As evidenced by the multitudes of television feelings I routinely write about on this blog, I watch a lot of television. As evidenced by the fact that my only set weekly social activity is television night with a friend, where we juggle between two and four television programs at a time and vary our lineup in accordance with what is currently airing, I watch a lot of television. I am unashamed of this fact, because to me watching a lot of television, provided it’s good television, is just like watching a lot of (good) movies or something. I’ve mentioned before that I’m one of those (rare in my experience) English majors who believes you can get things of literary merit on a screen if you know where to look, possibly.
That said, I regularly get told I need to finish watching things, and my response is always “I KNOW BUT LEAVE ME ALONE LET ME FINISH [the five shows I’m currently working through at any given time] AND THEN MAYBE I’LL HAVE TIME.” The capslocking, while silly, is very necessary to illustrate the anxiety in my voice whenever I have this conversation.
So, both to write out a to-do list for myself and to make a convenient list I can refer to when informing people what I really do swear I’m going to get around to finishing, I present the following. There will be a companion list of things I am regularly told to watch, but never have, but that’s another night.
6. Angel
I fully realize that I lose Whedon street cred for not being done with Angel yet, but I was a late entry to Buffy and the friend(s) that I borrowed it from all lacked Angel. Given the sporadic nature of my time-having, renting it would have been impractical, so it was thank goodness when it showed up on Netflix Instant. I’m through season two, with the intention to do more over winter break when I’m not reading A Storm of Swords.
5. Parks and Recreation
And this is what I’ll be doing over winter break when I need a reprieve from monsters and/or heartbreak. Also thanks to Netflix Instant, I’m somewhere in season three, I believe.
4. Community
I’m through season one, and I do really enjoy it (and not just for Alison Brie, though she’s sort of my favorite probably). It, like the two listed above, is a show I watch by myself and not with others, so since I’m only in the “watching television alone” mood sometimes (and since I only have time for watching television alone sometimes) it’s taking longer than it otherwise would, possibly.
3. Veronica Mars
I borrowed season one of this ages ago from a high school friend, watched it, enjoyed it, then didn’t see that friend again (due to high school ending) and never got around to watching the rest of it. Which I know I should, because it was enjoyable and I did like it.
2. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
I borrowed season one of this ages ago from the friend who I do weekly television with, watched it, enjoyed it, and just keep forgetting to ask about season two because I am busy with life and we are busy with twenty other television programs. Also, knowing that season two is more than twice as long as easy-to-breeze-through season one is daunting in its way.
1. Castle
I actually own the first two seasons of this, and we occasionally throw an episode in on weekly television night when there’s nothing else to do, but the problem is that there’s always something else to do, so we’re still stuck in season two.
This is a list of things I’ve alluded to before, but compiling it in one place calms my nerves.
–your fangirl heroine.
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Sarcastic Saturday :: I can make crackfiction out of anything.
15 OctUsually, the ones I get are just the same grammatically incorrect strings of ! and semi-related words, followed by links and things. But sometimes, there’s just the ones that are strings of completely unrelated words in a chunk, and those are my favorite. Case in point:
This is where I attempt to decipher this. It could be a very important code that kfz versicherung allianz24 erfahrung just has to share, right?
“Order Seat,” like on a train or airplane, perhaps. “Return account to indicate,” as in when you return to an account it will indicate something? Your financial statement will show… that you’ve gotten plane tickets! “Module separate,” nope, it’s definitely a train, module as in compartment. “Further,” it’s in the back of the train. “Friend environment,” it’s either a green train or one with very good service. “Report music,” I’m thinking it must have good service, and entertainment to boot. “Direct lift,” it’s going to take you straight to where you need it to, no stops or transfers. “Seek certain death,” well, that’s ominous. Unless you’ve intended to die, and that’s sad. But maybe you’re researching for a fictional book about train… murders. Yeah. Rick Castle’s going on a researchy train ride.
“Version true meal,” there are different meals that can be ordered on the train, but only one of them’s real. The rest are all processed and stuff. (It could be a green train that has good service to boot!) “Obvious clear defense,” the train has very good security. That, or Castle is traveling with some of his cop buddies, and they’re not being subtle about their cop-ness. “Odd memory,” Castle is flashing back to a childhood train trip with his mother, and anything with his mother is odd. “Hurt individual,” he’s… thinking about Beckett? “Normal place,” yes. He’s thinking about Beckett. They’re totally in a normal place. (This is the point where I have to point out that I’m only through the first season.) Except for not, but hey. “Authority far,” they’re traveling farther and farther away from New York where the police department is. “Responsible warn serious,” but something bad is going to happen on the train and they have to tell everyone! “Master design,” it’s a very intricate plan, but they’re going to foil it.
“Grant late tradition,” one of the financial grants that keeps the train pretty has been in place forever, but it hasn’t been paid in a while, so the train people are cranky and… going to seek revenge! “Convention victim,” they’re going on a train ride to a convention of… of writerpeople! So Castle has a purpose to journeying other than research! And they’re going to talk about someone he killed off in his last book. “Recommend odd artist,” well, Castle’s a weirdo, as far as Beckett’s concerned, but he’s a pulp artist of a kind, and if you like that sort of thing, he’s worth reading. “Formal plate,” there’s a fancy dinner on the train, and everyone’s got to dress up and be on good manners. “Focus detail aspect,” and the train people are going to enact their revenge plan, but Castle knows about train parties, so he sees some detail that tips him off to the sketchiness! “Considerable facility,” it’s a very impressively large train. “Raise slip exist,” someone’s trying to sneak out the window when the cops chase them. So they don’t die.
“Detailed combine bright,” there’s a very intricate farming equipment thing traveling by the train when dude opens the window, and its lights are on. “Neck come usual,” dude jumps off the train, and normally he’d have broken his neck at the angle he fell, but he didn’t. “Score culture where image judge paint,” if the train hadn’t been fancy and cultured, the clue wouldn’t have been apparent, and Castle couldn’t have judged that he was the source of the weird, because there was a failing in a painting on the plates. “Agreement legal life,” the dude has to agree to a plea bargain so he doesn’t spend his life in jail. “Move estimate traffic,” now that the train’s stopped, they have to hurry to get to the convention. “Official business,” because it’s very serious business. “Bind employment plan winner,” Castle’s deal with the police has again paid off and everyone wins at life.
“Value plate,” they stop at a roadside diner for breakfast, and it’s cheap and greasy, but it’s fun. “Actually considerable objective,” Beckett and the others have to admit that this hasn’t been a total waste of time. “Tell kid sleep,” Castle calls Alexis and she’s been up all night studying and he has to force her to get some rest so she doesn’t wear herself out. “Choice conclusion,” this is a good ending to the story. “Conversation little forward come,” Castle and Beckett have a short conversation wherein he invites her to the fancy dinner at the writerpeople convention and wishes he could be more forward about it because he secretly loves her.
Yeah, that’s a nonsensical episode of Castle, but. It’s a narrative. That I pulled out of a spam comment. What even.
–your fangirl heroine.
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