audiobook - Kiss the Girls

So far, I'm actually really liking this reading. Chris Noth reads the main narrative, and Robert Gillaume reads the parts related by Alex Cross.

Having seen this movie, it's slightly easier to visualize things as they are described, and Robert Gillaume's voice sounds enough like Morgan Freeman to not be distracting.

The listening is going faster than I expected, considering my last try. I've already made it to CD 2, and only started listening yesterday on the way home from work.

This experience is much more positive than that first one.

Roswell thoughts

I liked Roswell and I'm enjoying this re-viewing of the show.

That said, I hatehatehate the way the DVDs are laid out. From the main menu, you choose an episode. Then from the episode menu, you still have to choose to play the episode or view special features. Special features are not on the DVD main menu, so I cannot go to them first, as I am usually inclined to do. So far, there've only been special features (a couple of deleted scenes) from the pilot. Subtitles cannot be turned on until the episode is playing. When the episode is done, you have to go back to the main menu and choose another episode and do it all again. The cursor is not intuitive, meaning that it stays on the "Play episode" spot, instead of moving down to "Main menu" for ease of use.

I do like that the DVDs are packaged individually in skinny cases rather than the bulky ones usually used for boxed sets.

Aside from that major annoyance - Julie Benz is much more distracting as Darla this time, perhaps because after this originally aired, I got to see her as skinny-Darla on Angel. I'm afraid that she'll always be Darla to me. Not that that's a bad thing, imo.

Nick Weschler sounds an awful lot like Christian Slater sometimes.

Brendan Fehr climbs pipes on the side of buildings really well (unless of course that was a special effect such as the one where Peter first climbed the side of the building in Spiderman). The tension in his shoulders and arms looks authentic, though. Who cares? Either way, he looks fabulous!

Rewatching this, I am struck anew by the tension that exists between Michael and Liz. I always thought they took the easy way out by pairing Liz with Max. They're both level-headed kids, for the most part, and tend to think alike. It would have been very interesting to see the way Michael and Liz played against each other as a couple - he hotheaded and brash, she plodding and methodical. Not that Max and Liz didn't look hot making out, okay, but Liz and Michael would have looked hotter.

One cute moment that I didn't notice the first time, and which has context in hindsight: Liz with her head in Maria's lap, Maria playing with her hair, while Liz's grandmother is in the hospital. This is exactly the sort of thing that might happen between two genuinely close high-school girls like Maria and Liz, and given the fact that Majandra and Shiri actually became tight friends during their time as Maria and Liz, this moment struck me as natural on the actors' parts, rather than scripted.

It's so sad to watch Colin Hanks, knowing what happens to Alex. I wished Colin well in his other endeavors, but I hated to see Alex go.

Interestingly, though, if I were watching this for the first time now, I wouldn't be hooked. This is definitely not as addictive as Alias was just last week. I think part of what got me there in the first place was that Jonathan Frakes was involved. Aside from that, I was watching a LOT of WB back then.

Cameron Mitchell character dissection

Here lies a really thought-provoking and interesting discussion of Cameron Mitchell - what we know of him, how he fits in and other stuff. When you factor in all the comments, many of which are JUST as insightful, it's pretty dang long. You are warned.

http://cofax7.livejournal.com/311424.html#cutid1

Oh. My. God.

Seeing a full-grown wasp crawl out of a roach suddenly makes those Alien movies look pretty derivative.

Hmmmm.

She grins at him in the way that all John's teachers in high school did: the way older women do at younger men on whom they have rueful crushes.

You mean, people can tell?

{is embarrassed}

help, help, help

I am so frakkin' frustrated right now. There was a AU Charlie Eppes story and I commented on it, and someone commented to my comment that, "hey, you did know there was a second part, right?" Only now, I can't find it AT ALL and I wanna read it right now! Right Now!

I just know that everybody reads my LJ, so I just know that one of those everybodies will know just exactly the story of which I speak and be able to point me in the right direction. Right now.

lolololol {but not really}