Fandom 2012

[leigh57]

In the (approximate, since I lack her flair -- get it?) style of lowriseflare, my fandom wishlist for 2012:

1. for Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson to costar in a delightful two hour BBC comedy that has nothing to do with death, pain, alcoholism, or emo of any kind and in which they have metric craptons of well-acted eyesex
2. for Annie Wersching to land a monumentally badass role in a new TV show that is (for once) good, and for her costar to be hot
3. for Justified to keep doing exactly what it's doing, complete with emo!Winona, awesome!Art, lots of complicated bromance between Boyd and Raylan, and meatier storylines for Tim and Rachel
4. for Touch to be as fantabulous as it looks in this trailer. Or in lieu of that, for it to be totally terrible but still stay on TV so I can hear Kiefer talk every week:)
5. for someone to find and put all over youtube A) all the 8x17 nookie footage that hit the cutting room floor B) the gag reels from every single season of 24 or, even better, C) all of the above
6. for me to find the courage to watch the end of BSG
7. for Brandi Carlile to release a new CD already, and then come tour near my home 12 times
8. for Allison Janney to have her own show, in which she plays A) POTUS B) a lifelong New Yorker forced to relocate to Birmingham, AL, C) a bounty hunter, or D) anything

My list is actually pretty short;) What about you guys? Fandom wishes for 2012?

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Fannish wishes for 2012: wherein you see just how many shows I keep track of

[dealan311.livejournal.com]

The Good Wife: For Kalinda and Alicia to get back to being each other's BFFs again. I actually have few complaints for this show; strong female characters abound and storylines are compelling, so for now, that's all I want.

Hawaii 5-0: for Lori to have a point and for Kono to have more scenes and a storyline in general. Grace Park (Boomer/Athena from BSG) is being wasted on this show. Le sigh.

Castle: for Kate and Rick to open up about their secrets and progress their relationship already. We already know they're in it to win it, so I'd like for them to start showing us more of them testing the waters to tell each other the S4 secrets already.

Glee: for Brittany and Santana to finally have a conversation about their relationship since Santana's outing, have an actually, honest-to-god, well lit, onscreen kiss, and let them graduate together so I can leave the show with some modicum of relief. Oh and for them not to mess up Mike Chang.

Warehouse 13: bring back HG Wells. I am going to be crushed if they don't bring her back.

Revenge: for Fauxmanda to go away, I'd originally say for Declan and Charlotte to have a point, but Charlotte just became 100% more relevant to the revenge plot, so...yeah.

Nikita: for the show to go back to Alex and Nikita's relationship rather than the angstfest of Michael and Nikita. I signed up for that show for the action, and the show works best when the two of them have intertwined storylines. Physical distance is fine, but their relationship is the core of the show, and it's annoying that they have gotten away from that.

Fringe: For them to get a full order of one more season to wrap up everything well in S5. Like Tim, I think that it has a shelf life of 5 seasons, and I just want Olivia to find her happiness- all incarnations of her. I'm already getting an Astrid centric ep, so I'm psyched for that, and I'm not too worried about the new Amberverse. I just want them to tell the story they want to tell and conclude the way it should.

I watch more shows, but I am mostly happy with where they are right now.

I really do need a TV icon.

My response: wherein I wonder when you eat, sleep, and brush your teeth

[leigh57.livejournal.com]

DAMN, woman. That is a lot of shows not only to watch (and I know you watch others!) but to have a formed opinion about. Wow, awkwardly phrased sentence, get thee behind me!

That sucks that Grace Park is being wasted, but honestly, isn't that show pretty terrible? It seemed pretty terrible when I powered through some of for Annie.

I am so curious as to what will eventually happen with Castle. I realize it's one of those shows that's technically a "will they or won't they" except that clearly they will. My curiosity arises from the fact that it's a serious trick to keep a show that thrives on sexual tension working once you let the characters do the wild thing. But on the flip side, if the show stays on the air and you don't let them, you risk becoming just ridiculous and driving the viewers batshit insane in the process. Castle (I assume) is successful enough that it will be on for a few more seasons, so yeah. I'm just wondering.

I am 100% wishing goodness for all my Fringe watching f-listers. You guys deserve a show that winds up properly, man.

Re: My response: wherein I wonder when you eat, sleep, and brush your teeth

[dealan311.livejournal.com]

No kidding. For the record, I didn't mention Once Upon a Time, Suits, Leverage, Revenge, Modern Family, Big Bang Theory and all my British shows. Mostly because those are all soapy shows, summer shows or comedies, so there's not too much to complain about. I'm totally digging the gender swapped Count of Monte Cristo, Revenge, but it's no big if I miss a couple eps here and there and have to catch up.

OH WAIT. That is one more fannish thing I want. I hope that the new Avatar the Last Airbender sequel airs this year and is super awesome. I am so excited for Legend of Korra.

And yes, it's kind of a terrible show, and yet I feel compelled to watch it, because it seems to be single handedly keeping Asian American actors in Hollywood employed since 2010. On occasion it can be decent, but mostly it's wasted potential.

Castle is hitting that point of shit or get off the pot. I agree that there's a fine line, but somewhere around the 4 year mark, something has to give. I think people are mistaken when they think that shows that thrive off of sexual tension can't survive once the chase is over, because it assumes that the chase holds all the excitement. Getting together is really only the beginning.

And I watch all these shows when I do the laundry. I brush twice daily sometimes while checking mail. I clearly like multi-tasking. Hehe.

Re: My response: wherein I wonder when you eat, sleep, and brush your teeth

[leigh57.livejournal.com]

I think people are mistaken when they think that shows that thrive off of sexual tension can't survive once the chase is over, because it assumes that the chase holds all the excitement. Getting together is really only the beginning.

Oh, agreed 100%. I think I didn't make myself clear in my comment. More like, I don't think writers know how to handle this well for the most part. I haven't seen many situations in which it worked. This is one thing that I loved about Tony and Michelle -- they were together, but there were all sorts of other points of conflict and it just worked. I could be wrong (I'm mostly talking out of my ass here, because I have never seen Castle -- I just talk to people about it), but it seems riskier on Castle just because of the nature of the show. If they let Rick and Kate knock boots, they'll just have to be careful where they take the story from there. It CAN be done, no question.

Ahahahaha, you check your mail while you brush your teeth. Amazing.

Re: My response: wherein I wonder when you eat, sleep, and brush your teeth

[dealan311.livejournal.com]

When you share a bathroom with two other siblings (and during Christmas are accustomed to sharing 3 bathrooms between 21 people), you learn to be mobile when getting ready and spending as little time in the bathroom as possible. In high school, I used to answer the door while brushing my teeth because no one else was ever ready to go by the time our carpool friend had arrived and I didn't like leaving her out in the cold.

Besides, I don't know what other people do while brushing their teeth. Do you just look at yourself in the mirror the entire time while brushing? Seems like a waste of time.

Re: My response: wherein I wonder when you eat, sleep, and brush your teeth

[leigh57.livejournal.com]

Hee, no. I avoid looking at myself in the mirror as much as possible, actually. I had to think about it for a second, but I think most of the time I just daydream or write stuff in my head. Yep.