What's all this decent network telly business?

[hackthis_archive]

Dear Southland,


You made Bull Randleman gay?!!

FOR THE MOTHERFUCKING WIN! *high five*

Seriously, when I saw Bull in the bar, in his tight black tee shirt (nice guns, Michael Cudlitz!), drinking that piss, err Corona, and the second I saw Crusing!Man next to him, something pinged about what I'd heard about the series and my brain was like, "Oh, sweet baby Jesus, Bull is gay. They went there. WOW."

Show, please do not be leaving like Kings, which was supposed to be in your time slot, but you are clearly for the investment.

Also, Ryan, err, Ben, um, so Ben Mckenzie, is it just weird to share your first name with your character? Oh, who cares, you haven't aged a fucking day, and that line about Ferrari guy getting your lawyer dad to get him off? PRICELESS! *high five Southland writers*

Double high five for Ben taking a Black Studies class!

Triple high five for Regina King (227 in the house!)!

And some other stuff happened, but I couldn't tell you what, because Bull, Ben and Regina for the WIN! Real acting hooray! *\o/*

I swear I am not thinking of the story where Ryan and Seth had a horrible messy break up -- Seth always was a selfish wanker -- and so Ryan left and joined the LAPD and then he gets partnered with Bull and there is stupidly hot, filthy sex in the back of the squad car.

Okay, I lied. I NEED THAT STORY.

<3,
X

Seriously, people, watch this show!

Comments

[suaine.livejournal.com]

Southland, eh? Maybe I should check it out :)

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Two shows I like in one week! (The Unusuals and Southland) it must be the apocalypse! *straps on helmet*

[anywherebeyond.livejournal.com]

I watched this! It was good!

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Two shows I like in one week! (The Unusuals and Southland) it must be the apocalypse! *straps on helmet* Actually, I really do need an icon of a helmet and a crop. What? It's multipurpose!

[ladyjestyr.livejournal.com]

I've heard of Southland, but I can't think what/where/how. Elevator pitch? :)

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Southland (http://www.nbc.com/southland/)
NBC. Cop show. With a brain. Nothing like Law and Order. All on the street. With bad language. And dry fucked up humor. Well, as saucy as it gets on network telly. Bull Randleman from Band of Brothers. Ryan Atwood from The OC. Regina King from Ray and 227. Compelling. Engaging. And more intelligent than you'd think.

[zoniduck.livejournal.com]

I SO TOTALLY AGREE! I can't even tell you how glad I am that I watched this last night and not Harper's Island, because I heard that sucked out loud.

Regina King was fucking awesome. How amazing was she in that last scene in her mother's kitchen?

And I am positively gleeful that they made Cooper gay. I thought there was something in that exchange with the two vice cops and the guy they arrested in the park, but I couldn't quite figure out what it was. When the guy sat down next to Cooper in the bar, I was like OH SHIT THAT'S AWESOME!

I can't wait to see more next week. I hope many, many people jump on this, because the fic potential is pretty amazing.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

I'd not even heard of Harper's Island, the name alone sounds dreadful. And seriously, wasn't Regina King on fiyah! When she hit in the head, that shocked me so badly I yelped.

And Cooper/Bull is just so the very last guy you'd expect to be gay, it's perfect. Really and truly. It took me a minute, when I was watching the scene and then Cruising!Guy sat down and Coop was making like 'conversation' with him, and then I realized there were no girls at the bar and I was like HE WAS PICKING HIM UP!

I think we have a winner.

I want to write the Ben was Ryan and now he's with Bull/Coop story. Another Cooper, man, that could be some wild TV.

[svilleficrecs.livejournal.com]

Yayyyyy!! Yes! That! All that!

(and dude, I don't know if you saw, but the subtle reveal was too subtle for more than a few people on my flist, who missed it)

BUT THEY MADE BULL GAY! YAYY!!!

That made me so happy. :) As did the rest of the episode.

And while I don't ship Ben/Bull quite yet, I am sure that given another episode or two I will be SO DOWN with writing filthy squad car sex... or maybe somewhere that doesn't give them a staph infection.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

(and dude, I don't know if you saw, but the subtle reveal was too subtle for more than a few people on my flist, who missed it)


They missed it? How could you miss it?! Like all the signs where there, tight shirt, Cruising!Man, conversation with a bloody perp, a bar full of men that aren't watching sports and without even a female waitress?! Dude, the only thing lacking was a rainbow flag!

Whatever, I love Michael Cudlitz and I cannot *wait* to see what they do with this. As for the Ben/Bull, I spent the entire night staring at Ben Mckenzie's hair and how soft it looks and all I could think was 'must touch' -- I know I can't be the only one.

I am totally willing to write it, sign me up.

Icons. I needs them.

[oh-mcgee.livejournal.com]

Ahhh Bull is gay?! Srsly? I missed like, the MIDDLE of the friggin episode. But damn, Bull looked pretty amazing in that tight black tee. Nom.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

DOOD, you missed it? I thought it was so obvious. Where are your slash googles? Give them here, obviously they need cleaning.

[cosmic.livejournal.com]

I swear I am not thinking of the story where Ryan and Seth had a horrible messy break up -- Seth always was a selfish wanker -- and so Ryan left and joined the LAPD and then he gets partnered with Bull and there is stupidly hot, filthy sex in the back of the squad car.

I totally thought that, too.

This show is looking to be awesome. King, McKenzie and Cudlitz FTW!

