Weekend update

[out_there]

Had slashers over on Saturday (indybrat, charliequinn, Mirna, Genie and Cherry) and had a lot of fun. Then, as people lent me videos, I spent Sunday in bed watching stuff, and woke up feeling a bit off (not dying, just tired) and took today off sick.

Random thoughts:

- Finally saw some S3 DS. Ray K? He's cute in that Oz (Seth Green) way, but his accent's annoying. For my money, I'll stick to Ray V.

- Inspector Rex? Highly slashy and adorable show.

- Watched WW (ITSOTG) and was highly amused by charliequinn's comments on the first Sam/Josh flashback. She laughed over Sam's first comment ("You look fit") because, as she said, "people say that to each other all the time". *g* Although, I was more amused by her surprise when the next scene showed them eating hotdogs (she thought it was an euphemism. *g*).

- Between six of us, we ordered three family sized pizzas. Between the three pizzas, I was left with almost an entire pizza as left-overs. Guess what I've been eating for the last two days?

- Velvet Goldmine has very pretty boys (even if I can't help thinking of Brian Slade as Steerpike in another life) but a kinda depressing ending. Not so fun.

- Methos is snarky and highly amusing. Was that character even in the films? I'm curious.

- Hey, jmtorres, you're a MX fan. Do you know where the episode "Ex Marks the Spot" fits in (it's the one with Keith Cullum... I have no idea of hi s name, he's Ray K). I'm curious because I just saw it. As much as I love this dodgy series (and keep waiting for the two girls to just kiss already), it's logic is mightily flawed. If Jesse can phase through walls wearing clothing, obviously he has the ability to make inanimate objects (fabric, boots, or say, a faberge egg) phase through as well. Oh well, I never watched it for the plot...

- I must have watched about four hours of SN yesterday. I'm now watching it as a Dan/Casey meal, with a side order of Natalie/Dana. I think it's something about Sorkin's writing. I find his same-sex friendships far more believable, endearing, complex and committed than his actual relationships.

Hmmm... I'm off to find Velvet Goldmine slash... and probably re-read Lanning's SN fic. *g*

Comments

[derryderrydown.livejournal.com]

Methos was in Endgame but none of the others. And, yes, Peter Wingfield is a Good Thing.

[out-there.livejournal.com]

Ah. I can only remember the first Highlander movie with any clarity (Sean Connery!) so it's no wonder I have no idea of Methos...

I just saw "Indiscretions" and was highly amused.

[derryderrydown.livejournal.com]

What's Indiscretions? (Bearing in mind that I haven't actually seen any of the Highlander series... *g* But I've had a crush on Peter Wingfield since he was in Soldier Soldier.)

Endgame is the one that's based around the series and it was the most gratuitous insertion of a character I've ever seen. Methos and Joe turn up in a car and say words to the effect of: "Hi. The fans like us so the writers put us in. Bye, now."

[out-there.livejournal.com]

Endgame is the one that's based around the series and it was the most gratuitous insertion of a character I've ever seen. Methos and Joe turn up in a car and say words to the effect of: "Hi. The fans like us so the writers put us in. Bye, now."

Heh. Somehow, I could just imagine them doing that.

Well, I've seen all of one episode, and it was "indiscretions". Basically, it's an episode with no Duncan, and all Joe and Methos.

[ahab99.livejournal.com]

- I must have watched about four hours of SN yesterday. I'm now watching it as a Dan/Casey meal, with a side order of Natalie/Dana. I think it's something about Sorkin's writing. I find his same-sex friendships far more believable, endearing, complex and committed than his actual relationships.

I would totally agree; I've been watching a lot of Sports Night this weekend as well, and a lot of the Dana/Casey stuff is driving me crazy. Dan/Casey, however, continues to please. :)

I would make an exception in two areas, though: when Casey and Dana are interacting as old friends rather than potential lovers, I love the way you can see the years of caring and the level of comfort they have with each other. I think it's a bit like the CJ/Toby relationship that way, although I'm pretty sure Sorking never intended to write CJ and Toby that way. Maybe it's just that he's really good at writing characters who have long histories and accept each other for what they are. However, most of the time with Dana and Casey he writes all sorts of crazy emotional roller-coaster stuff that drives me nuts, especially in the second season.

Also, though, I love Dan when he's interacting with Rebecca. Maybe it's just because I love Dan, but when he's being sweet to her and courting her I just die. OK, that's pretty much because I love Dan in all instances, I suppose.

[out-there.livejournal.com]

*nods* I think that's what it is. I just don't buy Dana/Casey as a potential relationship, I can't see them that way. I always see them as these old friends who know each other inside and out, but I don't buy them as falling in love with each other.

Which is just plain... hypocritical, I guess. I mean, I *know* that Dan/Casey and Dana/Natalie are good friends who know each other well, and yet I could see them becoming romantically involved with each other.

Also, though, I love Dan when he's interacting with Rebecca. Maybe it's just because I love Dan, but when he's being sweet to her and courting her I just die. OK, that's pretty much because I love Dan in all instances, I suppose.

I don't think I've seen Rebecca. I saw some episodes from S1, and a couple from S2, but they weren't exactly in order. [Which is not the fault of the friend who tape them, it's the fault of dodgy stations that show things out of order. They've done it again this year with "Gone Without a Trace" (or something like that) where they started showing it from the tenth episode onwards because of the "better quality" of those episodes. *rolls eyes* Highly dodgy.]

Anyway, I haven't seen her yet although I do share the Dan love with you. It's kinda odd, because Sam is my WW favourite, yet Dan's my SN favourite (even though he's the Josh of SN). He's adorable and snarky, and takes the occasional day off from doing the right thing. What's not to love?

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

It's Callum Keith Rennie :) Which eps of S3 DS did you see? While I think the show was better in the early seasons, RayK is my Ray of choice for slashiness *g*. As for the final episode...*swoons happily*...

[out-there.livejournal.com]

Hey, I got two of the names right... okay, in the wrong order, but I still deserve points for trying.

The episode was... I don't know. I think the others referred to it as "Mountie on the Bounty" and I think it was the last double ep of the series (Is that right? It was the last thing we watched so my attention span may have been a little dodgy...).

Anyway, it featured big boats and mounties, and made me realise that for a series that didn't atart off too realistic, it's become even more ridiculous.

I don't know about slashiness. Just, in personality/character, I prefer Ray V. I think that Ray K may be more slashy with Frasier, but I like Ray V more.

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

Ah, it's either the last of S3, or in the middle, depending if you call the RayK eps one season or two (there's only one season worth of eps, but in some places, they were shown as two seasons).

I like MotB, but yes, S3 was very surreal and silly. And I like RayV (I loved the show well before I got into slash), and like Fraser/RayV slash. I just prefer RayK slash *g*.

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

The energy vampire one? Er, late season 1 I think.

Not like there's any real reason to watch anything but the Ashlocke episodes in order, and who wants to watch the Ashlocke episodes anyway?

[out-there.livejournal.com]

Ummm... No, not an energy vampire. It was an ex of Shal's who could... visualise through walls (he could show projections of what was inside a fridge, or a vault). The whole plot was trying to get a computer chip (with information on the DNA strand for "free will") out of a fabrege egg, before Eckhart does.

I haven't seen any of S2, it was just a random episode on a tape that a friend of mine let me borrow. It was just amusing to remember just how incredibly slashy this show is, and just how little actual "quality" of a TV show will affect my enjoyment of it.

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

I know that one. Um. No, I'm too lazy to go look it up.