It's been raining all day here today. So it's been cold and miserable. I don't like cold and miserable. So what have I been up to?

I spent a lot of the day having a 'Tour of Duty' Marathon. I forget how much I love those guys and seeing that era portrayed on screen. Also I don't watch it enough. When they released the DVD's here they stripped the 60's music from it so, for me at least, they stripped at least half the soul from the show, but one of our cable stations has been playing it and I get my music back, including my beloved theme. It was funny watching it and seeing familiar Kualoa Ranch/Hawaiian locations, fatorangekat you'll know, was it only the first season they filmed there?

This evening I've been capping all the H50 episodes because I don't have a complete set of the good quality caps, but now I does.

I'm happily putting together the daily post for AOL daily as well, it's such a hardship wading through AOL pics, but I'm happy to take one for the team.

Also, I have a question for my wise and astute friends list.

Who thinks Danny is afraid of the water? I don't.

You know if I was a paranoid suspicious bitch, i would be inclined to think that all the recent clips/lines/images released from future episodes are all pointedly saying to fandom,

"Hey look we know we made a mistake last year, but look this one isn't going to come between them at all."

So, I've been going to post for a couple of days, but really just haven't had the time or probably truth be told, the energy.

Things that matter in my world this week:

* My study is driving me crackers. My brain was never meant to be inhabited by numbers, I mean, if it's got more numbers than I have fingers and toes it's too difficult for me to deal with. Somehow I think Chemistry and Computerised Financial accounting are going to be the death of me.

* Alex O'Loughlin was out and about in LA at the HFPA event during the week, looking relaxed and very salt n pepper. Gave an interview here which is guaranteed to make you love him even more. Honestly? To find a nicer, more genuinely down-to-earth man would be a near impossible task.

* Scott Caan's play seems to be doing well as evidenced here, I'm quite jealous of all of you that are going.

* My consumption of Supernatural has slowed, I stopped for a while at the end of Season 2, but when I get done with travel and fic writing I will be delving back in, because Jensen Ackles eyelashes are too good to resist.

* Speaking of diving in? You may note from the icon, yes I have been assimilated. I've fallen right down the Wormhole and into Stargate: Atlantis. It's all alassenya's fault.

* Though I am defying common convention over that way and am quite smitten with the Ronon/Sheppard (what is that called btw, because in my head it's Shex) pairing rather than the McShep everyone else seems so set on. Not only is Jason Momoa hot, but he's got that lovely husky voice that should be reserved for reading porn out loud.

* The other half of that pairing? The Sheppard part you wouldn't expect to be hot? Somehow it is, and seriously Joe Flanigan should stop doing things like this on twitter. It just fills my head with inappropriate ideas. Also? There is almost as much if not more unneccessary touching between the two of them on set as there is with AOL/SC.

*Speaking of inappropriate, I've never been in a fandom before where there was so much hetfic, and not just hetfic but generally bad het fic. SGA seems to have as much het as slash, to a died in the wool slasher, that is a little disturbing.

* Before my next travel I really need a new travel laptop, Balian, my trusty netbook is getting long in the tooth and recalcitrant, contemplating this one is appealing to me at the moment because I can get it for almost $200 cheaper and with double the memory from my local guy.

*Have finished the rough draft of a bang fic, need to start on my Harlequin fic and somebody please shoot me, I've just signed up for an SGA challenge.

* Speaking of writing outside my fandom comfort zone? My head is being overtaken by the plotting of an SGA/H50/Walking Dead fic that is threatening to eat my existance.

* While I'm rabbiting about fic I have an observation to make. the H50 writing comm seems to spend a lot of time at FF.net, I've never been in a fandom that posts there before.

* The premiere of the Hobbit has been announced, I think I'm almost excited when I really didn't expect to be.

* Put together a new recipe this week, Pineapple and Coconut Macaroons, I'm told they're irresistable. Guess what inspired them?

Also, ION, is it September yet? I miss my new H50, and am pining for and_ed's episode reviews.

So, I'm convinced I'm either in an alternate reality or I honestly have a different feed to half the viewing world because seriously, what the everloving fuck, dude!

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I've been poorly today and overwhelmed by my to do list, but I've been pondering something that I'm not sure there is a definitive answer to, so I'm just going to explain and ask.

I'm falling head over heels for two new (for me) programs and one I used to watch but has sucked me in. I'm talking about GCB, Once Upon a Time and Army Wives.

Now here's the part I don't get. I have no, absolutely none at all, desire to even look for fanfic or delve into their fandoms. Now I had fanfic plotted in my head and was searching for LJ Comms before I had even finished watching the H50 pilot. I'm equally committed to watching NCIS:LA and short of a wee foray into their fic which I didn't like I'm not at all interested in their fandom. Likewise for Bones, Castle and anything else I watch casually.

My question? What is it about some programs that suck us in and make us want to practically absorb fandom?