Lovelies does anyone have a high res pic of the Laura promo pic from season 2's episode Home part 1? It's where she is leaning on the table looking all badass while Zarek and co bitch about when Kara will show up.

I need it for something EPIC and like now pleasums?

Edit: Never mind I found it!

Never mind I can fix that.

Lots of people on my flist write fanfic and as the writers of fanfic you all know the simple rule of disclaimers and the fact that you are only borrowing characters and not making any money from someone elses creation right? Right.

So I went to one of my favourite blogs Fandom Wank and found this entry about one fic writer who really doesn't get this concept, to the point where she has put her book on Amazon.

So behold the woman who may bring the downfall of all Twilight thank god! fan fiction!

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As some of you may already know what keeps involved in fandom discussions long after the curtain closes has a lot to do with the continual societal questions the show/movie/book/play offers. Just like in fandom in real life what holds my attention aren't the debates with clear cut answers or discussions that actually bring about solutions but the discussions that bring up new questions and ideas for us to think about and in turn ask ourselves new questions about what we believe and how that reflects in our every day life.

That's why I think the following clip I'm going to link to is an important place to start asking ourselves questions.

A show I want to talk about isn't a scripted drama or comedy, it's actually a show about advertising on the only network channel in Australia that has no advertising, known as The Gruen transfer. The ABC which is funded by the government didn't allow the following clip to be shown. The clip however has been made available online with all warnings about it's content included.

You may be asking yourself what is in this clip that is so bad it would be pulled from TV. Well the clip shows an ad made as a result of The Gruen transfer segment "the pitch". The Pitch involves two advertising agencies receiving a pitch based on something difficult to advertise and having to put together a commercial for it. Last week the challenge was to make a commercial advertising the benefits of having the Cane Toad (a notorious Australian pest) as a pet. Many of the commercials are funny, a little risqué and occasionally serious.

This week's pitch involved the idea of "Fat Pride" where agencies had to address shape discrimination in Australia. The agency that was allowed to show their ad based the commercial on the idea that fat Australians were saving our economy by consuming so many resources, that ad you can view on The Gruen Transfer website here.

The ad that isn't there the ABC have made available on another website. I won't tell you what it is about as when you go to the website there is a brief description of the ad and its' intent. If you feel up to it then watching the linked video on the site, particularly the discussions afterwards by the panel is very enlightening.

I came to this footage knowing the controversy and having read the jokes. When I watched the whole video this afternoon I felt challenged by my previous view of this ad and the reasons behind it and in a rare moment for me I agreed and understood each view point held by the panel and was challenged by all the ideas I was presented with.

So in the spirit of being challenged watch this.

When they first played Voyager here in Oz they played Caretaker as one complete episode yet I know that when it was played else where or repeated on cable they would split it up in 2 parts.

My question is, where abouts in the Caretaker episode did part 2 start?

Why? well I'm putting a few old school episodes on my MP3 player and want to break them up in the usual 45min format. Gives me something to watch when public transport abandons me in some dodgy part of Redfern.

x-posted to sjishere

Does anyone know of a website that compares DVD content between the various DVD regions?

I'm trying to find information for a friend on the show Extras. He seems to think that the UK DVD of the show has more extras than the US version he bought. I tried looking through Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk as well as wiki with no luck. Anyone have a clue where I could look next?

It's the first ShatnerCon with William Shatner as the guest of honor! But after a failed terrorist attack by Campbellians, a crazy terrorist cult that worships Bruce Campbell, all of the characters ever played by William Shatner are suddenly sucked into our world. Their mission: hunt down and destroy the real William Shatner.

Must. have. Must. have. Must. have..

Found via Topless Robot

I came across a web TV series a few days ago on YouTube by accident that might interest some of you. It's called The Ennead, there are 26 episodes and 4 have aired so far (I just finished watching the most recent one then).

I'll be honest with you the acting isn't stellar and the story can make you think wtf? in a very similar way to LOST but it is scifi/fantasy and there is some promise in the story for some interesting twists and turns.

The name Ennead actually refers to 9 important deities in Greek and Egyptian culture. There is a synopsis on the web page I linked but I think it's better to jump straight into the character's own confusion at their situation then go and read the synopsis after episode 4.

