03-21-05: Tonight I updated the ROBIN/STONE site.

03-17-05: Tonight I updated the JASON/ROBIN site, and the JOSH/DONNA site.

News: The West Wing has been officially renewed for another season!  It will return in the fall for the 2005-2006 season.  No word yet on who will be the next WW President though.

Notes:  For Third Watch fans, it sounds as if the show is on the chopping block.  It's already been pretty much officially confirmed that Jason Wiles is out for next season (his choice it sounds like), so that kills the buzz for this Faith/Bosco fan.  But alas, I feel bad that it sounds like the other actors are losing their jobs too.  Hopefully NBC will change their minds.

03-06-05: Tonight I updated the JASON/ROBIN site, and the JOSH/DONNA site.

02-27-05: Tonight I updated the JASON/ROBIN/STONE site, the MICHAEL/NIKITA site, and the NATHAN/HALEY site.

Notes: I added a couple of new Clips pages to the site.  One for Michael & Nikita, with the series finale scene I mentioned in the last update.  And one for Robin & Stone, with a scene of Robin post Stone's death, flashbacking to Stone.  Both sad.  Sigh.

02-16-05: Tonight I updated the JASON/ROBIN site.

News: The second season of La Femme Nikita is due out on DVD on  March 15, 2005.  Finally!  It was going to be released last year, but for some reason was postponed.

Notes: Look for more couples to have clips on this site then just Jason/Robin.  I also plan on doing some of some of the other couples as well.  I was watching some of my La Femme Nikita tapes, and I think I will do a couple of those.  Man, Michael and Nikita really were a great couple.  I wasn't thrilled with the final season of the show for a myriad of reasons, but I do love how they finally had those two say "I love you" to each other at the same time, and had Michael promise to come to Nikita once his son Adam didn't need him anymore.  It was so sad though, it really did make me cry    But anyways, look for more clips to come!  I just need to get them done and upload them.  Uploading is the big one, since I only have dialup and it takes FOR-EVER!  But ah well, I love having them, and you all seem to enjoy them, so it's worth it

That's it for now!

02-10-05: Tonight I updated the JASON/ROBIN site, the JOSH/DONNA site, and the BUFFY/ANGEL site.

News: The fourth season of The West Wing will be released on DVD in April!

Notes: Well, I finally did it.  A lot of you have asked me over the years about getting some J&R clips up on the site, and I finally figured out how to do them!  Thanks to the DVDs I have gotten from Karen, we now have some J&R clips up on the site to enjoy!  Currently, I have 9 Montauk clips, including the most wonderful making love montage (Steve takes his shirt off and does a real life love scene and everything!  <-- sarcastically said over the whole net rumor about Steve/his shirt/love scenes), and the "Dance With Life" beach montage.  I love that last one, sigh.  I also have 4 clips of when Robin was leaving for Yale, including the one where Jason drops her off and bawls his heart out over how much he was going to miss her.  Sigh, I love that one too.  Anyways, you can check them all out on the Clips page.  Now, let me warn you, in order to keep the site going and not have it shut down for the rest of the month, I need you all to save these clips to your own computer (right click on them and "Save Target As...") and watch them from there, rather then open them from the site.  Opening them from the site will eat up a ton of bandwidth, and while I have a nice amount, it is finite.  I will be putting up more soon, so if you would like to weigh in on your choices for what should be up next, check out the JRLF board and post your opinion!

Did everyone catch the first new ep of Lost last night?  I did, and while I enjoyed it for the most part, those last 10 minutes or so really took the cake!  You know, if I am ever in a bind with a psycho after me and someone suggests using me as bait to draw out the psycho, I hope they do a better job of keeping an eye on me then the gang did with Claire!  The poor girl is screaming, and running (in the slippery mud, no less, thank goodness she didn't slip and fall on her pregnant belly!), and it takes forever for one of them to come to her rescue!  And heck, it takes for Jack to get there for the rest of them to even move off of their posts, and start coming after him!  Lordy.  My friend and I were so distracted my the laughing (ours) and the screaming at the TV for them to freaking hurry, that it kind of took away from the whole scene.  On the plus side, seeing Jack get his beat down on Ethan, was awfully nice, LOL!  I could really do without another amnesia plot though.   How nicely convenient that now both Claire and Charlie have amnesia, and can't remember what happened to them while they were with Ethan.  On the plus side, at least Claire is remembering some things about Charlie.  On to other things...who wants to be that either Jin knows Sun can speak English, or he strongly suspects??  And poor Boone, he tries so hard, but the boy is so incompetent!  I love him still though, can't help it!

