Lucy Talks

First posted at het_reccers for my tenure as special reccer for November.

My view of Longmire is informed by both the series and the books. I watched the series first, then started reading the books, and each enhances my appreciation of the other. I picture the series cast when reading. I love the relationships on the show and in the book series, and am definitely rooting for the Vic/Walt romance for the long haul.

Mini-manifesto
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Recs - obviously, I have a thing for first times. lol
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These are five out of the mere forty fics on AO3. It's a tiny fandom yet, but I enjoy reading Vic/Walt almost as much as I enjoy a good Kara/Lee fic. Almost.

Gods. JJ and Will's wedding gets me every time. The whole CM team in a rare happy personal moment.

My friend marakara always has the latest. A lot of her journal is f-locked, but her TV stuff is public.

Caught up on Masters of Sex. Still like it.

I think I'll give up on Revenge for now, and catch it all, maybe, some other time when I can watch the whole series at once.

Helix - like the premise, but so far it hasn't grabbed me with anybody to care about or any explosive chemistry between actors. I kept seeing moments that Katee could totally have knocked out and grabbed me by the neck, but the actors they've cast aren't doing that. Yet.

Intelligence. Now this.....this I could really, really like.

Josh Holloway is beefier than he was in Lost, and it looks good on him. I didn't recognize his SS agent until she had her hair down, and then I was like, "Oh, it's Red! No wonder she disappeared from Storybrooke."

Also, I love Will Yun Lee. Oh, Witchblade.

Chemistry between Gabriel and Riley is lovely and sparkly. The chemistry between Gabriel and Amelia is also so, so sparkly. Yum.

Marg Helgenberger is you know, Marg. I think she did some of her best work in China Beach, not to discount her work since then. I do like her here so far.

A quote from the first few episodes of Buffy just popped into my head:

Cordelia:  "James Spader?"

Buffy:  "He needs to call me!"

I realize Buffy's not as airheaded and vain as she sometimes seemed in season one, but somehow, I don't think she'd be watching Blacklist for the eye-candy.

Damn.  The last couple of minutes of Wonderland Story....

I am such a sap.

Saw the first trailer for Season One of Helix, which is set to air on Syfy in January, I think.

It's a teaser trailer, and frankly, only inspired remote interest in watching.  It gave me none of what I watch TV for: 'ships.  There were a couple of voiceovers over mostly horrorish visuals, and no people really interacting.  I watch TV for the people and how they form relationships with and around each other, Ron, not for the trying-to-scare-me horror.   The real horror for me comes from watching how whatever-the-thing-is impacts those relationships, either destroying them or creating stronger bonds.

Probably why I don't get much out of horror things like Nightmare On Elm Street or Friday the 13th:  I don't care about any of the people.  They don't establish any sort of tie, just start making out and getting dead.  :yawn:

Arrow.

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Caught up on Crossing Lines.  I'm still liking it, especially the international flavor, but if it went away, I probably wouldn't even notice.

Sleepy Hollow.  Watched the first three eps.  Love.  It.  And not just because Tom Mison is a hottie.  Which he totally is.  I want to watch more, right frakkin' now.  It's got me intrigued.

Blue Bloods.  I'm kind of rooting for Jamie to finally get a relationship -
there seem to be hints of that in the new partner, which would of course be totally against regs, but not the first time patrol partners have gotten busy.
Anyway.  Tom Selleck still has it when he grins - really grins, not the fake ones.  He gets this glint of mischief in his eyes, and it does not matter even a tiny bit that he's actually 68 years old.  This one is a habit, rather than must-see TV, but it's a good habit.  To me it's just a great family drama with some police work thrown in.  lol

NCIS LA.  I'll admit I was looking for something a little more than just Kensi showing up at the last minute and
talking Deeks to sleep.
It was cute, but just seemed a little last minute - "oh yeah, we still have to figure out how to 'fix' Deeks and Kensi, so let's do this."  I loved Sam and Deeks' moment in the hospital room, though.  Very vague and male and saying everything without saying anything.  Much more emotionally impactful to me than that Kensi/Deeks moment at the end of the second ep.  Renee Felice Smith wore a rather unflattering outfit in the second ep.

CSI.  Hmm.  While it's good to finally get a resolution to the Ellie thing, it was an awful lot of trouble for Ellie to go to in order to get back at dear old dad.  Camera angles were odd on both Jorja Fox and Elizabeth Harnois.  I don't know.  They both looked like they're either pregnant or they've put on weight - not that either of them looked bad.  I wish they would figure out what to do with Morgan romantically.  They keep playing pinball and giving us these little moments of friendship that seem like more, and then going nowhere with them.  I did like Ecklie's comment to Morgan about how they need to steer clear of hospitals for a while.

I still need to watch Blacklist, but I can't get into the On Demand to watch the first ep, and only the second ep is on M's DVR.  Annoying.  Haven't gotten to NCIS yet.  Haven't gotten to Person of Interest yet.  Not going to bother with Bones.  Not going to bother with Under the Dome. Continuum got erased from the DVR, so I'll have to find a different way to watch the rest of what's aired.  :(

And there has not been enough smutty writing in this smut weekend - none, in fact.  Whatever is the world coming to when Willow and I cannot write some smut together?  Maybe this afternoon - she'll be gone until at least one for lunch with the fam.

And my long fic is at 77K words, which both thrills and scares me.  If I can write nearly eighty-thousand words of fic, I can write that much or more of original stuff, which kind of covers both the thrilling and the frightening.  Yes, I'm contrary.  I haven't written on it in over a week (hell, I haven't written anything in over a week).  I've been going over things from the beginning and examining from someone else's perspective, since she was kind enough to give it to me, and that has had the rather unfortunate side-effect of making my muse pouty and uncommunicative.  Such a brat.