"Take your tie off, Frank. You make me sweat just to look at you. Take the tie off." Yeah, Vonnie, I understand that, but I just brought it up to make the point to the non-cop-show inclined amongst us (because good ones are among my passions) that you don't see much violence, just aftereffects. You usually don't see the murder just the...well, stiff.

• in happy H:LOTS place*

Topic? Huh. Well, since he's already been in every other 'verse...just imagine: Munch. Encounters vampire. Three hours later, vamp tracks down Giles to discuss Lee Harvey Oswald and alien invasion theories.

And now I've got to stop thinking on this before I get bitten by the worst crossover bunny ever.

the worst crossover bunny ever

You do know erika's been doing wonderful Buffy/H:LotS, right?

I made the choice of not taping any Angel on TNT next week so I can make sure I get the Homicide stuff on Court TV Sunday.

Yeah, Odalisque, that's my hey. Hey! I think they fit together admirably. But you wouldn't think so on the surface, it's true.Right now the Fic that Ate My Life is an AU of "Band Candy" starring the "Homicide" squad, about half the Scoobies, and neocon eye candy Ann Coulter.And please do it! I'm tired of looking like a "lone nut" on shrift's site. But you've got to be worse than me. Cause I can't get through the day unless somebody is, right?

One of the most frickin' brilliant drama series ever.

In Israel they showed most of the show's run on Saturdays (which means, no TV for me) and only a few episodes before the end they switched it to another day. I was hooked immediately, and it was such a 'mock my pain' falling-in-tv-love, because not only there were too few episodes left, they never showed the ending film, either. And still, despite it all, it's one of my most favorite shows ever.

[Edit: how typical of me - I can only post here when it's not on-topic]

Watching Chosen now on FX and I must say even being the 7th time I have watched it, I still get all allergetic when I watch it. No matter how many problems people had with S7(hell even I had a few) I still watch in amazement and feel that the last 29 minutes or so(starting with the "Welcome to Sunnydale High") is the best television and or movie ever created. Also say what you want about all the speeches, the "Here's where you make a choice" cut in before the battle was great. It probably would have had an even better emotional impact if it wasn't for the influx of speeches in the show during S7.

I miss my show sooo much and even now it hasn't hit that hard that it is gone for good. The empty hole that it's abscence has left will never be filled by another television show. Nothing will ever be this good, and to me that is an understatement. I'd like to hope that someday, sometime, and somehow that some show will fill the void, but I know nothing ever will. And somehow, it is probably better that way.

Oh how I miss my show, too. I miss it so much.

I started re-watching season 2 the other night. I didn't come to the series until season 3, in real time (although I've seen all 144, over and over again, now). I was thinking during WSWB, what a neat, dark, interesting 'verse they created, and how much it showed me, and how much I could have used a Buffy-ish TV character, during my teens. They did well by me in my 30s, as it is.

Believe me that having Buffy as a teen was one great deal. Watching the show from the beginning and having characters that were portrayed as people my age was some kind of bonus as well. I saw how the characters had some of the same problems and life events happening to them at the same time as me. Tuning in to the show every week was such a wonderful escape from the real world, while still being able to relate with the problems they had in between fighting evil.

Also after finishing Chosen today I just realized that in a show fueled by great dialogue, puns, humor, play on words, and altogether new invented words was able to end with the final line of dialogue of complete silence and facial expression. I know silence isn't a line of dialogue, but it was so powerful that no spoken word could have came.

Mmm, Homicide. I knew we'd draw Vonnie out of the woodwork with our murder police chitchat. The especially fun part is that many of the crimes that get committed are vaguely related (not ripped from the headlines) to real crimes of Baltimore history. Like the bowling ball murder.

the one with Russert and Bayliss on the balcony, with Tim loopy on painkillers and waving the gun toward the darkness of the harbor, talking about how killing is easy, a piece of cake.

That was when I finally wrapped my brain around his character. Up till then he'd sort of been a mystery, and I liked how they took one irrelevant detail -- he'd been a sniper on the Mayor's security detail before joining Homicide -- and made it say a lot about who he was as a person.

Can't wait till the DVDs get up to Kellerman. You want arc, the seasons of Kellerman's rise and fall are a portrait of self-involved self-destruction. It's like watching Macbeth in miniature, and you can see the seeds of it within a week of his being introduced.