wraithfodder | and summer is over...

Well, okay, it's got two days left, or three, can't recall.

I actually got to a beach three times this summer - a record!! I'd love to do it every week but there are no free beaches here :( Sigh...

TV-wise, well, let's see. Nothing has caught me fannishly, like Stargate Atlantis. Virtually everything on SyFy is meh to me, although I do watch Z Nation due to its strange humor, but it's not a keeper, or must-see live TV. Waiting for NCIS to start up to see how Gibbs fares. I know he'll survive, of course, but it will be fun to watch his team angst all over the place. I like The Strain, Longmire (alas, it went to Netflix which I don't have so I hope it comes out on DVD), Person of Interest (probably it's last season), Oh, Elementary is fun to watch and I watch Hawaii Five-O occasionally and it never fails whenever I turn it on it's the same one. It's not the same since they blew up a nuclear weapon off the coast. I mean, that was 'jump the shark' big time...

Can't think of any of the new shows that scream 'watch me' but I suppose I'll check out a few. It's gotta catch me within two episodes or I'm gone. I'll check out the final CSI just for old time's sake.

Only caught poison ivy a few times this summer (yeah!) and didn't have to mow near as much due to the drought. Alas, there are some brown patches in lawn, which I came to realize are the result of the very cute but rather destructive bunny rabbits. Darn, they're so cute...

Will be going to New York Comic Con, despite all the hassle of getting tickets. Their servers suck (I think I whinged about this earlier) so the three-day ticket I had my hands on evaporated due to a crash and all I could get was a Friday. Then yesterday they announce they're selling them at a comic store (only ONE store, in NYC, so all the other tri-state stores were left out in the cold). Lines formed at 3pm for a 10am opening. Despite hundreds if not a thousand fans showing up, they still have tickets left, which shows that NYCC apparently gave that comic store a ton of tickets that the rest of us poor souls were unable to buy online. Grrrrr.

And otherwise, wow, my life is boring. Can't think of much else but the job, house work (oh oh, I finally bit the bullet, got Johnson's Paste Wax, and it does about as good a job as Preen (discontinued for no good reason I could find) on the hardwood and tile floors, so I spent a few hours waxing today, and also waxed the car. Hopefully that's a portent of rain to come.

I need to downsize, so gotta figure out how to sell fannish collections, even if they're sellable.And VHS tapes, ha, I don't think anybody wants those anymore!

9/21 ADDITION: Oh yeah, I watch ZOO (okay), Under the Dome (about time it got axed, alas), Mr. Robot (which I find fascinating for the psychological stuff), and Whispers, which I liked, so I assume it got killed by ABC.

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Alas, the NYCC tickets were just too tough to get. have a friday ticket but really wanted Saturday too. NYCC mucked up their online sales with lousy servers, then gave several hundred tickets to only one store in NYC, announced their sale less than 24 hours before sale. Not practical for those who don't live in NYC or the boroughs. Sigh. And didn't know anyone willing to stand in line for 6-12 hours to get Saturday tickets....and nope, the store wouldn't do phone orders. Heck, they don't even answer their tweets.

I chucked my Stargate tapes only because I have them on DVD now. I need to clear clutter, get back space and downsize. DVD is the way to go. Don't trust streaming for longevity though...

I miss the days of passionate fannishness. Wish they'd make a show that would suck me back into that mode. Last passion I had was killing a rat that decided to take up residence in my yard next to house (like two feet away!)

Of course, I own the DVDs since they originally came out. The tapes are from back when I started with the show – I was late and only started in season 4 and didn’t want to wait for re-runs on TV. My local video library was selling their tapes cheaply.
But I bought a hard drive recorder finally so the days of the tape recorder will be over soon, and they were only taking up space. It was weird putting them into the bin.

I do still watch “Person of Interest” but I liked it better in the old days.

I am still fannish about „Arrow“ although we go into our fourth year now and a lot has changed and not all to the better. I guess that counts for a lot of shows. “Doctor Who” has totally lost me at the moment. I hope that will get better again one day. I loved the first four (new) seasons but at the moment I can’t really recommend it. Have you ever tried it though? When I got into the fandom, all my “Stargate” friends already were there. Usually those who like one, also like the other. The humor seems to be similar, and, at least for me, also the realism. It’s not too weird set in the future with space guns, it’s often set in nowadays time, although there is time travel to the past and to the future. Same as “Torchwood”. A team in an secret underground base, fighting alien stuff while trying to keep the people’s knowledge down, with a charismatic leader called Jack, a doctor, a computer scientist… sounds familiar? Captain Jack Harkness is someone one should know. Always funny when people talk about Captain Jack and mean Johnny Depp instead ;)

“Torchwood” has also its good and bad episodes (the five parts of season 3 are the best they ever did) and been dead for a while, but not entirely, we get Big Finish Audios now, which is better than nothing and we are very excited about it. Who knows if it will come back one day, they seem to resurrect a lot of old shows at the moment?

