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Party time again!

Hi folks! *waves*

Time is flying by, isn't it? It's that time of a year again - I'm getting older. In this case, I'm turning 55 on October 9, which used to be an important thing, back under the old regime. Women could retire at the age of 55 back then. So I've decided to ignore all that fantastic headway we've supposedly made towards democracy in the last two decades and enter my virtual retirement, blithley overlooking the fact that I'll have to work another 7 or 8 or only God knows how many years.

So, let's party! Last years virtual birthday party yielded 742 comments on 6 pages, which won't be easy to top, but we're good, aren't we? WE CAN DO IT! So, let's give it a try! In the recent years, it has always been great fun, so let's have fun again!

You're all cordially invited to help yourself to a slice of virtual Dobos Cake recipe - it's my absolute favourite, although I never managed to get it as good as my Garnny used to.

Cheers!

Note: The party will be closed on October 9, at midnight, sharp. Join us and have fun!

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I liked Children of Earth well enough, though I'm kinda iffy on whether it's part of my headcanon of the Torchwood storyline or something I'm keeping separate in my mind. On principle, I like the kind of plot they used there, I just hated what it did to Jack's character.

Rewatching the early episodes knowing what one knows now about Jack's character would be an interesting experiment. I believe I rewatched some episodes during a rerun, but I'm not sure.

Part of my problem was that it just doesn't fit in the same universe with Doctor Who and

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Part of my problem was that it just doesn't fit in the same universe with <em>Doctor Who</em> and <Sarah Jane Adventures</em> - it just seems impossible that it would happen on earth in the modern day and none of them notice it or refer to it at any point.
Also, I didn't particularly like the plot. I get tired of the whole all politicians are evil stories - far, far too overused. I'd rather see something more nuanced.

I'm quite good at keeping several alternate canons separate in my head and just blending out whatever doesn't fit in with what you're currently watching. It's a necessary skill in some of my main fandoms! XD

As for nuances, sure, I love shades of grey. But I've resigned myself to only the very rare show giving me the shades of grey I need to be happy *sigh*

*g* Continuity is one of the things that I look for in shows etc - I want things to make sense and for the show to pick up things from earlier and allow the characters to develop. Possibly this is one of the reasons that there are so few tv shows that I actually love.

As for nuances, sure, I love shades of grey. But I've resigned myself to only the very rare show giving me the shades of grey I need to be happy *sigh*
Totally agree!

I like continuity, but I'm content with fandom doing the fleshing out of characters and world as long as the "bare bones" to work with are there. Some of my fandoms are of a very light-hearted nature in canon, so all the deeper stuff has to be interpreted into them anyway.

Makes sense! :)

I'm not in fandom for a lot of the tv shows because I prefer to watch unspoiled and most things take a while to get here. Therefore I don't tend to end up following shows unless they give me enough of the things that I like in the show itself. :)

Oh, where do you live that shows get to you late? They get late to Germany as well, with a few exceptions which the broadcasters expect to be big commercial successes.

I've gotten out of the habit of watching TV at all. For two years, I've been getting home late on weekdays and then I'm too tired to follow a show. Now, I only get home late on three days every week, but I'm not used to watching shows on TV anymore. It's a shame because I miss a lot of interesting new stuff that way, but there's nothing to be done about that for now.

UK, but I don't have pay tv - a lot of the shows get shown quickly on the various pay channels but only slowly filter through to free to air (except anything that is partialy funded or makes special deals with the bbc).
I usually end up 1-2 years behind on US shows, but more than that on some eg the first season of Castle showed here and I believe the s4 is showing in the US.

I end up watching a lot of it, due to being underemployed (rather complicated situation) and disabled so not having the money or energy to be out of the house much (and my bf like having tv or similar on in the background)

Oh, I didn't realise you have that problem in the UK, too. We're a bit farther behind, I think, due to dubbing, but two years seems to be a pretty good rule of thumb. The only exception I know is Vampire Diaries, that is/was only a few months behind the US since they wanted to cash in before the "we have vampires, just like Twilight!" slogan wouldn't work anymore and they would have to, you know, actually advertise the show they ARE broadcasting. But then, that broadcasting company has a track record of messing up the target audiences for ads/actual show.

