Saturday links

[selenak]

Back to insane business and feeling drained, but lucky for me, there are interesting posts to read before I sleep.

House

Cuddy and House meta Cuddy and House meta, spoilers up to the latest s5 episode. What she said!


The Pretender:

astrogirl2 is watching the show for the first time. I never was a passionate fan, but I enjoyed what episodes I saw and I did love Miss Parker. (No surprises there, if you know my character types.) So reading her reviews made me look for fanfiction again:

Heels: great Parker character portrait by drabble. No spoilers.

Roommates: a Buffy crossover in which we discover Miss Parker went to college with Jenny Calender. Lovely ironies abound. No spoiler for Pretender, definitely spoilers for the second season of BTVS.

Starved of Oxygen: Miss Parker and Jarod, the light side. Manages to be completely ic and yet give them a relaxed moment in between the usual Pretender angst. No spoilers beyond the basic set-up of the show.

The Distance That Keeps: Miss Parker, Jarod, and for that matter the rest of the ensemble: the dark side. This, by contrast, is darkfic of the purest oder. Has spoilers for all four seasons.


And lastly, no fandom:

An excellentJohn Simm interview, apropos a new historical miniseries, The Devil's Whore, which he's starring in. Also covers the rest of his career. There is a clip from the series - written by the same man who's responsible for Our Friends in the North, which is promising -, and the anecdote Simm tells about his son disguising himself as a Doctor Who character (not who you think) cracks me up.
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Comments

[selenak.livejournal.com]

In the second one, "Roommates"? What? I honestly don't know what you mean. *is confused*

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Whoops, I meant the third story you linked to. Which for some reason I clicked on second. I'm not mentally all here today, I think.

Anyway, this show is really frustrating when it comes to fic, because one of the most fun things about it is slowly piecing together the character backstories and stuff, but it means that stuff that happened 30 years in the characters' pasts can count as spoilery. And then there's things the characters don't even know about their own pasts in S1...

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Aha! *rereads third story for spoilers missed*

*is still clueless until it dawns; that would be the drawback of having watched the show out of order, with episodes of the third season first*

So in the first season, we don't know yet about - ah. Okay. Sorry. Did not realize. Mind you, it's just half a sentence, and the rest of the story really contains nothing but Australian vacation and banter. But I am sorry, knowing the value of remaining unspoiled.

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Heh. It's OK, actually. If we're even talking about the same thing, it's something I was already pretty sure was going to come up. So it really only spoiled me to the extent of encountering one intriguingly cryptic adjective entirely out of context. And if I can stay at that level of spoilerlessness, I'm doing fine. :)

But it really does point up the frustrating fact that the only sure way for me to remain at that level is to declare a moratorium on fic until I've finished the series. It's not your fault, it's the show's fault.

Stupid show. First it completely eats my brain, and then it teases me on top of it. *raises fists to the skies and curses its cruel and addictive name* :)

(And I will store this post in memories for when I do finish.)

[trobadora]

... and now I'm trying to figure out what's spoilery in that story. *scratches head*

[kernezelda]

It's a line about Miss Parker's family relations, I believe. Astro is just through with S1.

[trobadora]

Oh, right! I completely missed that. We barely knew anything at all in season 1, did we?