Okay, if I'm honest, it's the forbidden love thing. UST gets me every time. I know it's an obvious trick, used time and again in television, but oh, I fall for it every time. And the moment they finally realise they both Care About Each Other A Lot More Than They're Supposed To, they're stuck either side of a force shield, and she's about to die. *le sigh* And, after that, they still can't be together without giving up the careers they love, or breaking the rules to which they're committed. I'm a complete sucker for that sort of thing.

 

The fandom, actually. I heard about the show through a crossover fanfic from another show, set in the Stargate universe, and did some research online, because I didn't understand what was going on. I wanted to know who all these people were, why all the acronyms and apostrophes, what the deal was with the "Gate", why it seemed to be set in our time, as far as I could tell, and yet there was travel to other planets... and somehow the army was involved...? :-) I think it reminded me of the X-Files – I've always had a fondness for shows that set the fantastical in the here-and-now.

 

3. Name one website (besides LJ) that you visit regularly.
Hm. *checks bookmarks* Leaving out the ones everyone visits regularly (Google, Wikipedia, IMDb...), I go to stock.xchange quite a lot – it's a photography community, where people can upload their own photos, and find ones by other people, to use free of charge so long as it's non-commercial. Quality can vary, but mostly the photos are really good. It's a place to find the everyday beauty of the world.

 

Well, Jane Eyre or Lord Of The Rings. Anything with less words and scope, I'd eventually get bored of, no matter how much I love it. So if I was stuck on the traditional desert island, it would probably have to be... LoTR. There's just so much of it. By the time you get to the end, you've forgotten the beginning. And I've still not read all the appendices, despite having read the book itself several times.

 

Evil. So, so evil. And not only evil, but loud and – most unforgivably - boring. Why does anyone want to watch people sitting around picking their toenails 24-7, talking about OMG Chantal is so totally a beeyatch 'cause she spent like half an hour in the bathroom this morning when she knows I wanted to shower? It's BORING. Any feeble excuse about social experiments has long since died, in my opinion. It's a talent-free zone, feeding fame to morons, and pandering to the idea of lowest-common-denominator programming. If TV executives had any integrity they'd try to make something with a grain of intelligence, and challenge their audiences, and not just cheap and attention-grabbing shows that have as much depth and reality as the poem in a Hallmark card.

 

I'm not a fan – can you tell?