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real life will not be sidelining me.
(prof unbent slightly re illness and asked for documentation. I emailed him a scan of the paperwork from my most recent doctor visit. And he emailed me back in a timely fashion, and has accepted my exam with no late penalty, praise be.)
Initial Yuletide offer list is 128 fandoms long and includes things like the Canterbury Tales. I think my next step shall be to lop off things with double digit worth of offers (unless I'm really, really feeling them). Well! That skimmed it down by a hundred (but Chaucer is still on the list, just barely, heh), so I think I'm set for my offer list. I think I shall go ahead and offer any for all, despite some misgivings. I always find that when I want to offer some characters for a fandom, it's really "all of them except this one," and you can only select four to offer, and it doesn't quite seem fair to lop off the rest of them to avoid the one. (Ballard, I am looking at you. If I get a Dollhouse request with Ballard specified, I will be acquiring a new fandom from one of my recipient's other requests.)
Right, that's done. And now I shall put it out of my mind and wait see what I get, rather than cultivate plot bunnies or starting rereading canons.
And now: my televisions (oh my god, how did I end up watching this many first-run shows):
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echan thought I wouldn't like the last half of this Supernatural, probably because the Trickster turned out to be an archangel? My feelings on that are 1. I have seen like, fifteen episodes of this show, seriously, my grasp of the show-specific mythology is loose at best, so whatever; 2. I had already disavowed this Trickster as not my Trickster (he's more sadistic than the one I'm familiar with, and also tends to be more focused on lessons than on his own personal amusement), and 3. most traditional Tricksters don't exist in a vacuum, they are the black sheep of their family pantheon, so, hey, it turned out this Trickster's family pantheon is apparently the Supernatural version of the Christian Celestial Hierarchy. Honestly it amuses me when popular media decides to abscond with Christian mythology; too many seem to think it's sacrosanct (see: SG1). Oh, and the other thing: this revelation actually redeems this Trickster for me a bit, because it provides explanation and motivation for the aspects of his character that were bothering me.
The only really unfortunate bit is that I seem to have acquired a vid bunny. Did I mention I've only seen like, 15 episodes of this show?ysobel points out there's only three Trickster episodes (and I've already seen two of them!) so that's something, but I sort of fear I'm going to have to delve into the Christian mythology sword of Michael, Antichrist endtimes stuff. On the whole I AM VERY GLAD MY SUPERNATURAL VIDBUNNY IS NOT A WANGST OF SAM AND/OR DEAN VIDBUNNY, almost every Supernatural vid I've ever seen is a Wangst of Sam and/or Dean vid. Except for crack about the car.
But hey: TVLand! I enjoyed! I laugh at Sam for being more comfortable with a pen-knife than a scalpel (seriously? that piece of equipment he couldn't figure out?) and oh, my god, sit-com Supernatural was totally setting them up as a pairing, *IZ DED*, and Sampala! That... that story exists somewhere,echan was telling me about it. Kripke, verb, intransitive.
I am curious about the Japanese gameshow assertion that John and Mary would still be alive if Sam had never been born; most of what I know about show mythology is actually fanon, so my opinion is extremely not valid, but while I can see the logic of that on one side, I sort of wonder what the Yellow-Eyed Demon would have done if Mary hadn't had a second son, since apparently Mary made a deal? I can't decide if I want people to answer me on this or not, since eventually I'll get through marathoning all seasons past.
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What gets me about White Collar is Peter bitches and moans about how untrustworthy Neal is but he trusts him. Neal cuts his tracker anklet for the mark, and the entire surveillance van erupts in SONOFABITCH HE'S RUNNING, except for Peter, who says, "Yep, right on time."
Agent Pete is not nearly as white hat as he pretends. Oh my god, the like, five repetitions of "I can't do anything about this, basically," until Neal clued in and went, "OH OH OH but I can!"
And, and, and! There are a ton of little character interaction moments I loved. Like Neal's scrupulous if incomplete oath regarding the use of Peter's FBI jacket. And Peter figuring out where Neal had sent the bible, which was simultaneously braintwin and because Elizabeth told him to trust Neal to do the right thing. I didn't figure out as far as Peter had, I totally thought Peter's "Oh, I know where it is" was back to Mozzie, based on the "no, I know your friend isn't imaginary" conversation (heart) and how Neal had asked Mozzie about, hypothetically, stealing bibles.
