Life is a show I've been following, liked well enough but never fell in love with. A good thing, too, considering that like some other shows, it's in severe danger right now, and I have enough fannish angst about The Sarah Connor Chronicles. However, even if it doesn't get axed after all, I'm not sure I'd continue watching. ( The reasons why are spoilery for the season 2 finale in particular and the season in general. )

I suppose what it comes down to is what you're watching a show for. Some of the reasons why my affection for Lost grew instead of lessened over the years - other than watching the first three seasons on dvd each time and thus without interruption - was that a) I (almost) never felt the show did wrong by my favourite characters, b) most of the new characters it introduced post season 1 I liked, found interesting in varying degrees and in some cases came to love more than most of the original characters, and c) that major switch of direction at the end of s3, which rejuvenated the show creatively just when one could assume they had now played out all the plotlines the original format allowed. This impressed me and made me trust in the writers' creativity. Had I been watching for Shannon, for Boone, for Charlie etc., I probably would have felt differently. As it is, I'm still on a fannish high due to the most recent episode, which someone did a great pic spam for. And thus inclined to draw sparkly hearts around the crazy, crazy show.

Then there's Dexter. I remember being considerably upset at the end of season 2, not for the usual reasons (there was no decline of artistic quality, no sudden disregard of the ensemble in favour of a central romance, no female characters suddenly losing their agency or anything like that, and the conclusion the season arrived at was logical in terms of character and plot alike), but I was upset, and it took me until about a third or so into the third season until this had settled down. So it was very interesting for me to read londonkds' season 2 review (no season 3 spoilers, and don't spoil him for season 3 if you comment).

Am stuck with the Multiverse story and convinced the recipient will hate it. Alas.

So, meme time. Firstly, kangeiko tagged me to do this:

List five things that get you excited/happy/enthusiastic about life, in no real order, and tag 5 folks to do it.

Travelling. I dig travelling, which is fortunate since I have to do a lot of it professionally, but I really love it. Both the new and old sights to see and the process itself. I could live out of suitcases for months. In fact, I did that once or twice.

A new book by an author I love. (Same goes for new episodes of shows, so I won't cheat and list them extra.) Both the prospect of reading it and the smell of a new book. I tend to sniff and breathe it in.

Writing, if I feel I really captured a character or situation. It's an electric feeling.

Sitting next to a fire (in a fireplace, natch), in winter. It feels good and it appeals to my inner romantic each time.

Feedback. No matter whether in writing, verbally, or sensing an emotional response from an audience. It makes me hyper.

And I tag: honorh, andrastewhite, londonkds, kathyh, and altariel1.
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Secondly, andrastewhite, after ordering me to slap her if they remake Farscape in twenty or thirty years and she whines about Crais being female, came up with a fun new meme:

If they remake your show twenty years after the original, which character should they genderswap
for the update?

Now I have several shows, but one which I think could bear no sequel but could be something amazing in a re-imagining a la BSG 2003 - i.e. the basic concept is taken up but spun in a new direction - would be Blake's 7. So, bracing myself for outcries of protest: I'd swap Avon and Gan.. Making Avon female would undoubtedly incur the ire of Blake/Avon 'shippers, but the femslashers would be over the moon if she retained the same kind of relationship with Servalan in season 3 and 4. A female Avon would also get much more heat for the way he treats Vila, because "what a bitch" is rarely spoken in as admiring terms as "what a bastard", but then again, having the cynical no-nonsense character who really doesn't have a heart of gold, with a gift for witty and sometimes extremely cruel one liners, and a hidden obsessive streak be female could do interesting things to gender assumptions.

As for Gan: he basically was the gentle strong giant (though I've read at least one fanfic where it turns out he got that inhibitor because he was really a serial killer, and the "my woman got raped by a Federation guard" story was just a lie), and thus not coincidentally the first character to be killed off. But if the Hagrid of the B7verse was female, then again we'd have some interesting twists, and not just a strike for tall robust women everywhere. Gan is Vila's protector during those one and a half seasons he's around; would Vila relate differently to a female Gan? Would Blake and Avon? Or Jenna and Cally? Female characters who are good at fighting tend to come with fiery tempers on tv; how would a strong but essentically placid woman fare?

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Thirdly: kernezelda: IT WORKS! You remain a goddess. I bow in gratitude.