First Live Journal Entry

[elgrey]

I've had this LJ for a little while now but have been too wussy/busy to get around to doing anything with it. But now that most of the fic I like seems to be posted to Live Journals before its archived, or isn't archived at all, I feel I have to take the plunge.

I'm in 'Six Feet Under' withdrawal after finishing S4 on DVD and now have to wait until next year for S5 to come out. On the upside I really enjoyed watching 'Dirty Pretty Things' tonight and am grateful to the Amazon rental service for all the films they've been sending that I haven't had to buy on DVD. Also impatiently awaiting S2 of Deadwood and Carnivale and looking forward to my Veronica Mars boxset to go from 'awaiting stock' on play.com to 'shipped'.

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[versaphile.livejournal.com]

Welcome aboard! :-)

re: Welcome aboard

[elgrey.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :) You are mostly the reason why I've got a LJ as I feel bad about never being able to give anyone feedback. Your Watching (Wesley) Daily Journal simply rules. I noticed you had The Dead Zone as a current interest. I saw a terrific music vid for that a while back and was intrigued but didn't know enough about the show to buy it blind. I loved the original film with Christopher Walken, but I haven't been able to find many people who were watching the series. Can you tell me what it is about it that's got you hooked?

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[versaphile.livejournal.com]

Can you tell me what it is about it that's got you hooked?

Hmm. A couple of things. The premise itself is interesting, and the execution of the premise is done in such a way that makes the characters involved feel real and human. I like the maturity of the series, with adult decisions and complications in the forefront. I also identify with Johnny's social difficulties, though his are externally enforced. The writing is intelligent and often inventive. All it needs now is a revved up fandom. :-)

[sg1scribe.livejournal.com]

Hello!

Must watch 'Six feet under' some time. Deadwood is on my list of things to watch too. Meanwhile I'm trying to keep up with NCIS, House, Boston Legal and WAT - the latter purely because friends of mine adore Eric Close and I feel duty bound to support their pretty boy.

[elgrey.livejournal.com]

I think you'd like Six Feet Under. I noticed on TV Refugee that a lot of the people posting about SFU there are Buffy refugees who, having lost Buffy and Angel, have taken up with SFU and that's exactly what I did too. I really enjoyed it and it's nice that there are four seasons out on DVD so if you get into it you can watch all of them. You're welcome to borrow mine if you want to as we won't be watching them again for a while. Brenda and I both got Deadwood on your recommendation of Jb talking about the scripting and she was absolutely right. I don't even like westerns and I was completely hooked and my mother went into serious withdrawal when we finished the S1 set. I think it's the series she's enjoyed the most this year. (That would still be 'Miracles' for me.) I've only seen one episode of Boston Legal, and JS was yummy and a terrific character, but the women all looked like interchangeable Barbie dolls to me which really put me off. I really love House, despite finding one of the characters a little off-putting in some episodes. I'm hoping she will be written a little less crushy and pathetic in S2, but the rest of the show is so good that I can watch around her. What is there about Hugh Laurie not to love? What is 'WAT'? I'm intrigued. I don't think I know Eric Close but I definitely agree about supporting the pretty boys of friends.

[sg1scribe.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the DVD loan offer. I'll take you up on that at some point in the future. I have to watch all of Buffy and Angel first. A friend loaned me Buffy, but I only had time to watch an episode a week so ended up giving them back mostly unviewed as she was beginning to think I'd sold them on ebay. One day I'll set aside a weekend and have a Buffy marathon.

You're quite right about the interchangeable Barbie dolls on BL. However, I've managed to blinker myself so all I see is the adorable friendship between Alan Shore and Denny Crane. I like the quirky, yet thought-provoking nature of some of the legal cases too.

You may know Eric Close from Magnicent 7 - he was the very cute one with the sandy blonde curly hair. He was also in the sadly short lived show Now and Again. WAT is Without a Trace, a rather formulaic show about a team of FBI agents who track down missing persons. The lovely Mr Close plays FBI agent Martin FitzGerald. He was seriously wounded in the opening episode of season 4, which caused his team-mate Danny to be majorly emotionally traumatised thanks to him being secretly in love with Martin. (The writers are no doubt oblivious to the true cause of Danny's trauma, but it is as plain as day to those of us not writing television for the mainstream US market.)

Sadly the show focuses far too much on the guest missing person, and when it does focus on the FBI agents we get loads of the team leader - an obnoxious character called Jack, and very little of the others. The show has also commited the unforgiveable sin of having a SamnJack relationship - Sam being a blonde subordinate who not only lusts after her boss, but had an affair with him. (Just for good measure the actress that plays Sam can't act). However, the show is redeemed by the snuggliness of Martin and Danny, although fans have to wade through endless tedium for the occasional nugget of cuteness.

Season 3 is currently airing on a satellite channel on Tuesday evenings - can't remember which one. I recommend taping the show so you can fastforward through all the tedious scenary chewing and doe-eyed looks. Just watch the hot pretty boy scenes.

