One of the other things that inspired my post on taking things a little slower was that I’ve taken to watching and rewatching streamed shows at a much slower pace than I’m used to, or most people do, altogether. Especially in my peer group and younger, there’s this almost unspoken understanding that when you rewatch something, or discover ( Read more... )

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Right now, I’m working on a collaboration with another author, which is both very cool, and tunes me in to some of the issues that come along with it. Not that this project is encountering any particular problems, but inside the process it’s easier to see where the problems might come in.

It was timely, then, that I ran across a couple of things ( Read more... )

This week, I found myself loosely following (as much as I could, work being what it is) a couple of stories as they developed-which is odd for me lately as I’ve been acquainting myself with the news on a fairly casual basis. And, of course, it got me to thinking about news, “the good old days,” and so on, and I came to a few conclusions. Or, at ( Read more... )

Gah. So yeah, some time got away from me, and I think I’m just going to wrap this up quickly.

Day 23 - Most annoying character

Rodney McKay from Stargate Atlantis. Seriously? The guy was created as a foil for the supremely awesome Samantha Carter in the SG-1 series and they gave his whiny, egotistical, cowardly, assholish self a series of his ( Read more... )

Yeah, I’m aware that I’m outrageously off the mark in terms of doing these day after day. Oh well.

Day 22 - Favorite series finale

There’s only a few series finales I’ve even seen, and most series that I really like have been killed before their time. So that leaves out a lot of awesome shows, like Firefly and Brisco, since they vanished before ( Read more... )

Day 21 - Favorite Ship

So, I’m guessing that the originator of the list means favorite relationship, canonical or otherwise, and not favorite spaceship. (Because that would be Serenity, duh.)

This was another easy one, actually. My favorite “I want them to be together forever” has always been JD & Elliot from Scrubs. I don’t quite know what it ( Read more... )

Day 20 - Favorite kiss

So, this is another of those very-TV-fan type categories, because, really… I just don’t know. But I’ll answer this in the spirit, rather than trying to pinpoint a specific scene. And this dips back to X-Files, because I can’t really think of many other TV relationships that I have been excited about, which is going to make ( Read more... )

Day 18 - Favorite title sequence

Again with the “not sure if I have a favorite here” kind of thing. Because, yeah. Not so much a fan of TV that I fall in love with a title sequence. However, I did see something neat a couple weeks ago, and this seems like as good a place to share it as any. Every Dr. Who intro, since 1963:

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Day 17 - Favorite mini series

Okay, hands-down no brainer on this one. The only mini-series I’ve ever watched as it happened, the only one I own, and the only one (obviously) I’ll rewatch at the drop of a hat:

Lonesome Dove.

Ha! Just kidding. What I meant to say was Band of Brothers. The series aired on HBO in late 2001, which was a very ( Read more... )