Now is the time on sprockets where we talk about stuff what I have been watching on the television box!
Finished the second season of The Wire just before going to Philadelphia earlier this month. Tight, clever, well-paced, heartbreaking and hilarious by turns: all the things people have been telling me for five or six years and more. And self-contained enough that I can watch a couple of episodes or even a season and be satisfied to let it percolate a while, rather than feeling that desperate need to continue which so often comes with shows I get into. It's a good summer watch, I guess, well-suited to thunderstorm-sized chunks of Saturday afternoons and late nights before dropping off, easily worked around other committments. I brought S3 out here with me and will no doubt wind up plunging into it thefirst day next time it rains, or after I finish a paper or two.
Pictures from PA are forthcoming; they're nearly all from Centralia, so if that sort of thing floats your boat, etc. (True Dork Stories: I got an unhealthy amount of enjoyment from driving around countryside I'd extensively researched for that coal miner AU I never posted.) Mostly a really fab trip; my only regret is it wasn't longer, because I didn't have time to do everything I wanted or to see all the people I wanted to, like![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
sinsense and alibi_factory. Just means I have to go back soon.
Oh yeah, I also regret spending TWO GD DAYS AT NEWARK AIRPORT. Let us never speak of it again.
Also saw ( Torchwood. (Spoilers.) )
Everyone needs some lulz after that. Right? Right. (PROTIP: pay close attention to the fifth one, starting around 1:37. "It can't possibly be," you'll say, hand to horrified mouth, just like I did. Spoilers: it so totally is.)
In related news, ( blah blah DW casting. )
Oh also I saw HBP, freakin' finally. Diagnosis: good times! I guess some people thought it was boring or too long or whatevs but I was pretty much all there. It helps that I have zero fannish investment in HP anymore, so I can just go to the movies and be like "hey that was a fun afternoon, now let's have some sushi and think about other things" -- which is really, really nice, but there were still a lot of moments that had me biting my knuckles with glee, so. Looking forward to going again when the sister comes back from her weekend jaunt.
eta: ALSO last weekendthissugarcane and I semi-accidentally watched the first eight episodes of ReGenesis, which for ages I was somehow convinced was a spin-off of NUMB3RS, which I sort of hate for reasons too long and stupid to get into here. Short version: it isn't, and it is in fact surprisingly awesome. She's been watching the rest, and I burned myself the discs to bring out here and then left them at home, but I think I got the good bits. Probably not nearly as hilarious to people who aren't Canadian or possibly even from Toronto, but still some pretty enjoyable times with Peter Outerbridge, Deadbeat Dad; Ellen Page, Sass-Talking Teenager; and that dude with the shiny tracksuit who is Paul Gross' curling nemesis in Men With Brooms, and whom thissugarcane and I have determined is a canonical former rentboy in this show (which in turn leads to hilarious images of Paul Gross being cruised by this dude in his silver tracksuit, and, well, you know).
Finished the second season of The Wire just before going to Philadelphia earlier this month. Tight, clever, well-paced, heartbreaking and hilarious by turns: all the things people have been telling me for five or six years and more. And self-contained enough that I can watch a couple of episodes or even a season and be satisfied to let it percolate a while, rather than feeling that desperate need to continue which so often comes with shows I get into. It's a good summer watch, I guess, well-suited to thunderstorm-sized chunks of Saturday afternoons and late nights before dropping off, easily worked around other committments. I brought S3 out here with me and will no doubt wind up plunging into it the
Pictures from PA are forthcoming; they're nearly all from Centralia, so if that sort of thing floats your boat, etc. (True Dork Stories: I got an unhealthy amount of enjoyment from driving around countryside I'd extensively researched for that coal miner AU I never posted.) Mostly a really fab trip; my only regret is it wasn't longer, because I didn't have time to do everything I wanted or to see all the people I wanted to, like
sinsense and alibi_factory. Just means I have to go back soon.Oh yeah, I also regret spending TWO GD DAYS AT NEWARK AIRPORT. Let us never speak of it again.
Also saw ( Torchwood. (Spoilers.) )
Everyone needs some lulz after that. Right? Right. (PROTIP: pay close attention to the fifth one, starting around 1:37. "It can't possibly be," you'll say, hand to horrified mouth, just like I did. Spoilers: it so totally is.)
In related news, ( blah blah DW casting. )
Oh also I saw HBP, freakin' finally. Diagnosis: good times! I guess some people thought it was boring or too long or whatevs but I was pretty much all there. It helps that I have zero fannish investment in HP anymore, so I can just go to the movies and be like "hey that was a fun afternoon, now let's have some sushi and think about other things" -- which is really, really nice, but there were still a lot of moments that had me biting my knuckles with glee, so. Looking forward to going again when the sister comes back from her weekend jaunt.
eta: ALSO last weekend
thissugarcane and I semi-accidentally watched the first eight episodes of ReGenesis, which for ages I was somehow convinced was a spin-off of NUMB3RS, which I sort of hate for reasons too long and stupid to get into here. Short version: it isn't, and it is in fact surprisingly awesome. She's been watching the rest, and I burned myself the discs to bring out here and then left them at home, but I think I got the good bits. Probably not nearly as hilarious to people who aren't Canadian or possibly even from Toronto, but still some pretty enjoyable times with Peter Outerbridge, Deadbeat Dad; Ellen Page, Sass-Talking Teenager; and that dude with the shiny tracksuit who is Paul Gross' curling nemesis in Men With Brooms, and whom thissugarcane and I have determined is a canonical former rentboy in this show (which in turn leads to hilarious images of Paul Gross being cruised by this dude in his silver tracksuit, and, well, you know).12 | comment
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