[elgrey.livejournal.com]

I think there are 144 episodes of Buffy and 110 of Angel, so you might have to seclude yourself somewhere for a month rather than a weekend. They are bringing out boxsets of the whole of both shows now, so a lot cheaper than the £80 per season deal it was in the past.

I only saw the one ep of BL but I would buy the box set for the way Alan Shore said 'I'm just a slut for authority' to Brad Chase. It is a shame that they couldn't have made the women interesting too but William Shatner seemed to be having a wonderful time as well as JS.

I haven't seen Magnificent 7 although I had a notification that it was coming out on DVD, which is nice to know, as I like Michael Biehn. Oh! Without a Trace is the show that Lisa D was talking about? I've never seen it and I had heard there was a Sam'n'Jack romance to rival the badness of the Stargate one on it so was giving it a miss, but the Danny-Martin stuff sounds very sweet. Sounds like a good one to watch on FF rather than live so as to just enjoy the cute friendship scenes. There really should be a law against toxic ship. Romance can be such a wonderful addition to a show if it's done well, so why is it so often done so very badly?

In the film we watched last night, Dirty Pretty Things, there is a really touching and affecting romance built on friendship and kindness and decent behaviour to one another, as opposed to some heaving bosomed drama from a blonde bimbette and her alpha male and more tedious UST than one can fall into a coma to. I really loathe unearned romance where you are just expected to root for them because one of them has a uterus and they're in same proximity and the human race needs to be perpetuated, at least I presume that's what we're meant to feel in the TV shows and movies where the writers and directors don't even try to earn it. But this was a really affecting romance where I was rooting for them to get together even though I was pretty sure they wouldn't.

That's one of the (many) things I thought early Buffy did very well. (Let us not speak of the tedium that was Spuffy.) Not least because they were teenagers and it really captured how fragile and intense those emotions were and how vulnerable the people feeling them were to their emotions. It's something I really like about Six Feet Under, too, and how Claire feels things so deeply and makes some really bad decisions because of her age without ever being unsympathetic (to me anyway) because of it.

I might try and download Without a Trace rather than tape it and will definitely try to take a look at some of the Danny and Martin scenes. I'm all for snuggly male friendship bonding...:)

[ankh-lj.livejournal.com]

I am so going to tease you about this...

[elgrey.livejournal.com]

Well, I didn't know I still had this. I got it, paid for it, ignored it, the paid account lapsed, I didn't know the free one would still be there hanging around. And you have a comic icon, I'm the one who's allowed to jeer and point here...

[elgrey.livejournal.com]

I've got the first two episodes of the new season of NCIS to watch tonight, and the first three of Supernatural, which I'm hoping will be better than 'Plot bad, Jensen pretty' – not that him being pretty isn't easy on the eye, but I really hope the stories are great as I am still a little peeved that the show isn't 'Wesley & Gunn on Route 66' instead. I'm a sucker for anything with a supernatural element in it but there don't seem to be that many shows made that contain it that have good reviews. I'm hoping this one will be the exception even if it is made by the WB (The bastards, they killed Angel!). And I do have my Lost boxset too, from which I'm also hoping for good things.

[innocent-lex.livejournal.com]

A bit late, but welcome to the LJ party. Or community. Or drunken orgy, depending on what you're reading and writing. Whichever it is I'm sure it's Ankh's fault. Or Scribe's. Or both of them somehow got together and did lots of things you can blame them for.

[elgrey.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the welcome, Lex! Er...innocent lex? Please marvel at my restraint in not typing 'since when?' Drunken orgy? And I thought it was a bible class. Darn. I suppose I'd better just join in anyway. Ankh and Scribe are actually blameless, and indeed probably dazzling people with their haloes even as I type this. It's the fault of the people who write Angel fic who all have it on their LJs and it's really hard to find unless you have one, too.

I have to say, what a *gorgeous* icon. Lovely lovely pic of Daniel. It's the perfect 'why does everyone else in this room have the brain of a pea/not care about the moral issues' expression, plus - hot! He has such a biteable throat. Or I've possibly been hanging around in a vampire fandom a leetle too long...

[innocent-lex.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, Daniel-love goes a long way. It's such a gorgeous picture of him, so very Daniel-esque in mood, so pretty.

And I am innocent. Completely. Ask anyone. Well, not the usual suspects as I'm sure they'll only tell vicious, slanderous porkies, but perhaps some people at work who don't know me very well yet.

Helllooooooooo!!!!!

[lachli.livejournal.com]

'Tis Lisa D here. I foolishly thought I'd have a different user name and be all ambiguous and mysterious on LJ, but failed miserably because I went and friended people I'd known for ages and still talked about the same stuff and now I just end up saying I'm me and not some weird stalker person you've never met before.

Glad to see you've come over to the dark side finally got with the whole LJ thing, I've now discovered where half of fandom seems to hang out and it's been a revelation. I've made lots of new friends and found lots of old ones :-).

I've got to run right now because I need to pick the kids up from school and then we have pony to go and see to. Yep, we've gained a pony since I last spoke to you, supposedly for endless fun and jollity, but the reality seems to be stress, tiredness and a lot of shouting from me at my children to get a grip *g*. No change there really.

