11 Feb 2011
by Nikkiin tv Tags: criminal minds, emily prentiss, oh god is she going to die, paget brewster
A bit of backstory: if you’ve missed the whole internet freakout (and a lot of people have), AJ Cook (JJ), as we all know, got the boot and AJ recently tweeted that she was back for Paget Brewster’s (Emily Prentiss) final episode. Paget has expressed that it’s all due to money, not a creative decision as is officially on the record, and I’m inclined to believe her. Unsurprisingly, I am super pissed about this casting change – one, sexist and two, Emily is my absolute favourite character on the show and JJ isn’t far behind. This isn’t like the previous casting changes on Criminal Minds – Lola Glaudini and Mandy Patinkin left of their own free will.
However, it is looking like they’re going to send Prentiss out with a bang – a crazy story arc starring her is brewing. And anything involving Prentiss is likely to get me to squiggle in my seat with joy and not just because she’s my favourite – she’s also one of the under utilised characters as she doesn’t have a dick is not A) Reid, B) Hotch, C) Morgan or even D) Rossi. So an entire arc devoted to Prentiss? Involving her untouched past (other than the abortion-in-Rome-at-fifteen thing) and why the polyglot daughter of an ambassador is working for the FBI (other than to spite her mother)? I am so in.
Because, honestly? Why is a polyglot who grew up in international politics working for the BAU? She is way overqualified – she could be working in any of the other, cooler, policing agencies. So it makes a hell of a lot more sense that used to work undercover for Interpol. And a guy she helped catch? Well, he’s free. And he’s out to get her so, at the end of this week’s episode, she grabbed her cat and is on the run. But where did she run to?
But the bigger question remains – is Emily going to survive the season? I’m unbelievably excited (and terrified) about it – I think this is the first time when I’ve been watching a show where I don’t know the character’s fate. Either it’s obvious that they’re going to live – plot armour is a wonderful thing – or I’m catching up on old tv and have accidentally spoiled myself (every. single. time).
And Criminal Minds is the sort of show that would cheerfully murder off one of the main characters, and now it’s hit the six season and, well, the quality of the scripts has been declining.
So, yeah, I’m both pumped and terrified of the rest of the season – especially since Joe Mantegna tweeted that episode 618 is even more mindblowing than the 100th episode – you know, the one where Haley, the ex-wife, gets murdered while the son is in the house? And Hotch has his epic breakdown over Haley’s body? Yeah. (Or maybe he was talking about episode 500, where Hotch gets stabbed and probably raped by the unsub mentioned above – either way, intense!)
Unrelated, but Emily got a cat! A black cat named Sergio! So adorable – and, hee, way to play up on the Emily the Strange connection. My inner teen goth appreciates it.
25 Nov 2010
by Nikkiin tv, writing Tags: castle, castle/beckett, criminal minds, fanfic, fox/xanatos, gargoyles, goliath/elisa, lost girl, myka/hg, sanctuary, warehouse 13
This probably isn’t much of a surprise, but I think about writing more than I actually, well, write. Part of the problem is that I have so many ideas and bounce between them so rapidly that I don’t ever sit down and just write. So I figured that if I make a list of the fanfic I want to write and post it to my blog, I’ll at least have a vague start on the fics.
As for why fanfic? It’s easier to summarise in a couple of sentences. No need to explain who and where, just what and why. Also, I want to be writing my fucking comic and not novelling atm – it’s time for my yearly post-NaNo-you-suck-at-life depression.
It should go without saying that everything on this list is a WIP and that the longer the length is, the less likely I am to write it.
The fandoms, if you’re interested, are Castle, Gargoyles, Criminal Minds, Warehouse 13, Sanctuary and Lost Girl. Every single fic but one (a Castle fic) listed is a crossover. Yeah, idk, I’m on a crossover kick as of late?
