I had a super busy weekend (anevivi was here! I got to meet mklutz, who is awesome!), and everyone is on vacation, so it's crazy busy at work as well. That's why I decided to come in 20 minutes late so I could finish Doctor Who this morning, and why I am making this post instead answering emails. Model employee, say what.

( Merlin 2x08 )

( Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars )

1. reel_merlin has been killing my inbox, but it's awesome because we have over 130 sign ups!!! They close today, so if you're still pondering something you should sign up now.

Where, you might ask? Well guess what, I've conveniently provided a link RIGHT HERE. (GO.)

2. Also, speaking of reel_merlin I realized I completely failed at wish my lovely co-mod krazykipper a happy birthday yesterday! You do so much and are such a sweetheart through it all. <3 Since I'm belated and I know you already had an awesome day I will only say that you deserve it. :)

And speaking of birthdays, I'm not too late to wish volsi a happy one. Happy Birthday!! *throws confetti for EVERYONE*

3. GIP. LOOKIT. DID I MENTION I HAVE A SHINY NEW ICON WHERE KATIE HAS A TONGUE STUD? I COULD WRITE A SONNET ABOUT KATIE HAVING A TONGUE STUD, BUT I WILL SPARE YOU ALL AND JUST CONTINUE WRITING IN ALL CAPS. AFTER EXTENSIVE RESEARCH IN TO THIS, YES THERE IS A MOVIE WHERE SHE IS ALL GOTHY AND PIERCED AND I HAVEN'T SEEN IT YET BUT THIS TRAGEDY WILL BE RECTIFIED.

Aaaand this is the kind of all over the place entry that happens when I have my morning coffee for the first time in 5 days! Whee! *wanders off*

It's been a very exhausting weekend of moving and packing and cleaning and unpacking and more cleaning and schlepping and seriously people: DON'T MOVE. DON'T DO IT. STAY WHERE YOU ARE UNTIL SCIENCE FINDS A WAY TO TELEPORT SHIT.


That said, I'm ducking in to say that wordsindreams has an
amazing Katie McGrath picspam up on her lj! New pictures I hadn't seen before! I stole a sample to entice you:



STILL THE PRETTIEST. YES.

(ETA: Whoops, it's flocked, sorry guys. But friending wordsindreams or stalking katie-mcgrath.com would not be a waste of your time.)

(ETA2: Unlocked now, by the awesome wordsindreams! GO. DROOL. EVRYONE. *shooes*)

1.SGA rec stolen from sheafrotherdon. So. This cinches it that no one will ever beat SGA fandom in terms of sheer crack.

Zygote by kassrachel (John/Rodney, Rish maybe? IDK it works on many level, k?)

Look at the title and think about it. And remember that it's SGA, so it goes there. It's like high school health class. Only hotter and strangely endearing in a way that all the best crack is.


2. THIS MEME. I HARDLY EVER DO MEMES BUT lovestories MENTIONED MORGANA AND HBICS IN THE SAME POST:

MORGANA LE FAY is the ultimate HBIC

EVERYONE SHOULD GO VOTE FOR MORGANA. PROOF:

So, after yesterday's post on Keira Knightley vs. Katie McGrath, sovietkitsch threw down the gauntlet with her stealth Keira Knightley picspam attack in the comments section. (Which is fairly decent. If you like that sort of thing.)

STILL. As this couldn't go unchallenged, and also because I said I'd do this over Thanksgiving anyway and never got around to it, I give you:

( The Katie McGrath/Morgana Picspam of Pretty )

Nothing super spoilery for the aired episodes, though obviously not dial up friendly. And if you have any pictures you want to throw out for the cause, feel free to comment with them!

Happy Monday, flist! Merlin 1.12 was pretty and I enjoyed it and am flailing about next week like everyone else. :)

That aside, I have a very serious question for you all. Someone over on merlinxarthur linked to this article on AfterElton.com about Merlin airing on NBC in the U.S. It’s nice that AfterElton has also picked up on the gay (and sad that NBC won’t be airing the episodes anytime soon), but what really jumped out at me was this:


The weakest link in the cast is probably Katie McGrath who plays Morgana. She's almost a perfect clone of Keira Knightley, and like her big screen doppelganger she pouts and poses rather than actually acts.


I was shocked- shocked!- by that. She may not be the best actor on the show (that would probably be Colin I think? YMMV), but I’ve always thought that Katie has done a good job. And to be fair, the author admits that he hasn’t seen all the episodes, so I’m assuming he must have missed out on the ones where Morgana is AWESOME.

Even I have to say that I didn’t really like Morgana in the first episode. The scene with her twirling about in front of her mirror talking to Gwen about dresses has always felt off to me, especially as an introduction to her character. Don’t get me wrong, I love Morgana’s wardrobe (ridiculous fur shrugs, even more ridiculous heels and all). It just made her seem a lot more vapid than the she is, especially since she had nothing much to do that first episode other than wear pretty clothes and have the boys stare at her. (Also, the sleeveless number she ends up wearing was one of those whopping historical inaccuracies that hit me back when I was still bothered by those things. :) Still, she got better and better as the show went on, and by this point I would watch a show that’s just Katie McGrath fiercing her way around Camelot.

The reason why this really bothered me is that (confession!) I don’t like Keira Knightley- sorry sovietkitsch- I know she’s your girlcrush to end all girlcrushes. I’ve seen a lot of her movies actually (also somewhat thanks to sovietkitsch, because there would be no other person who could have convinced me to see Domino in theatres, which was for the record pretty hilarious). She was cute in Bend in Like Beckham, and surprisingly good in Pride and Prejudice, but I really really don’t think she can act. Or rather, maybe she can but her range is…not big.

Anyway, what I’m saying is, that when it comes to actors- Keira in particular, unfortunately- pretty people who can’t act but are inexplicably famous movie stars is one of my BIGGEST PET PEEVES ever. I don’t care how hot you are, if you can’t act your way out of a paper bag you should not be stinking up legitimate movies (obviously craptastic things like HSM and the Flan don’t fall into this category).

It’s been pointed out that I’m an opinionated person, but I really do make an effort not to be snobby. However this is one of those instances where I get disgusted with how shallow Hollywood is- and society by extension for laying out their money to see movies starring Channing Tatum and the like.

SO. The point of this rambling ramble is that I had noted the similarity between Katie and Keira, but I’d personally thought of Katie as the prettier, more talented though less famous one.

HAVE I BEEN WRONG THE WHOLE TIME? HAVE I BEEN LIVING A LIE? DOES KATIE MCGRATH ACTUALLY SUCK AND I WAS TOO BLINDED BY THE PRETTY TO NOTICE? THIS IS VERY DISTRESSING TO ME. D:

PLEASE WEIGH IN FLIST AND TELL ME IF I ACTUALLY AM AS SHALLOW AS AN INFLATABLE KIDDIE POOL.

( AND BEFORE YOU MAKE UP YOUR MIND LOOK AT THIS PICTURE. )