Meandering Musings

I posted this in Sue's journal thinking it was yours, but I'll post it here, too.

I watched the show, but stopped when they moved it from Thursday night. But I think it's back in its old time slot, but even if it isn't...BONCE! BONCE! BONCE!!!!!! I'm watching it, baby! *g*

Hold onto your hats though for the OMG HE'S RUININ' M'SHOW!!!! wails. ;P

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paratti.livejournal.com

Bring 'em on:)

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Hee! We'll smack them bitches down. :)

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nutmeg3.livejournal.com

I'm actually pretty excited about this. I don't watch the show regularly, but I enjoy it when I do see it.

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cindergal.livejournal.com

Wow. A real hit show.

I didn't watch a lot of last season (time slot issues, I think), but I'll have to start watching again. There's a lot of pretty on that show already.

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rahirah

Not the kind of show I watch, usually, but career-wise, this sounds great.

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Not much of a procedural gal, myself, which is why I'm pleased that if JM is going to be on a procedural, it's one I'll actually watch. Without a Trace is probably the only procedural I've watched with anything approaching consistency since the early days of Law and Order.

WoT does a fairly decent job of combining character arcs with the mystery of the week and so has more of a personal life for characters than Law and Order. (Off hand, I remember the drug addiction arc of one of the main characters as it played for at least a season. I remember the child custodial battles of the lead male character and his first wife, then his relationship with an federal attorney who ended up taken by a serial killer, etc. And another FBI agent whose brother had problems with drug dealers -- and said brother killed himself in the episode) Though it is true that, almost inevitably, it seems that every FBI agent on the show is working out some personal issue through being in the FBI. Anyway, it isn't a strictly clinical show nor is it a soap opera of a show like say "Grey's Anatomy". It tends to relate the cases to the agents involved (and the agents involved in the cases seems to rotate) It also mixes up whether the person who is missing is abducted, whether the person simply ran away from their lives, whether they were murdered, etc. so it's not always the exact same thing every week.

At any rate, it's a bazillion light-years ahead of "The Mountain," which was just a load of unwatchable crap.

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Which puts it well ahead of nearly all of JM's other guest spots. (Though I am looking forward to Torchwood.)

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I don't know, I was definitely one of the "oh noes *headdesk* *headdesk*" people over Torchwood, but this is rather a different matter. Without a Trace is one of my favorite shows as well, and this is, while being a promising and lucrative step for James Marsters himself, not something that should provide a basic conflict between one long-established fandom versus another long-established fandom.

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Hell, I just want to read the Det. Mars/Bones crossover fic.

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Hahahaha, people need to get on the ball! This is no time to be outdone by the Harry Potter fan community when it comes to pre-emptive slash.

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Hahaha! Yeah, who needs to know his character. ;D

Seriously, I wonder how long it'll take before we do see Mars/Seely slash. LOL

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Isn't Torchwood just one year old? (And are they currently freaking out over Martha?)

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Heh. So I'm not the only one who's brain immediately went there. :)

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More that Torchwood is part of Doctor Who fandom which has been around just about longer than anything tv-based. And oh yes, it's always full of wank.

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Seriously. First thought. LOL

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I'm afraid that I still don't get it. Not the wanking over Martha and not the wanking over JM. Jack's a fairly recent development and so is Torchwood. And it's still just a guestspot ~~and one that looks potentially entertaining~~.

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nutmeg3.livejournal.com

I don't get BBC America, so no Torchwood for me. Otoh, I think Dr. Who is cheesy in an off-putting way, so I'm not sure I really care about not getting Torchwood.

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Well, it's basically the collision of one fandom with another that makes people testy in this case. The Doctor Who universe fans get a little fed up with the people who disparage the show and simultaneously wonder who "Spike" gets to snog. The JM fans get upset with the accusations that somehow a single one-off character will ruin the entire show.

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wisemack.livejournal.com

ROFL! Oh, you are SO right! (Remember the very first ep of the OC, when we were all in chat and RQ and BX had "plotted" their first Seth/Ryan slashfic before the end credits had even run?)

I've gotten so used to that sort of response that while watching a marathon of old "Anne of Green Gables" episodes on Louisiana public tv this past weekend, I actually found myself wondering if there's any Anne/Diana femslash out there. Eeeep! And then had to slap myself silly for having such a revolting idea!

*with profound apologies to LMM*

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