The week in review
First off, GIP! I've been looking for the perfect holiday icon that screams ME, and oxoniensis provided it with one of her terrific caps from this week's episode of Veronica Mars. *squee*! I'm using it as my default icon through the end of the month.
I've spent the better part of this week trying to get caught up on holiday chores, on top of the usual daily grind, so I don't have to worry about them when ezust arrives next week. I want to be able to kick back for a few. :)
I did take time out to participate in that ds_recs social thread, which I'm pretty pleased with myself for doing because I usually just sit back and play the lurking wallflower. ;)
Not exactly late to the party because I've been playing, as I usually do, the quiet little wallflower for a couple of days and happily watching and enjoying all the good goings-on, the great comments, etc. :) But in the interest of socialization, I'll step away from the wall and dip my little toe into the mix.
Plugging ... me, nothing, the fandom overall, which is great one. It stays strong, it attracts new people every day, it's alive!
Why? Because this is my comfort fandom, and no matter where I go, no matter what else I'm into, I never stray from due South. I consider dS one of my primary fandoms for the long haul.
Likes: I'm an F/K gal all the way. I make no apologies for that. And it really wasn't until the third season originally aired in syndication in the US that I even fell for the series at all. I attempted to watch the series when it was on CBS during the second season when it was all but impossible to find or keep up with. So the appeal was lost on me until I made a concerted effort to find where the third season would air in syndication, and watched it faithfully week after week. When the final frame of the final episode played out, I grabbed the phone and called my gal pal, brenantrim who originally pimped the show to me, and shrieked with glee at the honeymoon finale. After that, I caught up on the entire series when it was being rerun on TNT, and now, of course, I own the whole shootin' match on dvd.
I love show for itself, the writing, the wit, the irony, and the characterizations. And I love most of the characters on the series, with Fraser and Kowalski being, hands down, my two favorites. I like Vecchio, but I also dislike Vecchio, but that's because he does remind me of my own Italian father and uncles, and we have issues there. ;) He's a good friend for Fraser, but I never saw anything more either before Kowalski came on the scene or after I became fully indoctrinated in the entire 'verse. And I make no apologies for that either.
I love keeping up with what so many of the dS actors are doing now, and not just Paul and Callum, but Dean and Beau and David and all the rest.
My favorite fan fiction in general is when the author has the characterizations and their voices so dead on that I can almost see the the story playing out as an episode on my TV screen. I love happy endings and feel-good fiction, great sloppy sex (even when it's bad - *grin*), and I love it when Fraser completely loses his inhibitions during sex.
I love that I've made some of the best friends I could ever have via my fandom life over the years. :)
Dislikes: Bad characterization, especially feminization and infantilization of the guys. I despise revenge!fic, grovel!fic, and fixits. And don't call Kowalski "Stanley" because no one other than his mother calls him that, and everyone he knows, knows that.
My biggest pet peeve in fandom overall is the Stepford Wife Syndrome. Like it or not, fandom is populated by people, individuals, and not goose-stepping robots, and that's never going to change.
What do you talk about in your LJ? Mostly fandom talk, shows I'm watching now, movies, books, fan fiction, things that are going on in the fandom world. Aside from that, you're going to get a little about my real life, though I'm loathe to go into too much detail. And it's not that I don't trust the people on my flist or on LJ, or anything like that. It's just that real life can be enough of a bitch to live through that by the time I get a chance to talk about it, I'm too exhausted to rehash it.
Other fandoms: My other big interest right now is SG:Atlantis, and I'm filled with much glee and squee! that it's attracting so many talented and interesting fans. I think it rivals dS in quality. So between dS and SGA, I read very little else as far as fan fiction goes, though I do read the occasional story in other fandoms if they're highly recced or being written by someone I know well.
In my LJ, I also like to talk about Supernatural, House, Lost, Battlestar Galactica, and the occasional commentary on anything else I enjoy watching at the moment which I always list in the sidebar of my LJ. :)
I've been wrapping presents the last couple of nights and, thus, I've had the strong desire for holiday viewing fare, despite an embarrassingly piss-poor attempt by The Dead Zone on Sunday night (*woof*, that was bad, 'nuff said). So I actually opted to watch Smallville live last night and dvr The O.C. since the latter won't have it's annual Chrismukkah episode until next week. Despite having to sit through more Lana than I can normally tolerate or have endured without the benefit of a FF button for over a year, I thought Lexmas was certainly better than DZ's holiday attempt. My favorite part of the episode was watching (from above) Clark zipping around the city delivering the Toys for Tots that Chloe had collected. And speaking of my gal, Chloe, she continues to be one of the absolute best things about this series, and that's part of the reason I can no longer watch it live or want to get emotionally involved because I can't help but be concerned that her days are numbered, especially after the strong showing she's had this season. It's a little too suspicious. But who knows. So if I stay aloof and something terrible happens to her, it won't be heartbreaking.
