2011: A Year in 824 episodes

[myr_soleil]

Note au cas où y'aille encore des gens qui lisent ce blogue: ce billet est en anglais parce que, ben, la majorité de mon blogue est en anglais maintenant, même si ça paraît pas. Et de toute façon, une image vaut mille mots, etc.

So, last year I made a post that was very much appreciated by me, my husband, and a lot of spam commenters. It was my

Comments

[gabsy]

THIS IS SO AMAZING!!! IT HAS SOME TERRIBLE FACES IN IT, WHICH I LIKE. LOTS OF AWESOME THINGS!

Your choice for the Golden Globes is PERFECTION.

[myr_soleil]

Haha, right, man, I was so grossly into them back when I did that part. ALSO DID YOU SEE MADAME PAILLÉ?!

Plus, I don't know if you noticed but my first two 2011 episodes were the last two episodes of Fringe S1. And... if I time it right it's quite possible that those will also be the first two episodes of 2012. All thanks to you! AWESOMESAUCE

[gabsy]

I MOST CERTAINLY DID! I shall always remember that debate as the-night-I-still-loved-Jack-Layton-a-lot-but-also-kinda-liked-Ignatieff-too!

Haha yesss, then I saw so many other caps from other seasons, and maybe I should feel bad about it, but all I can think is HEY, at least I can ârtly help with the 2012 spam because it's ALREADY capped!

[myr_soleil]

I thought actual election night was the night we liked Ignatieff. You know, because of our maternal instincts to take care of people when they're down.

Honestly tumblr is way more spoilery. Though I do think about one specific thing that probably spoiled you, but I won't say what in case you didn't notice it. And I don't like using the same cap twice, haha, so I'll have to pick new ones!... If I decide to picspam at all. I need to borrow the husband's computer to do it, so that's annoying.

[irishmizzy]

Oh wow, this is pretty awesome. SO MUCH GOOD TELEVISION. Ngl I got a little teary at the FNL part.

[myr_soleil]

I know right? That shot of the lights just before they turn off, ahhh, all the feelings. (& thanks!)

[htbthomas]

Oo, pretty. :)

[myr_soleil]

Thank you! Your icon is very appropriate, haha!

[daisysusan]

This is incredible. And we're not discussing how the Friday Night Lights section made me tear up. Or the Fringe caps.

[myr_soleil]

I think that's just the normal human reaction to Friday Night Lights in general, tbh. And FRINGE, ahh, I feel terrible that my S3 watching happened at the peak of my laziness re: this picspam because it means that it lacks so much Fringe goodness. Ah well. (Also thank you!)

[elapses]

THIS IS SUCH A COOL IDEA, and so pretty too. Were the caps you made bigger your "favorite" episodes, or was that a purely aesthetic choice?

[myr_soleil]

Oh, good, I get to talk about my process! :D All right, so all the hundreds are big caps - 100, 200, 300, etc., except 800 because I didn't find high-resolution images :( I also tried to put finales and premiers in big caps, but those are more random. And favorite episodes, too, like Mad Men's The Suitcase or P&R's Fancy Party. The second biggest caps (two in a row) are mostly episodes I liked particularly (or sometimes premieres/finales too) and the third biggest (three in a row) are often just to have some rhythm and to make the biggest caps fit.

In general I didn't go much for aesthetics, because I like it when I can tell which episodes it is with just an image, so I try to go for representativeness instead of prettiness. Except for rewatches like BSG - but then I don't rewatch much, so.

Haha this was probably way too many details for you, oops. Anyway. Thanks for asking! ;)