Heeeee!  Somebody tell me again where the Meteor Storm chat is going to be?  :::Fingers are crossed for cheestastic fun-times w/ a stong dose of  Michael Trucco and Kari Matchette pretty:::

Now, more random TV thoughts.

Caprica - Well.  Um.   Not so sure about whether I believed Mrs. Greystone would really make that speech at the end.  But whatever.  I loved the Pyramid bits and the way that they are bringing to life a modern society w/ paganism.  Also, they've introduced the idea of "Group Marriage" involving multiple wives and husbands living together.   I found this concept *extremely*  Lulzy.  (Gives a new light to Baltar's cult.  ;)  One wonders why no one on BSG ever mentioned the existence or possibility of "Group Marriage" because it certainly would have solved a lot of problems among certain Quads of Doom.....  Please SOMEONE I need a Kara/Sam/Lee/Dee Group Marriage fic now!!!!!!!  Bonus points if Leoben, Cally and Tory can also marry them.

*****

Ummm, how long has Legend of the Seeker been this awesome?.  I started out watching it last year, and totally lost interest.  But I happened to watch a couple of eps today and... Wow.   There's a bad ass chick named Cara.  And she rocks.

I'm going to be hunting up some LotS icons and stuff.

*****

Life Unexpected is a show I'm going to cling to .  I adore it.  I'm shipping the whole Baze/Cate/Ryan triangle like burning, which is the best kind of triangle because all three are awesome in there own way, and I already know that I'd hate to see any member of that triangle hurt however it works out.  I don't know if or when I'll ever be able to choose a side.

****

How is it that anyone can watch the same shows that I watch and declare that there are no good female characters?  How?  Why does this argument even exist?

Kara, Dee, Cally, Tory, the Sixes and Eights, Cara, Kahlen, Sister Clarice with her wives and husbands, Lux and Cate and her fiance and her baby daddy?  And Parker, Sophie, Maggie and Tara from Leverage.   Awesome.

No good female characters on TV?  What world do these people live in?

This is kinda cool.  I've won the family lottery and get to use one of the tickets to the AFC championship game tomorrow.  Score me.  Those tickets usually go to someone who is more devoted to the Indianapolis Colts than I am.   (But I've been informed it is OK.  they'll be partying here in Chicago.  They also made me swear to actually root for the Colts.  ::lol:::  Which wasn't actually going to be an issue, but they've never gotten over me rooting for the Bears over the Colts in the '06 Super Bowl so...)

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Caprica - Hmmm.  Whatever this show is, it doesn't feel like it has anything to do with BSG.   It's totally AU, as far as I'm concerned.  (And the green & blue clad C-Buc's seals the AU deal for me.)

There is a LOT of problems with this show.  The teens are boring, except for Zoe.  The mob story is boring.   There are no compelling love stories, and very few interesting women, other than Zoe.  Sister Clarice might become interesting, but she's got zero development so far. 

And also, the foundation of the story is built on the fridging of three (3) women.  :::frowns disapprovingly:::

Interesting though that so far the Greystones are much more interesting than the Adamas.  Are Adamas always boring?  ducking incoming.

I knew that the pilot was going to be what it was.  So, total judgement on this series doesn't come until next week when we start to see what they did with the show after the pilot was picked up.   (There are some indications that it may not have gone that well, what with the reduction in episodes and the replacement of the show runner.... hmmm.)

The media reviews have been very mixed.  You can tell which reviewers are RDM's bitches (Maureen Ryan for one.  ;)

Still, I have one bit of speculation - possibly spoilery - that I'll make under a cut.  (I MISS having a show about which I could speculate and wank over.  Oh, the hours of fun I had speculating on who was a Cylon, what was the Opera House, etc.... Oh how I miss that aspect of BSG, and The 4400 before it....)

( Spec here... )


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If there is anything I've taken away from BSG, it is complete and total devotion to the careers of Michael Trucco and Katee Sackhoff.   So, here's the preview for Trucco's Skiffy movie - Meteor Storm.





:::Squees Annoyingly::: 50 percent chance of doom, folks. 50 percent chance of DOOM!

Trucco also did a delightful interview. Here.

My fingers are crossed for Facing Kate, and I'll be searching 100 Questions for that quest appearance.

Hi!  I'm Cujoy, I'm having a lousy day at work, and I decided to post to my journal rather than, umm, do my work.   Oops.