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22 Oct 2010
by Nikkiin tv Tags: criminal minds, fandom secrets, haven, lj, lost girl, rizzoli & isles, sex on tv, xena
So, yeah, one of the main reasons why my fandom experiment died was because the new shows suck. And this is actually an empirical fact, not just my opinion - TV by the Numbers even has a write up about how barely any of the freshman shows are even above average. Fail there. In fact, I am only watching one new show (Chase… on DVR. It conflicts with Castle and, even if it didn’t, it isn’t worth waiting through commercials and being unable to pause and do other stuff), and that’s only when I run out of other stuff to watch. It is, however, ranked above House (aka the show I’m watching for the lawls).
However, the other day I had read a fandom secret guaranteed to generate wank (aka, my favourite ones to read the comments on) because, apparently, pointing out that tv isn’t exactly female friendly is too harsh a criticism for the uber liberal PC feminist anti-privilege LJ community. Yeah, idk, but there were some semi-heated comments about the OP being an idiot because the shows s/he listed had plenty of good female characters, though the secret was about how they’re not the main characters and could never carry the show. There is a difference between having a show with good female characters (Criminal Minds… well, pre season six since JJ got the boot and Prentiss is being cut out and, as awesome as Garcia is, she only has a small role) and a show that is carried by the female characters (Haven or Xena). Note that without Audrey, there would be no Haven – yes, it is a story about a weird town with weird happenings, but Audrey is at the nexus of it all, and it is her story of self discovery. And, Xena? Yeah, it’s kiiinda named after a girl – always a sure sign of a central character. But Criminal Minds? I think the show itself just proved that it can chop out the female characters and still keep its ratings. More
23 Feb 2010
by Nikkiin misc, tv Tags: art, castle, contest, criminal minds, deviantart, experiment
As some of you (well, probably all ten of you. Yes, I apparently have ten people reading my blog. That is nine more than I had expected) are probably aware, I’m a bit of a masochist in regards to my creative ventures. As you’re probably also aware, I can afford to – humble I am not. I mean, christ, you’re reading the words of the girl who wrote crack!fic for the lawls and to piss off a fandom. Sadly, I (mostly) failed. I got one person crazy pissed at me, but she was a superfan of my other fics. Yes, I was a fifteen year old writing crappy Artemis Fowl fanfics and I had superfans. Superfans that stalked me for years. Don’t ask me to explain it – I don’t get it myself. Travis says it’s because I’m better at writing than I give myself credit for. I, personally, attribute it to my ability to write for my audience… since my audience is myself and apparently there are people like me in the world. That, and my rarely tapped ability to be charming.
So, yeah, ego. An ego that was stroked for years due to being the one artist and writer in one group of friends and then further fueled by the interwebs. Needless to say, I’m an excellent candidate for experimenting on creative groups – I have more interest in the numbers and what they represent than how they reflect on my own work. Hence my current experiment on the Castle fandom regarding review to read ratios, speed of reading and quality of reviews between FF.Net and the castle_fic LJ comm. I mean, hey, if I’m going to be writing Castle fic like the fantard that I am, I may as well get some data out of it.
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19 Aug 2009
by Nikkiin tv Tags: bones, castle, chuck, criminal minds, defying gravity, eleventh hour, eureka, fanfic, fringe, house, multifandom, sanctuary, sexism, sg-1, sga, star trek, star trek: enterprise, star trek: the next generation, star trek: the original series, star trek: voyager, stargate, stargate atlantis, stargate sg-1, the big bang theory, warehouse 13, x-files
Maybe it’s just the shows I watch or the books I read, but I find one strange similarity between them all… there is rarely, if ever, a woman as the ultimate lead character. In fact, off the top of my head, I can only name Star Trek: Voyager and Sanctuary as shows I’ve watched with a female lead. But I’ve got a notoriously bad memory, so let’s make a list (in a rough order of air time from the 2008-2009 season).
Buuut I’ll put it under a cut cuz I really hate uncut long articles on blogs.
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