I am highly amused at how Peter and Neal are sitting around trying to come up with some roundabout way to get the art historian to think of him as a fence, and it takes Elizabeth to say, "Why don't you just ask her out?" Asgrey_bard said in chat, heterosexuality: not Neal's first instinct. Also even when he's groping a woman it's actually a patdown. The threesomeness of them is fun, too. When they're like, "Will that work? Will she say yes?" and Elizabeth is like, "Of course she will," and Peter tosses her this slightly exasperated look. Yes, yes, Peter, your wife finds your boyfriend hot.
The healing bible aspect was a little more X-filesy than I was expecting; the weird part is how I can't decide which of them was Mulder and which was Scully. That probably has more to do with how many times Mulder and Scully switched sides on skepticism/credulity over the seasons than the religious nature of the object under investigation, though. White Collar is SO not a show I watch for the cases. It is clearly all about the characters.
Want June back! *shakes fist*
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It should of course surprise everyone that Merlin is a witch. Certainly I've decided that Arthur's reaction was totally acting; half the people he loved were twitching like crazy leading up to the announcement, so I think Arthur was prepared to declare any finding preposterous. I think how on the ball he is later about dragging Merlin out of the court really only supports this. (And wow I expect that to be in every vid ever, the manhandling.)
In other news: Gwen's comment about what only women buy is absurd, I was halfway wondering if she was really going to say "tampons" to Merlin. I've also decided that in fact what she actually said was not cosmetics but contraceptives, it merely got edited for our delicate sensibilities. Thus the whole midnight apothecary run was quite hilarious innuendo.
I'm not sure I approve of Merlin deciding to fight fire with fire in terms of planting evidence. On the other hand Uther has already demonstrated himself to be an asshat about who he decides to believe on any particular issue. I could see how Merlin would want a slam dunk.
Oh and the bit where Arthur is like, "what? wait, what?" at, first, Gaius's sorcerous past and then Uther's acknowledgement of it. Seriously it is the only way Gaius's characterization makes any sense, I am just a little shocked that this show had sense. But Arthur's face. *SMISH*
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Flashforward bores me, mostly because the leads' stories bore me. I do not give a flip whether emo agent will drink again, or whether his wife will cheat on him. Unfortunately it's hard for me to fast-forward through their plots, as emo agent does, like, investigate stuff, and Jack Davenport, wife-stealer, is apparently involved in causing the Blackout. I'm more interested in Demetri (John Cho!) though the lying to his fiancée was really dumb, especially when he'd already posted to Mosaic. I'm really glad he came clean with her. Also I would like to know if her vision was genuine or a lie or if she actually saw him or someone else.
I was initially concerned that the creators had not adequately worked out their arcs and didn't know, when they wrote the pilot, what caused it, where they were going, and whether the flashforwards were absolutely true or only possible. I'm choosing to assume that now that they're changing the rules by throwing people off buildings, they have worked all that out. I am very curious to see what they do with that. I half expect him to lurch back out of the grave to fulfill his destiny. Because, see, the flashforwards showed a future stemming from the timeline where they had the Blackout, right? So why didn't they accurately predict that outcome of being shown the future? Paradox in play? If he sees it, he suicides to prevent it; if he doesn't see it, he doesn't do anything and lives?
I have a vid bunny for this show. I'm wondering how much of it to watch before I start vidding. And how much of it to watch before releasing the vid. New stuff keeps adding to the vid--the bluesun hand cult totally fits in.
Also: I want an explanation for the kangaroo. Badly. I'm sort of afraid it's going to be a noodle kangaroo.
Initial Yuletide offer list is 128 fandoms long and includes things like the Canterbury Tales. I think my next step shall be to lop off things with double digit worth of offers (unless I'm really, really feeling them). Well! That skimmed it down by a hundred (but Chaucer is still on the list, just barely, heh), so I think I'm set for my offer list. I think I shall go ahead and offer any for all, despite some misgivings. I always find that when I want to offer some characters for a fandom, it's really "all of them except this one," and you can only select four to offer, and it doesn't quite seem fair to lop off the rest of them to avoid the one. (Ballard, I am looking at you. If I get a Dollhouse request with Ballard specified, I will be acquiring a new fandom from one of my recipient's other requests.)
Right, that's done. And now I shall put it out of my mind and wait see what I get, rather than cultivate plot bunnies or starting rereading canons.
