Okay, so I'm a lazy bum
Dec. 21st, 2003 03:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lierdumoaI got almost nothing done today that I planned to get done. Insert random expletives here.
Things I did get done: I got to hang out with my sister. I ate at two good restaurants. I overloaded on chocolate (mmmm....chocolate....). I watched a very charming movie with Heather Graham called Guru (very cute romantic comedy). I then watched Lost Boys, also known as the 80's horror flick. Set the standard for future vampire flicks, and all that junk. Loved it, by the way. Young Kiefer Sutherland with a mullet -- good stuff.
Okay, my Jake 2.0 recap for last Wednesday's episode is long overdue. Not that anyone actually requires me to write recaps. I just like to write them because people like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
taraljc and queenofalostart and deeablo usually read them and leave comments (and I'm a big comment whore). Plus, writing recaps gives me an excuse to watch the episodes over again.
So here it is. My viewer's response, in all it's glory.
Jake 2.0 s1ep12 "Double Agent"
Of course all the other people who watched the episode can neatly point out all the 6 Million Dollar Man references, but I'm young, and I never watched that show, so whatever.
THE BEGINNING! Jake is running after some chick. He gets a shoot to kill order. Actually, he gets a lot of orders. Some of them conflict. He doesn't know what to do. What to do? What to do? He messes up and doesn't catch the fugitive. He gets criticized. Of course, he has that whole "This isn't my fault" look on his face -- and it really isn't. Though I was surprised when his frustration led him to yell "Shut up!" at his boss as she was shouting all her conflicting orders.
So, yeah. The woman fugitive turns out to be ex-KGB. Oooooh! And she's a real bitch, of course. Kinda hard faced. They have a lot of hard faced women showing up on this show, I think. First it was that psycho blond bitch who wanted to fire/control Jake. Now it's this Russian chick.
But where was I?
Oh yeah -- years ago this woman was stopped by none other than the 6 Million Dollar Man, though of course he has some other name since this is a totally different show. He has the same basic role, though. Government agent and all that. Jake and his partner Kyle go to check the guy out -- and hey -- he answers the door in a robe and fur slippers with a fat cigar in his mouth. I wrinkle my nose at the cliche. Meh.
So, the guy is kinda chauvanistic, but a good agent, apparently. He won awards and crap. And he's a loose cannon. He doesn't follow the rules. He doesn't want Jake to follow the rules. Jake is like -- WTF?!?
I'm so tired. I want to go to bed. But I won't.
Back to the episode. Ex government agent guy spends all the money the two of them are given for the case on a classic car as they go to a Russian casino to check out an old KGB connection. He flirts with a chick carrying drinks while Jake not-so-quietly has numerous spaz attacks. Jake ends up getting accosted, and uses his tiny, tiny robot enhanced strength to beat off his attackers and catch up with ex secret agent man and tell him "WTF?!?!?"
And then, Jake's nano-robot hearing picks up noises in the trunk of ex agent guy's car. WTF again.
Jake gets left on the side of the road. He calls his boss. He tells her what's been going on with mister loose cannon. She asks him why he didn't tell her all this. The reason? Something told him that this guy knew what he was doing. And wasn't telling Jake. Deeeevious, I tell you. Deeevious.
Okay, so suddenly ex gov. agent guy shows up at the NSA with a completely different attitude. He's all for following the rules. He's all serious. He doesn't try to flirt with Diane (Jake's doctor and expert on the tiny, tiny robots in his system). He's very, very professional. Something isn't right here. He claims that the KGB arranged for "doubles" to be created of US gov't agents. Oh my goodness! The guy was a doppleganger! Woah! It's like, dopplegangland (very good Buffy episode, by the way -- evil!Willow is the shit). But I digress. And Jake 2.0 has absolutely nothing to do with Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I just like to make obscure references.
So Jake suspects something is off. He has Diane test the cigar that the supposed doppleganger guy was smoking for DNA. It matches the DNA of the supposed non-doppleganger. Jake decides to take the mission into his own hands.
In the meanwhile, evil Russian lady is trying to set of a "dirty bomb" (nuclear bomb mad non-professionally). And good God, but is it supposed to be part of the new American dialect that NOBODY on tv can pronounce nuclear correctly? This is seriously pissing me off. They even have the fucking scientists on tv shows saying nukyuler. Aaaaaaaagh! What the fuck is wrong with the television industry. I know this is an US tv show, but Canadians and Europeans are pointing at us and laughing at our stupidity. Fucking pronounce nuclear correctly for the love of all that is must-see!
