LA con 2009?

Hey fickleone and mrsr58 do you guys have your seat assignments for the LA Con 2009?  I received my invoice today.  I think I'm reading it wrong.  But if not, then I have seat A26!!!

Which--YAY!  2nd row (albeit on the end.)  But Wow--REALLY???  A26? 

What seats did you all get?

Seasons of Love...

So I was going on to a friend about how I wished there were certain series that I'd never seen so that I could discover them for the first time and have the pleasure of watching them as totally new.

BSG & SPN are in that list.

But then I remembered the first series that really grabbed me like this. Queer as Folk. A show that I never would have imagined myself loving to this total extreme. Not because of anything against the subject matter--more that it, I guess, didn't really interest me? But I got curious one day and netflixed the first episode and ended up mainlining S1-S5 in a matter of weeks.

I was just re-watching one of my favorite QAF fanvids. Set to the music of Rent--Seasons of Love. As I was watching it I swear--my heart just SWELLED with the love I have for these characters. Brian & Justin of course. But Michael, Ben, Emmett, Ted, Lindsay, Melanie, Debbie, Vic, Hunter, and even Blake. I cared so DEEPLY for them. I used to want Emmett as my best friend. Or Debbie. Sharon Gless just ROCKED in this show. I remember watching the Showtime reunion show and just laughing and smiling along with the actors. And watching the GOODBYE show and hearing about how much the show impacted so many people.

I'm glad I found the show after it was done. I don't think I could have stood to wait between episodes--much less between seasons. Especially between S1 & S2. I got my daughter hooked on this show. I forgot to warn her not to watch the S1 finale without me. I was away on business when she called me in tears. I thought something really BAD had happened. She was incoherent. I finally realized she'd watched the episode. And I had the S2 DVDs with me--so she couldn't watch the next one. She was a wreck.

I've been thinking about re-watching something. QAF may be it

Seasons of Love...

Religion and Faith on BSG..

Was googling BSG just for the fun of it and ran across this blog entry:  Lords of Kobol, Hear My Prayer: Religion and Faith on Battlestar Galactica -- Seth Perry

It's one of the things I love about BSG--the questions of faith and religion.  This is an older blog entry--sounds like it was written during S2.  But some things I liked:

It wasn't until the recent closing episodes of the second season that the show began to really round out the religious feature of its universe. The prophecy-heavy plotline on the human side seems to have played itself out for now, and the inevitability of those prophecies appears more explicitly in question.

And

Galactica has been deservedly lauded for providing a novel setting for the playing out of real-life political, social, and moral issues, which is what the best science fiction always does. With the clear infusion of questions of faith into its theological trappings, the show can explore the way religion works in the real world -- as a series of stops and starts, buoyed by faith and beset with doubt, among an assortment of individuals who believe different things to different degrees.

Emmy list for potential nominations...

I think I read somewhere that the actual nominations are on July 10?  So help me BSG actors had better be on the nomination list.  And Jensen!

The list.  These are NOT the nominations just a list of potentials.

The good ones:

• Edward James Olmos, BSG  (YES!)
  
• Mary McDonnel, BSG (YES!)
  
• Jamie Bamber, BSG
• James Callis, BSG
• Michael Hogen, BSG (YES!)
• Tricia Helfer, BSG
• Grace Park, BSG
• Katie Sackhoff, BSG
• Michelle Forbes, BSG
• Jensen Ackles, Supernatural (YES!)
• James Spader, Boston Legal (YES!)
• Christian Clemenson, Boston Legal (YES!)
• William Shatner, Boston Legal (You GO Bill!)  [my first ever fandom love/obsession.  And he ROCKS in this show!  So happy for him]
  
• Candice Bergen, Boston Legal