all about the squee
Sep. 13th, 2008 06:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jencatIgnoring the hacking cough I still have, real life was the usual shade of blah this week - except for my friend finally having a gorgeous baby girl, just a couple of days after I finished knitting the Baby Blanket of Doom, phew - but lordy, other than that, it was kinda time for all my obsessions to kick off...
No, I really shouldn't wander into book shops without supervision (or without my credit card) but then I saw that Liz William's Winterstrike was finally out and all my budgeting kinda went out the window...
So... I was about as happy as someone who's just seen a whole book based on her favourite short story, basically, and it's so damn cool! The ending won't work, cos, hell, much as I love the bulk of the books, I've never read a Liz Williams book that had a decent ending, but hey, I'll take any time I can get in post apocalyptic Italianate matriarchal far future Mars, thanks all the same..
And then Sarah Connor started again, and it was frickin' fabulous... (OMG, Shirley Manson! singing!)
And then I really got surprised and managed to forgive Prison Break for having the third season. This would be the third season that I refused to watch any of, after the whole Sarah debacle...
But they totally pulled off the Best Retrocon Ever! and she's back! and my little shippy heart just about overflowed (because I only watch the Break for the ridiculous over the top lulz, and the really rather adorable Sarah/Michael ship, obviously). Of course, the ship is about the only vaguely understated, realistic thing about that show, so the first couple of season four eps were rather lovely pay off... Oh, there's trauma to come, and I'll probably start hating it again soon, but we had a reunion! and wenty gritting his teeth while they burned off all the tatts! and chinese food in bed! and wtf some-kinda-nasty-torture-scars! more trauma, and the conversation that included the lines "of course, you're still married to a russian stripper!" "I was busy! and she was czech!"
love it. although I was totally convinced Sarah's torture post traumatic stress was actually front for her being about to sell them out (sooo damn twitchy!), but they're heading right back on with the OMGformerjunkie stuff we haven't seen since season one... those kids are never gonna last. Can't help loving this though, cos hell, who else would get away with having the female lead be a reformed smackhead, and possibly the most sympathetic ex-junkie on tv...?
*sigh* happy now
No, I really shouldn't wander into book shops without supervision (or without my credit card) but then I saw that Liz William's Winterstrike was finally out and all my budgeting kinda went out the window...
So... I was about as happy as someone who's just seen a whole book based on her favourite short story, basically, and it's so damn cool! The ending won't work, cos, hell, much as I love the bulk of the books, I've never read a Liz Williams book that had a decent ending, but hey, I'll take any time I can get in post apocalyptic Italianate matriarchal far future Mars, thanks all the same..
And then Sarah Connor started again, and it was frickin' fabulous... (OMG, Shirley Manson! singing!)
And then I really got surprised and managed to forgive Prison Break for having the third season. This would be the third season that I refused to watch any of, after the whole Sarah debacle...
But they totally pulled off the Best Retrocon Ever! and she's back! and my little shippy heart just about overflowed (because I only watch the Break for the ridiculous over the top lulz, and the really rather adorable Sarah/Michael ship, obviously). Of course, the ship is about the only vaguely understated, realistic thing about that show, so the first couple of season four eps were rather lovely pay off... Oh, there's trauma to come, and I'll probably start hating it again soon, but we had a reunion! and wenty gritting his teeth while they burned off all the tatts! and chinese food in bed! and wtf some-kinda-nasty-torture-scars! more trauma, and the conversation that included the lines "of course, you're still married to a russian stripper!" "I was busy! and she was czech!"
love it. although I was totally convinced Sarah's torture post traumatic stress was actually front for her being about to sell them out (sooo damn twitchy!), but they're heading right back on with the OMGformerjunkie stuff we haven't seen since season one... those kids are never gonna last. Can't help loving this though, cos hell, who else would get away with having the female lead be a reformed smackhead, and possibly the most sympathetic ex-junkie on tv...?
*sigh* happy now
