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I swear if I were young and having a daughter again. I'd name her Brienne.
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I swear if I were young and having a daughter again. I'd name her Brienne.
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Favorite Current TV Shows
Feb. 24th, 2013 12:18 pmSpurred by a question asked by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mrsr58 over on her LJ, I decided to repost my response on my journal.
My current favorite TV Shows:
Supernatural
See here.
Then no order, just random listing...
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.( my current favorite TV shows... )
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mrsr58 over on her LJ, I decided to repost my response on my journal.My current favorite TV Shows:
Supernatural See here.
Then no order, just random listing...
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.( my current favorite TV shows... )
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Hell on Wheels (everything's SPN)
Oct. 20th, 2012 05:52 pmWatching Hell on Wheels (really well done). Noticed that John Shiban was an executive producer. Christopher Heyerdahl is in this to, although I haven't seen him yet. Fickleone told me about the series and that Christopher was in it.
Edit: Huh, looking at cast & crew list on IMDB. Looks like Ty Olsson is in this show as well. He does indeed get around.
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Edit: Huh, looking at cast & crew list on IMDB. Looks like Ty Olsson is in this show as well. He does indeed get around.
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Everything's SPN - Falling Skies
Oct. 18th, 2012 10:37 pmI've been watching S2 of Falling Skies (at the insistence of my son, who loves it.) I'm enjoying S2 more than I did S1. S1 wasn't bad, just somewhat unmemorable for me.
I'm on the 2nd to last ep of S2 and guess who's in it? Ty Olsson and Matt Frewer (Pestilence).
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When S2 opened I noticed something immediately and sure enough, Falling Skies now films in Vancouver. I guess S1 was Toronto (or some other eastern Canadian locale, can't recall for sure.) But I've been having full spotting SPN locations while watching S2.
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I'm on the 2nd to last ep of S2 and guess who's in it? Ty Olsson and Matt Frewer (Pestilence).
:)
When S2 opened I noticed something immediately and sure enough, Falling Skies now films in Vancouver. I guess S1 was Toronto (or some other eastern Canadian locale, can't recall for sure.) But I've been having full spotting SPN locations while watching S2.
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Leverage Convention
Oct. 30th, 2009 09:27 amSo we've heard there will be a Leverage convention this spring in Portland. But has anyone heard anything "official" about cost and/or other details? I've heard it's at the Governor Hotel in Portland and I have the dates somewhere (thanks to fickleone.)
Does anyone know of any specific details?
Does anyone know of any specific details?
Flashforward 1x01 (no spoilers)
Oct. 3rd, 2009 06:01 pmI just watched Flashforward 1x01. I wasn't really planning on watching any new show, but when I was at the hairdresser this morning I saw a quick writeup on the show in some magazine. When I read the premise I thought, "Huh, maybe I should watch this."
So I just watched the first episode and liked it.
I just hope it doesn't go the way of Lost around season 3--where it got so convoluted and dropped so many early season threads that I just kind of gave up. And I LOVED Lost. Same with Heroes actually. I just don't have enough time/energy to devote interest in a new show that has a "mystery" just to get disappointed in how that mystery is developed. And/or how long they TAKE to develop the damn thing.
But I guess I'm watching this--at least for a while anyway.
So I just watched the first episode and liked it.
I just hope it doesn't go the way of Lost around season 3--where it got so convoluted and dropped so many early season threads that I just kind of gave up. And I LOVED Lost. Same with Heroes actually. I just don't have enough time/energy to devote interest in a new show that has a "mystery" just to get disappointed in how that mystery is developed. And/or how long they TAKE to develop the damn thing.
But I guess I'm watching this--at least for a while anyway.
More on the women of Mad Men
Sep. 16th, 2008 04:58 pmashmh posted in ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif){kind=small}
madmen_tv a link to this blog entry about the women on Mad Men and feminism.The blogger does a much better job than I did yesterday at describing Betty, Joan, and Peggy. There are a couple of spoilers for S1 & S2--but I think reading the descriptions of the characters are worth it.
