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thedeadlyhookBig hairball of busy on this end for the last week or so. Work-related, which is good, and fic-related, also good, but I've missed another slew of birthdays - ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
_jems_ back in December and more recently, molly_may and annapurna_2. I won't do the big scrolling text thing, because at this late date, it seems kind of sad, but please accept my heartfelt best wishes and hopes that you all have a fantastic year ahead.
Lots of backlog to cover yet from the holidays, which I'm still hoping to get to, including ruminations on TV shows I don't typically watch, books received for Xmas, and the upcoming format and storage wars in CD/DVD media - wow, the entertainment industry's in for some serious change in the next few years, no joke, but first...
Sci-Fi Friday. Didn't watch Battlestar Galactica. Honestly didn't miss it. No insult to anyone on my flist still enjoying the series, but whoo-boy - amazing to realize how much different an evening it is when you stop after Stargate. Nowhere near as depressing. Eventually, I'll look at everyone else's entries on the episode and find out how the story went, but that's probably as far as my curiosity goes anymore. They lost me.
My Stargate observations are mostly shallow: glad to see new opening credits, oh no, there goes Louis Gossett Jr., that was sure sudden, and damn if Cameron Mitchell (see, I'm working hard to remember Browder's character's name) and Daniel Jackson don't make a great comedy team. I'm also warming to Beau Bridges, who was kind of leaving me cold there for awhile, and Lexa Doig's presence along with Ben Browder's, William B. Davis's, and also Mitch Pileggi's on Atlantis just reinforces my impression of the Stargate-verse as being a sort of warm, fuzzy afterlife for genre actors. Like reincarnation. Aw.
And General Hammond. Double awww.
Atlantis - what's so weird about this show is that I actually enjoy it a lot, despite not being at all interested in most of the team. I can't even remember their names most of the time, other than Ronon Dex!, whose name is so such the sort of thing one might come up with for a role-playing game, and thusly I find kind of endearing. But the Wraith are - let's face it - campy and funny to watch, and Aiden Ford (who I had to look up - in my mind, he's always "the guy with the big eye") is entertaining me a lot right now with his drug-related super-alien-steroids story, because it's going to a place these sorts of stories usually don't go, that being the fact that the alien elixir really does get him pumped up, and then it's just a discussion of acceptable risks. I like that Rodney shot up to take out the guards. That was nice, even with the big withdrawal thang that came after. Still subtle, for this kind of story.
The main character still bores me. Ditto all the women, especially the base commander - does she ever do anything but stride around stiffly in her lycra T-shirt? Every time I see her, in her slimline headset, I think she's drawn a mascara line down her cheek by mistake.
_jems_ back in December and more recently, molly_may and annapurna_2. I won't do the big scrolling text thing, because at this late date, it seems kind of sad, but please accept my heartfelt best wishes and hopes that you all have a fantastic year ahead.Lots of backlog to cover yet from the holidays, which I'm still hoping to get to, including ruminations on TV shows I don't typically watch, books received for Xmas, and the upcoming format and storage wars in CD/DVD media - wow, the entertainment industry's in for some serious change in the next few years, no joke, but first...
Sci-Fi Friday. Didn't watch Battlestar Galactica. Honestly didn't miss it. No insult to anyone on my flist still enjoying the series, but whoo-boy - amazing to realize how much different an evening it is when you stop after Stargate. Nowhere near as depressing. Eventually, I'll look at everyone else's entries on the episode and find out how the story went, but that's probably as far as my curiosity goes anymore. They lost me.
My Stargate observations are mostly shallow: glad to see new opening credits, oh no, there goes Louis Gossett Jr., that was sure sudden, and damn if Cameron Mitchell (see, I'm working hard to remember Browder's character's name) and Daniel Jackson don't make a great comedy team. I'm also warming to Beau Bridges, who was kind of leaving me cold there for awhile, and Lexa Doig's presence along with Ben Browder's, William B. Davis's, and also Mitch Pileggi's on Atlantis just reinforces my impression of the Stargate-verse as being a sort of warm, fuzzy afterlife for genre actors. Like reincarnation. Aw.
And General Hammond. Double awww.
Atlantis - what's so weird about this show is that I actually enjoy it a lot, despite not being at all interested in most of the team. I can't even remember their names most of the time, other than Ronon Dex!, whose name is so such the sort of thing one might come up with for a role-playing game, and thusly I find kind of endearing. But the Wraith are - let's face it - campy and funny to watch, and Aiden Ford (who I had to look up - in my mind, he's always "the guy with the big eye") is entertaining me a lot right now with his drug-related super-alien-steroids story, because it's going to a place these sorts of stories usually don't go, that being the fact that the alien elixir really does get him pumped up, and then it's just a discussion of acceptable risks. I like that Rodney shot up to take out the guards. That was nice, even with the big withdrawal thang that came after. Still subtle, for this kind of story.
The main character still bores me. Ditto all the women, especially the base commander - does she ever do anything but stride around stiffly in her lycra T-shirt? Every time I see her, in her slimline headset, I think she's drawn a mascara line down her cheek by mistake.