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[mooging]

I am quite obviously not sitting here in tears over the approaching end of Life On Mars, and what may happen.

Of course not.

*weeps like a child*

Honestly. Who would have thought that this would have happened? I remember being vaguely aware of Life On Mars last time round, and my father watched it, and liked it, and I remember thinking I might watch it....and then I never did.

And then strangeumbrellaput up her post about why people should watch it, just before the second series started, and I watched it.

And, oh. My heart. Sam and Gene are a couple of utterly perfect characters. They compliment each other so astoundingly well. The writing is amazing. I have only seen one, possibly two, episodes that were slightly weaker than the others in the whole of the show, and even they were STILL GENIUS. 

And the character development is smooth and the plots make sense (as much as they can on a time-travel-crazy-what-the-fuck kind of show) and everything is coherant and the standard is so, so high all the time and I can honestly say that I have never seen a television programme that has had and maintained this standard of stunning.

As for the characters, I don't hate any of them. I can understand their roles and the way they are all used yet there is still an emphasis on the two main characters (Annie, to me, is a kind of secondary-primary character - she's not insignificant but she's not centre stage, if that makes any sense). Sam and Gene are just perfect, and their friendship is simplistic and yet completely incomprehensible and there's just enough there to read into and go OMGSLASHYAYE without the rest of the viewing public, who may not be fandom people, going OMGGAY and turning off while also thinking 'hang on...'.

It is quite utterly perfection in a show, and the end is tonight and I just don't know what to do.

What do I think? How do I think it will end? I don't know, and honestly, I think this is one of the few shows where the creators won't fuck up and screw over everyone emotionally invested, except in the good way.

I can't express how much I love Sam, or how much I love Gene, or how much I love them together or even try.

I just know I don't want it to end, because these characters mean so much to me and oh, fuck, 'Strange and Beautiful' just came on Windows Media and it always makes me cry.

I don't want there to be an end. I don't want Sam to be without Gene. I...can't think about what might happen, I just can't.

Oh God.

*

I'm also kicking myself for not buying the dvds of the second series while they were dirt cheap on Play, because now I can't afford them as well as buying birthday presents for my friends, who all appear to have been born in a big mad rush of companionship for me in the next couple of months (yes, I know that sounded amazingly ego-centric. It wasn't supposed to.).

To distract me, and hopefully stop me crying for a little while, let's play Stump the Writer! Snerched from misplacedmarble.

Stump the writer!

A -- Go to the lists of my fic and pick out a line or three from one of my stories. (Must be a full line, please -- no sentence fragments or speech tags or other such nonsense.)
B -- I will respond with which story of mine I think it's from.
C -- A drabble to anyone who stumps me.

All my fics can be found archived here, in my memories.

Comments

[misplacedmarble.livejournal.com]

OMG WHAT YOU HAVE SAID ABOUT LOM IS SO TRUE AND I WANT TO CRY.

And, um:

She wants to know if Laura would moan if Kara trailed one wet finger over each breast in turn, the presidential blouse gaping open.

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

Um, that long-ass named one.

Four Ways Kara Hasn't Seen Laura Roslin And One She Has?

I HAVE SPENT A GOOD DEAL OF TODAY CRYING NO MORE CRYING THANK YOU.

[misplacedmarble.livejournal.com]

WELL DONE! XD

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

WOULD YOU LIKE ANOTHER GO?

[misplacedmarble.livejournal.com]

She lived on her every whim, other people be damned, and she sometimes believed that she didn't see the disapproval aimed at her. She lived her life, and to do that she had to rationalise and compartmentalise and everything came down to pleasure.

THERE YOU GO!

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

Ever the Changeling? The Pamela Flitton one?

[misplacedmarble.livejournal.com]

Yes. XD

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

Sod it, have another go, and then regardless of the outcome, I'll do you a drabble anyway.

What would you like?

[misplacedmarble.livejournal.com]

She knew it was risky but so was everything and nothing made enough sense to make her care. She remembers being in a small room, dusty, with the shutters down and the dust dancing in the sunlight that was streaming through the wooden slats looking for all the world like unreal snow.

Can I have some Sam-and-Gene-in-2006 fluffiness, please? XD

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

Sunlight and Definition :D

Okay, drabbleness:

"We all thought you were cracked, you know," says Gene, looking up as Sam leans across him to grab the computer mouse.

"I know," says Sam. "Now, for God's sake, what have you done this time? It's really not complicated - would you stop that?!"

Gene had just grabbed Sam's chin and was twisting his face from side to side. "It's not bloody fair, Tyler."

"What?" asks Sam, though he knows, and pulls away from the computer screen.

