Watch With Andraste: Call of the Wild
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andrasteAs longtime readers of this journal will know, an occasional feature here is 'watch with Andraste'. Basically, it's where I watch TV and update my journal at the same time. Today's subject is the last two episodes of due South. I am both jubilant and sad that I have reached this point in the show.
Awwwwww. Poor homesick Mounties.
Ah, Fraser. Only you would go fishing in a reservoir and catch a dead body.
Yay Mort! See, this is why I adore this show. They take a comic relief character and have him casually drop his time in Auschwitz into the conversation. Also, fishing with explosives was the very first crime Fraser foiled in the pilot.
"Detective, your powers of deduction make my head spin." Hee. I love Welsh.
... OK, interesting at the Russian nerve gas and the guy who killed Fraser's mother would usually be, I admit that at this point I am mostly bouncing up and down going 'is Vecchio here yet? When will Vecchio be here? Can we see Vecchio now?"
"Most importantly, though, you'd probably be unconscious and dead." Oh, Kowalski, you are such a dork.
"This particular case that Frobisher is working on involves poison gas, which is quite dangerous."
"Yeah, I've heard that about poison gas." I did mention I love Welsh, right?
EEEEEEEEEEE! VECCHIO!!!!!
Oh noes, Vecchio has a guest. Fraser looks so happy to see him, though.
Eeeee, Vecchio is pointing a gun at Fraser and Kowalski! (I keep typing 'Ray' and then having to backspace, because that would just be really confusing in this context.
So it took Fraser all of, what, five minutes to break Vecchio's cover? And he's so adorably pissed off about it.
Awwwwwwww, hugs!!!
"I was so pleasantly surprised to see you that I -"
"Said something completely stupid?"
Bwa. Ray and Ray and Vecchio snarking about Kowalski's dress sense.
"I knew you two would hit it off!" Yes, Fraser, like a house on fire. I so need an icon with Fraser's 'Hooray For Rays!' look.
Hee, Vecchio calls Kowalski 'Stanley.'
"Yeah, well, my piles of crap were organized." Yay fight!
"They give you testosterone shots in the mob, or what?" Go Frannie!
Awwwww, Ray and Ray have heart-to-heart talk.
"I killed him. I imagine that why I'm still here." Poor Bob and his angst!
Oh, Vecchio. It is so, so good to have you home. I missed you like you missed Fraser.
Poor, confused Kowalski. Don't worry, honey, your Mountie still loves you.
Ah, trust the Feds to screw up a perfectly good plan.
Oooo, Ray and Ray with guns and strobes. I approve.
Bwahaha. Fraser + Thatcher + criminal + Ferris Wheel = joy.
Eeeek! No more shooting Vecchio! Apart from anything else, it upsets Fraser.
"I mean, I'm not particularly good at expressing -"
"Frannie, he likes you." See, Fraser, this is what you need Kowalski for.
"You know, I've been waiting all my life to say that. It's not as much fun as I thought it would be." *hugs Ray* "Go get 'em, Benny." I LOVE YOU, RAY VECCHIO!!!
"We still partners?"
"If you'll have me." Awwww.
Straight on to part two, since I'm going to be late for work otherwise. (I may be late anyway, but I DO NOT CARE.)
"The yank tends to miss the obvious, doesn't he?" Hee. Yay Bob.
Last time through the theme song! Wah!
Awwww. Vecchio staggers into work because he is worried about Fraser.
Bweeee. "Wire and gum?" Fraser can translate the sound of a computer dialling to the internet?
"Excuse me, henchmen! It would be very much appreciated if you were to throw down your weapons of mass destruction and surrender yourself." Awwww, Kowalski.
I love seeing Vecchio's mad detective skillz in action! And yay for the return of the Fathers of Confederation.
"You know, that's the really exciting part of the plan, Ray. There are no parachutes."
"Ray, look, turtles!" Oh, Fraser.
Awwwwww, campfire scene. So much love!
"You can't eat or sleep because you're dead." Why is Bob always wanting Fraser to leave his Rays in the wilderness?
... OK, so Vecchio and Stella have now met. Which, um, seems to be for the first time even though they'd met before in Dead Guy Running.
Hee. Thatcher takes a bath in a barrell! With blindfolded Turnbull!
