Alternate Caretaker update

[wiseheart]

Thank to the most generous Brigid, another chapter of my Alternate Voyager pilot has been posted to ff.net:

http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1422824&chapter=8

I'll have to continue writing the dratted story, as in five chapters I'll run out of finished material.


Ff.net had one of its hissy fits this morning (wouldn't let me log in and other niceties), but it seems to work at the moment. Still, I think I should sign up to The Tom Paris Dorm archive for this series. They accept genfic, too, as long as Tom Paris is one of the main heroes, so it would be useful in case ff.net has problems.

On a different matter, I've finished watching Crusade today. As the last three episoded I watched (somewhat out of order) didn't have Galen in them, I found them utter crap. If you think Start Trek is recycling story plots, you should see Crusade once. The show only lasted 13 episodes, but they've used up every over-used cliché in the books.

I also re-watched the B5 episode Geometry of Shadows from Season 2 (it's the 25th episode of the show), for the first appearance of the techno-mages. Well, good old Michael Ansara has a lot of presence as Elric, but he could not come near to Galen.

I think I'll write a Galen ficlet some day, a short vignette following The Memory of War. That was his great episode, the very best, IMO. But I might not be realistic when it comes to Galen.


Other than that, I'm still sick like a dog. Still not sick enough not to go to work, though, so it's even more annoying.

Comments

[the-wild-iris.livejournal.com]

Sorry you're not feeling well - at least you're still writing at the same time as having to go to work :) I'm afraid my reading's been down lately. I must catch up with Innocence so that I can comment on the new stuff.

Spin-offs can be the kiss of death - like unnecessary film sequels, they can make you want to shake the producers and say 'Why didn't you just stop while it was still good?' On the other hand, my favourite TV show happens to be a spin-off, so it must work sometimes. Sorry that Crusade wasn't one of those times :(

This is such a pointless comment! But I was longing for someone to post so I could use this oh-so-exciting new icon, and you fell victim, I'm afraid :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Everyone's reading has been down lately, so don't worry. Even mine, which is a shame, since I try to be a good example. *wry grin* And I'm not doing much writing at the moment, either. All that has been posted lately was already finished stuff that had come back from my betas or only needed a little smoothing out.

Which is your favourite TV-show, by the way? And your new icon is really, really cool. ;)

[the-wild-iris.livejournal.com]

Which is your favourite TV-show, by the way?

It's Frasier. Do you get that?

And your new icon is really, really cool. ;)

Thanks! Icon-making gets addictive. I'd run through all my own photographs, but then I came across a free image gallery and there was this solitary chess-piece just begging to be made into an icon :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

We get Frasier on German TV. But somehow these are not the type of shows I can enjoy. I don't know why. Whenever a so-called "humour" show comes, I sit with glassed-over eyes and ask myself how it come that everyone else could laugh over them, just not me. Must be a genetic defect of some sort.

[the-wild-iris.livejournal.com]

Well, the sense of humour is highly personal. I would imagine anyway that something like Frasier - very wordy and allusive - might not translate very well (presuming that it's dubbed).

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it *is* dubbed. Practically everything on German TV is dubbed, which is the reason I have to spend ungodly amounts of money buying videotapes of my favourite shows.

But the fact is, I was never able to find anything produced in the States and sold under the label of "humour" or "parody" funny. It always seems to me what the Germans call "sledgehammer-humour" (Holzhammer-Humor for those who understand German.) I'm more into subtlety.

Which might be the reason why I can't enjoy many fanfics most other people (and I mean serious readers and fans here) find fantastic. As my friend Attila often says about himself, "my tastes are shared by few others".

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry to hear you're still being consumed by the Foul Virus. I can see that we shall have to round up more Elder Eldar and send them your way. Thorongil should be able to transport them back and forth between Jasta on the eastern shore of the U.S. and you in Central Europe - once in a great while, it can be quite convenient living so many time zones apart!

Or, we could do a Tolkien/Trek crossover and have them beamed back and forth instantly. What it lacks in style and elegance it makes up for in convenience and elimination of delayed gratification.

Let's hope those Elves have been taking their vitamins....

Wishing you fully well very soon (or, if you prefer, just sicker enough to stay home - isn't that wretched annual school carnival right about now?)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thorongil? You mean Thranduil, don't you?

As for the shitty school carnival, it was two weeks ago. We have other joys now. And yes, feeling better would be definitely preferable. To stay at home, I have to be very sick - happens once in five or six years, usually - and that's just not worth it.

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

No, Thorongil is the means by which Thranduil and others will travel - I figure a giant eagle is more suitable transportation for Elves than a modern jet.

As for the carnival, well, no wonder you're sick. It sounds like enough work with no extra compensation to send anyone's immune system down the toilet. Glad to hear that particular bit of joy has passed for the year.

Off to the Post Office with a little package of Preciousesss tomorrow, now I have the Nice Writer Lady's addressssssss. I meant to send the prezzie earlier this week, but I have been in and out at some weird hours while the Beloved works the extra hours that happen when no one has completed all the plans for a complicated piece of scenery, and so things must be rebuilt, over and over. Ironically, the play itself is a farce - so perhaps the process of building the set is just echoing that approach....

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oh, I see. Eagle Airline, Ltd. Well, that would have taken care of the whole Ringbearer business a lot faster, too. :))

Looking forwad to Precioussesssss. I hope you'll have more luck with mailing than poor Ithilwen had. She's posted the Earthsea books for me what? Three weeks ago? They are still in the black pits of mailing service somewhere.

[jilba.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear you're not well :(
Hope you feel better soon.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thanks. It's not that bad, really - just annoying. It's not a virus, just a stubborn cold. Last week the weather was so mild that I walked around lightly clad in the flat and realized too late that it wasn't that warm, after all.

[jilba.livejournal.com]

You need to be like me, then. If it's below 25 C I put on a sweater! I hate colds, and I feel a lot of sympathy.