things I have been watching and listening to

[usuallyhats]

- Finished listening to "Legend of the Cybermen" last night, and I must confess that I was a little disappointed. I was reading some discussion of it on who_anon, and I agree with the anon who said that zie'd have enjoyed it more if zie'd known the twist at the beginning of the trilogy, and that zie didn't like the fact that as soon as we found out that Jamie and Zoe were fictional, the narrative seemed to think we'd stop caring what happened to them. I felt a bit cheated that I'd got so invested in Jamie's storyline, only for him not to be the real Jamie. And I hated that real!Zoe lost all her memories again. HATED. It really felt like they were determined not to disturb canon, despite having made it seem like they would. And the end of "The War Games", much as I love that serial, is a bit of canon that needs disturbing, in my opinion.

With that one major caveat, I enjoyed the rest of the trilogy. Six's speech on (seemingly) losing Jamie in "The Wreck of the Titan" made me cry ("It was meant to be a treat" - that sort of thing will always get to me, and Colin Baker hit just the right tone of bewildered grief). I cackled a great deal at the meta bits in "Legend of the Cybermen", and really liked all the fictional people, especially Alice, who I may have been shipping with fictional!Zoe a bit. I just wish I had liked the ending more, because it really spoiled my enjoyment of the whole trilogy. Is "Night's Black Agents" worth listening to (given the above, or just in general)? I haven't heard it yet since BF seem to have had some trouble actually sending me the Companion Chronicles recently. Must email them.

- NEW LEVERAGE! I hearted the first episode very much, the second less so, largely because I was a bit :/ on the actual plot, and because I was distracted by knitting angst, but even so I just love all the characters and all their interactions SO MUCH I still find myself sitting there all ♥_♥. Here are some things I wrote down while I was watching:

• "Besides, I sleep better upside down." PARKER ♥


• "We're going to sort this out." *stabs* Oh Nate.


• Oh no, Hardison's doing his English accent again!


• Parker and Sophie bonding over theft! ♥ them and their relationship.


• "Little sloppy."/"New glasses." TEAM.


• PARKER WITH A MINI-HELICOPTER! LOVE.


• "I like when we pretend to kiss."/"Pretend?" Parker/Hardison! One of my MANY Leverage ships.


• Ahaha, Bonnano's cheerful delivery of "Nathan Ford is a very bad man"!


• AW at Nate getting all protective of his LOVELY TEAM.


• Ooo, an ARC. This should be fun.


• Nate is going to try ALL the names! I hope Sophie's real name turns out to be Sophie. Or Jenni, that is an excellent name.

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• "What are you, lurking?"/"Yeah. That's what I do. I'm a lurker." :DDD


• "Hardison, confiscate some pastries." Good plan, Parker!


• Sophie programming Eliot! And her conversation with Parker about it! SHOW.


• Aw, poor Eliot, no-one will dance with him. :( (Christian Kane, on twitter: "Allotta people have expressed their symphathy cause Eliot didn't get to go to the dance.. Thank you but people, Eliot always gets to dance!" :DDDD)

- Another thing I watched: Blake's 7, "Terminal". Another good episode! (I understand these are few and far between next season, alas.) Some brief thoughts:

• I have MANY FEELINGS about Tarrant's outfit, but I cannot quite articulate them. Ooo, close up! IT'S FULL OF STARS.


• Hahaha, Avon's studded gloves!


• Aw at Vila telling Avon he cares about him.


• "What are you going to do if he spots you?"/"Duck." ...excellent plan there, Tarrant.


• Oh, Vila looks so sad that the ship is dying. I am sad too. ZEN. *cries*


• Well done on rescuing Orac, Vila! I was wondering if anyone was going to snag him. And his line about second hand spaceships is great. I find it a little odd that Servalan didn't notice that something was up with the Liberator, but I suppose she was probably too busy being smug about having got control at last.

Comments

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Avon's gauntlets are Bayban's, I think. I wonder how he got them.

Vila is lovely and clever and brave in this. [loves]

I have yet to catch up with Leverage, but I now possess S1 and S2 after TV here showed only some S1 in the wrong order. [stabs]

[usuallyhats]

Avon's gauntlets are Bayban's, I think. I wonder how he got them.
Hah, so they are! Maybe they both picked them up in some sort of interplanetary leather and studs sale.

Vila is lovely and clever and brave in this. [loves]
He really is. *clings to this episode*

I have yet to catch up with Leverage, but I now possess S1 and S2 after TV here showed only some S1 in the wrong order.
Oh no, how frustrating! Hope you enjoy it - it's not flawless or anything, but it just makes me so happy whenever I watch it!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It's good to watch happy-making shows. Mine are Chuck, Burn Notice, Big Bang, and now Leverage. And ooh, I see the IT Crowd is coming back on.