the return of the dark passenger
Oct. 9th, 2008 10:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
adelaideseanAmanda and I are very excited about the return of Dexter to American TV. It's been an empty few months, with all our favourite shows on hiatus. Now the world's favourite serial killer is back, all is right again.
The second season of Californication isn't exciting us much so far, but it'll go some way to filling the emptiness until Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, Flight of the Conchords, Lost, and Scrubs return.
Failing that, there's always Shameless, Weeds, and the Mighty Boosh--and we really must get to The Wire one day.
Any other recommendations?
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Listening to: Lustmord - The Ambivalent Abyss
The second season of Californication isn't exciting us much so far, but it'll go some way to filling the emptiness until Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, Flight of the Conchords, Lost, and Scrubs return.
Failing that, there's always Shameless, Weeds, and the Mighty Boosh--and we really must get to The Wire one day.
Any other recommendations?
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Listening to: Lustmord - The Ambivalent Abyss
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Date: 2008-10-09 12:33 am (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fixer_(TV_series)
The Middleman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Middleman_(TV_series)
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Date: 2008-10-09 06:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-09 12:45 am (UTC)I've been enjoying Terminator - The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Quite clever and involving; there's some time travel logical silliness, but then there was always a certain suspension of critical facilities required to accept the original Cameron idea that only flesh can be sent back in time, so just wrap a hunk of metal in fleshy stuff and you'll be cool...
I've heard Dexter is good! Must "track it down" :) And The Middleman, mentioned above, is on my list too, now that Season 1 is finished.
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Date: 2008-10-09 06:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-09 12:45 am (UTC)OTOH, Russel T Davies' book about writing Who is out now, I just got my copy from Amazon UK and did a quick skim read because I couldn't resist. Oh wow. Just wow. You have to get this and read it.
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Date: 2008-10-09 06:02 am (UTC)Will definitely read the book. That's what everyone has been telling me!
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Date: 2008-10-09 06:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-10 12:44 am (UTC)"By the time I come to write, a lot has been decided. Also, a lot hasn't been decided, but I trust myself, and scare myself, that it'll happen in the actual writing. It all exists in my head, but in this soup. It's like the ideas are fluctuating in this great big quantum state of Maybe. The choices look easy when recounted later, but that's hindsight. When nothing is real and nothing is fixed, it can go anywhere. The Maybe is a hell of a place to live. As well as being the best place in the world."
I've never heard that process described better.
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Date: 2008-10-10 01:22 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-10-09 01:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-09 03:15 am (UTC)It boggles my mind that some people watch 40+ hours of network TV a week!
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Date: 2008-10-09 03:52 am (UTC)My main addiction for TV is the occassional good show (Heroes, Dexter, Veronica Mars, Newstopia), documentaries (I'm a sucker for a good doco, especially if narrated by David Attenborough), and Time Team. Give me an archelogical dig and I'm a happy girl.
Mind you, I'm either ironing or sewing when in front of telly. I think the only two shows I couldn't cross stitch through were Buffy and Homicide: life on the streets.
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Date: 2008-10-09 02:22 am (UTC)I'm also watching Sarah Connor Chronicles, but wish the writers were a bit more on the ball.
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Date: 2008-10-09 06:02 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-10-09 03:13 am (UTC)*adds another item to the list*
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Date: 2008-10-09 03:08 am (UTC)There's also Merlin (produced or directed by Julie Gardner of Doctor Who Fame), http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1199099/
Pushing Daisies, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0925266/
Chuck http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0934814/
and
Life, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0874936/
In that recomendation order!
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Date: 2008-10-09 03:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-09 03:53 am (UTC)Now where are they?
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Date: 2008-10-09 04:44 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-10-09 06:03 am (UTC)You manage to stitch through that, too?
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Date: 2008-10-09 09:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-09 11:46 am (UTC)Watch The Wire. Seriously, it's very good.
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Date: 2008-10-10 12:38 am (UTC)What about Torchwood?
Date: 2008-10-09 10:40 pm (UTC)Christine G
Re: What about Torchwood?
Date: 2008-10-10 12:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-10 12:12 am (UTC)I also recommend Fringe.
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Date: 2008-10-10 12:36 am (UTC)And am convinced now that I should look at Fringe. Thanks!
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Date: 2008-10-10 01:07 pm (UTC)I have had The Wire recommended to me, and it's on my list..
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Date: 2008-10-10 09:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-12 01:39 am (UTC)Merlin - my other half is being more forgiving of this than I. If you like the Arthurian thang - go for it.
The Middleman - definitely was growing on me (have to catch up on that one) and for me was another to watch in blocks (seems to help build momentum or some such thing).
Who-verse related - I'm glad we have a hiatus cause it means I get to talk to my other half before the madness that is Aurealis *lol*.
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Date: 2008-10-16 04:21 am (UTC)- Shane