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[delicatale]

WHY HI GOOD MORNING.

So, I watched the pilot of Once Upon A Time this morning.



I think I could really get obsessed with this show. Not as in, writing a million fics about it, but just, loving it a whole lot. Because I really liked that episode, and I've been reluctant to watch this show for a while, if only for Ginnifer Goodwin. But, yeah. I really did like it.
Josh Dallas is pleasing my eyes, in an aesthetic point of vue (especially in floaty white shirts and breeches, holding a baby); I cannot say for now if his character in the show will please me, but the further from Ben 'self righteous wet blanket' Bass he is, the more chances he got. Jennifer Morrisson was surprisingly good (I have issues coming from House).
Most of all, I am intrigued. I like the premise and the idea and I find it a little enchanting (ah!), so, I'll definitely happily keep watching. I am afraid of Mary Margaret's Mary Sue potential, but Henry, oh, HENRY, HOW ARE YOU SO PRECIOUS.

So, we'll see.




I've been devouring The Belgariad again. Am in the middle of The Queen of Sorcery, remembering when I read it the first time. I find myself smiling and laughing at loud at times, and even though I'm reading it with older eyes, I'm still completely taken by the quest and putting the book down is hard. It's easier now to understand why Pol is keeping things from Garion, it's easier to understand the politics that go on underneath the sorcery and the battles and everything.

I had forgotten about Lelldorin, and I rediscovered him with fondness. It felt like a mother shaking her head with amusement and love at her slightly dense son. I am eagerly awaiting rediscovering Xe'Nedra, because my God how I loved her.

These books feel like a comfort blanket, taking me into this world and I forget about everything else for a short period of time. It's like sitting next to my Dad and talking about fantasy books and what we liked and didn't like, and I realise now how he was sharpening my mind by asking me these things and always having a new book for me to read when I was younger. I was about 10 or so when I started reading the Belgariad - my first fantasy books. I remember asking my father if he could lend me LotR, and he handed me these instead, to ease me in, make it easy for me to fall in love with the genre. I never really looked back.




2011 has been a year where a number of bands I really like released albums, and I was really excited at the beginning of the year about all of them. Easy to say that I was disappointed in many. Kids In Glass Houses' Gold Blood was sadly a repeat of their previous album, bar a few songs; Incubus' If Not New, When, albeit good, will not become my favourite album of theirs; The Cab's Symphony Soldier only stuck to me for a week or so, not nearly as memorable as their older stuff; I didn't even buy You Me At Six' Sinners Never Sleep.

The album sticking to me, though, surprisingly, is Florence + The Machine's Ceremonials. I didn't even get it until recently, because as much as I love their first album, I find myself needing to be in the right mood to listen to it. Ceremonials, however, is like second skin to me. I've been listening to it for the past two weeks and I have yet to grow bored of it. It's intense, and it's beautiful, and it's full of feelings, and it's absolutely wonderful - definitely my pick of the year, if I had to choose.

Now, 2012 should bring us a new McFly album, and I am keeping everything crossed that said album is not a follow-up to Above The Noise. Because Above The Noise is, besides Nowhere Left To Run, mostly forgettable, and I hate thinking that about McFly. GET IT TOGETHER BOYS.




I'll get back to you on that one next week, after watching the new Sherlock Holmes!


Okay, that was all.

Comments

[wyvernwolf.livejournal.com]

It's so nice to find another Belgariad fan! They were my entry into the fantasy world and I have so many fond memories of having to sneak into my brother's room to "borrow" the copy his friend had lent him. Good times...

Ended up, he never read them but I did. I devoured every single page and then when he returned the books, I spent the next few years hunting down my own set and buying them.

[delicatale.livejournal.com]

I have discovered there's actually quite a few people that have read and loved these books on my flist! I was really surprised ^_^. They were my entry in the fantasy world too, and I read them many times during my teens...felt good to have someplace safe to fall into.

[wyvernwolf.livejournal.com]

My feelings exactly. They were my comfort books, them and The Elenium, also by Eddings.

