Three more things

[zelempa]

1. YULETIDE STORY IS UPLOADED. Man, that's a load off. Even though I'm extremely ambivalent about how it turned out. (Confidental to mab_browne: Thankfully, though, I ended up cutting most of the second half.) This brings me up to 10 in 2008. Can I write two more stories in the next 11 days? Time will tell!

2. A new set of mini-recaps for your persual, if you're into that kind of thing:

Red Dwarf, Series 5-8

Don't Think About It Or Your Brain Will Explode: Lister realizes that he is his own father. Kochanski is totally erratic: after getting a chance to go back to her own universe, she suddenly announces "I've decided to stay!", and risks her life to go back to the crew she doesn't like as much and who don't like her as much and who are clearly worse. And then she spends the rest of the series moping about how much she misses her universe and her Dave. Also, Lister realizes he is his own father. In this episode, Lister realizes he is his own father.

3. Another new set of mini-recaps, ibid.: Criminal Minds, Season 1

Hotch knocks Reid down and kicks him savagely in the stomach while yelling at him unnecessarily. Turns out it was a gesture of ultimate trust and confidence: he was manipulating the physical configuration so that Reid could get close to the weapons and get a clear line of sight to the killer. Reid nails the shot to the killer's head (though he claims he was aiming for his leg). When, at the end of the episode, Hotch gives Reid a cursory apology, Reid immediately accepts, possibly (and I may be projecting here) because the whole Hotchellus thing was kind of a turn-on.

Comments

[janedavitt.livejournal.com]

You're a Red Dwarf fan! Cool. I watched from episode one when it began back in the UK and had an unholy passion for Rimmer that remains to this day.

But, yes, the earlier seasons were best.

[zelempa.livejournal.com]

Seasons 5 through 8 are so bizarre to me, because I used to watch the first four series so much, and I didn't see these at all until years later. It's hard for me to think of them as canon. The timing of when I saw them isn't really the producers' fault, but I also legitimately think they are kind of a lot worse. The shift in focus from character-based to idea-based is a bad move when the ideas are not that good.

Still, everything Rimmer says or does is hilarious. Chris Barrie is great no matter what material he's given to work with. And the Rimmer-centric episodes in s.5-8 were still good. My personal selective canon is the first four series (with the possible exception of "Backwards" and "Bodyswap"), plus "Holoship", "Back to Reality", "Stoke Me a Clipper" and "Blue".

[mab-browne.livejournal.com]

Re the confidential, I guess 'when in doubt, don't' is as good a strategy as any... :-)