I like watching “Sherlock”, but it is so infrequently, and I’ve never been in the fandom for it and discussing all details. I’ll buy the action figures nevertheless when they’ll come out. Have you seen the big ones by Big Chief Studios? They are awesome, they look so real:

http://dieastra.livejournal.com/117672.html

I’ve recently developed a love for other British shows like “Downton Abbey”, “Broadchurch”, “Call the midwife”. After watching a few of those some American shows look shallow as there apparently the beauty of an actress is more important than whether she can act. In British shows, you see “normal” people.

Older American shows which I loved but are long gone but maybe you haven’t seen them – one is “White Collar”. Totally awesome, highly recommended. Might be up your alley if you like the NCIS stuff? The other would be “Six Feet Under”. Oh, and “Boston Legal”? I also really liked “Desperate Housewives” which was much better than one would think. Or how about “Queer as Folk”? I guess I don’t need to pimp “MacGyver” to you ;)

Just a few from the top of my head which I enjoyed in the past. Without knowing your taste of course.

Ah, Broadchurch was good (UK version, not US version, which was strange) and Granchester. Still enjoy Sherlock when that pops up on PBS. No, have not seen the action figures. Maybe I'll see what's out at NYCC next week :)

At rate I'm going, I'll watch Arrow when it ends. I had plans to watch it but first six eps were thwarted by squabbles between CW affiliate and Cablevision, so I got six weeks of baseball reruns (which of course I did not watch).

I have only made it till the second episode of the US Broadchurch so far, but am determined to check it out. I want to see the different ending (already know about it) and I want to see the different David (must have felt weird for him to play the same thing twice?) but it is looking like an AU somehow? You know the lines, but the people look different, and act different. Kind of strange, like Twilight Zone.

I see from today's post that you watch the Flash? I am wondering then how those cross-over episodes are working out for you. As they are only fun if you know both universes and the characters in them, and at least in one case the second part actually was in the Arrow series, so you would miss the conclusion to what had started in Flash?

But I agree, Arrow is something you must watch from the beginning, otherwise it won't make much sense. The pilot was awesome. Although the first episodes were like the villain of the week until things got more complex, so you probably could have still joined after the sixth. Everyone says it is from episode 7 on when it got awesome ;) At least it had a major reveal about John Barrowman's role. Others say it took them till the middle of the season. This is certainly when everything went up a notch, storywise and actingwise, when they knew what they were doing. Me, I was hooked from the beginning.

So you are into Superheroes and the like? As the first season was done in a very different way, they tried to stay grounded in reality, and only use things that can be explained (with bendable rules admittedly). Oliver Queen was supposed to be special and unique and having become so by his ordeal and hard training. But now we have superpowers and lots of other superheroes and magic and this is not what I originally signed up for ;)

It's still great fun but I actually did like the more realistic approach.

Stephen Amell puts so much into this role. He often posts videos of his hard workouts. He does most of his own stunts. He learnt to do parcour even. And on top of all that, he also manages his own Facebook page and stays in contact with his fans. He even posts regularly pictures of himself with his little daughter, and he is the cutest and proudest daddy ;) I'm not really fancying him (he's the same age like my 7 years younger brother) but you have to admire the guy.

Maybe you should try to find a way to catch up with it before it ends, as they have the coolest action figures and more are coming out every year. Wave 3 in October, and wave 4 in April already. If you don't mind spoilers (or if you forget them again till you watch it) you can see them in some scenes here in my list: http://dieastra.livejournal.com/102687.html

On the bottom of the list are also some introduction posts where I just post pictures of the figures, not in any scenes.

Edit: Sorry, forgot about the Sherlock figure. The big ones (1:6) from Big Chief are already out, but the small 5" one is only coming in Dezember. So your trip will be too early. This is what he looks like - not bad! He is smaller than the Stargate figures though, to keep in size with the Doctor Who figures.

http://merchandise.thedoctorwhosite.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sherlock.jpg3_.jpg

Edited 2015-10-02 19:11 (UTC)

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