Watching quality TV shows is certainly a good way to spend the extra time spent at home!

A lot of the adds for tv shows seem to be trying to trick people into watching rather than accurately reflecting the shows. I suppose it must work or they wouldn't keep doing it.

Yeah, apparently, it works. I really wish they would stop, though, since I sometimes intentionally avoid shows thinking it's going to be something I hate, only to find out much later the element I avoided it for isn't a big part of the show at all.

In the case of Vampire Diaries, I was so put off by the cheesiness of the love triangle ad campaign, I didn't give the show a chance at all. Although missing the first couple of episodes might have been lucky, since wiseheart did watch the pilot and stopped watching in the midst of it.

That I did. Although the fact that I'm just fed up with smartass teenagers might have played a role, too.

I had tentative hopes for "True Blood" but barely managed to get through the pilot, either. They just don't make any good vampire series anymore.

I know many people love "Being Human". I gave it a try. Several times. Never could last till the end of the episode.*sighs* Where's "Kindred" if you need it?

Wow so many vampire shows - I suppose that is partly why they are all so bad - it is clearly a trendy thing for them to make a show about and therefore they don't bother to look for good ideas, just add stuff that they think will make more people watch.

(I hadn't realised how many there were, because I don't generally like vampire things - too near to horror for my tastes)

Yep, there's an awful lot of them, most of them just being... well, awful. I like vampire shows and always give every new one a try, but the only good ones I've seen so far were "Kindred: the Embraced" (my absolute favourite), "Forever Knight", "Blood Ties" and the Buffyverse.

True Blood, is that the Sookie Stackhouse show? I heard from some that it's awfully cheesy, but other friends recommended it highly, so I'll give it a chance if I ever find the time. Or is that Blood Ties? They're all so similar, I can't keep them apart. I know I tried one of them and gave up on the pilot because it's too cliched for my liking.

I watched the Being Human pilot, not sure if I ever mentioned that on my blog. I enjoyed it a lot, though I shelved it for later. I was following too many shows at the time.

True Blood, is that the Sookie Stackhouse show?
Yep. And it really was awfully cheesy. What's worse, it was awfully boring, too.

Blood Ties was actually quite good. It was the one with Henry Fitzroy (an actual historic person, illegitimate son of the notorius Henry VIII who, in truth, died shortly before being declared heir or somesuch) and the PI ex-cop lady with the night blindness. I liked that one; the vampire character was wonderfully ambigious, even though it was basically a supernatural cop show.

Oh, it's Blood Ties then, I remember the aristocratic vampire. He's actually why I gave up on the show, I was very fed up at the time with drop-dead gorgeous vampires of noble heritage. I liked the demon they summoned in the pilot, though.

I liked Henry a lot - he was such a refreshing change after wangsty "woe me I'm a vampire"-Mick from "Moonlight", and the female lead wasn't a Barbie. Even though there, too, was that slight Mary Sue effect of every man falling in love with her; she was cool and vulnerable and imperfect.

That sounds interesting. Maybe I'll give it another chance the next time the vampire mood hits me!

Yes. I usually find out about shows from other people before they air here (except bbc ones) and end up checking up about them online first to see if it sounds like something that I'd like to watch.

Aside from the character butchery and the severe lack of Torchwood-ness, CoE also annoyed me with a stupid plot that had big enough holes to drive a track through it. So no, I don't think I'd have liked it, even if I hadn't expected it to be, you know, Torchwood - which it decidedly wasn't.

But again, evil government conspiracies bore me to death. It was an interesting idea in the first two hundred or so films and shows I saw it, but by now it lets me fall asleep.

Oh, I'll never get tired of the world going to hell in a hand basket :P

Conspiracies can be fun to me, but I prefer ones that at least seem to have some degree of sense to them (eg the cult of secrecy around the Stargate, then conspiracies to get control of it), not just conspiracies for the sake of evilness!

I second that. Look how long Stargate lasted with that concept, despite the sometimes harebrained non-science, even spawned two sequels - well, one, as "Universe" has about as much to do with Stargate as Miracle Crap had with Torchwood.

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