and summer is over...

[wraithfodder]

Well, okay, it's got two days left, or three, can't recall.

I actually got to a beach three times this summer - a record!! I'd love to do it every week but there are no free beaches here :( Sigh...

TV-wise, well, let's see. Nothing has caught me fannishly, like Stargate Atlantis. Virtually everything on SyFy is meh to me, although I do watch Z

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[dieastra]

You don't know anyone in New York who could go to that shop and buy a ticket for you? Or, don't know, call the shop over the phone or something? This sucks indeed. Attending conventions gets more and more complicated - and expensive.

I am afraid I will have to watch the new American Horrow Show season, just because I like Matt Bomer so much. I loved him in White Collar.

I've recently totally unexpectedly fallen in love with the original Star Trek series, bought tons of action figures and have lots of fun with them ;) Trying to catch up with almost 50 years of Trek in the past few weeks, plus everything one certain William Shatner has ever done in his life. Which is A LOT.

While I still love to watch and discuss new series like Arrow in real time when they come out, I must say that binge watching and concentrating on only one thing has its merits as well. Plus the occasional rewatch of old loved fandoms.

I also have chucked away my Stargate tapes now. Ebay is full of them nobody wants. So yeah, I don't think you'll have much luck there.

[wraithfodder]

Alas, the NYCC tickets were just too tough to get. have a friday ticket but really wanted Saturday too. NYCC mucked up their online sales with lousy servers, then gave several hundred tickets to only one store in NYC, announced their sale less than 24 hours before sale. Not practical for those who don't live in NYC or the boroughs. Sigh. And didn't know anyone willing to stand in line for 6-12 hours to get Saturday tickets....and nope, the store wouldn't do phone orders. Heck, they don't even answer their tweets.

I chucked my Stargate tapes only because I have them on DVD now. I need to clear clutter, get back space and downsize. DVD is the way to go. Don't trust streaming for longevity though...

I miss the days of passionate fannishness. Wish they'd make a show that would suck me back into that mode. Last passion I had was killing a rat that decided to take up residence in my yard next to house (like two feet away!)

[dieastra]

Of course, I own the DVDs since they originally came out. The tapes are from back when I started with the show - I was late and only started in season 4 and didn’t want to wait for re-runs on TV. My local video library was selling their tapes cheaply.
But I bought a hard drive recorder finally so the days of the tape recorder will be over soon, and they were only taking up space. It was weird putting them into the bin.

I do still watch “Person of Interest” but I liked it better in the old days.

I am still fannish about „Arrow“ although we go into our fourth year now and a lot has changed and not all to the better. I guess that counts for a lot of shows. “Doctor Who” has totally lost me at the moment. I hope that will get better again one day. I loved the first four (new) seasons but at the moment I can’t really recommend it. Have you ever tried it though? When I got into the fandom, all my “Stargate” friends already were there. Usually those who like one, also like the other. The humor seems to be similar, and, at least for me, also the realism. It’s not too weird set in the future with space guns, it’s often set in nowadays time, although there is time travel to the past and to the future. Same as “Torchwood”. A team in an secret underground base, fighting alien stuff while trying to keep the people’s knowledge down, with a charismatic leader called Jack, a doctor, a computer scientist… sounds familiar? Captain Jack Harkness is someone one should know. Always funny when people talk about Captain Jack and mean Johnny Depp instead ;)

“Torchwood” has also its good and bad episodes (the five parts of season 3 are the best they ever did) and been dead for a while, but not entirely, we get Big Finish Audios now, which is better than nothing and we are very excited about it. Who knows if it will come back one day, they seem to resurrect a lot of old shows at the moment?

I like watching “Sherlock”, but it is so infrequently, and I’ve never been in the fandom for it and discussing all details. I’ll buy the action figures nevertheless when they’ll come out. Have you seen the big ones by Big Chief Studios? They are awesome, they look so real:

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I’ve recently developed a love for other British shows like “Downton Abbey”, “Broadchurch”, “Call the midwife”. After watching a few of those some American shows look shallow as there apparently the beauty of an actress is more important than whether she can act. In British shows, you see “normal” people.

Older American shows which I loved but are long gone but maybe you haven’t seen them - one is “White Collar”. Totally awesome, highly recommended. Might be up your alley if you like the NCIS stuff? The other would be “Six Feet Under”. Oh, and “Boston Legal”? I also really liked “Desperate Housewives” which was much better than one would think. Or how about “Queer as Folk”? I guess I don’t need to pimp “MacGyver” to you ;)

Just a few from the top of my head which I enjoyed in the past. Without knowing your taste of course.

[wraithfodder]

Ah, Broadchurch was good (UK version, not US version, which was strange) and Granchester. Still enjoy Sherlock when that pops up on PBS. No, have not seen the action figures. Maybe I'll see what's out at NYCC next week :)

At rate I'm going, I'll watch Arrow when it ends. I had plans to watch it but first six eps were thwarted by squabbles between CW affiliate and Cablevision, so I got six weeks of baseball reruns (which of course I did not watch).