Awwwwwwww. "Put your legs in the hammock!"
Turnbull sleeps with a a stuffed huskie, awww.
Now Bob is explicitly comparing Fraser and Kowalski with himself and his wife. I think the subtext is rapidly becoming text *g*.
Oh, Ray. You are fail at ice fields.
"You don't consider being trapped two hundred feet down an ice crevasse an adventure?"
"Then we should sing." No, I don't think 'subtext' is the word we're looking for here.
"Tent! Tent! Tent! FIRE!!!" Heeeeeee.
"That's OK, cause he's a ... good guy." Oh, Kowalski. Fraser doesn't not love you just because he also loves Vecchio!
Run, Dief, run!
Wee, snow mobiles! Just like in the pilot!
OH MY GOD A NUCLEAR SUBMARINE! I LOVE THIS SHOW SO MUCH!
Whee, Para-Mounties! Best idea ever!
Fraser onna horse! And falling down a mineshaft!
... I think I may be abusing the exclamation point.
"There is one thing I'd like to do." Don't go, dead Bob!
... damn you, show. Now I am getting all misty.
You know, it's not the Vecchio/Stella I have a problem with. In fact, I think I approve. (Not necessarily as a long-term relationship, but I can certainly see why they'd want to have sex.) It's the moving to Florida and opening a bowling alley. Because, um, WTF bowling alley?! And why would Stella want to go to Florida anyway?
Then Fraser and Kowalski ride off into the sunset together, and that is made of win!
(And in my head they find Franklin and then they got back to Chicago and get Vecchio and they ALL LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER.)
Thus I reach the end of due South. I would like to thank![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
threewalls for introducing me in the first place, and _medley_ for making this all possible.
Awwwwww. Poor homesick Mounties.
Ah, Fraser. Only you would go fishing in a reservoir and catch a dead body.
Yay Mort! See, this is why I adore this show. They take a comic relief character and have him casually drop his time in Auschwitz into the conversation. Also, fishing with explosives was the very first crime Fraser foiled in the pilot.
"Detective, your powers of deduction make my head spin." Hee. I love Welsh.
... OK, interesting at the Russian nerve gas and the guy who killed Fraser's mother would usually be, I admit that at this point I am mostly bouncing up and down going 'is Vecchio here yet? When will Vecchio be here? Can we see Vecchio now?"
"Most importantly, though, you'd probably be unconscious and dead." Oh, Kowalski, you are such a dork.
"This particular case that Frobisher is working on involves poison gas, which is quite dangerous."
"Yeah, I've heard that about poison gas." I did mention I love Welsh, right?
EEEEEEEEEEE! VECCHIO!!!!!
Oh noes, Vecchio has a guest. Fraser looks so happy to see him, though.
Eeeee, Vecchio is pointing a gun at Fraser and Kowalski! (I keep typing 'Ray' and then having to backspace, because that would just be really confusing in this context.
So it took Fraser all of, what, five minutes to break Vecchio's cover? And he's so adorably pissed off about it.
Awwwwwwww, hugs!!!
"I was so pleasantly surprised to see you that I -"
"Said something completely stupid?"
Bwa. Ray and Ray and Vecchio snarking about Kowalski's dress sense.
"I knew you two would hit it off!" Yes, Fraser, like a house on fire. I so need an icon with Fraser's 'Hooray For Rays!' look.
Hee, Vecchio calls Kowalski 'Stanley.'
"Yeah, well, my piles of crap were organized." Yay fight!
"They give you testosterone shots in the mob, or what?" Go Frannie!
Awwwww, Ray and Ray have heart-to-heart talk.
"I killed him. I imagine that why I'm still here." Poor Bob and his angst!
Oh, Vecchio. It is so, so good to have you home. I missed you like you missed Fraser.
Poor, confused Kowalski. Don't worry, honey, your Mountie still loves you.
Ah, trust the Feds to screw up a perfectly good plan.
Oooo, Ray and Ray with guns and strobes. I approve.
Bwahaha. Fraser + Thatcher + criminal + Ferris Wheel = joy.
Eeeek! No more shooting Vecchio! Apart from anything else, it upsets Fraser.
"I mean, I'm not particularly good at expressing -"
"Frannie, he likes you." See, Fraser, this is what you need Kowalski for.
