Like everyone else, I snatched time away from family during these last days to indulge in the fannish goodness that is yuletide, with its multitude of fanfic in rare fandoms. Here are my favourites so far, with the caveat that I've still a lot to read:

American Gothic:

Visiting Hours. Matt only gets one visitor. Short, and with perfect Dr. Crower and ( Read more... )

Academic Pursuit is one result from the Babylon 5 Rare Pairings story and is actually a Crusade fic, starring Max Eilerson (that's him on my icon) and Dureena. Sparkling dialogue, both completely in character, and I love it to bits.

new Battlestar Galactica: The Day I Met You: the five ways that Ellen might've met Saul. Set pre-show, naturally, ( Read more... )

'Tis a good day to be a fangirl. Two space show DVDs arrived on my doorstep, the new BSG and the ill-fated Crusade, which I shall now finally see in its entirey. andrastewhite, what was your preferred order of watching again?

I also saw the Alias episode The Orphan, which I liked a lot. And see, I got my flashback Alias episode penned by a Jossverse scribe. ( Read more... )

You know, instead of a proper Carnivale review, which still eludes me for I know I will be unfair in writing one, I offer this summary of the two last episodes in not quite Jacobean blank verse:

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The following insanity owes its existence to an exchange with andrastewhite on the subject of Arvin Sloane, Al Bester and Scorpius needing to each the art of being a magnificent bastard somewhere. So, I offer...

THE MULTIVERSE ACADEMY FOR VILLAINS

Class Schedule:

The Art of Dialogue: The key to being a successful and popular villain often lies in getting ( Read more... )

You know, episodes 8 and 9 confirmed a strange phenomenon for me as far as Carnivale is concerned. This is the first show I like where I tend to regard the episodes written by the show's creator (as a solo effort, not the ones he cowrites with others) as sub par. 8 was a Daniel Knauf solo episode and it illustrated what kradical said at the beginning of ( Read more... )

Firstly, DS9 fans, deborah_judge has started a work-in-progress about Winn, and the first two installments, one about her as a child and one set post-show, are excellent. Have a look and admire ( Read more... )

You know, I had a perfectly good rant going, full of complaints about lost subtlety in Carnivale's second season, and then I saw episode 2.05. The name of the writer, Tracy Tormé, rings a bill - didn't she use to write for DS9? (Or was it BTVS, but I think the writer of Something Blue was Tracy Something Else.) In any case, this person, for it now ( Read more... )

Firstly, American readers, if the ramblings on these humble pages or anything else has made you interested into the new Battlestar Galactica, the Sci-Fi Channel is running a marathon on Tuesday of the first five episodes starting at 7 p.m. EST, so you should have a chance to catch up. A fan of the old show - proving that loving both is far from ( Read more... )

More Carnivale, though I just discovered I'm missing the very last episode of season 1 and that my (very gracious, and very generous) source has just sprung to season 2. Behold the mutters of "but... huh?" a couple of times during the season 2 premiere. But enough about that.

( Asylum, Lady Lazarus and Revelations, oh, my! )