I may moan and whine about the dumb-ness of the characters and the unlikely whiteness of the town as a whole(and yes, the books are worse). But here is why I will keep watching True Blood: for the lovely and ruthless Pam

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Because all the cool kids are doing it. Interesting result, in that my real name is in the description.


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My god I haven't blogged since August. Oh well, here's something to show I'm not dead, just busy. And avoiding the 45-minute presentation on Denys Arcand's films I should be writing up for the 30th. I've decided I'm not going to do any more meta on TW until after the Christmas specials. I need to get RTD off my screen before I can pick through ( Read more... )

And I like it very much.

Your Word is "Think"
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Just a quick update - I do promise to write up that thing on heteronormativity and mainstream media, I do. Had a brief but interesting conversation with a colleague at work today on this topic - she had to catch up on CoE, and I want to go through it with her and Cynthea (there are 3 of us who are interested in pop culture and gender/sexuality ( Read more... )

Yes, another CoE post. One of the things I found most irritating and unnecessary in CoE was all the "OMG Ianto's GAAAAY!". It threw me right out of the story because it was so unlike anything TW has done about sexuality since Jack's pointless and annoying transsexual story back in Greeks Bearing Gifts. Yeah, like the 51st century is cool with ( Read more... )

ganked from cyberducks Because I was curious.

Which American accent do you have?
Neutral
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Will the Torchwood fandom stay together until Comic Con this weekend? If it does manage not to splinter into hostile factions until then, will the TW panel be the last straw? In a sick way I'm finding this fascinating. Other fandoms I've been in, there's been a more consistent reaction to seeing our show cliffed (because this is far beyond ( Read more... )

For giggles tonight, notmywife and I watched an episode of The Saint from 1966. What can I saw about the clothes, the make-up, the acting, the staged fights, the dialogue beyond the title of this post. It was so bad it was hysterical. Watching Roger Moore with his perfect suits and his brylcreemed hair and his eyebrows doing all the emoting I ( Read more... )