New Obsession!! Blood Ties + Christina Cox
So what you may or may not have noticed (depending on how much I offline you on IM), is that I have a new obsession, and her name is Christina Cox. It's one of those obsessions that comes along at just the right time (like Ellen, a year and a half ago, and Freddie before her), that has sort of been a potential for years, but the timing hasn't been just right. I've loved Christina since I saw her in Better Than Chocolate (and I know a lot of people have some issues with it, but it's one of my favourite lesbian movies ever), I *squee*d when she guest starred on CSI: Miami, I *loved* Nikki & Nora when that showed up around the internets a few years ago (and I've had my Nikki & Nora icon ever since), and I certainly knew she was starring in her own vampire show on Lifetime (when Lori speaks, I listen). Not being a vampire fan I didn't go to any lengths to watch the show, it wasn't on here, but then Christina showed up on Ladycops, which was the most awesome brilliant thing I'd seen in forever, and the scales started tipping.
All this coincided with the fact that I started having problems keeping up with Ellen (1 hour a day is a pretty serious commitment, and I don't do Main Obsessions half-way), and I've been missing a good crime/mystery/cop show for a while. There are those that I like, and I'll watch them if they happen to be on when I have some free time, but there are none that I love. And so when I couldn't wait for the next Ladycops, and Lori yet again went and mentioned Blood Ties, I figured I might as well give it a try. I watched the first episode online, Wednesday, two weeks ago, purchased the DVD set the same night, and proceeded to watch all 22 episodes in less than 7 days (pretty impressive feat for someone who couldn't keep up with 5 Ellen episodes a week). Since then I have proceeded to track down everything I can find that Christina has ever done (and this is but a small slice of everything she's ever done... seriously, her IMDb-listings are insane - I'm not finished tracking yet):
Bones: Erg. Sucky show, but Christina was hot. Totally annoying that she turned out to be the killer, tho, her character was way too bland for that.
Numb3rs: Way too few scenes, but the two scenes she did have, she was great (if pointless) in.
House M.D.: AWESOME!!! Very cool character with that nice trait of not killing people while still getting screen time and being fabulous.
F/X The Series: AJ-fan swears by this show, but I just can't seem to get in it. It doesn't suck, but it's not great either. Christina is adorable, but has way too little to do.
Forever Knight: Intense, she is it. Crappy show, but she plays a great Jeanne d'Arc.
Cold Case: Again with the annoying trait of being a killer. Why? And with that tiny amount of screen time, too? Bah.
CSI: Miami: Eh. Tragic underuse of awesome actress.
Due South: AWESOME!!! Her character rocks, totally bad-ass, but everyone around her is too wrapped up in their own self-importance to be intimidated, and they totally should be, because she does a fantastic bad-ass. Why doesn't she play bad-ass more often?? (That's the problem with today's crime shows, no-one is bad-ass. Everyone is whimpy and trying to lead double-lives and fit into society and crap. More bad-ass on television!!) Favourite quote: "I carved his face into my cell wall with MY FINGERNAILS!!" (which is also my current text message signal, I love it when my phone starts yelling madly at me)
There's something so very appealing about just letting go and spending every single waking free moment completely immersed in obsession. Up to this point of the post I wrote last Thursday, with all intentions of finishing on Friday. However, Friday marked the arrival of the Blood Books. I have since finished the first 4, with only the 5th left, and the ending of the 4th left me a bit, unsettled, if you will. I knew it was coming, but I still wasn't prepared for it, and Tanya Huff has a tendency for abrupt endings. I enjoy an action-packed ending as much as the next action fan, but as a rule of thumb, I prefer about half the number of actionpages in 'calming down' at the end. A book like the 4th Blood Book, where pretty much the entire second half was stressful, I would have liked an extra quarter of the book at the end for explanations and letting my heart-rate slow down. I don't much care about the actual getting of the bad guy. I like what attempting to get the bad guy puts my characters through, but just as much I enjoy the dealing with the aftermath. And Book 4 had quite a lot of aftermath to deal with. Argh.
At this moment I can't even quite tell apart if it's Christina Cox or Vicki Nelson I'm crushing most on. Most likely, it's a double-crush by association, one wouldn't have happened without the other. Well, Christina Cox would probably have happened eventually, one way or another, she's so awesome, but maybe not right now.
And I should just go ahead and post this, before I put it off again. I do have a whole thing in the works about what a problem writing Vicki Nelson in fanfic is. I haven't found her voice. But erg. I'm gonna go read Book 5 instead.
