Niko

From fannish5:
What 5 series would you resurrect if you could?

I'm blithely ignoring issues of actors having aged or moved on. 

1.  Weiss Side B
No contest.  The way this manga puttered out and then got dropped with barely a whimper of closure is going to stick in my craw for a good long while.  There were so many things I was *hoping* to see that may not have happened, but now it will forever feel like that longed-for arc was *just* around the corner, if only...    I'm left without any epic reunion arc (even a temporary one) with Yohji and Omi coming to the forefront.  No reveal that everything was some grand conspiracy by Rosenkreuz.   Barely a dent in the whole Interleukin-whatever plot that was the whole *point* of the series.  No big flashback to "Side A".  Argh! Not fair.

2.  Magnificent Seven
Obvious choice is obvious.

3.  Gabriel Knight
Who ends a *video game* series on a cliffhanger?  Seriously.  Despite having only three games to their names, Gabe and Grace and the whole schattenjaeger mythos are so amazing, I'd give anything to go back to that well one more time for some closure.

4.  Moon Over Miami
Gotta stick a wildcard in here.  No one else has even heard of this show, I'm sure.  It starred Billy Campbell (*swoon*) and Ally Walker as a bickering-detective duo a la Moonlighting or Remington Steele.  The episodes that managed to air were definitely rough around the edges, but the chemistry between the two leads was faboo, and the show had this jazzy quirkiness all its own.  It's always the first show I think of when talk turns to late, lamented shows that never got off the ground.  So, I'd just *have* to use my godlike powers to revisit it if I could.

5.  Firefly
It was actually a toss-up between this and Earth 2, but E2 would've been a nostalgia pick, and I already covered that in #4.  There's no question that Firefly deserved a longer life.

Runner-Up:  SG:A.  I can't say the show ever made it to must-see-TV status for me, but the cast and characters are some of the most likeable and just plain fun-to-watch out there.  They got shafted.

 I'm a bit late hearing this, but with the announcement that FFXIII is going to be available on XBox 360, the console war is officially over for me.   I've held off buying any of the new generation of consoles because there weren't any RPG's that I was super-excited about on any of them (and I still have a sizeable backlog of PS2 RPG's to keep me occupied).  

With FFXIII not being exclusive to Playstation anymore, though, the PS3 doesn't really have any leverage over XBox for me anymore.  The only thing that might change that would be if they announce a PS3-exclusive Suikoden game sometime before FFXIII comes out.  It's my only other must-have franchise at this point, but I'm not holding my breath for an announcement any time soon, unfortunately.  :( 

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In other news:  I am absolutely *squiggly* with joy at having won an auction on livelongnmarryfor a fic from chichiri_no_da.  It's like pre-Christmas fever... only BETTER, because the blenders and gift certificates and *useful crap* that I usually get for Christmas cannot hold a *candle* to yummy Weiss Kreuz fic. :)   We exchanged a few emails about it last night, and it sounds like we're on the same page with the big things, so I can't wait to see how it plays out!!!

Just another "Memory" entry, to keep track of drabbles I've posted
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Well, I never thought I'd do it, but I've become a yaoi-girl...or at least a shounen-ai-girl. A few too many evenings browsing around for Weiss Kreuz spoilers, a few too many glances at fanfictions with intriguing plot summaries regardless of ratings, and here I am a week later digging around the 'net hunting up doujinshi info. and getting teary-eyed over every sweet little shounen-ai scene that comes my way. It's not the boy/boy content that has me surprised at myself really...those sort of hang-ups aren't my thing. It's just that...

Well, in my fanfic reading, I've always had a deep loathing for all things *shippy*. It drives me crazy that so many fanfiction writers have this deep-seated need to take a perfectly interesting, nuanced friendship and force that next step...like there's no way for platonic love to be at all dramatically compelling. This is true for me on both the het and slash sides of the fence, and in pretty much every fandom I think I've ever read in.

And yet, here I am, hip-deep (and sinking fast) into a fandom that has more pairings than you can shake a stick at. I still love the friendship stories best, but I can't deny that there are a couple pairings that hit my buttons in that oh, so *shippy* way. Ugh. And yet...{contented sigh}