Unfortunately, my current job has landed me with the absolute worst group of people I have ever, ever worked with.   I really have no words for how counter productive and intentionally mean some of these people are.  And I'm not talking about my co-workers.  I'm talking about the people who work for my customer - i.e. the people I have to please and pretend are "right" all the time, even when they are grinding me into the fraking ground.   This place sucks.  I'm usually the kind who doesn't complain about my job, because I'm grateful to have one.  But the workplace has become so obviously degraded over the last ten years.  Benefits have disappeared, both big stuff like health care, and little stuff like free coffee.  You used to be able to expect that when you came to the office you could get a cup of coffee.  But here?  People have to bring their own coffee makers and supply there own coffee.

OK - so that rant is off my chest.  It's been building for awhile.  ;)  Sorry, we will now return to our regularly scheduled pop culture squeeing.

** Yay for Mad Men winning the Golden Globe Best Drama Series.  (But boooo for Jon Hamm & January Jones not winning best actor/actress.)

OMG - Christina Hendricks (Joan) is gorgeous!



But January Jones (Betty) needs someone to talk her down from the edier side of edgy where her fashion taste seems to reside.  Because that head band?  Did she think that looked good?  meow




*** Katee is fantastic on 24.  She steals the screen.   If only I could stand to watch 24!  Because I hate that show far too much to be able to do anything more then record it, and then ff to Katee's scenes.   I hope her character goes somewhere interesting.

*** LOVED the first episode of Life Unexpected last night.  It's a real tear jerker.  And looks like it has some wonderful characters, both male and female.   I think I'll do a pic spam soon, because this may be my favorite new show in a long, long time.

***Leverage and White Collar are both back.    Yay!

***Caprica starts this Friday.  Oh, the dilemna.  To watch, or to not?  Knowing the futility of rooting for these characters, as so much of the outcome is known?  Oy.  (Of course I'll watch.)

*** Edited to add - GO COLTS.  (At least that would make the Colts contingent of the extended family happy. :D  The Bengals contingent is still in mourning, and the Bears contingent still don't know what hit them.)

How about a poll on controversial topics for the New Year? I'm kind of curious what my f-list thinks of the shows below.



Poll #1505489 An End of Year Poll
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 28

I'm planning to watch Caprica

I watch Dollhouse

I watch Stargate Universe

The Movie Avatar

I yanked this year end meme from someone. (But I added the shiney rainbow colors. ;) 

Your main fandom of the year?
BSG.  Still.  I cannot say that anything has truly replaced it yet.  I do love Mad Men a lot, however, though I'm not OTC/OTP fannish over it.   I think I'd be in True Blood fandom, if I got HBO and wasn't a year behind everyone else on watching season 2.

Your favourite film watched this year?
The Blind Side.  (By a mile.  I cannot recommend it strongly enough.)

I also really, really loved Star Trek and Harry Potter 6.

Your favourite book read this year?
Weaveworld by Clive Barker wins by default.

Your favourite album or song to listen to this year?
"I'm Your's" by Jason Maraz & "Hey There Delilah" by Plain White T.

Your favourite TV show of the year?
New show - Eastwick.  (The soon to be late and lamented.)  I'll give honorable mentions to White Collar and Warehouse 13.

Continuing show - Mad Men  (I'll give honorable mention to Leverage.)

Your favourite LJ community of the year?
pyramidofdreams (but I'm not linking it because LJ misfired on me, and it might screw up my post again.)

Your best new fandom discovery of the year?
Here's the problem - I don't HAVE a new fandom - at least not that I can call a fandom.  If I got HBO, I might likely be in True Blood fandom.  But I don't get HBO, and downloading TV shows is too time consuming and inconvenient.  And I don't think there are legal season 2 downloads yet anyway.  So I still haven't seen season 2 making me a year behind.  That makes it hard to participate in fandom.  Sad but true.

Star Trek doesn't count as new, does it?


Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year?
I have to go with the entire BSG season 4.5.  Yes, it disappointed me.  No, not enough to deter me from continuing to love the first 3 1/2 years of the show.  I've taken the characters off into happy, shiney AU-land.  Far, far away from icky 4.5.  


Your TV boyfriend of the year?
Sam Anders.  <3

Back up?   Ummm, I'll go with Sam Merlotte from True Blood and Sam Winchester from Supernatural.   It's a Sam trifecta.  ;)

Your TV girlfriend of the year?
Kara Thrace.  <3

Back up is Betty Draper!   (Even though I hate that she ran off with that guy at the end.  I totally understand her reasons for divorcing Don.)  Also:  Joan!  ("what a good idea").

