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Friends came over last night, and we watched Interview With A Vampire.
I think I might have discovered a vampire who's more annoying than Edward Cullen.


I mean, yes, Lestat is entertaining - and Claudia is so much fun - but Louis is so very boring, and whiny, and angsts even more than Angel. Without half as much of a reason. Get over yourself, Louis! You silly person!


...plus, they sleep in coffins. Why on earth did Anne Rice want her vampires to sleep in coffins?

So, back in April, I took some time to tell the world about Tempus from Lois&Clark, and how wonderful he is.

And now I'm back, to tell you all about another brilliant TV villain: Harvey, from Farscape.

( spoilery, screencap-heavy post inside )

- Kate Lockley is much more awesome than I remember her being.

- Josh is cute, but very frustrating when he won't stop crying.

- Caramel slice needs more crushed biscuit in it, next time.

- Cross-stitch takes FOREVER.

- Terry Pratchett is rather fabulous.

- I should never take BtVS season 4 out of my collection and leave the rest sitting there, because it means I currently have an eyeless Buffy staring at me from across the room... with her disembodied eyes sitting elsewhere, and also staring at me.

- Nephew-wrangling is an elite skill, and should come with a manual.

- There is such a thing as too much chocolate mud cake.

- Angel wearing hawaiian shirts is rather hilarious.

I think I've finally figured out why I don't like Aragorn and Arwen ending up together:

They're Buffy and Angel.


Seriously!

They're a couple who meet as teenagers well, when one of them is a teenager and the other one is already really old but immortal and seemingly young, and who promptly fall into an epic love story even though they're two completely different species, and get to stand around looking all tragic and doomed and heartbroken because they will forever be parted...

...and then they get married and live happily ever after.


Is it me, or is that sort of missing the point?


Buffy/Angel? Love it. Mostly. But the whole big idea behind their relationship is that it's tragic and doomed and heartbreaking, and they'll never end up together, and it's so beautiful and doomed and... doomed...


Aragorn and Arwen have a clear purpose - to be the Buffy-and-Angel, and look longingly into each other's eyes for a while before they go off and live their respective lives. That's how it's supposed to work! Having them end up together just doesn't fit.


(Which is all a long drawn-out way of saying: Aragorn/Eowyn 4eva! Woo!)

Let me take a moment to tell you about the brilliance that is Georgette Heyer.


The delightful G.H. was first and foremost a romance novelist – but she also wrote a number of murder mysteries, which I love exceedingly.

And you know, I could write a long post of raving about how fabulous they are, but it’s so much easier to just let the books speak for themselves, so here are a few short excerpts from Death in the Stocks.

( excerpty goodness )


These are the only murder mysteries I’ve ever read where I completely forget to wonder who the murderer was – because I’m so incredibly fascinated with the conversations…

Read them! They’re great!

(I realise I keep going on about this, but it’s bugging me…)

I’ve decided that one of the main problems with Torchwood is that it’s trying to be Angel, when it should be trying to be Going Postal.

( spoilers for New Who, and for Torchwood seasons 1&2 )

I just made lasagne!

And drank a yummy mixed drink!

And cuddled my cat!

And watched Doctor Who!

Yay!




(Evenings are fun.)

One of the most fascinating internet past-times I've discovered is looking through old entries of Fandom Wank, and watching as all the conspiracy theorists make outrageous claims about how fandom_scruples is "actually Ms Scribe! Really! She's sockpuppetting to make us think Fandom Scruples exists!" and getting rightfully laughed at by all the other wankas for being the complete nutjobs they clearly are...


(For those of you not familiar with the very entertaining story of Ms Scribe's adventures, the fascinating part goes something like this:

A reader familiar with the situation can now look back and see that, not only is Ms Scribe actually Fandom Scruples, but she's also hanging around on the FW entry as: a) herself, cheerfully mocking those conspiracy nutters who think she's Fandom Scruples; b) two other people, loyally defending their dear friend from the wackos who want to besmirch her good name; and c) one of the conspiracy theorists who is insisting that she is, in fact, Fandom Scruples.

It's hilarious.)



In other news, I have now reached Discworld book seven - and it's still very fun, and very bizarre.

Not just because half the characters I know and love don't exist yet (No Agnes! No Vimes! No Susan! No Death of Rats!), but because I keep mistaking different characters for other characters.

Like King Verence, for instance. I keep reading stuff about King Verence, and thinking it's talking about the other character by that name - whereas he is currently standing five feet away (in the same scene, mind you) being called something else entirely.

Or like watching someone at Unseen University, called "the bursar", wondering if maybe someone else might be slightly crazy...

Bizarre. Really.

Three mini-posts on completely unrelated topics:

( spoilers and TV tropes )

( polite rudeness )

( Terry Pratchett books )

You know, there are some things Grey's Anatomy does very well.

Like the way they introduced Addison Shepherd.

( cut for spoilers... from several seasons ago )

I love it when TV is suddenly good at stuff.