Awww, I Hate Papaya.

[rionaleonhart]

I just caught the last five minutes of the House episode 'Acceptance', and all of my love for Cameron in the first two seasons just came flooding back to me. Bless you, Cameron; bless you and your little caring-too-much heart. I don't think I'm ever going to forgive the writers for Season Three. I really miss loving Cameron.

Come to think of it, my relationship with Cameron is a bit like my relationship with Captain Jack Harkness. I adored Jack in the Ninth Doctor's series of Doctor Who, and then Torchwood ruined him for me. In Riona's Happy Mental Canon World, season three of House never happened (with the possible exception of 'Fools for Love', because Foreman is adorable in it) and Jack went off to have adventures with Balthier and Fran immediately after 'Parting of the Ways'. Torchwood is parodic fanfiction Balthier wrote to make fun of Jack.

...actually, I like to pretend the shift in JD's characterisation after the fourth season of Scrubs never happened either. Man, I hadn't realised I had so much discontinuity! (The musical episode can stay. I mean, the JD in it still isn't the JD I love, but the episode as a whole is awesome enough to make up for that. And wasn't 'My Lunch' in the fifth season? Yeah, that can stay too. Actually, I missed most of the sixth season and I've only seen the last episode of the seventh, so if JD returns to his original adorable competent-but-dorky self please let me know!)

On a more cheerful note, I love that Top Gear is a real-person fandom in which people are forced to post warnings if it turns out that a particular character isn't an alien. Hee. Also, I've been watching a little more Avatar (I think I've seen the first sixteen episodes now), and it continues to be utterly charming! Sokka and Uncle Iroh are particularly wonderful. (ALSO IN EPISODE SIXTEEN SOKKA GETS ANGRY ABOUT INJURY TO HIS SISTER. Oh, Avatar, you know that sibling relationships are pretty much guaranteed to rope me in, don't you?)

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[culf.livejournal.com]

Avatar love!
*hugs uncle Iroh*
He will be awesome forever, just so you know. And Zuko will grow on you, I promise!
Wait until season 2, Toph will rock you! (Pun not actually intended.)

I'm sorry for ranting, but I know so few people who like Avatar, because the fandom is mean and crazy, so I rant where I can.

[rionaleonhart]

I actually like Zuko a lot already! Does this mean he's going to grow on me even more? And I am looking forward very much to meeting Toph.

[culf.livejournal.com]

Yep, even more.
First, he looks so much better without the ponytail. Second, he's so cute when being a big dork, which will happen more and more.

[tronella.livejournal.com]

Jack went off to have adventures with Balthier and Fran
That is the best phrase I have read all day.

[tronella.livejournal.com]

Jack went off to have adventures with Balthier and Fran
That is the best phrase I have read all day.

[tronella.livejournal.com]

Oops, sorry for the double.

[bubbles-san.livejournal.com]

Hey wait a minute, I'm the one that's been putting warnings about the Stig not being an alien! Please tell me I'm not the only one doing that.

[rionaleonhart]

I am really, really sorry for deleting your comment above, but I didn't want to risk accidentally seeing the spoiler. Um. Sorry. It was incredibly considerate of you to put the warning in the subject line and I feel like a horrible person, but if I left it in your (EDIT: er, my) journal I knew I'd catch sight of it before long.

Hang on a moment; I'll get you the code for hiding text so you can post spoilers without worrying.

EDIT: Here you go. Anything you write between the 'div' brackets will be unreadable unless highlighted.

Like so.

[rhosyndu.livejournal.com]

Be wary of TV tropes - it has eaten hours of my life in the past.
"Oo. I wonder what that means..."
*sun rises*
"Shit."

I've managed to write out the six Holmes stories I don't like from my own mental canon because they are, frankly, shit and you can feel how resentful ACD was to still be writing Holmes after all that bloody time. Creeping Man? Never happened. Lion's Mane? Can get stuffed. Mind you, given that the fandom seems to keep its collective mind in Autumn 1895, this seems almost reasonable.

[rionaleonhart]

TVTropes is hideously addictive. On several occasions I have thought 'Should I link to TVTropes? NO, BECAUSE IT WILL EAT EVERYONE'S LIVES.' But I suspect everyone knows about it by now.

AND THE ADVENTURE OF THE LION'S MANE IS THE WORST THING EVER.

[wanttobeatree.livejournal.com]

MN YOOOOU

[rionaleonhart]

I'VE BEEN READING TVTROPES FOR THREE HOURS NOW

I HAVE WORK I'M SUPPOSED TO BE DOING

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

Iroh is amazing, and Zuko gets better once he's done being emo about everything and becomes his own person. And Sokka! <3!

As far as I'm concerned, that Discontuity list has some good points regarding Doctor Who and Torchwood.

Season 3 of House was WEIRD. What was the entire point of that thing they did to House relating to his injury if they were going to undo it after only a couple of episodes? Why?

[rionaleonhart]

Zuko would probably burn me in the face for calling him 'adorable', but - but he is.

Season 3 of House was WEIRD. What was the entire point of that thing they did to House relating to his injury if they were going to undo it after only a couple of episodes? Why?

