We who sit and wait

[gwyn]

My grumpiness continues, as I sit and wait for about 30 separate huge, complex, and detailed files that I have to send to print and proof today, till long into the night and tomorrow night. I hate this hurry up and wait crap, where I'm paralyzed and chained to my desk and completely at the mercy of the production folks.

At least, though, I am not having siezures or going for emergency CT scans or waking up to a dead partner beside me, as has happened to people I know over just this past weekend. I can't believe the terrible things friends have gone through. I did break my little finger, but since I break bones on a seemingly regular basis (though, oddly, I don't really bruise much and the fingers/arms/toes don't really swell), it's not that big of a deal, and hard to tell except for the excrutiating pain when I type (and if my typing is even worse than normal, please forgive me). When I broke my arm a couple years ago, the doctor said he'd never have known it until the x-ray, because there was no bruising at all, and no discernable swelling. Which is weird, because I bruise if you look at me hard, but I think it has to do with how little circulation I have in my farthest appendages. Like, if I'd broken the arm nearer the elbow than to my scrawny wrists, I'd have had big-ass bruises and would swell to pumpkin size. But I'll take a broken or cracked bone, or even a really bad sprain (which, I think, hurt worse than broken bones), over siezures any day!

So, while I wait to wait, I gakked this from tzikeh because it's mindless and amused me. She listed out shows she has been fannish about over time, and I wondered if I could ever even do that. I know I'll forget some, but what the heck, it's worth a try.



The ones in bold, like tzikeh's, equal shows I didn't just follow religiously, but participated in some way, from archiving to listing to writing to vidding. And also like her, I wonder what ties them together -- because, really, nothing. There's no common thread to what I like and what hits me enough to tip me over into fannishness. This list is about half of what I've watched and loved, but I didn't feel fannish about. Saw every episode of Cheers, for instance, but I would not call myself fannish over it. And this doesn't even go to movies, which is another ball o wax. I'm pretty sure if I saw eps, I'd like Jeremiah and Odyssey 5, and I'm only just started with Carnivale, so am anxious to see if that turns into something good.

Alias
Alias Smith and Jones
Angel
Anything But Love
The American Embassy
The Avengers/New Avengers
The Associates

Band of Brothers
Bakersfield PD
Birds of Prey
Brideshead Revisited
Brimstone
Buddy Faro
Buffy the Vampire Slayer

C-16
Cracker (UK)
Crime Story

Da Vinci's Inquest
Danger UXB
Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
Doctor, Doctor
Due South

EZ Streets

Firefly
Frank's Place

Gilmore Girls
G vs E (Good vs Evil)

Harsh Realm
High Chaparral
Hill Street Blues
Homicide: Life on the Streets
Horatio Hornblower

It Takes a Thief

Keen Eddie

La Femme Nikita
Laredo

The Magician
Magnificent 7
Mann & Machine (Shut. Up.)
Max Headroom
MDs
MI-5 (Spooks)
Miami Vice
Mission: Impossible
Mod Squad
The Monkees (I said shut. up. I was a kid.)
Monty Python
Moonlighting

Northern Exposure
Now and Again

Oz

Private Eye
The Professionals
Profit

Queer Eye for the Straight Guy

Reilly, Ace of Spies
Robbery Homicide Division
The Rookies

Second Sight
Secret Adventures of Jules Verne
Sharpe's
The Shield
South Beach
Space: 1999
St. Elsewhere
Square Pegs
Star Trek (original and nouveau)
Strange Luck

Tarzan (this year)
Tenspeed and Brownshoe
Timetunnel
24

UC Undercover

Veritas: The Quest
VR 5

Wild Wild West
Wiseguy
Without a Trace
Witchblade
WKRP in Cincinnati
The Wonder Years

Xena Warrior Princess
The X-Files

And if you ever wondered just how sad and scary I really am, now you know!

Comments

[tiashome.livejournal.com]

At least, though, I am not having siezures or going for emergency CT scans or waking up to a dead partner beside me, as has happened to people I know over just this past weekend.
That's just awful ... All of a sudden cancer has hit people I know (or their relatives) at work and on LJ pretty hard. It's bad :-(

I did break my little finger,
Oh no! Glad you're not in a lot of pain ... and your typing is just fine, btw ;-)

Reilly, Ace of Spies
Yes! I adored that series (and especially Sam Neil). Did you ever write fanfic for that show?

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

You know, I would bet that if they came out with a box set of Reilly and I watched it again, start to finish, I'd be interested enough again to vid or write. *Man* that show rang my chimes! Incest! Spying! Torture! Sam Neill! It had everything, plus an incredible theme.

[dragolyn.livejournal.com]

waking up to a dead partner beside me, as has happened to people I know over just this past weekend.

God, how awful. My sympathies towards this person. I can't even imagine.

*says nothing about The Monkees* :P

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

It has been the wierdest weekend for so many people, just bad weird all the way around. I'm hoping that it means things are only going up.

I was a kid! I loved the Monkees! It was my first "rock" record, too -- my sister was in love with Davy, of course, but I had a thing for Mike and Mickey.

[destina.livejournal.com]

Be not grumpy, o fabulous and talented vidder...

:-D

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

Heee... they finally brought me my files so now I'm waiting for less, which makes me smile amost as much as your Sam icon!

[lordshiva.livejournal.com]

Despite all the horrible-ness of other stuff in this post - the fact that you put the shows in alphabetical order totally cracked me up. I was going to do it chronologically. Starting with Top Cat and The Flintstones. Sleeping Beauty (Disney version. I asked for a received a Sleeping Beauty cake for my 5th birthday and tried very hard to control my obsession to eat the prince's sugary head.)

