First Live Journal Entry

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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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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.

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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...:)