First and foremost,

From the April '08 issue of GQ:













smallfandomfest's prompts are open for claiming. American Gods, Batman Begins, Being Human, The Boondock Saints, Burn Notice, Chuck, Dark Angel, Entourage, Eureka, Green Wing, Iron Man, Jericho, Moonlight, Pushing Daisies, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Tin Man... That's just a sampling of the fandoms.

There's a new book club-type community open, bookring. It's the first one I've joined, and I am super psyched about maybe cracking open a book or two this summer and having people to discuss it with. I was going to say it'll be good for me to spend time reading away from the computer, but there's every chance I'll be reading the books in e-book format. :D

Does anyone on my flist watch Reaper? I haven't discussed it much this season because I thought it kind of went downhill after the first episode, but I caught up the other day and the last half of the season wasn't too bad at all.



This episode felt so much darker to me than any other one this season. Not that it dealt with anything darker than other episodes have, but it just felt like it dealt with the darker themes differently. Every time there was a downer of a moment, I expected there to be a joke immediately following to lighten things up, and sometimes there wasn't. It left me feeling a little off-balance.

I really liked this episode for a number of reasons (I'm sorry, but any episode with Tony and/or Steve is automatically awesome), but the reactions of everyone re: Sam's father's death really rang unrealistic for me. Maybe I'm just used to seeing grief on TV played out with tears and throwing things and group hugs, but even Sam just seemed...unaffected. I can't imagine that he wouldn't have insisted on staying home with his mom for at least the night to console her, even if he wasn't feeling the grief just yet. She didn't seem affected either, but why would he assume she was going to be fine? And for his friends not to have said, uh, dude, maybe you should be with your family right now - that just really bothered me.

So what's the deal with his parents? Any theories? Mine currently is that they're both demons and the devil charged them with raising Sam on Earth. I don't know if that fits entirely, I haven't completely thought it through.

We have to wait until JANUARY next year for this to come back? UNACCEPTABLE.

Also, I watched the first episode of So You Think You Can Dance, because my nights are going to be so empty that I need a new show. And I can't dance my way out of a paper bag, so watching other people do it well makes me a little giddy. I watched it on my computer, and it was minimized about half the time because I could not stand to watch some of the people humiliate themselves. SO BAD.