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Parks and Recreation ( spoilers through 3.14 'Road Trip' )

Doctor Who ( spoilers for 6.04 )

The Killing ( spoilers for day 8 )

And that's all the TV I watched. Except for my rewatch of SCC episode 2.05
I'll write a recap of it tomorrow night unless the person signed up for the recap posts by then.

I watched episode six of The Killing. ( cut text is filled with dread )


The Sarah Connor Chronicles--recap of episode 2.03 is here. Thank goodness it's not officially my turn again for a long time. Recapping while in a down mood: not recommended, especially for such a heartbreaking episode. Hopefully I was coherent, if not necessarily insightful.

Day four of The Killing. ( Deals with the Devil )

Books: I started three books that I didn't finish: Blood Oranges, by Drusilla Campbell, My Most Excellent Year, by Steve Kluger and We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates. The first two just didn't click for me; the characters didn't draw me in. As for Oates' novel, well, ( spoilers for the basic premise (trigger warning: non-explicit mention of rape) )

So then I read two fluffy romance novels by Susan Elizabeth somebody (Johnson? Found one of the books, it was Phillips!) that had fairly likeable and distinct characters and I rather enjoyed them both.


I finished watching Wall-E. ( I won't hold a grudge, but... )

Moving on... Thanks to nicole_anell's recommendation, I ended up watching the two hour introduction of AMC's The Killing. I was planning to listen to a nicely predictable murder mystery while paying bills. Instead I ended up watching with rapt interest, postponing the bill-paying for another night.

I do have one niggling problem with it. ( cut so you can skip this if you want just the 'Yay!' stuff )

( A brief bit of YAY! stuff about 'The Killing', barely spoilery )

I got distracted from my plan to grab my season two Fringe DVDs and ended up watching the first episode of Slings & Arrows on Netflix. My opinion so far: if I loved the theatre, I'd probably enjoy it a lot more. As it is, I'm a casual fan of the theatre and have little interest in what goes on backstage unless there are characters I love who are affected by it. At some point I may watch the second episode, just to give it fair trial.


Last: Battlestar Galactica stories! We're still posting stories at bsg_remix and this remix of one of my comment fics has some keen perceptions about Kara as seen through Jean Barolay's eyes.

Lots of fantastic remix stories there right now! Yay, remix!

Not a remix, but there's a compelling ongoing fic, Children of Gods, a BSG/Hunger Games mash-up. BSG characters, AU background and timeline, some of the ideas from the Hunger Games... y'all know how picky I am about teenage Kara Thrace in fic. I find this version of her plausible and interesting, and the differences in her background feel organic, especially to this story. Here's the prologue. You can use the 'next entry' arrow to advance, if there's no link to the next chapter. Seven chapters up so far, a new one every week.

( a bit more about 'Children of Gods,' not particularly spoilery )

Poor LJ is still having problems. Mirror of this entry here on DW.