Ben Whishaw Married

Daily Mail UK posted yesterday that Ben Whishaw married his partner Mark Bradshaw last year: link. Congratulations, Ben! I'm surprised that they managed to keep it quiet that long!

I honestly didn't know he was gay O.o Suddenly, he seems ten times more attractive to me. And before someone jumps at my throat for "fetishizing" gay people or some other nonsense, I'm attracted to him for his courage to come out and say, this is the person I love! That's all kinds of amazing.

So, congratulations! :)

Book #49

"A Chill in the Blood (Vampire Files #7)" by P.N. Elrod

Rating: ♣ ♣

Not really a standalone story, just a continuation of the previous book, so more Angela Paco and Opal and the whole mob trouble. The plot mostly ran in circles with Jack mediating between Angela and Sullivan and I got quite bored with that. The only interesting parts were those linked to Escott and Shoe. I really hope this mob storyline is finally over and the next book in the series will be about something else, something new. As much as I love the characters, it feels like the story is not really going anywhere.

SG-1 101+102

Man, they all look so young in the pilot! Babies! No wonder, it was filmed 15 years ago. Sheesh on a pogo stick. I remember watching it "live" on RTL2. Ha!

It's so strange, to see them all... not as close as they're going to be. I mean, when you watch season 8 or so, they're like a family. I mean, even in S1 they do care about each other, that's pretty obvious, but the easy rapport isn't there yet.

I wanted to watch the pilot so that I could compare SG-1's Children of Gods to SGA's Rising directly. And even though I love both sets of characters immensely, I like SGA's pilot much better. I think it's because a) SG-1's is a bit... rough around the edges, it was new and not all that well thought through and b) it's too military. SGA's pilot was like a happy extension of SG-1, I mean, everything felt... brighter, more colorful. And what I also adored was the setting, Atlantis itself, the soldiers and the civilians were pretty balanced out, neither faction had the upper hand. They WORKED TOGETHER as a team, they were friends, neither side was trying to upstage the other. They completed each other, together they made a whole. In SG-1, the civilian part was suppressed by the military, the soldiers had the last word. In SGU, both sides were at each other's throat all the time, backstabbing and hidden agendas were on the menu every frickin' day - so not my cuppa. But SGA... that one was perfect - till the writers started mucking about with it, in S4.5 and S5.

I also wanted to watch the pilot to get into the proper headset for some SG books. I chose "Transitions" by Sabine C. Bauer, which is a crossover between SG-1 and SGA :)