"You know, I've been waiting all my life to say that. It's not as much fun as I thought it would be." *hugs Ray* "Go get 'em, Benny." I LOVE YOU, RAY VECCHIO!!!
"We still partners?"
"If you'll have me." Awwww.
Straight on to part two, since I'm going to be late for work otherwise. (I may be late anyway, but I DO NOT CARE.)
"The yank tends to miss the obvious, doesn't he?" Hee. Yay Bob.
Last time through the theme song! Wah!
Awwww. Vecchio staggers into work because he is worried about Fraser.
Bweeee. "Wire and gum?" Fraser can translate the sound of a computer dialling to the internet?
"Excuse me, henchmen! It would be very much appreciated if you were to throw down your weapons of mass destruction and surrender yourself." Awwww, Kowalski.
I love seeing Vecchio's mad detective skillz in action! And yay for the return of the Fathers of Confederation.
"You know, that's the really exciting part of the plan, Ray. There are no parachutes."
"Ray, look, turtles!" Oh, Fraser.
Awwwwww, campfire scene. So much love!
"You can't eat or sleep because you're dead." Why is Bob always wanting Fraser to leave his Rays in the wilderness?
... OK, so Vecchio and Stella have now met. Which, um, seems to be for the first time even though they'd met before in Dead Guy Running.
Hee. Thatcher takes a bath in a barrell! With blindfolded Turnbull!
Awwwwwwww. "Put your legs in the hammock!"
Turnbull sleeps with a a stuffed huskie, awww.
Now Bob is explicitly comparing Fraser and Kowalski with himself and his wife. I think the subtext is rapidly becoming text *g*.
Oh, Ray. You are fail at ice fields.
"You don't consider being trapped two hundred feet down an ice crevasse an adventure?"
"Then we should sing." No, I don't think 'subtext' is the word we're looking for here.
"Tent! Tent! Tent! FIRE!!!" Heeeeeee.
"That's OK, cause he's a ... good guy." Oh, Kowalski. Fraser doesn't not love you just because he also loves Vecchio!
Run, Dief, run!
Wee, snow mobiles! Just like in the pilot!
OH MY GOD A NUCLEAR SUBMARINE! I LOVE THIS SHOW SO MUCH!
Whee, Para-Mounties! Best idea ever!
Fraser onna horse! And falling down a mineshaft!
... I think I may be abusing the exclamation point.
"There is one thing I'd like to do." Don't go, dead Bob!
... damn you, show. Now I am getting all misty.
You know, it's not the Vecchio/Stella I have a problem with. In fact, I think I approve. (Not necessarily as a long-term relationship, but I can certainly see why they'd want to have sex.) It's the moving to Florida and opening a bowling alley. Because, um, WTF bowling alley?! And why would Stella want to go to Florida anyway?
Then Fraser and Kowalski ride off into the sunset together, and that is made of win!
(And in my head they find Franklin and then they got back to Chicago and get Vecchio and they ALL LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER.)
Thus I reach the end of due South. I would like to thank
threewalls for introducing me in the first place, and _medley_ for making this all possible.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2007-06-16 03:15 am (UTC)Oh BWAH. :D
I was so torn when I watched COTW, because I was so *happy* Ray V was back and Fraser was happy, and then I was all angsty for poor Ray K, and then OH POOR FRASER. And yes, I cried. I admit it. *sniff*
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Date: 2007-06-16 04:26 am (UTC)Absolutely! (And you're very welcome.)
You didn't mention the conversation between Thatcher and Kowalski about how he doesn't know who he is without Fraser. Subtext nearing text, ftw!
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Date: 2007-06-16 01:59 pm (UTC)I think I need to watch the last two eps again, too.
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Date: 2007-06-16 09:19 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-06-18 11:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-06-16 08:52 pm (UTC)*sniffles*
And yes. I love a lot of things about CotW, but "WTF bowling alley?" pretty much covers the execution of the Vecchio/Stella thing (which, like you, I do not object to in principle, particularly on a limited basis). However:
then they got back to Chicago and get Vecchio and they ALL LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER
AMEN. This is becoming my personal canon, too--I have a deep and abiding love (and no small amount of lust) for Ray/Ray, but I think F/V/K is my happiest of happy places. *smooshes them all together*
YAY for dS! :)