Best time-waster *ever*!

Does anyone out there remember 'Lemmings'? As in the original game? I spent forever playing it when I was younger, and when at home my dad showed me that you can play it online!!! There's only 10 games on each level (I seem to remember there being 40 originally), but even so I've been wallowing in the nostalgia big time! It's so straight forward and yet so complex. And you have to think and work stuff out, and try again and again - but when it works it's *so* pleasing! And of course it's so pretty! *happy sigh*

Anyway here it is: Lemmings.

Go. Play. Enjoy!

Trust me, there is nothing out there more enjoyable. :)

Will be back later with thoughts on 'Amends', and also attempt to catch up on comments. *runs off*

Best time-waster *ever*!

Does anyone out there remember 'Lemmings'? As in the original game? I spent forever playing it when I was younger, and when at home my dad showed me that you can play it online!!! There's only 10 games on each level (I seem to remember there being 40 originally), but even so I've been wallowing in the nostalgia big time! It's so straight forward and yet so complex. And you have to think and work stuff out, and try again and again - but when it works it's *so* pleasing! And of course it's so pretty! *happy sigh*

Anyway here it is: Lemmings.

Go. Play. Enjoy!

Trust me, there is nothing out there more enjoyable. :)

Will be back later with thoughts on 'Amends', and also attempt to catch up on comments. *runs off*

Thoughts about 'Amends'.

Firstly, just to get it out of the way - Frivolous Thoughts:

- Buffy really doesn't look great this season. It's all pastel colours, unflattering trousers and skirts and a whole regiment of cardigans. Not to mention the hair. It's not that she's ugly or anything, she's just so... twee. I guess it's to set her apart from Faith, but still - I keep expecting her to bake apple pies or something. She just looks so *wholesome*. (Or as Darcy put it last night: She looks like an '80s TV presenter.)

- Watching with Darcy is... entertaining. He finds Angel pathetic and B/A utterly mock worthy. F.ex.

Angel: "Am I a righteous man? The world wants me gone!"
Buffy: "What about me? I love you so much..."
Darcy (deadpan): "*I* want you gone!"

************


OK, onto the 'clever' bit:

Settling down to watch this last night, I thought something like "Yay. Bangel cheesefest, let the fun commence!"

But as the episode started (Dublin, 1838) something dawned on me: I wasn't watching Buffy - I was watching Angel. Literally - Amends isn't a BtVS episode, it's an AtS one. AtS of course didn't exist yet, but I think this is Joss trying out the format, seeing how well it works to have Angel as the main character.
( Realised that I wrote rather more than I intended. So I thought a cut would be polite. )

Anyway, I have tons to do, so I'll leave you with this. I hope that was interesting. (*is totally too addicted for own good*)

ETA: Something just occurred to me. Buffy is Angel's weakness. (And vice versa) Their love can be used as a tool of destruction.

This is the exact opposite to Spike/Buffy: They're each other's strength. They can rely on each other, and their love acts as support.

This is all terribly obvious I know. But it just struck me.

Thoughts about 'Amends'.

Firstly, just to get it out of the way - Frivolous Thoughts:

- Buffy really doesn't look great this season. It's all pastel colours, unflattering trousers and skirts and a whole regiment of cardigans. Not to mention the hair. It's not that she's ugly or anything, she's just so... twee. I guess it's to set her apart from Faith, but still - I keep expecting her to bake apple pies or something. She just looks so *wholesome*. (Or as Darcy put it last night: She looks like an '80s TV presenter.)

- Watching with Darcy is... entertaining. He finds Angel pathetic and B/A utterly mock worthy. F.ex.

Angel: "Am I a righteous man? The world wants me gone!"
Buffy: "What about me? I love you so much..."
Darcy (deadpan): "*I* want you gone!"

************


OK, onto the 'clever' bit:

Settling down to watch this last night, I thought something like "Yay. Bangel cheesefest, let the fun commence!"

But as the episode started (Dublin, 1838) something dawned on me: I wasn't watching Buffy - I was watching Angel. Literally - Amends isn't a BtVS episode, it's an AtS one. AtS of course didn't exist yet, but I think this is Joss trying out the format, seeing how well it works to have Angel as the main character.
( Realised that I wrote rather more than I intended. So I thought a cut would be polite. )

Anyway, I have tons to do, so I'll leave you with this. I hope that was interesting. (*is totally too addicted for own good*)

ETA: Something just occurred to me. Buffy is Angel's weakness. (And vice versa) Their love can be used as a tool of destruction.

This is the exact opposite to Spike/Buffy: They're each other's strength. They can rely on each other, and their love acts as support.

This is all terribly obvious I know. But it just struck me.