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- Rumour has it that the Sarah Connor Chronicles is likely to return for a second season. Am very happy. I love that show. Despite it being cut short by 3 episodes, the 9th ep / impromptu finale actually ended on a pretty nice cliffhanger. Meanwhile Brian Austin Green continues to be unbelievably awesome as Derek Reese. He manages to make him real - you like him for his good traits, you hate him for his bad ones. He's courageous and compassionate, but has a chip on his shoulder and is reckless. That scene with him and John in the park in the last ep was amazing.
- Also, I hereby decree my love for Ashes to Ashes. As brilliant as Life on Mars was, I think I may like this spin-off better. I love LoM because of 1) how caring, protective and generally all round lovely kind of guy Sam was and 2) because I wanted to see why he was in 1973. But with AtA it's more - it's Alex, it's the fact that it's in the 80's which is a much loved era for me, it's the music, the fashion, the historical references, it's also the mystery with Alex's parents, it's even Gene and the gang who I didn't pay much attention to in LoM. I think Alex being a women gives it a new, more compelling angle, and setting it in a whole new era really makes it fresh. It's got connections to LoM, but it's really a complete standalone show itself. I especially love the white clown from Alex's hallucinations. A muchly admirable foe for the Frightening Little Girl Out of the Telly from LoM. She scared the hell out of me.
- Torchwood, oh you. Doing a silly, comedy episode, obviously not realising that most of series one seemed like one very long silly, comedy episode. Snark. 'Something Borrowed' was indeed highly silly. In the I'm laughing at you not with you kind of way. I found it enjoyable but mostly ridiculous. Tosh was good though. I like how even though it's a widely held opinion that she's desperate for any male attention - she's clearly not. She loves Owen and is mostly just doe-eyed with him because of this, whereas that bloke at the wedding who fancied her got totally pwned by her piercing glare and disdainful brush offs. The Jack/Gwen bits made me shudder, but I'm glad that it was all's well that ends well after all the drama. Gwen and Rhys's parents were very very funny. Owen continues to be superlative, while Ianto continues to be not bland, so good on Ianto!
- I, for some reason, bought The X-Files series 1. Oh all right, I know the reason - I'm still experiencing Stargate withdrawl and I think I was trying to throw myself into another long sci-fi show in attempts to save myself. Nope. Not working. Although, after seeing episode 1, I will admit that it's really intriguing. In X-Files' heyday I was but a wee one, and it scared me to death. I couldn't even stick the theme tune. It terrified me. Suffice to say, I never really got into it because of the aforementioned terror. It's good to catch back up on it now. I can also sympathise with the long running Mulder/Scully shippers - who I assume are out there - because even after one episode of Mudler's adorable little grins at Scully, and her clinging at him, I just want them to jump one another. I am aware that this was aired in 1992 though and 16 years later... the shippers still appear to be waiting. Oh dear.
- Also, I hereby decree my love for Ashes to Ashes. As brilliant as Life on Mars was, I think I may like this spin-off better. I love LoM because of 1) how caring, protective and generally all round lovely kind of guy Sam was and 2) because I wanted to see why he was in 1973. But with AtA it's more - it's Alex, it's the fact that it's in the 80's which is a much loved era for me, it's the music, the fashion, the historical references, it's also the mystery with Alex's parents, it's even Gene and the gang who I didn't pay much attention to in LoM. I think Alex being a women gives it a new, more compelling angle, and setting it in a whole new era really makes it fresh. It's got connections to LoM, but it's really a complete standalone show itself. I especially love the white clown from Alex's hallucinations. A muchly admirable foe for the Frightening Little Girl Out of the Telly from LoM. She scared the hell out of me.
- Torchwood, oh you. Doing a silly, comedy episode, obviously not realising that most of series one seemed like one very long silly, comedy episode. Snark. 'Something Borrowed' was indeed highly silly. In the I'm laughing at you not with you kind of way. I found it enjoyable but mostly ridiculous. Tosh was good though. I like how even though it's a widely held opinion that she's desperate for any male attention - she's clearly not. She loves Owen and is mostly just doe-eyed with him because of this, whereas that bloke at the wedding who fancied her got totally pwned by her piercing glare and disdainful brush offs. The Jack/Gwen bits made me shudder, but I'm glad that it was all's well that ends well after all the drama. Gwen and Rhys's parents were very very funny. Owen continues to be superlative, while Ianto continues to be not bland, so good on Ianto!
- I, for some reason, bought The X-Files series 1. Oh all right, I know the reason - I'm still experiencing Stargate withdrawl and I think I was trying to throw myself into another long sci-fi show in attempts to save myself. Nope. Not working. Although, after seeing episode 1, I will admit that it's really intriguing. In X-Files' heyday I was but a wee one, and it scared me to death. I couldn't even stick the theme tune. It terrified me. Suffice to say, I never really got into it because of the aforementioned terror. It's good to catch back up on it now. I can also sympathise with the long running Mulder/Scully shippers - who I assume are out there - because even after one episode of Mudler's adorable little grins at Scully, and her clinging at him, I just want them to jump one another. I am aware that this was aired in 1992 though and 16 years later... the shippers still appear to be waiting. Oh dear.