Watched: Felicity, Miscellania

People actually liked this show?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?/????????!!!!?????

After watching a little over three seasons with my sister-in-law and brother, I have to say, I think this show is 92% garbage. The other 8% is composed entirely of Javier, Megan's bitchy comebacks, and the, like, 3 times in four years worth of television that they let Scott Speedman do something other than mope, sulk, menace, or wallow. It did breed this wonderful gchat conversation with my brother, however. You may not fully grasp the hilarity of this (for me) unless you've suffered through the show in one prolonged viewing, as I have. In which case you understand that one verbal crutch that the writers of Felicity use beyond the point of cliche and into self-parody is characters asking each other permission to talk, when what they really want is permission to speak at that character, unchecked, while they unburden whatever that episode's maudlin revelation is. It becomes at first funny, then annoying, then enraging, and then funny again. And that's just per episode. That being said, here is the conversation I recently had with Ben:

Emily: hey
can i talk to you for a second?

Ben: yeah
fire away

Emily: i just want to talk
do you have a minute?

Ben: yeah
about 30

Emily: can we go somewhere and just talk?

Ben: then I gotta catch my train
hey
I see
what you'redoing
here
goddamnit
I fell right into your trap

Emily: i am laughing so hard
i am crying
oh my god
that was so great
i have never been prouder of myself

Ben: I
I have nothing
no reason left
to live

Emily: hahaha
it's okay
felicity gets the better of all of us, in the end

If you don't understand the humor of this, thank your lucky stars. You've been left unscathed by the horror that is this show's writing.

In other news, I'm back early from Chile. It's a long story. It's sort of boring and sad, but ultimately okay. At some point I will post the last of my pictures from Lago Ranco, Valdivia, and Bariloche (Argentina). But that's about all I have to say about my time there. At least for now.