If anyone is watching the latest version of Battlestar Galactica, it's been picked up by Sci-Fi for a second season!  No news on who is coming back of the actors (I think they are trying to be coy for the cliffhanger they have going on at the end of this season.  No spoilers posted here, but the Brits overseas have already had this ep air, so if you want to find out what happens, you can surf around for some of their comments), and how many eps it will be, but it has been their #1 show since it premiered, beating out Stargate Atlantis and Stargate SG1.  I wasn't going to watch it, cause as a fan of the original, I was peeved over the way they were changing things, and trashing it.  But I admit it, I tried it when it premiered.  It's not bad, I've enjoyed it for the most part.  I've latched on to the Apollo character (he was always my fave), and I love the Apollo/Adama relationship.  I hope there is more of that.

That's it for now!

01-30-05: Tonight I updated the JASON/ROBIN site, the JOSH/DONNA site, the JACKIE/HYDE site, the LOIS/CLARK site, and the BUFFY/ANGEL site.

News: Angel Season 5 will be released on DVD on February 15, and the second season of That 70's Show will be released in April.

Notes: For anyone who is watching the NBC show Medium, and there are a lot of you judging by the ratings, the show is renewed for another season!  I'm glad, I've been enjoying the show.

I can't believe Lost is in repeats...sigh!  They leave us with a doozy of a cliffhanger with Claire showing up, don't show us if she really is still pregnant or not, and then go to repeats!  Alas, no new ep until next week, darn it.  I've decided to stay away from spoilers for this show.  I don't do this often, cause I do tend to be addicted to spoilers, but this is one of those shows that is actually more enjoyable (for me anyways) to not know things about.  I had made the mistake of reading a Lost thread after the east coast airings of two eps, and before I got to see them, and I was spoiled by a couple of episode surprise, and it did take the oomph out of it for me.  So I have decided to try and stay away from them!  Let's see if that will last

Fanforum has expanded their avatar size to 100x100, so I made a few new ones this weekend.  2 new ones of David as Angel, 2 ones of Robin with "sis" Brenda, and 1 of Lois & Clark.  You can check them out on their respective sites.

Thanks to Brzz on the JRLF board, I posted the tidbit about Kimberly that is in this week's SOW.  You know, if Hinsey really wants to end this speculation on whether or not Kimberly would come back to GH as Robin, once and for all, asking some guy who Kimberly once worked with and who she might or might not be still in touch with, is a lame way to go about it.  You know, maybe asking Kimberly herself, might be a little smarter, but what do I know?    Still, I give the guy props for not trying to speak for her, and saying what we all think: that for the right storyline, the right offer, she might come back.  But really, Hinsey, if you want to get the Robin/Kimberly fans to stop writing in to you about their frustration over the show not asking Kimberly back, why don't you go to Kimberly or the IIC at GH, instead of these secondary people who really aren't in the know?  This little maneuver is only going to give us fuel for our fire, not calm us down!  Oy.

12-26-04: Tonight I updated the JASON/ROBIN site, the JOSH/DONNA site, and the JOHN/AERYN site.  I also added a new couple to the site, LOIS/CLARK from Smallville!  Check out there site.  Not a whole lot on there yet, but there are some pictures, some quotes, and some fan art. I just couldn't resist their appeal.  I also revamped the "Why Them?" pages for each couple, and revamped the "Ones to Watch" pages.  No new "Ones to Watch" yet, since the only couple I am really enjoying thoroughly this season I just added to the site!

News: Well, for all "Harry Potter" fans if you haven't heard the news yet, let me be the first one to tell you: there is now a release date for "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince!!"  July 16, 2005 is the date, and I for one could not be more excited!  Whoo hoo!

Come the New Year, we will finally have our shows back with new episodes.  Check out the calendar to the right for airdates.

Ben Browder is  joining the cast of Stargate: SG1 for it's 9th season!  The 9th season will start airing in the summer, while the remainder of the 8th season eps will air in January.  Michael Shanks and Ben, what is a girl to do with two fine men on the same show!  Maybe they will bring Claudia Black back and she and Ben can appear together again!

Notes: Yep, I had to add another couple to the site.  I just couldn't resist them anymore!  And hopefully, there will be more of them unable to resist when the new episodes start airing in 2005!  Please welcome Lois & Clark from Smallville to the site!

I hope everyone had a lovely holiday!  Mine was great, thank you.  And I hope everyone who doesn't celebrate the holiday, had a lovely weekend.

