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Jaguar ([personal profile] kittydesade) wrote2012-01-30 08:13 am

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A common way of offering a drink is to ask the equivalent of Will you have a drink? This involves the possessive phrase Tá... ag (has) which you saw in the previous unit, but with future beidh instead of tá. e.g.
Tá deoch agam cheana. I have a drink already.
An mbeidh deoch agat? Will you have a drink?
Beidh. Yes (lit, I will)
Ní bheidh. No.

Note also, using Cad? (What?)
Cad ad bheidh agat? What will you have?
Beidh pionta agam. I'll have a pint.

Vocab:
buidéal - bottle
gloine - glass
leathghloine - half-glass
pionta - pint
leathphionta - half-pint

And of course the next grammar point is the one I just noticed, which is that leath-, half-, causes lenition. Yay pattern recognition!

The numeral aon is used in the sense of 'any.'

Aon scéal? Any news?
An bhfuil aon scéal agat? Do you have any news?

Another way of saying any is to put ar bith (at all) after a word
An bhfuil scéal ar bith agaibh?

It is necessary to use either aon or ar bith when saying that you haven't got something. Notice that aon causes lenition.

Níl aon charr agam. I don't have a car.
Níl aon phost aige. He doesn't have a job.
Níl post ar bith aici. She doesn't have a job.


So, um. The preview for Once Upon A Time in two weeks has me thinking only two things. One, this is going to suck. For once, possibly not in the bad way it's been sucking. And two, I'm pretty sure Robert Carlyle went roaming around other people's back lots looking for more scenery to chew. Goddamn. About this week's Once Upon A Time we will not say a word. It didn't happen, and no one can convince me it did. If plot advanced even in the micrometer steps it seems to be advancing, it did so offscreen where actions happened that no one saw because this week's episode didn't happen. Except for Gold rolling his eyes and sighing his, as Anna called it, "I can't believe I got you elected" sigh. That was pretty priceless.

But I got some stuff done this weekend at least! Some cleaning, a lot of cooking, a good half-batch of minestrone because I didn't have all the veggies for it. A batch of cream of tomato soup with some spinach ground into it because of reasons, I discovered a good marinade in which to soak the beef to make it even more better for stew, and made the stew again, and omfg the whole damn thing was incredibly, incredibly tasty. I am inveencible! And I want more stew. And I cooked up half the chicken, the other half will get cooked up tonight since the rest of Sunday evening was devoted to discovering mold balls the size of golf balls in our bag of rice that we just fucking bought. Ugh.

Not as much writing done over the weekend, but some. Still not quite sure why but it had better damn well quit it, I have shit I need to get done. Still, today may or may not be light once I get the weekend backlog done, there's no incoming to speak of.

Oh, and I've been rewatching New Amsterdam. I'd forgotten how awesome that show was, I kind of miss it now. And Nikolaj Coster-Waldau has the most adorable little accent slips now and again. And now of course I want to write fanfic of it, which, excellent! There's a prompt on Yuletide for it. I tried to floss my brain with that sometime this weekend, it didn't quite work, maybe today.

... Oh. Also, the Muppets are awesome.

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[personal profile] oldandnewfirm 2012-01-31 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I wonder if the Blue Fairy can do anything for him after he's cured? Like him, she seems to be the one people turn to as a last resort, only her deals actually end happily. It'd be nice if she could do something to restore him to his pre-curse self. Having said that, though, after how much trouble it got him into the first time I doubt he's going to be accepting any further help from magical beings, benevolent or not.

Now I'm just thinking of him calling "Miss, miss!" through the bars. So creepy.

You know, the one thing I've wondered since that episode came out is, where the hell did she get the mace? It doesn't seem like the kind of thing that should exist in that town. Who are the residents supposed to be protecting themselves from?

I still try and pretend the epilogue didn't happen. It was just...no. And it was even worse in the movie, thanks to everyone's terrible "old age" makeup. Could they not spare the expense of wrangling up some new actors to play the parts? And yeah, pairing Rumple/Gold with anyone is tricky. Anyone who stuck by him would endure levels of constant scrutiny and manipulation that I wouldn't wish on any character. In fact, that's what made writing the two Rumple/Red things I've done a bit tricky. I had to pare down his asshole-ness in order to keep Red from trying to choke him to death through the bars of his cell.

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[personal profile] oldandnewfirm 2012-01-31 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Ugh, yes. Child faces, child voices. Those always equal Bad Things in shows/movies. And then he follows it up by hauling the Queen up by her throat. Which reminds me, whoever designed that cell should be fired. You could drive a vespa through those bars.

The Huntsman would be a good bet. Emma's pointing a gun in the next episode, so the police station must have a little worst-case scenario arsenal stashed somewhere. I'm curious whether or not the Huntsman will still play a role in Red's tale, since the big bad wolf isn't dead. (assuming that Dr. Whale is him) Maybe he gives her the wolf charm?

No, not at all. Just as he said, she's not afraid of him, and coming from a world where everyone was, that must be an intriguing change for him. Besides, something had to fuel all the Emma/Gold prompts on the kinkmeme! Not that people ever need a valid reason to ship. Oh dear. Run, Ruby. Run very far away! Possibly into the arms of Dr. Whale, if he does turns out to be your Wolf. Given the fake-out we got with Billy in Skin Deep, I'm no longer relying on cast listings for character speculation.
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[personal profile] oldandnewfirm 2012-02-01 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
Every time I see that scene I wonder, what was he doing up there? Was he just like, "Hm, I'm bored. Think I'll go play on the ceiling now!" Maybe he's got an escape tunnel up there. Or a secret stash of whatever he keeps in his flask. And yeah, the fact that he stayed in jail-- hell, the fact that he allowed himself to be caught in the first place-- tells me that he'd always planned to end up a victim of the curse. There's gotta be something in it for him when it's broken.

