What I'm going to do with this

[tzipwich]

Okay, for reals.

I think LJ is going to start becoming my real life journal (since I doubt my real life friends will be moving here) and this one will be more of a fandomy thing. I'm not really in fandom anymore--I don't read/write fic (except for that one Roswell one that I haven't given up on)--but I like discussing shows. Although really, it depends on how the DW community turns out.

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[tzipwich]

I think I'm going to try and stop picking up new shows until I finish school (or at least the semester). Right now, I watch Lost, Gossip Girl, The Office, 30 Rock, Friday Night Lights (but the season's been over for a while), Dollhouse, occasionally Sarah Connor (although I don't always find it entertaining and I don't watch it regularly), Heroes (although I didn't watch the last two episodes and I don't really like it anymore...I'm not sure if I ever really did)...and I think that's it? Of those, Lost is my favorite.

How about you?

[prozacpark]

How many semesters do you have left?

So basically, what you're saying is that while you're in the middle of classes, all you have time for is...comics? ;)

I'm mostly just watching "Dollhouse" now that BSG is over and "Big Love" finished its latest season.

"Sarah Connor" is sort of dull, and I find its treatment of robots totally...meh after the awesome stuff BSG did with the Cylons. But it did pick up towards the end of season 2 in a major way and I'm rooting for it to return.

Have you been watching "Lost" the entire time? I sort of got bored with "Heroes" after the first season. Like, every plot they did had already been done on X-men, but with characters I actually liked.

[tzipwich]

Right now it's looking like I'll have to take one course next semester, I'm hoping that's it.

I started watching Lost in between Seasons Two and Three, and I haven't actually seen a whole bunch of episodes in Season Two--although I'm not crazy about the episodes that I did see. I like the later seasons better.

Heroes my husband started watching this season, and I watched a little over his shoulder until I finally gave in and watched the whole thing. But I never got attached to any of the characters, and the plot holes are just too gaping to ignore. And yeah, this latest arc was exactly something taken right out of X-Men, only why would I want to watch it on Heroes when X-Men did it better?

I started reading a lot of comics when I found a sekrit source for them, but I don't really have time for those either now? At least for the next few weeks. Unless you want to share Excalibur; I got curious since you're always talking about it, and I wasn't able to find more than the first few issues.

[prozacpark]

I suck so much. I actually have all of Excalibur on Megaupload, which I put up for you, but I've failed to post the links because I couldn't figure out where the "Pryde and Wisdom" miniseries fits in the reading order. I guess I'll just post it as is, and by the time you get to issue 100ish, I would have asked someone or figured it out. :)

I'm curious: which other comics did you read? I have many recs for you, but I'll wait and put them up once your semester is over. :)

I'm sort of getting back into them now that I don't have much TV to watch and am sort of shunning it at the moment.

I'm trying to remember if you watched season one of "Lost" while I was watching it when it first started airing?

[tzipwich]

I watched Season One of Lost the summer after Season Two aired.

Aside from the stuff you posted, I've read the Dark Phoenix Saga, Phoenix: Endsong and Warsong, most of the recent Uncanny X-Men (which I started to get bored of over the past few issues), the arc in X-Men where Gambit turns into one of Apocalypse's horsemen, House of M, Son of M (I a little bit love Pietro?), most of Messiah CompleX, New Mutants and New X-Men (the one with the kids). Also, Runaways.

[prozacpark]

Okay, then we didn't watch Lost together. I so remembered us shipping Shannon/Boone and hating on Kate. I must have made that up...

I loved Son Of M *so much.* And yes, I do have the mad love for Pietro. One of these days, I plan to read "Avengers," which is a team of superheroes that both Pietro and Wanda are members of. I plan on loving them both and also shipping them both. <3 You should read with me? And I'll wait till you have more time. It'd be fun!

I also recommend "X-Factor?" The new one with Pietro and Multiple man. Not the old one where Scott dumps his wife and son to go be with Jean. Sigh.

Also! I'm impressed with how you managed to read all the important titles that I was wondering how to sell to you without confusing you.

And yes, current Uncanny is boring, and I'm not really reading anything except for the Emma bits people link me to which usually just fill me with rage. I don't like how they're making her more conventional now that she's become a central part of the X-men.

