Venice, Season 3 Finale Recap!

Venice, Season 3 Finale Recap

Well one thing you can't say is that Season 3 went out with a whimper. There were so many "bangs" (not the sexy kind) and cliffhangers in this episode. My phrase of the day was certainly "holy shit!" What I loved the most was the one thing that I didn't see coming at all. Sometimes the things that happen that way irritate me more than delight me because they seem jarring or like they don't make sense in the context of the rest of the season. This revelation was totally different. It actually made the previous episodes make even more sense. So yeah, I'm a fan.

I'm also a fan of good characters - and by that I don't mean their moral character, but how well drawn they are. And these characters are very well drawn. They breathe and live and hang on the edge of vulnerability and heartache. They make decisions and then try to sort blindly through the messy complications. It's life. With an extra shot of crazy. What's not to love? 

On a personal note, I hope y'all enjoyed this season as much as I did. Recapping these episodes this season - and the last one - was a hell of a lot of fun to do and I'm very proud and happy to have had the opportunity to do and do it right with the ladies I got to work with. 

I need a new hair style. In the metaphorical sense.

I need a change - as in the banner on my LJ's gotta go. I contemplated being graphic free, but let's face it. Pictures are nice and hot women are hot. 

I haven't been in NCIS fandom for a while really. As much as I still love Ziva David (and think she's smokin' hot!), it's just time for a change. I'm not sure what I want that change to be yet. As wonderful as Otalia and Guiding Light is my interest and enthusiasm for that as a fandom has been waning for a while now. No one freak out; I still have a few stories left in me. My point is I'm not really sure I want to start something new that's definitely not new for me. And then there's the part where I've never been able to find a Otalia banner that I was really in love with. Maybe if there'd been a kiss... /snark 

Sorry that felt obligatory. And let's just say that whatever photoshop skilz I might have had at one time are now long gone from neglect and disuse. They weren't that awesome to begin with. 

So there's that. I'm tempted to use the new Perfect Blood Rachel Morgan banner for it, but as awesome as that is...the person that they have as Rachel Morgan doesn't really fit my mental Rachel image. I mean, that's just my take. And Ivy's always been more my draw anyway. Besides, Hollows represents a source of perpetual fandom frustration in my life. The only reason I'm still in that fandom marginally is that I'm convinced that Rachel and Ivy will hook up in the last sentence of the last paragraph of the last book. I was convinced that Otalia would kiss too. 

My point is that putting the personification of perpetual frustration up for the main image of my LJ just doesn't seem like the way I want to virtually represent myself. 

So...suggestions, questions, comments? I'll take them all. I admit I'm not really looking for a new fandom at the moment. School is still kicking my ass and free time is something that is pretty much non-existent for me right now.