Two new to me shows.
The Sentinel
I've read a lot of Sentinel fic. A lot. And so when The Sentinel came out on DVD, I put it on my Netflix queue. I want you to know that before yesterday, I had only ever seen one episode. (It was the one where Blair's cheating student is the criminal Jim's looking for. At the time, I was horribly disappointed by the way they did not actually spend the whole episode together.) Yesterday I watched the pilot. I knew every single line of dialogue from the scene in Blair's office. Every. Single. Line. This leads me to believe that Sentinel authors have taken adherence to canon to a whole new level. Especially considering that if I go looking for new fic now, I go looking for AUs. Except for Francesca, who is my favorite Sentinel author. (One of the quotes from the quote identification thing none of you wanted to play is from one of her stories.)
Wildfire
On one of those times I was in a hotel room watching ABC Family, I saw an ad for Wildfire, which looked intriguing enough to add to my Netflix queue. I've now watched the entire first season, and I can't wait for the second season to be on DVD. Here's the setup: Kris gets out of her juvenile prison camp and gets a job at Raintree, a horse farm run by the Ritter family--Henry, his daughter-in-law Jean (Nana Visitor! Can I tell you how much of a crush I had on Ensign Kira?), and her children Matt (Kris's age) and Todd (junior high age). The rich kids from the currently successful horse farm--Junior and Dani--are friends with Matt.
IMDb says Wildfire was originally slated to be a WB show but was then shuffled onto ABC Family. This explains a lot. Junior is a lot like Felix on One Tree Hill, only more outwardly sweet. One of the things I love about this show is that the love triangle (Matt likes Kris, she likes him but doesn't want to screw things up with her job, she also likes Junior, she and Junior start dating and have sex, Junior says he loves her late in the season) doesn't screw up the boys' friendship. Of course, what the show really needs is some Matt/Kris/Junior fic.
There are many other good things about this show, too.
Not a Show
Once upon a time, there was TV Tome, and it was good. And then it got bought by cNet and became tv.com, and it was not so good, but still usable. And then it was redesigned and became nearly unusable. I'm finding that IMDb's new way of dealing with TV episodes is increasingly more useful than tv.com.
I've read a lot of Sentinel fic. A lot. And so when The Sentinel came out on DVD, I put it on my Netflix queue. I want you to know that before yesterday, I had only ever seen one episode. (It was the one where Blair's cheating student is the criminal Jim's looking for. At the time, I was horribly disappointed by the way they did not actually spend the whole episode together.) Yesterday I watched the pilot. I knew every single line of dialogue from the scene in Blair's office. Every. Single. Line. This leads me to believe that Sentinel authors have taken adherence to canon to a whole new level. Especially considering that if I go looking for new fic now, I go looking for AUs. Except for Francesca, who is my favorite Sentinel author. (One of the quotes from the quote identification thing none of you wanted to play is from one of her stories.)
Wildfire
On one of those times I was in a hotel room watching ABC Family, I saw an ad for Wildfire, which looked intriguing enough to add to my Netflix queue. I've now watched the entire first season, and I can't wait for the second season to be on DVD. Here's the setup: Kris gets out of her juvenile prison camp and gets a job at Raintree, a horse farm run by the Ritter family--Henry, his daughter-in-law Jean (Nana Visitor! Can I tell you how much of a crush I had on Ensign Kira?), and her children Matt (Kris's age) and Todd (junior high age). The rich kids from the currently successful horse farm--Junior and Dani--are friends with Matt.
IMDb says Wildfire was originally slated to be a WB show but was then shuffled onto ABC Family. This explains a lot. Junior is a lot like Felix on One Tree Hill, only more outwardly sweet. One of the things I love about this show is that the love triangle (Matt likes Kris, she likes him but doesn't want to screw things up with her job, she also likes Junior, she and Junior start dating and have sex, Junior says he loves her late in the season) doesn't screw up the boys' friendship. Of course, what the show really needs is some Matt/Kris/Junior fic.
There are many other good things about this show, too.
Not a Show
Once upon a time, there was TV Tome, and it was good. And then it got bought by cNet and became tv.com, and it was not so good, but still usable. And then it was redesigned and became nearly unusable. I'm finding that IMDb's new way of dealing with TV episodes is increasingly more useful than tv.com.