Ultra's Fic (and Other Stuff)

Wishing you all a (belated) happy new year. I've been lurking around a little bit online the last few days, but not really back to 'normal service' until today. Hope everybody had a fab Christmas (if you celebrate it - or a fab whatever you have been celebrating!) and that you're all enjoying an excellent new year already :)

There has been much enjoying of gifts and food and fun for me and mine in the last week or so. I feel very relaxed and happy, and almost ready and prepared to get back to work next week (but only almost! lol)

The weather here is cold as anything (hovering around 0C/32F - a little above in the days, a little below at nights) and we're under warnings for snow/ice. Thank goodness we have nowhere to go and plenty of blankets to hide under!

So, Gilmore Girls and Hart of Dixie certainly have their similarities, up to the point where they were even filmed on the same set, so Stars Hollow and Bluebell are practically the same place. They have similar plot points and episodes sometimes too, similar humour and such, which works for me and is largely why I like both shows so much, but I just rewatched one particular episode of Hart of Dixie and I've realised it isn't just a little similar to a Gilmore Girls episode, it's very, very similar, in a slightly jumbled way...

HoD episode 2x9 is called Sparks Fly and concerns a Basket Auction for charity, extremely similar to the concept of GG ep 2x10 A-Tisket, A-Tasket with the slight difference that HoD has girls bidding on boys and GG has boys bidding on girls. Seriously though, check out all the extremely similar things that happen...

(1)
- In GG, Sookie wants Jackson to win her basket, but Kirk gets in the way, leading to Jackson having to bribe Kirk for the basket and date.
- In HoD, Wade wants Zoe to win his basket, but Magnolia gets in the way, leading to Zoe having to bribe Magnolia for the basket and date.

(2)
- Rory & Jess go on a date in which she tricks him into eating gross food and laughs at his expense.
- Tansy & George go on a date in which she tricks him into eating gross food and laughs at his expense.

(3)
- Jess (deliberately) wins Rory in the auction, and when her boyfriend (Dean) objects, she says she has to go because it's the rules.
- Lemon (accidentally) wins Lavon in the auction, and when his girlfriend (Ruby) objects, he says he has to go because it's the rules.

(4)
- Lorelai & Luke end up on a date (without meaning for it to happen to start off with) and it's equal parts cute and awkward because we all know they should be together but they're not.
- Lemon & Lavon end up on a date (without meaning for it to happen to start off with) and it's equal parts cute and awkward because we all know they should be together but they're not.

On top of all this, in HoD, George makes up some fake lawyer stuff to get Tansy her dog back from her ex's new girlfriend which is so, so like that one scene in the film Legally Blonde where Elle makes up Latin law stuff to get Paulette's dog back from her ex.

So, I guess what I'm wondering is, were the writers just having a blank day and ripped off a bunch of stuff from GG and also Legally Blonde OR is this just the mother all of coincidence clusters??

(It's also possible that when I rewatch my favourite TV shows a lot, I start seeing more detail than is strictly necessary! lol)

When I first got into the MCU via Avengers Assemble (aka The Avengers) I didn't really think much about shipping. As I went back and watched Phase 1, I liked some canon ships (Tony/Pepper, Steve/Peggy) and some others, not so much (didn't like Jane enough to ship Thor/Jane, didn't care about pre-Ruffalo Hulk, tbh) but fanfic got me into a whole bunch of non-canon ships. I liked the idea of Nat/Clint back then, and actually, I really enjoyed Bruce/Darcy! lol

Then Phase 2 came along, and a friend got me into Steve/Nat, plus I read some Loki/Jane and some Darcy/(insert name here) because, good grief, she got paired with just about everyone for a while! lol

Then, somewhere along the line, I discovered Bucky/Nat, and oh my goodness, there's just no going back from that!!!

