SNL & tWW

Just watched the funniest Saturday Night Live skit I've seen in a while. Al Gore was hosting tonight, and the skit had him visiting the set of The West Wing, and talking to the cast and stuff, especially Martin Sheet. It was so funny. Gore wanted to stay in the faux-president's chair the whole time, and role-play giving out orders and stuff. I loved how the WW cast (playing themselves) kept giving him funny looks and sidelong glances of "Let's just humor him."

I was surprised, but the jokes on this SNL episode have been pretty well written so far, and like all other SNL hosts, Gore's been required to make fun of himself and his career, and he's actually been fairly amusing in doing so.

But I love the WW, and so I loved that skit.

BTW, that makes me think of this other thign about The West Wing that I was talking about with someone else on LJ earlier-- Josh's disparaging remarks about TV fandom, especially Star Trek fans. At first I didn't understand why they did that, since it seemed like the writers' of a TV show were insulting TV fans for liking TV. But it wasn't until I mentioned it to my dad that he pointed out that I'd missed the point, because I'd missed an earlier discussion.

Apparently Josh's riding of the assistant that wanted to wear her (modest) Star Trek pin to the office was supposedly to reflect Josh's hypocrisy, because he'd put up a fus over Sam was taking the sports pennet that had been hanging in the office with him as he left.

Since I don't remember that earlier part, I'm gonna take my dad's word on this. Also, thinking about it that way makes me feel less betrayed by having one of my favorite TV characters (though I admit, an often quite fallible one) say people who are attentive fans of tv shows are weird.

here's a thought

Just caught a few minutes of The Lord of the Rings on a cable movie channel, and they were on the snowy pass talking about going through Moria.

Now, as I recall, Gandalf fell into shadow when he fought with the Balrog at Khazaad-Dum (my poor spelling aside), on the underground bridge.

And I was just thinking... isn't "Khazaad-Dum" (my poor spelling aside) the same name of the planet where The Shadows originated from in the tv show Babylon 5? And didn't Captain Sheridan "fall" to his death there, only to come back alive (I don't remember how), where supposedly no one ever returned from?

Did the Babylon 5 writers just decide to rip that part directly off of Tolkein, or what?

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I got this...


Who's Your Ideal Disney Guy?
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But he looked like a girl and I wanted this:


Who's Your Ideal Disney Guy?
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And btw, does not the actor who plays Raisa (the young man of middle-eatern-ethnicity that supposed to mary that righ guy's blond daughter) in this season's 24 look EXACTLY like a live-action version of Aladdin? So cute.

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I'm all perky now because I got a review this morning on ff.net, for Aftershock Reverberations, my post-NA Spike/Dawn friendship fic.

in other things:

Top 5 Favorite Disney Animated Movies:

1. The Lion King
2. Lilo & Stitch
3. The Little Mermaid
4. Aladdin
5. Beauty & the Beast

I loved Lilo & Stich. I thought it was wonderful, and the best traditional Disney movie I'd seen since The Lion King. It had witty, intelligent jokes, but the movie wasn't there to make quips. The movie told this wonderful story about a little girl, her struggling sister, and an outcast lookign for a place to belong. And yet in doing that, it had some absolutely HILARIOUS scenes.

The Lion King is still my favorite, because I think its the best animated movie that Disney has done, to date (Toy Story not included in the same category). I think it worked so well and succeed as an update of literature where The Hunchback of Notre Dame failed because it did Hamlet and yet it didn't use humans, it used animals as a metaphor, and they were then able to change it around to make it a story appropriate for yonger audiences, and yet still have it use the same rich story that Shakespeare had written.


hils gave me the idea for that list, but here's one I'm starting:

Favorite Non-Disney Animated Movies:

1. Spirited Away
2. The Iron Giant
3. The Rats of Nimh
4. Princess Mononoke
5. The Last Unicorn

Honorable mention: Anastasia (JohnCusack!Crush going on there)

Also:




what decade does your personality live in?


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I hink, "the present" would have been my next selection. It makes total sense about the 90s though, considering I spent years 5-16 in that decade. Those are the child-to-adult transition years. All my music tastes are derrivitive of the 90s, as are a lot of my opinions & how I was raised and how I see stuff.

new list

Stolen from spikespeigal and impomoea

If there were to be a television channel created with a program line up just for you, what shows would you want to have on it?

1. Buffy: The Vampire Slayer
2. Farscape
3. Firefly
4. 24
5. Inu-yasha
6. Trigun
7. Alias
8. Highlander: The Series

Funny thing: I haven't even watched Alias much. But I want to, if I can, cause the episodes I've seen, I've liked.

That's my dream list, though.

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GOt this article from estepheia: Firefly vs. the Firing Squad.

Nice article on the show that THOSE RAT BASTARDS AT FOX CENCELLED!!!