stuff & nonsense (i.e. why isn't today Friday?)

[xparrot]

trinityofone is running a Fannish Bulwer-Lytton Contest, the point of which being to write the most excruciatingly bad opening line for a fanfic you can conceive of. It's cross-fandom (though SGA-heavy) and there's some doozies. My fave of the moment is siriaeve's, "But it's still early," the raven-haired colonel said to his lover, smiling with all his rarely-hidden emotion visible on his face, "We have not yet had time to coax sweet music from our flutes of love." Yes. FLUTES OF LOVE.

I mention this mainly to distract myself from the awful fact that it is not yet Friday night. (Well, Saturday night for me, but Friday for everyone on the other side of the globe, who actually can get SciFi channel.) I may have watched the previews for "The Shrine" a few more times than is healthy. But...there will be CARRYING! And there will be Jeannie! And conversations on the pier with beer! and...potentially regrettable amounts of Keller. But Woolsey all worried! And possibly (from the MGM pics) Teyla's hand on Rodney's forehead! And John with his arm around Rodney!! And did I mention the CARRYING?!
...This is why I don't like spoilers, there's no way the ep can live up to these expectations! (but it can try...please, try?)

(And this is nothing to say of the fingernail-biting that comes from having 35,000 words that could potentially get jossed by the ep. Well, not most of them. But some of the important ones. So not fair, I started this thing back in January! Why do I write so slowly sometimes? argh!)

ETA: (Also, concerning the previews, I'm trying to determine which voice over is worse. They're both impressively atrocious. SciFi's might win, only because in what universe does, "Is the only cure a death sentence?" make sense in?)

Son of ETA: Brokeback to the Future!!!
(...where do I admit that the first BttF movie is one of my earlier and cherished h/c-lover epiphanies? ...SHUT UP IT WASN'T LIKE THAT. I was in 4th grade! My love was pure and slash-free! Still, this is so wrongly right...)

Comments

[jadesfire.livejournal.com]

YES! A thousand times yes! If that's all I get, this episode will have met my expectations. At the moment, that scene in Tao wins everything. We may have a new gold medallist...

Ooooh, are you going to the con that's causing others to miss it (whatever con that is?)
Oh, I wish. I just won't have the chance to DL it - I'm in the UK - until Monday, so I'll be tiptoeing round the flist for a few days. That's normal, I just get bouncy about it when it's a Rodney episode and one that looks keboard-smashingly good! I'm gonna try to get it on saturday, but probably won't have time :S The other half likes Atlantis, but I think squeeing is too unmanly. Or something. It really isn't the same watching it on your own, but it's better than not watching at all!

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Ahhh yes...I'm in Japan, so have to DL as well, and occasionally my 'net acts up and I can't get it until Sunday. Except I'm going away this Sunday/Monday, so it's Saturday or bust! (is there any way I can help you get hold of it? Bittorrent often has problems, so I usually get it through direct download via Megaupload or the like, I could pass on the link?)

[jadesfire.livejournal.com]

That's sweet, thanks - I normally grab it from a regular place that has multiple copies (also MU), but if I have problems, I'll come running back! Much appreciated :)

I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that we get the net at all - we're due to be connected tomorrow, but if we don't, I'm on holiday ALL next week and therefore away from the work broadband. Meep! Our ISP is going to be getting the fiery emails of doom if they don't get to us in time...