The Tyranny of Socks

I find it very difficult to post about shows with a 6 to 8 episode season until the whole thing is done -- they have too much one-long-story, and too quick a payoff, for me to say anything while they're in progress.

( under the cut, spoilers )

I had a successful Yuletide, I think -- I received a really neat story for the fandom I was really not expecting to get:

Siempre Cambiando, Nunca Cambiando (9402 words) by Llwyden ferch Gyfrinach
Fandom: Hotel California - Fandom
Rating: Mature
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: The Narrator, The Woman, The Captain, the Nightman
Summary:

"...Plenty of room at the Hotel California
Any time of year
You can find it here..."

I asked for horror in my request, but sort of figured that anyone who was going to write the prompt would end up going for comedy instead. But Llwyden didn't! And the result was amazing!

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I wrote a story for ellia:

Let our weakness speak (2303 words) by Vaznetti
Fandom: Spooks | MI-5
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Harry Pearce, Ruth Evershed
Summary:

There is no life outside the Grid. (Harry and Ruth, post season 9)

I was really happy to get the prompt I did; it was something I had been thinking about anyway. It ended up being more of a rush job than it should have been, but I think it turned out all right in the end. A few people read it and liked it, and that's always nice.

This brings my total for 2010 up to two stories! The other was also a new fandom -- and a rather intimidating one, because I am just never going to be up on Who canon, even recent canon:

In the blank space between the trenches (G, River Song, spoilers for 5x13).

Oddly, neither was a crossover, although there ought to be lots and lots of crossovers with River Song in them. Perhaps there should also be lots of crossovers with Harry and Ruth in them, as well. I started a story about Ruth and Arvin Sloane, earlier in the season.

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Other than that, I'm not sure I had a year in fandom -- I certainly don't have "a fandom" and am not sure when I'll be getting one. I find it hard to participate when I'm not watching the US shows at the same time as the majority of my flist -- I don't see the point of writing up comments, and I don't want to go hunt down what other people have said when I can read them safely. And yet I really, really hate to watch downloaded tv -- even if I go ahead and acquire an episode, I won't watch it. But by the time I have anything to say about the British shows, their season is over! And in general, if I do have anything to say about them, I can say it to my husband -- and I have very little faith that if I did write episode comments, anyone would read them. I just don't have the sense that any of the people still reading this journal care that much.

Sorry, that came out sort of weird. On the positive side, Primeval is coming back tonight! And as far as I can tell from the ads on tv, they seem to have got rid of most of the stuff I didn't like about the last season.

...and the scenes from next week, to which my reaction can be summed up with "OMG, have they gone completely mad?" (The answer being, obviously, yes: someone sat down in the writer's room and said, "Hey, this is a show about time travel. We have no limits!") And this is already a show which will make you turn to your watching-partner and say, in all seriousness, "If we were being hunted down by the private army of a power-mad civil servant, we wouldn't stop to have a random formal dinner in our poorly-constructed secret lair, would we?" The characters really are too dumb to live.

( some comments on the season so far )

I'm sure I had other things to say, but I've been writing this in dribs and drabs all day, so it's a bit disorganized. And now I must go see what kind of mashed food I can make for Spartacus.

Earlier lists of five here (SPN, Jericho), here (SPN, XF) and here (Primeval).

And finally... for celli and camille_is_here, Five crossovers the Winchesters didn't know they were in. (Alias, Jericho, Primeval, Angel, The Riddle-Master of Hed)

( five crossovers, under the cut -- mostly gen, mostly Sam and Dean. )

I don't think I've ever needed this many tags on a post!

( cut for spoilers )

I'm sure there were other things I loved about the episode, but haven't remembered here.

Oh! and a link to proof of the slashiness of Primeval, with pictures. There are spoilers in the text, but the pictures are great.

I should post something, shouldn't I? Consider this a placeholder, like the title says. BH arrived safely, and stayed awake long enough to watch BSG and Rome. I will post about Rome at some later point. Really. For some reason I am kind of sleepy this morning; I'm trying to write reference letters, but they're going slowly.

I think my love for BSG is gone, and along with it my interest in the show. Part of the problem is that it's on late here, and after Rome, but I just have trouble paying attention: I can't seem to care about whatever story they're telling.

But I am really enjoying Primeval, which BH encouraged me to watch. It is awesome, and has dinosaurs and every kind of UST you can imagine and (BH assured me) a cool plot arc. I will have to do some kind of pimping post later this week, because it really does have something for everyone, all wrapped up in a shiny genre package.

I should not be yawning like this, considering how much coffee I've had this morning. Woe!