Anyway, my snarky soul loves the continued contrast between independent, hard-working Chloe, and the producers' Mary Sue favorite, Lana. Chloe works the grave yard shift at the DP on Christmas Eve - looking every bit the gorgeous professional - without complaint, isn't missed at all by anyone at the Kents' party (whatever), on top of having tirelessly collected a record amount of Toys for Tots to be delivered that night. By contrast, Lana who has nothing to do except attend the Kents' party, snottily mentions poor unappreciated Aunt Nell to Clark, for the first time in years, only to essentially diss the fact that her holidays growing up were spent solely with the poor unappreciated Nell, the woman who took her in and raised her. Yeah, that's the ungrateful Lana Lang I know and loathe.
Clark talking down a soused Santa from jumping off the roof was schmaltzy, but still pretty adorable. It's even more schmaltzy when Santa turns out to be the real thing (which we knew was coming) and shows up at the DP to help Chloe by delivering the rest of the Toys for Tots (yeah, I liked that too).
I must chuckle at how only on Smallville can a man get shot two or three times in the stomach, be at death's door, endure traumatic abdominal surgery, and be walking around on his own two feet all within a matter of hours. *snort* That Lex really is a freak. *koff* ;)
I thought MR's best performance in the episode is when he first wakes up in bed next to Madonna!Lana, 18 months pregnant (no wonder she croaks), and then Alexander the Little comes jumping on the bed. The perfect expression of shock and befuddlement. But if Vision!Lex and Madonna!Lana are supposed to be on a budget, it's still one that could finance a third-world country quite comfortably for a few years. That house ain't cheap, and neither was anything within the abode. And at least it had more rooms than the one-room mansion in which Lex has always resided on this show. I'm just saying.
Some fans have claimed that Clark and Chloe are supposed to be a couple in Lillian World, but if I hadn't read that, I don't think I would have picked up an indication they were dating or were anything more than they are now. Did I miss something? I liked how Chloe was a novelist in the vision because being a novelist or a playwright has always been my dream for her if she survives and, therefore, is at some point tossed aside so Lois can become the new Chloe Sullivan. So if Chloe, for whatever reason, isn't going to be a reporter at the DP, I'd want a future for her that's better, where she receives the accolades and attention she deserves, and as an author or playwright, she'd get far more attention than she would as a newspaper journalist anyway.
I hope it's for real this time, that at the end of this episode Lex has FINALLY turned the corner and become the BadAss!Lex that I thought he was supposed to be all along this season, but hasn't been. I look forward to seeing him take down Jonathan Kent. ;)
Is James Marsters ever coming back? Miss him.
Speaking of this week's Veronica Mars, I have to finally come right out and say that Duncan Kane is the worst boyfriend ever. I've tried to give him the benefit of the doubt this season, but it's become increasingly difficult, and this week's episode clinched it. But what I hate more than secretive Duncan who walks all over Veronica's feelings is the passive little doormat Veronica has become since she's been dating him this season. Enough!
Ah, jury duty - I feel Veronica's pain. Though I must say that every time I get called in, the cases are never remotely as exciting.
I love the way Veronica and Keith do whatever little thing they can to make themselves merry at the holidays. I live on those daddy and daughter moments that this show owns to perfection. What I didn't love, however, is the completely unbelievable way they wrote out Deputy Leo. First of all, is this the very first time we ever even heard he had a sister, much less one with Downs? The whole set-up smacks of deus ex machina. I have as hard a time understanding why, especially now (why not months ago?), Logan would steal the evidence tapes in order to destroy them? Logan has to know that, without the taped evidence of the affair, Aaron could very well be set free. Or is there a part of him who still loves his dad (which I don't doubt) and doesn't want his father to go to jail, despite his protests to the contrary? I guess we'll have to wait and see if and when Logan's motivation is called into question.
Given how Meg died in this episode, after making up with Veronica in the hospital and getting her to promise she'd find her baby a good home if the worst happened, I find it very hard to believe they ever intended to end last week's episode any differently than they did. I think those "Log on to view the alternate ending and vote" gimmicks are just that - gimmicks with no legitimate substance.
