Spoilers for 10/26:

OK, so Moonlight? Seriously growing on me. I am now willing to watch without fast-forwarding to the JD scenes. Although I have to say: the scene where Beth met Josef for the first time? And got treated to the full-on focused, obsessive Logan stare? Yum. She didn't seem as affected by it as I was, but then, JD did a great job of bringing the just slightly crazy. No surprise she was weirded out.

I'm dating myself, but does anyone remember a show from the 80s called Beauty and the Beast, where Linda Hamilton had a forbidden love thing going on with a lionesque hero from an secret underground society? I was about the right age in 1987 to think that was like the coolest thing ever. Moonlight has a similar, suck-you-in cheesiness about it. It speaks to my inner teenage girl in all the right ways.

I'm still on the fence with FNL. Although I like that Tyra and Landry have one of the main storylines, I don't like what the story has done to Tyra's character. She's once again a terrified girl desperately afraid of being alone. And after all the character growth she had last season, it's frustrating to see her essentially back at square one.

I like that they've given Jason and Tim a friendship storyline that has nothing to do with football, but don't particularly care for the story itself. It's more than a little over the top. And I don't like the Julie storyline at all. We've been given to believe all along that she's a fairly mature, sensible, self-possessed teenage girl, and now all of a sudden she's a shrieking brat in need of a good kick in the ass. It seems as though the writers have no idea who these characters are a lot of the time.

So yes, I stay home on Friday nights and watch TV. I'm a big loser! Who else was watching?

Everyone should immediately go watch this show. Hopefully you DVRd it last night; if not, rumor is that ABC.com will be making the full episode available online, though I don't see it there just now. Or you can do that torrent thing if you're not opposed to a little video piracy. Whatever you do, just check out this show. I love Peter Krause. Donald Sutherland is the perfect mixture of aw-shucks and treacherous. Billy Baldwin makes me want to forget he has any brothers (the scene between him and Peter Krause in the limo is hi. lar. i. ous.).

There are some problems that need to be worked out, but overall I think this series has enormous potential.

And, hey: Peter Krause. How can you go wrong?

I've been re-watching season 1 of FNL in preparation for the new season, and god, I'm still just in awe at the character development and storytelling. So much is done with so little - a glance here, a throwaway line there - it's the details raise this show from the level of a mediocre family drama to something truly extraordinary.

I've been unspoiled this summer and don't know anything about what may or may not happen (and would like to stay that way, so please don't post spoilers to my journal). But I'm very excited about the potential, and nervous about the possibility that this show I love so much won't be able to clear the bar it's set for itself. I do hope it's able to find a wider audience this year - I'm afraid NBC will pull it pretty early on if the numbers aren't better. And that would be heartbreaking.

I'm also pleasantly surprised at the promos for Moonlight I've been seeing. I haven't read spoilers for that, either. But I find the main character, Mick, much more engaging in those promos than I expected to. So maybe it won't be an hour of waiting around for Jason to show up on screen.

Anybody planning to watch Dirty Sexy Money? Heard anything good about it? I love Peter Krause from way back in his Sports Night days, and am so glad he's returning to network TV where I can see him. We dropped HBO/Showtime after the first season of Six Feet Under, so I never saw most of that.

Only about two weeks til things get started - I've been clearing the old stuff out of my DVR (including season 3 VM, bye bye) in preparation. Pass the popcorn.

So when I first heard the news about Jason Dohring's being cast in Moonlight, I was dubious. It seemed a lot like a step down, career-wise.

I think I've been convinced that it could still be a good thing for his career, in that it means Jason still holds a place in the hearts and minds of the network higher-ups. And from all indications, it's a good role for him: the OPJ grown up and undead. A combination of Buffy's Spike, amoral and feral, with the easy, slick hedonism of Logan Echolls. Yummy, right?

Trying not to let myself get too excited about that.

I do still have concerns that he's being typecast as the bad boy. While I love the bad boy, as an actor at this point in his career, I think he needs to be showing a wider range. But, eh, the rest of the world seems to be thrilled, so maybe I'm just being unnecessarily curmudgeonly about it.

Good or bad, I'll definitely be tuning in. Does anyone know if we have a premiere date yet?

Hey, I finished it! ::waves frantically:: In case anyone is still interested!

Previous parts here. If you already read the previous parts and just need a refresher, previouslies are below the cut.

Big thanks to earth2mars for speedy and immensely helpful beta on this section, and to secrets_and_lie for handholding throughout.

All of you who stressed about whether or not this was really L/V? Heads up, eyes forward: this is the part where you have to worry no longer.

( “Veronica has no problem with me. She just doesn’t know it yet.” )

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This has nothing to do with fandom. But it's so funny I managed to alarm both my office-mate and the people in the next office with my hysterical laughter. Read.

teh funny is here.

DH took the kids for the whole day today. I have the whole darn day off! Those of you with children will have an especially good understanding of how amazing this is. This morning I re-watched some VM season 2 torrents, laid around, painted my toenails, watched a X-Files episode I'd never seen before (Trust No1), and played with some recent pics in Photoshop.

Then I went to Marshalls, where I managed to find a gorgeous new quilt, two matching decorative pillows, a shower curtain, bath mat, towels, toothbrush holder, soap dish, decorative shower curtain rings and two beautiful, large framed pictures for our master bed/bath. All for $153.00. That's right. Pretty much decorated the whole room for $150. We already have two nice comfy sets of sheets that match the quilt, and the window treatments will remain. How cool is that? I'm feeling like quite the savvy decorator. We seriously haven't had anything new for our bedroom since we bought the house seven years ago. It was TIME. All I need now is a couple of gallons of paint and I'm good to go.

And now I'm sitting at Panera, using their free wi-fi, eating the world's largest brownie and drinking Diet Coke (beverage of the gods; also, it cancels out the calories in the brownie). And I'm writing fanfic, which, hey, I wasn't going to. But I am. So there.

All in all, it's good to be me today. Hope everyone else is having a nice Saturday!

Yeah, so I'm bored at work. I have stuff to do but, eh, it can wait.

So I bring you ... a tiny picspam.

Everyone's seen the LOL cats and all their variations, right? If not, go here, or this will make no sense. OK. So here's LOL Logan.

(Thanks muchly to vm-caps for the screencaps.)

( Picspam below cut )

For some reason it's hitting me today. No more new Logan. Ever.

Last Tuesday I was fine; this week I really, really miss Logan.

*sigh*

I'm a hopeless, hopeless fangirl.

I feel like my four-year-old, terrified of being left behind. I set myself up as embellished_me at IJ and GJ, but I have to admit I don't really know why, except that everyone else is doing it.

Carry on.