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I love that you're writing reviews of DA. It's such an underrated show.

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Cheers. :-) I've always loved it, since it first aired. I mean...yes, season two has a lot wrong with it. But it also has a lot right with it, and the final third of the season is absolutely awesome. Still regret that it was cancelled just when the potential for an amazing third season was so strong. I've wanted to write recaps since I first got my DVDs, but haven't let myself until now...

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I prefer the second season, actually. For Alec, yeah, but also because the first season was way too angst-ridden and emo for my tastes. At least in the second season there's a REASON for Max and Logan to kinda avoid each other. In the first season it's just dumb.

Also, I wanna see Alec go into heat. That'd be hot.

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Season two is my favourite as well, but that's mostly because of Alec and always was. The main problem I have with it is the retcon of the nomalies and their continuing use as random and often too-far-fetched monsters-of-the-week. When what I wanted to see more of was the integration of the x-series transgenics into society, which we got more of at the end of the season. The emphasis was on wacky monsters, rather than deepening the characters and their world. But the character work that is in there is fabulous. I find Max and Logan's eternal dance around one another a little tedious, but the continuity of it is generally spot-on, and their motivations always understandable. And I adore the dynamic of Max's relationship with Alec, from being on opposite sides to becoming grudging allies, then moving on to be reluctant friends, to genuine friends, to family. They have the most forward-moving dynamic of any relationship on the show. I love that by the end of the season the two of them plus Joshua have so definitely become a unit, us against the world, with the net closing in, and wish that the show had emphasised that side of their situation more, earlier.

At least that's how I tend to feel when viewing the season as a whole. Whether that opinion will remain as I recap the episodes one by one is another matter entirely. The only ep from season two that I won't be recapping is Boo, the stupid Halloween episode that's all a dream. It's the only ep I refuse to watch again!

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Yeah. Those nomalies were a bit too much for me. The cat one and the one who had an iguana for a lover. Me no like.

My favorite episode is either the very Alec-centric Berrisford Agenda, or Fuhggedaboutit(if I'm spelling that right). I loved whatsername, the one who was in psy-ops. She makes me smile.

And It's mostly the tediousness of the relationship that made me a bit less sympathetic to Max and Logan. I mean, that's not a good thing to say, really, but it's true. It just bores me. I have all of the episodes on my computer, and I generally just skip over the parts when it's all about them. And I really love it when Max tells Alec to shut up.

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Hmm. One of my main goals when recapping is to try and rationalise everything that happens according to the internal logic of the show itself. Sometimes I have to stretch further for that than at other times...

But part of that means trying to understand the motivations of each character, whether I agree with them or not. So I shall have to be fair to Max and Logan even when I'm finding them their most frustrating! It's very tempting to just skip all the episodes that Alec isn't in, which I have while capping so far, but I'll see how I go with that. *G*

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I get that. At least you can just recap it, and then watch it how you want when you aren't. Sounds good.

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YAY, you did it! Fabulous. ♥ Love the little banners you added within the review .. now I feel the sudden urge to rewatch DA .. wonder why! *g*

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Well, you need something to do with hiatus, don't you...? *G*

That's a gorgeous icon. :)

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Hey! This was posted before I started chatting your ear off!

The thing I remember most about this episode is that you could tell right off the bat Alec was special. He wasn't just another soldier.

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Aww. I kind of like you chatting my ear off.

Alec definitely stood out right from the start. I tend to think it was the Berresford Agenda that did that, really - opened his eyes to the fact that there was a lot more out there than Manticore liked their soldiers to know or experience. But he never seems to have seen escape as an option; just works the system from the inside. He's also definitely a nonconformist by nature, and that experience was what brought it out.

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I enjoy chatting your ear off. :D (Although I do feel bad for carrying on 2 conversations at once, I didn't mean to, honestly.)

I have to admit, my favorite moment is totally the scene(s) in Max's cell. I love how she decides his name - thank god she did a better job than usual - and how he's all cocky and "YOU COULD HAVE DISEASES!!!"

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Yes. We need look no further than Bugle and Fixit to realise how lightly Alec got off...

Alec is intriguing in that opening scene because it is so impossible to distinguish how much of his attitude is his own and how much is an act because he's under orders.

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All Manticore had to do was go around asking people their names! "Fixit."

I always liked that he didn't kill Logan though - because I imagine he was kind of supposed to, if worse came to worse and he couldn't get Max.

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You'd have to assume so, since taking out Eyes Only was the whole point of the mission. And you just know he could have disarmed Asha without breaking sweat. But he already knew that Manticore was going down, which kind of released him from those orders, and he just isn't a cold-blooded killer. We see that time and again on the show. He'll kill if he has to, but not otherwise. Despite Max's low opinion of him. And I love that about him.

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