The Result of Yesterday's Marathon

I was out most of yesterday, but I managed to get the following episodes of the X-Files in.

3.17 "Pusher" - This episode was great. The villain was awesome.
3.18 "Teso Dos Bichos" - This is apparently widely regarded as the worst episode of X-Files ever, but I didn't hate it. I enjoyed it as an episode, though it's not one that I would watch again.
3.19 "Hell Money" - Good, but not a favorite of mine.
3.20 "Jose Chungs 'From Outer Space'" - Great concept, wicked funny, done really well. Reminds me of the Supernatural episode "Tall Tales."

X-Files Marathon Continues, Christmas and More

Christmas was great. We spent the morning opening gifts, then went over to visit our uncle and cousin in the afternoon. I got some pretty awesome toys this year. Of them: a web cam, a headset (for playing games, like WoW specifically), a set of speaker, a CD player/mp3 player audio system, a set of bowls that can cook in the oven (for making soup), and more.

My X-Files marathon is continuing. Below is a list of the episodes I have watched since the beginning of this marathon a week ago.

1.01 "Deep Throat"
1.02 "Squeeze"
1.03 "Conduit" - A very important episode in learning about the character of Mulder.
1.04 "The Jersey Devil"
1.05 "Shadows"
1.06 "Ghost in the Machine" - The machine taking over is an old concept, but this is done very well.
1.07 "Ice" - I truly enjoy this episode. All the suspicion is well-written and played.
1.08 "Space"
1.09 "Fallen Angel"
1.10 "Eve"
1.11 "Fire" - It's nice to see that Mulder has some fears and some information into his past.
1.12 "Beyond the Sea" - The main guest star in this episode is amazing and definitely carries the episode well.
1.13 "Gender Bender"
1.14 "Lazarus"
1.15 "Young at Heart" - Some cool back story for Mulder.
1.16 "E.B.E"
1.17 "Miracle Man"
1.18 "Shapes"
1.20 "Tooms"
1.21 "Born Again" - A good story, though not a great wrap up at the end.
1.22 "Roland" - Very cool story.
1.23 "The Erlenmeyer Flask"
2.01 "Little Green Men"
2.02 "The Host"
2.03 "Blood" - This episode is very creepy and cool. A great concept done well.
2.04 "Sleepless"
2.05 "Duane Barry" - Great episode. I liked the actor that played Duane Barry when he was in Supernatural and I liked him better in this.
2.06 "Ascension"
2.07 "3"
2.08 "One Breath"
2.09 "Firewalker"
2.10 "Red Museum"
2.11 "Excelsis Dei"
2.12 "Aubrey"
2.13 "Irresistible"
2.14 "Die Hand die verletzt"
2.15 "Fresh Bones"
2.16 "Colony" - This is a great Mulder episode.
2.17 "End Game"
2.18 "Fearful Symmetry"
2.19 "Død Kalm"
2.20 "Humbug" - "This episode is out there, even for the X-Files. But I kinda love it. It's radically different and original.
2.21 "The Calusari"
2.22 "F. Emasculata"
2.23 "Soft Light" - Awesome concept and execution. I love this episode.
2.24 "Our Town"
2.25 "Anasazi"
3.01 "The Blessing Way"
3.02 "Paper Clip"
3.03 "D.P.O." - This episode was just odd. The "hick" feel of the main character seemed a little bit over played. It was cool to see Jack Black in something serious.
3.04 "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" - I love the way this show presents psychics. It's a funny, cynical view of psychics, but I love it. Of course, one of my other favorite shows is Psych, so I'm used to psychics being lots of fun.
3.05 "The List"
3.06 "2Shy" - Truly creepy and gross.
3.07 "The Walk"
3.08 "Oubliette" - I love the connection between Mulder and Lucy, the waitress, in this episode.
3.09 "Nisei"
3.10 "731"
3.11 "Revelations"
3.12 "War of the Coprophages" - I love love LOVE this episode. I absolutely HATE bugs, but this episode was brilliant. I love that most of the episode is Scully and Mulder calling each other and talking over the phone.
3.13 "Syzygy" - I truly enjoyed this episode. Mulder and Scully snarking at each other was funny and a completely different way of seeing their dynamic.
3.14 "Grotesque" - I didn't like the pacing of this episode. It was hard to understand and the plot was iffy.
3.15 "Piper Maru"
3.16 "Apocrypha"

