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Feb. 15th, 2011 01:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
castalieSo I was supposed to work on something during my lunch break and had to watch Cookie and her cousin and nephew leave for a Chinese restaurant nearby, except I can't do anything because the software isn't responding so I declined the offer to join them for nothing. And now Cookie isn't answering her phone so I can't ask her where they went #Fail And because my coworkers left early for the cafeteria, I can't join them either #DoubleFail Ok, then, guess I'll have a classic jambon beurre sandwich and have LJ keep me company instead ;-) Ha, aren't you happy I update my journal? I'm sure you were dying to know what I was doing for lunch lol
Anyway. Let's talk fannish to balance things out. Is anyone else watching Outcasts? Cookie and I have started watching the show (we're up to 1x02 so I don't know if we're up-to-date or behind one episode? Will check tonight when I get home). I'm getting into it nicely. Nothing to the extent of Misfits, admittedly, but I'm enjoying the plots. Plus, I have a soft spot for that kind of storyline: humans colonising a planet after leaving Earth and building a new society. I love the themes that go along with that kind of plot: the hope for something different, something better, and the disillusions when people realise they're making the same mistakes all over again. The second episode in particular was all about the disappointments one has to face when realising that mistakes seem to just wait to be made all over again: with Cass having blood on his hands again and getting a reminder of a past he obviously wanted to forget or Fleur and her heartfelt "I thought this place would be different". She sounded so genuine, so upset. It'd be disappointing, all right, to realise that things are just the same everywhere - as if some things just can't be escaped. But, hey, Carpathia wasn't named Utopia, after all.
Something else that is fun with Brit shows is how you're always playing Recognise the Actor - Being Human! Life on Mars! Ugly Betty, too! - that one was unexpected - etc.
And speaking of tv and enthusiasm, I've seen a couple people on my flist falling for White Collar the past week and this delights me to no end. I wanted to tell them "what took you so long, mates, omg??" but better late than never \o/ Also, because those two are also fic writers, I'm hoping we might get some new blood here as well? #NoPressureAtAll Ok, ok, I'm being greedy, I'll shut up now ;-) In any case, it's always so sweet seeing new fans discovering a show you're in love with *cooes at them*
Anyway. Let's talk fannish to balance things out. Is anyone else watching Outcasts? Cookie and I have started watching the show (we're up to 1x02 so I don't know if we're up-to-date or behind one episode? Will check tonight when I get home). I'm getting into it nicely. Nothing to the extent of Misfits, admittedly, but I'm enjoying the plots. Plus, I have a soft spot for that kind of storyline: humans colonising a planet after leaving Earth and building a new society. I love the themes that go along with that kind of plot: the hope for something different, something better, and the disillusions when people realise they're making the same mistakes all over again. The second episode in particular was all about the disappointments one has to face when realising that mistakes seem to just wait to be made all over again: with Cass having blood on his hands again and getting a reminder of a past he obviously wanted to forget or Fleur and her heartfelt "I thought this place would be different". She sounded so genuine, so upset. It'd be disappointing, all right, to realise that things are just the same everywhere - as if some things just can't be escaped. But, hey, Carpathia wasn't named Utopia, after all.
Something else that is fun with Brit shows is how you're always playing Recognise the Actor - Being Human! Life on Mars! Ugly Betty, too! - that one was unexpected - etc.
And speaking of tv and enthusiasm, I've seen a couple people on my flist falling for White Collar the past week and this delights me to no end. I wanted to tell them "what took you so long, mates, omg??" but better late than never \o/ Also, because those two are also fic writers, I'm hoping we might get some new blood here as well? #NoPressureAtAll Ok, ok, I'm being greedy, I'll shut up now ;-) In any case, it's always so sweet seeing new fans discovering a show you're in love with *cooes at them*
