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Whee all warm and tingly from another hour at the gym! Which had seven screens of football and one of The Office. Blehhhh. OTOH, what I saw of The Office was less offensive to me than the episode of Big Bang Theory I watched last night at the gym. My sister-in-law loves BBT, though, so there must be something to it. Maybe I just got a bad episode?

While coming down from the endorphins (my limbs feel all loose and clumsy at the moment so I want to wait a bit before going to deadhead the very thorny rosebushes), I've cracked open Transformers: Exiles. By the same author (Alex Irvine) as Transformers: Exodus. Which I didn't give a good review to. But I collect Transformers novels, so I bought it.

Oh my Primus, has Irvine actually learned how to do characterization?! If what I've read so far (29 pages) holds true for the rest of the book, this is going to be a very happy read.

TF:P 14-16/26

Since many people on my flist have squeed at me about the end of the season, and I've gotten a bit spoiled by a few fics I've read, I sat down and started watching my stockpiled episodes this evening while Wonderful Husband continued playing through Portal 2.

"Out of His Head"... went pretty much as I expected, given where "A Sick Mind" ended.

"Shadowzone," OTOH, I loved. So much snark. So much technobabble. Between "Masters and Students" and this, Ratchet truly has the makings of a great mad scientist! Just as well, since Wheeljack is apparently off being Drift in this series. There was also a mention of "crossing the streams" which made me snerk, even though Agent Fowler (Ernie Hudson) wasn't in this episode. Was this, by any chance, the episode the cast read at BotCon? Then there was the moment of a certain zombie'Con's hand turning into Thing from the Addams Family, and Starscream being a lousy patient.... Lovelovelove. Had to pause for laughing when Knockout suggested he upgrade to nullray weapons. Kind of feel a bit sorry for the aforementioned zombie'Con going around in circles for eternity out of phase. Though the (failed) attempt to jam the (wrong) arm back on ala Starscream in RotF made me giggle some more....

And "Operation: Breakdown"... wow. Graphic, unrepentant torture going on there. This is so not a show for kids. This may, in fact, be the first Transformers series made for adults.

Then I looked at the next-episode summary and realized it was an Airachnid episode, and thought to myself "Self, that episode can wait a little bit." (See: my extreme dislike of that particular spiderbot.) And came to see how Wonderful Husband is getting on with his potato and the idiot.