Yes, I've been a busy little fangirl. Now that I've gone through and remarked on some of my favorite episodes, I'm realizing that my favorites are the Mulder ones. This really shouldn't be a surprise for me (that I like learning more about my favorite character, who happens to be a tall male who's funny and handsome), but for some reason it still is. Oh well.

I played a lot of WoW today. Like, a lot. Not as much as yesterday, but still a significant amount. I played with Erin and her boyfriend, so it was a social experience.

On another note, I think I'm getting sick. My cousin was sick and maybe that's how I got it, but I'v been coughing and just feeling generally ick.

The Best and Worst of 2008: My Favorite TV Shows

This series of posts is dedicated to my favorite and least favorite things of 2008. Television, movies, games, classes, everything. If I loved it or hated it, I'll make mention of it in these posts.

This post is dedicated to my favorite television shows.

Favorite TV Shows

Bones
In the past, I've had trouble keeping up with this show, but this year I've made a point to watch every episode. Even though I haven't been able to watch the episodes when they air I do watch them on FOX Online on Thursday. I love Booth and Brennan and this is a show that all of my friends watch (us girls at least). We all agree that Booth and Brennan need to get together and make beautiful children really fast, and also that Angela and Hodgins should be together. I can't wait to see more of this show.

Criminal Minds
I try my best to keep up with this show, but it's hard because I had some scheduling conflictions between life and my tv schedule. It doesn't help matters that CBS seems to hate this show and doesn't post the episodes on their site. I still love Reid and I'd like to catch up with what's been going on. This may be my next marathon.

Doctor Who
Oh Doctor Who. I've only known this show and fandom for a very short time, but I am enamored. I love the Doctor and the TARDIS and Martha and Donna and Rose and EVERYTHING. I just wish there were some better fanfictions out there for this fandom. I can't wait to see what happens in the season 5 specials. I sure am going to miss David Tennant like crazy.

Fringe
I'm pretty sure I've stayed caught up with this show. I really enjoy the characters and how out there the plot lines are. It helps that FOX has the best video player out of all the main networks websites. I'm able to catch up on episodes legally without wanting to rip my hair out waiting for the thing to load (CBS, I'm looking at you).

How I Met Your Mother
I watched this show only for Neil Patrick Harris. I started watching just after watching Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. I marathoned all the episodes that had aired in a very short spae of time. Since then I've watched episodes as they've come out. Not on the television because I work from 8 pm on Monday's but online after work. I'm come to love the cast and I've been sucked into the plot and the relationship twists.

Merlin
I started watching this show just after it started. Maybe around the third episode. Since catching up I've managed to watch the episodes as they air. I live in the US so I've been watching these episodes online, but I love them. Even though this show is a terrible smudge of history and just fiction I think it's adorable. I love both Bradley James and Colin Morgan. I enjoy every second of this show, and not only because the boys are cute (though that is definitely a factor).

NCIS
I've been staying caught up with this as best as possible. Like every other show, I not able to watch this on the television screen when it airs. I struggle through watching this show CBS.com every week, and it is a struggle. The video player that CBS has sucks ass hardcore. Despite the crappy player, I still love NCIS. All the characters and the plot lives are amazing. I'm not big into the fandom for this, but I do get excited to watch new episodes every week.

