Why? Are you in love with him?
Day 23 - Most annoying character
WAAAAAAALT! He's my SON!
Repeat ad nauseam.
To win this category in a universe where Ana Lucia even exists is an amazing thing, but Michael edges her out by virtue of sheer repetition/generalized asshattery. I just can't.
(Sorry, carmen_sandiego! I couldn't wait.)
Day 01 - A show that should never have been canceled
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Favorite guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite miniseries
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death
Also:
-
I got through "Lover's Walk" last night, which seems like a good spot to stop and take stock:
I am so much more upset on behalf of Cordelia and Oz than I am re: the end of Buffy/Angel 2.0. I shipped Buffy/Angel pretty hard the first time around--and I'd be a complete liar if I said I didn't love their kiss before she killed him at the end of S2--but this revisiting just felt complicated and futile and tedious (On purpose, or no? Discuss!). Also, all that couples' tai chi is totally not helping their cause of making me take them seriously.
Which brings us to a quick S2 flashback, to "Passion" and Teh Sex, and how completely, almost disappointingly hilarious it was--and how much and how seriously my eighteen-year-old self would definitely have taken it. Here's what I want to know: would they have been able to get away with that goofy "it's raining, so we'd better take our clothes off!" set-up in today's fic-soaked world? I mean, clearly there was fic in 1998, otherwise Paula Graves was a figment of my teenage imagination. But there's so much more of it now, and the general attitude towards it and towards its relationship to canon has changed so much, that I wonder whether contemporary audiences would buy that scene onscreen. I mostly didn't, except for purposes of hilarity.
(Of course, a corollary question is the reverse: the extent to which that scene has influenced the fic landscape, having been a major scene in an early and influential fandom. It's hard to tell, not having been there the first time around. Thoughts, O flist?)
But what I really meant to say is that I mostly only like Xander in the context of Cordelia, and the only thing keeping my heartbreak at bay is the fact that Cordelia continues on Angel; also that I have a hard time being mad at Willow, but this could do it. Because Oz is GREAT. Grumble grumble Willow/Xander grumble.
And finally, I do not care about Faith very much at all.
- Sherlock caught a mouse! What apparently happened, not that I would know, as I was not home at the time: our other cat, Alex, brought a mouse inside, which he then promptly lost in my bedroom. (THANKS, CAT.) Sherlock, ever vigilant but inexperienced in the arena of actual live mice, chased it into my closet and hunted it down and killed it. I don't know if he treated it like he does his stuffed mice--if so, I'm glad I wasn't there, because ew--but he did refuse to eat a spider I showed him this morning. So I guess he's a vermin snob now.
- People! It's the first Bones S6 promo!
Okay, so. Not together, etc., but a) promo monkeys, whatever, and b) it is called "The Mastodon in the Room," which literally makes me laugh every single time I think about it. I am gleeful.
The serious question here is, how long do we think this bangs stage is going to last?
WAAAAAAALT! He's my SON!
Repeat ad nauseam.
To win this category in a universe where Ana Lucia even exists is an amazing thing, but Michael edges her out by virtue of sheer repetition/generalized asshattery. I just can't.
(Sorry, carmen_sandiego! I couldn't wait.)
Day 01 - A show that should never have been canceled
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Favorite guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite miniseries
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death
Also:
-
I got through "Lover's Walk" last night, which seems like a good spot to stop and take stock:
I am so much more upset on behalf of Cordelia and Oz than I am re: the end of Buffy/Angel 2.0. I shipped Buffy/Angel pretty hard the first time around--and I'd be a complete liar if I said I didn't love their kiss before she killed him at the end of S2--but this revisiting just felt complicated and futile and tedious (On purpose, or no? Discuss!). Also, all that couples' tai chi is totally not helping their cause of making me take them seriously.
Which brings us to a quick S2 flashback, to "Passion" and Teh Sex, and how completely, almost disappointingly hilarious it was--and how much and how seriously my eighteen-year-old self would definitely have taken it. Here's what I want to know: would they have been able to get away with that goofy "it's raining, so we'd better take our clothes off!" set-up in today's fic-soaked world? I mean, clearly there was fic in 1998, otherwise Paula Graves was a figment of my teenage imagination. But there's so much more of it now, and the general attitude towards it and towards its relationship to canon has changed so much, that I wonder whether contemporary audiences would buy that scene onscreen. I mostly didn't, except for purposes of hilarity.
(Of course, a corollary question is the reverse: the extent to which that scene has influenced the fic landscape, having been a major scene in an early and influential fandom. It's hard to tell, not having been there the first time around. Thoughts, O flist?)
But what I really meant to say is that I mostly only like Xander in the context of Cordelia, and the only thing keeping my heartbreak at bay is the fact that Cordelia continues on Angel; also that I have a hard time being mad at Willow, but this could do it. Because Oz is GREAT. Grumble grumble Willow/Xander grumble.
And finally, I do not care about Faith very much at all.
- Sherlock caught a mouse! What apparently happened, not that I would know, as I was not home at the time: our other cat, Alex, brought a mouse inside, which he then promptly lost in my bedroom. (THANKS, CAT.) Sherlock, ever vigilant but inexperienced in the arena of actual live mice, chased it into my closet and hunted it down and killed it. I don't know if he treated it like he does his stuffed mice--if so, I'm glad I wasn't there, because ew--but he did refuse to eat a spider I showed him this morning. So I guess he's a vermin snob now.
- People! It's the first Bones S6 promo!
Okay, so. Not together, etc., but a) promo monkeys, whatever, and b) it is called "The Mastodon in the Room," which literally makes me laugh every single time I think about it. I am gleeful.
The serious question here is, how long do we think this bangs stage is going to last?