They're doing fandom, but they're not as horrifically embarrassing as so many of these shows are, largely because KATE BECKETT IS A FAN. (I totally hope she wrote fanfic. TELL ME SHE WROTE FANFIC.) And she is unashamed of her fannishness, and I can buy it for her character because she loved magic as a kid, and knows comic books, and she is just that damned awesome.
Also, Nathan Fillion is using every single chance he can in this ep to reference Firefly and I am totally okay with that. Shiny indeed.
To sum up: Age of the geek, baby, age of the geek.
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I did not sign up for Yuletide this year. Considering the way this week is going, that is really for the best from the view of stress levels (work is going to kill me, I'm going on another plane with my mother this weekend and maybe I should have gotten sedatives instead of her, an incident in the choir for which I'm on the board has left me feeling ill for many weeks now, and for the first time in my ever-loving life I am having to choose what the hell to do about stupid holidays this year), but still. Woe. I'm not doing Yuletide this year.