Taken from mylittleredgirl:
The story: A supernatural glitch in your DVR occurs. At first you panic, hitting lots of random buttons on your remote control, but then are RELIEVED to discover that no, your entire series recording of Golden Girls has not been deleted! But then, just as things appear to be back to normal, there's a puff of smoke, and a fairy appears! You have apparently freed the TV fairy from a televised hell in which she was made to watch endless reruns of Are You Hot?, and as fairies tend to be when freed, she is very grateful and wants to grant you magic wishes.
Now, the fairy has only TV-related powerz, and so she offers you the chance to go back in time and retroactively CHANGE the history of your favorite TV shows with 3.5 wishes!
You can go back in time and erase from the fabric of TV history THREE individual episodes of any TV show you want! The rest of the series(es) will not be altered. What do you choose?
Angel, "A Hole in the World" - even if the rest of the series can't be altered, this was a giant plot contrivance and blatant manipulation of the Wes/Fred shippers.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Seeing Red" - the scene with the attempted rape was just atrociously handled, and spawned endless wankery.
Lost, "Stranger In a Strange Land" - it may just be recency effect, but this was an awful episode that served no purpose.
You can go back in time and revive ONE unfairly cancelled television show and return it to the annals of TV history!* *CHOOSE WISELY, because if you attempt to revive more than one show, the wish will backfire and you'll instead be treated to a whole bunch of crappy made-for-TV "reunion" movies full of replacement actors.
Firefly. A cliche choice, but I'd pick it over John Doe and Century City.
To balance out the historical TV viewing schedule, you now have the power to retroactively CANCEL, at any point during the series, any one show! Alternately, you can weild your destructive might and DELETE one whole entire series from ever having been made.
I'd cancel Sliders after season four, before they replace Jerry O'Connell. What is it about sci-fi shows in the 90s and godawful final seasons?
LIFE AND DEATH! You can now bring ONE character back from the dead... and, to restore the balance, you must also kill off a character! They don't have to be from the same fandom.
Resurrect: John Winchester, Supernatural
Kill off: Lana Lang, Smallville
Bonus tradeoff: you can delete a single scene, relationship pairing or plot arc from any series that gave you hives... AND you can plug in any one [scene, pairing, plot arc] that you never got to see!
Removed plot arc: The "Circle of the Black Thorn" plot arc at the end of Angel.
Plug in: A decent resolution to either John Doe or Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Send the fairy to some other DVRs:
Anyone that does fandom stuff - not sure who does and who doesn't.
Did I fall into a parallel universe last night? One where Lost sucks and Jericho is actually good?
The really weird thing about it is, the reason Lost was so bad last night is the complaint I've had so much about Jericho I've thought about calling it "the Jericho Effect." Namely, that they spend so much time telling us about an uninteresting story (how Jack got his tattoo), and only hinting at one that's a lot more compelling (the Dharma Initiative's purpose). Jericho, on the other hand, gave us a "before the bombs" prequel that, with a little reworking, would have made a much better pilot than the actual one.
Melissa McEwen (aka Shakespeare's Sister) has also resigned from the Edwards campaign.
Will the right-wing noise machine move on to a new target now? Or will all the talk of going after the Catholic League for abusing its 501(c)(3) status solidify into an actual counterattack?
Amanda Marcotte of Pandagon has resigned from the John Edwards campaign after being consistently targeted by the "right-wing noise machine" (specifically, William Donohue and Michelle Malkin) for blog posts made on Pandagon, specifically anti-religious ones. For Donohue, head of the Catholic League (which, as far as I can tell, isn't actually tied to the Catholic Church, although it is a 501(c)(3) organization and should be slapped down hard for its interference in this electoral campaign), that's not surprising - it's their modus operandi, if not their raison d'etre. For Malkin, it appears to be more a matter of convenience - picking out the bits potentially offensive to religion is going to sway more people (and people that might actually vote for a Democrat) than just quoting her feminist statements.
I think I'm supporting Obama now, at least in the absence of a Gore campaign. His appeals to religion bother me a bit, but he hasn't slapped down a staffer for being an outspoken atheist, or proposed any theocratic measures, so he's looking to be the best candidate out there. If the best the hate machine can find on him is a trumped-up madrassa allegation, his middle name, and the "you shouldn't vote for him because nobody will vote for a black man" concern trolling (interesting in light of the "he's not really black" charge), then that's promising. And kicking out Fox News is a far more principled stand than Edwards' mealy-mouthed apology for Marcotte's posts. Not to mention that I like both the style and content of Obama's speeches. He's very smart, and for an executive smart can be as important as any particular policy.
A Russian man immediately filed for divorce from his wife of 18 years after he discovered she had been making pies with pumpkins instead of zucchini.
From Majikthise.
I've got Vox set up to now automatically crosspost to my old LiveJournal account. So if you never bothered to look at the new blog, you don't ever have to bother now.
The other purpose of this post is to showcase videos I've been watching lately:
This is what it looks like from my living room window this morning:
