So, several years after they first appeared on my TV screen, and nearly a year after they finally left it for good, I have more things to say in relation to my Epic Hero/Heroine point.
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Let me start by saying, I love Joss Whedon’s work and ditto for Eliza Dushku’s. In fact, I really liked Dollhouse when it premiered. Not loved, but I figured it would grow on me, which it did.

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or Harry Potter and the Problem of Writing Ahead.

Warning: ginormous spoilers ahead. Also, Ron/Hermione and/or Harry/Ginny fans probably won’t like it either.

Let me just say it: I am a Harry Potter fan, I believe in Harmony, and I am not delusional. I know, I know, the Deathly Hallows has come and gone, and we all know how things end. But I’m not ( Read more... )

Today (05/26/09), the California Supreme Court upheld Proposition 8, the controversial amendment to the California Supreme Court that defines marriage as being between one man and one woman, and only between one man and one woman. ( Read more... )

Okay, here’s the thing. I’ve been doing a lot of fanfic reading lately. And one thing I learned back in a film class in college (not a class for making film, but a class on films) was that every Hollywood picture comes down, at some level, to one guy and one girl. Now, this is of course not universally true (what is, really?) but it is a good, ( Read more... )

Title: What She Saw
Author: Kastellen (aka Galloway)
Pairing: John+Cameron (JCam)
Rating: PG
Notes: Because it was inevitable someone had to write this fic. Might as well be me. Warning: Hasn't been beta’d. Has barely been alpha’d.
Warnings: None
Spoilers: thru Ep 8, “Vick's Chip”
Summary: She saw everything.

She sees only him.

She lays on his mother’s bed ( Read more... )

Title: His Girl
Author: Kastellen (aka Galloway)
Pairing: John+Cameron (JCam)
Rating: PG
Notes: Consistent with my story “Façade”, but you don’t need to read that to get this.
Warnings: None
Spoilers: thru Ep 6, “Dungeons & Dragons”
Summary: A meditation on echoes in time.

( John Connor awoke with a start... )

Title: Façade
Author: Kastellen
Pairing: John+Cameron (JCam)
Rating: PG-13?
Notes: My first T:SCC fic, though far from my first fic. Before you get three paragraphs in and start screaming about the incredible OOC-ness, give it time. If you follow my conjecture, I don’t think it’s OOC at all.
Warnings: Some language
Spoilers: the Pilot, particularly, of ( Read more... )

Title: To Other Eyes
Author: Kastellen (aka Galloway)
Challenge: Challenge #10 “Reunion”
Rating: PG
Notes: Spoilers thru Season 1. Just to be safe.

Claire shut the book slowly, the slip of paper which had marked the page carefully palmed and out of sight. She consciously held her breathing steady as she set it atop the desk beside the care package ( Read more... )

Title: X-Mas in Blue
Author: Kastellen (aka Galloway)
Challenge: Challenge #9 “Imagine”
Rating: G
Notes: Spoilers thru Season 1. Just to be safe.

Christmas in California was a lot like Christmas in Texas: warm temperatures and fake snow to go with all the usual trimmings.

A nice little present from Lyle with the tag, “to the bee-yotch, from the turd-ball ( Read more... )