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sam_gamgee) wrote2005-04-29 12:46 am
sam_gamgee) wrote2005-04-29 12:46 am
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Mood theme GIP!
I think I took the long way around in putting it into LJ, but it's there! And it's a "Sentinel" mood theme. (I can hear![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
eternalmusings laughing at me now.
I've completely fallen in love with the show and I'm glad that I'm watching it now and not when it originally came (1996-99) on because I think I'm getting more out of it now than I would've then. Even if the writing isn't quite up to the level of Joss and co and the format is very episodic/crime-of-the-week, it's still a fun and charming little show. And it's addictive. I got the dvds a week ago Tuesday and I'm already two-thirds of the way through the second season (I've seen 26 of the 65 total episodes).
I think the main reason that I find it so addictive (and that I'm glad I'm watching it now instead of 10 years ago) is that I'm catching all the different nuances of Jim and Blair's relationship - which, like a lot of Joss' stuff is all in the subtext. While they aren't nearly as slashy as any of the guys in the Jossverse, they're *SO* meant for each other, it's not even funny. The term 'soulmates' definitely applies, IMO. It's in the way they talk to (and about) each other, how they act around and towards each other, and even in the fact that they touch a lot. It's all very natural and comfortable. For example, I just finished watching "Dead Drop" in which Blair's trapped in an elevator with three other people (one of which is a pregnant woman) where they're being held hostage in return for a substantial sum of money which, if the villian didn't get it, he'd kill them by dropping the elevator (plus, there was a bomb in the elevator) and with the way Jim was acting, you'd think that Blair was the only one in the elevator. And in "Secrets", the episode before "Dead Drop", Jim gets kidnapped and Blair freaks out.
And that's just the broad strokes. There's also the little things, like Blair making Jim food while Jim's caught up in a case to make sure he eats. Or Jim handing Blair his coat as they're getting ready to leave the apartment. And this is probably one of the reasons why I love the episode "Blind Man's Bluff" - in which Jim is temporarily blinded. Blair easily and naturally does what he needs to to help Jim out. And something also needs to be said about the scene where they're in Simon's (the captain) office and Jim accidentally drops a file and as Blair goes to pick it up, Jim smacks Blair in the head with the office door. Jim immediately reaches over to feel Blair's head, to make sure he's okay and it's not just an "Are you okay?" kind of touch, it's a kind of caressing, lingering touch. Why he didn't just say, "Are you okay?" and leave it at that since Simon was obviously right there, I have no idea.
I think I took the long way around in putting it into LJ, but it's there! And it's a "Sentinel" mood theme. (I can hear
eternalmusings laughing at me now.I've completely fallen in love with the show and I'm glad that I'm watching it now and not when it originally came (1996-99) on because I think I'm getting more out of it now than I would've then. Even if the writing isn't quite up to the level of Joss and co and the format is very episodic/crime-of-the-week, it's still a fun and charming little show. And it's addictive. I got the dvds a week ago Tuesday and I'm already two-thirds of the way through the second season (I've seen 26 of the 65 total episodes).
I think the main reason that I find it so addictive (and that I'm glad I'm watching it now instead of 10 years ago) is that I'm catching all the different nuances of Jim and Blair's relationship - which, like a lot of Joss' stuff is all in the subtext. While they aren't nearly as slashy as any of the guys in the Jossverse, they're *SO* meant for each other, it's not even funny. The term 'soulmates' definitely applies, IMO. It's in the way they talk to (and about) each other, how they act around and towards each other, and even in the fact that they touch a lot. It's all very natural and comfortable. For example, I just finished watching "Dead Drop" in which Blair's trapped in an elevator with three other people (one of which is a pregnant woman) where they're being held hostage in return for a substantial sum of money which, if the villian didn't get it, he'd kill them by dropping the elevator (plus, there was a bomb in the elevator) and with the way Jim was acting, you'd think that Blair was the only one in the elevator. And in "Secrets", the episode before "Dead Drop", Jim gets kidnapped and Blair freaks out.
And that's just the broad strokes. There's also the little things, like Blair making Jim food while Jim's caught up in a case to make sure he eats. Or Jim handing Blair his coat as they're getting ready to leave the apartment. And this is probably one of the reasons why I love the episode "Blind Man's Bluff" - in which Jim is temporarily blinded. Blair easily and naturally does what he needs to to help Jim out. And something also needs to be said about the scene where they're in Simon's (the captain) office and Jim accidentally drops a file and as Blair goes to pick it up, Jim smacks Blair in the head with the office door. Jim immediately reaches over to feel Blair's head, to make sure he's okay and it's not just an "Are you okay?" kind of touch, it's a kind of caressing, lingering touch. Why he didn't just say, "Are you okay?" and leave it at that since Simon was obviously right there, I have no idea.
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I love "Dead Drop." Though I am eternally frustrated by the knowledge the the network execs made them edit out a Jim/Blair hug at the end. Damn them.
And of course "Blind Man's Bluff" is the slashiest thing ever made, except possibly Jurassic Park III.
Dang it, I have no Sentinel icons...
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Yeah, I'm frustrated at the no hug too. Especially since Blair's in the elevator with three other people, one of whom happens to be a) the daughter of the guy who owns the company and b) pregnant and the whole time, Jim's more worried about Blair. You'd figure that Jim'd be the first one there when the elevator got down and would wrap Blair in a bear of a hug.
It is the slashiest thing ever!
Neither do I, but I'm sure we'll be able to find some somewhere.