Your biggest squee moment of the year?
What could ever beat "I love you."   "I'll see you on the Other Side"?  Nothing.  But there was also the hallway scene from Blood on the Scales.  (Yes, those moments can be incorporated into shiney, happy AU's.  ;)

But I also squeed a lot over Betty and Don Draper in Rome.  :D  

Some great moments from the season finale of Mad Men.

"Joan.  What a good idea."
"Peggy, will you get me some coffee?"  "No."
"You're fired."  "Very good.  Happy Christmas."

The most missed of your old fandoms?
Oddly, I had a lot of Roswell nostalgia this year.

The fandom you haven't tried yet, but want to?
Fringe.  I've been hearing very, very good things about Fringe.  But I feel hesitant to get involved without catching up from the beginning.

Your biggest fan anticipations for the New Year?
Caprica (with a sense of hope and dread.)
Meteor Storm  (What?  Stop looking at me funny.  It has Michael Trucco in it.)
Life UnXpected (It has one of my favorite actresses, Shiri Appleby in it.  And is getting very good reviews.)
24 (Because of Katee only.  And I'm going to fast forward to her scenes, because I HATE this show. ;)

On the movie front:

The Last Airbender (Just because it's going to be such a trainwreck.  I wonder if the studio in charge of this realizes yet what a colossal mistake casting white kids instead of Asians in those roles was?)
Clash of the Titans (Recent trailers I've seen have peaked my interest.)
Harry Potter 7.0  (It's the beginning of the end of the Harry Potter franchise. :(

I saw Avatar over the Holiday, and I have a pretty mixed opinion of it.  So, this will not be a glowing Avatar review, more of a mixed one.

( Cut for Avatar Spoilers )

Finally:  Unobtainium is the most hilarious name ever given to a MaGuffin.  :DDDD  Well done, James Cameron.

So overall:  It's a entertaining, but has a lot of troubling aspects too. 

JMHO, YMMV.

LOL!

I just found out the Trucco's Syfy movie - METEOR STORM will air on Skiffy on 1-30-10! 

Yay.

And there's a picture, that I can't post here because I'm at work, but maybe someone can... It's here. (Right under the Cylon bobble heads.  hee! )

OMG - Two posts on the same day.

EDITED TO ADD VITAL NEW INFO!

There seems to be conflict of information about when METEOR STORM will air.

Per the Skiffy page devoted to the movie:  Here  the air date is 1-16-10.

Oh noes!

I'm really having trouble lately finding things to post about!   Its scaring me a little.   I love to post about TV, but there isn't really anything on TV I find is worth posting about right now.

Survivor is really good this year.  The Amazing Race never fails.  :D  lalalalalala.

Flash Forward started interesting, became boring.
 
V started interesting, became boring.
 
White Collar is nice.  I like watching it, but it's not the kind of thing that is likely to hook me.

Supernatural - I'm sticking with my status quo of enjoying this one privately. 

Eastwick was fantastic.  I LOVED it.   :::Cries:::

I have an interesting opinion of SGU, which would probably piss off most of my F-List.  And that is that I LIKE it.  But am certainly not fannish over it.

I'm pissed off that Sanctuary killed off Ashley, and consequently have been totally ignoring it.  Not that I ever cared a whole lot one way or the other.

So, Ho Hum.

Caprica is going to start soon, and I'm going to have to make a decision about it.   I wish I was over the temptation of it.  But I'm obviously  not, because I am thinking about whether or not I'll chance it.  Unlike many, I don't hold BSG against Ron Moore.  People who aren't fannish mostly thought the finale was really good, and RDM is probably laughing really hard at us complainers.  ::waves at Ron.::   This goes back to my personal rules when getting fannish over a TV show - the outcome of which you can't control.  :::like most of life:::  And that is, that it's not personal when a TV show doesn't go the way you want it to.   (It's a good motto, but hard to keep once you're emotional about something.  I acknowledge this.)

