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

[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".