memes

[ratcreature]

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.

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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

Comments

[ratcreature]

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.

[eruthros]

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."

[ratcreature]

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...

[eruthros]

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.