I really wasn't fannish over BSG for the first two seasons.  It was just a show I liked, and thought was really good.  I didn't get *emotionally attached* until season 3.  (It was the Eye of Jupiter cliffhanger.  And yes, that's when they starting going over-the-top with the Final Five mythology.  Yes, I'm a sucker for that kind of thing.)  And that was also around the time when spoilers came out for WHO the Final Four were - and I LOVED it.  (This is why, back in the Spring when people were debating where they'd like to cut off BSG cannon, I'd get unhappy when anyone suggested cutting off before Crossroads II - I agree, probably, that *intellectually* season 1 & 2 of BSG are better, but it is season 3 that hooked me *emotionally*.  Even with it's flaws.

This is my way of saying that I've come to a relatively happy place with BSG.  In my head, everyone is EPIC.  And everyone is living happily ever after in shiney AU's.  ;)

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I don't know why I just rambled that much about TV, when I started by saying that I didn't really have much to say about TV right now.  :D ****

What I really wanted to post about was something that happened yesterday that most people on my F-List might have heard about, but probably don't care that much. And that is the death of Cincinnati Bengal wide receiver Chris Henry.

I'm a sports fan.   And I'm from Cincinnati.  And I love the Bengals.  (Not an easy team to love.)

I am incredibly sad.

Chris Henry was 26 years old, and he had a troubled life.  He was arrested multiple times in 2006 & 2007.  He was eventually let go by the Bengals because of his troubled ways.  But the owner of the Bengal's is a guy who likes to give second chances, and see people redeem themselves.  (And has said so.)  So Henry was welcomed back to the team in 2008.

Like most Bengal's fans, I scoffed at letting him come back.  But also, like most Bengals fans I was enjoying his  redemption, because redemption stories always make you feel good. 

But not to be, I guess.  Very, very sad.

 

It's been awhile since I posted. I've been very very busy.

So - I'll start with praising all the amazing Fanfic! OMG! Hours and hours worth of fabulous BSG, Kara/Sam Big Bang fanfic has been coming out over the last week. I'd like to throw my recs in for:

merrykk - Waltzing with Destiny

karate0kat - Through the Looking Glass

lizardbeth_j - The Thread of Ariadne

grey_sw - Voice of Reason

lyssie - Untitled

Between all of these I'm going to be spending most of my December reading! Yay!

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I also have a movie recommendation.

GO SEE THE BLIND SIDE (I think I cried almost the entire movie. It was that kind of good.)

I also enjoyed 2012 very much. I know it's cheesy as hell, and makes no sense. And I mean that literally. It makes no sense. So I didn't try to make sense of it, and just allowed myself to enjoy the destructo-porn. Heheheheh.

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Happy Sunday.

I broke down and got a flat screen TV.  It is GLORIOUS. 

***

My sister and nephew both have Swine Flu right now.  Oh noes!

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SGU is reeling me in!  The trick is, as usual, to get me shipping.  Matt/Chloe doesn't do it for me, though I like Matt,  and will gladly ship him with that hot Lt. James.  ;)   Chloe is, so far, to me, an annoying character.  She's cream puff eye candy.  And given the set up for the character as "the Senator's Daughter", I don't know if she's recoverable.   I might, however, at some point, be able to ship her with Eli. 

The idea of Young/TJ however, is something I just might go for.  That surprised me.  They'd telegraphed that there was some kind of secret with TJ, but I didn't realize that was what it was.  Ditto the tension between Young and his wife.

Quite a number of these characters really are starting to grow on me.   Eli, Rush, Young, TJ, Vanessa, Matt, Greer.  My one complaint is that the show needs to beef up the female characters.  Starting with Vanessa James.

BTW - Rush is absolutely delicious.  ;)  Just saying.

***

FlashForward is also good, though I honestly don't know what to make of it.  It has a great concept, and some intriguing ideas, but I think the lead characters, Mark and Oivia, are kind of weak.  I did not like it that Janis Hawk was shot.

It's still on the DVR.

***

Eastwick.  It's REALLY GOOD. It has fabulous women characters, and male characters too.   Seriously.  But the action is driven by the women., and that is what I like about it.  Roxie, Kat, Joanna and Penny are all really fun characters.

And pssst.  I ship Kat/Will.  Does that make me a bad person?

***

I'm going to say a word about Supernatural.  I usually get in trouble when I bring it up.  But after this last episode - which was the funniest!thing!ever!  I've decided that Jared Padelecki needs his own sitcom some day.  :D  :::Goes back into lurking mode on all things SPN:::

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Finally - Mad Men.

OMG.  That episode last week.  THAT.

