waking dreams

Okay, so over the last few days I've been on an epic mission to catch up on the last season-and-a-half of Bones.

Episode 4x25 was... weird, partly because of The Baby Issue and partly because Booth was hallucinating Stewie Griffin because of a brain tumor. At the END of that episode, he was being wheeled into surgery to remove the tumor.

Episode 4x26 was... well. It was... kind of AU. Seriously AU. The set-up involved Brennan and Booth being married (!!!) and running a nightclub called "The Lab" together. And pretty much every major character over the entire series showed up in some capacity... Angela as the hostess, Sweets as the bartender, Zach (!) as Brennan's assistant, Daisy as the coatcheck girl... and my four favourite grad students (Vincent, Wendell, Arastoo, Fisher) as the DJ, security, persian-guy-trying-to-buy-the-club and chef respectively. Also, Cam and Jared (Booth's brother) as FBI partners and Hodgins as a bestselling writer of pulp crime novels.

Anyway, a guy was found dead in the club toilets. And pretty much everyone was a suspect.

...and no, I'm not telling you whodunnit, because it's better if you watch the ep for yourself.

It ended, BTW, with Booth waking up in hospital post-surgery, and finding out that he'd been in a coma for four days. And doesn't know who Brennan is. (Thanks, writers. Thanks so much for that. *glare*)

Now. Onwards, to the thirteen episodes of season five that I haven't seen yet! (I have seen 5x14, for reasons that involve Supernatural. And an angel called Castiel.)

PS. OMG, Brendan Fehr (who plays Jared) is HOT. I vaguely remember him from Roswell, many years ago...

It seems like everyone is doing these. Well, might as well jump on the bandwagon.

2009. What to say about 2009.....

2009 was the year of getting the Big Proper Adult Job, and being pleasantly surprised to find that I was working with a group of really, fantastically awesome (and often HILARIOUS) people that I probably wouldn't have met otherwise.

2009 was the year of the Film Course, and the year when many films were watched. It was the year I realised that actually, yes, I'm really good at writing essays on aesthetic film theory, Citizen Kane, the Western, and the way socio-political and ethical issues are dealt with in science fiction television.

2009 was the year I watched a lot of really good TV, including some shows that I really wasn't expecting to like so much - Glee and Gossip Girl, I'm looking at you - and made some great LJ friends through them.

(It is also, JUST ABOUT, the year I found Prison Break. <333333)

2009 was the year of Watchmen, and the year of Star Trek, the year of Sherlock Holmes and the year of Inglourious Basterds.

2009 was the year Michael Jackson died. It was also the year Andy Hallett, Brittany Murphy, David Carradine, Patrick Swayze, Natasha Richardson and Farrah Fawcett died.

2009 was the year I started figuring out who I am, and what I want from this life. I haven't quite figured it out yet, but I'm getting there.

2009 was the year that comment_fic took over my life, and pushed my writing productivity WAY up.

2009 was the year Obama became President of the US. Still waiting for him to save the world. Starting to think he's not going to.

2009 was the year of Children of Earth and of Battlestar Galactica finishing. AKA, the year a lot of TV producers, writers and exec producers broke my heart more than a few times.


Some bad things happened in 2009. A lot of good things happened in 2009.

Here's hoping that the next year, and the next decade, will be even better for all of us.

My resolutions, such as they are, for 2010:

#1. Travel more, while I have the chance. I need to go SOMEWHERE outside Europe, at least.

#2. Keep writing.

#3. Live as healthily as I can.

#4. Try not to let myself get annoyed or angry about things out of my control.