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amatara ([personal profile] amatara) wrote2009-08-02 06:54 pm

Meme

Never did a meme before, but this sounded like so much fun I had to give it a go. Started with B5, then couldn't help myself and went on to do ST:TOS also!

Choose your genre show, answer the questions using episode titles from that show--if possible, don't repeat any.

Babylon 5

Are you a male or a female: The Ragged Edge

Describe yourself: The Quality of Mercy

How do you feel: Falling Toward Apotheosis

Describe where you currently live: In the Kingdom of the Blind

If you could go anywhere where would you go: Walkabout

Your favorite form of transportation: Objects in Motion

Your best friend is: Soul Mates

What’s the weather like: The Coming of Shadows

Favourite time of day: Between the Darkness and the Light

If your life was a TV show, it would be called: Intersections in Real Time

What is life to you: The Parliament of Dreams

Your fear: Rumors, Bargains and Lies

What is the best advice you have to give: Lines of Communication

Thought for the Day: And Now For a Word

How I would like to die: No Surrender, No Retreat

My soul’s present condition: A Day in the Strife

My motto: Convictions

Star Trek TOS

Are you a male or a female: What Are Little Girls Made Of?

Describe yourself: The Empath

How do you feel: Obsession

Describe where you currently live: The City on the Edge of Forever

If you could go anywhere where would you go: This Side of Paradise

Your favorite form of transportation: The Ultimate Computer

Your best friend is: By Any Other Name

What’s the weather like: The Savage Curtain

Favourite time of day: The Naked Time *g*

If your life was a TV show, it would be called: The Alternative Factor

What is life to you: Metamorphosis

Your fear: The Enemy Within

What is the best advice you have to give: Errand of Mercy

Thought for the Day: And the Children Shall Lead

How I would like to die: Wink of an Eye

My soul’s present condition: That Which Survives

My motto: Is There in Truth No Beauty?


Other fannish news:

(1) Holiday started this weekend, and will last for the whole of two weeks - yay! For the first time since our student days, we haven't planned to go anywhere, which means I will be spending the next two weeks shortening the laundry list of hobbyish/fannish stuff I've been dragging along for ages.

Things I want to do: finish the New Zealand vid from our honeymoon (now almost a year ago); tweak and order the photos from our last five trips and put them in the album; finish my Timov/Londo fic for [livejournal.com profile] matrithon, which is (frighteningly) growing faster in my head than on paper; finish the B5 vid I started on this week (on pure impulse; I never fanvidded before) as my contribution for September's "B5 love month" at [livejournal.com profile] babylon5_love; finish another fic, Londo & Vir this time, that I almost finished half a year ago and then semi-forgot about; watch the first seasons of DS9 and Dr. Who and anything else I can get my hands on really; and...

Well, let's say that suddenly two weeks doesn't sound like such a long time after all. *g* But if anyone has a request for anything (fic, meta, you name it), now is probably still a better time than ever!

(2) Just bought the first season of New Who, and watched the first ep ("Rose") on Friday evening. First impression: swell! And very, very British, which for some reason makes me unbelievably happy. Love the Doctor's dry humor; love even more the fact that neither of the two main characters could in any way be considered stereotypically beautiful! A series that doesn't take itself too seriously, and has actors that look like you and me: yeah, I like. Muchly.

(3) Went for a re-watch of "Half-Blood Prince" yesterday, and appreciated it significantly more than the first time. However, I still would've liked some action at the end, between the scene of Dumbledore being killed and the one of the Death Eaters escorting Draco out of Hogwarts. I wanted a fight, darn you, just like in the book; I wanted some of those filthy DEs to get their a** kicked; and most of all, I wanted some kind of emotional payoff to compensate for all that angst and sadness we'd just been put through. Ah well, you can't have it all, I guess.

[identity profile] selenak.livejournal.com 2009-08-08 12:55 pm (UTC)(link)
As I'm quite fond of vids, I can't resist showing you two which catch the spirit of the show very well, both ensemble vids:

New Who:



All Who from 1962 onwards till today (well, two years ago, when the vid was made), and I never stop admiring the vidder for being able to make a coherent vid featuring all incarnations of the Doctor and all the Companions:




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[identity profile] amatara.livejournal.com 2009-08-08 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, wow, those are fantastic, thanks! I think I prefer the first one (New Who) for sheer infectiousness; but the second (Old mixed with New) is great also, down to matching the images to the lyrics.

Btw, we finished "World War Three" by now, starting "Dalek", and I'm slowly but surely getting hooked again!