ratcreature | memes

Entry tags:

memes

Lots of people on my f-list are doing the tv ignorance meme, so I thought, why not?

Shows I'm familiar with include among others all Star Trek series, SG-1 and SGA, Farscape, Babylon 5 and Crusade, Andromeda, Jeremiah, Odyssey 5, Jake 2.0, Buffy and Angel, Firefly, Smallville, Roswell, Supernatural, Miracles, Witchblade, Dark Angel, Highlander, The Sentinel, Due South, The X-Files, Invisible Man, Dead Zone, CSI, Da Vinci's Inquest, Criminal Minds, Numb3rs, Everwood, ER, Traders, Life on Mars, The Professionals, and this season I've watched some or all of the new series Heroes, Jericho, Standoff, The Nine and Dexter.

Ask me about any show that you think I haven't seen, and I'll tell you what I think it's about judging from what I've seen on my f-list and the Internet in general.

As for another meme, I've seen a couple of people on my f-list participate in the

incendiaryfood food log, and when I first read about that yesterday evening I noticed that I actually couldn't recall everything I had eaten that day, which was kind of embarrassing. So here's what I've eaten today (beverages are only listed when they weren't plain tap water):

a slice of spelt-bread with cream cheese and strawberry jam, a latte, and two satsumas for breakfast
a couple of dried banana chips and hazelnuts during the morning
some muesli, i.e. a bowl of rolled oats mixed with some flax seed, some hazelnuts, a sliced banana, half an apple, a couple of grapes with milk, for lunch
a slice of dark rye-bread with emmentaler cheese and another latte as afternoon snack
two bowls of leftover vegetable soup (it had mostly carrots, cabbage, bell peppers, chickpeas and potatoes in it, since that was what I had on hand when I made it two days ago) with rice for dinner
another satsuma and a couple of pumpkin seeds as evening snack

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

... my problem is that I can't really think of fandoms that aren't on your list. Or on your profile page. Um. Hmmm. Once a Thief? Farscape? Or, oooh, Battlestar Galactica (original series)? Pick one if I've hit something you haven't seen.

I've listed Farscape, but I haven't watched Battlestar Galactica (either series) or Once A Thief (nor Doctor Who in any incarnation, House, Xena, Hercules, Prison Break, Veronica Mars, Sports Night, Wiseguy, NCIS, JAG,... to list just some fandoms which appear semi-regularly on my flist, where I haven't seen the series).

So as for Battlestar Galactica, I'm as clueless about the old series as the new... The main thing is that it had Cylons in it, which are evil robots intent to destroy humanity, and I think the humans built them, and at least in the old series I remember them looking like robots from an episode I watched as a kid, but in the newone some also look like humans. The heroes are on a spaceship, I think, and because it was written by some mormon originally it has adapted those concepts as religious allegory, so I guess the people on the spaceship are standing in for the Mormons on their trek towards Utah or something. I have no idea what the Cylons are though, since I know almost nothing about Mormons in the first place. Also there was a character who has changed his/her gender from the old serious to the new, and apparently it was really slashy in the original, Apollo/Starbuck (?) I think, only in the new series Starbuck is a chick, which pissed a lot of people off initially, but now BSG (the new one) is all hip and very cool, so apparently they got over it.

I know nothing about Once A Thief, except that iirc it had Nick Lea (sp?) in it so that hordes of Krycek fans were into it and I saw crossovers being posted when was still into XF.

The bigger problem was "shows you haven't listed that I have watched." I saw old Doctor Who, but not the new ones, and I missed most of the WB shows, and I think I maybe saw an episode of NCIS once. Maybe.

I could be wrong about BSG, but I think that (on the original show, anyway) there were Cylon aliens, and they were losing a battle, and built the Cylon robots and then all died. Or, um, something. And they all used silly invented words, like "centon" for minute and "frak" as a swear word. Clearly I know very little about the show, either, though I did watch it as a kid!

That is about the sum of Once a Thief, yes, though it was also based on a John Woo movie thing and thus had ridiculous fight scenes. I like to characterize them as "clowns on trampolines! with guns!" but actually those were two different fight scenes. Also there is a parody of the X-Files featuring Agents Clancy and Diller. And the Mulderish one calls Nick Lea's character "ratboy."

Maybe I have the Cylon thing mixed up between the old and the new series then? See, with NCIS I always forget agian what the show is about, since I forget the acronym and then confuse it with JAG or something. The only thing I vividly recall is reading a BDSM crossover story in that fandom once with lifestyle dog play, but somehow I don't think it was all that closely based on the series...

I haven't seen the new series, but my Fandom Osmosis knowledge agrees with yours, that the Cylons were created by humans as servants or something.

I read two different NCIS/Stargate crossovers. Featuring, um, Tony DiNozzo? And Daniel. Unless that's JAG.

And, yes, probably not tied strongly into canon, that story.

Your food is so beautifully healthy! I'm impressed.

And as for a fandom: how about Torchwood?

