Christmas Regencies and current SciFi TV
Does anyone else read Christmas regencies? Because I went through my backlog yesterday and pulled all of mine out. Most tend to be terribly formulaic and feature cranky, scrooge-ish men having their hearts melted by Pure Women (of a lower class, of course) children and puppies and in short have plots I typically shun but devour when in the form of a Christmas Regency.
Though, in a story I was reading last night, I suddenly started picturing the guy as G’Kar and got terribly confused. Then I realized that he was describing his thoughts about someone similarly to how G’Kar does, and it made sense, but it provided a very interesting visual for the rest of the story.
Also, I am…irrationally annoyed by the fact that V is on hiatus until March, even though I'm not hugely into V yet as much as really hoping to be soon. I mean, I think the hiatus is a bad idea anyway (and at least I have 2 episodes to watch between now and then) but it’s made worse, I think, because I learned that about an hour after learning 2 episodes of Dollhouse aired in one night. Different stations, but I can’t quite suppress my initial reaction of “wow, I guess they were worried about showing too many episodes of a current genre show where women aren’t constantly getting raped and are able to act and/or defend themselves without men first beating them up, bashing their heads into desks or throwing them against cabinets*.”
OTOH, Alice comes out either tonight or tomorrow, and I am SO EXCITED for that. A reminder why:
It looks so fun! And I thought Tin Man was a blast. Though the trailer makes me worry a bit about a love triangle. But i will be so sad if I don't like it!
Dang. Even mentioning Dollhouse makes me want my Farscape DVDs and/or more Babylon 5. Even at their worst, they couldn't dream of being as bad as Dollhouse at it's best. (Buffy, Angel and Firefly are currently somewhat ruined for me, though at least I no longer want to remove anything with the taint of Whedon from my apartment like I did after 2.4.)
*No, not “women getting hurt in a fight,” which is another thing entirely and not a bad thing, as long as they’re hurt because they’re fighting and not because they’re women, but women literally being passive until physically assaulted or “fixed” by the assault. Like Ballard repeatedly punching Echo until she switches to the personality he wants to “fix” her.
Though, in a story I was reading last night, I suddenly started picturing the guy as G’Kar and got terribly confused. Then I realized that he was describing his thoughts about someone similarly to how G’Kar does, and it made sense, but it provided a very interesting visual for the rest of the story.
Also, I am…irrationally annoyed by the fact that V is on hiatus until March, even though I'm not hugely into V yet as much as really hoping to be soon. I mean, I think the hiatus is a bad idea anyway (and at least I have 2 episodes to watch between now and then) but it’s made worse, I think, because I learned that about an hour after learning 2 episodes of Dollhouse aired in one night. Different stations, but I can’t quite suppress my initial reaction of “wow, I guess they were worried about showing too many episodes of a current genre show where women aren’t constantly getting raped and are able to act and/or defend themselves without men first beating them up, bashing their heads into desks or throwing them against cabinets*.”
OTOH, Alice comes out either tonight or tomorrow, and I am SO EXCITED for that. A reminder why:
Click to viewIt looks so fun! And I thought Tin Man was a blast. Though the trailer makes me worry a bit about a love triangle. But i will be so sad if I don't like it!
Dang. Even mentioning Dollhouse makes me want my Farscape DVDs and/or more Babylon 5. Even at their worst, they couldn't dream of being as bad as Dollhouse at it's best. (Buffy, Angel and Firefly are currently somewhat ruined for me, though at least I no longer want to remove anything with the taint of Whedon from my apartment like I did after 2.4.)
*No, not “women getting hurt in a fight,” which is another thing entirely and not a bad thing, as long as they’re hurt because they’re fighting and not because they’re women, but women literally being passive until physically assaulted or “fixed” by the assault. Like Ballard repeatedly punching Echo until she switches to the personality he wants to “fix” her.