Tired. But plans!

[omphale23]

Yesterday was a DAY. In that it was 24 hours filled with approximately 48 hours of social interaction, topped off with the sort of wheezing and splitting headache that reminds me not to hang out in smoky places

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[tricksterquinn]

I thought the theme might be vampire!Nikola Tesla ala Sanctuary.

[omphale23]

It could be, if I knew anything about Sanctuary? Also, I'm sort of disturbed if they made him a vampire just because he was Serbian. He'd be much better as the mad scientist who accidentally invents immortality while trying to find a way to avoid his gambling debts.

[wihluta]

He is a mad scientist AND a vampire and immortal as well as immoral and he used to have a deeply homoerotical relationship with both John Watson (aka the REAL!Holmes) and Jack the Ripper. Also, he is in love with Samantha Carter Amanda Tapping's character.

This show is very bad and not the slightest bit sorry for it. An absolute delight to watch. You should try it.

[tricksterquinn]

...yup, pretty much what she said!

I was going to say: Well, I think they thought he was a bit superpowered to begin with, so... ok, the basic premise of the show is that five beffies at Oxford in the 18-mumbles decided to see what would happen if they injected themselves with ancient vampire blood. One became Nightcrawler possessed by Jack the Ripper, basically; one became genius-Sherlock-Holmes-and-Doctor-Watson all in one, one became the Invisible Man, Samantha Carter Amanda Tapping's character just got immortality, her preexisting BAMFiness, and to sex up various of her crazy beffies for the next 100 years and counting. Tesla wound up a vampire, now with some sort of ability to do spiffy electrical things directly, like with his hands.

Tesla is the best thing about that show. I wouldn't call him immoral as much as amoral, and he's the best thing about a show which also has Peter Wingfield. This is saying something, coming from me.

[omphale23]

That's...sounds like a train wreck, honestly. And given that I eventually had to stop watching Merlin for reasons of OMGHISTORYWRONGAUGH, I don't know. I'll add it to the list, and we'll see how it goes?

[tricksterquinn]

*shrug* I don't watch it. I've only seen a few eps (...mostly Normandy, which for some reason people thought I should see... weird!). I wasn't trying to sell you on it. But it's too ludicrous a premise not to share once brought up, and it's definitely what "ridiculous vampires + Serbian identity" brought to mind for me!

I have some friends who adore it. My tv-watching attention span is just not good enough for pretty much anything. We've been hovering two, three eps into Homeland for months, for example.

[omphale23]

Oh, S watches it. He just doesn't really bother to talk about it, which is usually a pretty good sign that it's the sort of show he finds amusing but won't push at me because he doesn't want to deal with the snarking. So I'll add it to the list, but I won't make any promises because he's a pretty good judge of what I'll enjoy and what will just irritate the fuck out of me.

(Not that knowing it will irritate me stops him from making me watch things. Just that he likes to choose which things will make me throw the remote for maximum entertainment value, and this one hasn't made the cut, so far.)

[omphale23]

Tempting, but I would need actual freetime? Or possibly I will watch it, but it'll have to go to the end of the queue and I'm pretty sure there about ten shows ahead of it. So by 2015, I should be ready for S1!

[wihluta]

By then it will be a classic! Perfection.