Instead we watched the end of Merlin, S2 (god, what a frustrating, incoherent waste of a series -- it has so much potential and it just doesn't know what it wants to be or care about creating a coherent world no matter how wonky and anachronistic -- note, I'm not asking for any sort of "accuracy" just for internal consistency).
Then we watched two episodes of Buffy which I continue to love. But wow that episode on cyberdating demons was so 90s it hurt. Jacked in?!?!?!?! Oi. It also had a lot of elements that reminded me of The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit from Doctor Who.
One of the things that amuses me about Buffy is spending a lot of time thinking about what the fandom must be like. At one point I turned to Patty and said, "People get that Gilles is, well, Gilles, right? They aren't writing lots of terrible fic about him wearing leather pants and being a dom are they? Because in Harry Potter fandom, that's what would happen."
Soon we can start Being Human.
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Date: 2010-01-30 07:11 pm (UTC)Oh, my gosh! I forgot! There is a classic AU Giles fic with leather/motorcycle!Giles.
Well, there were several Buffy/Giles fics with the subtext of Giles being kind of subby.
And a series with a toppy Giles/(redacted)--set after season 5, no spoilers unless you want them.
If there was any stereotypyed leather!Giles, I missed it.