i wanna nog your egg
a.k.a. I'm listening to Christmas music on repeat while blogging some links and some blather about TV.
Delicious is probably getting sold, not just closed down. Which, let's hope, means those of us who use it regularly won't need to find a replacement just yet. Though it's a good reminder that backing up everything is always a good plan. And I will also be happier when the fan-run version gets done, which knowing fans will be any time now.
If you don't read
gavagai, then you've missed out on a lot of excellent links.
Relationships between UK citizens as measured by phonecalls is FASCINATING. Just look at how closely those match up to the bureaucratic boundaries!
I'm someone who believes in enthusiasm, and this article about the politics of enthusiasm has lots of food for thought.
Awww, it's an Everybody DOES Love Each Other (And Abby Can Look Really Cute Dancing) episode!
Basically, it was fluff... but I didn't mind that at all. There was a turkey, and Tim and Ziva teaming up due to freaking out over Tony acting like an adult, and Ducky being On The Internetz, and it was just cute.
Oh, and I LOVED that Ziva got to make the big heartwarming speech, because she's earned it. It was very Ziva, too: sanctimonious is always a likely problem with that sort of thing, and especially from a morally grey character like Ziva, but nope. It was just "yes you have to try to not be a dick, but that doesn't mean giving up everything that makes you yourself", and everyone could see the ending a mile off... and it was lovely.
What was up with having two episodes of Psych? It wasn't a two parter. But it remains so charming - Lassie has a sister who thinks he is GREAT, of course he does, that is how it should be - and I continue to go ♥ the whole time. And James Roday did a decent job of directing, which is always nice. And Gus remains my very very favourite, and I liked that even though Shawn and Jules are together now, it's not taken over. They have cute little moments of Shawn yelling distractions so he can kiss Jules, but that's it.
...but the title of the last episode of the season says to me OMG FEAR and Jules is probably going to be back in danger given last time with Yin and Yang, and eeeeep. *hides*
I saw Dirk Gently and... was not impressed. I mean, it wasn't terrible - Stephen Mangan was actually pretty good as Dirk, and didn't make me think of Guy at all, and everyone else was okay, but. But.
It was kind of BORING. There was so little SF content (and that deliberately ambiguous), and the many, many references to the books mostly fell kind of flat. Like, the bit with Dirk talking about Schroedinger's cat: that was there, but all the context (the leaping in the canal, the reveal that Dirk knows he's chatted bollocks and has done so for an actual reason, not just wackiness) was all gone. And I can see why they didn't keep in everything with the Electric Monk and the sofa and the not-at-all-a-timelord-omfg, but... that's why it was a bit ridiculous to think Dirk Gently could be a crime procedural at all. It's so far from the original you might as well call it something else.
To be fair, I think it's hard to tell how an actual series might work from an obviously low budget pilot episode, but from this they might as well have called it Jonathan Creek 2: Whacky Harder.
And finally, in honour of the fact my weather forecast now says Heavy Snow in very ominous letters, and because newsbot3 sent it to me, and also just in case you hadn't had enough festive Christianity lately *g*, here: Let It Dough. Mmm... baked things.
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Delicious is probably getting sold, not just closed down. Which, let's hope, means those of us who use it regularly won't need to find a replacement just yet. Though it's a good reminder that backing up everything is always a good plan. And I will also be happier when the fan-run version gets done, which knowing fans will be any time now.
If you don't read
gavagai, then you've missed out on a lot of excellent links.
Relationships between UK citizens as measured by phonecalls is FASCINATING. Just look at how closely those match up to the bureaucratic boundaries!
I'm someone who believes in enthusiasm, and this article about the politics of enthusiasm has lots of food for thought.
Awww, it's an Everybody DOES Love Each Other (And Abby Can Look Really Cute Dancing) episode!
Basically, it was fluff... but I didn't mind that at all. There was a turkey, and Tim and Ziva teaming up due to freaking out over Tony acting like an adult, and Ducky being On The Internetz, and it was just cute.
Oh, and I LOVED that Ziva got to make the big heartwarming speech, because she's earned it. It was very Ziva, too: sanctimonious is always a likely problem with that sort of thing, and especially from a morally grey character like Ziva, but nope. It was just "yes you have to try to not be a dick, but that doesn't mean giving up everything that makes you yourself", and everyone could see the ending a mile off... and it was lovely.
What was up with having two episodes of Psych? It wasn't a two parter. But it remains so charming - Lassie has a sister who thinks he is GREAT, of course he does, that is how it should be - and I continue to go ♥ the whole time. And James Roday did a decent job of directing, which is always nice. And Gus remains my very very favourite, and I liked that even though Shawn and Jules are together now, it's not taken over. They have cute little moments of Shawn yelling distractions so he can kiss Jules, but that's it.
...but the title of the last episode of the season says to me OMG FEAR and Jules is probably going to be back in danger given last time with Yin and Yang, and eeeeep. *hides*
I saw Dirk Gently and... was not impressed. I mean, it wasn't terrible - Stephen Mangan was actually pretty good as Dirk, and didn't make me think of Guy at all, and everyone else was okay, but. But.
It was kind of BORING. There was so little SF content (and that deliberately ambiguous), and the many, many references to the books mostly fell kind of flat. Like, the bit with Dirk talking about Schroedinger's cat: that was there, but all the context (the leaping in the canal, the reveal that Dirk knows he's chatted bollocks and has done so for an actual reason, not just wackiness) was all gone. And I can see why they didn't keep in everything with the Electric Monk and the sofa and the not-at-all-a-timelord-omfg, but... that's why it was a bit ridiculous to think Dirk Gently could be a crime procedural at all. It's so far from the original you might as well call it something else.
To be fair, I think it's hard to tell how an actual series might work from an obviously low budget pilot episode, but from this they might as well have called it Jonathan Creek 2: Whacky Harder.
And finally, in honour of the fact my weather forecast now says Heavy Snow in very ominous letters, and because newsbot3 sent it to me, and also just in case you hadn't had enough festive Christianity lately *g*, here: Let It Dough. Mmm... baked things.
This entry was originally posted at http://soupytwist.dreamwidth.org/48011.html. Please comment there using OpenID.