Psych
I was introduced to this show last year, but I really started keeping track of new episodes this year. I'm addicted. I watch new episodes as soon as I can get my hands on them. This is one of the only shows that I will buy on iTunes instead of finding on some obscure website online. I love Shawn. He's such an odd character and I love him. Gus is the perfect balance to Shawn's oddities. He's not nearly normal either, but he does his best to stay in touch with the real world. Whereas Shawn just really likes to be a kid even though he's in his mid twenties or so.

Stargate Atlantis
This season has been my least favorite, but despite how disappointed I've been about the episodes and sad about this being the end of Stargate Atlantis I still make a point to try to watch this show when it airs. This show still registers as a favorite because I still keep up with it in the fandom and I'm still in love with all of the characters.

Supernatural
I need to review this newest season, because I haven't watched the episodes over again as I have in the past. I just haven't had the time. I love the introduction of Castiel because he's just as awesome as the Winchester boys, but he doesn't try to steal the scenes. He's able to be awesome in tandem with the Winchesters instead of trying to be in competition with them. This show is great because it's very interactive for me. I like watching Supernatural with Melissa and Carissa and we like to comment on the episodes. I love that this show makes me yell at the screen and attempt to speak to the characters.

Torchwood
I had to watch this show after watching Doctor Who. I wasn't sure if I was going to like it because I wasn't a huge fan of Jack Harkness in Doctor Who. However, Jack takes on a whole new depth in Torchwood and I love his team. Especially Ianto. I love the relationship between Jack and Ianto. I never knew that my life was missing epic amounts of boy-kissing before I watched Torchwood, but I definitely was. I can't wait to see what happens next, especially with half of the team gone.

The X-Files
This is, without a doubt, my most recent obsession. I've been watching this show for no more than a week. I knew afteer watching only a couple episodes, that this time it was going to be for real. I've watched the X-Files before. Last year I used to watch episodes when they aired late at night, and that was how I was reintroduced to the show this year. Melissa and I caught an episode on the television late at night, and it had all the things I love in the tv show: a pretty boy (or more than one) Mulder, scifi (duh!), great chemistry between the main characters (Mulder and Scully are the classic example of great chemistry). It even had hurt AND comfort. Scully had Mulder rest his head in her lap. IEEEEEEEEE!!! I'm not nearly finished watching this show, but with the rate I'm going it won't take me long. I'm more than midway through season two right now and I haven't skipped an episode yet (and I don't plan to).

Bedtimes Nao

Well, I've finished the pilot episode of the X-Files so now I'm going to bed. Probably with some lights on. The X-Files scares me in a way that Supernatural never has. Supernatural might get me for a minute, make me jump, but the X-Files makes me turn on lights and look around the corner while holding a weapon. I kinda love it. I may have to confine my marathoning of the X-Files to the daylight hours.

Dr. Horrible, Roswell, 21, Stargate Atlantis & More

I haven't posted in a while and figured that now is the time to do it. I have a couple of things to blog about, so here goes.

Dr. Horrible. Love it! I just checked the play count on my iTunes copy of Dr. Horrible and I've watched Act I 4 times, Act II 2 times and Act III 1 time. I've watched it 3 or four times all the way through on my iPod too. It turns out that Dr. Horrible has the ability to make sweeping and mopping at Dunkin Donuts more fun. I like that I can listen to it on my iPod while mopping without watching it. I love Dr. Horrible in ways that I can't even describe. I'll compare my love for it to my love for Stargate Atlantis and Supernatural. That should give some idea at least. I love the cast. Neil Patrick Harris is amazing. I loved Nathan Fillion in Firefly, but I didn't know he could sing. I can't think of anyone who could play Captain Hammer better than Nathan Fillion. Felicia Day has a very pretty voice. I love the way Billy (Dr. Horrible) trips over his words (especially around Penny). I love that the last line of the first act is "Balls". I love Joss Whedon. I loved the fangirls and boy in the third act. As I write this I'm adding to the play count by watching it again. I'm going to share it with my friends on Saturday. Bring my laptop to the party we're finally having and making them watch it. Now I just have to get Erin to watch with me.

