Arduinna

To keep myself busy and online so I don't forget to register, I wrote up the world's longest, rambliest post. \o/ There are spoilers for practically everything here...

I'm settled in for a nice snowy weekend -- lots of cat food, plenty of people food, clean laundry, and a good parking spot. (... I'm a little compulsive about parking spots in bad weather, after 20 years of unassigned street parking in a neighborhood where snow emergencies mean there are too many cars vying for juuuust too few spots, especially given how many people don't know how to shovel, argh, so we wind up losing potential spots to crappy shoveling jobs. But I digress.)

This is going to be much better than last weekend's 27 inches in 24 hours; it'll be more like 4-ish inches in 24 hours, just enough so I can indulge my hermit-y ways and not budge till I have to go to work on Tuesday.

My only concrete plan for today is to sign up for Vividcon, yay! I can't believe it's already time again. All my fannish plans keep winding up on the backburner, but at least maybe this will kick the vidding in the butt, because if reg is here, deadlines are nearly upon us.

I've grabbed a bunch of tv that I probably won't have time to watch, but it looks interesting enough that maybe I'll give it a try at some point, like The Americans and Cracked. I'm banking them for the moment, for some day I'm looking for something new to watch and can marathon through.

I've been watching a bunch of other stuff, though. A couple I've only seen the pilot for so far:

( Zero Hour )

( The Following )

And then there were the shows that ended recently:

( Leverage )

( Fringe )

( Alphas )

And then, of course, there are the shows that are currently airing and ongoing. Anyone else remember how, 15 years ago, we used to fret every year that this year would be the last year of fannish tv? How we hung on cancellation news, because if X got cancelled, what would we watch?

I kinda miss those days, to tell you the truth. How is there this much tv all the damn time? I feel like I never talk about any of it, because I'm always racing to catch up to just watching it. And for all that I tend to really like the summer shows, man, I miss having a few months every year to catch up on stuff I missed, or rewatch things, or get involved in complicated discussions about What! Might! Happen! (... with other unspoiled people, because for me the fun is guessing, not knowing in advance).

So instead, have a bunch of brief overall reactions to shows, with only a little specific commentary, just so people have some idea of what it is I'm watching these days:

( Person of Interest )

( Elementary )

( Lewis )

( Once Upon a Time )

( White Collar )

( Revenge )

Shows that I'm waiting to come back:

( Grimm )

( Burn Notice )

( Haven )

I know as soon as I post this I'll come up with another half dozen shows I meant to mention. Oh well.

I would write about the reality tv I'm watching, but this is already an absurdly long post. Suffice to say, my favorite shows -- Amazing Race, Project Runway, Top Chef -- still have me, but I'm burning out from overload, and less invested every season. All three shows have had aired four complete seasons since December 2010, and all three are in or about to start another season. I hate to give any of them up for completist reasons, but man. I am just burning out.

I watched Big Eden this week - it's been on my mental to-watch list since I saw gwyn's vid for it a few years ago, and it was every bit as sweet and warm and happy-making as I'd hoped it would be.

What I was not expecting was a scene that showed off Tim Dekay's very nice abs. Bonus!

Which I felt the need to share. *g* I didn't want to bother with embedding a video, so I went with an animated gif instead. The clip is a bit long for that (and I didn't want to cut too many frames out, to keep it relatively smooth), so unfortunately the file size is a bit big. The version under the cut is the smallest I have (cropped and half-size), and it's 2.2 MB, so give it a minute to load.

( pretty spoilers for a Big Eden scene *g* )

I don't want to kill anyone's bandwidth by putting it in the post, but here's a link to a larger version (still cropped, but full-size -- 7.8 MB).

For the record, this is what Peter would have looked like 10-11 years ago, back when he was dating and marrying Ell...

I keep meaning to post about White Collar. I'm watching a lot of tv I really like, but WC is my hands-down happy place; I stop and rewind the DVR to catch the commercials, even, because just the sight of those characters makes me grin from ear to ear. I've been enjoying this season hugely, and I can't wait for eps to come back in January.

( spoilers for tonight's ep )

(And in case someone is reading this who doesn't know me: please no spoilers of any sort for upcoming episodes, from plot to casting - thank you!)

I just got an email from tvshowsondvd.com, with this subject line:

TVShowsOnDVD.com - Release added for White Collar

To which I barely kept from shouting YAY out loud (bad idea, at work), and happily clicked in, to see:

"We've added a release for "White Collar" to the site. "Season 1"
hasn't officially been announced, but Amazon.com is currently taking
preorders for the set. The set will ship on the official release date,
but you can lock in your order now, and if the price of the set is
raised between now and the release date the current price will be
honored."

*shakes USA Network to make White Collar dvds fall out, dammit*