- festivids approaches! I'm quite excited cause I'm a bit keen on talking myself into signing up. I think I've done pretty well with vids this year. Eight of em! And I only actually hate one. And I feel I can say with Some Confidence that they've improved a bit since 2006. (I still use WMM though - cause while I like to pretend they'd clearly be So Much ( Read more... )

Though the year is not over yet! I have ten days left and I will get to fifty books this year. If I have to, I'm bloody well reading Target novelisations.

Anyway, the year...I hope I can remember anything at all:

( Fannish Year In Review )

Well, that was an episode of Merlin that seemed to exist purely to test how many times I can roll my eyes in forty-five minutes.

A list:

( all the things that were rub about Love in the Time of Dragons )

So, in my head, I'm not that keen on the autumn months. It's cold and wet with no possibility of snow, and I'm under the impression that I hate that, which I do, if I have to go outside, but somehow I completely managed to forget how much I love it when there's a stormy wind and splattering of rain and the sky is ominously grey and I can sit inside ( Read more... )

Merlin decided to have an episode I LOVE UNEQUIVOCABLY, hurrah! Helped in no small part by being a HORRID BROKEN VERSION of my favourite episode, The Moment of Truth, the plot took second place to some immensely satisfying character stuff. I wasn't even judgey at Merlin! For this week his motivation was perfectly sensible ( The Castle of Fyrion )

• All caught up on Merlin, which decided to be unremarkable but entertaining this week. Here are some words about that: ( The Changeling )

Apparently Doing Things gets in the way of Telly, who knew. Anyway, I'm determined to see the RTD SJA ep properly on the telly, so I must watch quickety. Also, there is Merlin, which I missed last week due to cunningly being at shiny Connotations.

So, yes, telly:

( SJA: The Mad Woman in the Attic )

So this week's Merlin I thought a great improvement on last week's and not wholly because there was a distinct lack of fart jokes and Gawain was pretty damned hot ( Read more... )

Have just watched A Special Relationship where Micheal Sheen gets to play Tony Blair again and Helen McCrory is Cherie Blair and Denis Quaid is Bill Clinton if Clinton was pretty fugly in '96 which, no, he wasn't and that distracted me kind of a lot. Anyway, mostly what I learned was that Tony Blair was a bright-eyed young go-getter who became ( Read more... )

Merlin's back! I had no idea! Smashing surprise. (Please let Morgana have some agency this season and maybe have some episodes that are not Romances-Of-The-Week kthxbi.)

( 301 The Tears of Uther Pendragon )