TORCHWOOD: A BRIEF REACTION

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I am so tired of Starbuck, you have no IDEAAA.

Also, haha, phallic inhibitors. I'm twelve.

God, guys, remember when Supernatural was scary? (Or was that just me?) I'm listening to the season one score and just the music is TERRIFYING to me. I've been sitting around all day and still my heart is ready to drop. Okay, mostly it is screechy noises getting faster and faster. Maybe I'm just easy. In any case, anybody want it? It's just the score, not the rock songs and things that they sometimes play.

When I finish watching Battlestar (which, by the way, has the most EPIC and BEAUTIFUL score I have ever experienced in a show, for real. they are not fucking around. there are bagpipes and drums and opera shit going down here, ORCHESTRAS and pianos and aaaah), I was going to watch Xena: Warrior Princess for the first time, but I think I might have to hold off on that just to rewatch Supernatural S1. I've never even seen Bugs before, actually, and I have the DVDs now, so - commentary! I love me some behind-the-scenes.

(Which reminds me. WERE I to, hypothetically...buy the first season of Merlin. Would I need that international DVD player action?)

I'm watching Merlin on NBC! And it's The Poisoned Chalice! Best episode. :D I'm sort of ridiculously giddy seeing it on the larger-than-my-laptop screen. It's a little embarrassing, especially since instead of being in my lair statictv and backinblackk are here to witness my flailing. But they are my designated fandom wingwomen, so it could be worse.

Oh, so my friend Facebooked me with "Just saw a tv series called Merlin and i recal that you have been talking to people about it. So is it a good show?"

Big mistake.

I extolled on Merlin's virtues for six paragraphs, approximately five paragraphs longer than any Facebook message has a right to be. It is recreated here for your amusement, and maybe in hopes that anyone here who hasn't watched Merlin...might?

( Me embarrassing myself further. )

I finished season one of Battlestar Galactica thanks to my friend showing me the miniseries over the weekend.

It's a little grim for my tastes. I don't mind dark, but grim is only cool for me up to a certain point; as the season progressed levity all but disappeared unless Gaius and his crazy were onscreen to bring me some much-needed and unadulterated DELIGHT (LOL GAIUS NEVER BE SANE PLZ), and even that diminished toward the end. I'm more for the see-saw between wacky hijinks and life-or-death angst that Doctor Who or Supernatural try for. But the mystical aspect and the awesomeness of the Cylons are keeping me going. (Also: President Laura Roslin's fantasticness. She is the light of my life. I WILL GET DOWN ON ONE KNEE AND PROPOSE. I'm fond of her, in other words. And okay, Tigh and Adama are pretty cool dudes as well.)

I posted a stupid-long comment on Facebook about my reaction to this show, so a lot of the following is just a repost of that, expanded.

( Spoilers for season 1 of BSG only. )

Oh, those Cylons. So adorbs.

Let's not talk about my brand new girl boner for Anne Bonny and how I definitely ship her and Mary Read, we can just not talk about that at all (except how it would totally be entirely subtextual and UST forever and they both end up with dudes and Mary dies and their love goes forever unspoken oh my Goddd).

OKAY QUICK.

We're setting up a free event for the beginning of the school year for the general student body, and are showing a double feature: Dance Flick, and one other movie.

We are deciding between Step Up, and Step Up 2. I have seen neither. Which is better to show? What will people generally like better/is good for a dance-themed event?

UNEXPECTEDLY, I AM GOING TO SEE THE DECEMBERISTS TOMORROW.



ETA: Wallpaper meme! via canarycream

01. Anyone who looks at this entry has to post this meme and their current wallpaper at their LiveJournal.
02. Explain in five sentences why you're using that wallpaper.
03. Don't change your wallpaper before doing this. The point is to see what you had on.

I don't need five sentences, I just need one: I HAS A MERLIN.

I have been missing college, therefore, Facebook addiction.

However, I am far too used to LJ, therefore my responses to everyone are ENTIRELY TOO LONG.

However, I am far too used to Facebook statuses, therefore my LJ posts are becoming ENTIRELY TOO SHORT, without being nearly pithy enough to justify it.

My life is so hard.

Why do Doctor Who spoilers leak so easily? Isn't the next episode not due till, like, the fucking winter? That is more than six months from now, the spoilers need to settle the fuck down and stop being released TEN MILLION YEARS AHEAD OF TIME.

Mostly I am stressing out because that is a huge damn gap of time during which I need to avoid being spoiled. Difficult!

I've been really appreciating everyone, at least on my own flist, being thoughtful enough to always have the new spoilers - whatever they are - under cuts. But I am so afraid that the current spoilers will eventually have been around so long that they'll become assumed common knowledge, and someone will mention something offhand outside of a cut or even IRL, not deliberately, but just because they'll assume that by now it's not even worth being careful?

