2002-03-05 - 11:35 a.m.
In Which I Take a Slight Step Back From Reality

Cable Internet, telephone, and heater should all be installed/fixed at the duplex by tomorrow. Whee! That makes me all happy.

Well, at least it would, except for the niggling fact that Angel ended last night without ever showing us what happened to Wesley after he got his throat cut! And never explained what was up with Sahijan! I can buy Holtz switching from "kill Angel" to "steal Angel's son to raise as my own to replace my son that Angel killed, and also incidentally cause Angel all kinds of anguish", but I can't quite see Sahijan's jump from "why haven't you killed Angel yet, Holtz?" to "Oh, the baby's gone, I'm happy now." Grrr.

But Wesley!!!!! Have I mentioned yet that he's my favorite character on that show? And not just because AD's version of angst is a lot more convincing than DB's. Angel's going to hate Wesley now, if (WHEN!) he survives, because it's partially Wesley's fault that Connor went to a Hell dimension (although, given that this is the Jossverse, the kid's unlikely to stay there ... he'll probably pop up before the end of the season all angsty and teenager-y from the time differential in that dimension).

Everybody's going to be dark and depressed and bitter for the rest of the season, except maybe Gunn-Fred in their (gag) cutsiness together, and St. Cordy who's going to have to put Humpty Dumpty back together again (figuratively) when she returns from her vacation with Groo.

You know what, though? I think Holtz would have gotten Connor either way ... if the baby had been at the Hyperion during the raid, he would have fought a lot harder and taken him; but he sent Justine to cover both bases, and sho 'nuff, Wesley's so programmed with the good-guy, do-the-right-thing role that he got suckered by her act and let her get close enough to cut his throat and steal Connor away.

He should have kept humming. All Lorne saw was that he'd been to see Holtz twice and was taking Connor away for good. Maybe if Lorne had picked up on the whole prophecy deal he might have gone, "Oh, yeah, the Darth Burger told Wes that Angel would devour his son, and Angel has been acting weird, but that's all explained by the fact that Wolfram & Hart has been spiking his pigs-blood supply with a vial of Connor's blood that they stole from the hospital". But characters never communicate effectively in dramatic situations, do they? Because that would, you know, spoil the drama.

Five weeks until the next new episode! Argh!

Okay. Enough about my favorite Monday show. *deep breath* I'm OK now. Really.

Did I mention that I get high-speed internet access again from home on Wednesday? Hee. Then I can do all sorts of stuff I haven't been able to this month. I can surf spoiler sites!! Oh, and access Diaryland, and email, and Television Without Pity, and surf fanfic sites, and research genealogy, and ... and ... Goodness. I really spend a lot of time on the Internet, don't I?

Good Shell

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You really ought to cut back on your Internet activities and do some more constructive things, you know.

Bad Shell

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What? Like scrub the bathroom? That's what Sunday afternoon is for.

Good Shell

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You're being deliberately obtuse. You know what I mean. You should be working on your novel and finishing that vest you were sewing and going out and meeting people and cooking dinner and balancing your checkbook and stuff like that.

Bad Shell

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Oh back off. I do that stuff! Just ... sporadically. Can't I have fun in between?

Good Shell

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Perhaps, if it really was "between" ... right now it seems like all the constructive stuff is "between" having fun. If you're not on the 'Net, you're watching TV or reading a book, and sometimes all three at once!

Bad Shell

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You're boring, you know that? Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time!

Good Shell

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Fine, be that way. But don't say I didn't warn you!