And in case someone who doesn't know me would happen to read this, I'm not a crazy stalker, really, I'm not (although, fyca? I'm not quite sure I've yet forgiven you for introducing me to Tina Fey as her #1 Stalker, or whatever it was along those lines that you said. Grr.). It's a crush, a momentary obsession, and they're awesome and I enjoy them for everything they can bring, but that's all there is to it (I don't think I've spoken quite so candidly about my obsessions process before), and then they go away and are replaced by something new. This is not the first, nor will it be the last.
All this coincided with the fact that I started having problems keeping up with Ellen (1 hour a day is a pretty serious commitment, and I don't do Main Obsessions half-way), and I've been missing a good crime/mystery/cop show for a while. There are those that I like, and I'll watch them if they happen to be on when I have some free time, but there are none that I love. And so when I couldn't wait for the next Ladycops, and Lori yet again went and mentioned Blood Ties, I figured I might as well give it a try. I watched the first episode online, Wednesday, two weeks ago, purchased the DVD set the same night, and proceeded to watch all 22 episodes in less than 7 days (pretty impressive feat for someone who couldn't keep up with 5 Ellen episodes a week). Since then I have proceeded to track down everything I can find that Christina has ever done (and this is but a small slice of everything she's ever done... seriously, her IMDb-listings are insane - I'm not finished tracking yet):
Bones: Erg. Sucky show, but Christina was hot. Totally annoying that she turned out to be the killer, tho, her character was way too bland for that.
Numb3rs: Way too few scenes, but the two scenes she did have, she was great (if pointless) in.
House M.D.: AWESOME!!! Very cool character with that nice trait of not killing people while still getting screen time and being fabulous.
F/X The Series: AJ-fan swears by this show, but I just can't seem to get in it. It doesn't suck, but it's not great either. Christina is adorable, but has way too little to do.
Forever Knight: Intense, she is it. Crappy show, but she plays a great Jeanne d'Arc.
Cold Case: Again with the annoying trait of being a killer. Why? And with that tiny amount of screen time, too? Bah.
CSI: Miami: Eh. Tragic underuse of awesome actress.
Due South: AWESOME!!! Her character rocks, totally bad-ass, but everyone around her is too wrapped up in their own self-importance to be intimidated, and they totally should be, because she does a fantastic bad-ass. Why doesn't she play bad-ass more often?? (That's the problem with today's crime shows, no-one is bad-ass. Everyone is whimpy and trying to lead double-lives and fit into society and crap. More bad-ass on television!!) Favourite quote: "I carved his face into my cell wall with MY FINGERNAILS!!" (which is also my current text message signal, I love it when my phone starts yelling madly at me)
There's something so very appealing about just letting go and spending every single waking free moment completely immersed in obsession. Up to this point of the post I wrote last Thursday, with all intentions of finishing on Friday. However, Friday marked the arrival of the Blood Books. I have since finished the first 4, with only the 5th left, and the ending of the 4th left me a bit, unsettled, if you will. I knew it was coming, but I still wasn't prepared for it, and Tanya Huff has a tendency for abrupt endings. I enjoy an action-packed ending as much as the next action fan, but as a rule of thumb, I prefer about half the number of actionpages in 'calming down' at the end. A book like the 4th Blood Book, where pretty much the entire second half was stressful, I would have liked an extra quarter of the book at the end for explanations and letting my heart-rate slow down. I don't much care about the actual getting of the bad guy. I like what attempting to get the bad guy puts my characters through, but just as much I enjoy the dealing with the aftermath. And Book 4 had quite a lot of aftermath to deal with. Argh.
At this moment I can't even quite tell apart if it's Christina Cox or Vicki Nelson I'm crushing most on. Most likely, it's a double-crush by association, one wouldn't have happened without the other. Well, Christina Cox would probably have happened eventually, one way or another, she's so awesome, but maybe not right now.
And I should just go ahead and post this, before I put it off again. I do have a whole thing in the works about what a problem writing Vicki Nelson in fanfic is. I haven't found her voice. But erg. I'm gonna go read Book 5 instead.
And in case someone who doesn't know me would happen to read this, I'm not a crazy stalker, really, I'm not (although, fyca? I'm not quite sure I've yet forgiven you for introducing me to Tina Fey as her #1 Stalker, or whatever it was along those lines that you said. Grr.). It's a crush, a momentary obsession, and they're awesome and I enjoy them for everything they can bring, but that's all there is to it (I don't think I've spoken quite so candidly about my obsessions process before), and then they go away and are replaced by something new. This is not the first, nor will it be the last.