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1. One of the things I've noticed about serials that like to bring back "allegedly" dead characters -- regardless of the serial -- is the writers like to suddenly have the characters talk incessantly about the character. Visit their grave. Etc. Almost if they are worried that the audience or reader forgot about the character and needs to be reminded prior to bringing them back -- also to ensure that the audience will be invested in the story. Because you don't want to bring them back and have the reader/audience go..."Wait, who is this person and why is everyone thrilled they are back from the dead? I don't get it." (New writers of long-running serials often forget that their fans have been watching/reading the serial forever, even though they are sort of new to the story themselves.)

I am fan of two long-running serials (both could give Doctor Who a run for its money, actually I think both may predate Doctor Who, and they definitely have more episodes and content.) I call them my guilty pleasures, although stay leery of the fandom, which is nuts.

* General Hospital - April 1, 1963 (yes, the fact it started on April Fools is NOT lost on me.)
* Uncanny X-men - September 10, 1963 (a bit later)

Doctor Who premiered on the BBC on November 23, 1963.

Hee. General Hospital has both beat by about 5-7 months. Although I think X-men may out-do both on the amount of content, number of characters, and cross-media rights distribution. But Doctor Who is admittedly the most legitimate of the bunch or the one, I'm willing to admit in polite company that I follow. (ie. Not the Guilty Pleasure.) Also, for the most part, characters (outside of Doctor Who) tend to stay dead in that series. And, weirdly, Doctor Who makes the most logical sense. You really do have to be able to hand-wave a lot of things to be able to follow a long-running serial -- also you need to be more into the characters and their relationships, then the plot.

2. Speaking of Doctor Who, guess what long-running prime time television show mentioned it this week?

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Fandom Stocking Goodies

Received lots of lovely icons and vids from folks in my Fandom Stocking. Very happy with the result. Wasn't really expecting anything.

Lots of Killing Eve Icons, also some good MCU icons.

A Farscape drabble.

And a couple of interesting fanfvids.

1. "I Did Something Bad" by jarrow - vid on Killing Eve (Villenalle and Eve) -- and I really like that Taylor Swift song, one of the few of her's I like. She has a handful that are really interesting.

2. Die Young - Buffy by kaydeefalls -- this is a rather inventive fanvid, and one of the VERY few that isn't shippy. It remarks on the theme of Dying Young in Sunnydale...and life in that verse. It's rather fun and a fun song as well.

3. An interesting if rather dark look at the Tenth Doctor Who entitled "I Can Ride My Bike with No Handlebars" == the vid isn't great, but I found the song and the message interesting.

4. And.. Control - MCU Jessica Jones -- exploring her relationship with Kilgrave. Not as good as the first two, but the vid is good as is the song.

Also nice Killing Eve icons from cookiegirl and MCU icons from three other people. Also tarlanx gave me some Black Panther icons.

All in all, quite satisfied. Sorry I couldn't return the favor. ;-)

Some very generous folks out there.