Something next to normal, that's the thing I'd like to try

Things I dreamed about last night that I wish were real:

1. Breaking Bad the musical
2. Jeremy Jordan as Jesse Pinkman in Breaking Bad the musical
3. Me making out with Jeremy Jordan

Note to self: Smash + pizza before bed = strange but wonderful things.

Linkspam:

* Jason Dohring is officially on board for the Veronica Mars movie.

* Pics from Thor 2. They lack Tom Hiddleston, therefore I am unimpressed.

* It remains unconfirmed, but I would love to see J. August Richards on S.H.I.E.L.D.

* Teaser for Marvel's Phase 2. It's about 75% Iron Man 3, but still some really cool-looking stuff in there. Still struggling to care about Ant-Man and Guardians of the Galaxy, but that may be my Avengers bias (i.e., why should I care about these new people? Give me the characters I loved in Phase 1).

* Pics from The Originals spinoff, if you're into that sort of thing.

* Jon Hamm talks about the upcoming season of Mad Men. Highlight: discussion of Don Draper as a high-functioning sociopath.

* John Slattery also has an interview about Mad Men. Plus, check out the season 6 promo photos.

* Finding Nemo is getting a sequel, Finding Dory. Also, what your favorite Pixar movie says about you.

* Matthew Rhys talks about his role on The Americans.

* They're no longer being auctioned off, but you can still watch clips of audition tapes from A-list actors, most of whom didn't get the roles. Some are good, others are hilariously bad.

* I'm rather looking forward to David Tennant in Spies of Warsaw, so here, have an interview. Anyone else planning to watch?

Links:

* Mad Men's Matthew Weiner and Christina Hendricks talk about "The Other Woman".

* In case you were worried, Peggy's departure from SCDP does not mean she's leaving the show. In fact, Elisabeth Moss and the show's other stars are finalizing deals for seasons 6 and 7.

* Joss Whedon is directing Avengers 2 and involved in a possibly-related Marvel TV show.

* Like Homeland? Now you can watch the original Israeli series that inspired it. It's available on Hulu.

* Latest Catching Fire casting: Meta Golding as Enobaria. I... kind of facepalmed, ngl. I mean, I'm not surprised. But. So far, the only POC casting is the cannibalistic killer? Really?

Memes:

* Name a character, and I'll name a book I think he/she enjoys.

* Comment with a pairing – ANY pairing – and I will comment with ONE GIF expressing my feelings about that pairing.

* Check my fandoms, my favorite characters, the pairings I like the most, my kinks, my fictional crushes, anything. Now, in a friendly and possibly teasing way, point out the obvious and not so obvious trends or fetishes you see in my tastes. Maybe I'm nuts for all vampire stories, or have a thing for men who smoke, or I'm fond for the tsundere archetype, or I'm into rival slash. Let's point out all of those you've noticed I tend to squee about during our friendship.

- Aaron Sorkin talks about The Newsroom. I remain cautiously optimistic, but laugh quietly at his apparent lack of self-awareness.

- Christina Hendricks talks about Joan's controversial decision. (The most recent one, that is.)

- Tom Hiddleston does a velociraptor impression.

- Just a heads up: the zombie apocalypse has begun.

* Kal Penn is leaving the White House again for a role on HIMYM. Memo to President Obama: Even though you have continually overlooked me and rehired Kal, like, six times, I would still be happy to replace him.

* Interview with Nestor Carbonell, everyone's favorite eyeliner-wearing immortal, who is SMG's costar in Ringer.

* Netflix is screwing everyone with ridiculous price hikes. I'll probably end up canceling either the DVDs or the streaming, but I haven't decided which one yet.

* With Friday Night Lights airing its series finale on NBC tomorrow, I have been completely torn between wanting to watch it as soon as possible and not wanting to because then it'll be over. Fortunately, you can relive the magic (or watch for the first time, if you're one of the unfortunate people who hasn't seen it) on ESPN.

* You can also catch up on Mad Men this summer if you're an early bird or have a DVR.

* Speaking of Mad Men, this What Would Don Draper Do? flowchart cracks me up.

* Emmy nominations have been announced. Things that are relevant to my interests under the cut.

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Hi, folks. Been MIA for a bit. I went home this weekend for a friend's wedding, which was fun and weird and exhausting, as usual. I'll probably talk more about it in a locked post, since it's personal RL stuff.

I think I'm all caught up on DW, but I have a thousand LJ tabs still open, so let me know if I've missed anything important.

I'm a little behind on TV - I know I have a Fringe episode to catch up on, and last night's Dexter. I also realized I skipped an episode of Caprica and didn't even notice until I read people's reaction posts, which does not bode well for my interest in this show. (For some reason, On Demand didn't have the first new episode up, but it DID have the second one before it aired, so I watched it, thinking it was the first one. Then I was wondering why people were talking about Zoe and Tamara because they weren't in the episode I saw, lol.) I'm going to try watching the episodes in order and see if I like it better, but if not, I'll probably be bidding adieu to Caprica.

