Found this linked on Whedonesque, recommended by no other than the man himself, Joss Whedon:

Firefly and Serenity: Defying Gravity

It's a fanvideo by y_fish, and it is absolutely beautiful. Please go watch it now!

First Nathan grows this ridiculous beard on Heroes, and now Hodgins cut his hair on Bones? (Not to mention Zack coming back with NO HAIR WHATSOEVER!) Stop messing up the cute guys' hair, people!

If you haven't watched Bones yet, go read bookshop's Bones pimp post. It's not my favorite show ever, but it's great fun to watch, plus it has David Boreanaz. Who could say no to David Boreanaz?

Oh, and speaking of guys with messed up hair: The first episode of the new Avatar season sucked some serious balls. No, not because Aang grew some hair, but because of those huge exposition dumps. I mean, come on: "You were unconcious for a couple weeks, so we're going to tell you what happened, blah blah, oh look, here's your staff you lost in the middle of the FUCKING OCEAN"?!

( review cut for spoilers and such ) By the way, I saw the trailers for the German TV-version of Heroes, and unsurprisngly, the dubbing is terrible. They also gave away half of the plot of season one in their trailers. Maybe they don't want to burden their viewers with the suspense of the weekly cliffhangers?

bunnysquirrel pointed out to me that Buffy is even listed on Wikipedia's list of superheroines. But I guess some people will only ever see what they expect or what fits their own narrow view of the world.

So I was re-watching the first season of Gilmore Girls, and the finale "Love, Daisies and Troubadours" ends with Lorelai and Rory running towards each other in that cheesy romance movie kind of way, with some "if I can find someone like you" song playing over it. They're both so happy to tell each other about getting back together with their respective boyfriends, but really it's clear that this scene (like the whole series) is all about the both of them and their relationship.

And I remember heated discussions on usenet about this very clear and hard-to-miss message, and people arguing that it was about the girls' love lives instead, and I wonder: how many casual TV watchers are out there who completely misinterpret certain programmes because they don't know about typical plot devices, structural elements, ways to frame a shot etc.?

And more importantly: how much am I missing or misunderstanding because of my own limited knowledge about these things? I only got into the whole (online) fandom thing last year, the reviews, the discussions, the meta etc., and I still have so much to learn. And it's a little frustrating to be surrounded by people who seem to think that spending too much time discussing something as trivial as a TV programme in depth is a waste of time. *sigh*

ETA: OMG, I watched another episode, and when Lorelai decides to accept Max's marriage proposal, we don't see her say yes to Max, or his reaction. We see her saying she said yes to Rory and Rory's reaction. D'uh.

A friend looked at me funny when I told her that I'd just re-watched all 7 series of Buffy (hey, I've only seen most episodes twice). I shrugged and went: "What can I say, I like superhero stories." And she gets all confused and asks "What superhero?"

Okay, she only ever saw two random Buffy episodes, I'll forgive her. But another friend who claims to have seen every single Buffy episode (albeit on German TV), did not believe me that Buffy was, indeed, a super hero. Even after we'd talked about her superpowers, her destiny, and the fact that several characters in the show actually call her a super hero again and again, he was still adamant that Buffy could not be a proper superhero. A hero maybe, but not a superhero. WTF?!

Anyway, soniced_up just made my day by posting a series of Doctor Who macros to the tune of "I've got a theory" from the Buffy musical episode "Once more with feeling" on ihasatardis. Go here and squee.

You all should know by now that Joss Whedon is my new master. Well, Maia over at Alas! has some interesting thoughts about the series finale of Heroes:

The season finale would have been much better if [Joss had] written it:
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2. The female characters would have occasionally talked to each other, this may even have lead to them developing relationships with each other.

That's been bugging me as well. I was glad we got some "strong female characters" with Heroes, but they do not drive the story, they don't act independently and, as Maia has stated, they don't even interact with each other.

Well, I'm still looking forward to the secon season.

Wow. Scary.

I'm a little worried that maybe I like this episode so much because it had so little of the doctor in it (and even less Martha). I was even rooting for Sally as a new companion, because when Billy told her she'd understand everything some day, I thought that meant she'd be travelling with the doctor.

Anyway, I enjoyed following someone else around throughout this episode without the doctor's constant babbling about time lord this and saving the world that. Also, no lovesick Martha. I liked when she bitched him out for having to work in a shop to support him.

And how sweet was that last scene where Sally takes Larry's hand and says goodbye to the doctor? Finally someone who gets over her obsession with him fairly quickly.

-Bold all of the following TV shows of which you've ever seen 3 or more episodes.
- Italicize a show if you're positive you've seen every episode of it.
- If you want, add up to 3 additional shows (keep the list in alphabetical order).

( I'm a TV junkie )