And now: my televisions (oh my god, how did I end up watching this many first-run shows):
For some reason
echan thought I wouldn't like the last half of this Supernatural, probably because the Trickster turned out to be an archangel? My feelings on that are 1. I have seen like, fifteen episodes of this show, seriously, my grasp of the show-specific mythology is loose at best, so whatever; 2. I had already disavowed this Trickster as not my Trickster (he's more sadistic than the one I'm familiar with, and also tends to be more focused on lessons than on his own personal amusement), and 3. most traditional Tricksters don't exist in a vacuum, they are the black sheep of their family pantheon, so, hey, it turned out this Trickster's family pantheon is apparently the Supernatural version of the Christian Celestial Hierarchy. Honestly it amuses me when popular media decides to abscond with Christian mythology; too many seem to think it's sacrosanct (see: SG1). Oh, and the other thing: this revelation actually redeems this Trickster for me a bit, because it provides explanation and motivation for the aspects of his character that were bothering me.The only really unfortunate bit is that I seem to have acquired a vid bunny. Did I mention I've only seen like, 15 episodes of this show?
ysobel points out there's only three Trickster episodes (and I've already seen two of them!) so that's something, but I sort of fear I'm going to have to delve into the Christian mythology sword of Michael, Antichrist endtimes stuff. On the whole I AM VERY GLAD MY SUPERNATURAL VIDBUNNY IS NOT A WANGST OF SAM AND/OR DEAN VIDBUNNY, almost every Supernatural vid I've ever seen is a Wangst of Sam and/or Dean vid. Except for crack about the car.But hey: TVLand! I enjoyed! I laugh at Sam for being more comfortable with a pen-knife than a scalpel (seriously? that piece of equipment he couldn't figure out?) and oh, my god, sit-com Supernatural was totally setting them up as a pairing, *IZ DED*, and Sampala! That... that story exists somewhere,
echan was telling me about it. Kripke, verb, intransitive. I am curious about the Japanese gameshow assertion that John and Mary would still be alive if Sam had never been born; most of what I know about show mythology is actually fanon, so my opinion is extremely not valid, but while I can see the logic of that on one side, I sort of wonder what the Yellow-Eyed Demon would have done if Mary hadn't had a second son, since apparently Mary made a deal? I can't decide if I want people to answer me on this or not, since eventually I'll get through marathoning all seasons past.
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What gets me about White Collar is Peter bitches and moans about how untrustworthy Neal is but he trusts him. Neal cuts his tracker anklet for the mark, and the entire surveillance van erupts in SONOFABITCH HE'S RUNNING, except for Peter, who says, "Yep, right on time."
Agent Pete is not nearly as white hat as he pretends. Oh my god, the like, five repetitions of "I can't do anything about this, basically," until Neal clued in and went, "OH OH OH but I can!"
And, and, and! There are a ton of little character interaction moments I loved. Like Neal's scrupulous if incomplete oath regarding the use of Peter's FBI jacket. And Peter figuring out where Neal had sent the bible, which was simultaneously braintwin and because Elizabeth told him to trust Neal to do the right thing. I didn't figure out as far as Peter had, I totally thought Peter's "Oh, I know where it is" was back to Mozzie, based on the "no, I know your friend isn't imaginary" conversation (heart) and how Neal had asked Mozzie about, hypothetically, stealing bibles.
I am highly amused at how Peter and Neal are sitting around trying to come up with some roundabout way to get the art historian to think of him as a fence, and it takes Elizabeth to say, "Why don't you just ask her out?" As
grey_bard said in chat, heterosexuality: not Neal's first instinct. Also even when he's groping a woman it's actually a patdown. The threesomeness of them is fun, too. When they're like, "Will that work? Will she say yes?" and Elizabeth is like, "Of course she will," and Peter tosses her this slightly exasperated look. Yes, yes, Peter, your wife finds your boyfriend hot.The healing bible aspect was a little more X-filesy than I was expecting; the weird part is how I can't decide which of them was Mulder and which was Scully. That probably has more to do with how many times Mulder and Scully switched sides on skepticism/credulity over the seasons than the religious nature of the object under investigation, though. White Collar is SO not a show I watch for the cases. It is clearly all about the characters.
Want June back! *shakes fist*
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It should of course surprise everyone that Merlin is a witch. Certainly I've decided that Arthur's reaction was totally acting; half the people he loved were twitching like crazy leading up to the announcement, so I think Arthur was prepared to declare any finding preposterous. I think how on the ball he is later about dragging Merlin out of the court really only supports this. (And wow I expect that to be in every vid ever, the manhandling.)
In other news: Gwen's comment about what only women buy is absurd, I was halfway wondering if she was really going to say "tampons" to Merlin. I've also decided that in fact what she actually said was not cosmetics but contraceptives, it merely got edited for our delicate sensibilities. Thus the whole midnight apothecary run was quite hilarious innuendo.