Take no notice of Ankh, I've already mocked her cartoon icon, but in return she mocked my galloping My Little Pony icon so I had to stop. I used my FBI boys for this one instead.

Catch up soon.

Re: Helllooooooooo!!!!!

[elgrey.livejournal.com]

Well, I was impressed by your secret identity until you gave the game away by telling me who you were! You could have told me you were a sultry spy who smoked hand-rolled cigarettes out of a silver holder and could kill men with a twist of your thighs if you'd wanted and I would have believed you.

Tell your kids they should go down on their knees and kiss the hem of your garment for getting them a pony. My mother, my older sister and I all grew up wanting for nothing else and spending all our time having to ride other people's. My brother is still scarred by the experience of having horse-mad women all around him and I'm not allowed to even lend his daughter my old Monica Edwards or Ruby Ferguson books in case she gets infected with the same madness and starts demanding that he buys her a pony and they keep it in the orchard. My sister has two horses now, but it's not the same as growing up with one. Seriously, those kids owe you big time. Please send me pictures? What size is he/she? Colour? Breed? Tell me everything!

I'm loving LJ-land so far. It's an all-you-can-read fic buffet out here, isn't it?

Ankh mocked your My Little Pony icon? That's low coming from a woman with a spandexy icon. Do you collect MLPs because I gather there are gadzillions? And are the guys in your icon from the Without a Trace that Scribe was talking about?

Really pleased you made contact, Lisa! It's always great to hear from you.

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[lachli.livejournal.com]

*g* I was never very good at secret stuff, I like to talk too much!

I know all about the wanting a pony thing, my mom and I were exactly the same. When I was 17 I was at a family funeral and got talking to some relative I never knew I had, turned out that his son(apparently my cousing twice removed or something) had bought his daughter a pony she couldn't cope with, so I, being very thoughtful, volounteered to ride her. Long story short is that I had a lovely summer riding her, they got fed up looking after her and gave her to me, talk about being thrown in at the deep end! Had her for over 10 years and had *so* much fun with her, my grandad then gave my mom £500 to buy herself one and she got Beckie, who we still have now and she's nearly 30. As for the kids, well it was pretty inevitable that with a mom and a dad who ride (I met Peter at the stables where I kept Poppy) and two nans who ride and keep horses that they were going to go the same way. I was spending over £25 a week paying for a couple of lessons and decided that for a little more I could keep one, so when Peter decided to sell his Land Rover as he didn't use it anymore I claimed the money for a pony *g*.

I'll have to do a seperate LJ post with a pic, because I still can't work some things out and I can't make a pic appear here! We bought Seb, he's 13.1, bright chestnut and very pretty. He's part Arab and is bred as a riding pony, so I think there must be some thoroughbred and welsh in him as well. He's 7, which is a lovely age, and is quite fine, I have ridden him, but I think I squash him a bit *g*. Like all ponies he can have his moments and discovered for a while that if he shoved his head down the kids lost the reins and he could just stand there, LOL. At one point we thought we might have to sell him as they just weren't getting on. After a change of yards and some tough talking from me, i.e. get a grip and stop being wimps, all is going really well. Two months ago Laura was crying at the thought of even walking him round a school, yesterday she was cantering around open fields jumping logs, so we're all really happy now. He's definitely part of the family :-). Has some lovely little habits, comes trotting up when you call him, when he's finished eating if you ask him he will pick his bucket up and give it to you and honestly, we love him to bits :-).

Ah, yes those were my boys in the icon, so very pretty and so very angsty, bliss!

I'm using my pony icon and you'll see that Ankh really had no reason to mock it at all, she just has no taste. Chloe used to collect them, but we gave up, they were like Barbie, absolutely relentless, just when you thought you had them another one came along!

[soar38.livejournal.com]

It's great to see such a wonderful writer join the LJ world. :-) I've been a fan of your work from the Stargate fandom, which led to purchasing your books, which I've managed to get other people hooked onto as well, so I hope you don't mind if I add you to my friends list to keep up with your work. :-)

[elgrey.livejournal.com]

How lovely of you to find my LJ and friend me! Thank you! And thank you for reading my fic and the novels and pimping them to other people too. I love it when people are kind enough to do that. *g*

My computer is very unwell at the moment, which is why I haven't been posting anywhere, but I hope very much that it may be fixed next week if it is fixable.

I also have a community set up for The Charndras now so I can apologize for the delays and let people know what is happening with Book Three and things and they can comment if they should feel so inclined. It's the_charndras.

I've friended you back, and thank you again. It was lovely to get your post.

[soar38.livejournal.com]

I know quite a few people who've been waiting for the next installment of The Charndras, so I think they'll be happy to know that you are still around, and in good health, even if the computer is not. :-) I think there's a general consensus that they're one of the most exciting series of books we've read in a while, your characters have so much life.

I also love going back and rereading many of the SG1 fics you've posted before, although I admit I didn't know that you'd been so prolific and in so many fandoms. ;-)

I was just idly searching my interests, so I was very pleasantly surprised when I saw that you'd got an LJ. I've also wandered over to your community and joined that as well. :-)