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

I swear I am not thinking of the story where Ryan and Seth had a horrible messy break up -- Seth always was a selfish wanker -- and so Ryan left and joined the LAPD and then he gets partnered with Bull and there is stupidly hot, filthy sex in the back of the squad car.

I totally thought that, too.

I want to write this. I admit it. If I ever get more than two seconds I am there. YAY SHOW! *\o/*

[mardia.livejournal.com]

I am so thrilled that other people are getting into this show as much as I am. I mean, seriously--Bull Randleman as a gay cop and Ryan Atwood as an adorable rookie and Regina King being all kinds of awesome--you cannot beat that.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

What you said right there. That is the pitch. The perfect pitch. Is it next Thursday yet?

[47-trek-47.livejournal.com]

Is he one of the slashy partners from the premier commercials? because if so (and maybe even if not), I'm sold.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Yes. Bull is super alpha male man from Band of Brothers who is made of awesome and kickass (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0191044/).

[bionic.livejournal.com]

The world would greatly benefit from this story. You should write it.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

I ponder this story, mostly I just want Ryan Ben to get some hot sexxor. He and Seth were fine during the high school/college thing, but Ryan needs a real man. Damn. I can't stop calling him Ryan.

[suaine.livejournal.com]

I saw it now, and holy shit, word to everything! <3

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

FTW!

[dine.livejournal.com]

oh damn! I knew there was something I meant to watch last night - but I forgot to check the guide.

I'll be off to hulu as soon as I get home

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Hulu FTW!

[bijoux.livejournal.com]

and so Ryan left and joined the LAPD and then he gets partnered with Bull and there is stupidly hot, filthy sex in the back of the squad car.

My brain is incapable of slashing them. I'm trying, but my brain refuses. I think it's because Bull will always be Bull to me now, so I want to keep him on this pedestal and not imagine him having sex with anyone (much like how one refuses to acknowledge that one's own parents have had sex :P). Also, I really like father-figure/son-type-mentor relationships, so if that developed on the show, I would be so jazzed.

...Hah, I was just wondering, does Ryan/Sandy slash exists out there? Oh god, nevermind, I don't want to know :P

[chicklet-girl.livejournal.com]

If there's anything I've learned over the past ten years, it's that there is slash for everything, regardless of whether or not it should actually exist. *g*

[transtempts.livejournal.com]

I want that story now too.

*waits on internet*

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

I ponder writing it in a very tightly packed story. It's clearly could become the story from hell, but surely 1000 words couldn't break my back. At least I'd have written something. *ponders*

Where are the bloody Southland icons already?!

[chicklet-girl.livejournal.com]

You made Bull Randleman gay?!!

That's what I was hinting about yesterday! I read the spoiler a few weeks ago and was giddy with anticipation.

Also, I totally loved that girl who wanted to be a cop and gave the detectives the license plate number. "Do you think I could be a cop?" *hugs her*

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

OMG! Her! I forgot about her! She was adorable and wicked smart. And she will be an awesome star and if Ben Silverman doesn't kill it (don't get me started with Jay Leno at 10 killing the show) in five years, in the series finale we can see her starting at the academy? What?

[londondrowning.livejournal.com]

Um, you're going to need to make that story exist like yesterday.

Oh man, I FREAKED OUT when I saw that BULL WAS THE GAY COP. I remembered reading that there was going to be a gay cop, but there was a moment early on in the pilot when Shawn Hatosy was on the phone fighting with his wife and she was talking about how they never had sex anymore, and it cut to him looking at his HOT ASS PARTNER and my brain went 'OH BOY, I AM TOTALLY DOWN WITH THIS', so at first, I felt a little bit disappointed?

BUT THEN I REMEMBERED THAT BULL FUCKING RANDLEMAN IS PLAYING A GAY COP AND DECIDED THAT THIS WOULD PROBABLY WORK OUT FOR ME AFTER ALL. Please be defiling Ryan Atwood in the back of your squad car soon, Bull, it's the least you can do for me after I watched all those zillion episodes of Standoff for you and Livingston.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I FREAKED OUT when I saw that BULL WAS THE GAY COP. I remembered reading that there was going to be a gay cop, but there was a moment early on in the pilot when Shawn Hatosy was on the phone fighting with his wife and she was talking about how they never had sex anymore, and it cut to him looking at his HOT ASS PARTNER and my brain went 'OH BOY, I AM TOTALLY DOWN WITH THIS', so at first, I felt a little bit disappointed?

Is it my imagination or did they say there might be more than one gay/bi character in the series. I swear I'm not making that up, but you know how things blend together after a while.

[avid-slacker.livejournal.com]

I'm lame because I totally didn't get it with the bar scene. Clueless is me.

Mostly I thought Ben came off as one note in this. Ryan Atwood with a little wide-eyed bewilderment to spice it up, but I did LOVE the scene with the little girl.
"Do I look mean?" "No it's just the haircut."

I probably won't tune in regularly because it's a little gritty for my taste, but I hope it does well for Ben's sake.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

I do no think of Ben as a bastion of awesome acting, but he is very pretty. I'll trust Michael and Regina to do the heavy lifting, and apparently the writers feel the same way. So, we are all gravy. :)

[vylit.livejournal.com]

I watched it this morning and I was all, "RYAN THIS IS A HARDCORE SHOW. WOW." Ben totally still looks the same, and the acting was really good. \o/

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Inorite!