Day 19 - Best TV show castI take this to mean "best cast of actors", not "best cast of characters", which would be a very different thing. Even so, it's not easy to answer, not least because an actor just marking time or having cameos in one show might reveal he or she has actually amazing range in another. For example, I would never have guessed ( Read more... )

I still haven't read all the stories and fandoms I want to expore, there are that many this year. :) But here is a second bunch of reccomendations:

Singin' In The Rain: Top BillingWhat happened to Lina Lamont and Cosmo Brown after the film. The author hit on the ingeneous idea of letting Lina essentially become Hedda Hopper (who was a film ( Read more... )

Hm, I originally didn't intend to watch a fourth Pirates of the Caribean movie because to me, the driving force of those films was Elizabeth Swann's story, and Elizabeth has never been mentioned as being in it. (I'm seriously not that interested in Jack Sparrow. He's a good supporting character - with someone else as the lead.) Which actually works ( Read more... )

Back in Germany, with several comics read on the plane. I really liked Paul Cornell's Vampire State, a storyarc from his Captain Britain and MI-13 run. (Complete with Doctor Who gag.) Since halfamoon has started, does anyone do an entry for Faiza Hussein? (Cornell's Muslima doctor-turned-superhero.) Love her, love that she's the one who ( does spoilery stuff )

Blood Ties

Liberation: plotty, UST and other -tensions soaked story around Mike, Henry and Vicki, solving a case in the aftermath of the Father Mendoza incident. Mmmmm.

Dollhouse

For Those Rebellious: futurefic, in which Priya-Sierra and Tony-Victor are trying to figure out who they are after the Dollhouse.

It starts somewhere: Topher ( Read more... )

The Remix/Redux 7 ficathon is open for signing up! It occurs to me that rebooting a franchise (whether it's BSG or Star Trek) basically operates on the same principle said ficathon does. Which is why I can't get worked up about the talk of the owners of the Buffy movie rights wanting to cash in on same by wanting a Joss Whedon-less, Scooby-less and ( Read more... )