A Lightkeeper's Log

Which has got to be fun in the winter.

Watching Highlander in a more coherent fashion (rather than just the Joe and Amanda episodes), and am struck by a) the number of random rock stars who guest star (including Joan Jett as an Immortal), b) the number of '90s Very Special Episodes is reaching eye-stabbingly painful, c) they filmed both a sex scene and a sword fight scene in front of a staffed lighthouse, and wouldn't the light keepers have noticed? and d) how completely pointless Tessa's death was. I know the actress quit, but that was the best they could do in terms of writing her out? Really?

Having listened through the BBC The Lord of the Rings audio play again, and rewatched key bits of the films (which are the bits with Boromir and Éowyn, and some of the dramtic scenery things), I thence proceeded on a fic hunt. I was cheered to find a long Boromir lives fic that I had not previously read. Unfortunately, the premise upon which it was based, and a few key bits of motivation struck me as so profoundly silly that whenever I came across them (and they were key to the story, so this came up every few chapters) I felt compelled to pause in my reading and say to myself, my, that is very silly. Thus The Captain and the King remains the only non-silly Boromir lives fic I have found to date.

However, I did find a very amusing fic featuring Boromir lost in the woods, the Sons of Elrond Trying to Be Helpful, a rather harried Arwen, and Aragorn going along as best he can. And a nice bit of meta about Denethor.

Okay, so on watching the three parter spanning seasons five and six, I'm left feeling somewhat dissatisfied. ( Spoilers for 15-year-old TV )

I need icons. I'm trying to choose just a few instead of all of them.

I have found the one thing that keeps me from reading a lot of Highlander fic, more than my general lack of interest in Methos, is an absolute 100% zero tolerance policy towards Cassandra bashing. There is no single thing that will make me hit the "Close Tab" X faster than playing six rounds of Let's Blame the Rape Victim, and topping it off with making her a spiteful villain who wants to kill All the (white, male) Heroes. I'm really hoping that she's a sign that fandom in general has improved since the '90s. I'm really a lot hoping that that shit wouldn't stand in a current fandom. I don't know, maybe there was protests and push back at the time. I don't have any of the discussions, just the stories.

I want to write a story about Connor and Joe going on a road trip to find Duncan, who has been snatched and buried alive in an attempt to cheat at the Game. Or about a reaper Immortal who only kills the Immortals who died for the first time as babies or small children, who everyone is kind of horrified by, but also leaves alone because he or she is seen as a needed part of the food chain. Don't actually have a plot for that one.

I seem to have run out of archives, even the Pit of Voles.

Someone please tell me why I'm looking at the DVD set for all six seasons plus Raven, the Watcher CD, and some CD of Methos singing that I don't really want, and thinking That's not that expensive.


Back in fandoms that I'm actually supposed to be in, I'm plugging away at my cap_ironman gift fic, though it seems to have kind of wandered into fluffy make outs with no purpose in so far as the plot goes. Oh well, Christmas fic can do that, I guess.

I miss getting comics, not that I've read all the comics I did get last time. I'm still working my way though The Losers omnibus. Fantastic art, and the story telling is really dynamic. I knew that they'd changed Aisha's back story, but not that they'd racelifted Roque.

Have I mentioned how much New Avengers #6 pisses me off? I might just have to unforgive fucking Bendis. He had better bloody fix this.

Who else here loved Thunderbolts #150?


In another fandom completely if you've ever watched or even thought about watching Slings and Arrows, go check out this comic!

I may have just signed up for intoabar, because I'm a sucker for that kind of thing.

Also, I wrote another ficlet for fic_promptly. For which I blame valtyr.

Same Old New Game (A-Team [2010]/Highlander, B.A. Baracus & Hannibal Smith)
Prompt: A-Team, BA, old soldiers never die

There is something very... I don't know... compelling about Kevin Sorbo. I can't for the life of me figure out what it is. He's handsome enough, but not remarkably so. He plays his role well, but is not God's gift to acting. But watching him, one want to believe in his character, even when he's being totally silly - which is most of the time, really. The writers give him all these speeches and scenes which would normally have me rolling my eyes and dragging the tracker to the next bit, but somehow he has enough charm to carry it. cruisedirector calls it "to Shatner," but I never had the same faith in Kirk. Same idea, I guess. I find it most peculiar.

There's also something hugely admirable about the "We know this is completely idiotic, but hey we're doing it anyway so just go with it" attitude of the writers: the double casting as identical long lost second cousins; the entire character of Salmoneus, to say nothing of Falafel. Though this backfires on occasion. Some episodes are so awful that I wanted to stab my eyes out. For those re-watching, avoid "Ares" and "All that Glitters."

On the other hand, some - well, most really - have really remarkably cheesy plots but are awesome nonetheless. Like that one where Hercules journeys to Hades and runs into his wife and kids in the Fields of Elysian, and spends like most of the show just hugging everyone and crying: to me that is great television. Yeah, okay, I've probably got issues.

I'll admit that RPS normally creeps me the hell out, but this show confuses me. I mean, they have episodes with the actors playing themselves in contemporary America, like a behind the scenes thing, but as an actual scripted episode that's total complete crack. ( Spoilers for Yes, Virginia, There Is a Hercules )

What does Iolaus do when he's not trapping around Greece with Hercules? I have a feeling he's not just going home to the forge but having his own adventures. One of the many issues I have with the rewritten seasons, really, those two don't always have to be together to be friends.

Also: Yay!