12-05-04:  Tonight I updated the JASON/ROBIN site.

11-28-04: Tonight I updated the JASON/ROBIN site, the JOSH/DONNA site, and the SCULLY/MULDER site.

Notes:  More great stuff with Kimberly this past week on Joan of Arcadia, but once again, not nearly enough!  LOL, though, you know me, enough would only be if she was the star of the show, and we know that won't happen with this show!  Her next episode will air on December 10, and now that I have her first ep of this season on DVD (thanks to Karen and my exchange: tape for DVD!), I will have some snappys of that ep up soon on the KM site.  Also some of the Anna Lee/Lila memorial episode!

No Lost this week, alas, darn it.  And boy do I wish Smallville would come back with some great Lois and Lois/Clark stuff!  I really have come to love those two, and to love Lois, which I kind of find surprising since I never have been that big of a fan of hers.  But at least Lost is back this week and Desperate Housewives has a new ep!  ABC may have turned me off of their Daytime line-up, but they certainly have brought be back to their Prime Time!

I got my "Harry Potter: PoA" DVD this week, whoo hoo!  As those who have checked out my Wallpaper section on Heather Place can attest to, I am a huge fan of Harry/Hermione!  And this movie is chock full of Harry/Hermione stuff!!  For those fellow H/Hr shippers, there was none of the non-canon R/Hr stuff that they kept talking about being filmed added in to the deleted scenes, just in case you were worried (like me).  I am going to (eventually) make some screencaps of this movie and may put them up on the site.  If not, they will show up in my H/Hr Wallpapers soon enough.  I just wish I was as talented with them as some other people are, cause there are just some amazing artists out there!

The movie "Love Actually" was playing on HBO tonight, and if you  have never seen it, I highly recommend it.  It stars some amazingly talented actors like Emma Thompson (I adore her!), Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson and Colin Firth (if you have never seen him in the mini-series Pride and Prejudice you are sooooo missing out!).  But I tell you, the one part I always seem to cry in is one of the last scenes of Liam Neeson's character and his step-son Sam.  I won't tell you what the scene is, so as not to spoil it, but it's not so much the scene as the relationship between these two, and how much they love each other.  I am always a sucker for a good parent/child relationship, but there is something infinitely special about this one, because not only are they step-parent and step-child, but because they have both just lost the one person that connected them (Sam's mom died before the movie), and yet that hasn't lessened the connection between these two one iota.  It's just a beautiful relationship.

Well, I said I might have a chapter of "Intensity: No Ordinary Love" up this weekend and guess what?  Come on, guess!  All right, all right: I actually did it!  Whoo-hoo!  Chapter 11 is up, as well as another story I have had half written for a while now called "From A Distance."  It's a sequel to my J&R story "Mercy For the Fallen."  Check both out on the JASON/ROBIN site.

And one final thing...I may actually have another update today.  It's actually a little past midnight on Sunday, which means I'm still up from Saturday, and though technically this update is going up on the 28th, I haven't really started that day since I haven't gone to sleep yet.  Make sense?  Probably not, LOL!!  But regardless, I may have a second update, depending on how my Sunday goes.  So if you check and see two dates of November 28, 2004 up, that's why ;-)

11-21-04: Tonight I updated the JASON/ROBIN site, the JOSH/DONNA site, and Heather's Place.

Notes:  Well, while I enjoyed the few minutes we got to see of Kimberly in this last week's episode of Joan of Arcadia, it certainly wasn't much!  But boy, did she rock for her few minutes!  Kimberly proved once again, she is one of the best criers around!  It broke my heart watching Beth stand there, watching Kevin, hoping he would choose her and not get into the car, and then that moment when she realized he wasn't going to come back to her and she started crying.  Awesome stuff!  I just wish Kimberly had a full time role on a show we could actually see her in all the time!

It was great to see Sayid focused on in an ep of Lost, wasn't it?  I do love him.  I don't, however, love the dumbing down of Kate to try and work out some faux triangle between her, Jack, and Sawyer.  Sigh, why do they have to do these things?  A triangle with her and Sayid and Jack would be much better.  Or better yet, no triangle at all!  These two obviously have enough baggage to last a lifetime, why clutter it with throwing in another person?  But anyway, back to Sayid, great stuff, and I am intrigued by Danielle's past.  It should prove interesting, and she isn't totally delusional, cause after all, Sayid did get to experience the whispering for himself!  Now, if only we knew what really happened to her compatriots, and what happened to her child, this Alex.  Heck, we still don't even know if Alex is a boy or a girl!

