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As part of the Dr. Who methadone program*, I watched my very first episode of Red Dwarf the other day. [Honestly, I wasn't that enthused. But I have an oddly unticklish sense of humour. I also don't get the Monty Python thing, which I concede to be blasphemous. I'm not proud of it or anything. They just don't make me laugh.] However, when watching a multi-fandom vid, I noticed that it a) included Red Dwarf, and b) had the two guys kissing. Wow. Slash everywhere, omg.

Screw you, British Empire for being such freaking wimps. If you hadn't lamed out, we could ALL BE BRITISH. And enjoy the beautiful, beautiful spectacle of boys kissing in every single available medium. Instead you were all, oh noes! My tea! My taxes! Hippies on salt-walks! Minutemen! [Talk about an unscary moniker there] Come on. You should be ashamed. White man's burden, my ass.**

In other news, I seem to have got a job. So there will be a new College Which Must Not Be Named come September. I'm teaching kidlit @ Hunter on Mondays & Thursdays. While I was there for the interview (the speediest, most railroad-y interview of my life; they had me filling out my paperwork so fast I thought my head would spin off!), I ran into in rapid succession: jlh, sykii [*waves* Hi guys!], another friend of mine from the grad center, and another woman I went to high school with, whom I cordially loathed***. Any omen interpreters on deck? Sybilline oracles? Anyone? Bueller? What does it all mean???


*Netflix queue now includes things which are British, include time travel, or are about death. Like methadone, ultimately unsatisfying.
** I'm kidding. Mostly.
*** I really mean both the "cordial" and the "loathing". It was the friendliest non-liking I've ever had the pleasure of experiencing. We were both equally close friends with one other girl, so spent any number of drunken evenings having civilised conversation about how much we despised each other. With my kinks, I can only be surprised that it didn't blossom into romance.

Comments

[demotu.livejournal.com]

After Torchwood, it's kind of a downer to remember I don't get to watch pretty boys and girls kissing in every show. On that count, nothing else quite compares. *sighs*

Hence writing. It helps. And reading gloriously kinky stuff that wouldn't end up on the show anyway. :D

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

It does help! The Internets are where we can all be free and kiss everyone! In kinky, kinky ways.

But yeah, Torchwood is totally the holy grail of fandom, in my opinion, at least for slashers. Unpopular fandom opinion: I don't understand why more people aren't more grateful for it ;-)

[demotu.livejournal.com]

Hey, if it's an unpopular opinion, I don't want to be mainstream!

I never get into shows for good plots and storytelling. I'm always there for the characters. Hence the slew of American shows that have stagnant character development driving me nuts. I can NOT handle 10 seasons of UST.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

10 seasons of UST

Did you have something specific that you were referring to?

I love good plots and story-telling, (TW does, I find, occasionally fall down on that front *cough* secret brother *cough*), but the thing is, I can't seem to care that much about either if the characters don't make me love them.

I have this problem with shows like Heroes and Lost. They too often fall down on the good story-telling/plot front, but I'd forgive them that in a heartbeat if I cared one iota for any of the people on them. And when they are good, they're good in a very cerebral, non emotional way that I just can't be bothered to care about that much, although I can still, if pressed, see their good moments in an objective, unmoved kind of way.

[demotu.livejournal.com]

JAG, actually. I loved the character but MAN did they ever never let them get together.

Big yes for Lost! I haven't seen Heros, but I watched two seasons of Lost and just. didn't. care. if the characters lived or died. And it got a little silly, so I gave up.

A balance is good - I'm working through Jericho with my bf, and I thought I wouldn't like it because it sounded like Lost in the all-plot-no-characters thing, but I've quite taken to the lead character, so I'm really enjoying it. Less in the BUT WHO DID IT? way and more in the Aw, he's adorable and tormented, what will happen to him? way.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

I've never seen JAG, but I think I remember my bf telling me I'd be v. fond of it. I'm actually still sort of new to the whole tv thing; I didn't really watch at all when I was a kid besides like Sesame Street and things of that ilk, and then sorta fell madly for Buffy (which I still love) & (erm) Dawson's Creek - god, that's embarrassing to say out loud!

But I watch way too much now, (like last season I think I had a show on every night; it was sick) although at the moment it all seems to have been superseded by things Who and Torchwood.

[demotu.livejournal.com]

I'm not a big TV watcher, actually, in terms of actually watching a show when it comes out every week. TW and DW were the only things I've watched in... goodness, a couple years? I didn't have a TV with more than two English channels last year (CBC!) so I got out of the habit. My boyfriend and I download series - mostly Sci Fi, but also things that didn't last too many seasons, like Firefly and Jericho - to watch in their entirety. And I think we're into season 5 of ST: Voyager, which is mostly a nostalgic thing for us, since we both watched it as kids as it came out.

JAG was one of the shows I watched on and off when I was younger - Star Trek, Stargate SG1, and other random things here or there. But Torchwood's the first time I've gotten really into a show - and fandom and writing for the first time ever are a really big part of that, I think. It's hard for me to separate my TV from my fannish activities, now, and I'm not sure I'd want to! Much more fun this way.

[demotu.livejournal.com]

Oh, and Buffy. Of course I've seen all of Buffy. And collect the comic. :P Not all of Angel, though, just 1-3.