Found this clip from How I Met Your Mother: I think it's pee-your-pants funny, and I've watched it three times. EDIT (9/23/2010): I can no longer find the video on YouTube, but it's called "Don't Hit the Dog" and it's from the episode "Arrivederci, Fiero."


Roswell. I've been watching Early Edition (and older show that I watched as a kid, I'll more about it later in this post) and I was complaining to my Dad that I was having trouble getting the episodes. He told me to watch Roswell. He told me that I'd be caught in 12 minutes. God damn, I didn't even make it to the title before I was hooked. I'm a very shallow person and I love Jason Behr as Max Evans. I've seen the entire first season, it's online for free at http://hulu.com/. Now I have to get my hands on the second and third seasons. I'm thinking I'll buy a set of all three seasons.

Early Edition. Early Edition is a show from the 90s about a guy who gets tomorrow's paper every morning. It starred Kyle Chandler (now in Friday Night Lights). Every morning he wakes up at 6:30am to find tomorrow's Chicago Sun Times and a cat sitting outside his door. I remembered watching this when I was younger and bought it when I saw the first season DVD set at WalMart. It was fun to rewatch it. I'm in season four now, almost finished.

21. I just finished watching the movie 21. I liked it. And I think this comfirms my love for Jim Sturgess, as if Across the Universe hadn't already done that for me.

Stargate Atlantis. I watched "The Seed" on Saturday. I'll be getting the new episodes from iTunes until I get back to school and have the SciFi channel. I liked the episode. It wasn't as good as "Search & Rescue" (though, really, how can you beat that episode?). I think it was because the episode was the introduction of Woolsey to the regular cast. Because they were trying to introduce him the main plot got pushed to the side. However, it had whump and that's a trend starting for this season that I'm fine with (really, I am!). Erin and I joke that SGA has added a new writer to the cast: a fanfic writer. Convulsions, surgery, internal bleeding. All in the first two episodes. We approve. Can't wait for the next episode. I haven't even seen the commercial for it.

Okay, it's thundering and lightning here, and I'm almost through with watching Dr. Horrible again, so I guess I'll finish this up and shut down.

To Izzi

I am sorry to say that I am no help at all in the fanfic department. While I do read a lot of fanfics (Supernatural and Stargate Atlantis, specifically) I tend more toward hurt/comfort fics. So if you ever need to find hurt!Dean stories, I'm your girl!! But I'm not really into Dean having a love interest unless the story is really well done. I will recommend "Like Us But On Horseback" by theplanetmary. It's not necessarily a love story, but there is a female character in it and she's pretty cool.

Like I said, if you ever find yourself in need of hurt!Dean fanfics I know where to dig them out of the woodwork. And if you get into Stargate Atlantis and need Shepwhump (hurt!Sheppard) stories I can help you out there too.

Thanks for reading. It's kinda cool know that people are looking at what I write.

Continue watching Supernatural, it's good stuff. I'm so excited and nervous about the season finale tomorrow.

Meg

P.S. ZOMG, Jensen is so hot!!

CW: Why Must You Give Us Heart Attacks?

The CW played a commercial for Reaper, that advertised that it would be playing TONIGHT at 9pm. I only had a minor heart attack, it's okay. The only reason I'm watching the CW tonight is because it's Thursday. In Meghan language Thursday means Supernatural. There's a new Supernatural tonight, but the CW played a Reaper commercial and I had to check on IMDb to make sure that tonight is when the new episode is planned. I'm right, the CW is wrong.

No more heart attacks, okay CW?!

Script Frenzy Warning Post

Dear Anyone Who Reads This Blog,
I apologize in advance for what you are about to have to endure (unless you just choose to stop reading my blog). Let me explain: Script Frenzy. I have already stated that I wish to participate in this endeavor (http://gotnothin.blogspot.com/2008/03/break-time-when-you-can-do-what-youve.html), but I don't feel that I've properly shouted it from the rooftops of my blog.