Best part of the episode was when Wallace showed up at the very end, just in time to ring in the New Year with Veronica. *SOB* Now all is right with the world. :)
I've spent the better part of this week trying to get caught up on holiday chores, on top of the usual daily grind, so I don't have to worry about them when ezust arrives next week. I want to be able to kick back for a few. :)
I did take time out to participate in that ds_recs social thread, which I'm pretty pleased with myself for doing because I usually just sit back and play the lurking wallflower. ;)
Not exactly late to the party because I've been playing, as I usually do, the quiet little wallflower for a couple of days and happily watching and enjoying all the good goings-on, the great comments, etc. :) But in the interest of socialization, I'll step away from the wall and dip my little toe into the mix.
Plugging ... me, nothing, the fandom overall, which is great one. It stays strong, it attracts new people every day, it's alive!
Why? Because this is my comfort fandom, and no matter where I go, no matter what else I'm into, I never stray from due South. I consider dS one of my primary fandoms for the long haul.
Likes: I'm an F/K gal all the way. I make no apologies for that. And it really wasn't until the third season originally aired in syndication in the US that I even fell for the series at all. I attempted to watch the series when it was on CBS during the second season when it was all but impossible to find or keep up with. So the appeal was lost on me until I made a concerted effort to find where the third season would air in syndication, and watched it faithfully week after week. When the final frame of the final episode played out, I grabbed the phone and called my gal pal, brenantrim who originally pimped the show to me, and shrieked with glee at the honeymoon finale. After that, I caught up on the entire series when it was being rerun on TNT, and now, of course, I own the whole shootin' match on dvd.
I love show for itself, the writing, the wit, the irony, and the characterizations. And I love most of the characters on the series, with Fraser and Kowalski being, hands down, my two favorites. I like Vecchio, but I also dislike Vecchio, but that's because he does remind me of my own Italian father and uncles, and we have issues there. ;) He's a good friend for Fraser, but I never saw anything more either before Kowalski came on the scene or after I became fully indoctrinated in the entire 'verse. And I make no apologies for that either.
I love keeping up with what so many of the dS actors are doing now, and not just Paul and Callum, but Dean and Beau and David and all the rest.
My favorite fan fiction in general is when the author has the characterizations and their voices so dead on that I can almost see the the story playing out as an episode on my TV screen. I love happy endings and feel-good fiction, great sloppy sex (even when it's bad - *grin*), and I love it when Fraser completely loses his inhibitions during sex.
I love that I've made some of the best friends I could ever have via my fandom life over the years. :)
Dislikes: Bad characterization, especially feminization and infantilization of the guys. I despise revenge!fic, grovel!fic, and fixits. And don't call Kowalski "Stanley" because no one other than his mother calls him that, and everyone he knows, knows that.
My biggest pet peeve in fandom overall is the Stepford Wife Syndrome. Like it or not, fandom is populated by people, individuals, and not goose-stepping robots, and that's never going to change.
What do you talk about in your LJ? Mostly fandom talk, shows I'm watching now, movies, books, fan fiction, things that are going on in the fandom world. Aside from that, you're going to get a little about my real life, though I'm loathe to go into too much detail. And it's not that I don't trust the people on my flist or on LJ, or anything like that. It's just that real life can be enough of a bitch to live through that by the time I get a chance to talk about it, I'm too exhausted to rehash it.
Other fandoms: My other big interest right now is SG:Atlantis, and I'm filled with much glee and squee! that it's attracting so many talented and interesting fans. I think it rivals dS in quality. So between dS and SGA, I read very little else as far as fan fiction goes, though I do read the occasional story in other fandoms if they're highly recced or being written by someone I know well.
In my LJ, I also like to talk about Supernatural, House, Lost, Battlestar Galactica, and the occasional commentary on anything else I enjoy watching at the moment which I always list in the sidebar of my LJ. :)
I've been wrapping presents the last couple of nights and, thus, I've had the strong desire for holiday viewing fare, despite an embarrassingly piss-poor attempt by The Dead Zone on Sunday night (*woof*, that was bad, 'nuff said). So I actually opted to watch Smallville live last night and dvr The O.C. since the latter won't have it's annual Chrismukkah episode until next week. Despite having to sit through more Lana than I can normally tolerate or have endured without the benefit of a FF button for over a year, I thought Lexmas was certainly better than DZ's holiday attempt. My favorite part of the episode was watching (from above) Clark zipping around the city delivering the Toys for Tots that Chloe had collected. And speaking of my gal, Chloe, she continues to be one of the absolute best things about this series, and that's part of the reason I can no longer watch it live or want to get emotionally involved because I can't help but be concerned that her days are numbered, especially after the strong showing she's had this season. It's a little too suspicious. But who knows. So if I stay aloof and something terrible happens to her, it won't be heartbreaking.
