Is he kicking in a nonce?

I'm six episodes into the first series of Life on Mars (I felt like crap yesterday, thank you very damn much for being a girl, so I curled up on the sofa and watched back-to-back episodes all afternoon) and oh my god, WHY DID I WAIT SO LONG TO WATCH THIS? Why didn't y'all hold me down and *make me watch it*? It's freaking awesome. For some reason I wasn't expecting it to be so much of a 'cop' show - I mean, the episodes are like fifteen percent Sam talking to the little future voices, fifteen percent Gene Hunt kicking in a nonce (occasionally more like twenty percent) and the rest is actual police show stuff, which makes perfect sense and I don't know why it surprised me. I guess I thought it would be the other way 'round, with the police stuff taking a backseat to the little future voices. I like this way better.

Only, I don't have the second series (I'm trying to uh, obtain it free of charge but my internet sucks monkey balls with these things) and I'm staring with growing desperation at play.com and reflecting that I did work my ass off stuffing those envelopes, I deserve a damn present. I'm fairly sure Futurama was my latest 'present' around then but that was for the dentist stuff and totally unrelated. Totally. Plus the second series of LoM is only £18. I said I'd buy BSG series 3 when it was under £20 and I was going to buy Stardust for £13 *anyway*, so...

Jesus. Getting stuck in the 70s would be the best thing that could happen to my bank account - no internet shopping. And no Buffy, Stargate, Farscape, Futurama. International tennis coverage. Though there would be Doctor Who (Sam saying he 'saw Doctor Who and he gave me some pills' cracked me up in light of the last series of 'Who and fics like these which I will rec and memory properly when I've watched it all and can go on a proper fic hunt without fear of spoilers. Genius. That was a hint to rec me lots of good LoM fic. Preferably first series spoilers only but just warn me for anything with second series' and I'll wait the few days it'll take me to get hold of and watch it).

Oh and John Simm? I get it. I do. I loved him in 'Who mainly because he was delightfully crazy and flirted liek whoa with The Tennant but now I get it. The Simm is much with the awesome. What else has he done?

I can't believe you all didn't make me watch this sooner. Honestly flist. Fail. ;-)

I've started twitching now I've passed episode seven.

Oh Sam. You make me wish I'd bought the second series of Life on Mars for £20 in HMV, just because the extra £2 would save me waiting the week it'd take from play.com. Dammit. This is why I should watch things when they're on TV. See BSG; I'd have saved myself... okay, about £50, so I haven't exactly bankrupted myself but still. I want the second series now. *wail*

Coming back from town earlier, I stopped in the corner shop for chocolate (I didn't have any yesterday when I really needed it, so I'm compensating now with mini jaffa cakes and chocolate). Like always, there were groups of kids hanging around the wall outside and as I left one of them - one of these tiny freaking kids, who're like twelve - said "Hey there babe." And I kept walking for a second without really listening, until it registered and it was instantly "Ew! Freakish little jailbait, ew ew ew! You're like twelve. Ew!"

Did I mention ew? *Twelve*. Maybe *younger*. Alright, so I wasn't exactly dressed like a twenty-two year old in jeans and my Primark bargain hoodie but I didn't look twelve. Jesus. Welcome to my neighbourhood.

I can't watch the last episode of LoM's first series, because the last episode of Primeval's on in about five minutes and the way we have our TV/DVD player set up right now means you have to turn the Sky box off to watch DVDs. Which is yes, stupid, because you can't let something record off Sky while watching a DVD. Dumb. Apparently it'll be different when we connect the HD box this week but this is my dad and modern technology and already things are not looking good.

I can't believe I'm actually being all eh about watching the last episode of Primeval. I've been looking forward to it all week. But I'm pleased now, because I wouldn't have just seen an advert for Pterry's The Colour of Magic which is showing over Easter. Rincewind's not my favourite Discworld character (Granny Weatherwax ftw!) but it's Pterry on the box. I'll be bugging kindoftrouble to watch that. ^___^

Primeval! Life on Mars! And a spag bol to fit in somewhere around that. Tonight is shaping up to be pretty good. Yay!

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( Spoilers for the Primeval finale )