This Year's Model of Humanity

I must immediately recommend this new vid by humansrsuperior. It contains spoilers through 4x02 -- The Fires of Pompeii.

( and so do my further comments on it )

Still not very good with actual interaction at the moment -- I'll try to respond to people in something less than an insanely long time after they commented (though that window is steadily shrinking and may already be gone) but I'm not there yet.

So, instead, I give you five things that are touching my heart at this moment:

These Two Arms -- a Xena/Gabrielle vid by killabeez. It's really beautiful and very accessible -- I haven't seen more than a handful of Xena episodes and this vid made complete emotional sense. The colors are particularly gorgeous and the relationship between the two principles is intensely lovely.

Hercules and Iolaus -- I've moved Hercules up in my netflix queue so that I can watch it in order already (I've had it up there before, but then other things took precedence and H:tLJ got shuffled on down the list. As SG-1 will be on hiatus soon, I figure I may get the time to watch it.). Because they're sweet and they're totally RST as opposed to UST, which is really nice for a break sometimes.

Sam Carter -- In my two-year crash course of SG-1 I've been indifferent to her (S1; S7), enjoyed her (S2-S3), disliked her (S4-S6) and even managed all three during various points of S8. Since her return in S9, I've discovered some deeply affectionate feelings for her. Pending further evaluation, I may now love her. As this tends to be a permanent condition once acquired, serious consideration is required before I fully commit to a position.

RENT -- Because passion is something I find intensely admirable and because Jonathan Larson really did hit on some of what I really do feel are truths about the strength of love, the fragility of life, the beauty of the ever-changing now. Because treating something sympathetically is not the same as romanticizing it. Because none of us are alone, we just think we are because we have our eyes closed, because we choose fear instead of love.

Original Recipe Boomer -- a.k.a. Hero Boomer; a.k.a. Sleeper Boomer; a.k.a. Chief's Boomer. Back during S1, I was most captured by Boomer's story. She broke my heart, desperately wanting this one thing not to be true, wanting to be human with everything inside her, so afraid of what she might to that she wanted to put a gun in her mouth. Though I'm quite fond of Sharon (a.k.a. Mother Boomer; a.k.a. Runaway Boomer; a.k.a. Helo's Boomer, but mostly Sharon), I've always been much more attached to Boomer.