I'm not sure I approve of Merlin deciding to fight fire with fire in terms of planting evidence. On the other hand Uther has already demonstrated himself to be an asshat about who he decides to believe on any particular issue. I could see how Merlin would want a slam dunk.
Oh and the bit where Arthur is like, "what? wait, what?" at, first, Gaius's sorcerous past and then Uther's acknowledgement of it. Seriously it is the only way Gaius's characterization makes any sense, I am just a little shocked that this show had sense. But Arthur's face. *SMISH*
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Flashforward bores me, mostly because the leads' stories bore me. I do not give a flip whether emo agent will drink again, or whether his wife will cheat on him. Unfortunately it's hard for me to fast-forward through their plots, as emo agent does, like, investigate stuff, and Jack Davenport, wife-stealer, is apparently involved in causing the Blackout. I'm more interested in Demetri (John Cho!) though the lying to his fiancée was really dumb, especially when he'd already posted to Mosaic. I'm really glad he came clean with her. Also I would like to know if her vision was genuine or a lie or if she actually saw him or someone else.
I was initially concerned that the creators had not adequately worked out their arcs and didn't know, when they wrote the pilot, what caused it, where they were going, and whether the flashforwards were absolutely true or only possible. I'm choosing to assume that now that they're changing the rules by throwing people off buildings, they have worked all that out. I am very curious to see what they do with that. I half expect him to lurch back out of the grave to fulfill his destiny. Because, see, the flashforwards showed a future stemming from the timeline where they had the Blackout, right? So why didn't they accurately predict that outcome of being shown the future? Paradox in play? If he sees it, he suicides to prevent it; if he doesn't see it, he doesn't do anything and lives?
I have a vid bunny for this show. I'm wondering how much of it to watch before I start vidding. And how much of it to watch before releasing the vid. New stuff keeps adding to the vid--the blue
Also: I want an explanation for the kangaroo. Badly. I'm sort of afraid it's going to be a noodle kangaroo.
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Motherfucking word.
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Also, getting rid of the queer woman of color? Not fun, but they replaced her with Wendy Watson, so...net win all around there.
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(though it would be kind of hilarious if Neal moved in with Peter and Elizabeth while we weren't looking. I mean, it would explain the random planning sessions in the kitchen.)
Yeah, I am sad about the lesbian, too.
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I really liked that the trickster turned out to be Gabriel - I put together angel when he banished Castiel, but I thought it was Zach in a new meatsuit. But the eyefucking between Cas and Gabe got me. Now we can have angelic incest to go with the normal type.
Re the parents alive question: that one was painful, but I think the answer was wrong. I don't think there was a canonical reason given for the timing(though I'd need to go bust out the DVDs to be sure) so I think he would have just gone after Dean instead. And who knows, maybe Mary didn't try to get pregnant, but Sam was an accident and she couldn't/wouldn't go the abortion route. Or maybe she thought he'd (YED) forget, or had wards up....
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but I think the answer was wrong.
Huh. Well, the Trickster/Gabriel was writing the show, of course. This begs the question, does *Gabriel* think that's the right answer or was he rewarding Dean purely for playing the game?
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The other reason I think it's wrong is if there hadn't been a second child, I could see Azazel killing her for failing to provide what he needed...and he had like 10 years, but it didn't say if he couldn't come beyond then, just not for 10 I believe.
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Sampala
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I am grumpy that Al suicided, though, because I wanted to see more of the actor. Hello hilarious childhood memories, I know, but yeah.
The one thing Flashforward is pleasing me on is showing an LA that is remotely ethnically and racially diverse. Which TV is notoriously bad at.
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You offer Fandom X Characters ABCD, then as if it were a second fandom, you offer Fandom X Characters EGHI, note that you left out F, the character you wished to avoid.
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(which, since the confirmation email lists out "fandom X characters ABCD" as all explicit combinations -- "X A, X B, X C, X D, X A/B, X A/C, X A/D, X B/C, X B/D, X C/D, X A/B/C, X A/B/D, X A/C/D, X B/C/D, X A/B/C/D" -- kind of indicates that it wouldn't take separate offers into account.)
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Practically speaking you might have to relist several characters several times in order to volunteer all the groupings that you want to. But there is a work around, and you aren't just limited to four characters, if you take a couple of minutes to work around it.
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Though there are fandoms where I haven't bothered to list it because getting the right combinations is exceedingly complicated, between trying to get the characters and pairings I'm okay with and also excluding the ones I'm not. *wry grin*
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Meh, Ballard's really the only one I have that problem with of any of my fandoms. And now I've got myself half-convinced I could redeem him with the right plotbunny.
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