Lizardbeth's Tale

Possibly only rose_griffes will appreciate the awesomeness of this, but last night I had this moment of realization.

John Reese -- he of the show with the semi-sentient computer...

John Reese -- FATHER OF DEREK AND KYLE REESE y/y?

( Details! )

And, um, hi, new TVD friends! I would say I don't make up crack like this all the time, BUT THAT WOULD BE A LIE.

MY BRAIN. You're welcome.

Each year, as part of the Long Beach Grand Prix (one of the few car races in the US done on the city streets), Toyota runs the Pro/Celebrity race for charity. Last year, Brian Austin Green won, which was cool. And I certainly paid more attention to his race than I have before, with other celebs I'm not as much a fan of. (like, I vaguely knew when Keanu Reeves won a few years back but it wasn't as interesting)

However. This year? I'm scheming to actually attend, even though I know NOTHING about car racing. Because Michael Trucco's in the race. :D :D

( some pics and blathering )

Next thing you know I'll be getting a motorcycle thanks to all my celeb crushes... :)

If you wanna give me a name, here's where you leave it.

In no particular order, ten "facts" about:

( Sam Anders - BSG )

( Talia Winters - B5 )

( Derek Reese - TSCC )

( Kyle Reese 2.0 - TSCC )

( Dean Winchester - Supernatural )

More later!

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FYI: Superman/Batman: Public Enemies -- the animated direct-to-dvd movie - SLASHIEST THING EVER.
"You killed my boy best friend, you bastard!"
Frantic clutching, near-death experiences, tearful farewells, and some rather arch dialogue.

Author: lizardbeth_j
Rating: R
Wordcount: ~10,000
Summary: The Resistance investigates a strange new Skynet facility in Topanga Canyon.

Notes: Written for sabaceanbabe (you may commence giggling now, SBabe! I know I did when I saw we were writing for each other!) for scc_reloaded. I am so sorry for the lateness and I hope it's worth it! Thank you to the loverly ancarett for the beta. And thanks to jebbypal for running the ficathon.

This story takes place immediately after Born to Run, in the alternate future, and utilizes a few characters from Terminator Salvation.


( Numbered Days )


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First, I will preface this by saying that during this movie was the ONLY time this entire fucking weekend my head hasn't been killing me.

So you will not be surprised that I liked it.

( POPCORN AND LOTS OF SPOILERS AHOY! )

Speaking of Terminator, I gotta start my scc_reloaded fic. One of these days. Soonish.

So. Judgment Day came today.

No Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles on the schedule. DAMN YOU, FOX.

Though it's not a big shock. In fact, it's kind of appropriate for a show that deals with fate and termination.

But I want to address something that I've seen mentioned in a few places that it doesn't make sense because Dollhouse's ratings were worse. But that's not all that's going on there.

If the choice was ever really between Dollhouse and TSCC, that's no choice at all for Fox.

( IT'S ALL ABOUT THE MONEY )

But even though I get it and I've been sure this was gonna happen for quite awhile, it still sucks.

At least there is fic. *sniff*

( SPOILERS )

I'm gonna go find my copy of last night's Supernatural, and be glad I have my pretty boys staring agog at Wincest for a laugh.

I can't take all my various angsty WIPs right now.

What a crappy bust of a weekend. wah. On Friday, besides feeling generally mildly icky, I also managed to pull something in my lower back, so the rest of the weekend was spent trying not to sit for too long and gingerly stretching to keep it from stiffening up (and getting MrLiz to rub my back,which was not a bad thing *g*). The several hours in the car didn't help but at least today I don't have to go take drugs, so it's better.

I watched a bunch of t.v. from a rather odd position on the floor or the couch - BSG and caught up on TSCC and Burn Notice.

For Deadlock, just briefly, since everyone else has already gone into such detail and I'm late to the party -- I think the basic story was fine, but the editing was incredibly frakked. It put emphasis where it shouldn't have been, and cut out or made implicit what should have been explicit. Like losing the parts about the Centurions and the marines? BAD CHOICE. We can only connect the dots if we have them, and here they were both cut, so we're left with spackling it ourselves. Which I find kind of fun (and it wasn't that hard here, since the solutions were pretty obvious), but I shouldn't have to, especially for things that are so fundamental to the decisions made within the show. Another, different cut would do wonders for the episode, IMO.

For SCC, we watched the last two eps back to back. The 8 o'clock timeslot is bad for us, since that's kidlet bedtime, so we always miss the first half, and have to go back and see it from the beginning later. ( spoilers for Good Wound and Desert Cantos )

On Burn Notice -- Hello there, Mark Sheppard. Again! When even hubby remarks on the BSG crossover actors, perhaps it's time to ease up.... But as always, it's frothy fun.

A few Many notes on Holy Thursday, Day of Judgment ...

( for the curious... )

okay, tl;dr, I know. :)

I managed to survive without LJ. Phew! It's still loading slowly for me, but at least it's there.

I keep finding scenes that I never QUITE finished. gah. I'm not quite as close to a complete draft as I thought. But still two major scenes plus some two or three left to clean up, that's all! \o/

Terminator:SSC ; I missed the first half so I need to rewatch, but I just want to repeat what I said yesterday on IM: Stephanie Jacobsen was really strikingly beautiful last night, and I am madly jealous of her hair and making out with Derek . And he was really hot in all his hardcore crazy. It's not good for him, but I like the way she brings out his trauma in a way that he kind of suppresses for John and Sarah. Oh Ellison, man, are we gonna be sorry Chromartie spared you?

The new Star Trek trailer makes me a bit more confident that it's not going to suck. Like the blogger at TWOP said, JJ Abrams does know how to make the first two hours of anything pretty compelling. So... *crosses fingers* (The Young!Kirk part is, however, lame)

Kidlet and I went out to get Wall-E today, so I know what our evening viewing is going to be!