Lindholm, Megan - Luck of the Wheels

Ki and Vandien take what looks like an easy job: transporting a 14-year-old boy named Goat to his uncle for his apprenticeship. Unfortunately, there's a good reason why everyone wanted to get rid of Goat, and then another passenger shows up, and then there's politics...

I think my favorite of the Ki and Vandien books is still Harpy's Flight, but this one's second. It's got my favorite Ki and Vandien moments in the series; it's just my extreme hatred of Goat for most of the book made it very difficult to read. Seriously. I wanted to strangle him at the very least.

( Spoilers! )

Gundam Wing, ep. 41-49

Oh no! I forgot to recap disc 9 after we watched it, and have thus forgotten completely what happened!

I do, however, remember that there was no random produce. I am sad. I miss the bok choy of DOOM, no matter how inconsequential its appearance in the GWing-verse.

rachelmanija's entries for these discs are here and here.

I am not even going to try to do a plot summary, since, as mentioned, I can't remember anything and anyway, even if I could, it would be too complicated!

Let's just say that the series makes the least sense it ever did in the last few episodes, and that is really saying something. Also, I really don't think it's bad subtitles (though they don't help), just because everyone is saying roughly what I think they said when I watched it with Chinese subtitles. I think it is just that a large number of people go batshit insane in a less explode-y, more frothing rhetoric type way.

The really sad thing is that I still can't make heads or tails of what happens, and this is after watching the entire series about 4 or 5 times and having dedicated years of my life to analyzing the politics and double-crossing so I could write it up on my now defunct website.

( Spoilers go insane! )

In conclusion: stark raving mad.

Heroes 2x09 Cautionary Tales

OMG. It is so fitting that my local news is now advertising a story: "Not your average blonde woman: the peculiar effects that blondes have on men." (quote taken verbatim, thanks to the joys of Tivo)

( SPOILERS HAVE MASSIVE RAGE )