[this barely getting by is really getting old]

[minervacat]

paraphrased recreation of a conversation had this week:minervacat: i think i should write spin city fic.
oracleasb: usually i encourage your crazy ideas, but this time, i think, just ... no.
minervacat: yeah, i guess so ... but carter was canonically gay! it would be so easy!
oracleasb: seriously. no.
sometimes i stop and take a long hard look at my life and think how the hell did i

Comments

[penguingal]

wow, that was better than the book! and also, what an incredibly poorly paced movie.

Huh. I actually liked the book more. (Yes, yes, I know Brown's a hack, but he's an enteratining hack.) But I agree, the movie was INCREDIBLY poorly paced. *shakes head*

Okay, since I never seem to do these any more:

1. Sports Night - What you said. This show had such great potential and momentum. It should have been fought for much harder than it was.

2. The X-files - I'll sometimes catch reruns every now and then and I think, why don't I own at least the first few seasons of this? This was the first show I started to collect on VHS (remember those?) and I still love it today. Mulder and Scully were probably my original OTP, even though I didn't know what that was then. DD was definitely one of my first TV boyfriends.

3. The West Wing - The showed "Two Cathedrals" on Bravo a few days ago and that image at the end of the flashbulbs going off and Barlet standing in front of the window, soaking wet, as the huge American flag billows in the background gets me every. damn. time. I missed Sorkin's influence and therefore missed alot of S6 and S7, but it ended in the best possible way and TWW will own my heart forever.

4. Abby McBeal - Okay, I know! But she was quirky and crazy and BAD at life but she had amazing boyfriends (Jesse L. Martin, thank you) and her Dad was James Naughton and that was just awesome. John Cage was fucking hilarious as was Elaine and Richard Fish and that show made me laugh and cry and I missed it when it was gone.

5. ST:TNG - Though it ended at the right time and though Captain Kirk is STILL and ALWAYS WILL BE my primary captain of choice, Jean Luc Picard and the Enterprise D made me the drooling, sci-fi freak that I am. "Make it so."

For my own information and on the subject of TV shows that are still on and maybe shouldn't be anymore: Law and Order? When none of the people who are on the show now were on it at the beginning, doesn't that say something?

[minervacat]

i HATED the da vinci code when i read it; i felt like dan brown thought his readers were stupid, and i thought all the narrative voices were patronizing and condescending, and it just made me want to fling the book across the room. i felt like howard made a much smarter movie out of a book that thought i was stupid, and so consequently i preferred the movie. :)

if ally mcbeal was on in reruns, i would totally watch it.