jayes_musings: (Gerry -- feather face)
2010-06-02 12:57 pm

30 Days ofme -- Day 08

Well, back again...all our furniture and stuff got delivered yesterday, and I'm still buried in boxes, so need a break.

Day 08. A show everyone should watch

I don't have one. Really, I will tell people about shows I like but I don't go around saying that everyone should watch them. If they want to watch it fine, if not, fine.

Yeah, I'm a great salesperson!

However, everyone should watch every film Gerard Butler has ever made! *ggg*
jayes_musings: (LiW -- Eleanor family ups and down)
2010-05-28 11:35 am

30 Days of Meme -- Day 06

Day 06. Favorite episode of your favorite TV show

Okay, so I'm cheating on this and picking three four TV shows.

Blakes 7 My favourite episode is "Blake" the final episode of the series. While there are many other great episodes ("Orac", "Star One", "Rumours of Death" and "Terminal" among my favourites), "Blake" was one hell of a way for a show to go out...and it has made the series memorable for many people. It ends with an infamous shoot out between our heroes, the Federation, with the appearance of the long missing Blake triggering it all. Blake is killed by Avon (our lead hero -- a term used VERY loosely), gunfire erupts and by the end four of main characters are killed...ending with Avon surrounded by Federation troops. He raised his gun, smiled....credits roll to the sound of blasters going off. BRILLIANT!

Robin of Sherwood...because I've neglected this show in previous mentions, and it is one of my favourites. The best episode is "The Greatest Enemy" where the Sheriff finally catches up with Robin...he's surrounded and down to his last arrow. After shooting it deliberately high, the Sheriff's soldiers shoot him down. But that, as memorable as it was, is not the reason it's my favourite. It's the first, and only one of two, where my favourite character...Nasir...gets any real character development, and after seeing him take down at least seventeen soldiers before being captured, we learn that he was once a member of the radical Islamic sect, the Nizari Ismaili...more commonly known as the Assassins.

The Professionals...yes, another show I wanted to mention. My favourite ep is "Discovered in a Graveyard" where Doyle is shot in his flat and very nearly dies. Meanwhile Bodie is hunting down whoever did this to him. If you haven't noticed, my favourite episodes nearly always involve one or more of the main characters being killed or nearly killed However, Torchwood SO over did this!

But my very favouritist episodes is a two-parter...from Highlander. I wonder if anyone can guess! *g*
Of course, it's "Comes A Horseman"/"Revelation 6:8"...we learn Methos' past, and it's very, very cool. We are introduced to the best and baddest K'Immie of them all, Kronos. And two very lovely and endearing K'Immies, Caspian and Silas, to round of the Four Horsemen. Really, easily the two finest episodes of the entire series. Methos, playing as only he knows how...to go with the winner. Kronos and his virus and monkeys...and just wonderful menace. The best sword fight, EVER! The only dubious bit is the SFX for the double Quickening, especially the spirally bit...a bit wtf? but excellent.
jayes_musings: (Text -- history channel)
2010-05-27 12:10 pm

30 Days of Meme -- Day 05

Day 05. A show you hate

Well, as I've been discussing with [livejournal.com profile] beccadg, I've gone right off Torchwood because of the way "Children of Earth" turned out.

While I do like some reality shows, usually the job related ones, I do hate the ones that involve competition, as for the most part they are so contrived. Like American Idol, sure it gives someone a chance of being a successful singer, but it is so managed, and IMO, they are then owned lock, stock and barrel by AI and forced to produce bland music. I do, however, enjoy watching the audition portions...just for the lulz.

Then again, it might also have something to do with the fact that I know I could easily find myself sucked in by such shows....as what happened with America's Next Top Model.

On the whole, though, there aren't any shows I can think of that will make me change the channel immediately because I hate it so much. Shows have more of a tendency to annoy me more than active hate. I don't care for most US sitcoms, finding them mostly just unfunny.
jayes_musings: (B7 -- trust me I'm a minion)
2010-05-26 01:09 pm

30 Days of Meme -- Day 04

Day 04. Your favorite show ever

Tough question. One show that will always be dear in my heart is Blakes 7; it was, really, my first fandom...even before I knew what fandom was. I wrote fanfic for it and with my friend [livejournal.com profile] gmnoonie fangirled discussed every episode. Yes, it had hokey special effects, wobbly sets, often dubious acting, and a budget of 5.49 GBP, but the storylines and writing were wonderful. And Avon was my first fannish crush.

However, when it comes down to it, my favourite show ever, has to be Highlander: The Series. I loved the original movie (and the less said about the subsequent ones the better), but it was with the series that I really became hooked into it and the fandom, despite the fact that I never had any great liking for Duncan MacLeod. The entire mythology of the show, as well as the history elements, have long inspired me, and now...more than, what?, twelve years since it ended, it is still my primary fandom. I RP OCs that have grown and grown well beyond what I could have hoped from them. It's just stuck with me, and I still love it.
jayes_musings: (LiW -- Henry I've known)
2010-05-25 01:00 pm

30 Days of Meme -- Day 03

Day 03. Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)

There are two, even if I've only seen three episodes of one of them. Spartacus: Blood and Sand was great and I was really getting hooked into it before I left the US. Given it's content, I doubt they'll show it on AFN here (but I can hope)...if not, I'm definitely getting hold of the DVDs when it comes out.

The other one took me a little by surprise as it's not my usual watching fare. White Collar was absolutely brilliant, and I quickly found myself loving all the regular characters, and not just Neal. It has such smooth charm and great writing, giving great development between them all...plus nice little surprises which turn tropes on their heads. And I love that. Plus, of course, Neal is very easy on the eyes...which never, ever hurts. *g* And I just saw that AFN are going to be showing it...so I get to see Season 1 again!
jayes_musings: (Leverage -- Parker 20lbs of crazy)
2010-05-24 01:22 pm

30 Days of Meme -- Day 02

Day 02. A show that you wish more people were watching

Hmmm, this is a tough one because I'm very much of the opinion that people should watch what they want rather than do it because everyone else is.

That said, I do like pimping certain shows and though I don't expect any one to listen to my recommendations, it's nice to share what you like. So, the shows that I like to share my fangirling of are Being Human and Leverage. Being Human is just the coolest, and I'm in total lust with Mitchell *g*...although I have heard an American version is planned, which makes me nervous. And I just have so much love for Leverage...it's not my typical kind of show, but the characters just work so well together that it's addictive!
jayes_musings: (Gerry -- srs bznz)
2010-05-21 05:20 pm

30 Days of TV Meme -- Day 01

And so to begin.

Day 01. A show that should have never been canceled.

This is actually a fairly difficult one for me, as with many shows that I like, I still find they end at the right time...before they get past their prime and/or jump the shark. So I don't get too upset when a favourite show is cancelled. Maybe it's being British when even the best shows are sometimes given a limited run.

That said, I do wish there had been more of Blake's 7, and I wish the production company for Robin of Sherwood had not gone bankrupt, and there would have been more episodes of that. While I was sad to see the last of Farscape, I do wonder how they might have pulled another full season out of it. Even my perennial favourite, Highlander, had IMO gone as far as it probably should have...and even then, maybe a little too far.

No, one of the only shows I can think of that shouldn't have been cancelled (or given the ending that it had) was Life on Mars (UK), and I'm not even in the fandom. While I do like Ashes to Ashes...I think LoM could have easily gone on for one more season before tying up Sam's loose ends.
jayes_musings: (Default)
2010-05-21 05:10 pm

30 Days of TV Meme (nicked from [livejournal.com profile] wishingwillow)

I'm hoping that this will get me back into the habit of posting at to my journal regularly again. So I plan to post nearly every day -- I know already that posting on weekends is difficult for me.


Day 01. A show that should have never been canceled
Day 02. A show that you wish more people were watching
Day 03. Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)
Day 04. Your favorite show ever
Day 05. A show you hate
Day 06. Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 07. Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08. A show everyone should watch
Day 09. Best scene ever
Day 10. A show you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving
Day 11. A show that disappointed you
Day 12. An episode you’ve watched more than 5 times
Day 13. Favorite childhood show
Day 14. Favorite male character
Day 15. Favorite female character
Day 16. Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17. Favorite mini series
Day 18. Favorite title sequence
Day 19. Best TV show cast
Day 20. Favorite kiss
Day 21. Favorite ship

Day 22. Best pilot episode
Day 23. Most annoying character
Day 24. Best quote
Day 25. A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26. OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27. Favorite series finale
Day 28. First TV show obsession
Day 29. Current t.v show obsession
Day 30. Saddest character death