When social networks go bad vol. 2
Jul. 1st, 2011 08:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maryWtfbrain told me of a Lie To Me episode that was also TSN-based, and so I have some more picspam nonsense to now impart.
Remember how there was no Wardo on Criminal Intent? Well, Lie To Me makes up for it by having two. Oh, I'm sure this is going to end well for EVERYONE.
Wardo and Mark and Lady-Wardo.
Wardo had his shares diluted to basically nothing, so now he's suing Mark for five hundred million dollars. Lady-Wardo is Mark's best friend and still a part of the company.
Tim Roth plays a doctor dude who can read people's emotional states from their facial expressions and word choices and stuff. One of his associates is friends with Lady-Wardo, and Lady-Wardo asks Tim Roth to go check if Mark is a douchebag asshole who wants to throw BOTH Wardos out of the company or just the boy one.
Spoiler: Mark is a douchebag asshole.
Who smirks when he's screwing friends out of money.
Lady-Wardo is saddened by Mark's sudden but inevitable betrayal.
This is Lady-Wardo and Tim Roth's associate, who used to be Lady-Wardo's therapist when Lady-Wardo was a child. I should probably learn character names more often than I do when watching random episodes of shows not usually on my radar.
"From Buddies To Billionaires": A STORY THAT ALWAYS HAS A HAPPY ENDING.
Lady-Wardo :(
Tim Roth gets to pull Mark's earphones out when he's wired in, hee.
"I didn't kill her! I always look like a smug smirky asshole when my best friend gets stabbed."
It turns out that Wardo and Lady-Wardo were secret lovers.
These crime shows can tell that The Social Network is really a story of TRAGIC LOVE AFFAIRS AND BRUTAL STABBINGS.
Wardo discovers that Mark knew about Wardo and Lady-Wardo's affair. Tim Roth discovers that Mark was in love with Lady-Wardo and killed her because he couldn't have her.
TRAGIC LOVE AFFAIRS. BRUTAL STABBINGS.
Tim Roth tells an incarcerated Mark that he's going to make sure Mark goes to a mental hospital, so that he'll be given drugs that not only take away his freedom but also his brilliant mind.
Way to be a dick, Tim Roth.
In other news!
Newsarama has a list of Comics Deaths That Still Matter, and they mention Project Girl Wonder. They make it sound like Steph wasn't ever intended to be for-reals dead though, which um. We saw her autopsy, dudes. Lady was a ghost in Batgirl. That's not a fake-out death, that's a retcon.
Fact of the moment: I hope that some day I write a book which can, like this one, be advertised with the teaser "Can a sheltered faun and a grumpy werewolf scientist have a future together?". AMAZING. I'm totally going to buy that story just as soon as I have cut down my to-do list sufficiently to deserve it. So in about a thousand years then.
I shall try to add more old stories to AO3 today in my breaks, but there might not be a lot of those. I feel really useless lately -- I'm not writing Next Novel fast enough, I have no idea if New Novel will ever find a home with a publisher, I keep faffing about instead of getting my Etsy stores back online, the next edition of the journal at the day-job is running hugely behind schedule and destroying me with stress, my house is a mess, and just, ugh. I am a useless person.
Remember how there was no Wardo on Criminal Intent? Well, Lie To Me makes up for it by having two. Oh, I'm sure this is going to end well for EVERYONE.
Wardo and Mark and Lady-Wardo.
Wardo had his shares diluted to basically nothing, so now he's suing Mark for five hundred million dollars. Lady-Wardo is Mark's best friend and still a part of the company.
Tim Roth plays a doctor dude who can read people's emotional states from their facial expressions and word choices and stuff. One of his associates is friends with Lady-Wardo, and Lady-Wardo asks Tim Roth to go check if Mark is a douchebag asshole who wants to throw BOTH Wardos out of the company or just the boy one.
Spoiler: Mark is a douchebag asshole.
Who smirks when he's screwing friends out of money.
Lady-Wardo is saddened by Mark's sudden but inevitable betrayal.
This is Lady-Wardo and Tim Roth's associate, who used to be Lady-Wardo's therapist when Lady-Wardo was a child. I should probably learn character names more often than I do when watching random episodes of shows not usually on my radar.
"From Buddies To Billionaires": A STORY THAT ALWAYS HAS A HAPPY ENDING.
Lady-Wardo :(
Tim Roth gets to pull Mark's earphones out when he's wired in, hee.
"I didn't kill her! I always look like a smug smirky asshole when my best friend gets stabbed."
It turns out that Wardo and Lady-Wardo were secret lovers.
These crime shows can tell that The Social Network is really a story of TRAGIC LOVE AFFAIRS AND BRUTAL STABBINGS.
Wardo discovers that Mark knew about Wardo and Lady-Wardo's affair. Tim Roth discovers that Mark was in love with Lady-Wardo and killed her because he couldn't have her.
TRAGIC LOVE AFFAIRS. BRUTAL STABBINGS.
Tim Roth tells an incarcerated Mark that he's going to make sure Mark goes to a mental hospital, so that he'll be given drugs that not only take away his freedom but also his brilliant mind.
Way to be a dick, Tim Roth.
In other news!
Newsarama has a list of Comics Deaths That Still Matter, and they mention Project Girl Wonder. They make it sound like Steph wasn't ever intended to be for-reals dead though, which um. We saw her autopsy, dudes. Lady was a ghost in Batgirl. That's not a fake-out death, that's a retcon.
Fact of the moment: I hope that some day I write a book which can, like this one, be advertised with the teaser "Can a sheltered faun and a grumpy werewolf scientist have a future together?". AMAZING. I'm totally going to buy that story just as soon as I have cut down my to-do list sufficiently to deserve it. So in about a thousand years then.
I shall try to add more old stories to AO3 today in my breaks, but there might not be a lot of those. I feel really useless lately -- I'm not writing Next Novel fast enough, I have no idea if New Novel will ever find a home with a publisher, I keep faffing about instead of getting my Etsy stores back online, the next edition of the journal at the day-job is running hugely behind schedule and destroying me with stress, my house is a mess, and just, ugh. I am a useless person.
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Date: 2011-06-30 11:38 pm (UTC)the title's not inspiring, but that summary has me all eager to read the story - chances of crack? Very High. but I like crack, so it's definitely going on my "to buy soonish" list! thanks so much for pointing it out.
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Date: 2011-07-01 02:46 am (UTC)I don't know if it will help to hear I know what you're talking about:
I am trying to motivate myself to decide whether or not a Zazzle store for the blog is worth it, and not editing the novel while I try to find a new job. *wibbles* Let's just say it's not going well.