On the day before...
Since I have a few new people on my flist, let me repeat last year's pimping of In the Bleak Midwinter as one of my favourite Christmas movies. Directed and written by Kenneth Branagh but not starring him, about a Christmas production of Hamlet in the provinces, featuring the usual Branagh suspects as the ensemble, witty and despite stern competition of some of the "big" productions not only my not so secret favourite among KB's films but possibly my favourite take on Hamlet (meaning the play-within-a-film scenes). (Well, except for the Tennant/Stewart RSC stage production.)
Dexter:
Excellent season 5 meta by
abigail_n, talking about both the good and the extremely bothersome.
Merlin:
Seeing a Gwen-bashing secret at fandomsecrets (wouldn't you know it, she's despicable for moving on to Arthur after having kissed Lancelot) wasn't exactly a surprise but annoyed me nonetheless, especially some of the agreeing comments along the lines of how they love season 1 Gwen because she wasn't in the way of their pairing of choice yet because she was "so badass" (?) and in s3 supposedly was a wimp. And that they miss her friendship with Merlin. Now I love Gwen in all the seasons, but this argument clearly comes from an alternate universe. Not this one, where s3 Gwen was more a part of the central storylines and stronger than in any of the previous seasons (just compare her awesome confrontation with Uther in s3 with the s1 one), and if you missed all those adorable BFF scenes of her and Merlin together, you must have been deaf and blind. Thankfully, that exposure to Gwen hatred was offset by finding a delightful pic spam/meta on Gwen in s3, here and part 2, specifically about Gwen's relationship with Morgana, here.
Lastly, spotted while surfing: two Scots being adorable. The Moff teases David Tennant of falling back on his real (i.e. Scottish) accent when losing the text in this part of the audio commentary to Silence in the Library, and does a creditable DT impression while he's at it:
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Dexter:
Excellent season 5 meta by
abigail_n, talking about both the good and the extremely bothersome.
Merlin:
Seeing a Gwen-bashing secret at fandomsecrets (wouldn't you know it, she's despicable for moving on to Arthur after having kissed Lancelot) wasn't exactly a surprise but annoyed me nonetheless, especially some of the agreeing comments along the lines of how they love season 1 Gwen because she wasn't in the way of their pairing of choice yet because she was "so badass" (?) and in s3 supposedly was a wimp. And that they miss her friendship with Merlin. Now I love Gwen in all the seasons, but this argument clearly comes from an alternate universe. Not this one, where s3 Gwen was more a part of the central storylines and stronger than in any of the previous seasons (just compare her awesome confrontation with Uther in s3 with the s1 one), and if you missed all those adorable BFF scenes of her and Merlin together, you must have been deaf and blind. Thankfully, that exposure to Gwen hatred was offset by finding a delightful pic spam/meta on Gwen in s3, here and part 2, specifically about Gwen's relationship with Morgana, here.
Lastly, spotted while surfing: two Scots being adorable. The Moff teases David Tennant of falling back on his real (i.e. Scottish) accent when losing the text in this part of the audio commentary to Silence in the Library, and does a creditable DT impression while he's at it:
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