I did catch the Mad Men season finale. This was one of those episodes where I watched the encore presentation immediately afterward, and the first time through I thought, "OMG I totally didn't see that coming!" and then the second time through, I was like, "Holy shit, how did I NOT see that coming?" Brilliant writing, that is.

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Spoilers under the cut, so if you haven't seen it... what the heck are you waiting for?

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First - MAD MEN IS BACK! I always kind of forget, because it's off the air for so long, how much I love this show. I mean, obviously I'm always like, "Oh, Mad Men, I love that show." But I never really get it until it comes back and I realize it's filled a void, you know?

I also apparently forgot which channel number AMC was, lol, because I missed the first five minutes as I frantically flipped through the channels trying to find it. (And then I was extra annoyed because they showed a one-hour preview for some other show after it instead of the usual encore, which meant I had to stay up way late in order to catch the beginning of the encore.)

In other TV news, I finally finished Rome. I don't know if it was me or the quality of the show, but I found myself getting bored a little more often in season 2 than in season 1. I liked it, but in a very detached way, such that I really didn't care about any of the characters. I mean, a LOT of people die in season 2, and I can't think of a single one that made me do more than shrug. (And it's not the "history is a spoiler" issue - I knew Caesar was going to die, and it still worked.)

I've decided to skip over Lost and Terminator for the time being (the former because I just don't have the mental energy right now, and the latter because I want to watch at least a couple of the movies first), and I watched series 1 of The Office (UK). It's weird how there's this sense of deja vu (especially in the first episode, which was almost identical), even though I know the UK version came first. I don't think I have an opinion yet on which is better, though at the moment I lean toward the US version, both because I saw it first and thus it is the standard to which the other is compared, and because I can identify with it better. Sometimes British jokes go over my head. :(

BtVS/AtS

8/12/08: I should have a Xander icon... (Xander's character arc)

8/15/08: Cordy/Angel meta

12/2/08: Spike has two doors!

3/4/09: Food for Thought (comparing Riley's "As You Were" speech to Spike's "Touched" speech)

5/7/09: Spike... again (AtS S5)

6/1/10: Not Fade Away

7/13/10: Yeah, I'm going there (season 8)

8/19/10: Comics wank, must be... a day ending in y (BtVS/AtS crossovers)

8/25/10: "That was real." (Cordy/Angel and Spike/Buffy)

10/16/11: Book review: Whedonistas!

12/2/13: Meme: December 2 (Favorite season)


Dexter

6/8/10: Dexter (season 1)

6/10/10: Dexter, Part 2 (season 2)

6/22/10: Dexter, Part 3 (season 3)

9/13/10: Dexter - it's been a while (season 4)

9/29/10: Final (?) TV premiere round-up (5.01)

1/6/11: Let's talk about Dexter! (season 5)

9/27/13: Beginnings and Endings (series finale)


The Hunger Games

1/29/11: The Hunger Games (Finally!) (book)

2/12/11: OMG YOU GUYS!! (Catching Fire book)

2/27/11: Epic Mockingjay review (book)

3/26/12: The big epic Hunger Games review (movie)

11/24/13: OMG Catching Fire (movie)


Lost

8/12/10: I'm Freeeeee (1.01-1.02)

8/13/10: More Lost thoughts (1.03-1.09)

8/17/10: Even more Lost thoughts (1.10-1.16)

8/18/10: I has finished season 1! (1.17-1.25)

8/23/10: Lost season 2 (2.01-2.10)

8/26/10: Yep, more Lost (2.11-2.18)

11/20/10: Super-huge pop culture round-up (2.19-2.24)

12/5/10: Hey, remember when I used to watch Lost? (3.01-3.08)

3/20/11: "Remember when I used to watch Lost?" 2: Electric Boogaloo (3.09-3.16)

3/26/11: Lost season 3 thoughts! (3.17-3.22)

3/31/11: Lost Season 4

4/10/11: More Lost talk (5.01-5.10)

4/31/11: Incoherent Lost flailing (5.11-5.17)

5/22/11: Yes, I still watch Lost! (6.01-6.10)

6/23/11: I has more Lost thoughts! (6.11-6.15)

6/28/11: The epic Lost post (6.16-6.18)

12/9/13: Meme: December 9 (Juliet's work with the Others)


Marvel/DC

7/2/13: So I finally saw Iron Man 3

12/7/13: Meme: December 6 (oops) (Why you should love Captain America)

5/26/14: State of the (Marvel) universe

10/14/14: Well all righty then (Captain America 3 and the MCU)

10/27/14: So I started watching Arrow

10/30/14: Let's talk about TV! (The Flash and Arrow)