"At least I'm aging gracefully and not wallowing in me sodding kid-boy features," says Gene, letting go, and then he's quiet.

Sam looks at him for a moment, and Gene is not looking at him now. He sighs, goes back to the computer, and soon the error message has stopped flashing and the computer looks as complacent and competant as it normally does, which is not at all.

The silence stretches on, and on, and on, and Sam is sick of stale pauses. "Yeah," he says, "Yeah, but you're so dashing." He rolls his eyes, dripping sarcasm as much as he is able, and Gene starts to smile and coughs over the top.

"Don't push it, Sammy-boy," he says, and gets up. "It's your round."

"Of course it is," says Sam, following Gene to the door.

"You've got thirty bloody years of rounds to make up for," snaps Gene, turning quickly into Sam's face. "And don't think you're gonna wriggle your skinny coma arse out of them."

Sam smiles. "I didn't realise I was going to be sitting in the pints," he says, and ducks round Gene before he can hit him.

Later, in the pub, Gene downs his drink fast and comes back out of the glass with a foam moustache, and Sam thinks nothing of wiping it away.

Some things have changed, in this new age and this new era, but they haven't.
*

Shut up, that's a drabble. It may not be that good, but meh. 45 MINUTES OH DEAR GOD.

[misplacedmarble.livejournal.com]

Awwwww! It's BRILLIANT!

I squee at you muchly!!!!!!! XD

(Dashing! Sitting in pints! Computers! Foam! EEEEEEEE!)

_{...40 MINUTES!!!}

[missfoxie.livejournal.com]

*hugs Moog many times and for many minutes* Oh my poor flailing darling, be brave, be brave.

After all, at least you have the characters and the show. At least it got made in the first place. Best to have met the characters at all than to never have experienced them.

Mmkay, will try and stump Talented Writer Moog now:

It's a little endearing.

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

Okay, meme-wise, is it 'Not-Idols and Admiration'?

*hugs you back, a lot*

[missfoxie.livejournal.com]

Oui!

Also, I suspect you have all too good a memory of all the shiny words you've written.

*hugs and dances and grins and sings*

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

Ohh, the same can go for you, my sweet. Have another go, and then I'll just do you a drabble whatever the outcome.

What would you like?

[missfoxie.livejournal.com]

Heh. Me thinks you are defeating teh object of this meme dearest Mooglet.

I hope this still counts, it is 'one sentence' after all.
Waiting.

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

THAT IS A LITTLE UNFAIR BECAUSE I HAVE USED THAT LINE MORE THAN ONCE.

Go on then. What's it from?

And what drabble would you like?

[missfoxie.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha. Well, I was getting desperate. It's not my fault all the words you write are fantastic, and often bloody obvious in their origin. That particular use was from your Rita/Hermione.

Hmmm, what drabble would I like? A mere drabble might not assuage my craving for this particular thing, but maybe Mildred Blaides/Pamela Flitton? Or (because I know you have actually only just met Mildred) you could write me Mab/Jadis pr0n. Or Rita/Narcissa pr0n.

...are you sensing a theme too? ;)

PS- Talking of Mab/Jadis, there is an Evanescence song called 'Snow White Queen' and OMG SO THEM. I am listening to it now.

[wraithlike.livejournal.com]

I haven't been watching all that long either. Only discovered it when they started airing series one here in Sweden back in mid/late January and it took me a couple of weeks to get really, properly hooked on it, but then it happened and I was hooked and I still am hooked and I don't know what to do with myself now that it's almost over. ::weeps::

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

it happened and I was hooked and I still am hooked and I don't know what to do with myself now that it's almost over - Oh, God, I completely understand this. IT IS MERE MINUTES NOW. Just...I don't know whether I want it to be Life On Mars time or for nine o'clock to never ever arrive.

*rocks back and forth in a state of distress*

[wraithlike.livejournal.com]

Oh god, I totally know what you mean! I keep thinking that I can't wait to see how it ends, then the next second I'm thinking how much I really don't want it to end, then back to not being able to wait &c. It's utter torture! Thing is, if I'm unlucky with torrents, I won't be able to see it until Saturday and I don't know how I could possibly deal with that. I don't think I could!

*rocks with you* Also, my stomach is pretty much completely knotted up from fear and worry and distress.

And I'm supposed to sleep tonight? How?

Ugh, lucky you to be able to see it at nine! Only about forty-five minutes to go now.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_la_mysterieuse/]

Here have a limerick (my new favourite way of wasting time):

There once was a man named Sam,
Whose TV show was 70s glam,
And for wrong or right
It would all end tonight
For that heroic young man named Sam

:)

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

I love the limerick, thank you very much!

*smiles a lot*