TCG gave me a Star Trek Communicator keychain, amongst other goodies!

Zenkitty: a selection of rather spoilery clips from Season 2 to whet your appetite, should it be needful.

Torchwood is a Doctor Who spinoff, but Captain Jack has had a HUGE amount of traumatic backstory in between the two, and basically Rusty Davis is playing at doing his own Angel. Complete with moody shots of angst-ridden immortal on rooftops in flapping coat. And genuine, bona fide, fuck-this-subtext,-let's-make-it-totally-textual Spike/Angel. And lots more shagging than AtS. Torchwood IS authorised crackfic, basically. It starts off by making MPreg canon in a throwaway comment within the first five minutes, and just keeps right on getting crackier. The writing is variable, but there are some really cracking episodes to compensate for the really quite dodgy ones. And there's always Captain Jack. The rest of the ensemble aren't served as well as they might be by the Season 1 scripts (Toshiko in particular), but they all have their moments, and I think in Season 2 all of them really got to shine.

I think it's well worth a look - it's certainly very different from any US shows currently airing.

I can't remember the title, but that episode which takes the Torchwood team out into the boonies is very creepy. Much like a certain X-Files episode that makes everyone go "Euw."

Countrycide

eta: cuz, see, with the pun.

Happy Birthday sj!

Countrycide

Oh yes, that was seriously chilling.

Happy Anniversary, Bev!

Happy Birthday, sj!

It always frustrates me in TV shows when the good guy demands of the villain "Why? Why did you do it?" It's like the good guy has completely blanked on the possibility that some people are just mean shits who like hurting people. Sure, there may be some deep-seated psychological underpinnings and Mommy/Daddy didn't love them enough, but sometimes Mommy/Daddy told Little Darling that they were God's Own Special Snowflake and the rules didn't apply, so go forth and have fun.

(This rant brought to you by the end of Countrycide, where one of the heros is totally thrown by the casual unrepetence of the bad guys. But then, I rarely buy the Big Apology criminals give after they're caught. They're not sorry they did the crime, they're sorry they have to pay for it. If I was on a jury I think I'd have more respect for the defendant who said, "Yeah, I knew it was illegal, but I figured I'd get away with it, and I did my best not to hurt anybody. Sorry, dude, for the broken nose, by the way."

I recommend watching Torchwood, if you are interested in seeing more of the Whoverse.

We got dabs flounder from our CSF today, and they are pretty small- most of the recipes I've seen for cooking them involve larger fillets. Tom is currently filleting them- 2 of them were bursting with roe, which we don't quite know what to do with. So I am trying to figure out how to cook small thin pieces of fish that will permit the actual flavor of the fish to come through, as opposed to putting it into a fishcake or something. Hmm. Any ideas?

The Boy is making french toast from pecan-raisin bread that we got at the farmers' market Wednesday. It smells really good.