I AM DOING SCRIPT FRENZY IN APRIL. I WILL WRITE A 100-PAGE SCRIPT IN APRIL!!

</capslock abuse>. Now that I've gotten that out of the way I feel that I need to explain a little more about what this means for my blog. During the month of April I plan on posting more than I did in November when I did NaNoWriMo. I'll try to do, at least, weekly page counts. If I'm good I'll also post about character problems, plot holes, daily frustrations, and notes I'll be doing beforehand.
So, to sum this up. My blog is going to be taken over by Script Frenzy, just as in the past it has been taken over by Stargate SG-1, Supernatural, NaNoWriMo, Stargate Atlantis and probably Psych when there are new episodes for me to comment on and weeks to wait before new episodes.
What is this warning for anyway? If you read this you're probably already used to my obsessive behaviors.
My Sincerest (Early)Condolences,
Meg

My goal for tonight is to start an epic Stargate Atlantis marathon, not because I want to watch Stargate Atlantis (never! ), but because I want to take notes while watching on funny or effective lines or plots. That way I can better see what I like in tv shows.
And also because I really, really want to have a Stargate Atlantis marathon.

I'm Bored: Everyone Be Afraid

So, I'm at work and I'm bored, and I'm here, sitting at the Circulation desk for another three hours.

*time passes*

Okay, so now I've only got another hour and a half before I'm done with work and I can go watch tonight's new Stargate Atlantis. I really can't wait to see this episode, but I'm also a little worried about what I'm going to do with myself once I've watched it. Supernatural is done with new episodes until mid-to-late April, then it has like five or six new episodes and is done until season 4. On that note...YAY Supernatural's getting a season 4!!! W00T! This goes out to my friends who believed that it was going to get cancelled. Ha ha! You guys have to deal with another year of my obsession, at least one more year. . Psych is also done with new episodes, but I think they're going to continue to play repeats on USA. I don't really have to depend on that though, since I have both seasons on my laptop already.

I pity my friends a little. After tonight's episode of Stargate Atlantis they're going to have to deal with my withdrawl from all three of my favorite shows until the new episodes of Supernatural about a month and half away.

I'm getting very close to pulling out my laptop and making some icons. Actually, I'm going to do that right after I finish this post. I haven't written a post this long in a while. It's nice to just type whatever comes to mind.

Last week I submitted 6 icons to the JSheppStillness Icon Contest on LiveJournal (http://community.livejournal.com/jsheppstillness/). One of them got a Mod's Choice award. I was really excited. I'll post the icons I made on here eventually, but they're already up on my LiveJournal (http://meg1742.livejournal.com). I used the eight pictures that were given out for the contest and made 18 icons (I cropped like 47, but only 18 made it to a completely finished stage). Earlier this week I downloaded the new set of eight pictures from JSheppStillness for Challenge #2 and cropped out like 50 icons. Now I just have to mess with sharpness and color and play around with textures. I'll make as many as I can and then choose my favorite six to submit to the contest. I think that works out the best (at least for me).

Well, I guess that's all I've got for now. I'm gonna go make some pretty icons, and then squee over the pretty in Stargate Atlantis.

I'm Noticing A Trend

Recently I've been thinking about the guys I like to watch on tv and in movies. I call three of these guys my tv boyfriends.

My TV Boyfriends:
Jensen Ackles
Joe Flanigan
James Roday

Other guys I like to watch in tv shows and movies:
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Jared Padalecki
Jared Drake Bell

My Three Obsessions Right Now (yeah, all at once. I pity my friends too.):
Supernatural
Stargate Atlantis
Psych

I'm noticing a pattern. All the the I like to watch on tv and in movies have first names that start with "J". The letter "J". Also, I'm sensing a pattern in the shows I obsess about. Two patterns in fact. 1) They are all filming in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. 2) They all start with "S" sounds. Not the letter "S," because Psych clarly starts with the letter "P," but if you say the word "psych" it sounds like it should start with an "S".

