Come Close and Talk Fannish To Me

[redbrunja]

The way my schedule worked out this week (part chance, part because I worked on Saturday and had a family outing at too-fucking-early-o'clock on Sunday), I have today off, sans a few appointments.
 
So anybody in the mood to gab about fandom?

Things I have been into recently:

•Community (besides the ubiquitous Jeff/Annie, my interest is piqued in Abed/Annie, Abed/Britta, and Britta/Annie).

•The Vampire Diaries. I just rewatched the pilot last night and was filled with happiness and joy. And I remembered why I had the foolish belief back then when this show started that I could ship Good Girl/Good Vampire. Oh, to be so young and foolish.

•Harry Potter. I'm currently on the downhill slope of Goblet of Fire and Hermione is maintaining a high standard of awesome. (Also, I like Krum/Hermione more and more as time goes on. He was a famous Quiddich star! Who went for the brainy girl! Who tragically paid more attention to the Boy Who Lived and had a crush on her oblivious best friend! SPEND THE SUMMER IN BULGARIA, HERMIONE!)

•Anastasia! I rewatched that movie with my mom a couple of nights ago and it was a really good childhood flashback. (Mom: "Did they just blame the Russian revolution on magic? Did Dimitri and Anya just elope with no money?" Me: "I'm so glad you waited until I was older to nitpick like this. (But you're right, of course.)"

•*points to tag list* While some things I later end up disliking end up in my tag-system, that and my icons are a good way to see what things I at one point liked enough to believe I'd be talking about them more than once. 

Comments

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm really enjoying my rewatch. There are a lot of things that I dovetail nicely with what we learn later in the season.

As for Caroline and Matt - honestly, I'm not a fan of either of them, and I hate how the boys (Tyler, Matt, Jeremy) and freaking indestructible but the writers keep killing off characters that I love - Vicki, Lexie, Anna, Pearl.

[spunspider.livejournal.com]

oh, i KNOW! i was kindof enraged when lexie died, that was seriously unfairly quick, i was looking forward to so much badassery from her, especially considering she was stronger than damon. i have to admit the way damon killed her was clever and i enjoyed the way he infiltrated the baddie council but ugh! LEXIE! the male characters have a lot of potential and things i want to see happen, but i have to agree, the way they kill off all the awesome females. i think i may have literally whined when pearl died. and then anna! ><" lol, you've really pushed this into me. i was marathoning it so fast and the show itself was so fast i didn't really think of it so much, but now that you've just gone and listed 'em all like that...

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Killing off the ladies and the complete absence of any kind of conversation about slavery in a southern town where people have first person experience with the civil war are my two big pet peeves with TVD.