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Fannish Immersion

Thursday, September 6th, 2012 07:05 am
fullygoldy: Wind-ruffled Neal (Neal Caffrey)

DH and I mainlined season 3 of White Collar once it finally appeared on Netflix.  Oh, Neal! Oh, El! Oh, Peter! Oh, show!!!!!!

tiny thoughts on WC )I have been reading an insane amount of Teen Wolf, thanks to [personal profile] jerakeen  (stories and recs) and Dira_Sudis ([personal profile] dira ) (stories) and the fangirl meetup.  We watched ep 4, so I have some actual canon to go with it.  Since it's all about the adolescent hormonal werewolf angst, I feel one ep is fairly sufficient for basis.

To balance Teen Wolf, I am also suddenly reading a lot of Lewis, which I have seen the first 2 eps, and since this is all about the mature, thoughtful, quietly competent men and their feels, two eps is a solid basis.  Never mind I started reading both of these without benefit of canon - I've become accustomed to acquiring new fandoms this way.  Apparently I'm nearly 100% non-spoilerphobic.

Also thanks to [personal profile] dira , because she loaned me the entire DVD set, I now have the first 2 parts of Generation Kill under my belt.  DH is a hard core military movie/documentary fan, so it wasn't a hard sell at all.  So far, I'm not seeing the Nate/Brad, but everybody does lust after Rudy, and I think there might be a case for Evan/Ray.  Or at least an unrequited crush by Evan towards Ray.  I have to say, it's hard to believe the same organizations that successfully run critical covert ops were responsible for invading ANY country. SHEE-eesh.

I've also reread two Vorkosigan 'verse books (Bujold), and all of Dira's GenKill/Iskryne crossovers (telepathic wolves!) and have managed most of the latest round of [community profile] kradamadness That's a lot of reading!

Cake or Death!

Wednesday, March 28th, 2012 07:40 am
fullygoldy: Volleyball Medalists Hug (Slash Dudes)

I totally need to make a post about how I'm catching up on my never-before-seen canons!  DH consented to watching White Collar with me, and we pretty much main-lined both seasons available on Netflix.  Reactions later. (so m a n y reactions!)

Then I talked him into Inspector Lewis, while he talked me into Arrested Development.  AD is silly and has short eps, so it's like snacking when nothing else is available.  Lewis, unfortunately, seemed very slow to us. After 1 ep, we both agreed that we enjoyed WC much more. 

Last night, while DH was out doing his music thing, I thought I'd give Lewis one more try.  It was still pretty slow, but the final scene definitely sold me on the Lewis/Hathaway pairing.  They were sharing earbuds and bumping shoulders walking through Oxford?! Adorkable! I still don't know that I'll be drinking much more of that kool-aid though.

But, fresh off that unsatisfying viewing, I decided to see what Netflix thought was "like White Collar."  I'll leave off details of my hysterical reaction to seeing "Three Rivers" listed for now, but next to that was "Sherlock."  To quote [personal profile] lamardeuse , Benedict Cumberbatch is a posh boy! I'd not seen him in action before, and OH MY. Yummy!  And his voice - that's the stuff dreams are made of, right there.

But, not only was there lots of pretty, the entire thing was totally worth watching.  DH came home about 30 min in, and he enjoyed it too. On the theory that it's not spoilers when everyone else on my list has already squeed over the first season, I'm sharing my reactions. 

First off, John started fanboying Sherlock immediately after meeting him (amazing! brilliant!)
Later, Sherlock says something like "you know you keep saying that out loud."  John replies, "should I stop?" Sherlock: "Oh no, I rather like it."  All this in front of Lestrade.
The landlady assumes they'll only need one of the 2 available bedrooms!
The restaurantuer/reformed felon thinks John is Sherlock's date, and goes off for a candle!
Watson:  Do you have a girlfriend?
Holmes:  ::snort::  That's not really my area
Watson:  Boyfriend?
Holmes:  I'm unattached
Watson: ::speculative gleam:: (no matter how much he was protesting not)
Back at the flat, out of breath and giddy from chasing the taxi, "that was the most ridiculous thing I've ever done." "You went to Afghanistan."  I love dry humor, I do, I do!  And then Holmes says they did all that to prove a point.  Watson still hasn't remembered his cane, but it's about to be delivered.
The dead pink lady is still smarter than all the men (and the annoying female cop) in the room.  Granted, she wasn't smart enough to stay alive, but she impressed Holmes.

The snark all the way through was a thing of beauty.  I think it may surpass the legendary SGA snark-fests.  I am excite!

But the plot - come ON! Can you say iocayne powder?  Which was the "bad" bottle and which was the "good" bottle?  I don't think that word means what you think it means, they were obviously both bad! And Holmes almost falls for it? NO way.  The absolute best though was, "I'll take the gun." Only Holmes will choose "death" over "cake."  That byplay was great.  I was thinking Holmes had pegged the cabbie as someone unable to actually pull the trigger, so he felt reasonably safe. The truth was even more in keeping with Occam. Well done, show!

And then, when Holmes figures out who took the shot - if you slow down the video, you can see the exact moment he goes arse over teakettle for Watson. Fantastic!

