Stranger than Fiction

( "All I can do is wait..." )

PS - I know I'm being majorly unpatriotic right now, not making LJ posts gushing over Team GBs success in the London Olympics. I'll level with you. I have a secret that I can't really share with anyone at the moment...I'm so very bored. I'm pleased we are doing so well after the years worth of hype and expense over the Games. I just can't pretend I've ever enjoyed watching sport coverage for long periods of time, let alone 24 hours a day for weeks on end. Sorry. Just. Can't help it.   

( "Everyone dies in this movie, don't they?" )

    
More Breaking Bad meta and tributes to come soon from me. Though beyond my current core obsession, I have been looking towards new shows. I finished The Walking Dead S1 last night and while it feels like a bit of a, well, zombie soap opera I am really taken with the visual look of the show and I tend to like post apocalypse survival stories, even if that's all they are about - survival. I need to see if I can borrow S2 DVDs from somewhere.

Also has anyone been watching The Newsroom? I feel like I want to like this show more than I do. It's not badly written by any means but it does feel like it's grasping to repeat The West Wing, especially by casting Jeff Daniels in the host role, using a well regarded aging movie star in the anchoring role like they did with Martin Sheen as the President. But it's really all about the news team. The characters are okay. I like McKenzie. I just don't know if I want to commit to watching an obvious West Wing substitute show. The West Wing was great but there should be no substitute. It's like trying to watch Caprica after finishing Battlestar Galactica.

Lastly, I've realized that my library finally has the first three Big Love seasons on DVD. So I've ordered S1. lenina20 reminded me recently that I've been promising to watch that show for years.

( "Yo, what about, like...a magnet?" )

What did my fellow BB fans think? Any S5 predictions?                 

           

Okay so this is my last Buffy post for a while. Honestly! I started watching The Sopranos again today (when oh when will S2 get interesting?) Also I do have a life to get back to so...there's that. 

Thanks to everyone who has been sharing Buffy discussions with me! Especially because you probably finished watching this show almost 10 years ago. Sorry for being so very late to the party!


( My Top 10 Favourite Buffy the Vampire Slayer Characters )

*sigh* I think I'm finally done now...

Update on my Buffy Watch. I think I'm finally into Buffy.

( Passion... )

  

I completely forgot to link this before...
During the Great LJ Crash of 2011 me and lenina wrote a co-fic.

Harry Potter Fic: Wormwood (Gen)
Hermione centric with Harry and Ron. Gen fic (movie canon-compliant). She stands stills and watches it all unfold. She would follow him till the end—so long as he didn’t ask her to smile. 2,800 words. PG.
co-written by falafel_musings and lenina20. but not really ours.

It's not long. I never thought I'd write Potter verse, but it was so cool writing with Len!

I've been noticing a pattern in my fandoms. I often have a favourite guilty pleasure character. You know, the sort of character that you shouldn't like, but absolutely do. For me it's usually a character who is established as the most annoying, amoral or despicable character on the show, yet I find them irresistable and brilliant. This is the part of me that loves Gaius Baltar (BSG), Pete Campbell (Mad Men) and Sue Sylvester (Glee). Maybe it's because these characters are so self-possessed in their awfulness that they impress me? Maybe it's because you can only enjoy these characters in fiction because they wouldn't be tollerable in real life? As most of you know I've a new pleasure, Nathan Young (Misfits). Since this show & character has eaten my brain, I may as well celebrate it with a big picture & meta Nathan-spam in tribute to his appalling wonderfulness.     

For non-Misfits fans on my flist...do you have a favourite guilty pleasure character?


( My Top 10 Favourite Nathan Moments (with Meta) )

So it's been...almost a year since my last LJ entry. 

I missed you all. Can we catch up? 

This post was inspired by sapphire_child one of my oldest LJ friends. She just asked me if I was planning on reviewing the new Harry Potter film anywhere. I've not actually seen 'Deathly Hallows pt1' yet and I wasn't that excited about seeing it until yesterday when lenina20 told me a Nick Cave song featured in it and my expectations suddenly rocketed!

Anyway...sapphs question made me wish that I actually did have an online place just to post little random reviews, thoughts and opinions. And wait, wait! I used to have such a place. My dear old LJ. And then I started thinking about the lovely people that I used to chat to here and remembering how much it could cheer me up when I was feeling flat. I've missed you all. *sniff*

Have I left it too long?  Do you guys even remember me?! 

( Personal updates, current fandoms & reading recs... )

Okay, enough already. Just to say - I'm back, bitches!  

I'm still feeling ill *sniffles*. I've still got plenty of books on my reading list to polish off. But in the meantime I thought I'd type up my little celebration post of my favourite Mad Men episodes, since I'm really feeling the love now. Please share any favourite episodes or quotes of your own that I've not chosen. I'm always interested by other people's rankings.

( My Top 10 Favourite Mad Men Episodes + pics, quotes and meta...  )