deird_lj

You know what I’ve realised?
I just don’t understand how someone can like a show, and not like all the characters.

I mean, I’m aware that it’s possible. I know a lot of people who can’t stand various characters, and are still definitely fans of the show – so clearly this is just me being odd, but still… I have no idea how that works.

It’s certainly not the way I work.

( a few annoying characters )

Things I knew about Star Trek TOS before this evening:

- The captain's name is James T. Kirk (he is played by the guy from Boston Legal).

- The Vulcan's name is Spock (he is logical, and has green blood).

- Then there are some other people: Scotty (who fixes things, but cannot change the laws of physics), Uhura (who is black, and female, and a role-model), and McCoy and Sulu (both of whom I know nothing about).

- Kirk and Spock are best friends, and are apparently very slashable.

- The Vulcans have this weird hand gesture, a cool sounding motto ("Live Long, and Prosper"), and a death grip. They are also really really emotional, even though they don't look like they are.

- Uhura's job is to stand around wearing a mini-skirt.

- The Enterprise is on a quest to Go Where No Man Has Gone Before.

- Captain Kirk is on a personal quest to sleep with as many sexy green alien women as he can find.



Things I now know about Star Trek TOS:

If it is anything like the movie, it ROCKS.

:D

...and thinking about Harpy Retort Harry Potter.

And I started wondering about that bit in Embrace Fresh Cost Chamber of Secrets where Tom Riddle reveals that magnificent anagram.

Thankfully, the internet now comes fully equipped with amongst a rearrange anagram generators.

Anyway, I dutifully typed in "Tom Marvolo Riddle", to see what else it came up with.

Among many others, there were these:
( I am Lord Voldemort )

1) There should so be a fanfic starring Tru Davies, George Lass, and Ned the Piemaker.**


** Virtual internet cookies to anyone who can name all three shows. (And if you can get two of them, you'll probably be able to guess an awful lot about the third...)



2) While I have a wide variety of reasons for not listening to some songs on the radio - such as crappy music, annoying lyrics, having those guys in the background who are just there to say the name of the singer at random point (usually "Beyonce!", or "Madonna!"), or so forth - I've now got one which is weirder than most.

Every time that "Romeo and Juliet" song comes on, I roll my eyes at someone comparing their love story to Romeo and Juliet and thinking that it's a romance rather than a tragedy, and I change the station - because I refuse to listen to the song until she goes back to uni and gets a better understanding of Shakespeare.



3) The backwards traffic lights outside Knox City now go forwards!

For those who have no idea what I mean (probably most of you): there's this one set of traffic lights, near my house, where the traffic light sequence is the complete opposite to normal - sort of like normal traffic lights go 'clockwise', and these go 'anti-clockwise', or something.

Except now they don't - they go the same way as all the others.

And it's weirding me out, because the Wrong Way Traffic Lights now go the Right Way, which is just completely wrong, and it feels very NOT RIGHT watching them going the Right Way, because they're supposed to go the Wrong Way, and it's all...

*whimpers*

This Darth & Droids post made me think.



Specifically, the commentary at the bottom, which I have thoughtfully copied for anyone who is too lazy to find it themselves:

There obviously is a substantial underclass of shady characters populating the levels of society in the Republic below... well, Senators and Jedi knights. What with all the death stick sellers, and smugglers, and bounty hunters, and people who other people must presumably be taking out bounties on, and gamblers, and slave traders, and so on and so forth. It makes you wonder if the days of the Republic were really that great for anyone other than the ruling classes...

And really, why do we like the rebels in the original movies?

I mean, we know the Empire is evil (because they flat-out call it the "Evil Galactic Empire" in the scrolly text), but do they actually... um... do anything bad? Anything that isn't specifically aimed at hurting the rebels, that is?

(For the record: I'm talking specifically the movies, here. IV, V, and VI.)

I've been cross-stitching lately, which generally involves me putting TV shows I know well on in the background, so that I have something to keep me from getting bored with the cross-stitchiness.

Anyway...

Lately, my Cross-Stitching Background TV has been Lois & Clark, season 3. All very fun and entertainingly nutty.

Now, though, I've reached an episode I absolutely HATE. Not because it's actually all that bad - but the emotional stuff the characters are going through is just painful, and unnecessarily painful, and I don't want to watch that episode again.

Except...

I was kind of watching them all in order...

So, instead of SKIPPING the episode, and putting the NEXT one on for me to cross-stitch to, like a sensible person would, I have put the episode on, left the room, and retreated to my computer, where I am frantically reading websites and playing solitaire until the episode GOES AWAY.

...because, then, I won't have watched them out of order. But I'll still get to not watch this unwatchable episode.



Yes, I am indeed a loon.

*continues to avoid my living room for another 20 minutes*

I have just finished reading one of the most incredible novels I've ever seen.

( Watership Down )

1) It's really nice to look through old jewellery, discover something you'd completely forgotten about, and realise that it just happens to go perfectly with all your outfits...

2) I filled in an internet survey today that, among other things, asked about people's political views. ("Are you a: Conservative, b: Liberal, c: Socialist, d: Anarchist, etc...")
Annoyingly, the first letter of the answers were all capitalised (as demonstrated above), so I almost got very confused.
In Australia, you see, there is an enormous difference between a liberal and a Liberal. Politically, they're polar opposites.

3) There is no way Tara would beat Gwen Raiden in a showdown, no matter what blogging comic book geeks might think.

4) You really do feel quite ridiculous having a two-year-old run up to you in a crowded restaurant and announce "I did a WEE!" at the top of his lungs, and having to respond with delighted enthusiasm while ignoring all the odd looks from other customers.

5) Frasier really is an enormously fun show.

This morning, I woke up early, thanks to my cat of +6 anxious meowing.

( a post of +9 creative description-ness )


*dances around in funky new stompy boots*

You know the mannequins they put in shop windows to stand around looking cool and wearing clothes they want to sell?

Roger David in Bourke St currently has a whole bunch of the standard-style mannequins, all standing around looking cool... wearing Stormtrooper masks.
All of them.

Stuff like this makes me grin...