Various and sundry

[graculus]

You know, it's kind of tricky to take seriously an episode of Criminal Minds about a serial killer targetting the homeless when all the homeless folks and drug addicts have such perfect, shiny Hollywood-white teeth.

Please feel free to ignore me if I get all preachy about the current lj shenanigans in your journal, dear friends, it just bugs me

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[brihana25]

I'm just starting to get into CM. I've already watched the two James VanDerBeek episodes, and I enjoyed them both immensely. I've loved Mandy Patinkin for years, and Thomas Griffith... he's so not Greg any more. What an amazing actor. There's something about Reid, though. Maybe it's the hair. :)

I've worked with Menalto's Gallery for quite a few years, and I can honestly say that I've never had a problem with it. Of all the others out there, it's the one I would most definitely recommend.

[graculus]

I'd watched part of season 1 and then for some reason, I stopped. And then the magic internet truck helped me out with that and I just finished season 2, in preparation for when season 3 starts airing in September.

You know Mandy Patinkin has thrown a hissy fit and walked out on the show, though? It's going to be interesting to see if they manage to successfully replace him...

[brihana25]

I knew he'd left, but no one is really saying why. One exec says "creative differences", another says, "personal issues"... and he's rumored to be in the second ep for some reason.

I'm only halfway through S1, plus having seen Big Game and Revelations, and all I can say is that I really hope they promote from within and then bring in any new character in a lower position, like Elle and Emily both had when they started. I'd really like to see Hotch in charge, and I think he deserves it (based on what I've seen so far)... but though I really like Morgan, he just doesn't seem like Supervisor material yet.

I don't know. I'm sure I'll have a more informed opinion by September, though.

[graculus]

Apparently he did the same thing (or something very similar) when he was on Chicago Hope so it seems two seasons is about his limit?

I've heard various rumours about what they intend to do with the show, but I don't know which direction they go in... as long as they avoid inhouse romance, I'll be happy. It'll also be a bloody miracle, knowing US shows, but I live in hope!

[aizjanika]

Is it just me, or does the current fashion for tops look like over-bright maternity wear?

Yes! I see all these really thin young girls wearing shirts that give them the appearance of being pregnant. It's very strange, but I do remember smock tops being popular back in late 60s or thereabouts, too. I remember wearing them to school, though these were more like "cafeteria worker" smocks, but that was about what maternity clothing looked like back then, too. I have no idea why people would think it was a good idea to dress kids ages 8 - 12 or so in maternity wear, but apparently I was happy enough to wear it. *g*

[graculus]

Well, after the whole Strikethrough business, where someone on lj got triggerhappy and deleted a bunch of accounts and communities (including a major HP slash community, pornish_pixies because of pressure from some fundamentalist Christian nutjobs, the guy running lj assured everyone that there would be no further action like that without due process, that fandom was welcome on lj, yadda yadda...

Then, at the end of last week, two HP fan artists got banned on a permanent basis from lj for posting pics that initially were claimed to involving underage characters, with no opportunity to appeal. This included the deletion of one artists other journals, including one where they posted recipes. The pics in question were originally posted to pornish_pixies and were by no means a) the only ones, or b) the most dubious things ever posted there. One pic was a Snape/Harry pic where Harry appeared at least 18, the other was a Fred/George pic drawn in more of a cartoon style, which made telling their ages more tricky