the river heights gazette

it's chuck me monday again! visit chuckme.renewchuck.com to watch and twitter along (US only, i think). today's episode is chuck vs the truth, which a) is awesome, and b) has marshall flinkman (kevin weisman) from alias. and he does gymnastics. in other words, it's a win-win. i'll be twittering as sarah_bartowski for the evening.

i should be ashamed to admit this, but: i have the majority of the mst3k boxed sets (i'm still missing two or three), and i've only seen maybe half the episodes. for me, mst3k episodes are like an acquired taste; the more i watch them, the more i love them. i have to be in the right mood to watch an episode i've never seen before, but once i do that, i watch them over and over.

which is how i owned monster a-go go for years, i'm sure, but didn't actually see it until last night. it was every bit as batshit spectacular as i had heard. there was no monster. i mean, there was, but there was no monster. also they used a similar sound cue to the one in invasion of the neptune men, which puppy did not care for, so she barked through a good ten minutes of the movie.

[also mst3k has the distinction of almost always being able to cheer me up, so by keeping a stockpile, it's like having an emergency backup of zoloft or something. maybe zoloft crossed with nitrous.]

while packing i only kept three kinds of vhs tapes: ones containing mst3k episodes, ones containing season 3 the adventures of pete & pete episodes, and the tomorrow people (new series) eps, the latter of which i taped off nickelodeon 15 years ago. whew. (i own the tomorrow people new series on region 2 dvds, but can only watch them on a computer, and the only pete & pete sets are seasons 1 and 2.) i tossed a lot of x-files tapes, because the boxed sets are cheap enough now that i can replace them easily.

saw harry potter and the half-blood prince this weekend, and it was moody and nice, but definitely felt like it was setting the stage for the last two movies. also i didn't get to see the sherlock holmes trailer before it, which was super irritating. guess i'll just have to watch it 42 more times online with the sound turned way up.

last night's criminal intent: from the previews i thought it was going to be 30 minutes of goren going undercover in some sort of poker ring, which thank God it wasn't. it took me a few minutes to figure out where i'd seen the characters before, and it was nice that there was continuity from season 5, and there were a few nice moments between goren and eames (she's looking at a photo and he's looking over her shoulder and i don't know why it hit me so well), and i really wanted the faux carrie anne moss to be responsible, but she wasn't. ahh well. (also, note to self: huge white escalade, not a good choice for a getaway car.) and i still need to watch last night's in plain sight.

Title: Souvenirs
Fandom: Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Characters: Goren/Eames
Prompt: holidays
Word Count: 1631
Rating: R
Summary: Eames has a chance to get away for a while.
Author's Notes: oxoniensis's Porn Battle; you can also find the story in its natural habitat here. Contains adult situations. Spoilers for aired episodes through mid-Season 8. Vaguely alludes to in my blood there's gasoline and Immured but requires no knowledge for comprehension. Do not pass go, do not collect $200.


( she's always had great luck like that )

-i finished the big bang theory season 2 this weekend, and then dipped my toe into sheldon/penny fanfic. that particular ship is reminding me of how i felt when i first started reading goren/eames fic, for law & order: criminal intent: i was fine reading it but didn't particularly want to see it on the show. especially with how batshit the writers have occasionally been of late. i'm definitely beginning to understand sheldon/penny, although i do still get sad when leonard is obviously pining over penny on the show.

-speaking of law & order: criminal intent, did anyone else watching notice the lack of beard continuity at the end of the most recent show? i would find screencaps to demonstrate, but i am lazy. anyway:

goren with medical examiner: shaved
goren in bullpen in next damn scene: bearded.

if i had the time or mental energy i'd blame it on some sort of undercover operation. or maybe he was being moses in a school play. with his niece. the niece that i can't quite figure out his exact relation to. yay for retcon! although retcon still can't explain the magical beard. like he's one of those play-doh heads or a chia pet.

-or like in mst3k: space mutiny when the woman who had died a few scenes earlier was somehow magically on the bridge again. "i think it's very nice of you to give that dead woman another chance."