Early this year, Matthew Weiner was very coy on how he would handle the Kennedy Assasination.   He said that it was such well trod ground that he didn't know if he even wanted to go there.  But...  how can you handle a drama telling the story of the 60's, set in 1963 with out dealing with it?  It was the event that literally changed the 60's from one thing (the 50's Mark II), into something else entirely.   (See fourthturning.com.)  This has been a show that's been basking in the glow of Camelot, and so how could they not shown the event that ended it.   Especially since they have been bringing up most of the big historical moments of '63.  (I liked how they highlighted MLK's Dream speech, and the 16th St. Baptist Church bombing as things that were really happening in their world - and how people are still so nonchalant about "that Vietnam thing".)   Obviously MW was just hiding his cards about how he would handle season 3.  ;)

I thought they handled this Earth-shattering event beautifully.  By doing it in the second to last ep rather than the season finale, he caught the audience by surprise, just as the people who were alive at the time, were caught by surprise and shock.  The way they framed the shot where the news was starting to break,  with Pete and Harry in Harry's office, with Harry's TV on because it's his job to monitor commercials, framed between them.  And the special alert appears on the TV, but Pete and Harry are talking, and they don't notice until the other office workers come in.  That *totally* reminded me of Sept. 11th.  Lots of things in this episode reminded me of my personal experiences on 9/11 and the days that followed.  The way the news broke in waves across the office.  The way everyone was glued to the TV.   The way people kept asking "What's going on!" just like Betty did, with the same fear.

One thing that I never really realized before - the Oswald murder was on live TV.  And millions of people were watching.  I don't know why that fact never registered with me even though I've seen the video tape of the event many times, as everyone has.   How horrible that such a thing was televised live.

Tonight is the season finale - what it brings, I have no idea.  The only thing I know I definetly want in terms of historical mentions, is some acknowledgement about the Beatles.  Beatlemania had, by Nov '63, already been raging in Britain for months.  And it would not have been unusual for there to already be awareness of it among people at an ad agency - especially one owned by a British company.  And though I would like them to save the Bealtes' arrival in NYC for the beginning of season 4, I'd like to see an acknowldgement of The Shape of Things to Come.

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That is all.

Here's my 20 Fannish Fixes Meme.   Twenty shows/books/movies that I'm fannish about to whatever extent.

In no particular order:

1.  BSG   (Sam Anders)
2.  Mad Men  (Betty Draper)
3.  Star Trek 2009  (Kirk)
4.  Star Trek (TOS)  (Uhura?  McCoy?  Scotty?  I really kind of loved all of them at one time or another.  But my current answer is Kirk.)
5. Star Trek (TNG)  (Beverly Crusher)
6.  Harry Potter   (Ginny Weasley )
7.  Leverage  (Parker)
8.  My Boys  (PJ)
9.  Avatar:  The Last Airbender  (Katara)
10.  Stargate Universe  (I haven't formed a very strong attachement yet.  For the time being it's Matthew Scott.)
11.  Flash Forward  (Dimity)
12.  The 4400  (Shawn Farrell)
13.  True Blood  (Sam Trammell  - I haven't seen season 2 yet.)
14.  Warehouse 13  (Mika)
15.  Supernatural  (Sam.  There I confessed.  I'm a sucker for tall guys names Sam.  ;p )
16.  Buffy The Vampire Slayer  (At one point it was Cordelia, at another it was Spike.  Now it's Anya.)
17.  Roswell  (Liz Parker & Kyle Valenti.  And yes, I ship them.)
18.  White Collar (OK, so I've only seen the one episode, but still...)  (The cute guy.  What's his name?  I'll figure it out.)
19.  Dragonriders of Pern (Why hasn't there been a movie yet!!??)    (F'Nor)
20.  Lord of the Rings (Books and movies)  (Eowyn & Faramir)

So, I guess the objective is that you try and guess my favorite character from each.   But actually, I'd rather you tell me who yours is too, if you share any fannishness over it.  (Oh, and for the curious, the answers are there if you want to highlight to look.)

A couple of thoughts.

Last night I decided to try out an episode of Vampire Chronicles.  :::shrugs:::  It's better than Twilight, but not nearly as good as True Blood or Buffy.  But I do have to say that Ian Somerhalder is hilarious chewing the scenery as the evil brother, and I'm sure that Paul Wesley is oh-so-dreamy as the good brother.  :::resists snarking:::.  But what I really wanted to say is that Nina Dobrev could be Shiri Appleby's little sister.  That's the extent of my thoughts on this, and no, it's not going on the DVR.

