Daily December: Days 3-6 (yeah I'm behind)

[mhalachai]

K so I'm having to move stuff around in the master post - I'll get to my submitted Qs after this weekend 

Favourite hobbies?

 

Primarily writing fiction (as evidenced by this blog) and I'm huge fan of cooking I like to experiment with recipes, but not so good at baking (no patience). I'm pants at the visual arts (like drawing or crafting seriously I suck).

Any fictional genres you don't like? 

 

I never have been able to get into zombies. There's something about the lack of any chance of a positive ending for the world... I just can't get into it. Also, and this ties into the next one, zombie stuff is usually such gore porn. I can't stand things that are (needlessly) graphically violent. That's probably why I have never been able to get into Game of Thrones. 

 

One thing you wish you could have:

 

A cat.  I'm very allergic to cats (they totally aggravate my asthma and if I'm not on allergy meds I can get into trouble) which sucks because I love cats and want four. I have to stick with looking at kitties on the internet. 

 

Hey look i even have three tags on tumblr about cats
http://mhalachai.tumblr.com/tagged/kitten

http://mhalachai.tumblr.com/tagged/kittens!

http://mhalachai.tumblr.com/tagged/adorable%20kitten

man i need to tidy that up

 

 

What are your current TV shows?

 

I'm currently watching Forever and NCIS New Orleans both of which I don't know why but hey. The thing about Forever is I keep loling at the dad from Numbers playing Reed Richard's son, it's lovely. And it's not a bad show, just derivative. Good acting on the mediocre scripts.

 

NCIS New Orleans - at least they stopped forcing Scott Bakula to talk with that ridiculous accent. And I'll watch CCH Pounder in anything. 

 

Am still watching Once Upon A Time although again don't know why - that horrible ending to the Snow Queen arc last week just made me rage at my tv. You can't have all these good actors in an ensemble like this and throw such shoddy plots and downright bad writing at them. Seriously I will write your show for free just stop it.

 

And when I get super angry at TV i go back to Netflix. 

 

What TV shows are you guys watching this year?

Comments

[antonomasia]

Since you asked...the shows I watched this year were Farscape, Continuum, Vikings, and The Blacklist. All of which are in some way related to Stargate, which is utterly unsurprising given that I also rewatched the entirety of SG-1 and then went back and listened to all the audio commentaries.:)

[mhalachai]

ah yes the great rewatches, which spawn other show watches :) I keep meaning to watch more of Continuum (filmed in Vancouver after all) but haven't gotten around to it - I'll put that on the list for this month. And I love audio commentaries - are those on the DVDs?

(sorry it took me so long to get back to you I fell into a pit of work)

[antonomasia]

I'm utterly in love with Continuum because it's so relevant to what's going on right now, talking about police brutality and the insane amount of power held by corporations, but it's also cool sci fi. Plus I love seeing all twelve or so actors in Vancouver together again. :) And I just found out that it got renewed for a short fourth season, which is good because season 3 ended on a pretty intense cliffhanger.

Yep, there are audio commentaries on all the episodes but two I think, from season 4 on. The best ones are the ones that feature the actors, but Peter DeLuise is always entertaining too. I very much appreciated the fact that in about 90% of them, someone at some point compliments Amanda Tapping's eyes, her beauty in general, her ability to technobabble, or all of the above. I also learned a ton about camera lenses and lighting and shot composition and stuff from them, even if it is all at least seven years out of date now.