Apparently, it’s been a week since I last posted. Huh. It doesn’t seem that long. I’m on the last day of my five day mini vacation. WAH! I wish I had relaxed more. It’s hard for me to do nothing when I know there are things I could be doing. That’s part of the problem with just staying home. You’re surrounded by your stuff. You can see the projects waiting for your attention. Or the laundry in need of washing. On the Brightside, the magazine pile of doom has gotten much lower. The DVDs and CDs are now organized so I can find them easily. And the DVR is relatively cleaned up.

I didn’t do any marathon DVD viewing as planned, but I’m now well into Season 2 of Due South. Is it just my imagination or did the show try to become more serious in Season 2? And three eps in a row exploring Ray V’s love life when he couldn’t get a date in Season 1 seemed odd. I also feel that if it was going to happen it would have by now, so, for the record, I am not seeing the slash. It’s like Jack and Daniel on Stargate for me. There are moments where I can understand how others may see it or wish to create the scenario, but it’s just not happening for me. And just like Jack/Daniel, I love the Fraser/Ray V friendship. It’s awesome that these two friendless people - because who else could put up with them? - found each other and support each other no matter what. But I don’t want to envision them having sex together and there is enough evidence on screen that the thought would send them running in opposite directions from each other too.

All of which makes me want to sit down and think about why I see the slash when I do see it. I never even understood people being enamored with the idea until I watched the Hornblower films. Sure, Jamie and Ioan are very pretty, have a nice chemistry, and there were really no women to come between them, but is that it? I’ve read and written Lee/Helo and there are most certainly women to come between them and I support (most ;) of those ships. And now there is my little Oz obsession (which I need to write about at some point). On that series I don’t even have to use my imagination it’s there, a lot. Perhaps it comes down to the actors, the characters, and a need that those characters satisfy in each other (and I’m not just talking sex) that I, personally, find missing on DS.

I watched the Doctor Who premiere on SciFi Friday night even though, like many of you, I saw the episodes some months ago. danceswithwords had not yet seen ‘The Runaway Bride’ and it was interesting to get her take on it after viewing all of Season 3 and ( casting spoiler for Season 3/Season 4 )

Here are my thoughts from when I first watched ‘The Runaway Bride’ back in December. Reading them again I think it’s still a fair assessment of the episode. However, ( cut again for Season 3/Season 4 casting discussion )

I didn’t watch much of Live Earth, but I did manage to catch The Police and let me once again reiterate that Sting must have made a deal with Satan at some point.

Did I mention one of my coworkers had tickets to see The Police in Chicago last week? Yeah, hate her.

Considering the track records of networks swearing they’ll burn off the remaining episodes of a canceled series and then either change the schedule before they air (FOX, I’m looking at you with Drive) or air one episode then pull the series again, I’m not holding my breath on ABC’s decision to air the rest of ‘The Nine’. I suppose the one thing it has going for it is Tim Daly. Since he will be appearing on Peak Practice, perhaps the network wants to get his face on our screens before the new season starts.

wisteria_ finally ;) reposted a little ficlet she had written in comments inspired by exchanges we had in regards to one of Jamie’s more dubious (infamous?) fashion choices. It’s very cute (and God I wish it was the reason!) and very G rated because you all know I don’t do RPF. The Green Flip-Flops of Doom.

The fic writing has gotten off to a slooooooow start. You apparently can get out of practice. I need to find time to write every day. What helped was rewatching (most of ) the final three eps of Season 3. ‘The Son Also Rises’ didn’t hold up quite as well for me (though I could watch the Sam/Lee scenes on a loop), but I enjoyed ‘Crossroads Pt 1 & 2' even more (I could watch that Lee/Laura scene on a loop). And there were a couple things that escaped me the first time around. What, unfortunately, couldn’t escape me is the person William Adama has become or perhaps always was, they just disguised it better.

( Some Season 3 observations and venting. )

Oh, I did have one fairly major accomplishment over this break. I made a banner for bamber_news! Considering my limited software, lack of graphics know how (I *finally* figured out layers), and coding panic, the fact that I managed what I did makes me very happy.

Tags: battlestar galactica s3, doctor who s3, due south, oz
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It’s been raining here most of the weekend which left me with two options, lounging about and watching TV or cleaning. Surprisingly, I did the responsible thing and cleaned most of yesterday including moving furniture and picking up rugs to vacuum. I Finally sorted through the spare room which had become the dumping ground for stuff and managed to frame and hang couple of Broadway posters I had lying around for several years. Things are starting to look pretty spiffy. I may even take some photos. I think I need to send them to my uncle who keeps telling my mother he’s contemplating sending me some God awful antiques. The latest being an electrified oil lamp with a pink and beige base and lamp shade with cut outs. I can’t even imagine how hideous this thing looks. His taste is that of a seventy year old woman at the turn of the century. Sigh.

I did watch some TV this weekend. First up is the 'Gates'. I watched both SG1’s Talion and SGA’s Sunday with sdwolfpup, brynnmck, and danceswithwords because it was a special occasion beyond Bryn’s birthday. Unfortunately, said occasion I can only refer to behind a cut because it involves spoilage.

I’m just copying and pasting the thoughts I posted for ‘Talion’ many months ago. It’s spooky how I said the exact same things again Friday in chat without even realizing it.

( Talion )

And now for the moment I’ve been waiting for. ( Sunday )

In honor of brynnmck’s birthday (one of the few perks of living in the eastern time zone is I was one of the first to get to wish her a Happy Birthday! ;-), I’m going to talk about due South. Because of Bryn and SDW’s enthusiasm for it, I had purchased Season 1 months ago as did DWW. While DWW has managed to start working her way through Season 2, I’ve been languishing in early season 1. (I blame HBO and the repeats of Oz.) Now with the 2006-2007 TV season officially over, I have time to haul out the DVDs again.

I mentioned in chat on Friday that I was up to ‘Victoria’s Secret’ (or so I thought, more on that in a bit), an ep that I had seen many people rave about. So at two in the morning, after Bryn departed due to the surprise arrival of her brother, SDW and DWWf convinced me to watch Part 1 of VS with them. Part 2 had to wait until the next day for me because I was becoming Zombie Asta by 3am. Watching Part 2 led to watching ‘Letting Go’ which led to…( more under the cut. )

I assume many of you have heard about the new series Moonlight about a tortured vampire detective that falls in love with a mortal? David Greenwalt is taking over as show runner. ::head desk::

inlovewithnight is organizing the very low stress One Night Stand Challenge. You should all go over and take a look to see what there is to look forward to or, better yet, contribute. I have an idea, now it’s a matter of finding the time for it.

Finally, since I believe this is the longest post I’ve done since BSG wrapped up it’s season, Happy Birthday! x_h00ine. I hope it’s not raining on your parade, not a literal parade even though you deserve one, and that you continue to have an awesome weekend. :)

Tags: due south, sga, stargate s10
Current Mood: accomplished