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Bean Day

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Here’s to another Happy Birthday for my favorite actor, and to another year of exciting performances.

It’s hard to believe so many years have passed since I first became a fan; an unlikely fan, at that! I think the general love in the LOTR fandom helped foster my craziness.

I can easily say that Sean Bean’s performance was the sole redeeming factor of Percy Jackson. I’m hoping that HBO’s Game of Thrones is as good all the critics are predicting. I could use another round of fangirl frenzy for Sean. :love:

Fandom, TV

The Doctor’s Beast

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We got precious few teaser images of the new Doctor Who Series 5 before it premiered last week. One of the scarier images was that of The Smilers. As it turns out, the Smilers aren’t nearly as dangerous as I thought they would be. Relief!

What is scary, however, is the crack. The crack in Amy’s wall is now on the platform of the UK. We saw Prisoner Zero slip through the crack with terrible consequences, and now that we’ve seen the crack again, we have to fear what it is and what’s behind it. Is it related to The Silence? Is the color of the crack significant in light of (PUN!) last week’s observation about the blue lens flare/mystery light with The Doctor and Amy?

However, this is the biggest question on my mind: Is The Doctor following the crack, or is the crack following The Doctor?

Fandom, TV

Stargate Universe: Home Alone

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There’s a line in Home Alone when Kevin ventures into his scary basement and conquers his fear of the boiler whereby he exclaims, “I’m not afraid anymore!”

I felt like this while watching the last two episodes of Stargate Universe. Well, mine was more like, “I don’t hate it anymore!” I’ve mentioned all the reasons I didn’t care for it in a previous post, but I would say the most prominent reasons were that it undeservedly bore the name Stargate and that the acting was crap. I don’t know if it’s the hiatus that gave me time to cool my dread, or if the acting actually did get better, but “Space” wasn’t too painful at all. I still grit my teeth at this being part of the SG family, but what can I do?

I’m still not able to care enough to actually learn the characters’ names. I’m still thinking of them like this: David Tennant +20yrs as the leader, NOT!Ford as the Black guy, Ni-Chloe (ANTM meets Sci-Fi…for real) as the weepy girl, David Blue (ugh, but less ugh than before) as the can’t even touch Rodney gu), That Guy That May As Well Have Been In Avatar Since I’m Never Going To See It Anyway as the young military guy, That Guy Who Thinks This Is BSG as the older military guy, That Blond Chick Who Is So NOT Carter (but I like her) as apparently a doctor or something, and Ming Na (shrug). Hey, isn’t Lou Diamond Phillips supposed to be in there somewhere?!?

I’m not going back to watch the rest of the first half of the season, but I’m going to keep a watchful eye on this series in hopes it will join my list of fandoms.

Fandom, TV

Save Our Seeker

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Whether the “Save Our Seeker” Campaign turns out to be successful or not, I can honestly say that it has changed the way I look at the internet. The fanvids that have been rolled out during the campaign have been inspiring and demonstrative of just how loyal fans of Legend of the Seeker can be.

I have three that stay on loop. Spiegelwelt’s epic Protectors of the Earth is a very busy vid, but don’t give up…the ending is breathtaking. Jane Doh’s Season 3 Campaign vid makes the best argument to potential new fans while giving current fans plenty of reminders why we love our show. Pat’s Acts of Courage vid wasn’t made as part of the “Save Our Seeker” campaign, but serves nicely as a primer/reminder as well. It’s so magnificent and epic that I have to remind myself it uses only S1 clips.

Go watch each of these exciting vids and let the vidders know you appreciate their efforts to Save Our Seeker!