A new blog for a new year...

Greetings all! I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! Mine was just what I needed, a nice quiet relaxing day.

Anyhoo, I came to a conclusion this morning that I wanted to share with you, dear readers. Over the last few months I have often found myself pondering topics for my blog posting and realizing that the show or topic I wanted to discuss didn't really fit into my "sci-fi" format that I've set up for myself. So, I've decided that, in honor of the fresh start we're all getting with the coming new year, I'm going to give myself a fresh start. I'm going to broaden the horizons of this blog a bit.

I won't be doing anything too terribly fancy, but instead of just limiting myself to science fiction television shows, I will now use this space to talk about all television shows I watch, regardless of genre, as well as the movies I see and the books I read. I really am a multi-media nerd. I'll still be the SciFiTVFanGirl though, because I am still a fangirl at heart.

I just wanted to give you fair warning. Television-wise, some of the shows you can expect to start hearing about include (but are certainly not limited to) How I Met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory, Bones, Boston Legal, Psych, Monk, and The Closer.

Going back to science fiction television for a moment though, I was pleasantly surprised last night that BBC America did air a new episode of Life on Mars. I found this one particularly enjoyable. Sam spends much of the episode trying to convince DCI Hunt of the virtues of a newfangled policing technique known as "surveillance," which Hunt dismisses for not sounding very "manly." But this plot point led to a scene that had me laughing loud enough so that my husband, in the office down the hall, had to come find out what was so funny. Apparently I get loud when I'm amused. In this scene, the detectives are placing a transmitter in a car dealership owned by their suspect so they can bug his business. They've gone at night and are placing the transmitter in ceiling when a car drives by and its lights sweep across the room. One of the officers shouts out "The law!" and to a man they all jump down and start hiding behind cars. Meanwhile, a very bemused Sam is left shaking his head and pointing out, "You idiots, we are the law!" Good stuff. My only real quarrel with the episode is that it eventually ended up involving a key party. Why is it that everything set in the seventies at some point has to bring up a key party? Did these things really happen that often? Does the very concept freak the bejeezus out of anyone else? I mean, seriously...ew. Although, I have to admit, a large part of the concept was to make the main character Sam (who is from good ol' 2006) as uncomfortable as possible while also making him realize the danger he was placing himself and his partner Annie in. If uncomfortable and creepy is what they were going for, they definitely hit their mark.

Anyhoo, that's about all I've got. I've now dithered on the computer for far too long tonight and need to go get some things wrapped up before bed. I wish you all a wonderful week, hopefully a quiet one!

Happy New Year to everyone!

TTFN,
C

Recent acquisition: The Flight of the Navigator (oh yeah...)