three things make a happy post

I guess I was wrong about not having internet! I'm still a nomad, though. I am just an exceptionally wired nomad.

1. I love Feminist Hulk so damn much that I am beginning to be tempted to get a twitter. I mostly have not done so already because I'm not much good at short things, and I don't really have enough free time for these newfangled fripperies anyway, and I get really easily addicted to shiny things. So I don't know! Those of you whose lives I follow anyway, do you have one? do you recommend that I join your twitter cult? if I did, would I get cool updates on your life that I can't get from Dreamwidth? Feminist Hulk alone cannot tip me to the tweet side, but it is possible you can.

2. I have managed to get my hot little hands on Babylon 5: The Gathering and the first bit of season one. Um. It was already madness to do episode meta on all of due South; there is no way I should do it for B5. Feel free to point and laugh if when I do a Gathering post this evening. /o\

3. KINK BINGO. I have been eyeing kink_bingo for about, mm, two years now, and not signed up because, IDK, I was doing things like Doctor Who season projects and due South commentary and Cliche Bingo. (The last of which, incidentally, I ended up writing Fraser/Kowalski bondage porn for anyway.) So this year, I actually signed up. ( My card! & um lots of talk of tentacles even though I do not have a tentacles square. )

there is a hole in your mind

Some of you may recall that last summer I did an epic due South rewatch (tagged here, with a couple of extras); it took me a diligent month and a half, with breaks for things like WisCon in the middle.

What I would like to do now is a bit madder.

I'd like to rewatch a show that is a self-contained world five miles long, weighing two million, five hundred thousand tons, and spanning a hundred and ten fucking episodes plus a ridiculous pilot film. It is the dawn of the third age of mankind, I've only got a handful of episodes with me at any given point, and if I'm remotely sane (and don't give up partway through) it should take me at least all summer. Today, Aria presents: a Babylon 5 rewatch!

I'll do more than one episode in each post (usually two to four, depending on how long my commentary gets); the pilot film gets its own, though. I should probably give some general header warnings going in, the most important of which is that this is going to be spoilery like a spoilery thing, and that if you have not seen this show, plan to, and are remotely allergic to spoilers, you should stay very far away. Less important warnings: I have massive alien favouritism (ie I will spend much more time deconstructing G'Kar, Londo, and Delenn than I will anyone else, and Londo is maybe one of my favourite characters ever); I will not hesitate to bewail anything that is 'acting' instead of proper acting; I will probably sometimes be blinded by my love for this show, and not pick out the problematic things I should.

Also, I want to keep track of how well each episode passes the Bechdel Test, so if I start forgetting to do that, poke me and I'll resume.

( The Gathering: In which Ambassador Kosh arrives and a mystery ensues; talk of foreshadowing, the things that change or don't between the pilot and the series proper, and a disproportionate amount of babble about Londo. )

Okay, what have I let myself in for? I'm going to bed. /o\