I got spoiled for a character showing up in a finale once via somebody's LAYOUT. I am still totally sad that I didn't get the joy of seeing them onscreen without expecting it. D:

I am afraid of even the slightest spoilers because you can extrapolate a lot from stuff you wouldn't expect! And even if I think up a 1000 different possibilities based on one tiny thing, and don't know if any of them are right, if just one of them ends up being true I'll end up being like, well, fuck, I knew that was going to happen.

PS: Was going to take an optional Human Bio final, but it turns out it was today and not tomorrow like I thought. So I missed it. Er. Whoops? On the other hand, that means: DONE WITH FINALS. Yay. :)

That does it. There are officially too many fandoms containing adorable characters named Chuck.

They don't even have the decency to all be the same gender.

SUPERNATURALLLL

( Look out, positive reactions ahead. )

Stayed up writing a paper. My roommate woke up every once in a while (my fault) and would say sleepy things like "Go Lisa!" and "You can do it!" before conking out again. Hee. I am the luckiest roommate ever. <3

Apparently my dorm's second floor RA has a sign outside her door above the box of condoms they're required to give out, saying, "Remember: Condoms don't protect against STDs! Know your partner and get tested now."

...Yeah.

Spring Concert was All Time Low, Girl Talk, and Lupe Fiasco. Generally a boring time, my fault because I'm such a wet blanket. Got semi-caught ATL's mosh pit, managed to end up on the edge of it every time, shoving tussling dudes away from me with all my not-very considerable strength, and eventually the entire audience ended up being one huge...cyclone-esque thing, wherein the whole crowd shoved right to left like the tide, with me and tons of other poor small girls all caught up with faces squashed against sweaty pot-infused shirts of tall people.

I retreated to the sideline for Girl Talk and Lupe - I and a few other people (we were in the club who organized Spring Concert) had a chance to be onstage for Girl Talk and mistook it as a chance to be out on the floor again, which we had no wish to do, and so turned it down only to "OH, THAT'S WHAT THEY MEANT," as a bunch of others ran out onstage five minutes later. Sad! Still awesome to watch - Girl Talk had those toilet paper-shooting reverse leaf blower-looking things unfurling 100 rolls of toilet paper into the audience over the course of the show.

I don't know about Lupe. I'd never heard any of his music before, but none it turned out to be really my thing. I liked Superstar, but it was more just the song playing in the background as he rapped over it. He does look incredibly nice shirtless. We saw him backstage before the show and no one realized it was him - he changed out of it for the show, but before and after he wore these thick glasses and a red jacket, his jeans rolled up halfway up his calves. It was very Urkel.

Tomorrow I may see Third Eye Blind? Still up in the air at this point.

This is dorky of me, but Apoptygma Berzerk"In This Together" is totally reminiscent of the Winchester boys' current relationship, particularly in light of Sam in 4x20. Don't even lie, it so is.

( Embedded song, selected lyrics, spoilers only if you are THAT good at extrapolating. )

Second time in two days I have been silently screaming as I watched an episode in some terrible mixture of amusement, horror, embarrassment, and delight. I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MYSELF. How I Met Your Mother is paused right now because I really don't think I can go on watching. Marshall Erickson, you have a WIFE. What are you doing to meee.

And let's not even talk about Supernatural 4x18, okay. I covered my face. I PRACTICALLY CRIED. Writers, get off the internet and do your job! For all our sanity's sakes.

I am giddy or I am horrified, I honestly do not know which.

ETA: Staaaan!

I know everyone ever has probably seen it, but THIS. THIS. THIS.

New Merlin friends! How titillating! Of course, now I will proceed to not talk about Merlin at all in this post.

First of all, burningqueen linked this, and I am obliged to follow suit: Why Aren't People Commenting on My Post/Story/Whatever?

And now, the purpose of this post, because, well, I'm not sure how I managed to not blog about this! I was lucky enough to see Flight of the Conchords live in Boston on Friday. What lovely dudes! statictv told me about it and I was all, well, fuck, there's no way I'm asking my parents if I can buy the tickets online, and then I find out that statictv had totally already ordered one for me as well because she is a golden goddess. She was super intense and ordered tickets like exactly when they went on sale, so we got fourth row floor seats, which was unbelievable. Seeing Jemaine's hips semi-up close was not an experience I took for granted, let me tell you.

ohnotheydidnt summed up the show pretty succinctly.

( And this is me, talking about it less succinctly, with intermittent embedded YouTube videos. )

UGH I NEED A TIME-TURNER TO TAKE ALL THE CLASSES I NEED TO

HERMIONE GRANGER I NEVER SHOULD HAVE DOUBTED YOUR SANITY

YOU WERE RIGHT ALL ALONG