Missed opportunities

In this quick update I note that the Fandom Steel Cage Match March Madness has been won by Joan Watson. That's something for such a new fandom. I'm happy with the fandom once again pushing female characters to the top. Sometimes it feel nice to be reminded it's not all about the hate.

The io'9 poll for The Greatest Sci-Fi Shows Ever! has finished the 16 stage and all Star Treks, and Doctor Who are still in the running. But with Farscape and T:TSCC gone I don't really care that much which one of them will get the final price.

The Doctor is no longer in the running in the Suvudu 2013 Cage Match. He lost to Gandalf in round 2 and now it's pretty clear Gandalf is going to win this. And the only thing I'm sad about is that Bene Gesserit are loosing to Inigo Montoya in round 3. They have the Voice. And prana-bindu training. Generally I think that the idea to use only classic characters (and movie/TV ones) was not a good one. The poll numbers are pretty low and people just don't seem so excited about it despite Gandalf and Doctor being in it. For me the best part of previous ones were the match-up descriptions written by the authors themselves. It just made everything more fun and exciting. Like official fanfiction or something. Even if it lead to poll stuffing by fans.

Thursday TV Watching

I loved today's Community episode. I thought 1st was OK, 2nd was boring but I loved this one. I actually LOLed. Loud.

From Britta's escape routine (with rope and curling iron stop) to the Inspector Spacetime convention (with Matt Lucas and Tricia Helfer (after yesterday's Baltar and Tory reuninon on Archer I'm saturated with BSG)). The Abed/Troy relationship with Troy being jelous and Abed realising he needs him more then he need Toby even though they have those perfect conversations when you just know what the other person is thinking. I actually squeed at Tricia playing a fan on convention. And Jeff not believing pretty women can be sf show fans was so true and so was hate for sole female Inspector Minerva.

The only part I wished was bit different was that female characters were just a support girlfriend/wife/one very important but ignored sentence about smart shows and intelligent audience. Especially Annie storyline - she has tendency to get lost in her fantasies but she did cosplay for IS with Troy and Abed before so why couldn't she be lost in fandom instead of dreaming of being a wife?

But I loved everything else - even though I feel guilty of objectifying Joel McHale - Bow Before Thoraxis! And the ending with an American adaptation exactly to Pierce specs with BH 90210 actors just killed me. Now we know Pierce is to blame for everything.

Then I watched Person of Intrest and Sarah Shahi. I was all happy with the return of Root last week (YAY - my favourite evil mastermind) but today they also added Shaw to the mix and it was awesome (including torture porn between the two). I almost wished they become a team - to mirror Harold and John - but Root is to antisocial and twisted (and just hates people) and Show has values and morals and cares about people no matter what she says (she let the nice policeman live, she let Louis go, she saved the project because it saves people, cared about her partner). Shahi was awesome. This reminded me why I loved Dani Reese so much and how it still amazes me how Shahi - being tiny woman she is - is still so convincing as badass. I totally belive she could kick ass of all those big dudes. I think it's the determination you see in her. And she used a guy to break her fall. She kind of made me wish we got her instead of John (sorry, John). And of course it was nice to see what Machine does in its work hours (I just don't understand how the numbers system helps outside US - so many numberin systems, so many people without numbers).

Then Elementary had both genetics and Polish in it - to things relevant to my life. I squeed a little and then wondered how much they paid to get it on the show when I saw Ion Torrent PGM in the lab the murdered scientist had in her house. Her own, personal, high throughput sequencer (one of the cheapest you can get but still). It's weird to see such a familiar and really used in mentioned science things on TV shows. Then was the dry cleaners part with long stretches of dialogue in Polish. The accent and pronunciation was almost perfect. The grammar and idioms sometimes sounded like automatic translation. But it was still funny. I don't remember the whole thing to translate exactly but she was telling Joan to go away (told the guy to ask for a lot of money so Joan won't come back), called her stupid and nosy (multiple times), said she didn't want her there (got angry for not being allowed to watch her shows that sounded Russian for some reason in peace) etc.

I skipped TVD - I only watched Caroline/Tyler and Rebekah moments last week and fastforwarded through the rest. I didn't even care today. Internet will let me know who lives, who dies and who is resurrected.