Generally non-spoilery comments about stuff I've watched these past several months (after summer ended). You know the drill: I babble for a few sentences and move on to the next shiny thing.

( movie: The King's Speech )

Just finished season one of Farscape. Am now determined to stay up ridiculously late and start season two to find out WHAT HAPPENS!

I never mentioned it, but I made baby brother watch several episodes of Farscape season one with me during Christmas vacation.

He's finished seasons one and two already. *laughs* In fact, he's way ahead of me now. Maybe I should finish season one this weekend.

We also watched the first three episodes of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, ( Read more... )

I don't want to lose an hour of sleep. Stupid daylight savings time. (Yes, I like the later sunset. *grumps anyway*)

TNT put the pilot episode of Leverage back on their website. And it really was awesome. So, to sum up:
( small spoilers for cast and pilot episode )

Farscape first! So, I liked episodes one through ten, but it still wasn't must-watch TV yet. I skipped episode eleven--the online reviews seemed to indicate that it wasn't that great, and not really necessary for character development. My attitude changed during episode twelve, 'Rhapsody in Blue.' ( spoilers from 1.12-1.15 )

Okay, I'm totally on board with the Aeryn/John show (aka Farscape). I like the other characters (hee, Rygel makes me giggle a lot), but I'm watching because Aeryn is awesome, John is adorable and they need to get together and have hundreds of fat children. Okay, maybe not hundreds. At any rate, ( brief spoilers up through 1.07 )

The Farscape pilot episode has some of my favorite set-ups for fiction. Enemies forced to bond, lost person forced to deal quickly with unfamiliar setting, the outsider. Yeah, I love the outsider in stories (in case that wasn't glaringly obvious to anyone who reads this LJ on a regular basis). Spaceships and fights, too, yay ( Read more... )