O.RE.SA-MIAN

Arouses me muchly.





(from Tumblr)

Fuck, Benedict, you're gonna be the death of me.

10 second footage from the new Sherlock series and the whole fandom has gone batshit crazy on Tumblr and gif'd/cap'd/analyzed/flailed over absolutely everything in the ten minutes that followed the teaser's release; as some infamous bloggers said, when the actual series will start, we probably won't survive. 2012, guys. The Mayans predicted this. Ovaries exploding all over the globe. We're fucked.

Here is the whole BBC trailer for their new programs, including the Sherlock bits: http://www.spoilertv.com/2011/08/uk-promo-featuring-new-sherlock-footage.html

And here's the Sherlock footage extracted from the trailer:






Yessss Masteeeeer! (°ç°)//

YUP. STILL WOULD.

(also, I saw Tywin Lannister nekkid in that movie. And all I have to say is DAAAAAAAYUM TYWIN, YOU FINE, FINE MAN! *0*)

Caught up with this week's episode and the one before, and wrote comments as I watched:

( Spoilers for season 3 episodes 2 and 3 under the cut )

Finally, nothing to do with TCM, but I have to share this with you =D

I'm SUCH an idiot. I've stayed up all night just to finish that food porn one-shot and now I'm completely worn out. Hopefully though, it'll be up as soon as beta and brit-picking are done.

In order to perfect my knowledge of sushi for that fic, I've been watching a Japanese drama called Shouta no Sushi, adapted from a shounen manga of the "educational type". From an artistic standpoint, the show is really INCREDIBLY BAD. The actors are atrocious, the plotline so cliché it would make the guys who write articles on TV Tropes cry, I won't even comment on the editing, the filming and about every other aspect of making a TV show that they're failing at. There is one theme song repeated over and over throughout the episodes, and it's pretty terrible too. Because it's adapted from a shounen manga, the main character's goal is to become the number one sushi chef in Japan, so his motto is "NIPPON ICHI!" ("number one in Japan!") which is bad enough, and he keeps repeating it throughout the show, about 50 times per episode -- the worst being when the other characters start yelling it too. It's like when they keep repeating the episode's title in Glee (e.g., "Funk", "Home"), only ten times worse.
And yet, despite all that, I'm still watching. Why? Because from a culinary standpoint, I'm actually learning stuff. Of course most of it is very exaggerated, but watching the show, you can understand why sushi business in Japan is deadly srs bsns.
Seriously, though... I'm watching an incredibly bad drama only because it makes me learn more about sushi. I'm hopeless, aren't I? =___=;;;

( Spoilers for the Top Chef US finale and Stéphanie lurve under the cut )

OMG! I take back everything I said about Top Chef France, it's actually becoming BRILLIANT! And what was with the last episode of Top Chef US?! It was SO SO EXCITING!

( Inordinate amounts of gratuitous flailing, caps lock and ranting under the cut )

Aaaaah. Cooking TV shows. You make the world a better place to be. ^3^