*a-hem*
As I was saying. Jake rushes back to the apartment where they found the supposed doppleganger in the first place. The "real" secret agent man rushes in to apprehend the "impostor" and we find him pointing a gun at...nobody. Apparently he has multiple personality disorder. Apparently his work with the NSA really fucked with his mind. Poor bastard. Poor fucked up crazy bastard who can't pronounce nuclear correctly.
No, I'm not going to let this go any time soon. It pisses me off, goddamnit.
Anyway, Jake convinces him to get his shit together and stop talking crazy. Apparently even when he was all loose cannony he still had a coherent plan in mind that didn't involve betraying the US. The chick he was flirting with at the Russian bar? She knew how to build the bomb that the evil Russian chick wanted. He convinced her to trick the Russian lady and build a fake bomb. As a reward, he gave her that nice car he spent all his money on at the beginning of the episode. And everything worked out in the end.
Jake even got a commendation.
But Lou (Jake's boss) yelled at him for disobeying orders. Really, she's looking out for his best interests. Jake, on the other hand, is afraid that if it comes to him choosing between following his orders and following his gut instinct (when his gut instinct is what is going to save the day) he's going to turn out all crazy like secret agent man guy.
This is building folks. All the time. Future episode will bring this drama to fruition. As long as I get more of Jake shirtless, I'm all for arc elements and plot and the like. Good stuff, people. Good. Stuff.
It occurs to me that I won't be able to make icons for the next few weeks. All my icon making software is on my desktop PC and I can't take that with me when I go back to California for the holidays (my plane leaves today, in about 10 hours). That, and my dad won't let me download the needed programs on his computer.
Soooo...I'm spending tonight making icons rather than writing chapter 5. Don't worry, though -- I'm only postponing the writing for a day. So let me revise my previous statement and say thatdaylight_shadow and amariel have permission to greviously injure me if I don't have ch. 5 in by 7am on Monday -- as opposed to three and a half hours from now. I plan on writing it all on the plane ride. After all, I won't have anything better to do.
Things I did get done: I got to hang out with my sister. I ate at two good restaurants. I overloaded on chocolate (mmmm....chocolate....). I watched a very charming movie with Heather Graham called Guru (very cute romantic comedy). I then watched Lost Boys, also known as the 80's horror flick. Set the standard for future vampire flicks, and all that junk. Loved it, by the way. Young Kiefer Sutherland with a mullet -- good stuff.
Okay, my Jake 2.0 recap for last Wednesday's episode is long overdue. Not that anyone actually requires me to write recaps. I just like to write them because people like
taraljc and queenofalostart and deeablo usually read them and leave comments (and I'm a big comment whore). Plus, writing recaps gives me an excuse to watch the episodes over again. So here it is. My viewer's response, in all it's glory.
Jake 2.0 s1ep12 "Double Agent"
Of course all the other people who watched the episode can neatly point out all the 6 Million Dollar Man references, but I'm young, and I never watched that show, so whatever.
THE BEGINNING! Jake is running after some chick. He gets a shoot to kill order. Actually, he gets a lot of orders. Some of them conflict. He doesn't know what to do. What to do? What to do? He messes up and doesn't catch the fugitive. He gets criticized. Of course, he has that whole "This isn't my fault" look on his face -- and it really isn't. Though I was surprised when his frustration led him to yell "Shut up!" at his boss as she was shouting all her conflicting orders.
So, yeah. The woman fugitive turns out to be ex-KGB. Oooooh! And she's a real bitch, of course. Kinda hard faced. They have a lot of hard faced women showing up on this show, I think. First it was that psycho blond bitch who wanted to fire/control Jake. Now it's this Russian chick.
But where was I?
Oh yeah -- years ago this woman was stopped by none other than the 6 Million Dollar Man, though of course he has some other name since this is a totally different show. He has the same basic role, though. Government agent and all that. Jake and his partner Kyle go to check the guy out -- and hey -- he answers the door in a robe and fur slippers with a fat cigar in his mouth. I wrinkle my nose at the cliche. Meh.