I always loved Bucky in all his incarnations. I mean, it doesn't hurt that Sebastian Stan is as hot as the sun, but Bucky's just such a complex and wonderful character. I always liked Natasha too, for similar character-depth reasons, actually. Plus they both kick ass, which is fun too ;) It came as a surprise to me that they actually were a couple in the comics, but it does make sense, and I really wish there was the opportunity for something to happen with them in the MCU. I've seen interviews where Sebastian talks about wanting 'WinterWidow' to happen, so that's great :)

So, yeah, after three phases of films and a lot of fanfiction reading (plus some writing) I found my MCU ship. Bucky/Nat, WinterWidow, whatever you want to call it - that's my MCU OTP. And yes, I know, it's kind of ruined at this point because of Endgame, and I don't even know what's happening in The Falcon & The Winter Soldier, or what the Black Widow film might throw up, but it's still my MCU OTP and I'm sticking to it ;)

I realised the other day that when I listen to music, I don't just have favourite artists, favourite albums, or even favourite songs, I have very specific favourite lyrics, certain lines that I feel strongly about, because they really say something or they just evoke an image in my head. There's quite a lot of them when I think about it, so I did think about it, and here's the list I came up with... so far.


"There's a shopping cart in the ravine, the foam on the creek looks like pop and ice-cream."

"I'm gonna hit the highway like a battering-ram on a silver-black phantom bike."

"Give me a second, I need to get my story straight, my friends are in the bathroom getting higher than the Empire State."

"Life's like a box of matches, sometimes the whole thing catches, and all you can do is watch it burn."

"We were shining like Aurora Borealis."

"I don't wanna touch you too much, baby, 'cause making love to you might drive me crazy."

"Life's a journey, not a destination, and I just can't tell just what tomorrow brings."

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So, Clayne Crawford has been fired from Lethal Weapon... but they hope to get a Season 3 and recast the role of Riggs. I do not understand how that will ever work and I definitely don't want to watch if they try to make it happen.

Supposedly, there were good reasons for the firing - some very bad behaviour and what not. Even if that's true (I have trouble believing it, given his big anti-bullying stance, the interviews I've seen in the past, and all the positive things his cast-mates, friends, and fans who've met him say about him) it still makes no sense to me to recast a lead role in a show and expect everyone to watch like nothing's changed.

Ugh, why must by fave shows always get cancelled or messed up or whatever.

Yeah, I know, there are way more important things in the world than TV, but still, grr! :P

So, when I saw that Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was going to be on TV the other day, I hit record. I've somehow managed to never see it, and it's one of those films that everybody else has seen and references in books, TV shows, films, etc. so yeah, I thought I'd give it a go.

Oh, dear.

Maybe I missed something. Maybe I'm far and away from the target audience. Maybe it hasn't aged well. I have no idea what the problem is, but I don't get it.

Now, I'll admit I'm not a huge Western fan, but there are certain ones that I like. I watched Crossfire Trail because Christian Kane was in it but then ended up loving it in a more general sense after I actually saw it. I love The Magnificent Seven (the original one). The Adventures of Brisco County Jr., though as much comedy as anything else, was at least half Western and I dig it. Butch & Sundance? Sorry, no.

I always thought, from what I heard, that they were heroes or something, but they were train robbers and bank robbers. I don't deny they were good-looking and charismatic and all of that, but I didn't care a huge amount about what happened to them. Not only was it inevitable, but it was justice, wasn't it? Excuse me if I'm coming off too morally righteous, but they were the bad guys, so they got caught.

Don't get me wrong, there were entertaining moments in the film, but as a whole, I really don't think I get it. I wouldn't call it a classic and I wouldn't watch it again. But I probably will have 'Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head' stuck in my brain-pan for a week!! lol

I've now seen two episodes of the mini-series Emerald City. After the first part, I was a little confused. After the second, I'm even more confused, and yet I kind of love it! I want to watch more so I don't feel so 'WTH?!' about everything that's happened so far, so I guess that's a good thing. It is weird though. Weirder than I was prepared for. Darker too, actually. All in all, jury's still out.

Anybody else watching?