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[emony]

I blame munchkinott for this, but I've really been enjoying Robin Hood. I haven't even watched the first season, and I've only seen the last couple of weeks, but after my mother's brief flirtation with the show (alas she has no staying power and has already abandoned it), I seem to have taken up the torch.

More bizarrely, I really want to write a contemporary AU about it. Wtf!

In other TV news, let's start with A lot of the M3 fans went a bit nuts this week, decrying the lack of M3 action. It's an ensemble show, guys. If you only want to watch Matt, Mohinder and Molly, you've signed up for the wrong type of show. I really enjoyed it, especially the explanation of what happened to Peter and Nathan. It all makes much more sense now. I'm really looking forward to this week's episode, although the previews make me rather fearful, especially combined with the NBC website tag line which suggests that one of our Heroes is going to be making a final exit. Woe!! But I'm looking forward to seeing more.

Still awesome. I read a spoiler thing for the "Blue the janitor" line, which made it marginally less funny when it happened. I also sort of object to the idea that CIA!doctor was a). stupid, and b). had to be fired because House couldn't do his job while she was around. Fire her because she's stupid, sure, but not because he can't control his hormones. That's not fair. I'm glad she's gone though. She was annoying. Overall, still loving House.

Yeah, Sara's gone. Boo hoo. I quite like Sara these days. We had a rocky relationship to start off with, but we made our peace a few years ago, so yeah, joking aside, it's sad to see her go. I get it - life's shit. We should all just give up and die. What, wasn't that the moral? Anyway, nice to see that genius kid back, even if the story didn't make a lot of sense to me. And there were a few "convenient" things, like their parents just happening to die in a car crash. So much of the storyline was setting up for Sara to go, the actual murder hardly got a look in. Not enough Greg either, which is ridiculous in a story about goth kids!! ;) Overall, though, it was okay.

I was concerned, after last week's crappy episode, but this one was penned by Sera Gamble, which immediately set my mind to rest. Perhaps a bit heavy handed in places (e.g. the vampire guy and Dean - yeah, Sera, we get it - Dean's traumatised etc etc. Enough already), but overall I thought it was pretty awesome. And Sam killing Gordon with his bare hands was totally badass. Hehe.

Solid enough episode, I think. The scene where John and Rodney are talking, in "indoor voices", about who's responsible for setting the replicators on the humans of the Pegasus galaxy was lovely. I don't see why Teyla's hiding her pregnancy though, and seriously, who's she kidding? Do they just think she's been hitting the cream cakes? The only reason no one's mentioned it is because they're all socially disabled and probably wouldn't notice if she cut her own arm off. And because it's TV, so people only see what they're allowed to see. Ridiculous. Still, hopefully it won't be long. I loved John's line about his Wraith boyfriend - "we're not dating". He'd totally do you though, John ;) It'll be interesting to see that storyline progress. I know all shows end up doing "getting to know the enemy and realise they have feelings too" episodes (e.g. "I Borg" in Trek), which are sometimes awesome (e.g. "I Borg" in Trek!) and sometimes not so awesome, but I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt to see where they go with this. Also kudos to maryavatar, who called the "Replicators attack humans as the Wraith food source" plot weeks and weeks ago. Good call.

So that's been my TV this week. Well, that and Strictly Come Dancing and Robin Hood tonight. I'll just say that Gethin and Camilla was robbed! And if I posted about Robin Hood it would just be lots of squeeing about, well, all of it really.

My mother just sent me an instant message via Googlemail to say that she's found a webcam for a donkey sanctuary she's sent a donation to. God help the Internet.

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[niennah.livejournal.com]

Aw, man, my willpower sucks. I totally haven't seen SPN and SGA yet. I need to get my downloading schedule more streamlined to fit around MU's prohibitive time limits.

But, no worries, no major spoilers, and Sam killing Gordon just makes me happy. As for Teyla being pregnant, is Rachel Luttrell pregnant? Usually that's the only reason they write pregnancy storylines, after all. I was wondering about the new wardrobe, and that explains it. Is her boyfriend dead, or did we ever find out what happened to the Athosians? Totally forget, head like sieve when it comes to these things. Like plot.

The "Blew Blue the Janitor" line was ruined for me by Wilson spending the whole episode telling House to date girls. I agree that the whole plotline with CIA woman was daft. I figured she'd be short-lived, much like Sam Carter's dad (whose character I loved and I was sad to see him go) just because I recognised the actors. But how could she get a job with the CIA if she was no good? Makes zero sense to me.

[emony.livejournal.com]

LOL. I don't think I gave too much away for SPN, except for Gordon dying, which you'd have guessed anyway. I probably said too much about SGA though. Sorry :)

Rachel was pregnant when they were filming - she had her baby (a boy?) a few weeks ago, just about a week after David Hewlett's son was born. Baby fever on the SGA set, I think, as Joe's wife had a baby not that long before, and Jason's girlfriend was due shortly before Jane (I think). Jeez, I sound like a total stalker.

The fate of the Athosians is unknown but .. are you sure you want to know? It's a spoiler for this week's episode. Not major, but you might want to wait and see the episode. If not, let me know and I'll tell you.

Wilson just knows that House is so contrary, he never does anything he's told, so the more he tells him to date girls, the less likely he is to do it. Uhuh. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. With CIA!doctor, I want to give them the benefit of the doubt - maybe within the CIA she specialised in a regular sort of medicine, like being an ER doctor only for CIA agents coming back from the field. So usually it's poisons or whatever, or just regular accidents and injuries. But to work in House's department, you have to have a certain kind of mental process, a breadth of knowledge, and leaps of imagination that she just didn't have. So she was good, but not the right type of good. Or it's possible I'm making excuses for their silly storylines. Who knows.

[niennah.livejournal.com]

Nope, don't spoil me! I'll get to it. If SPN ever comes down. I have the slowest download speed ever these days.

Wow, I guess the SGA lot has a creche now! And suddenly I'm imagining an Ancient creche and babies in ickle uniforms. a) cute or b) worrying, you decide.

the more he tells him to date girls, the less likely he is to do it.

Good point. I like your version of the story. I'm adopting it. *g*

[emony.livejournal.com]

I think it would probably be initially a). and then b). as the Nazi-like implications settled in.

[niennah.livejournal.com]

I've just started watching SPN and Harmony? Seriously? A ha ha! When she was vamped I was like, hey, that looks like Harmony. Now I can see her face and... hee hee! Wow, there's typecasting and then there's typecasting. *g*

[emony.livejournal.com]

LOL I know, I was like "..that looks like .. no, come on, just because she's a blonde vampire it doesn't mean .. no wait, it is Harmony!"

Ah man, now I really want some Warren/Tucker.

[niennah.livejournal.com]

I know, I saw your icon and the icon for this post and it made me all nostalgic. :)

[gobsmackit.livejournal.com]

Robin Hood and I are such pals!

[emony.livejournal.com]

Tell him I said hi ;)

[gobsmackit.livejournal.com]

Eeek, should've italicized - BUT I WILL.

[emony.livejournal.com]

Comment editing FTW!