And yes, more Dark Angel thoughts
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dangermousie(Sorry to those who are bewildered by sudden DA onslaught. I go through this periodically, see Roswell and Firefly earlier. I do have only 6 episodes left).
It just occured to me: Eyes Only is a really apropos name for Logan in Season 2. That's the only way he can have/touch Max: only with his eyes. Ahhhh, the angst.
I must say, Second Season is a bit more mystical than dystopian and I prefer the latter, but the odd thing is, my Top 3 eps are all in Second Season.
Saw three more eps, Harbor Lights which I loved and Love in Vein and Fogetaboutit which except for Max/Logan parts were very meh. Well, they can't ALL be winners.
Harbor Lights: I adored the ep. I mean, it has hurt/comfort, it has angst, it has Logan wearing gloves holding Max's hand, and it has Logan rescuing Max which always makes me gooey inside because that is so not their usual modus operandi.
Basically the plot is: Max is shot by accident and ends up in a hospital. Logan needs to get her out before anyone notices anything odd and later, when that plan goes haywire (of course) to save her from evil Agent White who is out to kill her.
I love my poor tortured OTP. We definitely see the fall-out from Borrowed Time as the angst barometer is even higher than usual and Max seems to have just been sitting at home and she and Logan haven't talked in a bit because it's just way too painful (I love when she calls him. She sounds so uncertain and lost on his answering machine, and the look on his face when he hears her voice? Ouch). And I think the "no cure in sight" ir really beginning to get to her. OC's attempts at cheering her up aren't so hot either (but I think it's cute OC knows Logan loves Max. Duh, but I wonder if Max told her about her and Logan's talk in Borrowed Time). And by the time he pages her back, she is shot and in a hospital, and Logan only finds out about it because the hospital calls him because his was the last number on her pager. I love how he is cranky on the phone (not a morning person, huh?) until he finds out Max is hurt and then his whole demeanor is transformed. Poor man, they might not be physically connected, but emotionally, they are just as tangled as ever.
And then of course he shows up at her hospital as her "husband" (and I squee, and Max and Logan exchange these looks) and the scene is loving and tender and sweet and angsty. My favorite bit in the whole ep is when her blanket slips and she tries to grab it back and he instinctively reaches to help her and then slowly withdraws his hand and she doesn't see it at all: it's got to be horrible, to keep remembering about this prohibition that goes so much not only against their obvious love for each other, but just basic human instinct.
And then when through a really complicated series of events, Max is quarantined by the CDC and White comes to the hospital you see Logan, who just got there, and has an adorably huge bouquet of flowers, have to work fast to a. get her out of there b. find out what White's up to. Btw, how adorably geeky is it that the guy would know Morse code?
And I love the end, where he gets a helicopter (once again, long story), and he leans down from it, wearing thick black gloves and reaches for her and she reaches for him and their hands clasp. Guuuuuuh. I have to say, Logan is both braver and a lot more in love than an average person would be: if I knew someone had a virus that would keep me on touch, I'd not risk any of this. I'd just stay far far away. That's why I am not an underground take-on-the-government intellectual. Oh, and also I am not fictional.
And the very last scene, with Original Cindy fussing over Max who looks very girl-like and frail (which is really unusual) on the sofa and Logan just watches her with this tender look on his face. And then there is eye-fucking and more angst, and could I love my OTP any more than I do right now?
Oh, yes I could. When I think of Logan's cute new hairdo and winter coat. :P
On non Logan/Max front, we learn more about the mysterious cult White is a member of.
Love in Vein is pretty silly (what is it, a Buffy reject?) but the Max/Logan bits make it worthwhile, even if I do have to watch about a Manticore escapee with "perfect blood" who has his own little cult. There is more angsty and intense eye-fucking, and there is the scene where Max tells Logan (re: the cult) "Once you go transgenic, you can't go back" and well, that's certainly true for Logan, if not in the sense she meant. And then there is the scene where Logan is driving Rain "home" and he talks about Max and you can totally hear the pride in his voice. The man is definitely besotted, even clueless Rain noticed. And then there is the cute, lighthearted scene at the end, where they joke and bond and smile. And that's the best thing about the next ep, Fogetaboutit which has plot holes the size of a truck, and some really OOC oddness, and made my continuity purist hurt. But I did love seeing Max and Logan back to normal, with the snarking and the banter and the niceness (heee, and it was nice to see what Alec really thought of Logan and vice versa, and what Alec thought of Max/Logan). Plus, seeing the look on Logan's face as Max came out in her "hooker getup" definitely sent my mind in the direction of some really amusing NC-17 fic that could be done, if I were that kind of gal. And at the end, they walk off together, all smiley and light-hearted. Of course, that means something horrible must be coming. Argh.
It just occured to me: Eyes Only is a really apropos name for Logan in Season 2. That's the only way he can have/touch Max: only with his eyes. Ahhhh, the angst.
I must say, Second Season is a bit more mystical than dystopian and I prefer the latter, but the odd thing is, my Top 3 eps are all in Second Season.
