So, um, Sanctuary. Pretty cool, huh? I'm only about halfway through season one. I'm watching on my laptop here and there because (a) slashspouse says he can't get past Amanda Tapping's accent and thus won't watch with me and (b) my school computer/connection is not quite zippy enough to handle Netflix, and Hulu only has Season Two. I'll probably have some ( Read more... )

Many, many years ago, in what I think was my sophomore year of college, I saw The Cater Street Hangman in my college bookstore while buying a blue book for a final. Despite it being the week before finals, I devoured that books, reading surreptitiously under my desk in class. I read a fair bit into the series, although I eventually dropped it, ( Read more... )

What's the most recent TV show you can recall that had a reporter as a protagonist?

This post brought to you by watching Kolchak: The Nightstalker. The original.

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You know, I think it pretty much says everything about my current media lenses that when I see an ad for a new movie or tv show, there's about an 80%* chance that I will have one of two thoughts, or even both at the same time ( Read more... )

But it's sticking in my head and I'm drawing a series of blanks ( Read more... )

( spoilers could look like anyone. except not really. )

Today is Sunday. But you knew that. In the normal course of events, this would be the day that I sat down with folders, or at the computer, to catch up on grading and other school work. I am not going to do that today, for lo, Spring Break is upon us. Hooray for Spring Break! And while I have plenty of work to catch up on over break (she ( Read more... )

So...Battlestar Galactica. That's some good shit right there, huh?

If I batted my eyes real pretty, would a Starbuck icon appear?

I have coherent thoughts, but we're still on 2x07, so I want to get caught up before I write them out. Just...good shit, yeah.

Haven't seen House yet, which you can blame on my marriage. See, the Other Half doesn't like House (I know, I know), but does like Supernatural, which dictates the watch vs torrent order, so to speak.

On that note, some rambling about "The Benders." ( There are spoilers under your car, waiting to grab you. )

I've seen a couple of conversations (I think in tzikeh's respective LJs about watching tv shows on DVD and thus in a greatly compressed time frame, and what effects that has or might have either on the viewer's experience or the storytelling strategies.

( cutting here for rambling and possible spoilers of season one and early season two of Farscape and seasons one and two of SGA )