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[lyssie]

1. Bomb Girls is entertaining. If you're fond of, say, Foyle's War, shows with complicated women (who are the main focus), and/or Pan Am, you might like it. It's set in Canada during the second World War and focuses on a group of women working in a bomb-making factory. It's not deep, but it's not light, either. I was only intending to watch one episode, and now I'm lamenting that there are only six total.

2. Porn Battle 13 (good god) Prompts post: http://oxoniensis.dreamwidth.org/45365.html or http://oxoniensis.livejournal.com/499777.html

3. Torchwood Cliche Fest Fic post: http://nancybrown.livejournal.com/90636.html

4. I'm now three weeks behind on Once Upon a Time and one (it will be two tonight) on Lost Girl. I have this uncomfortable feeling I'm going to get very behind on the former and then do a lot of fast-forwarding to catch up.

5. rarewomen is doing their sign-up post now. I am considering it, but the lack of actual writing for the last year is making me a bit uncertain.

Comments

[scarfman]

Wow, someone who's [barely] farther behind than I am.

Thought of you last night when Maggie showed up on Leverage. I let you spoil that for me, but it's been so long since it aired that I'd forgotten.

[stexgirl2000.livejournal.com]

Does that mean it's 13 years of porn battles? Or starting on 7? (Either way it's mind blowing?)

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Seven, I think. Which just makes me feel old.

[scifiaddict86.livejournal.com]

I've been watching Bomb Girls too. You may not get the reference but its a lot like the old CBC mini-series. Definitely very Canadian which is neat to see. Its a little slow but its good not at shiny as Pan Am(which Ilove for all its soapiness) but not nearly as pretentious as Mad Men. Have you watched that by the way? I watched the first two eps on Mad Men on Netfilx and was very disappointed it seems to be all about white people problems but I was wondering if it gets any better?

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

I haven't watched Mad Men. Bomb Girls is about my favorite war era (if one can have a favorite), and Pan Am is about PEOPLE FLYING. Both are things I'm interested in. Mad Men is about... advertising. BORING.

Also, BG and PA are ALL ABOUT THE LADIES, whilst MM seems to be about the angsty dudes. So. (this is the impression I get, and I'm aware there are ladies in MM, and yet, still not interested).

ahem.

Anyway, I do not know if it gets any better, as I've never watched it.

[scifiaddict86.livejournal.com]

Ah for some reason I thought you did but maybe I was thinking of Rose or Ivanolix. Yeah I am currently very underwhelmed by Mad Men. I love Bomb Girls although some things like the black dockworker seem a little tacked on. There really weren't many black people in Canada at that point so its unlikely he would even be there (its possible but the writing makes it obvious that it was done for contraversy's sake more than anything). Plus the discrimination wasn't t overt as the show is portraying Canadians are too polite to be as nasty to people faces as the characters on the show are. It was a very unspoken thing even towards the Japanese, stories of actual confrontations over race are rare, it was mostly an unspoken thing. Its actually a little weird though that are the line girls are all WASP's some of them would probably first or secound generation Canadians who would still identify with one ethnic group or another (Irish, German, French, etc). It might just be that its a small town and pretty much everybody is part of the same group(which was the casein a couple of smaller towns in that part of the country at that time) but their being really vague about where they are.