Fingers crossed. Graham, we hardly knew ye. Like Stealthy.

Just not Granny's shoulder. Granny will either put on her best "I told you so" face and give Ruby a stern lecture, or march over to Gold's shop and tear him a new one. Possibly both.
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[personal profile] oldandnewfirm 2012-02-01 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
My thinking is that he's somehow going to leverage the power that will be generated by the breaking of the curse to free himself from the curse of the Dark One. Or, hm. Since it seems to be important that Emma restore everyone's happy endings (or at least the happy endings of all the important people) before the curse can be broken, maybe he's counting on her to do the same in his case?

Granny vs. Gold would be an impressive match up. Like you said, she's wary of him, but I don't know that she's necessarily afraid of him. Interesting words would exchanged. Which reminds me of another theory that's been floating around, that Belle and Granny are one and the same.
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[personal profile] oldandnewfirm 2012-02-01 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
Some kind of peace that doesn't involve dying, because I don't think he's reached that level of desperation yet. Makes me wonder what the average lifespan of the Dark One is before they get tired of life and find some sucker to take over the job.

Ooh, I forgot about the Queen being there. Well, that does kind of kill that theory, since everything involving her actively being the Evil Queen seems to take place following King Leopold's death. Unless Belle somehow got cursed with old age or something, but that still leaves the issue of her having a twenty-something year old daughter. Curse you logic! But ouch, that'd hurt if Belle came back with that. Especially since that would mean she remembers their lives in Fairy Tale Land, unless she's referring to some curse-memory where she was in a relationship with Gold.
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[personal profile] oldandnewfirm 2012-02-01 01:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Flashes of brilliance seem to happen most in the shower or in the middle of the night. Something about the brain getting time to process everything on the back burner, I suspect.

If the curse hinges on finding Gold's True Love, they're going to be spending a looooooooong time in Storybrooke. And if Emmahas to kiss Gold, oh dear. I imagine she'd sooner kiss a cactus than him.

I was wondering that myself. The most obvious answer is the final battle between Snow and the Queen, but I don't think that's what he meant. Some folks have been tossing around the idea that Rumple wants to bring an end to magic, period, and if that's true he could be referring to the final battle between magic and non-magic users. But I'm still not sold on the "he wants to end magic" theory, so I don't know about that one.
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[personal profile] oldandnewfirm 2012-02-01 01:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Oooh, true. Though I wonder why Gold would build that into the curse on the off chance his son decides to show up, but then again, precognition.

Which makes sense. I mean, look at Cinderella-- there's probably something she could have done to escape her situation eventually, but she wanted to escape it now. And go to the ball and marry the prince, no less. Not asking for much there are you, Cindy? Given how badly things went for Rumple when he tried to use magic to solve his problems, I'd be more surprised if he didn't want to face palm every time another sucker wished for wealth, beauty, power, etc.

The Queen's mother has been cast! http://www.spoilertv.com/2012/02/once-upon-time-barbara-hershey-cast-as.html
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[personal profile] oldandnewfirm 2012-02-01 02:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I'm guessing that whole "Stop the Ogre Wars!" plan didn't pan out once he turned evil. I think that would have involved too many abstract concepts and emotions he's just not capable of (or capable of sustaining for long periods) as the Dark One.

Not whining about the price seems key to getting into Rumple's good graces. Though, from Snow's perspective she didn't give much-- a lock of hair and her baby's name would seem like a small price for peace of mind.

She's supposed to be a good actress. I haven't seen anything she's been in, but I've got high hopes. I still kinda wish they'd gotten Angelica Houston though. She was masterful at being a bitch in Ever After.
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[personal profile] oldandnewfirm 2012-02-01 02:28 pm (UTC)(link)
That's another thing. Like a genie, it seems to me that Rumple's a conduit for greater magic that he doesn't have access to outside the bounds of a contract. I mean, we don't know how much power it takes to obliterate a fairy, so he may well be a powerful being in his own right, but nothing he's done so far suggests that. Of course that could just be another instance of him not wanting to throw magic around when there are subtler ways of achieving his aims.

I remember the guard mentioning that to her, but without any magical experience I'm not sure Snow, or anyone who didn't use magic for that matter, would fully appreciate the implications of giving Rumplestiltskin their name. And like you said, Snow appreciates Rumplestiltskin for what he is. As long as you don't try and screw him over (as Charming wanted to do), you'll get what you want.

Yeah, not their best work. In fact the first thing my sister said when the scene cut to Leopold's court was, "Oh, look! A green screen!"

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[personal profile] oldandnewfirm 2012-02-01 02:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I know! People treat him like crap, but if a guy with that kind of reputation showed up on my doorstep, I'd roll out the red carpet treatment for him. My sense of self preservation says it's best not to be a dick to someone you can snap your neck with one hand.

It was a complete waste of film. I don't even care about Sidney's character, and this episode did nothing to change that. We should've skipped from last week's to Skin Deep.