The Post Where Me and Bo Duke... We Part Ways: The Irreconcilable Difference

I have way too many things going on in my head right now and a limited amount of time to post it all in and then I have to worry about potential spoilers and while I normally would not think that Gilmore Girls talk would be a spoiler, I know heres_luck is watching and I don't know what season she is up to and talking about the current storyline could potentially really mess up her viewing experience so I won't without a cut-tag and sdwolfpup is just up to "Die Me Dichotomy" in Farscape and NO ONE BETTER SPOIL HER, 'KAY?! And then any talk about what the hell is going on with Lex needs a cut tag cause it is speculating off current SV season stuff and all of this has caused me to realize two things:

1. I really really hate cut tags.

2. Someone needs to write House/Wilson comfort fic RIGHT NOW BEFORE I EXPLODE!

So instead of talking about any of the above or about the need to have B-side fannish programming (I need recovery shows, dammit!) and the danger of what happens when you need a recovery show to recover from your recovery show (see Gilmore Girls, above), I will instead hold forth something that has been bothering me about last night's Smallville "Krypto" and Ma and Pa Kent.

Now - I am willing to overlook any number of mistakes that the Kents make raising Clark because:
A. I have never raised a super-powered alien child. I imagine it must be rough. And
2. They do seem to mean well and Martha is pretty and Jonathan is Bo Duke and they could stand there and order Clark to drown kittens and I would still probably try to defend them. Somehow. Maybe the kittens need to learn to swim? Sigh.

But there is one thing that Bo Duke has done that I can never ever forgive and I just...I didn't think it would ever come to this, y'know? My love for Bo Duke is strong and true and pure and has been in effect for over 25 years. But this... I don't know that I can get past it.

Spoilers for Smallville "Krypto"( Read more... )

Anndddd Here is the Post Where I Forgive Bo Duke. Sigh.

OMG! Do you think the reason that Jonathan Kent hates dogs so much is because of something that Hiram did? Do you think that maybe when Jonathan was a boy he had a dog - a husky/shepherd mix and he called that dog Reba and one day Hiram came in all upset and told Jonathan that Reba had killed a calf and they were gonna have to put her down and then Hiram grabbed his shotgun off the wall and Jonathan just sat there and watched him walk out of the house and he was kinda frozen there on the floor.

And then Jonathan went outside cause he knew what the calf meant to his father and he knew what that calf meant to the farm and he knew what the farm meant to his family and he knew what it meant if Reba had taken to killing calves and he knew what it meant that Reba was his responsibility and was his and so he stopped his father and took the shotgun out of his hands and then he did what he had to do.

And he never would own another dog after that.

Later Hiram might have found out that it wasn't Reba that killed that calf - it was a marauder. If he'd paid more attention to the corpse, he'd have noticed the slaughter was done with a knife, but he just had to jump to conclusions and he'd noticed Reba out running near the cattle earlier. He'd warned Jonathan about what was to happen if he ever saw her chasing the cattle. He'd warned him.

And Hiram would always feel bad about this.

OH! Oh Bo! I forgive you! You don't have to love another dog, I understand.

::cries::

Not that this is loosely based on a true story, or anything. I'm just sitting here trying to figure out what Bo has against dogs, cause it just ain't natural for a farmer to not have a dog.

Am I Gonna Die?

So yesterday at the market, jumbo sea scallops were on special and so I bought about 5 of them and I sauteed them tonight and served them with roasted eggplant and onions stir-fried with a black bean sauce. And it wasn't bad but I only ate about three scallops because I got distracted by the wine (the wine was goooodddd) and the vividcon talk.

And I didn't want to waste the scallops cause they are scallops. And Sid is a New Orleans dog. He will eat crawfish whole if you don't watch him.

So I put the scallops in his dish.

Just now I got up to double-check the kitchen door locks and the scallops are still there. Sid has licked them to get the sauce off of em - but he didn't eat them.

My dog won't even eat my cooking.

Now I am wondering if there is any kinda disease one gets from bad scallops and if I should worry that my throat feels rough (my allergies *are* kicking in and have been all day) or if I will go to sleep and slip into some kinda shock and never wake up and I *knew* I had no business watching House.

Can you get a tapeworm from scallops?