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[shadowkat]

Took the quiz meme, posting because I happen to like this color, but I find it decidedly odd that I pick Water as the element to represent myself and the meme picks earth:

What color is your soul painted? Purple Your soul is painted the color purple, which embodies the characteristics of sensuality, spirituality, creativity, wealth, royalty, nobility, mystery, enlightenment, arrogance, gaudiness, mourning, confusion, pride, delicacy, power, meditation, religion, and ambition. Purple falls under the element of Earth, and was once a European symbol of royalty; today it symbolizes the divine. Click Here to Take This Quiz

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Flist made me laugh. Always a good thing.

Anyone know how I can watch Torchwood without having to download it? I keep hunting for it to pop up on BBCAmerica or Sci-Fi. But no dice. I have a sinking feeling it won't make it to this side of the pound. We don't get Blake's 7 either.

I think I'd like Torchwood more than Doctor Who - the premise sounds more intriguing to me.
And yes, I'm curious to see what JAmes Marsters is doing in it - but not overly so, since I have not liked the actor in anything he's done outside of Spike and the Dresden audio books.
Have had the same reaction to Head (who hasn't done anything interesting to me since Buffy in my opinion.)

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[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

Haven't seen it pop up yet. But I keep looking.

According to everyone on flist - the first episode of Torchwood was excruciatingly bad, but the final four episodes were great, which is interesting. Can't quite decide if the show grew on them or they just began to get into fanfic on it? At any rate their initial impressions were enough to scare me off any attempts to download it.

Sigh. I really wish Marsters would get a good role in something. He's guest-starring in an episode of Saving Grace sometime this summer as well.

[londonkds.livejournal.com]

The first episode is quite good, but most of the rest of the first half of the season is really, really awful. And also quite misogynistic, I warn you.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the warning and that's incredibly interesting.
Buffyannatator and herself_nyc had the opposite response in their reviews - both seemed to love the two-parter towards the end of the series, but were not fond of the beginning episode at all.

I'm finding the diverse reactions people have to media fascinating. Ex: The Sopranos Finale - didn't see it myself, but my pal Wales adored it. Loved it so much she's re-watched three times now. But buffyannatator hated it with a passion. Same deal with the reactions to The Long Way Home - which is a comic I feel ambivalent about mostly due to the art - not a George Jeanty fan. But several people on my flist adore it to pieces.
While there are others like myself, who feel equally ambivalent.

I honestly think it may well be impossible to know whether or not you are going to like or hate something based on someone else's review of it. Even if the person reviewing it tends to share your interests and is a close friend.