My co-workers are trying to break me.

[apocalypsos]

I have a funny feeling that tonight at work, I'm going to be saying, "Dude, it's a joke," out of total frustration in relation to the two people I'm training. The girl who works on the same machine with me told one of them that she really liked him so she wouldn't try to get him fired, and the other trainee told me that she was going to go quit because of it and tell the boss why. Dude, KIDDING. Hello?

I signed up for two days of overtime this week immediately following my shift, making it a six-day, twelve-hour-a-day work week. Kill me now. (I want the money for my trip, but I seriously hope they call off at least one of my days of overtime, because holy crap, my weekend. *whimpers*)

Hey, guess what I watched?

Still not giving a damn who the hell Meredith hooks up with.

Actually, I take that back. Let her and Derek run off together. I don't want her tainting McVet, and it frees up Addison to have very-VERY-bad-idea sex with Alex.

Aw, Izzie. Just lying there the entire episode on the floor like that, and the way Cristina kind of backed off when she was describing sitting shiva and mentioned no clean clothes, and those flashbacks of her all pretty and pink and happy. Although, all it did was make me want AU happy-ending-with-Denny fic in the WORST way, which was what I'd thought was what I'd wanted before but was apparently a couple of steps past that.

Derek giving George that look when he didn't return Callie's "I love you" made me want to punch him, even if he didn't know the whole story. Dude, he told Callie a day ago in show-time that he needed more time before he could say the words. Twenty-four hours is not nearly enough, attack of the plague or not. I have faith in him.

And the capper:

"Don't ever die."
"I'll do my best."

Oh, you guys. Cristina and Burke are trying to KILL ME INSTEAD. *sobs*

And also ...

Meh.

Okay, look, it's more of a personal problem than anything else, although the aw-shucks small town stuff is getting to me because it feels like something written by someone who's never been a small town. I like my apocalypses bloody and tragic, even more so than a few shot deputies and a lunchbox tracheotomy, and I like my nuclear apocalypses up close and personal. I'm going to be much happier when people start getting radiation poisoning, if they ever do considering they might try to go all Lost on us and have it be something else entirely, and when they start dropping like flies. Yes, I'm a sick bastard, but "Look, I can see a mushroom cloud on the horizon!" is a bit too far outside the action for my tastes. Not that it'll make me stop watching, because I'll take a bad apocalypse over none at all, but still.

Depending when they're timing this sucker, I have less faith they were nuking Denver and more faith they were trying to hit NORAD.

Something about the Atlanta tape sounds suspicious to me, though, if it's supposed to be a nuclear attack.

I want to sit down and really get into working on the Books of Boggs, but I can't right now. Stupid six-day work week. *headsmack*

Comments

[foenix.livejournal.com]

Jericho seemed awfully laid back for a holocaust.

"Well, gosh, there's some mushroom clouds, let's all panic for twenty minutes until there's an inspiring speech, then wander on home!"

[topaz08.livejournal.com]

LOL at your 'Jericho' comments. NORAD=target Denver=big traffic jam

[witchofthedogs.livejournal.com]

Good luck at work.

And damn, I total forgot about watching Jericho.

*sigh*

[alchemise]

Another apocalypse junkie here, just spreading the news that they're showing the premiere again, tonight (saturday) at 8pm. :)

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

I am totally hoping for Addison/Alex "I really don't like you"/"That's okay, I don't like you much either" sex...

[wenchamok.livejournal.com]

Not that "Jericho" looked much like Kansas to begin with. OK, yes, flat open spaces. But that was still *WAY* too hilly. And you. Can. Not. See. Mountains. In. Kansas. Period. Denver is not visible from Kansas either, nor is Colorado Springs (NORAD).

That being said, yeah, that's small-town Kansas all right....

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

It's probably shot in Canada, like Smallville is. Catch Hollywood filming in middle-America? *eyeroll* Yeah, right.

[wenchamok.livejournal.com]

Other shows at least make an effort. The scenes in Lawrence in "Supernatural" look like Lawrence (hell, the Winchester house looked like the block I used to live on, no less!). At least "Jericho" sort of gets it right (unlike "X-Files" which had a mountain where there most definitely is not a mountain in Kansas.....and there's not one any closer than eight hours away).

[drewbeartx.livejournal.com]

The TWoP boards have pointed out that the writers never said that is WAS Denver that they saw, only that Mayor Dad thinks it might have been Denver. Several people who live in Kansas pointed out that there are tons of missile silos scattered throughout the state, so it could've been one of those that got hit.

As for the Atlanta tape, the only part that sounded fake to me (and this is just a continuity error, I think) is that there's static at the end. On every answering machine I've ever had or used, when the line is disconnected, it stops recording almost immediately so as NOT to fill the tape with dialtone.

And finally, the writers/producers have explicitly stated that yes, it really is a nuclear attack that took out the US, so I doubt that they'll fake us out later and say "oops! it was really a government test on small town reactions!"

[budclare.livejournal.com]

We must have the crappiest answering machine ever, because that mofo tapes anything. I think we've even gotten some kind of alien communication a couple of times.

[rose-in-texas.livejournal.com]

Yes! Yes! Addison/Alex 4EVA. I'm on board the wrongwrongwrongway ship!

[mcee.livejournal.com]

tell me more about this happy denny ending of yours.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Dude, anything. Weddings and bad vacations and good vacations and Izzie driven nuts because Denny's a slob and Denny driven nuts when Izzie's a spazz and neither of them caring because the sex is fabulous and BABIES because Jeffrey Dean Morgan holding an infant is fucking HOT and ... and ...

*breaks brain*

I think I need Izzie to have some dreams on the show about what it would have been like if Denny had lived. Those are some dream sequences I would savor. *nods enthusiastically*

[squee1123.livejournal.com]

I just finished watching Jericho. I missed the first half hour but! You know. I kinda really like Jake. Just because he's so obviously the hero of the show.

AND Bailey in Grey's? Her identifying Denny and talking to Omar. TEARS. WEEPING. I love her.

[wtfbrain.livejournal.com]

I'm still pissed off about CTV up here in Canada screwing up and airing the WRONG EPISODE. Someone didn't get the note about the switch, and they aired the second episode instead of the first. So I've been reading reactions and going "what? when did that happen?"

As for the apocalypse, The Day After *points to icon* did it so much better. I'll probably keep watching, but I'm not holding my breath for anything high quality.