If you like to support the struggling independent writers out there then check out The Ennead's YouTube page here and help increase their viewing numbers.

I'm on holidays at the moment and I've been catching up on some of my favourite shows. Last night I just finished catching up on Supernatural and the last episode was something of pure epic win.

Granted I like a lot of things but if any of you have been in fandom (any fandom) for even two minutes you have to watch the following edits I put together from the latest episode.

The episode entitled "The monster at the end of this book" (episode 4x18) is about the main characters Sam and Dean discovering that someone has created a series of books about them detailing their lives in explicit detail.

Highlights include:
- What is larping?
- What's a slasher?
- Which episodes sucked
- Online bitching about episodes.

Sometimes fiction is so real, it's scary, enjoy!

....I've just fallen in love with a TV show that is more then likely going to be cancelled- Kings.

It's going to be like losing Middleman all over again.

Kings would have been a perfect "easy the pain" show after no more BSG- handsome young men in uniform, religious allegory, interesting premise, interesting way of using an old story to explore modern issues and Ian McShane is just as hot as EJO.

I was thinking maybe another network could take the show up and then I looked at it's budget...woah, just as epic as it's story.

Bummer! I hope they at least do a few mini series' to round the show off with a good ending.

...me!

I've been working out my finances over the weekend and I can totally afford it.

And for those who haven't seen it yet, check out the line up to Dragon Con.

It's lookin pretty frakkin sweet my friends.

So who else is going? And let's all meet up!

Also posted on sjishere

p.s. Am I the only one having trouble seeing peoples icons or is LJ running a bit slow for everyone?

If I arrive in the US early in the morning can I book in to my hotel before 12pm and not get charged extra for doing that?

You see here if you go to a hotel to say stay over night but you turn up at 9:30 you pay for 2 nights instead of one. Which kind of sucks really.

Reason for my question is if I go chances are my flight will have me arriving in Atlanta early in the morning.

...I found my passport- eww I saw my photo.

Yikes why did they put that green tinted plastic stuff on it? Customs are going to think I'm from Mars instead of Australia.

"Take me to your fictional leader"

Ok so I really want to go to the con and meet you all! Hopefully I can.

At the moment I am trying to figure out the logistics and the costs of everything.

Flights from Sydney to LA I have covered but I don't know much about US domestic flights. Are there any airlines you would recommend both for cost reasons and the fact that they don't completely suck?

In terms of the con itself I was a little confused with the website as it didn't seem to have a ticket section but a membership section. If I basically want to see all the cool BSG stuff plus maybe a bit Voyager what sort of ticket scheme do I need to get? and does anyone know the cost?

For those who have been before how much money did you find you need? I'm not looking to buy a lot of stuff just autographs, meals and accommodation etc.

Thanks again lovelies!

As most of you know I live in Sydney (that's the Australian version not the Canadian one lol) and for a while now I have been desperate to go over seas just to go to one more convention. When I lived in the UK back in 2004-2006 I managed to go to a couple and meet a few of my favourite stars as well as fellow fans that made the experience that much more awesome.

So here's the thing, my last and finale fandom ended a couple of weeks ago and I probably won't go to many events now that it's gone but I've been wanting to go to one last event just to say goodbye to it all and hopefully meet some of my fellow fans who I have been talking to all these years. Plus there is pretty much only one con is Sydney and well it ain't nothing to write home about. Well there is this one con that I've heard is great and I've really wanted to go to. Chances are I can't afford to go but I'm going to be saving up for it never the less. The guest list was already pretty amazing but click the link below and see who they added to it that just made me want to push myself even more:

Damn my inner fangirl

..best TV final ever!

Also posted at my personal LJ sjishere

( spoilers after the cut )

You inspired me for the new name on the A/R Frakker thread:

Adama/Roslin Frakkers- Legalise it!
A/R for medicinal purposes only


You might only get that if you've seen the last episode lol!

So a certain promo was leaked and over hyped before hand and now I'm meh, is that it?

I think BSG needs to hurry up and get back on TV before I turn into complete "meh" mode.

I edited just Mary's part in the documentary about TV/Movie presidents because frankly she plays the best one there.

So here you go it's about 20MB I think:



Tell me if I need to upload it again, cheers

Oh yeah and this version is in English with no subtitles.