Fling Your Nostalgia At Me Please?

[sophieisgod]

This series of Skins is really on a roll now, y/y? I thought this was a really lovely episode, and it really consolidated my love for JJ and Emily in particular. Seriously, EMILY! She got awesome really quickly; I greatly approve of her "want me back" bravery and quest for honesty. And I really liked the JJ/Effy scene; it felt like an acknowledgement of the "everyone loves Effy!" curse that's plagued this season, and there was a nice balance between her liking that because it gets her shit, and her despising that and despising everyone else because of it, because nobody really knows her at all.

Freddie is a tosser. I'm really sad that Cook/Pandora was not a lovely one-time thing. I love that Cook has Chris' old room. LOVE all the Debussy. And I thought the last shot of the episode was lovely; the whole episode we've heard how JJ wants to be 'normal' for his mum, and then she finally gets to see him being adorable with Emily, and the tears! MEEP.

I finally got around to watching Vicky Cristina Barcelona, and there's no point cutting my reaction because it goes like this: MY ALL-TIME NUMBER ONE FOREVER GIRL CRUSH REBECCA HALL, YOU ARE DIVINE. JAVIER BARDEM, YOU ARE HOT LIKE BURNING (the girl only knew him from No Country For Old Men and had to be convinced re: his hotness. JOB DONE). PENELOPE CRUZ, HOW SO FIERCE? SCARLETT JOHANNSON... NICE HAIR. Also, I really badly want to go back to Barcelona.

I'm still ploughing through my Empire Records fic for reel_merlin, and it would be great if you guys could fill out this poll so I've got a few extra bits of nineties nostalgia in my arsenal, just for ~flavour~ and shit.

[Poll #1361002]

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[sophieisgod.livejournal.com]

See, I love love loved the Love Lockdown scene, but I loved them as a one-time-only thing of beauty, if that makes sense? I DON'T WANT THOMAS TO BE HEARTBROKEN. Buuuut I am totally on the same page as you re:shipping Effy/Sid that one time. OH SHOW.