They should be chronological. I want you to go back and reorganize them chronologically now.

go on. Do it.

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

::falls over and dies at the prospect::

It would be easy to start -- I mean, Monkees first, and then Laredo and Wild Wild West and such. But by the time you get into the 70s, the trouble starts, and then! The 80s -- fuhgeddaboudit.

Top Cat -- the undeniable leader of the gang!

[killabeez.livejournal.com]

I didn't forget about sending you eps! Didn't! I'm sorry, my mailing has gotten behind. They're in a box! On my kitchen counter! Even though this helps you not at all, I just thought you should know.

{{sorry}} about your finger! Ow.

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

Hey, seriously, it's not a problem, especially with the dvds coming out. I have this inkling that I would like the show, just based on your vids and the whole post apocolypse thing, but I have so darn much stuff to watch now as it is (witness severe TV obsession), that I don't want you to even stress. Really!

The bad thing about the pinky is that I have no good excuse not to work. With my arm, I could wave my cast around and go, see? Can't type. But this stupid finger isn't enough.

[glassslipper.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry about your finger! I hope your day gets better. :)

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

It did! I managed to get out of the office before the last bus home, which was great, because I was afraid of having to take a taxi. I hate cabs except in London. So fingers be damned, I got home in time for my show!

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I forgot Witchblade!!

And dude, I won't mock you for the Monkees. I was a Monkees fan. "Right. Sandwiches. Yeah."

And I have this to say about Carnivale - you have to give it the full first season. Do not bail in the first bunch of episodes. If you watch the entire season and aren't hooked, I'll refund your money. ;)

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

So far you, me, and Killa have admitted to the Monkees love. So I feel better now. I went back and looked at your list again and there it was! Striped pants and scarves never looked so good.

And dude, covers of I'm a Believer? Feh. The original is always the best.

[barkley.livejournal.com]

Finally! Someone else who acknowledges that C-16 exists. We are talking about the short lived FBI Eric Roberts thing that was on in the late 90s, right?

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

C-16 blew me away in that first ep. And the subsequent, what, three? Weren't as strong, but I got the feeling it was getting its feet just when it disappeared. I hate ABC almost as much as I despise and loathe CBS. That was also, if I remember correctly, the first American show to employ letterboxing. I remember both Jo and I commenting on that when we watched it at a local get together -- one more cool show, down the tubes. I looked for a long time for anyone who'd taped the eps so I could get copies, but never found them.

[molly_may]

I loved Strange Luck, and had a massive crush on DB Sweeney, and was heartbroken when it was cancelled by Fox. In that same deathtrap of a timeslot, I also loved VR5, though in retrospect I'm glad it was cancelled, because otherwise Anthony Stewart Head would still have been playing Oliver Sampson when the role of Giles was cast.

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

Supposedly my friend has copies but she never shows them to me. I always loved the one that referred to Agent Mulder.

DB Sweeney is my big woobie bear. I adore him. I own a copy of Cutting Edge just to gaze upon him at his best. Sigh.

[onetwomany.livejournal.com]

Oh, Due South! I loved that show. Now I have a yen to go find fiction...

And ::hugs:: about your sucky day. Evil work.

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

There's a lot of good DS fic out there. Depending on which Ray you prefer Fraser with, if you like slash, you can find certain authors who write one exclusively, and so there's usually at least some kind of choice. Far too many het things demonize some of the women on the show, but overall, I found many stories I liked, and I could steer you to some writers if you let me know what you're interested in.

[kathyh]

Sorry to hear about the finger and the overall bad news.

Another Alias Smith and Jones and High Chaparral fan. I loved those two series. They've reshown both of them here (UK) reasonably recently and both stood up to the test of time very well. Another reason that I mourned the loss of Firefly was that it was the closest I've been able to get to a western for years.

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

I just love a good western. A cable channel here in the states has been running HC, so I've got a season pass for it. I'd never actually seen some of the final episodes, and there was one that kind of made me go, whoa! It was a rather slashy ep with Buck and Mano... I mean, truly one of the slashiest scenes I've ever watched, and I was kind of thinking, this was the 70s? I'd mostly been a fan of the early days eps, with Blue still around, and such.

And AS&J was never the same after Pete Duel's death, but... damn, I loved that show. Gotta love me them westerns. I guess that's partly why I'm so crazy for Mag 7 -- I wish so much it had succeeded on CBS here. Sigh. You might like it, if you're mourning westerns on TV. I heard there was a fairly large following in the UK for it, but I only know one person right now.

[kathyh]

It was a rather slashy ep with Buck and Mano... I mean, truly one of the slashiest scenes I've ever watched, and I was kind of thinking, this was the 70s?

Believe it or believe it not I have read Buck/Mano slash (in a zine) so you definitely aren't the only person to have seen that *g*.

I'd mostly been a fan of the early days eps, with Blue still around, and such.

Yes, me too, really, though the later episodes weren't bad. I must admit on a rewatch I did Blue intensely irritating, which was a bit unfortunate. I'm a Buck and Mano girl at heart (or even Buck/Mano *g*).

And AS&J was never the same after Pete Duel's death, but... damn, I loved that show.

Oh so did I. I wept buckets when Pete Duel died, and then I did again when I rewatched it. Such a waste of a talented actor.

I must have missed Magnificent 7 when it was on here. We have so many channels it's difficult to keep up, but I'll definitely look out for it.