which sounds like it would be opposite my values, because I love characters, BUT NO IT REALLY IS NOT, because when your story is driven by lawyering/~the quest for the truth~/murder/politics it gives this whole element of something ~bigger than you~ and when the story is all character you end up with........... a lot of bullshit, honestly. Because then the drama's got to come from relationships, which means upheaval and misery and always ends in everyone dropping out of character.

In any case I guess there's no way to know where this show intends to take Will/Alicia and this finale makes it even harder to divine, but this season was a good ride. So let's see where they take us next.

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LOL CLAIRE OH MY GOODNESS THIS COMMENT. I am glad you did not edit out the errors, YOU CRACK ME UP. UM OBVIOUSLY WE NEED TO TALK SOON THOUGH, I want to hear all about your Swedish adventures.

I HOPE IT ENDS WELL TOO BUT I ALSO DON'T CARE IF IT TAKES FIVE YEARS TO GET THERE, I DON'T KNOW.

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HELLO, ICON. At first I thought it was of some artsy musician, and then I FIGURED IT OUT (do you remember that show? IT WAS THE BEST, I MISS SUMMMMMMMMER SAAAAAAAANDERS). I realized even more errors once I had already posted it, oh, wellllll. We do need to talk soon! I will get myself onto GChat sometime soon and find you, so we can talk. And I have to get back to Sports Night! Oh my goodness, I barely though about Heart of Hearts (a.k.a. YOU KNOW WHO(M?), DUH) while I was away!

RIGHT, I DON'T CARE EITHER? As long as we get little things in between? Right? Like, WE HAVE TO GET THOSE THINGS. Can they make out again? Can they? Honestly, the truth, I don't care if it's *~*wrong*~* or *~*cliché*~* REALLY TRULY, I don't care.

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THIS ICON IS ONE OF THREE TOTAL I HAVE FOUND THAT I GENUINELY LIKE, my life is really difficult. BUT YES, good plan.

WELL, NATURALLY. They can't deprive us of makeouts for five seasons, that would just be mean.

[thecolorbetween.livejournal.com]

Well, know that you're not alone! But now I have two. My world seems so much bigger now!

It would be so mean. Plus, serious stuff went down in the finale. HE BASICALLY WAS LIKE, "I WANT YOU," and she was like, "I SORT OF WANT YOU, TOO, BUT I GOT KIDS AND THAT'S TOUGH STUFF, YA KNOW?" UGH, GRACE AND ZACH, YOU COMPLICATE EVERYTHING. Although the Kings did say, I think, that they'd explore Georgetown more next season. Flashbacks are always soooooooo risky (/bad?), and it wouldn't be the same with different people, BUT I WANT TO KNOW ABOUT IT SOOOOO MUCH.

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THEY CAN EXPLORE WITHOUT FLASHBACKS, THOUGH, RIGHT? Did it say that explicitly! They can discuss! Like they did in the dinner scene. Ugh I LOVE ships where you have to puzzle together the history yourself, I almost hope they don't go into too much detail even though I am so very curious.

[thecolorbetween.livejournal.com]

I WOULD BE TOTALLY DOWN WITH THAT, FLASHBACKS ARE NOT NECESSARY. Or even necessarily wanted. I just want the puzzle pieces!