Random fandomish thoughts I've had of late

-- I've been rewatching Leverage from the very beginning as I put all of the episodes on my MP3 player, and it's reminded me of two things: how much I loved watching Sophie "act," and how much more I liked Nate when they'd make references to how much he loved and missed his son. And then I felt extraordinarily guilty, because as much as I know it would involve jumping the shark, I would love to see a story where Sophie ends up pregnant after the season finale, and they're both trying very, VERY hard to be responsible adults about the whole thing even though they're all "YAY, BABY!" about it.

It's not going to happen on the show, of course -- well, here's hoping, anyway -- but I want that story. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAANT.

-- I may be morbidly amused by all of the arm-flailing that this season of American Idol is going to suck, but then again last season is the only one I watched from start to finish, or at all, really. There may be a part of me that's sort of hoping that it turns out all of the changes they made actually DO make it better, just because everybody's positive it'll be horrible even though they haven't aired a single episode yet and I'm just contrary like that.

-- Watching commercials for the American Top Gear -- on the History Channel? Really? -- just makes me wince. Honestly, if you come out of watching any Top Gear episode and still think the secret to its success is due to the cars rather than the hosts, I'm pretty sure you're completely off your nut.

-- Still not caught up on SPN yet. At this rate, I may never get to it. Ugh.

-- I miss Ian Somerhalder's eyebrows.

-- And Donald Glover's faaaaace.

And then Randy set fire to Simon's broken corpse. The end.

So, my semi-spoilery assessment of the first episode of this season of American Idol:

1. It wasn't perfect, but it definitely wasn't horrible.

2. I think Steven is the Paula, Jennifer is the Randy, and Randy is the new Simon. Granted, that's given only two hours of footage, and this is coming from someone who never saw Paula in action and saw more of Simon on "Britain's Got Talent" than AI.

3. I think they may have played the good stories a little heavy for the first episode just to lure in people who think the season's going to blow. It was very heavy with good singers, at least by my estimate.

4. I'm pretty sure that when Victoria Huggins goes to sleep at night, she disintegrates into a squirmy pile of sleepy kittens with pink ribbons around their necks.

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Oh, my God, you guys, I have to do SO VERY MANY THINGS by the time school starts on Friday. I've got my school stuff to pick up, my hair to get cut and dyed, new glasses to be paid for so that they can be ordered, groceries to buy, and an apartment to clean. I was going to try to get in some overtime this week, but ... yeah, okay, like that's going to happen.

I'm horribly tempted to call in sick tomorrow. I already took off Friday because I knew I'd be so excited I'd be useless, but now that excitement's just shifted to Thursday instead.

SCHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL. :D