11/2/14: Linkspam and TV talk (Agents of SHIELD and Marvel vs. DC)

5/18/15: Avengers: Age of Ultron


The Vampire Diaries

9/30/10: The Vampire Diaries, take two (season 1)

10/12/10: The Vampire Diaries, take three (up to 2.05)

11/6/10: Semi-belated Vampire Diaries thoughts (2.07-2.08)

1/30/11: Let's talk Vampire Diaries (2.10)

9/16/11: TVD Thoughts (3.01)

10/14/11: The Ghost-pire Diaries (3.05)

10/14/11: This is an actual reaction post (3.05)

1/6/12: TVD thoughts (3.10)

3/23/12: What's that? A reaction post? (3.17)

10/17/12: TVD 4.02

1/3/13: Linkspam + rambling (The problem with Klaus as a villain)


Other TV

11/10/09: Friday, December 13, 1963. Four guys shot their own legs off. (Mad Men 3.13)

2/9/10: Proof that shippers are stupid everywhere... (Chuck)

4/1/10: Caprica (season 1)

4/10/10: This is a ranty rant (Bones 5.16)

6/28/10: Doctor Who (season 5)

6/29/10: Dead Like Me (season 1)

7/8/10: Dead Like Me (again) (season 2)

7/14/10: Because I really needed another TV show to watch... (Huge 1.01-1.03)

8/24/10: Six Feet Under season 2

9/10/10: Huge (1.10)

9/20/10: Last night's Mad Men... (4.09)

9/25/10: Community is back!!! (2.01)

10/18/10: Catching up (Mad Men 4.13)

8/1/11: Let's talk Sports Night

8/31/11: The Tudors

9/29/11: Faaaarscape! (1.01-1.09)

10/9/11: Farscape meta, part two (1.16)

1/29/12: Chuck thoughts (for real this time) (season 5)

1/22/13: British TV! (Wallander and Party Animals)

7/15/13: I watch things (The Newsroom)

12/14/13: Meme: December 13 (oops again) (Friday Night Lights favorite female character)


Movies

9/5/07: Shadow Undies (Shadow Puppets commentary)

6/16/10: Boys from the Dwarf (Red Dwarf: Back to Earth)

6/18/10: Strictly Sexual (note: review is access-only)

7/9/10: I did a stupid thing... (Dead Like Me: Life After Death)

1/19/11: Black Swan

12/29/12: The big Les Miserables review

3/16/14: Worth Every Penny (Veronica Mars)

11/26/14: Thanksgiving linkspam (and Into the Woods angst)


Books

8/19/09: Head-scratcher of an ending (the Sevenwaters trilogy)

8/31/10: Book Review: Swordspoint

9/1/10: Book review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

9/23/10: Book review: The Fall of the Kings

10/21/10: Feeling like I'm always playing catch-up (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

10/22/10: Book review: The Passage

12/15/10: Book review! (Finally) (Doomsday Book and Blackout)

1/8/11: Book review: The Privileges

1/11/11: More book reviews! (Miracle and Other Christmas Stories and All Clear)

4/14/11: Stuff I did (The Privilege of the Sword and Speak)

5/3/11: Book Reviews! (Heir to Sevenwaters and Freedom)

5/14/11: More book reviews (The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks and Seer of Sevenwaters)

7/16/11: End of Semester Book Reviews (The Art of Choosing and Pearls, Politics, and Power)

7/21/11: More book reviews! (Big Girls Don't Cry)

9/27/11: Book Reviews (The Handmaid's Tale, One Day, and Delirium)

8/14/12: Wanted: Friends! (MWF Seeking BFF)


Theater

9/2/10: Review: Billy Elliot

9/8/10: Review: A Little Night Music

9/12/10: Review: In the Heights

9/19/10: Musical Sunday! (Next to Normal)

9/26/10: Musical Sunday! (Next to Normal)

7/12/11: At long last! (Next to Normal)

4/23/12: The Newsies Review

9/15/13: The (brief) return of Musical Sunday! (Miss Saigon)

11/25/13: If/Then

2/2/14: First Date


Multi-Fandom

11/14/09: In which I prove I think too much (BtVS/Into the Woods parallels)

9/20/10: It's like my perception is warping back to normal... (high school shows)

9/27/10: The Vampire Diaries, or Why Buffy is the Best (the use and abuse of dramatic irony)

10/2/10: Romance =/= Geometry (love triangles)

12/16/10: Being Erica! (S3 finale, parallels with BtVS)

3/3/11: I have a one-track mind (Hunger Games/Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Next to Normal parallels)

5/27/11: Whee! (Is Katniss a Buffy or an Angel?)

6/25/12: Where are all the female anti-heroes?

12/4/12: My advice? Don't watch for the plot (Homeland, Lost, and the importance of plausibility)