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rewatching due South + unrelated poetry
Feb. 8th, 2012 01:52 pmI feel like I am spamming you all with posts, but hey, I'm home trying to get rid of my cold and just getting to that restless stage where I know I'm not supposed to go out and do things just yet.
So! I am rewatching due South and am up to episode 8, season 1. There are actually a lot of episodes that I have only watched once, because I'm more of a reader than a watcher. But anyway, canon fills me with love, and I am noticing little things, like the bit where Fraser is snarking at Dief and says "I only started talking to you on the ice floe out of sheer boredom. Now you've got an opinion on virtually everything." So is that the ice floe where Dief got his eardrums ruptured? Huh, there's a story in there somewhere. Also, that bit in "Chinatown" where they play Loreena McKennitt singing "Prospero's Speech" while the shop-owner walks to the mafia boss' office? Wow, that is so powerful. Probably partly because I've always loved that song/speech, but still.
Mostly I am full of love for Fraser, though. (And also lust--wow, that man is beautiful. This is not news, I know.)
Okay, so, have some random poetry! These are actually the lyrics of a song called "Till Elias" (=To Elias), written by Ronny Eriksson in the Swedish band Euskefeurat, but I translated them into English. They always put tears in my eyes--I think it's the juxtaposition of Elias' life with far-away world events in the first part of the 20th century. And there's so much ambiguity in it, too. Elias is a Swedish version of Elijah, by the way.
( To Elias )
So! I am rewatching due South and am up to episode 8, season 1. There are actually a lot of episodes that I have only watched once, because I'm more of a reader than a watcher. But anyway, canon fills me with love, and I am noticing little things, like the bit where Fraser is snarking at Dief and says "I only started talking to you on the ice floe out of sheer boredom. Now you've got an opinion on virtually everything." So is that the ice floe where Dief got his eardrums ruptured? Huh, there's a story in there somewhere. Also, that bit in "Chinatown" where they play Loreena McKennitt singing "Prospero's Speech" while the shop-owner walks to the mafia boss' office? Wow, that is so powerful. Probably partly because I've always loved that song/speech, but still.
Mostly I am full of love for Fraser, though. (And also lust--wow, that man is beautiful. This is not news, I know.)
Okay, so, have some random poetry! These are actually the lyrics of a song called "Till Elias" (=To Elias), written by Ronny Eriksson in the Swedish band Euskefeurat, but I translated them into English. They always put tears in my eyes--I think it's the juxtaposition of Elias' life with far-away world events in the first part of the 20th century. And there's so much ambiguity in it, too. Elias is a Swedish version of Elijah, by the way.
( To Elias )
