![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Entry tags:
TV Meme and other thoughts
England's performance on Friday was so dismal and dire that I couldn't even work myself up into a proper fury. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thessalian was standing by with the Cushion of Mighty Punching in case it was needed for me to vent on, but the most I could manage was a "Bah!" and a brief flail. If we go out, I hope to goodness the fingers get pointed at the bunch of over-paid players who looked like they didn't want to be there. IT'S THE FREAKIN' WORLD CUP! If you don't want to be there, wearing the colours of your country, you're in the wrong sport! I don't care how tired they are or how out of sorts they feel, they should be digging in and flinging themselves at the games with all their heart and soul. Smaller teams with less chances of advancement are showing us how it's done! Feh. Useless articles, the lot of them.
I haven't squeaked about my shiny new shower! It's shiny! And new! And there is honest-to-god water pressure!!! *flails* The novelty! I can stand under it and actually get wet!!! *swoons* I shall be using the plumber I found again, too. I saw a link in the comments to a flist post a while back to a company run by a retired female plumber who has a network of active female plumbers and will put you in touch with someone locally. Which is how I found Harriet and Thess assures me she was competent and brisk. Excellent! Oh and the price? Fantastic. For the purchase of a new power shower, installation, removal of old gunky shower, installation of isolation valve to cold water pipe to shower (so we don't have to turn the water off at the mains to work on it again in the future) ? Under £200. That was about 2 hours of work, too, including actually going out and buying the shower. Oh yes, 'm using her again. I want a quote for ripping out and replacing the rest of the bathroom. :)
And so, Day 14 of the TV Meme! I'm amazed I've kept going this long but it helps that half of my flist seems to be doing it too :)
Favorite male character
This was harder than I thought, considering I love me some pretty and I'm quite content for shows to be all about the pretty (Y hallo thar NCIS:LA and Legend of the Seeker!) But on thinking it through, I realised that it's the strong female characters who resonate with me more these days (which tomorrow's meme going to be a giant PITA). However that said, there are still male characters that I've rooted for past and present. So I present to you my top three :)
1) My first TV Crush :) The delectable Detective Dave Starsky. What I liked about the character was he was frequently set up as the clown, the joker. But was also often shown as being frighteningly competent and smarter than he acted. Gotta love that.
2) Sometimes it's the secondary characters I love best. Here's my favourite, Special Agent Colby Granger (Numb3rs). When he came on board in S2, he immediately became a fan favourite to the point he was finally added to the cast for S3. He made David Sinclair a more interesting character just by being there. Had a great way with a snarky one liner too.And he looked darn good without a shirt
3) And it wouldn't be a list of mine if there wasn't one bad but redeemed character in there :D Meet Lietuenant Tom Paris (ST: Voyager). One of the more colourful characters on Star Trek, he gradually matured throughout the show in a rare display of competence and consistency by ST show runners. I loved the episodes where he got to be a hero :)
thessalian was standing by with the Cushion of Mighty Punching in case it was needed for me to vent on, but the most I could manage was a "Bah!" and a brief flail. If we go out, I hope to goodness the fingers get pointed at the bunch of over-paid players who looked like they didn't want to be there. IT'S THE FREAKIN' WORLD CUP! If you don't want to be there, wearing the colours of your country, you're in the wrong sport! I don't care how tired they are or how out of sorts they feel, they should be digging in and flinging themselves at the games with all their heart and soul. Smaller teams with less chances of advancement are showing us how it's done! Feh. Useless articles, the lot of them. I haven't squeaked about my shiny new shower! It's shiny! And new! And there is honest-to-god water pressure!!! *flails* The novelty! I can stand under it and actually get wet!!! *swoons* I shall be using the plumber I found again, too. I saw a link in the comments to a flist post a while back to a company run by a retired female plumber who has a network of active female plumbers and will put you in touch with someone locally. Which is how I found Harriet and Thess assures me she was competent and brisk. Excellent! Oh and the price? Fantastic. For the purchase of a new power shower, installation, removal of old gunky shower, installation of isolation valve to cold water pipe to shower (so we don't have to turn the water off at the mains to work on it again in the future) ? Under £200. That was about 2 hours of work, too, including actually going out and buying the shower. Oh yes, 'm using her again. I want a quote for ripping out and replacing the rest of the bathroom. :)
And so, Day 14 of the TV Meme! I'm amazed I've kept going this long but it helps that half of my flist seems to be doing it too :)
Favorite male character
This was harder than I thought, considering I love me some pretty and I'm quite content for shows to be all about the pretty (Y hallo thar NCIS:LA and Legend of the Seeker!) But on thinking it through, I realised that it's the strong female characters who resonate with me more these days (which tomorrow's meme going to be a giant PITA). However that said, there are still male characters that I've rooted for past and present. So I present to you my top three :)
1) My first TV Crush :) The delectable Detective Dave Starsky. What I liked about the character was he was frequently set up as the clown, the joker. But was also often shown as being frighteningly competent and smarter than he acted. Gotta love that.
2) Sometimes it's the secondary characters I love best. Here's my favourite, Special Agent Colby Granger (Numb3rs). When he came on board in S2, he immediately became a fan favourite to the point he was finally added to the cast for S3. He made David Sinclair a more interesting character just by being there. Had a great way with a snarky one liner too.And he looked darn good without a shirt
3) And it wouldn't be a list of mine if there wasn't one bad but redeemed character in there :D Meet Lietuenant Tom Paris (ST: Voyager). One of the more colourful characters on Star Trek, he gradually matured throughout the show in a rare display of competence and consistency by ST show runners. I loved the episodes where he got to be a hero :)