Lurker Central

Before we get down to business, for anyone who missed it I posted two fics this past week: Dance With Your Ghost (Dean/2014!Cas) and Terms Of Service (Dean/Cas AU based on the fairy tale "The Elves And The Shoemaker." And written for dc_dystopia so y'know, cavet lector and all that.:) I've been rolling around in the comments for both of those like a happy puppy for the past few days, so thank all of you super much. You're awesome. ♥

Now back to the meme I will apparently never finish!

Day 08 - A show everyone should watch

Okay, the right answer to this is Homicide: Life on the Streets (best cop show ever!*) or Babylon 5 (loooooooooooove!) or maybe MST3K so you will understand why I'm singing about Puma Man and how he flies like a moron. Those are the right answers!

But I'm so in love with Arrow right now I don't care.:) I swear to all of you, this show has gotten really, really good. Fast-paced plotting and good action sequences and a really well developed villain. If he even is a villain, because I'm not even sure any more! And an actually compelling conspiracy plot, which is worth its weight in diamonds. I don't know if the writers can keep this pace up over multiple seasons, but this is a great ride. And that goes double if you have any appreciation for the DC universe, because love for the DCU is built into this show's bones.

No one is more surprised by this than me! I went in expecting a cheesy substitution for Smallville, which for its first three seasons was the show of my heart, but Arrow's already so much better than Smallville ever was. I want this show to have a ridiculously big fandom that writes all the fic.

ARROW!

(*Yes, yes, The Wire, but that's not a pure procedural the way Homicide is. And also I haven't see The Wire.)

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For anyone who missed it, I'm doing the WiP meme here!

Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show

Ha. Ahahahahahaha, yeah no. Here, have my favorite episode from multiple favorite shows:

Doctor Who: Dalek. (Classic Who: The Mind Robber)

Supernatural: On The Head Of A Pin. Or The Rapture. Or The Man Who Would Be Thing. Or A Very Supernatural Christmas. Or Mystery Spot. Or...I'll get back to you.

Lost: The Constant. (If anyone ever tells you they have a different favorite episode, they are lying.)

Heroes: Company Man. Jesus, that episode. Or Five Years Gone.

Star Trek: Amok Time! Or Balance Of Terror, they're such different episodes it's hard to choose.

Babylon 5: Interludes And Examinations (not the one you'll usually hear B5 fans pick, but I'm a crying mess every time.)

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Granada): Norwich Builder or The Blue Carbuncle (which does have hands-down my favorite string of deductions.)

Rome: 33. My heart, you guys.

Justice League Unlimited: Double Date.

And since it was my pick for favorite show, MST3K: Manos: the Hands Of Fate. But really, there's no bad there. Except for Sidehackers. (*shakes fist at Sidehackers*)

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Oliver Queen's definition of "alone" (as in "I was alone on the Island for five years") is, um. Suspect.:) Also, fandom, I have a mission for you! Everyone needs to write me ( spoilers for tonight's Arrow )

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Day 04 - Your favorite show ever

This is an impossible question. How does anyone answer this question?

Um.

Okay, let's bypass the usual suspects (because I cannot pit Doctor Who, Supernatural, Babylon 5, Homicide, the first 3 seasons of Smallville, Star Trek etc. against each other for ownership of my heart) and go for the show which has probably episode-for-episode brought me more joy than any other: Mystery Science Theater 3000.

PU-MA MAN, HE FLIES LIKE A MORON!

I'm gonna go see if I still have the Manos: The Hands Of Fate theme techno remix on my computer and rock out for a while. 'Scuse me.

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Ugh, writing. How do you work?

Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching

ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN! C'mon, people. It is adorable and the first season is streaming on Netflix. Marvel high school AU! Coulson undercover as the school principal (and taking the job really seriously!) Fury being a BAMF superspy! Danny and Luke and Sam and Ava! Fantastic versions of MJ and Harry and Norman and Aunt May! There really is no bad here.

I really love this show and wish everyone else loved it too. I can't wait for S2 to hit netflix so I can marathon it the way I did S1.

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Man, I started to do the Year End Writing meme and I am just not up to all that masterpost wrangling and linking. Tomorrow!

So let's have the TV Meme instead:

Which TV shows did you start watching in 2012?

Once Upon A Time and The Walking Dead. (Sort of? I watched random first season episodes for both only really got into them in their second seasons.) Oh, and Ultimate Spider-Man! ETA: I COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT ARROW! ♥Arrow!♥

Which TV shows did you let go of in 2012?

Dexter. (Deb, what have they done to you?)

Which TV shows did you mean to get into but didn't in 2012? Why?

Elementary. I really liked the first episode but it's on a busy night and now I'm too behind. It was me show, not you! I'll catch up with you after the season.

Which TV shows do you intend on checking out in 2013?