-i had forgotten that i had mst3k: phantom planet on dvd. love it when that happens.

-photos from iron man 2 are out! i'm so excited.

-[ETA] forgot the stupidest/most important point: i've been seeing so much on Sims 3 and people creating fandom characters (sheldon and penny, mostly) in the game that now i almost want to get a copy and make a little River Heights with nancy and ned living in it. oh, and chuck and sarah in their own apartment. THIS URGE MUST BE STOPPED.

ooh guess what, poll time!

[Poll #1415556]

two things i need to know immediately, if not sooner:

-WHEN WILL SEASON 3 OF MAD MEN START. i can't find a date, and theoretically i could say oh about twelve weeks from now, if the reruns of season 2 running right now mean anything, but that's not a given.
-WHEN WILL I GET TO SEE THE LAST EPS OF PUSHING DAISIES. i was all set to just buy the dvd set and see them there, but supposedly abc has the rights to run them still, and OH COME ON YOU GUYS.

other glorious things:
-the PS2 is now going to cost $99 at some unspecified point in the future! which is great because i love tekken tag tournament. there are prob some other games i love as well, but that's the main one.
-star trek in almost exactly a month!
-criminal intent starts again in like 3 weeks. (FOR REALS THIS TIME, says USA. SUUUUURE, say i.) have i admitted that, despite it taking me about 7 years to actually ship on-screen goren/eames, i shipped mary/marshall from the beginning of in plain sight? yeah, i'll just put that out there. and y'know, if USA runs CI as a summer/winter show as they do with psych, and pair it up with in plain sight, that's totally awesome with me, because it assures me television i will enjoy all year round. and a potential future fanfic in which eames, in a fit of panic, runs from her shotgun wedding to goren (obvs in some sort of parallel universe) and he has to find and comfort her with his sexiness and/or rapier-like wit. someone should get on that immediately.
-i also need everyone to join hands and reassure me that there will indeed be a third season of chuck.
-I NOW HAVE A LEGIT REASON TO BUY A HUGE MEDIEVAL PRINCESS DRESS.

that is all. oh and i've been making mst3k playlists on youtube, because that's the new black.

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ETA: July 21, apparently, for the Pushing Daisies season 2 set. If I am to trust April Fool's Day.

title: in my blood there's gasoline
prompt: 15. Season six, ‘Masquerade’: we find Goren and Eames at the airport in Seoul, South Korea. An average plane ride from New York City to Seoul takes 18-20 hours with stops and ~14 hours without. It's also plausible that they had to stay one night at one of the airport hotels in Seoul before catching a suitable plane back. So the prompt is: What happens during the flight and then once they are in Korea (that is at the hotel)? B/A pairing and/or smut optional.
author: ndnickerson
pairing: Goren/Eames
rating: R for adult situations
summary: "She thinks, for not the first time, how brilliant, how terrifying, it must be, to be the object of his undivided attention." What happens at the hotel in Seoul.
written for: fic challenge at ci_fans_unite



( in my blood there's gasoline )

Title: Immured
Fandom: Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Characters: Goren/Eames
Prompt: happy ending, stubble
Word Count: 786
Rating: hard R
Summary: Their stars were hitched a long time ago.
Author's Notes: Damn it. Written for the Seven Deadly Sins porn battle.

( he was on suspension again )

I watch three shows. Well, four, but Mad Men ends Sunday, and I don't consider it a "regular season" show. It's like cheesecake. Yummy and brief and then it's gone for a while. And gorgeous.

Due to my heinous work schedule I usually see Pushing Daisies live, and I have to watch The Mentalist and Chuck on the DVR. Tonight I had the house to myself so I was able to watch those.

( chuck 2x04, chuck vs the cougars )

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( pushing daisies 2x04, frescorts )

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( the mentalist 1x04, ladies in red )

Criminal Intent starts again November 6! Yaaaaaaay! And then I'll have another show to watch. And then in January it's Lost, but I think that's about it, really.

My God, Criminal Intent.

( spoiler ahoy )