jedi_of_urth

So, with TVD coming back and The Originals about to premier, I'm wondering how my TVD-verse viewing friends feel about the coming seasons.

[Poll #1936851]

As for the only new show I've had so far this week
SHEILD was a bit better this week than last, I'm still readjusting my hopes for the series but this was a definite improvement. I actually know a couple things about the characters now and we started getting them as a team.


The biggest amusement though? I may have mentioned my DW/SG-1 crossover headcanon a time or two, and this mission to find an alien artifact in South America was one I had in mind for Torchwood in that verse and running against various other nationalistic organizations who want it too. So yeah, SHIELD is basically Torchwood to me now (as in more or less the Torchwood we say in AoG/Doomsday rather than the show TW). I do think Phil is a better team leader than Jack I suppose - Jack would totally have been making out with an enemy agent instead of spotting a trap - so there's that at least.

So I put together a tentative look at my fall TV watching schedule:

( Looks like I'll be adding a few )

And then I though I would copy wheatear and do a list of hopes for The Originals (and some TVD).

( Mostly TO though )

-Since I don't have much in the way of TV shows to talk about right now (and even less after GoT ends for the season) what have I been watching? Baseball of course. My Rockies are doing way better this year than last tear so it's fun to watch them again (they're always my team, but last year it sort of stopped being appointment viewing to watch the games). But so far this season it's still appointment TV most evenings.

-Also, apparently my dad has been reading ASOIAF, and asked for my GoT DVDs the other day. We've got tickets to a ballgame next week so I may spend part of the late drive home getting his thoughts so far (I'm sure it hasn't been as surprising to him as it should have been since my mom and I have been discussing stuff around him for a while now so he probably got to certain things and remembered that he'd heard about it a couple years ago).

-My scifibigbang fic is...progressing. I've rewritten this (probably) closing section almost as much as I rewrote the opening. I think I'm going to leave the smutty bits for a follow-up to be written later unless the talky parts really start coming easier and I feel I have the time/inclination/story room to add it to the goal of this fic. Unless that happens it's not going to be any too long, but should make the 25k requirement.

-Also, GODS DAMN DO I HATE THIS POST EDITOR, THIS IS WHY I WRITE MY ACTUAL THOUGHTS IN A SEPARATE PROGRAM, WHICH MEANS I SOMETIMES FORGET HOW AWFUL IT IS WHEN I DECIDE TO JUST WRITE QUICK POSTS IN IN POST EDITOR WINDOW. And yes, that whole thought needed capslock, I REALLY HATE THIS, WHY DID LJ DO THIS TO ME?!?!?!?!?

So, wheatear tagged me to answer some questions not related to FMM, and I ended up doing it. I suppose part of the challenge is to tag other people with new questions but I think I have written up enough for the moment. I *may* come back and do that part later, but no promises (or treats).

( I do get the most verbose about TV, but I answer some of the deeper questions with thought )

-Okay so I've spent the last few days traveling and going to a wedding. It was nice to see family but it was a lot of time in the car with my parents.

-Plus I got sick on the last day of all that. Completely awful sick. Fortunately I seem to be on the mend. Pretty much just knocked myself out to finish the trip home but a good night's sleep in my own bed was a plus.

-All in all it was at best a meh trip.

-However is 'The Originals' is actually a thing...I will have to figure out how I feel about it. Because The Originals are like 90% of the reason I'm still watching TVD (I love you Elena, but the show clearly doesn't) so I should love to see them get they're own spin off but...I 'm not that interested in watching the weekly exploits of Klaus where he's probably going to be the supposed sympathetic main character (plus it would take Klaus away from his OTL Stefan) and I still don't see ow they're going to get Gillies into a full time role. So, I guess for now those are my feelings, I'm not as excited as I want to be.

-I always think I'm going to get more writing/editing done on trips than I actually do. I ended up with basically nothing accomplished, sadness.

-Now I have TV shows to watch while I recuperate.

This episode is hysterical. Oh wait, I was supposed to take it seriously? Hysterically bad then.

( TVD: 3x19: Heart of Darkness )

-So I know the reviews have been pretty sporadic this last week or so, well they're going to continue to be because I'm off having fun this weekend. Well, if my friends and I end up watching anything I want to review and I have the inclination to do so I might but in case you were waiting with baited breath (I'm sure all of you were right?) you'll have to wait a bit longer.

-I'm slowly making progress on the next fic in my TVD fic series (I'm thinking of something like 'Safe Harbor' as a series title y/n). Actually this next one would make that time silly since everything is royally screed up and unlikely to be resolved in this episode as much as my shippy heart would like (aka probably no sexytimes this time around). But we'll see where the muses go as I have a lot left to write just for this episode in the series, and WAY more to go for the series as a whole.

-But I would like to get one more out before the season premier, so we can have some nice things as I'm still not in a gung-ho mood for s4.

-Also, I'm not watching any of the stuff that's been put out, Jedi is in a spoiler cave of denial until the premier.

-I do seem to have reached the stage where I'm tired of being in limbo over what's going to happen now (wanting so badly for there to be a way out of this but 98% sure it won't happen and 85+% sure it won't write it in a way that makes me forgive the fact that she show went there), just not wanting out of limbo badly enough to watch spoiler clips before the episode comes around.

-I ought to do a general review of Saving Hope now that the season is over but pretty sure it won't happen at least until I get home next week. Very short version: meh (but I'll probably keep watching for the eye candy).

-Fireworks are pretty :)

Apparently when I don't feel like writing and do my (for now nightly) review project update, I still need an outlet for my...muses adjacent voices.

Anyway, wheatear linked to/is doing 28 days of doing shipping wrong and I started to think I would. But I realized pretty quickly that a lot of my ships don't quite fit in with that one. So I started one of my own.

I'm open to suggestions for changes at this point but how about:
( 30 days of unfulfilled shipping )

Because I haven't been posting a much as I could I'll fall back on my favorite standby: a meme. (I do have a couple things I'll probably post about soon, some GoT thoughts, getting back to the review project, some writing updates (I only have about ten different writing projects I'm trying to make headway on); but for now just the meme)

Leave me a show and I'll tell you

My OTP:
My OT3:
My guilty pleasure ship:
A ship that makes me nauseous:
A ship that is too fluffy for words:
A ship that gives me nightmares:
The sexiest ship to never set sail:

So, to keep going with the TVD recap energy in spite of the hiatus, I'm open to suggestions for what I should watch and recap/review tomorrow in place of a new ep. Want to know my opinions on the pilot? Elijah's introduction? An episode from last month before I got hit by the drive to do this kind of thing? Make your suggestions here (may also be for the next few weeks until new eps come back).

(oh and if you're wondering about the Buffy rewatch, it's stalled because I don't want to watch Amends. Too much Buffy/Angel, I keep trying to remind myself it also has Giles with a crossbow but can't seem to make that enough motivation to put up with the miracle snow.)