NaBloPoMo in March?

I'm thinking of doing NaBloPoMo in March. They even have a cool theme that you can blog about: lists. Let's see if I can make a list right now.

Things I Want To Talk To My Family About When We Talk Tomorrow:
Not!Snow Day
My Classes
Friends
Supernatural and Stargate Atlantis (yeah, my family is as bad as I am)
Things to bring when they come up on Saturday
Things they've been doing for the last two weeks (I feel like it's been forever since we spoke, but it's only been a few weeks)
The epic music vid I found to the song "Somewhere A Clock Is Ticking"
The East House Dinner
East House being the best house ever

Lists are harder than I thought they would be. NaBloPoMo in March would be fun though. I'd like to give it another shot. I was able to write more than 50,000 words in November, but I forgot to post on the 4th day of the month.

Desktop Pictures I've Made Recently

Here are some desktop pictures I've made that I hadn't posted here.

If anyone is looking for my Excited Geek Art site it's at this address for now: http://learning.excited-geek.com/art/. I had to move it when I updated my main site.

Erin, your birthday card is in the "learning" subdomain as well.

This was the first Stargate Atlantis desktop picture I made. I didn't spend much time on it, I just wanted a Stargate Atlantis-themed wallpaper for my desktop. I have a picture of the city of Atlantis (maybe the same one I used in this wallpaper) as the background for my computer's second login (it's my writing account and the city of Atlantis is very inspirational for me).

This is the desktop picture I made last night. I needed a pretty John Sheppard wallpaper to replace the Evil!John wallpaper I was using (below). This isn't how I wanted this to turn out, but I can deal with it for now.

This desktop picture has been on my screen for a while. It's Evil!John Sheppard from the Stargate Atlantis episode "Doppelganger".

This is a cutdown version of a desktop picture I made for Erin's desktop. This is cut to fit my screen. The images are from the Stargate Atlantis season 4 episode "Doppelganger". Erin and I loved Evil!Sheppard. I think it only spent about a day or so on my desktop though before I moved on.

This is Meg from Supernatural in the episode "Devil's Trap". At first I wanted to add more to it, but I think it looks good how it is. This spent a weeek or so on my desktop.

Out of all the desktop pictures I've made, this is one of my favorites. It's Sheppard getting his ass kicked by Teyla in the Stargate Atlantis episode "Hot Zone".

Now I'm going to watch "The Dukes of Hazard" on tv. It's the newer one. The General Lee is a hot car. Maybe not as hot as Metallicar, but close.

I Can Haz Iconz?

Yes, I can haz icons. Lots of them. I got bored, and when I get bored I get creative (or scary). In this case I got creative. I made a lot of icons. Now I'm posting them here.

60 Icons
- 46 "Outcast" Icons (Stargate Atlantis)
- 1 "Travelers" Icon (Stargate Atlantis)
- 13 "Malleus Maleficarum" Icons (Supernatural)

47 "Outcast" Icons (Stargate Atlantis)

01. 02. 03.
04. 05. 06.
07. 08. 09.
10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15.
16. 17. 18.
19. 20. 21.
22. 23. 24.
25. 26. 27.
28. 29. 30.
31. 32. 33.
34. 35. 36.
37. 38. 39.
40. 41. 42.
43. 44. 45.
46.

1 "Travelers" Icon (Stargate Atlantis)

01.

13 "Malleus Maleficarum" Icons (Supernatural)

01. 02. 03.
04. 05. 06.
07. 08. 09.
10. 11. 12.
13.

So, that's what happens when I get bored. Fun, isn't it?

I have to say, I like how LiveJournal has tables. Tables are really nice for organizing icons. It took me a lot less time to post these icons to my LiveJournal than it has taken to post these here.

Link to my LiveJournal: http://meg1742.livejournal.com.