Tuesday afternoon declarations

[bironic]

1. I don't care what anyone says; Luke Skywalker was hot.

2. Three words for you: multifandom kink_bingo.

3. Saw House. Don't know what to say about it yet. May rewatch some or all of the season first.

4. At a lunch meeting in the Bronx today -- hooray for field trips -- I tried a Snapple lemonade with my hot corned beef sandwich* and discovered that the aftertaste is like the smell in a public restroom. It is entirely possible that Snapple uses the same chemicals found in commercial toilet cleansers.

* because if you're going to be in NYC, you may as well do it right

5. This smart blog article about female sci fi fans links to a NYT article that provides yet more stupidity on the persistent belief that women don't like science fiction and the actions networks have taken to de-emphasize the traditional sci fi aspects of their shows (or ads for their shows) and play up romance and fantasy elements to attract a greater female viewership when they don't seem to realize they already have a substantial female viewership and don't understand what much of that viewership wants.

Look at the Sci Fi Channel's faulty logic, quoted in the Times:

"There were a lot of misperceptions that Sci Fi was for men, that it was for young men and that it was for geeky young men," said Bonnie Hammer, the president of NBC Universal Cable Entertainment, which oversees Sci Fi. "We had to broaden the channel to change the misconceptions of the genre."

Ugh. (Found via this brief poll about female sci fi fans linked at fanthropology.)

6. It's raining. It makes me want to start drafting one of the Bingo stories (TENTACLES!) instead of doing my work.

Comments

[bironic.livejournal.com]

1. Wrong, wrong, wrong. :D

5. The argument came from the Times, or people quoted in the Times, anyway. The blog post refuted it all quite well. The weird thing -- well, one of the weird things -- is that network execs still aren't getting it when female fans are more visible and vocal than ever.

[daasgrrl.livejournal.com]

You always did like the boyish ones. Now Han was an actual *guy*. Not that I've... actually managed to stay awake through Star Wars, but he was nice in Return of the Jedi XD

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Not to turn it into a Luke vs. Han thing, but Han was always a little too smarmy for me. Which I suppose is ironic, or something, since Sheppard on SGA is very like him. And you're all too right on your first point there. Even if it's got me thinking up counterexamples. Like... Giles, and McCoy, and... um, Sheppard?

In other Trek news: http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/news/celebrity/ny-ettake215695940may21,0,4149630.story?track=rss

[daasgrrl.livejournal.com]

Awww, that's lovely news. And do you like Sheppard now, because as I recall you are/were a McKay person? Hee, to be honest, I don't really care that much for Luke OR Han, or indeed, Star Wars as a general rule. Although I did love all the angst of the Luke vs Darth fight scene. Just been watching Charlie X - oh, so much love, even if shirtless!Kirk is a trifle scary XD

BTW, have you seen the brilliant Luke fanvid to 'Teenage Dirtbag'? I'm afraid I can't provide a link even if you haven't, but I've emailed the vidder asking for one, because now I want to see it again...

[bironic.livejournal.com]

What are you still doing up?

My like of Star Wars doesn't compare at all to my lifelong love of Trek. *hugs it happily* Aw, "Charlie X" is one of the episodes I can remember watching for the first time when I was little. Poor misbehaving, mischievous, obnoxious kid, Charlie was. And Kirk wouldn't be Kirk without at least a bloody lip and torn shirt. :D

Have not seen that fanvid or in fact any Star Wars fanvids, except the ones up on AtomFilms.com, which are more new compositions than cut-ups of original footage. Anyway. That is not to say that I would be averse to seeing what you've mentioned, with a song title like that.

[daasgrrl.livejournal.com]

I'm sometimes up late-ish, but not usually on the net because my brain is fried. But I had coffee to go with the Trek. That, and I think you guys had some daylight savings change recently as I've been getting my programs an hour earlier, which is all very nice *g*.

I wasn't actually looking forward to Charlie X, but was all 'hey, this is better than I remembered!', LOL. No news on the vid yet - I haven't seen many SW vids, only that one and the Brokeback thing with C3PO/R2D2 which is rather cute. Also been meaning to say I watched the SG:A credits in the style of House thing. LOL, cute!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Mm, fried brains with coffee.

Our daylight savings was ... March? Yeah, when I was in Atlanta, so if this thing happened more recently, I'm not sure what it was. Maybe UK's time shift?

the Brokeback thing with C3PO/R2D2

O RLY? Robot/robot: the love that... cannot speak its name.

Your posts reawakened my desire to watch TOS, you realize, and now that I'm not at my friend's place with all the DVDs, I'm stuck without anything but ancient VHS tapes that barely play, the tracking's so bad. WOE. Maybe I can convince our library to add them to their collection. Right now they only have the animated series, wtf.

[daasgrrl.livejournal.com]

Hee, I did mean the US... but it probably took me a while to notice XD

Awww, but YES WATCH MORE TOS NOW LOL. I've only watched a few eps of the animated series; not quite the same, but still enjoyable in its own way...