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Oh, God, Hollywood, please, stop with this insanity!

CBS is planning a reimagining of Charmed: link. Yes, not a reBOOT nor a reMAKE but a reIMAGINING. God knows what that means. I bet they will either try to make it all hip a la the flopped Charlie's Angels reboot or more PC correct than the old show. Because, you know, it's easier to take existing material and just change the characters' gender or whatever than to actually come up with something new and original.

And speaking of that, NBC is planning a reboot of Murder, She Wrote staring Octavia Spencer: link. But hear this, the character won't be a bestselling novelist but a hospital administrator who self-published one mystery novel and now tries to insert herself into various police investigations *head/desk* Murder, She Wrote, meet Diagnosis: Murder! Because when a remake is not enough, smoosh two old shows together, why don't you!

Not enough insanity? Fox is planning a Broadchurch remake - starring the UK version's David Tennant! Link. Because, you know, the British are a completely alien species that Americans just can't connect with on any level - or whatever the explanation for this piece of craziness is. They take the UK script and the UK actor and just transplant it to the US of A.

For cryin' out loud!

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Sorry for grumbling like Debbie Downer but I seem to have landed my ass in a funk again. So many shows to watch, so many movies to watch - and I just can't find the energy or will. I start watching something and then drop it, I start reading stuff and drop it... I hate it when these funks happen to me because all I can do is wait them out *unhappy sigh*

They want to take away the customized flist option, it'll now be called a "feed" and everyone will have the same blue-and-white infinite scroll, you won't be able to opt out of it. Aparently, they want to be more like Tumblr. For more, go here, with caps of what the flist will look like in the future: link.

I can't even imagine not having a customized flist, that's where I spent most of my time on LJ! I don't want an infinite scroll. I hate infinite scrolling! If it goes live, I guess I will be spending even less time on LJ than I already do! Luckily, I x-post through DW anyway so a complete move to over there wouldn't be a problem.

Since the execs announced that the last few episodes of House would be House and Wilson centric...



... and that Cuddy wouldn't return for the finale, Cuddy and "Huddy" - I really hate the stupid names fans give to pairings! - fans upped their hate and venom spewing to a scary degree! They troll the comment section of every article, they ridicule the actors, characters and storylines in an attempt to ruin everybody's fun.

And I'm starting to get really angry! The last straw were the comments to this article - link (SPOILERS!) - where people literally made fun of last night's reveal. That's not just trolling, it's sick, because, yes, it's so hilarious to make fun of ( spoilers! )

Cuddy and "Huddy" fans need to BACK THE FUCK OFF right now! Lisa Edelstein wasn't fired, she decided to leave of her own volition. She didn't want to take a pay-cut, so she left! And she didn't bother to tell the writers until after the season finale aired - compare that to Melina Kanakaredes and her exit from CSI:NY, that's what I call classy! As the writers said, if she had told them earlier, they would've given Cuddy a better exit.

Which brings me to Cuddy!fans' whining about her not being in the finale. And why SHOULD she be? There is no reason, her ending was abrupt - LE's fault, not the writers'! - but definite. No loose threads hanging - and boy, did I step into a pile of crap when I dared to say that out loud.

Because Cuddy is, according to the obsessive fans, a poor victim of domestic abuse and deserved the opportunity to kick House in the balls one last time - paraphrasing here. Her story didn't end yet. Robert Sean Leonard is a dick for daring to say frankly that there was no reason to bring her back! The domestic abuse was poorly handled and unrealistic! And so on and on!

Cue me foaming at the mouth! And my rather scathing response! NOBODY says that she wasn't the victim. But! House went to prison for what he had done! Cuddy got a restraining order! She moved away and built a new life for herself! What more DO the fans want? Tearful apologies? From HOUSE?! And! The fact that the domestic abuse had a poor ending was, once more, LE's own fault! As the writers said, they had more planned, a reconciliation of a sort between them. No, they wouldn't have become a couple again, ever, no matter what desperate "Huddy" fans want. The execs said it out loud, House would NOT have ended up with Cuddy no matter what - which makes seasons 6 & 7 even more pointless but that's another kettle of fish entirely - but there would've been more. But LE's exit left the writers with a half-finished story. Yet, according to rabid Cuddy and LE fans, it's all the writers' fault.

Sheesh on a pogo stick! You don't like it? Then don't watch it! And let others enjoy it in peace. Is it really such a baffling concept?!

ETA: Just to clarify - what people write in their own blogs is their thing entirely. There they can hate on anybody they want. But when they troll articles, that's when I get really mad!

So, CBS first approached BBC, wanting to remake Sherlock. Now they decided to make their own show. Sue Vertue's response: link.

The producers of the BBC's acclaimed Sherlock series, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, are prepared to take legal action against the US network over a rival Holmes series which appears to tread on familiar ground.

