Hellos from snowy UK *pause, examine, laugh at their lack of ability to cope with snow*
I'm sure people want gossip of Mozzie & Yeti Do Christmas. It was awesome. Not only for the Mozzie, or the Mozzie's relatives who are very nice indeed, or for arguing and geeking out and holding conversations in broad daylight nightlight about HP. And for the delicate balance of not saying anything specific to my uni (I was not from the internet, I was from his uni *nodnod*), and not really figuring out anything about running off to the States in the summer. He really doesn't approve of how I like TV and books more when they're a little crap. He also told me off for putting too much damn consideration into my Yuletide fic. Also, Mozzie sleeps a lot. Pretty much through Christmas, life, and the entire day, every day. Perhaps he has Malaria.
I could not get him to watch Band of Brothers. *pouts* Someone else tell him it's genuinely brilliant, not just fun-because-it's-slightly-crap. I didn't expect to get him to watch Life, which was the fandom of squeelicious goodness which consumed my December. Charlie Crews is a cop framed for murdering a family, spent 12 years in super maximum security prison (at least 18 months in solitary confinement, probably over 3 years), turned Zen, got released because they proved it wasn't him, got a $50 Million settlement, and now Fights Crime, While Eating Fruit. It is AWESOME. SO MUCH AWESOME. Charlie's ex-cellmate Ted now manages the settlement money and lives above Charlie's garage and Is Dubious. His partner is an ex-addict, Detective Dani Reese, whose father may or may not be involved with the people who framed Charlie, and killed his best friend & his family. Charlie thinks he's Zen, he tries to be Zen, but sometimes he's just this [--] close to killing people. AWESOME. I expect someone else to watch it and appreciate its awesome, okay.
Life is rather unique in US police procedurals in a) the angle they can bring to something, in that Charlie (and Ted) is sometimes confused as to which side of the law holds his loyalty. And b) that it makes *more sense* than they managed to squish into the show. They didn't *detail* how prison worked for Charlie, but if you even wiki the places you understand how he spends over 18 months in solitary etc. In comparison to something like Bones, where the backstories only work if you age up every character by at least five years, and then ignore everything from more than one season ago. *points to icon* See how Zen he is when he's just been hit by an SVU and is being approached by hitmen.
For annakovsky I wrote Remembering To Forget What It Tastes Like, in which Charlie goes nuts in solitary, with sidelines of fruit. It's pretty much just the prologue to what I really want to write for Life. Yeah, I can fic this show in a very hard way.
I could not get him to watch Band of Brothers. *pouts* Someone else tell him it's genuinely brilliant, not just fun-because-it's-slightly-crap. I didn't expect to get him to watch Life, which was the fandom of squeelicious goodness which consumed my December. Charlie Crews is a cop framed for murdering a family, spent 12 years in super maximum security prison (at least 18 months in solitary confinement, probably over 3 years), turned Zen, got released because they proved it wasn't him, got a $50 Million settlement, and now Fights Crime, While Eating Fruit. It is AWESOME. SO MUCH AWESOME. Charlie's ex-cellmate Ted now manages the settlement money and lives above Charlie's garage and Is Dubious. His partner is an ex-addict, Detective Dani Reese, whose father may or may not be involved with the people who framed Charlie, and killed his best friend & his family. Charlie thinks he's Zen, he tries to be Zen, but sometimes he's just this [--] close to killing people. AWESOME. I expect someone else to watch it and appreciate its awesome, okay.
Life is rather unique in US police procedurals in a) the angle they can bring to something, in that Charlie (and Ted) is sometimes confused as to which side of the law holds his loyalty. And b) that it makes *more sense* than they managed to squish into the show. They didn't *detail* how prison worked for Charlie, but if you even wiki the places you understand how he spends over 18 months in solitary etc. In comparison to something like Bones, where the backstories only work if you age up every character by at least five years, and then ignore everything from more than one season ago. *points to icon* See how Zen he is when he's just been hit by an SVU and is being approached by hitmen.
For annakovsky I wrote Remembering To Forget What It Tastes Like, in which Charlie goes nuts in solitary, with sidelines of fruit. It's pretty much just the prologue to what I really want to write for Life. Yeah, I can fic this show in a very hard way.