The Tradëscan Codex

SCC was awesome. Summer was awesome, and still makes me go guh. Next week's episode looks awesome.

OMG, so many possibilities for femslash--why doesn't Hollywood make more movies like this where all the characters are female? Oh, yeah, right. That's why. But really, flist? Remind me to watch more movies intended for teenaged girls, okay? ETA: And, according to femslash_today there are at least two femslash fics in that fandom, both written by the same flister (viciouswishes) and in the same pairing (the obvious femslash OTP one). ETA2: And it's actually the same fic, indexed twice. Which means there's half as much femslash written for this fandom as I thought there was. Which surprises me, really; I expected it to have a small but loyal fandom, like other nominally heterosexual female-heavy fandoms (like Devil Wears Prada or Bring It On). ETA3: But in the comments of that fic, there is a rec to another one! (Linking to the rec rather than the fic mostly because of the awesome Emma banner.)

ETA4: What I really want is one of those fics where everyone's inexplicably gay and the pairing list is something like "Gen/Ann, Joan/Tina, Casey/Zoey." Or whatever permutation.

There's a 'cest possibility, too--well, loads of them, actually, if one's willing to go parent/child. But there's a sibcest possibility as well, which is the one I was thinking of. And it's not my thing as much, but there are people on my flist who'd be all over the coach/skater crossgen (and this time, I'm actually not thinking of Ari).

Unlike Will Brooker, I don't find Hayden Panettiere hot. (To be clear, I do not think Will Brooker is hot; Will Brooker thinks she is hot, as per fandebate. Well, I've never met him, so it's not impossible that I would think he was hot were I to meet him, but I am straight enough that I find it unlikely. So unless Will Brooker is actually David Tennant in disguise. . . .) Pretty, yes. Adorable, absolutely.

Michelle Trachtenberg, on the other hand. . . . WhedonCon 2008, people. (I really need to write a sequel to that sometime.)

The supporting characters in this movie rock. It's a shame they get so little screen time, but that's part of what makes them rock--that they manage to be interesting and engaging so quickly with so little information.

Um, Christophe Beck? The fact that it felt like the "Buffy/Angel Love Theme" was playing all through the movie is not a good thing. At least, I don't think it is. If it had been the Nerf Herder theme instead, that would have been pretty cool.

katieliz once gave away a poster for this movie on her radio show.

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I'll probably wait until tomorrow (meaning, later today, Saturday, after I've gotten some sleep) to read all the stuff that's been posted since I started trying to catch up.

For right now, I'll just watch the second part of Revenge of the Slitheen. Non-spoilery thoughts about the first part: wow, Maria's family really has the Keith/Veronica/Lianne dynamic going on, doesn't it? Even down to the snark. Excellent fathers FTW.

Squee? Okay, that was pretty awesome. (likeadeuce: I was supposed to hate it, y/n?)

Very action-packed, though. It could have used some--I think the term is "decompression"? But that's okay, there's always fanfiction for that.

The Cuckoos get many panels in this book, which is of the good. In all of these panels, they are awesome, because they are the Cuckoos and the Cuckoos are awesome. In many of these panels, they are in bed. With each other. Which is also awesome in its way. Just saying. (Actually, the implication I got from the art in this is that they all share a bed. Which I'm pretty sure contradicts Astonishing and New X-Men canon? But maybe they have three beds and sometimes they sleep separately and sometimes they all sleep together in the same bed anyway. That works for me.)

The whole thing is very, very will-to-powery. Which I guess is the point of the whole "Phoenix" storyline. It works for me.

Anyone have any clue where this fits into Astonishing?

I think tonight's Gilmore Girls was a rerun? Or maybe not. I only caught the tail end, waiting for VMars. In any case April remains the most adorable thing (erm, person? character?) ever. And Alexis is stil hot.

Is there GG fic which focuses on the interactions--in a gen way, I swear!--between Rory, Gigi, and April? Because I want that. Alongside BSG Cally/Gaius, of course. (Or Cally/anybody. Rec me good Cally fic?)

( Tina Majorino: still teh awesome )

In short, I loved everything about this episode except for the plot, and I didn't hate that either.

Reading my flist on a pretty extreme filter until I finish my grad school apps stuff, so I haven't read any reactions yet.

The episode made me cry.

Then so did Legally Blonde and Eight Crazy Nights. Not particularly difficult to make me cry--funeral scenes especially tend to do it. I get sort of jealous of all the sudden outpouring of love, I think.

Anyway, the point is that it's rather easy to make me cry and not necessarily an indicator of aesthetic quality. I think this was the weakest episode of the season so far. Which, again, not something to be ashamed of, every episode can't be as brilliant as "Countrycide" or "They Keep Killing Suzie," but the show is so consistently excellent that I found myself somewhat dissapointed. "Good" isn't good enough for me anymore; I've come to expect great.

( here be spoilers )

Next week's episode looks promising, though.

( spoilers for tonight's VMars ) off the top of my head I don't know how to conjugate the plural of machina--help anyone? ( More spoilers )

Yeah. I really have to say, not as good as Torchwood. Be cool again, Veronica. Be will-to-powery. Or have you matured beyond that? Is that little piece of Kitty Pryde Lilly Kane inside you dead?

Oh well. 5 days until the next Torchwood!