Saw three more eps, Harbor Lights which I loved and Love in Vein and Fogetaboutit which except for Max/Logan parts were very meh. Well, they can't ALL be winners.
Harbor Lights: I adored the ep. I mean, it has hurt/comfort, it has angst, it has Logan wearing gloves holding Max's hand, and it has Logan rescuing Max which always makes me gooey inside because that is so not their usual modus operandi.
Basically the plot is: Max is shot by accident and ends up in a hospital. Logan needs to get her out before anyone notices anything odd and later, when that plan goes haywire (of course) to save her from evil Agent White who is out to kill her.
I love my poor tortured OTP. We definitely see the fall-out from Borrowed Time as the angst barometer is even higher than usual and Max seems to have just been sitting at home and she and Logan haven't talked in a bit because it's just way too painful (I love when she calls him. She sounds so uncertain and lost on his answering machine, and the look on his face when he hears her voice? Ouch). And I think the "no cure in sight" ir really beginning to get to her. OC's attempts at cheering her up aren't so hot either (but I think it's cute OC knows Logan loves Max. Duh, but I wonder if Max told her about her and Logan's talk in Borrowed Time). And by the time he pages her back, she is shot and in a hospital, and Logan only finds out about it because the hospital calls him because his was the last number on her pager. I love how he is cranky on the phone (not a morning person, huh?) until he finds out Max is hurt and then his whole demeanor is transformed. Poor man, they might not be physically connected, but emotionally, they are just as tangled as ever.
And then of course he shows up at her hospital as her "husband" (and I squee, and Max and Logan exchange these looks) and the scene is loving and tender and sweet and angsty. My favorite bit in the whole ep is when her blanket slips and she tries to grab it back and he instinctively reaches to help her and then slowly withdraws his hand and she doesn't see it at all: it's got to be horrible, to keep remembering about this prohibition that goes so much not only against their obvious love for each other, but just basic human instinct.
And then when through a really complicated series of events, Max is quarantined by the CDC and White comes to the hospital you see Logan, who just got there, and has an adorably huge bouquet of flowers, have to work fast to a. get her out of there b. find out what White's up to. Btw, how adorably geeky is it that the guy would know Morse code?
And I love the end, where he gets a helicopter (once again, long story), and he leans down from it, wearing thick black gloves and reaches for her and she reaches for him and their hands clasp. Guuuuuuh. I have to say, Logan is both braver and a lot more in love than an average person would be: if I knew someone had a virus that would keep me on touch, I'd not risk any of this. I'd just stay far far away. That's why I am not an underground take-on-the-government intellectual. Oh, and also I am not fictional.
And the very last scene, with Original Cindy fussing over Max who looks very girl-like and frail (which is really unusual) on the sofa and Logan just watches her with this tender look on his face. And then there is eye-fucking and more angst, and could I love my OTP any more than I do right now?
Oh, yes I could. When I think of Logan's cute new hairdo and winter coat. :P
On non Logan/Max front, we learn more about the mysterious cult White is a member of.
Love in Vein is pretty silly (what is it, a Buffy reject?) but the Max/Logan bits make it worthwhile, even if I do have to watch about a Manticore escapee with "perfect blood" who has his own little cult. There is more angsty and intense eye-fucking, and there is the scene where Max tells Logan (re: the cult) "Once you go transgenic, you can't go back" and well, that's certainly true for Logan, if not in the sense she meant. And then there is the scene where Logan is driving Rain "home" and he talks about Max and you can totally hear the pride in his voice. The man is definitely besotted, even clueless Rain noticed. And then there is the cute, lighthearted scene at the end, where they joke and bond and smile. And that's the best thing about the next ep, Fogetaboutit which has plot holes the size of a truck, and some really OOC oddness, and made my continuity purist hurt. But I did love seeing Max and Logan back to normal, with the snarking and the banter and the niceness (heee, and it was nice to see what Alec really thought of Logan and vice versa, and what Alec thought of Max/Logan). Plus, seeing the look on Logan's face as Max came out in her "hooker getup" definitely sent my mind in the direction of some really amusing NC-17 fic that could be done, if I were that kind of gal. And at the end, they walk off together, all smiley and light-hearted. Of course, that means something horrible must be coming. Argh.
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Date: 2005-11-24 02:41 am (UTC)But he seems to meet a sticky end no matter what :P
Yes. He deserved it in Dark Angel but to be honest in BSG, although I at first dismissed his character and didn't like him because I found him annoying on Kobol - after the I saw the deleted scene where he visits Sharon in the hospital, it occurs to me that maybe things would have been very different if Sharon had still been around to kind of look out for him. He wasn't ready for all the responsibility yet, he was screwed up but he wasn't really a bad person.
Also,
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Date: 2005-11-24 05:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-23 11:56 pm (UTC)*snicker* Yeah, that's pretty much the only way they can get it.
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Date: 2005-11-24 05:10 am (UTC)