Anyway, my snarky soul loves the continued contrast between independent, hard-working Chloe, and the producers' Mary Sue favorite, Lana. Chloe works the grave yard shift at the DP on Christmas Eve - looking every bit the gorgeous professional - without complaint, isn't missed at all by anyone at the Kents' party (whatever), on top of having tirelessly collected a record amount of Toys for Tots to be delivered that night. By contrast, Lana who has nothing to do except attend the Kents' party, snottily mentions poor unappreciated Aunt Nell to Clark, for the first time in years, only to essentially diss the fact that her holidays growing up were spent solely with the poor unappreciated Nell, the woman who took her in and raised her. Yeah, that's the ungrateful Lana Lang I know and loathe.
Clark talking down a soused Santa from jumping off the roof was schmaltzy, but still pretty adorable. It's even more schmaltzy when Santa turns out to be the real thing (which we knew was coming) and shows up at the DP to help Chloe by delivering the rest of the Toys for Tots (yeah, I liked that too).
I must chuckle at how only on Smallville can a man get shot two or three times in the stomach, be at death's door, endure traumatic abdominal surgery, and be walking around on his own two feet all within a matter of hours. *snort* That Lex really is a freak. *koff* ;)
I thought MR's best performance in the episode is when he first wakes up in bed next to Madonna!Lana, 18 months pregnant (no wonder she croaks), and then Alexander the Little comes jumping on the bed. The perfect expression of shock and befuddlement. But if Vision!Lex and Madonna!Lana are supposed to be on a budget, it's still one that could finance a third-world country quite comfortably for a few years. That house ain't cheap, and neither was anything within the abode. And at least it had more rooms than the one-room mansion in which Lex has always resided on this show. I'm just saying.
Some fans have claimed that Clark and Chloe are supposed to be a couple in Lillian World, but if I hadn't read that, I don't think I would have picked up an indication they were dating or were anything more than they are now. Did I miss something? I liked how Chloe was a novelist in the vision because being a novelist or a playwright has always been my dream for her if she survives and, therefore, is at some point tossed aside so Lois can become the new Chloe Sullivan. So if Chloe, for whatever reason, isn't going to be a reporter at the DP, I'd want a future for her that's better, where she receives the accolades and attention she deserves, and as an author or playwright, she'd get far more attention than she would as a newspaper journalist anyway.
I hope it's for real this time, that at the end of this episode Lex has FINALLY turned the corner and become the BadAss!Lex that I thought he was supposed to be all along this season, but hasn't been. I look forward to seeing him take down Jonathan Kent. ;)
Is James Marsters ever coming back? Miss him.
Speaking of this week's Veronica Mars, I have to finally come right out and say that Duncan Kane is the worst boyfriend ever. I've tried to give him the benefit of the doubt this season, but it's become increasingly difficult, and this week's episode clinched it. But what I hate more than secretive Duncan who walks all over Veronica's feelings is the passive little doormat Veronica has become since she's been dating him this season. Enough!
Ah, jury duty - I feel Veronica's pain. Though I must say that every time I get called in, the cases are never remotely as exciting.
I love the way Veronica and Keith do whatever little thing they can to make themselves merry at the holidays. I live on those daddy and daughter moments that this show owns to perfection. What I didn't love, however, is the completely unbelievable way they wrote out Deputy Leo. First of all, is this the very first time we ever even heard he had a sister, much less one with Downs? The whole set-up smacks of deus ex machina. I have as hard a time understanding why, especially now (why not months ago?), Logan would steal the evidence tapes in order to destroy them? Logan has to know that, without the taped evidence of the affair, Aaron could very well be set free. Or is there a part of him who still loves his dad (which I don't doubt) and doesn't want his father to go to jail, despite his protests to the contrary? I guess we'll have to wait and see if and when Logan's motivation is called into question.
Given how Meg died in this episode, after making up with Veronica in the hospital and getting her to promise she'd find her baby a good home if the worst happened, I find it very hard to believe they ever intended to end last week's episode any differently than they did. I think those "Log on to view the alternate ending and vote" gimmicks are just that - gimmicks with no legitimate substance.
Best part of the episode was when Wallace showed up at the very end, just in time to ring in the New Year with Veronica. *SOB* Now all is right with the world. :)