Hi!

[dragojustine]

1. Thank you so much to the gremlin who nominated Second Chances and Hell of a Sight for the Stargate Fan Awards. It seems there are a lot of fan award sites in this fandom, none of which I knew about (because they all seem to happen off-lj). Thank you!

2. The premiere of Kings is beautiful. Transcendental, I swear. If you didn't watch it, go watch it. This is Slings&Arrows beautiful. The good seasons of West Wing beautiful. Deadwood season 1 beautiful. Rome season 1 beautiful. It might be too good to spawn a fandom, but you should watch it. Just saying.

3. Speaking of, Ian McShane is on the Daily Show tonight talking about it. Ian McShane is fucking brilliant. He also makes me swear compulsively whenever I think about him, which is a drawback, but.

4. Abigail Nussbaum meditates on the future of serialized television. Thought-provoking.

5. Happy Paddy's day! I use my Priestly icon solely because it is the greenest icon I have. Everybody kiss an Irish lass today.

Comments

[hilarytamar.livejournal.com]

So, uh, if I promise to fangirl it, would you walk me through a primer on the source material? *makes beseeching doe eyes at you*

[dragojustine.livejournal.com]

A primer of the material? Uh, the story of David, as told in the the books of Samuel of the Old Testament (or Hebrew Bible, but one can assume the show is coming more from a Christian perspective). Which I think is one of the greatest and most affecting stories of power and kingship and corruption and love and loyalty and betrayal ever told. But then, I grew up enmeshed in Scripture, for all that I'm an atheist now.

Uh, primer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David#Biblical_narrative (of which only "David is chosen" and "David and Goliath" are relevant to the pilot episode)

But you probably also want to look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_and_Jonathan (Because David and Jonathan are second only to Achilles and Patroclus for great foundational gay icons of western literature)

Or, you know, just ask me in chat.