We’ve started watching Defiance. One of my early reactions was “Who *is* that?” about Datak Tarr, who of course turned out to be the utterly wonderful Tony Curran and once I knew that I didn’t know how I couldn’t see it. (I had, in fact, said, “I know who that is but I can’t see it past the makeup.”) Anyway, he’s great and Jaime Murray, who plays his wife, Stahma Tarr, is O.M.G. amazing. OMG. She’s worth watching the show all for herself, although I like other characters as well.
Nice to see Darla’s getting work, for example, and I love that Fionnula Flanagan is in it. Ted said, “Rockne S. O’Bannone’s involved with it,” as we got started, and while it’s no Farscape, I’ll keep watching happily enough. My one complaint is, did they *have* to give her a magic head? Really? I was hoping she’d just be cool and kick-ass and competent and not also, y’know, Special, but no, Special is on the menu. Meh. Oh well.
(Yes, that’s deliberately kept vague. If you know who I’m talking about, you’ll know, and if you don’t you don’t and that’s okay too.)
“That girl,” Ted said at one point, “doesn’t look like she’d grow up to be Julie Benz at all,” and he was right. Of course, as I said to him, the only kids I’ve ever seen cast who consistently look like they’d grow up to be the older versions of themselves are the Winchester brothers and, and as I took a breath, Ted finished, “Superman.” Which is absolutely true. :)
Plains Cree. Huh. Justin Rain, one of the actors on the show, looks particularly like he could be Tlingit or Hai’da or, well, Southeast/Southcentral Native Alaskan to me, but he seems to be of Plains Cree descent. Well, okay. I really like him. And it’s fun to see Graham Greene playing a grumpy old bastard. :)
– paint bedroom & possibly bathrooms
– finish packing RPGs
– pack office
– pack TBR shelf
– call UPC
– call Airtricity
– figure out if there’s another utility thing to call
– get blog posts set up to autopost next week