clo_again

Things That Are Bad to Watch a Week Before You Go On a Twenty-Plus Hour Flight:

'How to Survive A Disaster' programs that show you cheerful computer simulations of people burning to death in plane crashes. Holy fricking crap I couldn't have picked a worse show. BBC I really hate you.

But I can't stop watching. Because it's how to survive. So far it's told me to prepare so I don't waste time doing things over, accept the tunnel vision as A Good Thing and whatever happens, if your plane has crash-landed do not stop to take your luggage from the overhead racks which jesus, seems ridiculous to me but how do you know it doesn't seem entirely reasonable until the moment before you are dead?

I want crisis training. Preferably this week.

(It can also stop freaking me out about the Tube because I've finally reached the point where I can hop on and off the Tube and not freak when the lights flicker. I still give the gap wide berth but that's Neverwhere's fault and I'm generally more happy to accept lasting Neil Gaiman trauma than any other type. Which doesn't mean that I don't treat strange black cats with slightly more friendliness than cats of other colours and regard anyone with a day for a name with suspicion.)

...

Things That Are Soul-Balm to Watch After Watching Horrible Ways You Go Die If You're Not Quick Enough: the episode of Stargate SG-1 when Vala forgets who she is and cuffs Mitchell naked to a bed. NghBenBrowder'sbarechest. She's feeding him Twinkies. Clearly Sky gets the naked-goodness with Twinkies on top while BBC gets HORRIBLE WAYS YOU COULD DIE EVERYDAY.

...Note to self; if you ever become obscenely rich, sponsor Sky to reorganise the BBC.

(I miss my DON'T PANIC icon.)

For the first time in-- well, *years*, I'm almost up-to-date with Stargate SG-1. It's weird, given that I pretty much stopped watching when I came to uni and only decided on catching up a month or so back. A little disappointed that I seem to have run out of episodes when Sky One's site is telling me they're at least five episodes further on and only three from the end of the season but this is what older brothers were invented for. I need to call him about Mother's Day anyway; maybe I can beg a favour in return for catsitting for him. It's not like I should really watch any more episodes until the end of May anyway, given that I've watched two and a half seasons as an excuse not to do work. That's what, probably like forty or so hours I could've spent on dissertation. Hm.

I also have new and fuzzy love for Daniel Jackson. (This Stargate marathon has reminded me; has anyone ever said in an interview whether Jack and Daniel's characters were named after Jack Daniels? Because it's what I always thought and characters in one of my favourite shows being named after my favourtie drink would be all kinds of hilarity.) Poor little spacemonkey. He needs lots of huggage from Vala. And maybe from Mitchell too, though that's more for the pretty than the emotional support.

Really. Pretty.

Don't even ask how much I squeed when Inara Morena Baccarin showed up. It's like they're collecting awesome but out-of-work sci-fi actors. We want Nathan Fillion next please or maybe Summer Glau, I'm not fussy over who comes first.

Then again, the entire Stargate cast will be out of work as of the end of this season right? Maybe everyone should simply shift to Atlantis. OR. New sci-fi super!show, with every awesome sci-fi actor. How great would that be? Someone should totally do that.

... Anyone up for kidnapping Joss Whedon and staging a hostile takeover of a studio to get the money for him to do it?

Non sci-fi-y, Top Gear was indeed awesome tonight but I think I've been spoilt by the last few weeks, because it didn't seem to quite measure up. The paintballing was a thing of beauty and Jeremy getting knocked over and soaked by the water cannon was hilarious but I don't know. As funny as the limo thing was, it didn't seem quite as awesome as the tractors or the American episode or, I don't know. Guess I was expecting new heights of awesome and got a plateau instead.

Gonzo seems an Unhappy Fish tonight. I left the filter running longer than usual and they're truly sucky swimmers (yeah, fish who can't swim well. Go figure) so I'm hoping he's just a little tired. It can't be fun swimming when your tail is bigger than you and you have a worse sense of direction than James May (seriously, I've seen Gonzo swim into a corner and have to turn upside to get out again, because he can't work out which fin to wave. I never said they were smart).

This song is beautiful. And, oddly, it makes me want new icons.

I'm not even through the first act of Antony and Cleopatra yet. Jesus. I love this period of history and I love these crazy, megalomaniac, sex-obssessed, awesome people, only Shakespeare is making them into the most boring people ever to exist. Really. Antony's a git and Cleo's like all the most annoying BNFs and idiots in fandom and fic rolled into one. Any line now, someone's going to buy her a laptop. It's driving me nuts.

No love Shakespeare. No love at all.

To soothe my misery, someone rec me good Daniel/Vala Stargate fic? Please? I have a craving brought on by this stunning piece of NC-17 hotness.

It's reminded me I should be reading outside the box again. Which probably includes Shakespeare too and dammit, I really have to read this play. Hasn't anyone got a fun fic AU of it I can read instead? There's got to be one out there.

If not, hm. Gap in the market.

Ben Browder and Claudia Black on a show together that is not-Farscape.

Wow. This is-- mind twisting. But fun. Very, very fun.

edit: *King Arthur*?!

I love this series already.