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Have some typed-as-I-watched reaction notes: ( This is the first time I've watched an SGA episode outside of viewing chat this season! I feel brave! )

I didn't hate it! Even without the buffering influence of toft_froggy rooting for everyone's head to explode! Yay SGA!

GUYS I AM WATCHING DOPPLEGANGER, DOPPLEGANGER: I AM WATCHING IT ( ... )

Are any of y'all still watching SGA? Because between being a week behind and being without lj on the air date, I can't find any reaction posts. Which is to say, if you want to link me in comments, I am totally amenable.

You know what alphabet is really hard to write small with a felt-tipped pen?
Ancient. You never realize how much you use the letter O until the letter O requires seven individual penstrokes. (Actually, there is a trick to it: draw the zigzag first. I learned this far too late).

Yes, I am just killing time until new Who.

And I have just drawn a cover for a story I haven't written yet, a story that is, in fact, giving me fits. If only there was some sort of machine that I could yell a vague plot synopsis into and be rewarded with freshly-printed, canon-checked pages! That would be lovely. Of course, then we would all be out of a job hobby.

I am actually rewatching SGA episodes, speaking of, and you know what? The ethics are odd and some of the acting is sometimes a bit rocky, but it is still a damn fine show, as far as silly space adventures go. It is pleasant to see that awesome fanon is based in an at least enjoyable canon. That is all!

( Part 2 )
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There was a lot more fan in my holiday than I anticipated, mainly because between Bittorrent, Youtube, and other people's wireless networks, it is difficult to find a place where I can't drown my boredom with delicious delicious television. I was going to resolve to watch less tv this year, but I have to at least finish Due South s4. Also, I confess to the internet, I started watching Queer as Folk (US). Why? Frankly, because the internet has infected my brain to such a degree that all tv shows look slashy, and I decided it would help to watch a show where the dudes actually do get it on, a lot. I'm only four episodes in, and so far I've been too busy really really hating Brian to form any other conclusions. Everyone else hates Brian, right?

I am feeling the disadvantages of watching shows years after they aired right now.

I caught up on SGA season 3 while I was at home, which was good in a way. I have been horribly gun-shy of SGA since I read Freedom is Just Another Word by synecdochic. It makes me feel like a twelve-year-old to admit it, but now every time I read (or even watch) SGA I get a little weebly but-their-love-was-so-beautiful about the whole thing. Silly but apparently unstoppable.

The new SGA episodes I very much don't hate. I like it when they stay in the city and snark at each other, and I really really hate episodes where they go offplanet to visit Olde-Europe-as-found-in-Busch-Gardens villages full of bustiered women. My brother calls this syndrome of mine "The Office in Space". My sister says it's a throwback to growing up with Babylon 5, where there were exactly two sets and no action sequences to speak of (besides when their one stuntman jump-spinning-kicked someone). Just forty-five minutes of well-written, well-delivered dialogue. That's what I want from a show, man.

That and attractive dude makeouts. So I will go see if QAF is done downloading yet. Why does iTunes never have these things? I would buy them, I swear, just for the convenience.