carmen_lj | lovely, lovely telly

Oh, telly is being very good right now. It's like it's trying to apologise for not having any more Middleman. First there is Lost in Austen, something I'd've completely ignored were it not for the, ah, Wholehearted Endorsements of teh flist. Yes. It's fanfic, beautiful, beautiful, 'bamph!' I believe the genre is referred to, in LotR at least, fanfic and IT MAKES ME V GLEEFUL.

The thing about the first episode that I absolutely loved was Nancy offa tEC/tDD being Kitty and having lines and a personality and she was great! Well done her and also the writers for taking advantage of Lizzie's absence to do give poor neglected Kitty something to do. It was a bit great. And I like Lydia. I've never ever liked Lydia before. It's v strange. And also there is Alex Kingston being a most wonderful Mrs Bennet and I think they are being cleverer than what I thought with Darcy as he was cardboard, but in the second episode he was slightly less cardboard and the way I felt about him was a lot more similar to how Elizabeth felt at first than anything that had Colin Firth in it. So possibly they actually know what they are doing there and soon there will be no cardboard left at all.

But, oh, it all went so beautifully wonderfully wrong in episode two! And Amanda telling Bingley she was gay to get him to focus on Jane was quite, quite marvellous. As was Bingley's determined declaration of "SHE HAS PARACETAMOLS!" in defence of Amanda's nursing skills. And mostly it is like cocoa and duvet and is gloriously good fun. In many ways like MM... with less aliens.

The other thing that is now back that I love is not Sarah Connor, for I've not actually seen it yet, but I assume it will be Quite Good, is Prison Break, for which I have embarrassing amounts of love. Mostly the shame is due to the seriously bad freezer habit the show has with women, but after the last episode the guilt eased off a tad as not only was Gretchen's death which looked like a fake-out actually a fake-out but Pam isn't dead either, hurrah! Not that I'd say she had a character exactly, but still, that and bringing Sarah back from the dead (I LOVES SARAH) does make it seem like they realised how awful they'd been and decided to stop it a bit and that is pleasing.

Also there is Mahone, who is as beautiful as ever and normally I have no interest in angsty-angst but Mahone's angst is possibly my favourite angst ever and I loves it and they also decided it wasn't enough that he was incredibly slashy with Micheal, OH NO, now they have to have an entire subplot devoted to him being incredibly slashy with Lincoln culminating in beautiful scene featuring aforesaid angst and much Manly Touching. It was greatness. There will be more of that I hope, yes.

I have no icons for either of these shows, alas. I should really find some that aren't Doctor Who.