Which brings me to the next topic - the announcement that Syfy is Americanizing Being Human.  :::shrugs again:::

I'm sure this is an attempt to get in on the hot, angsty vampire action.  I really don't care if they Americanize it or not.  (Unless the Brits are offended.)  However, this is one of those shows that I did check out when it started airing on BBC America, and found it very boring.  Can we please get over the "dreamy" vampires?  Please????  And why did the main female character have to be the only one that is noticably dis-empowered by her supernatural condition?   The two male characters got to run around outside, doing stuff.  She's tied to the house, and nobody can see her while she angsts over failed romance.  Meh.  I'll pass.  (But if Skiffy can improve this premise, and maybe add some humor to the situation, and empower the female character...  )

That.  Yes.

Things to love:

Betty taking it to Don.

Don crying in remorse and genuine grief.

Betty showing a modicum of compassion.  And an awesome backbone.

The Hobo and Gypsy (the episode title) turning out to be Sally and Bobby's Halloween costumes.

JOAN whacking her no-good loser husband with a vase!!!!!!!!!!!!

No-good loser husband... signs up for the army so that he can continue his medical career?  (I'd laugh, but, DUDE.  It's 1963, and that whole "Vietnam thing" ?)

The clock is ticking on to Nov. 22.   

Stuff I love less:

Suzanne.  Sorry, I'm just not into Don's latest mistress.  (I could probably ship her with Paul though.)

The prospect of Roger & Joan gravitating back together.  Well, maybe.  We'll see.

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Clearly, I'm getting closer and closer to genuine fan-love for Mad Men.

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Also:  Yay Bengals.  (But, damn it's confusing when everyone else is rooting for the Bears, and my own emotions are mixed about it.   Liking multiple football teams is like multi-shipping.  Except sometimes the teams actually have to play each other head-to-head, and then, OUCH!)

So, here are some thoughts on shows I'm currently watching.  Some of them might even be... EPIC.  ;)


Eastwick is extremely entertaining.  It's light and fluffy and fun, and it's ratings so totally suck that everyone needs to go watch it now!  Trust me, you won't be sorry!  It's hot, sexy, fun & silly.  And kind of wicked.   There are hot girls and hot boy and soapy, witchy things going on.   Go watch Eastwick.  (I think I totally adore Roxie.  And Penny.)


Flash Forward is a cool concept that is so far a little weak in execution.  I thing the hero-as-alcoholic trope is just not working.  I *don't believe it* because it seems so tacked on to the lead character who is otherwise such a together guy and.    I just don't buy that the guys an alcoholic.   Then there's his wife who...  doesn't want to be unfaithful.  Sigh.  Couldn't they thought of something... better?   There have been flashes of something better that could unfold.  Suspect Zero at the baseball game.  Whatever is going on with the crows and Somalia.  Peter Coyote as the President.  And the mystery character played by Dominick Monaghan.  The best thing is John Cho's character, who's living with a death mark.  I also kind of like the story of the babysitter Nicole - mostly because I'm still so floored that she's the same actress who plays Jane on Mad Men.  I'm hoping that this will pan out better then it has to date, so I will stick with it.  But right now it's for the concept and John Cho.

Stargate Universe is a show I'm going to continue to reserve judgement on.  It's another one that I like the concept, so I'll stick with it for now to see if any of the characters will grab me.

Mad Men - OMG!  Betty found out!  OMG!    This season has been absolutely fantastic.  And now they are deep into the Fall of 1963, and Betty knows!  And there are three episodes left now And the world is really, really about to change.   I know it's too early to be thinking ahead to season 4, but... Its hard to imagine Mad Men in the post Camelot world.   So far, Mad Men has been all about life in Camelot, and that's all about to change.   As for Betty finding out her husband's secret, I'm totally shocked about that.  I thought surely that would not happen until deep in the decade.  What will she do with her new knowledge?  How will she hold it against Don?  And where the hell is JOAN!  And SAL! 

Dare I say it?  This show is EPIC.  ;)

You know, my greatest wish for The Plan was...


( Quick thoughts on The Plan... )

And don't worry.  I have my Amazon order in, and I'm looking forward to getting the disk.  :D  (But nope, still don't own a set of 4.5, and still no plans to.)

Here's a big icon post. (I've been on a bit of an Icon binge of late.) 