Runaways is fun, and I need to upload "Alias" for you.

Did you read the old New Mutants or the new ones? Was Kitty there?

[tzipwich]

It was the new New Mutants, with Emma and Dani being the advisors (Kitty was there, but as a teacher, and she only appears once or twice--I don't think that's what you meant). I really liked reading about teenagers with teenager problems (plus all the problems that go along with being a mutant, but not necessarily X-Men levels of action) for once. And it got really dark and horrible after M-Day, but it was compelling. And somehow Cessily became my favorite even though she doesn't really stand out.

And don't worry, it was plenty confusing trying to get through the main titles and trying to figure out what happens before what. Also, when stories end and then they continue in a different title--how am I supposed to keep up with that?

I'm up for reading Avengers with you at some later point in time! Sounds good.

Is Alias the same universe as Alias the TV show, or are they not related at all?

[prozacpark]

Alias is a comic set on the fringes of the Marvel universe about a girl who used to be a superhero but is now a private investigator who often ends up investigating superhero related crimes. It's excellent because the heroine is someone who was not cut out to be a superhero. So after her one big Superheroic proportion tragedy, instead of picking up the pieces and starting over, she quit. I like it a lot because it sort of...shows that there are different ways of being a hero? It's also much darker than most comics because it's set in Marvel's 'adult' universe.

I read "New Mutants" for Emma for a bit, but they writers were not fond of her, and this annoyed me and I was also kind of turned off by how they kept killing all the characters. It was the new team that took over after M-day. Mostly, I kind of just follow the five characters I like into whichever title they happen to be in, rather than actually reading titles.

I need to send you "Mekanix," which is a fun series of only eight issues that sort of follows Kitty during the time she is away from the X-men and going to college. It has a bit of an Emma Frost feel to it, except a bit darker, because you get to see mutants interacting with...humans. Which X-men doesn't do often enough, and this is part of why I loved Scott's human wife madly. Before they pulled a Tess with her.

If it helps, I've been reading comics for years now, and I really can't figure out the whole ending and starting in a different title thing either. Like, dude, when comics run concurrently? And it's like, "For more of this story in Uncanny X-men, why don't you pick up this week's SPIDERMAN comic?" Um, no. My reading of titles never survived their branching off into other things.

[tzipwich]

Alias sounds interesting! I think I'll check it out.

I noticed that Emma wasn't portrayed in the best light in New Mutants, but I forgave it because it was told from the point of view of the students, who are completely biased when it comes to which teachers they like best.

Mekanix also sounds interesting. Also, I forgot to say, I read the part of Uncanny X-Men where Scott and Madelyne meet and get married.

[prozacpark]

I just posted links to Excalibur on LJ for you. :) I also have much of Alias uploaded and will put that up soon, too. And you should wait to read Mekanix until after you're done with "Excalibur."

I noticed that Emma wasn't portrayed in the best light in New Mutants, but I forgave it because it was told from the point of view of the students, who are completely biased when it comes to which teachers they like best.

Well. I can't be expected to like characters who are hating on Emma now, can I? ;) By the time I started reading New Mutants, everyone else on my FL was hating and leaving, so that possibly rubbed off on me a bit, too.

I enjoyed Madelyne because she did well with all the insanity and chaos of X-men that got thrown at her. She wasn't a hero like them, but she was heroic in her own way and Marvel failed to see that and totally sacrificed her at the altar of the Jean/Scott OTP.

[tzipwich]

Yay! Maybe after I finish with the two finals I have tomorrow I'll read some Excalibur.

Not all the characters hated on Emma! Wither specifically wanted to switch into her group because she was better able to relate to him than Dani, and Julian has the cutest idol-worship thing going on. Surge didn't like Emma, but Surge doesn't like anyone and she pisses me off. And Cess was mad at Emma after Wither ran away, but I think that's valid on her end and I think she [Cessily] still likes her [Emma], she's just upset is all.

[tzipwich]

Out of curiosity, who are the five characters you follow?

[prozacpark]

Kitty, Emma, Madelyne, Rachel Summers, and Pete Wisdom.

Did you read "Days of the Future Past" arc?

[tzipwich]

I haven't; is it good?

The only things I've read that old are Dark Phoenix and Scott meeting Maddie.