A few days ago I posted a link to a great essay about evil in Breaking Bad (which I do not watch) and lately I've been thinking about the whole evil-in-fiction thing and being attached to evil characters. With a couple of exceptions, I generally don't root for bad guys (yeah, there's the whole Loki thing, but that's complicated by how young and ( Read more... )

I may never get to see this one, although the presence of Colm Meaney ups the chances it will come to DVD in Canada:

Trailer for "Parked," a story about the friendship between two lost souls living in their cars. I am already kinda worried about the character Colin plays, but this looks interesting ( Read more... )

The witchfinder has just turned up, in the person of Charles Dance.

Shit is about to get real here.

Merlin: Season Two continues to entertain. I particularly like Arthur's newfound tone of Condescending Big Brother, which we hear every time Merlin so much as looks at a woman. Well, considering Merlin's complete and utter cluelessness in season one, I guess Arthur has a point at that ( Read more... )

Yeah, last year I joked about writing Merlin/Flashpoint crossover fanfic. After the Flashpoint season finale it began to seem like an EVEN BETTER IDEA ( Read more... )

Have just watched the third episode of season 2, in which the Lady Morgana runs away to the druids.

And is tracked by soldiers from Camelot and...

...Their Dobermans.

Don't say a word.

Hee.

( A video in which Merlin and Arthur (or rather, Colin and Bradley) go in search of... Merlin and Arthur. )

I forgot to mention--on Saturday evening while at my parents' place, I was watching TV with my mother, sister, and teenage nephew. We flipped to the what's-on-tonight channel to see... what was on.

And the Space channel came up, and everyone yelled, "Look! Merlin!" together. So we switched over, and the episode was just beginning, and it turned ( Read more... )

Over the summer I loaned my first season of Merlin to my mother. She loved it. Showed it to my sister who was visiting. Sister loved it, bought own copy, showed it to her step-grandson who loved it and is getting his own copy for Christmas ( Read more... )

So the second season of Merlin will be released on Amazon.ca in January. Here is the page to prove it!

I've already notified the family that this is pretty much all I would need, birthday-gift-wise.

The funny thing is, it might also be a nice choice for the birthday of my sister, later in the spring!