Things I don't know

Sheep that I am, I can't resist that "show your ignorance of your friends' fandoms" meme. I'm not counting any fandom that I used to read in but haven't in a while, like Smallville or West Wing, but even so, there's lots I don't know! Oh, this is embarrassing.

Nicked from elke_tanzer. ( So, let’s see... )

Ouch. I feel ignorant. My fandoms (as a reader/watcher/commentator only, but an obsessive one) include: Mag7, LotR, CSI, Without a Trace, Highlander, Sharpe, Hornblower, Pirates of the Caribbean, Firefly, Enterprise, Good Omens, Jeeves and Wooster, Nero Wolfe, Brimstone, Sentinel, Stargate SG-1, Angel/BtVS, Goldeneye, Harry Potter (Sirius/Remus only), Real Ghostbusters and Lawrence of Arabia. And others I'm forgetting, I know.

Highlander DVD Update

Well, the big fannish news of the day (for me) is probably the Firefly movie (eeeee!), but also- Season Three of Highlander finally has a release date, November 18th. Just in time for the holidays (and just before the Firefly set)! Seasons One and Two weren't bad... well, okay, yes they were. But Adrian was pretty, Darius and Fitz and Xavier St. Cloud and Amanda were all there, and there were some fun guest stars (Anthony Stewart Head, Jason Isaacs, Geraint Wyn Davies, Nigel Terry, Robert Wisden, Don Davis, Michael Shanks...). But! Season Three was where the show finally moved from Really Embarrassing (like The Sentinel) to Slightly Less Embarrassing (like Smallville). Or so people who feel shame tell me.

Season Three was, of course, when we first met Methos. The floppy hair, the voice that is sex, the weird and arty apartment, the unfortunate red pants, the catchy "live, grow stronger, fight another day" philosophy... all those little things that first caught our attention (to say nothing of Duncan's). We didn't know yet that he could "do cute," but we could probably guess. We definitely didn't know about his Brothers, but we could tell that he had things in his past, things that filled that gorgeous voice with weariness and pain. We didn't know about Byron, but we could see the energy and spark thrown to Duncan with that first offered beer. For a character originally meant to be a one-off, Methos made a huge impression, and fandom has never been quite the same since.

Season Three also gave us Joe angst (forget that social life, Joe, they always end up dead), Duncan's tragically lost love Brian Cullen, the obvious (if evil) couple Peter Matlin and Lymon Kurlow (and the first on-screen appearance, as Kurlow, of Anthony De Longis, one of the most talented swordsmen ever to appear on the show), more Xavier St. Cloud flashbacks, the Eiffel Tower Tango, Methos' first outing to the Watchers (though those-in-the-know conveniently died, as usual), and the death, though not even close to the final appearance, of the fabulous Fitzcairn. The greatest heights of the show may have come in Seasons Four and Five, but Season Three was where it finally started to live up to its full "cheesy, addictive, brain-eating genre show" potential.

Yeah, okay, Anne Lindsey was still around, and the Most Annoying Immortal Ever, Kenny, first shows up in this season. Hey, no show is perfect.


(Oh, and I've been meaning to ask. I've been seeing oblique mentions in friendsfriends and even further afield of some sort of upheaval in Mag7 fandom, but all of my lists are pretty quiet these days. Did I miss something? Or is this some Chris/Vin-dom thing that I don't care about?)

Action figure whining (more emotional than economically sound)

One of the many cool things about the LotR action figures is how well done the relative scale of the characters is. Galadriel, Elrond and Saruman look down on everyone else, Boromir is broader than Eomer who's broader than Aragorn, and so on. So naturally the hobbit figures are pretty wee compared to the rest.

So why aren't they any cheaper? They use a lot less plastic and paint; we should get a discount on them. You should be able to get two Merrys for the price of one Gandalf, or, more fittingly, Merry and Pippin for the price of one Boromir. (I would say the same goes for Gimli, but I don't think he'd be appreciative.)

I'm just whining because I can't find a RotK Sam for under $10 plus shipping, and since that's what I paid for Aragorn and Eomer, it bothers me to pay much that for Sam (not that Sam isn't wonderful, but he's smaller and uses fewer raw materials). But if I don't get him, Frodo will be sad (and so will I, because Sam's great and it's a really nice figure). I can't send Frodo off with Boromir. Boromir has enough to deal with already, wrangling his herd of Aragorns, Eomers, Merrys and Pippins, and anyway he thinks Frodo is kind of annoying. And all the other Frodos have Sams, so RotK Frodo will feel left out (well, one Frodo has an Arwen, but he's different). It's all very disheartening.

And how come the Legolas and Arod set doesn't come with Gimli too? Did Legolas dump him off somewhere like a big elf jerk? Toy Biz should have made a weird-looking plastic blob Gimli, like the weird-looking plastic blob Frodo that came with Arwen and Asfaloth. Poor Legolas looks bereft. Or confused. It can be hard to tell.

This whole day has been one long span of time-killing, with a fabulous night of repeats as the sole light on the horizon. Nick/Greg/Archie, Martin and Danny's fight and the shoe-selling proposal scene... c'mon, prime time, get here already! This week is never going to end.

Thursday Night Subtext-a-gogo

I'm really sugar high, I've been bored all day, and it was a great night in slashy-repeat-land. That's a combination that leads to babble. Just to warn you.

( It's not too late! I meant it about that babble thing! )

And now to switch my LJ back from this weird new default. I fear change.