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thessalian) wrote2010-07-01 01:11 pm
thessalian) wrote2010-07-01 01:11 pm
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Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
mitchy's computer seems to be over its peaceful shut-down protest, fingers crossed, and so I can catch up with meme. There is no shortage of show that I plan on watching at some point, though to be fair ... most of them I've technically watched before. Look, sometimes I catch shows out of the corner of my eye, didn't look interested (and possibly wasn't at the time, at least not overly) and never made the effort to catch again. But I'm going to try for the ones that I've only seen fleeting episodes of and thus really need to catch up on.The first one that comes to mind is True Blood. Okay, I liked the books better than Twilight. But then, I prefer stepping on thumbtacks to Twilight. Thing is, I like the show ever so much better than the books. However, to my chagrin, I have only caught a few episodes of the actual show when they happened to be on and I never managed to catch all the rest. So I've seen bits of S1 and a few episodes of S2 (including the finale) and that's about it, really. I do plan on catching up at some point, and catching all the eps I've missed. Pretty much the same with the remake/re-imagining of V, which I happened to notice on SyFy and really rather liked. I just haven't got around to it yet - partially because I'm mainlining Eureka S3.
Then there are shows that I have never seen at all, and I blame
lithiumdoll for even getting me curious about these ones - the Sarah Connor Chronicles, The Vampire Diaries and Sons of Anarchy. All her fault. She is a horrible corrupting influence and she remakes all ...But, y'know, in a good way. In fact, in a similar way to
mitchy, who has got me into more TV on average than anyone in my life EVER. Though to be fair, if I caught up with everything that lithiumdoll got me curious about, she might win on points.OHEY WANT SOME IRONY? Something just occurred to me. Look, see, character names are hard, okay? Generally they get cribbed from a mish-mash of names collected over the years. I'm ahead of the curve in that I've spent ten years of my life looking at medical records and could cobble a name together as well as or better than any name randomiser programme, but picking a name for a specific character requires a certain amount of trial and error. So I ended up with surnames that I can identify as coming from: an 80s sitcom*, a sci-fi novel, a horror novel, a webcomic, and the name of the street I was living on at the time.
In the case of that last? What I could not have known at the time is that HIPPIE's leader, brains and all-around mastermind Rachel Hutton shares the same surname as the actor who plays the guy who performs a similar function on Leverage. It amused me.
* - Carl M Tanner was named when I was seventeen or so. He featured in a short story that has since been lost to the mists of time and floppy disc corruption (AND THANK FUCK FOR THAT IT WAS AWFUL). Ironically, a friend of mine used the same name for a character he played in my tabletop Mage campaign some years ago. Yay irony?
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