Multi-Fandom Cocktail Party!

[redbrunja]

–I finished The Battle of the Labyrinth. And I honestly don't know who I ship more: Percy/Annabeth or Annabeth/Luke.

–I watched the premier of Glee, to which my main reaction was: why am I still watching this show? Also, have a gif:



Quinn and the new football coach were basically the only things worth watching this episode. FYI, my hate for Will is growing and I want to bang my head against the desk due to the epic fail of Rachel/Finn.

–HIMYM was enjoyable, if not earth shattering. Yeah, the writers are clearly being total cock-teases about us meeting the mother, but you know, I expect and have accepted that, so I can enjoy other things about the episode like:

a.) the OC's Summer getting in a happy, successful (and HOT) lesbian relationship.

b.) "Robin, seriously, I love you, but it's like you have squiggly, cartoon odor lines coming off you."

I found Robin and Barney's back and forth adorable. This is how I like them best, when they're bros with a side of subtext.

–Community was fun, especially once the first, second-hand-embarrassing third of the episode was over. I cannot express how glad I am that this didn't lead into an extended version of 'let's crush Annie's heart' OR 'ha ha, let's throw metaphoric pig's blood on Britta,' and I'm hoping that Jeff/Annie will continue to be one or two shippy episodes per season. Also, I'm quite impressed that a.) they went with Britta just getting caught up in the competition and b.) they went somewhere I have yet to see fanfic do, in all the dozens of post-Pascal's Triangle Revisited fics I've read. Also, most unsexy kiss ever.

–And now, my vampiric love and favorite show of the entire year (summer or winter season, take your pick), The Vampire Diaries:

Oh my fucking god, Elena clearly has taken tips from Princess Leia on fuck-you kisses. I mean when she just laid that one on Stefan right in front of Damon.... and it just went on and on. So hot, so bitchy, so awesome. Katherine would be proud.

I'm not thrilled with Caroline's new, heavy black eyeliner but her and Stefan's interactions are choice. (HE'S THE BEST VAMP!DADDY EVER, OMG. Seriously, Bill, you should be taking lessons from this boy.)

Now, I can already tell that Bonnie is going to get hated on for her behavior in this episode which I loved. Not because I enjoyed seeing her be so "witchy" to her friend, but because I think that it's wonderfully in-character for Bonnie to be unable to see past 'vampire' to 'best friend' in any real way. First, I respect that Bonnie is holding her anti-vamp line (and she has a point. Caroline has been a vampire for, what, two days? And she's already killed someone). Secondly, on a narrative level, it's really, really interesting to have Bonnie in a position of opposition to Elena and her vampire boyfriends and now Bonnie's BF Caoline. Oh, show, I love you so hardcore.

Ooooooh, werewolves that look like werewolves! So awesome! ...now, if only they weren't connected with the Lockwoods...

Alaric's hair is poofy and dumb. Jenna's jewelry is over the top and ugly.

And finally, topaquity ? I don't care what Elena said, there is no fucking way that this is the end of Damon/Elena. IMHO,, this episode could only have been more shippy on the Damon/Elena front if they had made out. To quote Katherine: "That sounds like the beginning of a love story, not the end." Plus, have you seen EVERY SINGLE PROMO PICTURE FOR THIS SHOW? It is all about the love triangle. There is no way that we go through a season of them becoming friends, have Damon fall for Elena, have Elena's doppleganger show up and make out with Damon while pretending to be Elena, have him kill her brother, have him admit he tried to kill her brother, have her say 'it's over' and then have Damon gracefully step back OR have Elena be like 'I hate you, go away' for however many season this show has left. It's just not going to happen.

*passes out mimosas and canapes*

Comments

[elrickeyblade.livejournal.com]

To be honest, the Annabeth/Luke ship tease that annoyed me in Battle of the Labyrinth, if only because it made Annabeth seem so...immature when she was acting jealous over the Percy/Rachel ship tease. Seeing as how my introduction to the series was accidentally through the 3rd book first, then the 1st book, then on to the 4th and the 5th and finally the 2nd (yeah I know, weird sequence), this just made Annabeth one of my least favorite characters in the series. I really try to like her, and on some level I do, but something about her just grates at me, and I think it mostly had to do with Battle of the Labyrinth.

...But out of curiosity, wasn't Annabeth too young for Luke? o.o I thought she was twelve when he was 19 or 22, something like that...*doesn't remember*

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I really try to like her, and on some level I do, but something about her just grates at me, and I think it mostly had to do with Battle of the Labyrinth.

*nods*

I can see where that would happen, especially if you don't know her previous relationship with Percy and Luke.

...But out of curiosity, wasn't Annabeth too young for Luke? o.o I thought she was twelve when he was 19 or 22, something like that...*doesn't remember*

First of all, I am the WRONG person to ask about 'too young.' Secondly, I believe that she was 12 when he was 16 - so she's a little two young during the first book but is growing less so all the time.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Luke essentially raised Annabeth when they were being hunted by monsters when she was 6, trained her to fight, and was one of the very few constants in her life for years and years until he betrayed her and everything she cared about in the most devastating way possible. I'm not sure how having trouble figuring out her feelings there compares to getting distracted by a girl you've met twice. (Also, it's all but stated that the Annabeth/Percy/Rachel triangle is pretty much Aphrodite toying with them, what with her promising to throw obstacles in the path of Percy and Annabeth's true and epic love [in her head] and Rachel showing up immediately after that.)

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

(Also, it's all but stated that the Annabeth/Percy/Rachel triangle is pretty much Aphrodite toying with them, what with her promising to throw obstacles in the path of Percy and Annabeth's true and epic love [in her head] and Rachel showing up immediately after that.)

*lightbulb*

That said, I really like Rachel, and I CRACKED UP when Aphrodite is like 'I like you. I'm going to make your love life traumatic! Because that is how I roll.'

[elrickeyblade.livejournal.com]

Don't get me wrong, I support Percy/Annabeth...it's just Annabeth as a character that I can't seem to like too much. I am seriously trying, and yet for some reason I can't. *shrugs* The points you make about her feelings being messed up are quite valid, however...