jencat | Not a zombie

Although i may well end up resembling one if I don't get some more damn sleep this weekend...!

Everything's all a bit much at the moment - work has become an odd kind of battleground where I'm either ignored wholesale or dumped on completely and I really can't get my head around it. At some point I have to man up, deal with the New World Order and stop being a whiny bitch just to get by, but I'm not even sure that will achieve anything in the long run.

Added to the fact that various things conspired to make us delay booking the flights from last Sunday, only to discover that BA ended their sale at midnight Tuesday and, er, everyone else promptly hiked their prices sky-high to match, and... GAH. Have now paid £75 more each and get to panic about codeshares and spending nearly 4 hours on a United Express internal flight that I really haven't heard good things about...! Bad, bad week, all round.

But, hey, we are now officially going :o) That would be the Comic Con memberships and flights booked, mass overcharging to book San Diego (£37 per person per night FOR A HOSTEL. 6 bed dorm. I'm just saying.) Anyhoo, just have to book the hideously expensive car hire and we're pretty much done.

Must. Stop. Whining...

Honestly, I just had to watch nearly an hour of Julia Murney Wicked clips on Youtube just to cheer myself up, and I haven't done that in ages...
Heh, what else... After a mass Dollhouse marathon I've now seen the whold damn thing,

and woah, Joss was actually merciful! Honestly, I was expecting massacres all round, literal end of the world, and instead we got.. well, salvation, or something like it. Restoration. And only Paul and poor crazy Topher had to be sacrificed for it.. it was trauma-lite for a Whedon series finale!

They kinda-kinda sold the Paul/Echo thing by the end (or the almost-end thing, when he died. Or didn't?) but I'm not sure the wind-up of Echo stuck underground for a year talking to him in her head is going to add anything to her mental health, surely.

Love, love, loved that Priya and Tony (and T!) got a happy ending. It would have been too easy to sacrifice that as well, and after the odd flashback in Epitaph One told us they were definitely over at some point (I can't work out if that was pre- or post the baby though? Probably pre?) we instead got Earth Mother!Priya and Mad Max!Tony remembering why they were MFEO after a little tech bonfire-bonding.. whew!

The only weakness there was that they didn't quite know what to do with the real Priya, to the point where she was the weak link in the chain of kick-ass characters and it dulled the whole ship a little bit... I can see the symbolism in her agreeing to Tony being 'enhanced' and not herself but you can't help but wish she'd taken Topher 2.0 up on being upgraded herself.. Poor Priya, stuck being an eternal victim (that girl just spent her life being the target of two bastard rapists). The fact that most of her imprints were a little bit more.. proactive (loved the film noir chick-done-wrong Alpha asked for), means the last few eps of her just being Priya felt a little flat. It's not that the real Priya wasn't interesting in Belonging, but her life skills of being a gorgeous illegal immigrant hippy chick artist, while perfectly suited for being a doll, can't really contribute much toward bringing down evil corporations other than providing motivation for kick-ass!Tony...

And Tony.. Man, that guy is the most incredible actor. Freakily, creepily fantastic at submerging himself in whoever the hell they imprint him with... The Topher 2.0 was genius, the voice was unbelievable. What a dude...

Oh well.. Summer Glau was fabulous, but apparently the kiss of death for every single show she stars in (I'm half-watching a late season one Sarah Connor ep right now, alternating being squeeing and being terribly, terribly sad as they rescue Derek from the prison truck... hell, they've cancelled everything these days :o(