Bethany

( Photo meme, day twenty-seven )

Attention BBC America: please do not sneak attack me with Robin Hood marathons, mmkay? ESPECIALLY WHEN IT'S THE FINALE OF DOOM. I can only switch off the TV so quickly.

Now that it's June and all, I figure it is an appropriate time to finally finish up my long-abandoned TV of 2009 round-up post. (It's not so bad, is it? June? January? June? January? Whatever, they start with the same letter.) Time consuming though it may be to write up, and perhaps tedious though it may be to read, I do like to have it for personal reference (laaaaame, but true!). So I am just going to slam through these mofos and finish this TONIGHT, OR ELSE. I've got three hours to meet that goal, and clock starts... now! (This might mean that pictures will have to wait until later, though. Also, spoilers for the most recent episodes of: Robin Hood, Royal Pains, Spooks, Star Trek: The Animated Series, Stargate: Atlantis, Stargate: SG-1, and The Prisoner.)

( TV of 2009, part the third and last. I PROMISE. )

HEY, GUESS WHAT, I FINISHED ON TIME! Hey, guess what else? My life is so sad and TV-centric that writing up a brief chronicle of my viewership turns into an all-consuming chore, ahahaha whhhhyyyyyyy. Okay, I'll probably update this with appropriate picspams in time (which coming from me probably means next January or something).

( Thoughts on Lost, Across the Sea )

Completely unrelated, but oh how I wish I had the money to throw on the new Daria DVDs.

Also unrelated: I AM SO AMUSED THAT MERLIN GOT HIGHER RATINGS THAN SGU THIS WEEK. AHAHAHAAAAAHA THIS DELIGHTS ME SO, YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW. And of course it was for the troll episode! OF. COURSE.

My sporadic Who watching continues -- today I watched "The Shakespeare Code" (LOVE) and "Midnight" (...MIDDLING! Except for the COLIN FACTOR). That's the last of what I have on my iPod, though, so it is time to restock.

I AM PHYSICALLY/MENTALLY/SPIRITUALLY INCAPABLE OF GETTING ANYTHING DONE THIS EVENING. So instead I will spam you with my distractions:

-Kate/Sayid fans come out of the woodwork; BETHANY REJOICES.

-( Completely random vids of amazingness )

-( I have also been wasting my life making pointless gifs. This just in: JONAS ARMSTRONG MAKES THE MOST ADORABLE DOOFY FACES EVER. )

OKAY OKAY I'M SEWING NOW. I... I... I really am. (Or maybe I'm going to go watch more Ivanhoe. Hmm. I was kind of slow to warm up to it, but now that I'm a bit over halfway through I'm like OMG OMG WHAT IS HAPPENING?? [I, uh, yeah -- I basically have zero foreknowledge of this text. I didn't even know Robs was actually in it, hahaha HOW UNCULTURED AM I.] Also, ugh, I'm kind of annoyed that the DVD box TOTALLY LIED to me. It says "Runtime: 150 Minutes." So yesterday I put in the first disc over breakfast, watched about 30-40 minutes, went about my day. Before going to bed I was like, hmm, I guess I can finish out the disc -- assuming it's half of the 150 minutes, then I should have less than an hour to watch, right? And yet it went on... and on... and onnnnnn... and ONNNNNNN...! I was determined to at least finish out the disc, but I finally gave up and walked into the kitchen to find that it was 1:30AM or something ridiculous. So, yeah, IMDb says? 270 MINUTES. GO FIGURE. I started on the second disc today so I'd guess that I'm about 65% of the way through.)

Once again, this list is a complete copy/paste job from facebook. How would I ever remember anything that happens in my life if the internet didn't keep track of it for me?

( Films of 2009 )

Now all that is left is my TV of 2009 post... which, if previous years are anything to judge by, will probably take me like a week solid... um, the silver lining to my current unemployment, I guess?

Merrrrlin, ( spoilers for 2.09 )

OH AND ALSO -- OMG OMG OMG WHY IS MY FLIST NOT EXPLODING OVER ( THE LATEST EPISODE OF SPOOKS? MAJOR MAJOR SPOILERS FOR 8.04 )

Bwahaha, somebody has finally made a spock_chapel comm. AWESOME. Now, quick, somebody cast Anne Dudek as Chapel in the next Abrams film.

Meme! That I have in fact done before! But, well, hulamoth gave me new prompts, and who am I to resist?

Comment to this entry and I'll pick three of your fandoms. You must then update your journal and answer the following questions:

( Robin Hood, Terry Pratchett, Horatio Hornblower )

Drive-by post before I have to get ready for work -- so, remember how I did some massive gushing over the BBC America Robin Hood page? Well! WELL. I'M ABOUT TO DO IT AGAIN.

