Huzzah for DVRs!
Apr. 23rd, 2007 10:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heidiMy DVR let me know that SCIFI has started showing Dark Angel on Wednesdays at midnight, and will be doing another DA marathon this coming Friday starting at 9:30 AM, and that this coming Sunday, ABCFamily will be doing a Gilmore Girls marathon of Jess-centric episodes, including Milo's first appearance on the show (but they're not showing Keg Max with the Jared-and-Milo-fight-scene, alas).
Why they didn't do this while Heroes and Supernatural were on hiatus, I'll never know.
As regards watching other things, no, I haven't seen the trailer for OotP yet. I avoided trailers and previews before the first film, and again before PoA - for the first, I didn't want anything to take away from the magic of seeing the whole film at once, which was probably a bad idea because I found many, many things annoying, especially the ninety seconds of Hedwig flying, which could have been cut to 20 or so seconds, thereby leaving a lot of time for "Nitwit, blubber, oddment, tweak!" as well as "in the desert" and "Snape hated your father but your dad saved his life so there's a major guilt trip issue there," which would've changed the *entire* film around for me, character- and plot-wise.
I don't really want to see this trailer because I've heard that the scene with Sirius and the veil is in it, and I want to see it in the whole emotional context. I was devestated when I finished OotP because of the whole Sirius thing and it took reading Noctune Alley that weekend before I could think of AUs where it never happened, and then![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
copperbadge started Stealing Harry and I was able to reread the books and deal with canon and fanon again. But it was a hard and desperate thing.
I'm bringing tissues when I see OotP, and I know I'm going to use them. But I don't want to see that bit beforehand...
Why they didn't do this while Heroes and Supernatural were on hiatus, I'll never know.
As regards watching other things, no, I haven't seen the trailer for OotP yet. I avoided trailers and previews before the first film, and again before PoA - for the first, I didn't want anything to take away from the magic of seeing the whole film at once, which was probably a bad idea because I found many, many things annoying, especially the ninety seconds of Hedwig flying, which could have been cut to 20 or so seconds, thereby leaving a lot of time for "Nitwit, blubber, oddment, tweak!" as well as "in the desert" and "Snape hated your father but your dad saved his life so there's a major guilt trip issue there," which would've changed the *entire* film around for me, character- and plot-wise.
I don't really want to see this trailer because I've heard that the scene with Sirius and the veil is in it, and I want to see it in the whole emotional context. I was devestated when I finished OotP because of the whole Sirius thing and it took reading Noctune Alley that weekend before I could think of AUs where it never happened, and then
copperbadge started Stealing Harry and I was able to reread the books and deal with canon and fanon again. But it was a hard and desperate thing. I'm bringing tissues when I see OotP, and I know I'm going to use them. But I don't want to see that bit beforehand...
Re: roles we watch because we're fans
Date: 2007-04-24 05:22 am (UTC)Anyway, I rented just the DA DVDs with Jensen Ackles on them and burned copies. I ended up fast-forwarding through the series, except the Jensen scenes. Guh, not really a good series. :-\ However, the episode commentaries cracked me up because some of the crew were 'fangirls' of Jensen... 'Jensen was perfect, Jensen didn't need a hand double when he played piano because he was just that good at picking up the ability in a short time, Jensen can come by naked to my place', etc. {chuckle} Inherently, fangirls. ...? I think I already said all this before. :-\ My memory is getting bad in my old age.
Speck out the S2 gag reel for Dark Angel. Knowing fandom and the internet, it's probably uploaded on YouTube.
Speaking of fandom, as a slasher, it's been... interesting checking out some DA fics. I admit, when I saw the pairing of Alec/Joshua, I read it out of a WTF curiosity (one reader brought up 'Beauty and the Beast') but Joe Lawson's Gettin' Busy *worked* as an NC-17 fic and the characterization felt... right. I can be critical but this writer pulled the pairing off, even if I did crack up when I read Joshua had a self-lubing cock. {chuckle} This fic touched on, well, the touching scene between Alec and Annie that I found fascinating in its intimacy.
Ben or Alec, for as lethal as their characters can be, sometimes, they show a vulnerable side that's fascinating in its juxtaposition. Dark Angel's Alec makes for an interesting precursor to Dean in Supernatural. Or even the parallels of 'enhanced' beings as pawns in a war, which is an element in both series. As an SPN fan, it was interesting watching DA, but yeah, I'll stick with the assessment the series wasn't that good. :-\ But I am glad to see Jensen back in that 'Smart Alec' role as Dean in a series with better caliber, in addition to experience honing his acting.
Dina