Some de-spoiled excerpts:
As you can imagine, the era of happy housewife heroines and consumerism is not portrayed as particularly woman-positive. On the show, the women in the office--most of them typists and secretaries--are routinely objectified by the male ad execs while the wives at home raise the children and have meals prepared for their hard-working men
All that said, while Mad Men preserves the chauvinism of the time period (drawn into sharp focus by the fast-paced maculinist work environment of the agency), it's both an intriguing show and showcases some extremely compelling female characters who, sometimes subtly, rise beyond their prescribed gendered roles (even if they aren't exactly feminist by our standards).
On Betty...
Betty Draper (on right) is the stereotypical 1950s housewife, with an edge. She's married to Don Draper, the Creative Director of the Sterling Cooper Ad Agency, and ostensibly divides her time between raising their two children and waiting for Don to come home for dinner (or not). Betty is sharp, sweet and loyal to a fault, at least on the surface.
What's intriguing about Betty is her deep inner life, to which we're only barely privy, the constant sense that there's more to her than we see, that she might just have some card up her sleeve. Moreover, Betty embodies the silencing burden of forced domesticity in way that is both understated and deeply palpable.
On Joan...
Joan Holloway (center) is the Office Manager at Sterling Cooper. She has a lot of power--authority over all the typists and secretaries (and quite a bit of influence over the artists, copywriters and accountants, to boot)--and she knows it.
Joan is not a nice person, but she's a great character--she's smart, manipulative, and bitchy, and those are her good qualities. She probably knows more about what's going on in the office than all three of the top guys (Sterling, Cooper and Draper) combined, and she knows how to use that knowledge to her advantage.
On Peggy...
Peggy is by far my favorite character on the show, and she's probably the most overtly feminist. Don's former secretary-turned-junior-copywriter (a rare job for a woman at Sterling Cooper), Peggy is quiet, fiercely intelligent, and slowly trying to make a name for herself amidst the good ole boys at the agency.
She's a little arrogant, but also unerringly honorable, sometimes to a fault. Her most recent transition, from staid to classy--she glams up in order to get in on the post-pitch celebration at a strip club in the Season 2 ep. "Maidenform"--may not seem very feminist. But I'm not quite sure I'd agree. By joining the guys on their playing field--the frivolous celebration at the strip club--she acquires more, not less, respect professionally, and sets herself up as someone who can work and play on equal footing as her male co-workers.
The blogger then goes on to describe some of the secondary women on the show--the flings of one Don Draper.
Mad Men 2x08
Sep. 15th, 2008 08:28 pmI really, really like Mad Men.
It's not like it's action packed. And the story lines are not in-your-face. They are so subtle.
Sunday's episode--with the focus on the three women and their lives in the 60s. It grabbed me more than ever. All three women...just terrific.
( cut for spoilery comments about Sunday's episode... )
Again, this show is not my normal type of show. But I can't stop watching it.
It's not like it's action packed. And the story lines are not in-your-face. They are so subtle.
Sunday's episode--with the focus on the three women and their lives in the 60s. It grabbed me more than ever. All three women...just terrific.
( cut for spoilery comments about Sunday's episode... )
Again, this show is not my normal type of show. But I can't stop watching it.
Fringe, Altered States, and Lost
Sep. 15th, 2008 05:05 pmI'm watching Fringe. I have about 15 minutes to go in the Pilot episode--so I haven't seen the ending yet.
( Some thoughts....(with some mention of scenes from the pilot--so kinda spoilery I guess. Although I haven't seen the ending yet--so no big spoilers... )
( Some thoughts....(with some mention of scenes from the pilot--so kinda spoilery I guess. Although I haven't seen the ending yet--so no big spoilers... )
Another Heroes FanVid
Dec. 13th, 2006 01:12 amWhile I'm at it. I'm also posting a YouTube link to the scene in Episode 1 where "Eyes" by Rogue Waves is played. I really liked the scene with the music overlay. I don't think it's spoilery at all. More of a tease.