First of all -- GO LOOK AT THEIR WALLPAPERS. Yes, that's right, there's a Guy/Marian wallpaper. And not a Robin/Marian one. LOLOLOLOLOL.

Second of all -- the Hunks of Sherwood forest is still awesome. This month: Sir Guy of Gisborne hasn't taken the death of Marian very well; after all, it's his fault isn't it? Can his humanity be saved or has he lost the ability to love anyone ever again? LOLOLOLOLOL.

Third of all -- check out the games! There's one where you get to be a sort of Nottingham stock broker and play the market to earn enough money to pay your taxes. I lost. The Black Knights burned down my house. Also, the Nightwatchman stole half of my money, that bastard (who does he think he is, Robin Hood?).

Fourth of all -- apparently the character playlists aren't gone, after all? ??!???! I was doing the "outlaw or villain" quiz, got Marian as my result (which, by the way, I wasn't even aiming for, but heccccck yes), and, after a particularly thrilling character blurb (Lady Marian: If only the world were black-and-white; you'd love to embrace the outlaw spirit, but you can't just up and leave civilization. You have obligations, and you have people you hold dear that you cannot abandon. What's your solution? You work inside the system to make change, playing innocent while secretly undermining those in power.), there are two links -- one to a character banner, and one to THE CHARACTER PLAYLIST WHAAAAAT. Well. I'm not sure if it actually works or not -- it redirects to iTunes, which I don't have installed, so I couldn't see it. But it's definitely worth further investigation for those of you who do have iTunes on your computers.

AND. YES. I'M MARIAN. THE INTERNET SAID SO, IT MUST BE TRUE.

Dear anonymous person who donated a paid account to me,

You have made my day and then some! In gratitude, I am uploading tons of flashy ridiculous icons just for you.

Sincerely,
The person whose eyeballs are about to fall out from being online for too long looking at said flashy ridiculous icons

Aww! Seriously! I've been in a ridiculously good mood all day because of this awesome and unexpected gift. What does one do with a paid account, even? I kind of want to try out a voicepost, but I'm afraid you all would defriend me once you realize just how frequently I employ the word like in everyday conversation.

Anyway, I've decided to express my warm fuzzies via a spam of things that make me happy. Image/.gif/youtube heavy, plus semi-spoilers through Merlin 2.02.

( I'm just going to live alone and be one of those guys -- you know, the crazy guys -- with a big beard and no clothes who's naked and throws doody at people. )

I have no idea how I did not know of this sooner, but as some kindly soul at robinhoodbbc just brought to my attention -- Robin Hood series three finally airs in America starting this weekend! !!!! Why am I excited about this? I've already seen it all -- repeatedly -- and angsted about it all -- repeatedly. I also know there's about a 0% chance that I'm going to convince any of my American friends to finally watch it, but, you know what? Who cares. It just excites me in general to know that it will be on MY television.

And it also excites me to revisit the BBC America Robin Hood page! From the people who brought us the character playlists (including "Question of Lust" for Guy and "Shadows of the Night" for Marian, SERIOUSLY PERSON WHO MADE THIS I AM KIND OF IN LOVE WITH YOU) and Vaysey's blog (featuring gems like: "Robin Hood emerged from his hibernation - and he starts shooting people left and right. I was shocked. Robin Hood does not kill! I was so shocked, in fact, that I dropped my tooth.") (and, okay, I would say that I'm disappointed that both features have now been removed from the site, except... well... continue on, gentle reader) come new exciting extras like Hunks of Sherwood Forest (how much am I cracking up that Tuck is on there? THIIIIIS MUCH) and and and THE BEST PART EVER -- !!!!! -- JUST CHECK OUT THE VIDEO PAGE. I mean, is that one giant love-letter to Guy/Marian or IS THAT ONE GIANT LOVE-LETTER TO GUY/MARIAN? There are all of, like, two clips that actually feature Robin, and basically every single Guy/Maz Best Scene Ever is included. The "Marry me... and live!" scene has been titled "CHOOSE LIFE!" When Guy (sort of) helps Marian escape in 2.06 -- "A God Amongst Men." (Okay, I know that is part of the Sheriff's quote, but I am choosing to also attribute the choice of title to the fact that Guy is legitimately romantic in the first half of the clip.) I AM NOT EVEN EXAGGERATING WHEN I SAY THAT THIS HAS MADE MY ENTIRE DAY. And then the Armitage interview bits are, as always, amaaaaaazing and yet ruinous to my heart. Most of them are ones I've seen before, but I think some are new to me -- the one where he talks about 2.10, for instance, and how Guy asking Marian to marry him was for once not about having her as a possession but about saving her as a person who he loves -- fsdkjdejl;sadf;ljdfsalkjfal;jf;das I WILL NEVER BE OVER THEM, I WILL LOVE THEM FOREVER, OMG OMG.