Mmm. TV.

[icepixie]

Biggest ever benefit of joining up with Netflix again? All the BBC series/miniseries I could ever want. Eat your heart out, BBCAmerica. (I just added mounds of DW, Ballykissangel (squeee!), North and South, Upstairs/Downstairs, Bleak House, etc. etc. etc. Also, Northern Exposure, because even though I taped most of them...extras. Mmmm, extras.)

Yay!

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I love David Tennant to bits, but the character just hasn't been written or directed well this season. :(

Agreed. It becomes more painful with each episode. I can't help but wonder if TPTB realize that's the reaction they're getting.

I said I'd never write Firefly fic, and I...wrote Firefly fic.

Heh. I tend to get dragged into things via ficathons that friends of mine decide to run, which is where the Firefly fic came from (and proceeded to EAT MY BRAIN--or atleast, my life, for several weeks). Though, I figure any writing is writing, whether it's fic or original or whatever, so it all keeps that part of you going. At least, that's my theory and I'm sticking to it. Now I have to get going on the original story I'm working on...

[icepixie]

Agreed. It becomes more painful with each episode. I can't help but wonder if TPTB realize that's the reaction they're getting.

That's one of the drawbacks to working so far ahead of the airing of these episodes...they had the whole season in the can before "New Earth" aired, so they can't get any kind of feedback before the whole thing's done.

Heh. I tend to get dragged into things via ficathons that friends of mine decide to run, which is where the Firefly fic came from (and proceeded to EAT MY BRAIN--or atleast, my life, for several weeks).

I hate trying to write fanfic to a deadline, so I avoid ficathons like the plague. I'll accept challenges from friends, but only on the understanding that it'll be done when I damn well say it's done, and not a moment before. *g* My 'Net connection did stay up long enough yesterday for me to read your FF fic, though. Hee! Very cute. I liked seeing Mal and Inara all befuddled by the baby. (I don't really like them as a ship--the canon tried way to hard to shove it down our throats when they have very little chemistry together, IMO--but I do like them paired in certain fics. This one worked for me.)

Though, I figure any writing is writing, whether it's fic or original or whatever, so it all keeps that part of you going. At least, that's my theory and I'm sticking to it.

Indeed!

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I hate trying to write fanfic to a deadline, so I avoid ficathons like the plague.

I hear you. The problem with that is that the deadlines seem so far off that they shouldn't be a problem...and then they sneak up :) Though, the bubblefic this year (Sacrifice) was done about a month before the deadline, and I was just itching to post it--so the problem was the waiting, not the pressure.

My 'Net connection did stay up long enough yesterday for me to read your FF fic, though.

Well, that's saying something, 'cause that puppy's long! (hence the "Fic that Wouldn't Die" title!) I'm glad you liked it :) I love the idea of M/I but it's so flawed that you know it would never work--so you can imagine my horror when I got my assignment and it included "a child--preferably theirs." Erm, no. Sorry. So I did it, but on my terms, because I would never have managed to write what I'm guessing she had in mind. (And I'll confess that I suspect I like the idea of M/I just because Mal's so pretty and I think half the fun of fic-and half the reason it's written--is to project yourself into it somewhere.)

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The problem with that is that the deadlines seem so far off that they shouldn't be a problem...and then they sneak up :)

Ugh, yes. Although more me, it's more "I have to hand this in by a deadline? Aaaaaaahhhhh!!!" and I just completely clam up as far as writing. This totally doesn't bother me in actual fiction or poetry classes. I'm not sure why.

you can imagine my horror when I got my assignment and it included "a child--preferably theirs."

Yes. Ack.

And Mal/Inara would not work in any universe. I so hated that moment in "Heart of Gold"(?) where Inara has a big, fall-down-on-the-floor crying jag over Mal's tryst with the other companion. Gaaaaaaah. No. Also, while the actors look like they have fun together, there's just no chemistry whatsoever.

I never found a ship I liked on Firefly. Well, Wash and Zoe were cute, but that was more of a "oh, they're married, how strange a different for a sci-fi show where usually everyone is improbably single" kind of thing. However, there's some good genfic out there, so it's all good. :)