Life, Fannishness, and Thespic Infatuation

I've lost touch with the TS (The Sentinel) fandom over the years, so I'm hoping some of my f-listies can help me out. I've got quite a collection of scripts boxed in the basement, and it's time for me to start clearing things out. If anyone knows of a community where I could post these for sale, that'd be awesome. Or, if you know of someone who might be interested, send them this way. (I'm only asking/expecting the cost it was to me, so not much. Collector-to-collector, no money made, etc.)

Also, if anyone is interested in a full screen version of Cry Wolf, or in Starship Troopers 2 or Decoys (the Canadian release DVD), send 'em this way. I've also got a three-ep Emmy consideration screener DVD of Street Time, which was a cable series that Rob Morrow starred in, that I need to find a home for.

If you could boost the signal on this stuff, that'd be great. Thanks.

. . . I really am that pathetic.

( S5 on DVD today )

This means that:

1) I've just finished mainlining S1-S4. Had to do some serious cramming today to get the last eps in. My brain is now kinda mushy. Also? the BluRay DVDs are a bit too much in some respects. Like the reflection that a person has off their eyes, which is normal and usually unnoticeable? Are for some reason particularly prominent in the last few eps I watched today. And kind of annoying. It's hard to concentrate on the dialogue when my brain is going, "Are their eyes supposed to be glowing like that? Or is it just me?"

2) I'm ready to start S5 right now.

3) I'm gonna have to find a good S5 SPN icon. And figure out if I want to swap out an icon or just add it to the almost exhausted list. (I want to add an autumn and/or Halloween one to my list this year, so I'm almost maxed out on my icons.)

4) *FLAIL*

I've been watching the Smallville DVDs I got recently. Okay, I've been skimming the discs and watching the story line in which Jensen plays a part.

Jason Teague is adorable. Well, for the first half of the season, anyway. And romantic. Unless he's whammied out on day-glo green sports drink. Then he's kinda scary.

I realize Jason kinda goes off the deep end in the second half of the season (which I'm getting into now). And it's really weird (and silly) that I, knowing that he left SV for to be on SPN, now want to watch Jensen's work in chronological order . . . which means starting over at the beginning of S1 SPN. Um, no. No time for that.

While most people might not think it that big a deal, I'm tickled that Jensen got to work with the likes of Jane Seymour. I house managed when she came to the PAC as part of the public library's speaker series, and though I did not get to meet her myself, she was pretty darn awesome. Very interesting and personable. And she had such a good time talking and answering audience questions that we 'bout had to haul her bodily off the stage. :-) Also, I remember first seeing her when she played Serena (Boxy's mom and Apollo's wife) on the original BG back when I was but a lass.

Also, John Glover, whom I don't know a whole lot about, but who I've always gotten the impression is a pretty heavy hitter and quite the coup when a show can cast him. (Or maybe I just think that because Geo and JT once thought that he would be perfect for a roll in one of their movies.)

Speaking of SPN, WIaWSNB continues to rock. For realz. I'm actually quite sorry they lost Raelle Tucker as a writer. She wrote or co-wrote some of the best eps out there. (I also think maybe she had a thing for Dean-peril, which, you know, kinda puts her and me on the same wavelength in that regard.)

The weather has been uncommonly cool this summer. Nothing like the horrible drought we had two summers ago when I first moved here.

Some women's husbands bring them roses.

And some women's husbands bring them horror movie DVDs. Starring Jared Padalecki.

Guess which category mine falls into. :-)

( I got you something, says he )

So yesterday I finally broke down and bought the Blu-ray 3D DVD release of MBV. Took a look at it last night.

The 3D is done in the old school style with the red and green lenses. And the 3D actually looks pretty good. The problem with the R&G format is that it kinda screws up the colors, and you can see a sort of outline around all the figures. But the animated stuff? Like the news headlines at the beginning? Very cool.

And I'm actually kind of impressed at how good it looks in 2D. We took a look at the 2D version (only the opening scene), and it didn't look gimmicky at all. So that was great.

The movie still squicks me out, but Jensen is a very good-looking guy, so, you know. I'll live with it.

Hey, flist. I know I'm "running with a different crowd" than I did during my TS days (um, that would be The Sentinel), but you never know unless you ask, right? Or maybe you know people who know people who'd be interested.

I've got three DVDs that admirers of Richard Burgi might be interested in.

( The Movies )

I thought I'd bring this to my flist before going to eBay or craigslist in the hopes of finding someone directly. If you or anyone you know is interested please drop me a PM.

Question for y'all . . .

I've finished watching Disc one of S3, and I'm a wee bit disappointed with the quality.

Has anyone else noticed that:

A) The episodes do not default to showing the recap, but rather, you have to turn the recap on with each episode (on Disc 1, at least).

B) In the "Then" previouslies for "Bad Day at Black Rock," part of Sam's dialogue is missing from the soundtrack. Specifically, the part where he asks Dean how long he has . . . Sam's voice is missing, Dean's reply is there, then Sam's "You shouldn't have done that" is missing, but the "I guess it's my turn . . . " is there.

I figure this is something wrong with the entire pressing, and exchanging for another set won't help. But I'm curious if anyone else has noticed these flaws.

Luckily, the eps themselves and the extras we've watched thus far seem fine.

ETA: In "Dream a Little Dream . . . " when the maid is trying to wake Bobby up, there's a small portion when the audio drops noticeably. It's not missing, but it's like someone bumped the volume level in the engineering room.

*sigh*

So, Geo received his copy of his own movie from Amazon today. (Not sure why he ordered it through Amazon, but there ya go.) And we're listening to the commentary. And I gotta tell ya . . .

The commentary is funnier than the movie, imho. This could be because I worked on it, and I get a kick out of some of the recollections, but still, it's a hoot.

So, a couple months back, while we were having lunch at IHOP, Geo and I were talking, as we often do over lunch, about our current TV shows and the actors who appear therein. We often discuss their other projects, and what story or screenplay ideas of Geo's they might fit in.

( And Geo says )