It's become increasingly obvious to me that I need to get into Person Of Interest with all possible speed. It looks like it hits so many of my narrative kinks that I don't know what's been wrong with me all this time (specifically a lot of the ones Clint/Coulson also hit for me.) And ♥ Michael Emerson! ♥ (On a PoI note, have you read this story from Yuletide? Holy cats, so good. SO GOOD!)

And I should probably get around to watching Teen Wolf at some point or morganoconner might show up at my house.:)

Which TV show impressed you least in 2012?

Um. I dunno? I'm pretty happy with the ones I picked up. Oh, Suits! (sorry, Suits fans. I just can't. I keep trying to watch and all I can think about is the lives that will be ruined if/when the secret comes out.)

Which TV show did you enjoy the most in 2012?

Doctor Who, SPN, Once Upon A Time (so much better the second season!), Walking Dead (♥Daryl!♥)

I was going to wait to post about Walking Dead until I had some more sncross_bigbang words so I could throw the word count meter up there too, but I CANNOT.

( Scattered, not so coherent reactions: )

I think it's just about time for the annual Babylon 5 rewatch.

Yes. Yes, I believe it is.

ETA: Oh hell. I posted that before seeing that Jeff Conaway just passed away at 60. Rest in peace, Zack.

Mailed in my taxes today like a motherfucking adult. Now there's only the crushing anxiety of wondering if I did it wrong!

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Also, cleaned all the things. Well, all the dishes. (Hey, it was a lot of things!)

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Would anyone out there know how to say "Don't blaspheme" in Mandarin Chinese? It, um, appears to be something I need to know. (Curse you, crossover theme on comment_fic!)

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As some of you may have heard, ABC has decided to cancel All My Children and One Life to Live, a decision that fills me with so much rage I can barely string words together. Putting aside that these are shows that have been airing since before I was born and that I've been watching, in the case of OLTL, since I was ten, and let's also putting aside yet another sign that the TV industry cares so little for serialized storytelling, especially serialized storytelling traditionally aimed at women, that it's willing to cancel programs that have left deep marks on television history in favor of reality garbage that no one will remember five seconds after it airs, this is a potentially disastrous culling of one of the proven training grounds for young actors.

Want an example? Here's one that I think is relevant to most of our interests:



Gah. I miss my show already.

I had a dream last night I was watching a game show on what I guessed was Animal Planet. It was some variation of Wipe-Out; the contestants had picked out animals they wanted to adopt and if they got through the course the fees would be waived and they would receive free food and vet care for a year. There were the usual schmoopy videos featuring the contestants and the adorable animals, and I'm pretty sure one woman was talking to the (visible) ghost of her dead husband.

So that was odd. Although I would definitely watch that show. Even with the ghost.

A meme! from hako_neko

1. COMMENT WITH A MYSTERIOUS COMMENT OF YOUR CHOICE.
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Post the names of five fictional characters and your thoughts on each.

isilrandir gave me S.

Susan Ivanova: (Babylon 5) Always obey the Babylon 5 mantra: "Ivanova is always right. I will listen to Ivanova. I will not ignore Ivanova's recommendations. Ivanova is God. And if this ever happens again, Ivanova will personally rip your lungs out."

Simon Archard: (Ruse, CrossGen Comics) Simon is all of Sherlock Holmes worst character traits dialed up to eleven: he's arrogant, rude, incredibly impressed with himself and ruthlessly brilliant. His assistant is essentially a god and even that barely impresses him. I adored Ruse and Simon was my favorite character in CrossGen. Needless to say I'm over the moon that Marvel is restarting Ruse in a few months. Simon is going to break the world. It will be awesome.

Saitou Hajime: (Rurouni Kenshin) If they could create a character expressly for me, Saitou is what they would come up with. Principled and ruthless and defined by his personal definition of honor, Saitou is my favorite character in all of anime and he's easily in the top ten of favorite characters ever. And no one works a cigarette like him.

Sarah: (The Crow) Oh, my girl. You can't imagine how distraught I was when I saw Crow 2 and witnessed what they did to my street-smart, caring, brave little kid. The idea of her mentoring a new Crow was a good one --- I just wish the execution hadn't been so wretched.

Seth Bullock: (Deadwood) I love conflicted lawfuls. You show me a character who's trying hard to deny his impulse to make things right, who just want the world to leave them be, who's torn between what they've been told and what they feel (oh hi, Cas), and I am there. Bullock spends the entire first season trying desperately to not be Deadwood's sheriff --- except that he leads the posse after Wild Bill's killer, continually butts heads with the town's criminal elements and can't keep his nose out of everyone's business. By the end of the season it's clear to everyone that he's the only man for the job --- and then Bullock's real problems start.:)

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I have WIP-itis. And I'm pretty sure I'm writing something only I will ever want to read. Send help.

Public service announcement! Instead of just pushing things back a week Fox is showing Wednesday's Human Target episodes tonight. When I have game. These had better show up on my On Demand at the speed of light.

Especially the second episode.

( Seriously, the very title is a spoiler. An awesome spoiler )