This post contains

Mad Men:  2 Betty, 1 Trudy, 12 Don/Betty


Samples:

   


( The Rest of the Mad Men Icons )


BSG:  11 Sam/Kara, 8 Sam


   



( The Rest of the BSG Icons... )

If you like 'em, take 'em. 

Lookee!  This is a Promo Pic for The Plan.  Its from the BSG DVD web page.



(If he wasn't going to be in it, I don't know how much I'd care.  ;)

So I've never been much of a Stargate fan.   Some shows grab you, some shows don't, and that one just never grabbed.  That being said, I think I have kind of enjoyed  Stargate Universe so far.   I guess that little bit of grit makes the difference for me?  And I'm a sucker for lost-in-space/explore the universe concepts.  

It seems that my advantage is that I don't know anything about whether or not this show betrays the originals.  (To me that's actually kind of good, since what went before failed to grab me.) 

I don't know anything about how the creators ruined the original or Atlantis.   (And I'm sure they did.  I know there are issues, and I know that there will be issues with this one too, that's the nature of the beast.  If it gets bad, I'll bail.  I've done it before, and I'll do it again.) 

I'll judge this show on it on it's merits as  it airs.  If something bad or offensive happens, I'll take my remote and turn it off.  Like I did with Lost for killing off female characters.  Like I did for Heroes for being all around stoopid as well as killing off too many female characters.  Like I did with Dollhouse for having such a horrific concept that I find it unwatchable even with Tahmoh.

I will have to say that so far none of the characters has grabbed me.  I do however thing that Lt. Scott is pretty.  That's a start.  ;)  I'm perplexed that Lou Diamond Phillips is listed as a regular, since I didn't see his character come through the Stargate.  I was also a little disappointed that Ming Na's character has had almost nothing to do. 

So, I hope that SGU does grab me, and that I have a new show to enjoy for a few years.  I'd like that. 

Don and Betty Draper are hot.   They are also a very, very, very fucked up couple, no question about it.   She's a miserable housewife living the "dream" that everyone always told her she should want - only to finally be figuring out that she hates it.  And of course, Don isn't really Don.  And someday (hopefully sometime around 1969) Betty is going to find out the truth about her husband, and :::fireworks::: will surely ensue.  In the meantime, these two need to vacation in Rome as often as possible.  ;)

And also, I am shipping them.  HARD



Don't try to tell me she's not fabulous.


OMG She's FABULOUS.  And the hair!!  OMG the hair!!!


( The Rest of the Don and Betty are Hot Pic Spam  )


And... the aftermath. 

Now ::ahem:: about Pete.  Oh forget about Pete, he's kind of dead to me now.  But when did Trudy become so awesome?   Is she aware that she's married to a scum bag?   Yeesh.  (Run Trudy!  Run!)



Was Trudy actually always awesome, and nobody noticed because we were all supposed to shipping Pete/Peggy?  What with her being the other woman, AKA his WIFE?

I was actually won over back in the episode where Pete and Trudy did the Charleston.




Plus - MOST AWESOME HAT EVER!  :::giggles:::

I have to say that I'm rather proud of Mad Men fandom.  Betty is a woman who it might be very easy to hate.  She's often cold, and worse, she'd guilty of maybe the cardinal sin of women on TV - she's not a very good mother.  (Not an abusive mother, but she is quite emotionally distant from her kids.)

caps from burgundy_shoes

I'm afraid that I've not been much of a baseball fan this season.   Today was the last day of the season, and the Reds, Cubs and White Sox all tanked.  :::Is sad:::  To be perfectly honest, I haven't really been paying that much attention to baseball for most of the season.  It's just one of those years I guess.  But baseball is still in the blood, and it will be back next year.

Anyway, it so happened that we fell into some tickets for the game at Wrigley today, and so we ushered out the baseball season in person.  It was a lovely way to do it too.  Wrigley tickets are usually hard to come by, but with the Cubs disappointing results, we were able to get them.  Wrigley is fun.  It's old, and that makes it different.  It has quirks and imperfections that would never be allowed now, like the famous seats that are literally behind steel support beams.

True, the Cubs lost, but it didn't matter.  It made for a great Sunday afternoon.

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Though Baseball bombed out, the Football season is looking very promising!  The Bears seem to be working out very well with the new QB, The Bengals have won three in a row, and the Colts are undefeated, with the season now one forth done.  We spent much of our time at the baseball game today checking football scores.  Hee!