My new years resolution a couple of years back was not to buy any sweets or snack junkfood anymore, because inevitably if I buy the stuff I will have no discipline and eat these treats all at once, so now I can only eat such things when I either make them myself from scratch (like baking a cake), or eat them when I'm a guest somewhere. My sole exception is the occasional ice cream scoop during summer (though not whole pots from the supermarket) and sometimes a danish or something from the baker. It's really much easier not to buy sweets than to maintain eating discipline when you have tasty things in front of you.
And it seemed like a much easier step towards slightly healthier eting than trying to avoid fat or sugar or any of these complicated schemes that involve counting one thing or another and would be bound to drive me crazy or neurotic.

So Torchwood. It is a spin-off from Doctor Who, and the main character is called Captain something (I suck with names). There was some kerfuffle because in an episode that introduced a character he raped someone with a mindcontrol drug only the series presented it such that it was supposed to be charming? And then there was *another* kerfuffle about the series having not enough characters of color according to some US fans, whereas others think that since there's plenty of Welsh characters who are apparently under- or misrepresented on British tv it does address racial issues, just UK ones, and the US fans complaining the series was too white were transferring their issues and being culturally ignorant and insensitive to other countries. Or something. There was kerfuffling anyway. Sorry, I don't know much about the actual series, that was all behind cut tags on my f-list, only the kerfuffle parts were quite visible...

I think I have to make that same resolution (especially since these days, I'm unlikely to be baking unless I'm bringing something to a party *g*)

***

As for Torchwood, well, yes...there is a Captain (Jack Harkness, to be precise), although he wasn't the one giving someone the date rape drug (that was a guy named Owen, who works with Jack) and it wasn't presented as charming...although he didn't really have to pay any penalty either.

And yes about the jennyo prompted racial issue (and yes about the kerfuffle, since it's equally true that there aren't many people of color as regulars on the show *and* that as British t.v. barely acknowledges that Wales exists, the fact that it's set in Wales with many Welsh characters *is* counter-balancing standard racial issues...in England.

Basically though? Torchwood's a secret-ish earth organization, made up of people who are the first line of defense against...aliens. Also? there's a lot of drinking and sex. :)

Ah. I actually knew that the date rape guy wasn't the Captain. So Torchwood isn't about timetravel in a telephone box like Doctor Who? But it's the same universe, yes?

Yep...it's a spin off (Captain Jack had appeared in season one of Doctor Who for a few eps)...and he's going to be on the next season of DW, as well.

Dead Like Me?

Oh, I have actually watched that, at least the first season, I just forgot to list it since I haven't seen much of a fandom for it, except for the occasional crossover. Though there totally should have been more fanfic, the whole reaper idea was cool, especially with the weird deaths like with the toilet seat, and the Happy Time office was awesome.

It really amazes me that there's so little fan following for that series. It's possible that the characters, and the show in general, were just too weird and eclectic to really inspire the sort of fannish loyalty that a more middle-of-the-road show would get. And even though I do write fanfic and I love the show, I've never been particularly inspired to write fic for it, either -- although I agree that there should be more!

Prison Break!

Or Xena.

Prison Break gets always mentioned as one of the shows that are responsible for the sudden popularily of brothercest in slash fandom, so I guess it is about a pair of brothe in prison, and they break out? I think one brother got himself intentionally convicted to help with the escape and previously he designed prisons? I think they are escaped in the current second season and there is a manhunt involving the FBI and some slash the FBI dude with some prisoner even though they didn't have screentime togetheer yet. I also remember some kerfuffle about a Latino actor being not acknowledged as such making the characters artificially whiter or something?

As for Xena... it is set in a fake ancient Greece I think, perhaps with fantasy or mythology monsters, I'm not sure, and Xena and Gabrielle are some kind of Amazon warrior princesses, with Gabrielle being Xena's sidekick. They were almost together in canon and all the fanfic is femslash, and the fandom developed kind of isolated so they call all the genres differently, like it's not AUs but Ubers in Xena fandom and the like, kind of like some HP fans have no idea that there was fandom before and outside of HP and they didn't invent all the stuff, except that Xena fandom is smaller, I guess.

Actually, Mahone (the FBI dude) has now finally shared some screentime with Michael (the head escapee) on Prison Break, so I expect the slash to take off big-time any minute now. :-)

I missed the race kerfuffle (thank god), but if there was one, I presume it would be because Wentworth Miller (the guy playing Michael) is part black, but his character is white.

Very nice summation of Xena fandom, there.

Woah, I'd eat at your house, if I could!

How 'bout M.A.S.H.?

Heh, it would be easier to cook for two, unfortunately the downside of my menus is that I have to watch closely how much I spend on groceries (not entirely unrelated is the fact that I usually buy my comics before the groceries, and then the groceries get bought with whatever's left, but well, priorities *g*) so I almost never indulge in really nice ingredients or fancier vegetables or exotic condiments.

As for M.A.S.H., I'm afraid I can't recall any character names, but it is set during the Korean War and they are field medics or doctors or something for the U.S. Army. It was really long-running, though. It is also a comedy, and I always thought it peculiar to set a comedy in a military field hospital. When I was little and saw some episodes I always confused it with Vietnam, because all the other US tv war settings like that seemed to be about Vietnam if they weren't about WWII.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

memes

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject