True Blood, House & Big Finish audios

True Blood is a really good TV series. We've now watched through the end of S2 and I still really like it. It has a whole bunch of cool characters (in a terribly predictable twist, my favourite is Eric Northman. He's an ancient viking vampire who has antagonistic tension with the brooding male lead. It's like someone smushed Thor, Spike and Methos together into one sexy package), a leading het romance that I find quite amusing because Vampire Bill is just so silly, and a cool mix of humor, violence, sexiness, and supernatural that reminds me of Buffy in the best way. Also, I like their cosmology - the Queen's explanation that supernatural beings basically convinced themselves of their own power and existence is a nice change from the usual. Also, none of that soul/no soul nonsense from Buffy!

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House's newest season at first seemed like it jumped the shark, then it turned into Oz, and now it is like a medical version of White Collar. Strangely enough, I'm still amused.

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"Industrial Evolution", the newest Six and Evelyn audio is so-so. It's been a while since Big Finish has done anything really cool, hasn't it? Six and Evelyn are still a nice team, though.

"The Silver Turk", the newest Eight audio, re-introduces his new companion. ( spoilers for Silver Turk and the last season of Eight adventures )

But that isn't my main complaint. No, the worst thing about this is definitely the new opening theme. I mean, WTF. That theme deserves a warning. It's what would happen if you took all previous Who themes, cut them into little peaces, sewed them back together wrongly, and re-animated them with too much lightning. SO TERRIBLE.

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ETA: I'm considering ordering "The Sense of an Ending" by Julian Barnes from amazon, since it won the Booker prize. I haven't read anything new by Barnes for a while, but I really love some of his books like "England, England", "History of the World in 13 1/2 chapters" and "Flaubert's Parrot", so I'm curious.

True Blood, House & Big Finish audios

True Blood is a really good TV series. We've now watched through the end of S2 and I still really like it. It has a whole bunch of cool characters (in a terribly predictable twist, my favourite is Eric Northman. He's an ancient viking vampire who has antagonistic tension with the brooding male lead. It's like someone smushed Thor, Spike and Methos together into one sexy package), a leading het romance that I find quite amusing because Vampire Bill is just so silly, and a cool mix of humor, violence, sexiness, and supernatural that reminds me of Buffy in the best way. Also, I like their cosmology - the Queen's explanation that supernatural beings basically convinced themselves of their own power and existence is a nice change from the usual. Also, none of that soul/no soul nonsense from Buffy!

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House's newest season at first seemed like it jumped the shark, then it turned into Oz, and now it is like a medical version of White Collar. Strangely enough, I'm still amused.

*

"Industrial Evolution", the newest Six and Evelyn audio is so-so. It's been a while since Big Finish has done anything really cool, hasn't it? Six and Evelyn are still a nice team, though.

"The Silver Turk", the newest Eight audio, re-introduces his new companion. ( spoilers for Silver Turk and the last season of Eight adventures )

But that isn't my main complaint. No, the worst thing about this is definitely the new opening theme. I mean, WTF. That theme deserves a warning. It's what would happen if you took all previous Who themes, cut them into little peaces, sewed them back together wrongly, and re-animated them with too much lightning. SO TERRIBLE.

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ETA: I'm considering ordering "The Sense of an Ending" by Julian Barnes from amazon, since it won the Booker prize. I haven't read anything new by Barnes for a while, but I really love some of his books like "England, England", "History of the World in 13 1/2 chapters" and "Flaubert's Parrot", so I'm curious.

ficlet

And then I went and wrote random True Blood fic because this fandom is so unsatisfying. I think I'd like to write something a little more like a proper fic rather than a PWP, but this was quick to get out of my system.

Also, rendering Lafayette's accent/sociolect is tricky. Just saying.

Bits and Bytes (Eric Northman/Lafayette Reynolds, 1300 words, PWP)
What does a thousand year-old viking vampire use the internet for? Gay porn, obviously. Eric visits Lafayette's website. (Warnings: vague spoilers for S2, swearing.)

( Ya know what's best? Them things ya can't have. All them straight bitches and closet motherfuckers and that asshole you wouldn't touch for a million dollars in real life but in your dreams, oh yeah, baby, it's all yours, the whole damn world just wanting a good time with ya - ain't that what y'all are here for? )

ficlet

And then I went and wrote random True Blood fic because this fandom is so unsatisfying. I think I'd like to write something a little more like a proper fic rather than a PWP, but this was quick to get out of my system.

Also, rendering Lafayette's accent/sociolect is tricky. Just saying.

Bits and Bytes (Eric Northman/Lafayette Reynolds, 1300 words, PWP)
What does a thousand year-old viking vampire use the internet for? Gay porn, obviously. Eric visits Lafayette's website. (Warnings: vague spoilers for S2, swearing.)

( Ya know what's best? Them things ya can't have. All them straight bitches and closet motherfuckers and that asshole you wouldn't touch for a million dollars in real life but in your dreams, oh yeah, baby, it's all yours, the whole damn world just wanting a good time with ya - ain't that what y'all are here for? )