"I'm my mother, I'm my father, I'm chipped beef on toast?"

[icepixie]

Okay, so, highs in the low sixties and 48 hours of rain was not quite what I intended when I said I wanted a break from the heat, but then again, it's a change from 100F. And at least we aren't burning away like Texas. I'll take it. Apparently the rest of the week will be nice, anyway. There's a park I never knew about that I'm aiming to check out with my camera one day soon, and this will be perfect weather.

Fannishly, I'm still rewatching Northern Exposure in no particular order. It's a little more organized than throwing darts at a list blindfolded, but not much. I've rediscovered some gems I'd forgotten about. "Wake Up Call" is much better than I always remember it as, despite Maggie's stalker bear, mostly because LEONARD. Moreover, Leonard diagnosing Joel as bored with his practice because he himself is boring, and when he gets angry, saying he's no longer boring because now he's mad, and that's interesting. Bwahahah. I can never decide if Leonard, Bernard, Adam, or Eve is my favorite reoccurring character. Maybe they all are.

Still poking at the idea of a rewatch comm. Maybe I'll float the idea over at n_exposure and see if anyone bites.

I also got to working on my "Burning Down the House" post-ep where Maggie asserts her unassailable right as Joel's landlord to crash at his cabin when her mother burns hers down, and I think I might actually be nearing an endpoint! It was originally supposed to be just bickering and UST that could slot neatly into that point in the series canon-wise, but, uh, they were very strongly in favor of other things, so it's now bickering, UST, and Other Stuff that makes it into an AU. Whee.

Comments

[wintercreek]

I am sooooooooooo tempted by the idea of doing a NX rewatch with you, but I don't know how much time I'll have to commit to it. Are you thinking of an episode a week? I could probably swing that.

[icepixie]

Rewatch, yay! I am dying to discuss this show in a sustained fashion. I was thinking an episode a week, yes. We did a mix of one/week and two/week when I was helping run a Babylon 5, and the one a week pace did seem to work out better, even if it does take a while. (NX will take almost two years, OMG. And that's eliminating season six, which I don't own and basically refuse to acknowledge aside from the first six episodes. Although I'd read what other people have to say on it.)

Anyway, I would lovelovelove to rewatch with you! Are you interested in doing it as part of a larger comm, or just kind of between us? I think I could probably scare up some more people at n_exposure if we go with a public comm, and if I were to pitch the show at fandom_of_one, we might even get some newbies.

[wintercreek]

Oh, let's do it! I am happy to include others, so recruit away!

[icepixie]

Wheeee!

It'll take me a day or so to write up the pitch, and I want to give people a little time to access the episodes, so let's say we start...the week of the 18th? I think most rewatch comms do their thing on Sundays so people have the whole week to watch and reply, and that sounds good to me. I'm also thinking it should be an LJ comm, just because I think we'll get more participation that way. But I know you've moved over to DW entirely, so if you've got strong feelings about it, I could make a DW comm instead. Let me know. :)

[icepixie]

Okay, I wanted to get the ball rolling on this and I won't be around much this weekend, so I went ahead and made a comm: nx_rewatch.

:D :D :D