As always, the longer entries never seem to get finished....

[corilannam]

So here are a few shorter snippets:

* Spartacus! I mainlined the entire series of Spartacus in under two weeks, and fuck the gods, I am completely obsessed. Not just with Agron/Nasir (although, hello, awesome), but the entire show and everyone in it. It's always been on my to-watch list because I love anything set in the ancient world, but I also

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[brunettepet]

I totally fangirled Torvill and Dean when they were competing and I can see why the mundane posts would delight you. They delight me and I haven't even seen any!

I don't watch Arrow very closely, but I certainly do watch Manu Bennet. This makes me want to see Spartacus even more. I have too much television going on right now though Along with my regular suspects, I have three seasons of Mad Men to catch up on as well as all of Downton Abbey. I hate when my hobby feels like a chore :D

Fake school sounds awesome. I need something productive to fill my time when the refrigerator and cookie tins are filled with my creations!

[corilannam]

I know, there is always too much TV! I only just got around to Downton Abbey a few weeks ago myself. I do try to be careful not to overload too much, though, because like you say, it's no fun when supposed leisure activities feel like work. Fortunately, Spartacus and all the rest of the great TV will still be available when we have time to get to them (I love modern technology!)

[giselleslash]

I am absolutely IN LOVE with Spartacus. I really wish fandom hadn't moved so much to tumblr and other sites because I would've loved to join an LJ comm that was active. I mean there's a few, but not a huge amount of fics are being posted, sadly.

I started out watching it going, 'wheee! fights! blood! boobies! cocks!' and then it turned into this really amazing show and I'm going to be utterly devastated tonight. No more Spartacus. D: D: D:

[corilannam]

Yeah, I've been trawling AO3 for fic, but it's clear there's not really a centralized fandom for the show or any pairing the way there is for Merlin. I know a few people who are into it, but almost certainly not enough to hit any kind of critical fest mass. Woe. It's practically begging for a pornathon at the very least!

I really was stunned at what a fantastic show it ended up being. I had kind of dismissed it as just eye candy to get around to at some point, and then wham! Excellence. And tonight is going to be SO BRUTAL. :-(

[the_emu]

Spartacus suffers from the same problem as Buffy, in that it has been produced to look fluffball on the outside, and so everyone has dismissed it as such.

(I'm amazed that I still come across people who think Buffy is a vapid show.)

Spartacus is brilliant, one of the chewiest-themed shows I've ever seen, fantastic character arcs, consistently good (not one lame or out-of-place episode) and my personal feminist icon.

I've cleared my schedule tonight. I'll be crying like a baby.

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[corilannam]

I was just thinking the other day how they really didn't ever have a bad episode. Maybe a couple that weren't quite as mind blowing as the rest, but all very consistently good. Amazing.

Which character is your personal feminist icon? Naevia? Actually, it's just damn cool to have a show where you can ask that question because there's actually more than one option.

[the_emu]

The pilot was a little slow; I've tended to start people on the second episode, but after that, they've all ranged from really good to amazing.

My feminist icon is Crixus. All the women are amazing, any one of them worthy, but such a great boy-feminist is such a rare and stunning thing. The way he stood back and respected Naevia's right to fight Ashur is probably my favourite moment of the entire series. My bouncing was here.

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[anonymous]

I really loved Andy Whitfield in it, and when he died I was devastated. I watched that whole first series in one day/night and then had a big emp crash when I found out he was dying, then just didn't recover in time to get into the second series. I've never watched the Agron/Nasir series :(

[alby_mangroves]

That was me above ^ I just forgot to sign in.

ALSO, 20K GANGBANG. DO WANT, OMG.

[corilannam]

Andy Whitfield was so amazing, and it's just heartbreaking what happened to him. :-( I watched the whole first series in one day, too, and it was really hard to adjust to a new Spartacus after that (though I ended up loving him, too).