Your main fandom of the year?

Despite expectations (i.e. that Dr Who would be amazing), I think I've ended up fangirling Downton Abbey and antiques shows the most.

Your favorite film watched this year?Well, favourite new film: Taken. Favourite rewatched film: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. (Have gone a whole year without seeing Star Wars ( Read more... )

Since everyone is doing this meme...


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Comment to this entry and I'll give you a letter. List ten things that you love that begin with that letter and then post that list on your journal." Meme taken from naath, who gave me GSo, things I love beginning with G? Things I like beginning with a G is hard enough really, but here goes ( Read more... )

OK, before I write about more exciting stuff, here's that meme...

For a snippet from the introduction of my PhD thesis, A Linguistic History of Cyprus:


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Fans of Life on Mars, if you don't already have the DVD box sets, Play.com is currently doing them for under £10 for each series. Serious bargain.

Season 1

Season 2

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In other news, ( I am Romana, apparently )

Month memes, anyone? I've really enjoyed the TV Month Meme - the idea is that you have a predetermined order of posting, and for every day you refer to the list and make a post answering the question of e.g. what you favourite show is, what show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving, etc. You do this every day for thirty days, and at ( Read more... )

Current t.v show obsession

Spooks: At last, an easy one! My current obsession is Spooks. I first got into it when I followed Richard Armitage from Robin Hood to his new role in Spooks season 7 (2008) as the rather lovely and quite dark and tortured agent Lucas North. Then I watched season 8 the next year, and that Christmas (i.e. last Christmas, ( Read more... )

First t.v show obsession

Sharpe: I was about 13 when I first saw Sharpe (this would be c.1996, so not when it first came on TV), and I'm sure I'd been quite obsessed with some other TV shows before then but this was the one that probably sent me off into fangirlishness (and coincides with mid-puberty, which I doubt is insignificant). I think I ( Read more... )

Best pilot episode

I'm going to go with something recent because it's all I can think of right now, so...

FlashForward: The pilot was brilliant, I thought. Apparently the series never hooked enough people to get it to a second series :( but the first episode had everything it needed to get me involved and make sure I'd tune back in for more: ( Read more... )

A show you plan on watching (old or new)

Spooks season 3: Well, it's arrived, I just have to pick it up from James when I get back to Cam :) I'm looking forward to finding out who Danny was, and how Zaf joined section D, and seeing more Malcom and Colin, and Harry being sarcastic. Hopefully I'll get a better impression of why everyone thinks Ruth ( Read more... )