Castle, Doctor Who Vid, and YA Fantasy

[lodessa]

Last night we watched Castle, and we laughed out loud and enjoyed it greatly. Seriously Nathan Fillion I adore you forever (see: sitting through Slither and not hating him at all in Waitress) and it was so nice to just enjoy something for being enjoyable. Of course that just made me wish Dollhouse was better than it is (not hating on, just underwhelmed). Seriously, David Boreanaz, Summer Glau, Alyson Hannigan, and Nathan Fillion are all rocking the shiny awesome new shoes and Eliza Dushku can't? When she is the one with Joss Whedon? I call foul.


Here, have a Doctor Who gen vid to Regina Spektor (spoilers for Season 4): The Call


Also, I just finished up reading Allison Croggon's Pellinor Series and while there is definitely room for it to have been more awesome, I found myself super pleased it existed. It is, at last, a book one can give to a teen/tween girl that is an epic fantasy with a female hero, which is both totally safe in both the sense of it does not espouse messed up gender/relationship ideas (I'm looking at you Twilight) and that it has no possibly protective parent angering content (much as I like the sex and multiple partners in The Lioness Quartet). Also I really loved the characters and sort of wanted to write fic about them while reading last night. So next time you are looking for something give a young lady in your life, I strongly suggest these books.

Comments

[caitiedidit.livejournal.com]

Oh no, is that his new show where he is a crime writer? I totally intended to watch that.

That's the only bad thing about TiVo; when you don't watch the commercials, you never know when anything is new/premiering.

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

It is indeed. I only remembered because there was a preview when we went to the movies to go watch Liam Neeson be awesome last week.

[caitiedidit.livejournal.com]

What time does it come on? Mondays? That is bad, because I have Chuck and Gossip Girl on Mondays.

Why is there nothing on Wednesdays? I hate everything on Wednesdays. It should be on a Wednesday.

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

It's on at 10 on Mondays.

Wednesdays have Life on for me, but it was better when Bones was also on Wednesdys. It would be awesome to have Bones ->Life ->Castle on Wednesdays.

For me, Tuesdays are the deadest day.

[beck-liz.livejournal.com]

There's a rerun of this week's show on Saturday night, if you want to catch up. On ABC.

[caitiedidit.livejournal.com]

Awesome. Thanks for letting me know!

[hamsterwoman]

*makes a note of Pellinor Series* (Eventually L's got to outgrow Magic Tree House and My Secret Unicorn and their ilk and be ready for real fantasy... right?)

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

They'd make a good step one the long road to LotR, since they very much fall under that "epic quest to save the world from the Evil Overlord who already pretty much destroyed the world a thousand years ago and now has come back to finish it off" genre. A good step between even them and Magic Tree House would be Llyod Alexander's Chronicles of Prydian series.

Sigh. There are so many really wonderful fantasy books for children and young adults and now I am thinking about them all and wishing I had more contact with children so I could expose them to them all. Especially watching them all read terrible things like the Twilight garbage instead makes me sad.

[hamsterwoman]

I actually tried slipping The Book of Three into her stack of A to Z Mysteries or whatever, but it didn't take. (Neither did Narnia, which I'm not at all upset about, as given all the fantasy out there, Christian allegory is the furthest down on my list of things I'd like her to be reading.) But I'm hoping she'll come around. I read Chronicles of Prydain when I was 13, I think, and still really enjoyed the series, so I know it'll keep. (I've been eyeing the Tortall books, too, but, as you said, I think the Lioness books are a bit too out there for an age when they're still all "EWW, cooties!" about heterosexual hugging.

I'm really sincerely hoping the creepy Twilight craze will have solidly died down by the time L hits that age bracket...

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

Well, the Alexander books are about a BOY so that might be too much of a turn off at this point. I'm not quite sure exactly the right age for it, but you should really try to get her to read Wise Child at some point in the future, no icky boys there. Also, there's always the Wrinkle in Time books.

Twilight seems so lacking in actual good qualities that I can't imagine it won't have faded by then.

[silver-fic.livejournal.com]

What did you think of Waitress as a whole? I can't remember if we have discussed this before.

Yay for love of Castle, I don't think I have ever liked a show that much in one episode, except possibly Reaper and Pushing Daisies. I have faith that they will find a way to fuck it up, but yeah ^_^

You like Terminator and do not like Dollhouse? Or are you referring to the fact that Dollhouse is tanking in the stats while Terminator is on it s way to season three? And David Boreanez and Alyson Hannigan have both been on there new shoes for something like five years. Um, did you mean to type shoes? Because I actually didn't and that's what came out anyway. Nathan Fillion doesn't count as rocking it until he survives a complete season of his new show.

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

I really liked Waitress. It was one of the nicest movies I'd watched in a long time... just felt right.

I suspect Castle will be okay, at least for a while, because they have the backbone procedural structure to fall back on, also Nathan Fillion is hard to mess you, he's just super charismatic.

Terminator has really been awesome this season (the only show in it that exceeded my expectations) and Dollhouse so far... well I don't dislike it but it's been pretty underwhelming so far. I mean it has the potential to go more interesting and exciting places than Castle but so far there are mere hints of awesome and mostly mediocre writing and plots and typical shiny that I am honestly only still watching because of Eliza Dushku (I see little to no Joss Whedon touch to it at all). However, I still have hope because Tru Calling pretty much was tacky and awkward to start with and ended up being awesome.

I mean to say shows not shoes, but mainly I was just talking about former Joss actors currently doing awesome things. See if Dollhouse was super awesome and got canceled I'd bitch about that and curse Fox, but right now it almost feels to me like they want to fail. So I didn't mean ratings, I meant quality.