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Ladies and Gentlemen,

I have finally finished watching the tv series Due South. As someone who doesn't own a tv (and wouldn't watch much of it even if there was a tv around), this show currently ranks among my favorites. It has the advantage over The West Wing in that it has a conclusive ending and just didn't keep going on and on (and on and on) until the show lost steam. It has intelligent, interesting characters. It has a sense of humor that can be weird and / or witty but almost never crude. Most of all, it's got the crime-solving mystery thing going on and I can never resist shows where I feel like I'm competing against the main characters to try to see who can find the next clue first.

Of the characters, I think the one I sympathize with the most is Fraser, oddly enough. (Kolwaski is too physical and Vecchio can be a bit sleazy; both are too whiny.) I like the idea of Maggie / Kowalski, though the show never went anywhere with it. Thatcher / Fraser could make sense after that train episode, except for the fact that both of them are so repressed that it's surprising all that compression hasn't already lead to an explosion that leveled the Consulate. I am eerily drawn to Metcalf and I can't even say why, but I appreciate what a complex character she is given how little we know about her. I am aware that when looking up "duesouth" under Delicious I will get gazillions of Fraser / Kowalski (personally I think that being with someone like Fraser, long term, cannot be good for someone with Kowalski's insecurities, and when Fraser picks up on it he'll most likely to bend over backwards to make it better -- probably via big words and Inuit stories which will most likely get him threatened to be punched or punched) which, given that they obviously care deeply about each other and rode off into the wilderness together, I can sort of get. (It makes a lot more sense than some of the pairings I've seen in Harry Potter, at least.)

Dief is love. Pure and simple.

Okay, onwards: I like Pushing Daisies season one reasonably well, but the glimpse of season two that I've managed to glimpse doesn't really inspire me much (though no doubt the colors will still make me want to paint). The finale of season one is already a step in the soap opera's direction and season two's just...introducing too much drama. Of the kinds that does not interest me. Glee shouldn't take too long, given that since Lucy's last trip I'd found the perfect way to watch it: listen to the brief recap and then skip through the episode to the parts where they perform. This makes sense if you consider the fact that I don't like the character or the plot much, but find watching them perform so very...fun. So yeah, that should condense things a bit. Still debating on Merlin, because season one is ...well, the show in general is something that requires you to turn off a portion of your brain to enjoy. (I can now appreciate the term "veg out".) It's like those potato-chips --and not the good kind-- no nutritional value of whatsoever and a weird aftertaste, but it's addictive while you're eating it. The thing is I haven't seen it since I finished season one, and now that I know Merlin / Gwen is officially out (no surprise there given the Arthurian legends) and exactly how they decided to deal with the issue of Morgana...eh. We'll see. Definitely I will have to watch Doctor Who though. All two incarnations. And Avatar the cartoon. I plan to watch at least three episodes and then see if I like it or not.

Unrelated: you know what the problem is with leaving the windows open? Moth. INDOOR. The phobia I have of butterflies pales in comparison to my issues with moths and I can't even tell you why, only that I have walked semi-circles before to keep a six feet radius between myself and the moth parked in the middle of the path.