[laria-gwyn.livejournal.com]

The Belgariad. *____* I remember my intro to the series; I don't know how old I was but I know I started with Polgara by accident. I figured out pretty quickly that I was probably missing a whole heck of a lot of story but it was so good I couldn't put it down and read it anyway. *warm fuzzies*

[delicatale.livejournal.com]

Oh, God, I think Polgara was my favourite book of them all; that's how I remember it, anyway. I read it last, though, my Dad gave it and Belgarath to me after I finished both The Belgariad and The Mallorean, and I was crying my eyes out that there wasn't more.

[laria-gwyn.livejournal.com]

It's def my favorite of the series. It was so funny and so sad and yet joyful and playful. I did feel like Eddings adopted the style of Polgara for Redemption of Althalus and the Elder Gods and it didn't work as well for those series but for Polgara, it was perfect.

[zolac-no-miko.livejournal.com]

I actually was really not impressed by the first episode of Once Upon A Time and I stopped watching, but I got convinced to pick it up again and I'm kind of glad. I still find the show kind of hokey, but I'm enjoying it a lot more as we start to explore various characters' backstories. There are some pretty enjoyable characters in this show. RUMPLEGOLD. MY LOVE.

Snow/Mary Margaret is always going to be a wee bit of a Mary Sue, I think, but, uh, Disney princess anyone, honestly what are we meant to expect. And what I said before about backstory, omg, Snow turns out kind of awesome actually.

...Anyway, not my absolute favorite show on television, but I like it enough to keep watching it, which says something, and it passes the time while I'm waiting for Grey's Anatomy and The Vampire Diaries and Supernatural and Doctor Who and Sherlock and Top Gear and White Collar to come back on.

[delicatale.livejournal.com]

Ah, I hate Grey's Anatomy with the fiery passion of a thousand suns. And some more.

I found it quite entertaining! I don't know, I don't usually get too involved in shows from the very first episode (bar Friday Night Lights), so it always takes me a while to really get into it. But yeah, from seeing it I felt like it had potential for me! Also, Robert Carlyle, omg.

[zolac-no-miko.livejournal.com]

I would say hating Grey's is valid. I have come to adore it, but I am not above admitting it is trashy and ridiculous. Idk, I like the characters, and the blatant ridiculousness of the plotlines works for me. Like H50, only they actually do a better job of writing human interactions. And squishy organs!

...But yeah. It's a soap opera dressed up, I realize this.

I almost always try to give shows a chance for at least half a season if I think they've got any potential whatsoever. Because yeah, with rare exceptions, shows don't usually start off BANG, AWESOME. But... idk what it was about OUAT's pilot, it... it just didn't do anything for me at all. I couldn't be arsed to care about it in any way. But then other people kept watching and talking about it, including people whose opinions I trust, so I thought I'd give it a few more episodes to win me over. And I think it's silly and heavy-handed, but there's something charming about it for sure.

ROBERT CARLYLE. IF YOU ONLY NEED ONE REASON TO WATCH THIS SHOW, HE IS YOUR REASON. So in loooooooove~! T_T

[delicatale.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, it's certainly heavy-handed, but charming, I'm guessing that's really the thing. I find it quite...enchanting. And I'll admit to being an eternal, hopeless romantic, so this is the kind of show I can definitely find an appeal to...

[megaranight.livejournal.com]

I wasn't very enthousiastic about OUAT, too then I watched the pilot and couldn't wait for the next episodes. So far I loved all of them. Too bad the ratings aren't good and it's speaking of cancellation.

My first fantasy book was The Diamond Throne. I read the Belgariad just after. I plan to re-read it next year. I feel the same about the comfort blanket :-)

[stellarmeadow.livejournal.com]

Ooo, I LOVE Once Upon a Time! Also not in the ficcy way, but it's just an engrossing show. I also had Jennifer Morrison issues left over from House, carried over to How I Met Your Mother, but I love her in this, thankfully.

Mary Margaret has, thus far, stayed this side of Mary Sue, at least to me. :)