So, the guy is kinda chauvanistic, but a good agent, apparently. He won awards and crap. And he's a loose cannon. He doesn't follow the rules. He doesn't want Jake to follow the rules. Jake is like -- WTF?!?
I'm so tired. I want to go to bed. But I won't.
Back to the episode. Ex government agent guy spends all the money the two of them are given for the case on a classic car as they go to a Russian casino to check out an old KGB connection. He flirts with a chick carrying drinks while Jake not-so-quietly has numerous spaz attacks. Jake ends up getting accosted, and uses his tiny, tiny robot enhanced strength to beat off his attackers and catch up with ex secret agent man and tell him "WTF?!?!?"
And then, Jake's nano-robot hearing picks up noises in the trunk of ex agent guy's car. WTF again.
Jake gets left on the side of the road. He calls his boss. He tells her what's been going on with mister loose cannon. She asks him why he didn't tell her all this. The reason? Something told him that this guy knew what he was doing. And wasn't telling Jake. Deeeevious, I tell you. Deeevious.
Okay, so suddenly ex gov. agent guy shows up at the NSA with a completely different attitude. He's all for following the rules. He's all serious. He doesn't try to flirt with Diane (Jake's doctor and expert on the tiny, tiny robots in his system). He's very, very professional. Something isn't right here. He claims that the KGB arranged for "doubles" to be created of US gov't agents. Oh my goodness! The guy was a doppleganger! Woah! It's like, dopplegangland (very good Buffy episode, by the way -- evil!Willow is the shit). But I digress. And Jake 2.0 has absolutely nothing to do with Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I just like to make obscure references.
So Jake suspects something is off. He has Diane test the cigar that the supposed doppleganger guy was smoking for DNA. It matches the DNA of the supposed non-doppleganger. Jake decides to take the mission into his own hands.
In the meanwhile, evil Russian lady is trying to set of a "dirty bomb" (nuclear bomb mad non-professionally). And good God, but is it supposed to be part of the new American dialect that NOBODY on tv can pronounce nuclear correctly? This is seriously pissing me off. They even have the fucking scientists on tv shows saying nukyuler. Aaaaaaaagh! What the fuck is wrong with the television industry. I know this is an US tv show, but Canadians and Europeans are pointing at us and laughing at our stupidity. Fucking pronounce nuclear correctly for the love of all that is must-see!
*a-hem*
As I was saying. Jake rushes back to the apartment where they found the supposed doppleganger in the first place. The "real" secret agent man rushes in to apprehend the "impostor" and we find him pointing a gun at...nobody. Apparently he has multiple personality disorder. Apparently his work with the NSA really fucked with his mind. Poor bastard. Poor fucked up crazy bastard who can't pronounce nuclear correctly.
No, I'm not going to let this go any time soon. It pisses me off, goddamnit.
Anyway, Jake convinces him to get his shit together and stop talking crazy. Apparently even when he was all loose cannony he still had a coherent plan in mind that didn't involve betraying the US. The chick he was flirting with at the Russian bar? She knew how to build the bomb that the evil Russian chick wanted. He convinced her to trick the Russian lady and build a fake bomb. As a reward, he gave her that nice car he spent all his money on at the beginning of the episode. And everything worked out in the end.
Jake even got a commendation.
But Lou (Jake's boss) yelled at him for disobeying orders. Really, she's looking out for his best interests. Jake, on the other hand, is afraid that if it comes to him choosing between following his orders and following his gut instinct (when his gut instinct is what is going to save the day) he's going to turn out all crazy like secret agent man guy.
This is building folks. All the time. Future episode will bring this drama to fruition. As long as I get more of Jake shirtless, I'm all for arc elements and plot and the like. Good stuff, people. Good. Stuff.
It occurs to me that I won't be able to make icons for the next few weeks. All my icon making software is on my desktop PC and I can't take that with me when I go back to California for the holidays (my plane leaves today, in about 10 hours). That, and my dad won't let me download the needed programs on his computer.
Soooo...I'm spending tonight making icons rather than writing chapter 5. Don't worry, though -- I'm only postponing the writing for a day. So let me revise my previous statement and say that
daylight_shadow and amariel have permission to greviously injure me if I don't have ch. 5 in by 7am on Monday -- as opposed to three and a half hours from now. I plan on writing it all on the plane ride. After all, I won't have anything better to do.