Sherlock is in the same category as Hawaii Five-O:  No subtext whatsoever.  They are a couple from day 1, and they're the only ones who don't see it.  At least three people speculated Holmes and Watson had a romantic/sexual relationship in the first ep!  I am very sad that Netflix only has 3 episodes available right now.  But I'm sure I'll be re-watching all of them, because there's so much packed in the first one, it totally bears repeating.

In short: ICONS! I need Sherlock icon recs! (in the meantime, have some sweaty, happy boys)

White Collar!

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012 10:20 pm
fullygoldy: Wind-ruffled Neal (Neal Caffrey)

[personal profile] china_shop , if you read this, IT"S ALL YOUR FAULT.  Good job.

So tonight, I popped my White Collar cherry.  After the super-cheesy movie we streamed (Four Musketeers with Racquel Welch and Michael York - where the only thing that made Welch's character's insipid uselessness better was the nearly equal uselessness of the intrepid heroes - way to ruin a book, gang), it was still fairly early so we looked for something else to try.  We were thinking about starting Chuck, but on the way to looking for it, we found White Collar.  I voted for it, and described it to DH as "it's supposed to be charming." Which was a selling point because we were supposed to be watching something romantic (even though explosions were explicitly allowed).

We began at the very beginning, with the pilot.  I've read so much fic already, that I was recognizing things left and right.  Not the story so much as the bits and pieces that have become the foundation or starting point for fic.  This isn't the first fandom (nor will it be the last) where I learned the fanon before the canon.  It can be a fun way to go if the source is good and inspires an active community.

DH agreed that we should keep watching this, so we have something new to fill the void now that we've completed the entire Firefly/Serenity ouevre.  I'm looking forward to it.  The funniest part of the evening though is that when we finished and flipped back to regular TV we saw an ad for season 3 of WC, which stated it airs Tuesdays at 10/9 central.  We watched the pilot at 9:00 on a Tues night! LOL



fullygoldy: text = If there's a slashers' heaven, I bet they've got a hell of an archive (Slashers' Heaven)

OY, how/why do I do this?!

I seriously have never seen the original canon for any of these, and yet, I am reading enough of them to have to fully include them in my "current fandoms. In reverse chronological order:"

Thor (it's all [personal profile] astolat's fault, though I totally intended to see the movie when it premiered, but RL had other plans)
Inception (IDEK, it just happened)
My Chemical Romance (but it's just crossovers with Adam Lambert-including Tommy macking on Frank spectacularly)
Sherlock (BBC)
Merlin (BBC)
White Collar (who can resist all the pretty? Now [personal profile] china_shophas me reading Clinton/Neal in addition to the OT3.
I recently reread the Supernatural/Friday Night Lights crossover by [personal profile] bone, (SO HOT!) which featured Dean/Tim. I've seen half of one episode of SPN, so I'm standing by my "no original canon" claim there.

Hawaii Five-O is also current, but I've finally seen at least half of season one, and everything that's aired since the premier of season 2, making it the only canon I'm watching that is currently airing.

What on earth is wrong with me?!?!

ETA: How much wine had I drunk when I posted this?  I see I tagged it with "die hard" as in Live Free or, and "genkill" Generation Kill, but didn't even mention them.  And really, Die Hard McLane/Farrell was probably my first "no canon" fandom!
fullygoldy: text = If there's a slashers' heaven, I bet they've got a hell of an archive (Slashers' Heaven)

Is it amazing to anyone else that Adam Lambert (Musician) is a stand-alone fandom on AO3? I get having the American Idol fandom, with subsets for the different seasons, but Adam? He's got a life of his own. And currently has 1147 stories about him posted to AO3.

People! That's more than White Collar with it's 1019 delightful stories, or Star Wars, or Pirates of the Carribean, or you know, anything in Yuletide. I keep watching the count go up everyday. It's amazing how active this fandom is right now. If he continues to be his fabulous self, he could start oppressing fandom  any day now! Think of it! Years and years of sparkly, near canon fic! Why, it could be as long-lasting and satisfying as (gasp)  due South! The 2819 uploaded stories aren't nearly all - I'm pretty sure I've read that many on my own, before AO3 was created, and I'm nowhere near having completed the catalog. Hmmm, the Ray wars may have to take a back seat to CKR vs Lambert for who's the sexiest.  And while Adam is so very shiny and sparkly, I think we all know who  my  heart  belongs to.  Besides, Adam's a baby compared to Callum, and I'm always always always gonna prefer the men to the boys.

Fanfic Meme Day 08

Sunday, August 8th, 2010 09:27 pm
fullygoldy: text = God practices polyamory (God is Poly)
Day 08. A fic you plan on reading (old or new)

Well, I re-read so many things, this was a hard one for me, but then I accidentally started on an epic White Collar series by [personal profile] china_shop  so I'm now planning on finishing it!  The next chapter up for me is Making Plans.  Its OT3 and china has a realistic and tender way of portraying the ins and outs of polyamorous relationships.  So I also started this about 4 chapters in and there seem to be about 3 left, meaning I'll have something to look forward to for the end of the day tomorrow. Yay!




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