So, when I was wracked with insomnia last night, I caught up on tv.

Bones:

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The Vampire Diaries:

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Okay, so I got caught up and watched the first episode of the new season all in one gulp in the wee hours of this morning and I have thinky-thoughts:

About the end of season 1:

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About 2x01:

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 And since I'm talking about Naruto, I'll add this - you know last week's chapter?( Read more... )

I was wondering what possible deux ex machina the writers would pull out of their hats.

Apparently it was: Kahlan is incredibly bad ass.

redbrunja approves.

Although points off for the lame, pseudo-Dark Arts decorating scheme. Repeat after me, children: pentagrams mean protection.

Also, "unimaginable." I do not think that word means what you think it means.

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So I've got a new show. That I will actually be watching while sitting on the couch, on the actual television.

The show itself is The Vampire Diaries, which is like Twilight, if Twilight were actually good. ( I know, it's hard to grock.)

I kept hearing that TVD was so bad it's good, so bad it's good, until the last episode, in which people whose taste I trust were like, 'Okay, Red, it's good.'

If you don't believe me, you can read this or this or this.

To which I will add random thoughts:

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Okay, so I just finished watching the first season of Burn Notice with my mom.

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So, about half my flist is talking about True Blood right now, which means I'm giving it another try. I had watched three episodes and just watched the fourth and thought the music they used at the end was awesome.

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And finally, an adorable video with the two main stars:

gacked from penknife :

1.comment with any character you know I've written.
2. receive three bits of trivia about their sexuality: practices, preferences, experiences, fantasies, kinks, etc.
3. Profit!

All I have to say about the latest Naruto chapter is ( finally, something that irrritates me enough to post about this manga )

Okay, so I have a rocky relationship with the Sookie Stackhouse series.

They've never been ohmygod great but I've keep up with them. I really liked the first one, Dead Until Dark, and the next couple. However, imho, the books took a dive when around when ( spoilers begin here )

That said, I can't wait for the next Harper Connelly book, which is a series that is much darker and more entertaining than the Stackhouse books - it has a more realistic set-up, I really like the heroine's power and it has a romance ( spoilers )

Backstory: I found Alanna: The First Adventure when I was eight and it is the single most influential work of fiction of my entire life. I truly believe I would be a slightly different person if I had not read these when I did. I have reread this quartet so many times that years later and I still have chucks memorized (I also did this with the Immortals quartet - I took Emperor Mage with me to Hawaii and read it at least six times just in those two weeks.) Which is to say - I love these books on a deeply personal and subjective way.

However, it's been at least five years (probably more like eight) since I've given this series a reread. Partially because of time, partially because I was afraid they wouldn't hold up. They did.

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So... now it's time to get cracking on my reread of The Immortals Quartet. I was at the library a couple weeks ago and they had a couple of the whole series checked in, which seemed like a sign to me.