Argh, I don't even know. Season Three did weird things to pretty much all the chracters (I'm still particularly bitter, of course, that it threw Cameron's characterisation to the ground and danced upon it), and by the end of it I was thinking that that was it, House had jumped the shark, I would never be truly fannish about it again.

And then there was the MAGICAL SEASON FOUR CENTRAL CAST OVERHAUL and somehow it saved the show.

I'm always going to sort of admire the House writers, in spite of what they did to my beloved Cameron, because it is so difficult to burst back into 'awesome' territory after slipping like that.

[emmarrrrr.livejournal.com]

IROH IS THE BEST PERSON EVER.

[rionaleonhart]

VERY POSSIBLY TRUE. I am always saddened when an episode has no Uncle Iroh in it.

[the-funmonkey.livejournal.com]

J.D.'s characterisation gets a lot better throughout season 7 (I think they realised that people missed competent-J.D.). I've got my fingers crossed for season 8 because they're trying to get the series 1 vibe back, apparently.

[rionaleonhart]

This is wonderful news! I really need to rewatch early Scrubs episodes to reignite my CRAZY HEARTS love for JD.

[gulliblesnail.livejournal.com]

Torchwood is parodic fanfiction Balthier wrote to make fun of Jack.

Thank you, you have just immeasurably improved Torchwood-Jack for me!

[rionaleonhart]

You're very welcome! (Then he reads it out dramatically, and Jack cracks up laughing and says, 'Okay, I swear I'm not that bad.')

[lotus0kid.livejournal.com]

Y'know, it's so weird, but I have the hardest time actually remembering whole episodes of House. The third season is the one where Cameron suddenly turned into a massive wise-cracking bitch, right? Yeah, that was weird. I feel like she's found a decent middleground this past season. Not too snarky, but not a pushover either.

DW!Jack over Torchwood!Jack any day of the week, for sure. Of course, my interest went kaput before I made it to the first season finale of Torchwood, so maybe I should keep my opinions about that to myself.

I have a similar problem with Scrubs as I do with House- it's all just kind of a blur now. I'm sure first few seasons!JD is very different from last few seasons!JD, but I wouldn't be able to site specific examples. Especially since I haven't seen most of the last.. two seasons? *shrugs*

We-ell, I've been keeping my eye on topgearslash, lightly combing the archives and whatnot. That's a.. special comm you've got there. Very special indeed. Good fun too- aliens, zombies, human!cars and all. Aww, Avatar. Easily the best written, best looking, and best performed cartoon Nickelodeon has had to offer in quite a while.

[rionaleonhart]

Cameron was so self-sacrificing and obsessed with helping people in the first two seasons, and then in the third she was all 'lol I shall use Chase with no regard for his feelings and neglect patients in the process!' I do not understand it at all.

I'm not sure whether I'm going to watch Torchwood next year, because there have been maybe four or five episodes I've actually liked. I'm probably going to end up watching it anyway and shouting 'WHY AM I WATCHING THIS RUBBISH?' at the screen, which was pretty much how I spent this year's series as well.

The Top Gear fandom has more crackfic in it than any other fandom I've ever been involved in, Supernatural possibly excepted. And it's a real-person fandom. I love that.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

I'm tempted to go with Torchwood Never Happened, because they keep establishing stuff I start to like a bit, and then wrecking it. Plus I'm afraid that they'll take Gwen from sometime charming, sometimes annoying to "Look at her, she's the heart of the team, and the humanest human, and oh-so-special in her genericness, and totally justified in screwing over her nice boyfriend for a hotter guy because it's True Love!" Er, not that I'm bitter about Doctor Who.

I love My Lunch, although I can't watch it, because "How To Save A Life" was already a song that got to me far too much (as opposed To "Carry On My Wayward Son" which can actually make me cry when it's used to start a Supernatural season finale, but is entirely forgettable everywhere else).

I love that in Top Gear fandom, alien mindsex isn't considered crack. And I definitely find human!Stig fic weird and a bit unsettling. It's like finding out that his genitals are right-side up, and he isn't afraid of ducks! Or that he didn't rip his own face up for a guest appearance on Doctor Who! Just weird!

[the-wanlorn.livejournal.com]

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<iI love that Top Gear is a real-person fandom in which people are forced to post warnings if it turns out that a particular character isn't an alien.</i>

...WHAT

[rionaleonhart]

Ahahaha, have you never watched Top Gear? There's a character called the Stig. He's their racing driver, he's clad entirely in a white racing uniform, we've never seen his face and he never speaks. The presenters introduce him with different 'facts' each episode ('Some say he naturally faces magnetic north, and that all of his legs are hydraulic...' 'Some say he's wanted by the CIA, and that he sleeps upside down like a bat...' 'Some say that his first name really is "The", and that if he went on Celebrity Love Island they'd all be pregnant, including the cameramen... all we know is, he's called the Stig'), the fandom has, quite naturally, concluded he is an all-powerful alien, and fanfiction in which it turns out there's just a normal human being under the suit freaks me (and many others) the hell out.