Random randomness

[wiseheart]

Cos I'm on sick leave, although the sickness has passed, and feel like babbling a bit, yo!

The telly - or why I might end up spend my hard-earned cash on shows that I cannot watch, even though everyone says they're rubbish.

I heard really, really bad things about Starz' Camelot. So I googled a bit, and what I saw confirmed my worst fears. Come on, guys, WTF, Arthur a girl??? Okay, I know he technically isn't a girl, but he looks like one. Imagining him having sex with the actual girls on the show is... off-putting, to say the least. No offence against anyone, but if I wanna watch femslash, the least I could demand would be that both participants be real girls, right? At least Bradley James looks like a knight who would be capable of raising his sword without collapsing under its weight.

But... the show stars Eva Green as Morgan, and she looks absolutely stunning. I could never warm up to Katie McGrath's Morgana, so perhaps I should give "Camelot" a chance, after all. Plus, it has Sean Pertwee, with whom I've been in selfless love ever since I saw him as Hugh Beringar. And Clive Standen! *flails* Granted, I only saw him in Dr. Who, where he had a total of about three seconds of screen time, but I'm so totally fangirling him. Embarrassing, really, considering that I could be his mother. Ah, well. I might even buy some random Robin Hood episodes to watch him. I'm shallow that way. I like me some ruggedly handsome men from time to time.


Procrastinating - or the pain of too many choices after finishing a story.

Now that I've finally gotten "Eye Witness" out of my hair (not that anybody but artemis10002000 would give a rat's arse about my Torchwood fic), I've taken a good hard look of my unfinished WIPs - and blanched. There are too many, in too many different fandoms!

My best candidates to be finished in the foreseeable future would be "Vox Angelica" in the Cadfael fandom, "Brothers-in-Arms" (also in the Cadfael fandom) and "A Visitor from Avalon", my Merlin-Torchwood crossover. Consequently, what have I done all day? Background work on "Sea-Flower", a pre-Ring-War Tolkienfic taking place in Umbar.

Yeah, right. That's me, doing the least logical thing. But at least I've figured out how to include the bull games and cast some of the characters. Not surprisingly, Princess Ivriniel will be played by Eva Green and Lord Caliondo of Umbar will be played by Clive Standen. What? I told you I'm shallow! And I need my visuals. I'm seriously considering having Colin Morgan play the Dark Elf assassin, but I'm not sure I can pull that one out. Although he'd be creepy. Oh, and the malicious Haradric slave girl is played by Indira Varma.


Baking - yep, I did some of that, too!

Not much; we won't dare eating anything with cream in the next few days, so I made some Ischler and a small lamb out of almond biscuit. And I hung up the decorated eggshells in the living room. Mum is pleased with the results, so I'm pleased, too.


Other than that, I'm lazing around and wishing I had people I could discuss silly fannish things with. But you can't have everything.

Comments

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

mr_ea & I used to disagree over which was better, TNG or DS9, but we recently purchased some TNG boxsets and haven't been able to force ourselves to plough through them, so we're now both agreed that DS9 stands up better to rewatching, at least. I liked DS9 for boldly standing still, exploring the situation on Bajor and the clash between Federation & Bajoran values, especially over religion, and for exploring the Cardassian culture in detail. (Have you read altariel's wonderful Cardassian post-series novel, The Never-ending Sacrifice? Heavily recommended, and not just because she's my friend.) I was less keen on the war arc than many.

I'd agree there are a few interesting TNG standalone episodes, but many I'd liked on television on rewatch turned out to be a bit hammy in execution. And of course Picard is a superb character, and so well acted. (I've seen Patrick Stewart on the stage twice now and he's brilliant.) And I really didn't like Baccarin's work, though I gather she's less stilted in other things.

if you look at Firefly, I can't think of any of the characters being non good-looking.

This might just be my bias, because there are certainly plenty of people who did find them attractive, but Wash, Jayne and Book all appeared much more normal in looks to me.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

No, I have quite deliberately not read any of the post-series DS9 novels, since I hadn't finished watching it until this week. I do know of altariel's book though, and I am intrigued by it. There is only the small matter of finding time to read...

I haven't re-watched any TNG in the last few years so I can't say if I would find them badly executed now. I do think TNG will always have a special place in my heart though, because it was my Star Trek: the first Trek series I watched. And as you say, Patrick Stewart is brilliant! I have had the good fortune of seeing him in two plays at the RSC and I loved it.

This might just be my bias, because there are certainly plenty of people who did find them attractive, but Wash, Jayne and Book all appeared much more normal in looks to me.
I have seen the actor playing Jayne in other things and he definitely rates quite high on my good-looking scale. When it comes to Wash I am prepared to admit that he may just be attractive to me due to my inherent love of geeks; I wouldn't want to get in a fight with Zoe -- she would quite easily kick my butt, for one thing -- I think the character I fancy the most is Wash. As for Book, he is a bit too old for me (at the moment) to fancy but I think his looks are definitely striking. Something I meant to say, but realize I somehow left out, is that I don't think picking good-looking women to work for him is a problem inherent to Whedon. It seems to me that to actually get to the point were you would have a chance to be noticed by a guy like him you have to be good-locking if you are female. For male actors I think it also helps them succeed, but it doesn't seem to be such a strong requirement to get any role as it is for women.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I don't think picking good-looking women to work for him is a problem inherent to Whedon.

True, but I find other US television shows that do it too overtly completely unwatchable, the more so the older & uglier I get myself.

For male actors I think it also helps them succeed, but it doesn't seem to be such a strong requirement to get any role as it is for women.

This is certainly true. Good actors such as, say, Timothy Spall don't find it difficult to get decent roles, in the UK at least. The Swedish television version of Wallander suggests the same is true in Sweden.