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Sue Vertue, Sherlock Executive Producer at Hartswood Films, said: "We understand that CBS are doing their own version of an updated Sherlock Holmes. It's interesting, as they approached us a while back about remaking our show. At the time, they made great assurances about their integrity, so we have to assume that their modernised Sherlock Holmes doesn't resemble ours in any way, as that would be extremely worrying."

Interesting. I bet BBC will follow CBS' show VERY closely and the minute they even hint at copying something from Sherlock, they'll be slapped with a plagiarism charge so fast their heads will spin. And good for BBC! Great that they refused to let them remake Sherlock. Can't the US TV come up with ANYTHING original anymore? All CBS does lately are spin-offs and remakes and redos.

Why do some fanfic writers insist on making Erik Lehnsherr Polish? AFAIK, he's either German or half German, half Hungarian - depends on the comic book author - but he has never been in any of his incarnations Polish. If some authors think that him being in a Polish concentration camp makes him Polish then those people need to go back to school and learn more about WWII. It irks the heck outta me!

And another thing - when English native speakers who don't speak any foreign languages insist on using them in fics without having a beta who actually speaks that language. The wannabe Czech crap of Zelenka's in SGA fics! And now Erik's godawful German or Polish in XMFC stories. If you don't know how to spell in a certain language or how its grammar works, DON'T USE THAT LANGUAGE WITHOUT A BETA, for Christ's sake!

Yes, I'm annoyed. Thank you for asking :P

-- Thor 2 will be directed by Patty Jenkins, the Monster director: link. I think it's great that Marvel's actually thinking out of the box. Are they the first one who hired a female director for their action comic blockbuster? But it's too bad that the movie won't be out till November 2013!!!

-- Tricia Helfer got the main part in TNT's new pilot, Scent of the Missing: link. The series will be based on a book by Susannah Charleson and Helfer will play a tenacious K-9 Search and Rescue volunteer and "she gets the job done with the help of a mischievous golden retriever named Puzzle." This might be good! I really like Tricia Helfer.

-- A longer trailer for James McAvoy's Arthur Christmas: link! OMGosh, this looks hilarious. I LOL'd more than once just watching the trailer. For once a Xmas movie I could get behind!

-- I unfollowed Jared Padalecki's official Twitter over on... Twitter. Oh, don't get me wrong, he's incredibly sweet and kind and all that jazz, but I realized I didn't have to know that much about him. He posts quite personal stuff there and, well... I guess I prefer keeping some distance from the BTS stuff of my favorite show. If he posted about his projects? Great. But Gen's pregnancy and stuff like that? Eh, not my thing. Sorry.

-- First reviews of the new The Three Musketeers are out - and most of them tear the movie down because it's not true to the book and historical detail. Seriously? There are air ships in the frickin' movie! It's steam punk! What did you expect, you idiots?!

Yikes! I'm down to 4.60GB on one HDD and 560MB (!!!) on the other. How? When? What the...?! New resolution: Watch at least something every day, so that you can delete it and empty your HDD! Sheesh!

So, these last two months we had to replace the radiators in our house (40k) and the couch, eaten by woodworms (6k) and the roof on the garage (20k) and now? The frickin' refrigerator! Another 6k! Do I look like I grow money in the backyard? Do I, life? *sigh* I see some creative financial juggling in my near future.

And if that weren't enough, my boss just pinged me on Skype, telling me he needed me to drop everything and start working on a book the previous translator screwed up so thoroughly that the whole translation needed to be tossed. And he needs it ASAP because the book's already been advertised. The frickin' book has over 400 pages! I love my boss, I really do, he's an awesome guy, but sometimes I feel like I'm the only translator working for him *head/desk*

I hate it very much when so-called fans sling mud at the writers/producers of SPN because of... basically everything. The latest bruhaha in the fandom? How disrespectful it is towards Jim Beaver that he hasn't been made a regular yet. Luckily, this article came out immediately and nipped this stupidity in the bud!

[Jim Beaver] tells us that he was once offered series regular status, but that the offer made wasn't substantial enough to offset the cost of relocating his family to Vancouver on a permanent basis, so he didn't accept.

"Every season since, we discuss it, but at present it seems that the existing situation is the best one we can agree on," Beaver tells Zap2it, assuring us that he's comfortable with his place in the "Supernatural" universe. "I'm not unhappy, and the show is spectacularly respectful of me and my needs, and I think they'd give me anything I ever needed if they had it to give."

The rally cries of support for Beaver don't go unheard or unappreciated; they're simply unnecessary. "I appreciate the fan support on this issue, but it's not true that I'm being disrespected or unfairly treated by being a guest star," he says. "Quite the contrary. Supernatural has been incredibly supportive and generous and kind to me, in every possible way, and our current contractual relationship suits me fine."

So, can those "OMG, he's so disrespected" nutjobs finally shut their collective trap? Or will we now hear about how he was forced to say it to keep his job? *hands*