Stay Frosty
Finally catching up to my 'To watch' list:
Generation Kill:
This is another show straight from the LJ f-list, I've read many good things about this miniseries and I looked forward to watching it especially when I learned Generation Kill was produced by the same people responsible for The Wire.
Generation Kill follows Marine Recon 1 in the first few weeks/months into the Iraq invasion. I don't have an opinion of the show yet but the first thing I noted was that GK felt familiar, a group of raucous boys led by an upstanding, cool leader. It reminds me an awful like Lt. Cedric Daniels and his detail. Except these boys are a lot more trigger happy (particularly Trombey) but dealing with the same incompetent leadership that Daniels and McNulty dealt with.
I can see why a lot of people were into Brad (and the actor) because holy but I think my favorite is shaping up to be 1st Lt. Nate Fink. The look on his face every time his superiors does something incomprehensibly stupid makes me want to hug him. He reminds me of Richard Winters, except a lot younger so the hits get him a lot harder than it did Winters.
Person amuses me maybe its a holdover from my amusement of Ransone's The Wire character, Ziggy Sbotka. It doesn't help that Person and Ziggy share the same sunglasses.
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Kitchen Confidential
This show premiered the same year as How I Met Your Mother but where HIMYM thrived KC was cut down. I didn't give KC the time of day then despite having Bradley Cooper and Nicholas Brendon but then again I'm glad I only discovered the show now, after time and distance because I'd accept the cancelation easily.
It's a fun show and a bonus, I didn't know Owain Yeoman's here! I didn't even know he was really British 'til this show! (BTW, Yeoman was also in GK!)
Also, it has a lot of food, who wouldn't love that?
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Merlin Season 2
I have a confession, I didn't watch this season all the way through... I'm not that enthusiastic of the show and I admit I only watch for Gwen and the Gwen and Arthur so I cheated and only watched those moments.
I think I'd be more interested in this show if it was the story of Gwen becoming Guinevere, the Queen of Camelot. It's interesting to me how in this world, Gwen doesn't even have the advantage of nobility. Here, we see Gwen really cares for the people of Camelot because she is one of them, she sees how much Uther's laws are affecting the people and I love that Gwen constantly challenges Arthur to be a better man and more, that Arthur is rising up to the challenge. We see that if he is confronted with the truth he does listen, you just have to slap the truth into him.
Fic Rec
Vita Guineveris by![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
selenak
Summary: Five times Gwen had an epiphany. Apprenticeship of a Queen.
Is there any surprise I rec'd this? I love it because its gen and it's about Gwen coming into her own and really, that's all I really want.
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Generation Kill:
This is another show straight from the LJ f-list, I've read many good things about this miniseries and I looked forward to watching it especially when I learned Generation Kill was produced by the same people responsible for The Wire.
Generation Kill follows Marine Recon 1 in the first few weeks/months into the Iraq invasion. I don't have an opinion of the show yet but the first thing I noted was that GK felt familiar, a group of raucous boys led by an upstanding, cool leader. It reminds me an awful like Lt. Cedric Daniels and his detail. Except these boys are a lot more trigger happy (particularly Trombey) but dealing with the same incompetent leadership that Daniels and McNulty dealt with.
I can see why a lot of people were into Brad (and the actor) because holy but I think my favorite is shaping up to be 1st Lt. Nate Fink. The look on his face every time his superiors does something incomprehensibly stupid makes me want to hug him. He reminds me of Richard Winters, except a lot younger so the hits get him a lot harder than it did Winters.
Person amuses me maybe its a holdover from my amusement of Ransone's The Wire character, Ziggy Sbotka. It doesn't help that Person and Ziggy share the same sunglasses.
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Kitchen Confidential
This show premiered the same year as How I Met Your Mother but where HIMYM thrived KC was cut down. I didn't give KC the time of day then despite having Bradley Cooper and Nicholas Brendon but then again I'm glad I only discovered the show now, after time and distance because I'd accept the cancelation easily.
It's a fun show and a bonus, I didn't know Owain Yeoman's here! I didn't even know he was really British 'til this show! (BTW, Yeoman was also in GK!)
Also, it has a lot of food, who wouldn't love that?
--
Merlin Season 2
I have a confession, I didn't watch this season all the way through... I'm not that enthusiastic of the show and I admit I only watch for Gwen and the Gwen and Arthur so I cheated and only watched those moments.
I think I'd be more interested in this show if it was the story of Gwen becoming Guinevere, the Queen of Camelot. It's interesting to me how in this world, Gwen doesn't even have the advantage of nobility. Here, we see Gwen really cares for the people of Camelot because she is one of them, she sees how much Uther's laws are affecting the people and I love that Gwen constantly challenges Arthur to be a better man and more, that Arthur is rising up to the challenge. We see that if he is confronted with the truth he does listen, you just have to slap the truth into him.
Fic Rec
Vita Guineveris by
selenakSummary: Five times Gwen had an epiphany. Apprenticeship of a Queen.
Is there any surprise I rec'd this? I love it because its gen and it's about Gwen coming into her own and really, that's all I really want.
--
Fans are auctioning of their fanworks, the proceeds will be used to help Haiti. If you're interested pelase visit
help_haiti. If you're interested to go direct, they also have a collection of links where to donate.