TV I have watched

Goodness Gracious Me
Goodness Gracious Me is a half-hour sketch comedy show about British Asians.

So far I've just watched the first series. I actually think maybe this is better suited to just watching clips on youtube than watching it in half-hour chunks. A lot of the sketches are very funny, but they also tend to have themes over the course of an episode and those often get run into the ground.

There's also a fair bit that goes over my head, but I did enjoy it and will probably watch the second and third series as well.

Andy Richter Controls the Universe
Andy Richter Controls the Universe is a sitcom starring Andy Richter, who is apparently Conan O'Brien's sidekick, but I never watch his show, so I had not actually heard of him. I did remember why I had wanted to watch this in the first place, though! It's by the same guy who did Better Off Ted and also stars Jonathan Slavin, who plays Phil on Ted.

I can see the similarities between the two shows, though Ted is way better. Slavin's character is awesome, though. He should be in more shows!

I have just watched season one so far, which is only six episodes (and season two isn't a full season, either). The first episode put me off a bit, as Andy comes off as a whiny Nice Guy, but I warmed to it pretty quickly (and he's not as bad as the first episode makes him seem) and there have been a lot of times I actually laughed out loud. I will watch season two for sure, but I certainly am not all broken up over it being cancelled. Not like with Better Off Ted. :(

Leverage
Leverage is back! In pog form! I watched the first four episodes of this season, but have been too lazy to post individual episode reactions. ( Sliiiiiiight spoilers )

Daily Happiness

1. I gave my mom the Sarah Connor DVDs yesterday and she was very excited. She said just the day before she'd been thinking about it and thinking it was such a long way til Christmas (I had originally told her I'd buy them for her for Christmas). So I'm glad I went ahead and bought them when I did. :)

2. Finally updated my lyrics site last night! It had been about a month, apparently. -_- How does time keep getting away from me like that?

3. I downloaded a bunch of new Japanese singles and albums last night: Amuro Namie, The Hiatus, Kouda Kumi, Spitz, Bump of Chicken, and Hey! Say! Jump. Now I just need to listen to them! (Well, I did listen to most of The Hiatus's album, and it was (unsurprisingly) good.)

Anyone have any recs for newish Japanese artists? Or just give me some recs for random artists in general. I always just download people I know. I used to hear so much new music by watching CDTV or whatever, but I never do that anymore, so I just stick to the same old favorites. (Maybe I should start watching CDTV again.)

Daily Happysong:

The Hiatus - My Own Worst Enemy
So far this is my favorite song off the new album. :D

Fic reviews: BSG, due South, Holmes, SGA, Sarah Connor, Simpsons

Battlestar Galactica

A Difference of Two by helens78 Rec
3300 words. Mature. When one of the Leobens challenges Anders to a one-on-one game of Pyramid, Anders takes him up on it. But Pyramid's a contact sport, and bruises aren't the only marks Leoben's leaving.

I'm not really familiar with BSG and only read this because I was betaing it, but I enjoyed it quite a bit. Someday I should watch BSG.

due South

You Don't Hate It (Then You Don't Hate It) by helens78 Rec
6500 words. Explicit. When Fraser and Ray need information about a missing musician, Ray sneaks them into a party where some old friends of Ray's are hanging out. It turns out one of them might have some information, but Lew Ashby isn't the kind of guy to let information slip without getting something of his own, and Ashby doesn't want money. Problem is, Ray doesn't trust Ashby completely, so he asks Fraser to step into the room with them and watch his back. And Ashby says Fraser can watch anything he wants...

This is a crossover with Californication, which I am also unfamiliar with, but you really don't need to know any canon there, except that Ashby is played by the same actor who plays Ray. Anyway, this is a sort of "undercover gay" scenario, which is not usually a cliche I like (both because it often goes hand in hand with Gay For You, but also because like Aliens Made Them Do It, it's them being forced together by circumstances, which is not my preferred way of getting characters together), but while the undercover sexing is what gets Ray and Fraser together, they are both already queer, so perhaps that's why I enjoyed this more. Also I was surprised by how much I liked Fraser here. It's in his POV and he's actually really funny.

Sherlock Holmes

Ablutions by damned_colonial Rec
950 words. PG. Holmes hasn't been home for two days. When Watson finds him, he's a mess, and Watson won't be seen in public with him unless he cleans himself up.

Yet another installment in the asexual!dom!Holmes series, though this one focuses more on Watson's desire to serve Holmes rather than Holmes actually being dommy.

Stargate: Atlantis

Constructing Wings to Fly by reddwarfer Rec
1400 words. PG. John never expected a disastrous job interview to be one of the best things to happen to him.

Cute high school/college AU where John and Rodney are both trans guys. :D

Want You (To Find Me) by busaikko Rec
1800 words. NC-17. The beer and the game and this conversation are exactly the terrible kind of seduction he would have expected from John.

Oooooh, non-AU fic where Ronon is ftm. I enjoyed this story a lot, but it also made me really want to know more about Satedan culture in this regard. So someone should write that. :D

Culture Thing by sabinetzin Rec
800 words. NC-17. Dating an alien: it's harder- and easier- than it looks.

Another John/Ronon fic. I liked this a lot. I love stories where people aren't perfectly in sync, but they make it work anyway.

Sarah Connor Chronicles

Out on the Wire by lithiumdoll Rec
60,600 words. Teen. Post-Born to Run, it's a long walk home.

This is a really amazing (and really long) fic that essentially functions as a third season. I enjoyed it a lot and found it fairly plausible, but as it neared the end I was feeling more and more dissatisfied. I am still reccing it because I think it's very much worth reading, but I feel like the ending was kind of a let-down.

( Spoilery stuff I liked and disliked. )

Hmm. I don't know. I did like it, but I think I went into it hoping it would be The Fic, the one that wrapped everything up for me and felt enough like canon that I could be satisfied, but instead it was just a fic. A well-written one, and an interesting one, but not something that had me going "omg this is my canon now!"

The Simpsons

What Remains by geonncannon Rec+
600 words. She closes her eyes and imagines she was sitting on the stairs again, watching her father sit with Mr. Flanders in the living room. She remembers her father's anger. "What happened to Marge, the thing that killed her! You won't find that in some book!"

Yes, it's a Supernatural fusion and it is so awesome. Very Simpsons. I love the little meta bits.