I got to see "National Treasure" this weekend.  It was OK, nothing great, nothing horrible.  Fairly entertaining, if you suspend some disbelief by how quickly the characters jump from solving one clue to the next.  The whole conspiracy of the treasure was fascinating, I just wish that they had explored the storyline a little bit more.  The sidekick of the movie, Riley, was a kick in the pants!  Very cute, very funny.  But the real thrill of the movie wasn't the actual movie itself, but the previews, cause I got to see the preview of "Elektra!"  Now that looks awesome!  Not quite the Elektra of "Daredevil," but no matter, the movie still looks totally cool and totally kick ass!  Definitely one I will be going to see!

And on my final note, for those fans of my Robin Scorpio fanfic, "Intensity: No Ordinary Love" you will be happy to hear that I almost have the next chapter finished.  I have the majority of the scenes written, I just need to go back through and work on the filler stuff.  I know, I know, it has been forever since I last updated, my apologies, I was just really having a hard time with the stuff between the last chapter, and the middle/end of this coming chapter, and I couldn't get past it.  Sorry!

11-14-05: Tonight I updated the JASON/ROBIN site, the JOSH/DONNA site, the NATHAN/HALEY site, the JAKE/HAMILTON site, and the BUFFY/ANGEL site.

News: David B is getting a new show!  Amy A is pregnant!  Congrats to both, and to learn more about these, check out the Cast News page for BUFFY/ANGEL.  Also the Kimberly McCullough site has up some of the pictures of her at the Benefit for Lupus, and she looks wonderful!  Check them out, Kimberly fans.

Notes: Well, Kimberly fans who have read the spoilers for Joan of Arcadia, not sure what to think of them.  I won't talk about them, since some of you may be avoiding them, but those who want to know them and haven't read them yet, check out the Kimberly McCullough site for a link to them.

Who saw last week's episode of Lost?  I have to say it is probably my least favorite.  And it didn't make me feel anything but more dislike for Sawyer.  It's the same way I feel about a child molester who was abused himself as a child: I feel sorry for the child he was and what happened to him, but then he grew up and did the same horrible, life wrecking thing to other people as was done to him, and how can I feel sorry for that?  I don't.  Not only did he become the man who had destroyed his life, he had the realization that's who he was after the first time he grifted a couple, and he still continued doing it!  And then he didn't have the medication that Shannon needed, and instead of telling them so they could try and find them or figure something out, he just kept playing their games, all to try and get to them and get to Kate.  Kate really disappointed me in this one too.  That kiss was just like way too long, and I was disappointed that she was falling for his "pity me" BS.  Speaking of that kiss: I was never fond of kisses that show a bunch of tongue action even for couples I do like, but this one was repulsive, especially since I find Sawyer repellent.  I know, I know, as my friend Renee tells me, they seem to be setting up a triangle between Sawyer and Jack and Kate, so they had to dumb down Kate to get her to "soften" to Sawyer, but I just hated it.  Instead of dumbing down what had appeared to be a smart woman to get her to accept the unrepentant bad guy on the island, why not go with a triangle between Jack and Sayid?  Both are good men, who try and do the right thing but might not always do it, who are trying to help everyone, not just themselves.  It would definitely be a hard triangle to decide between, since both men are basically honorable men.  But I guess that would be different and unique, and even on a show as different and unique as Lost, they can't quite take that extra step.  Sigh.

I do have to say, thank goodness for Sun!  And I am really warming to Boone.  His devotion and love for his brat of a sister was heart-warming.  I just hope this incident matures Shannon some!

OK, on to something I actually loved: I saw "The Incredibles" with my family yesterday and I LOVED it!  Wonderful movie, and I just loved the theme of family and love in it!!  Lots of wonderful characters, I think Jack-Jack, Violet, and the clothes designer were my faves!  I won't spoil anything for it, but it is definitely a wonderful movie, and I think will have to rate as my fave Pixar movie.  While I loved some of the others, some of them annoyed me through parts of them, and some of them bored me through parts of them.  This one did neither.  Definitely recommend it!

And on top of that, you get to see the preview for "Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith!"  Looks very very cool, and hopefully will be a lot better then the second.  Even the first.  It's sad though, cause this is going to be the middle of the story, basically where everything goes to hell, so it's by no means going to be a happy go lucky, good ending kind of tale.  But hey, at least we know Yoda survives!

11-11-04:  Kimberly's having a debut party for her short film!  "Life After" (formerly titled "Popeye") will be premiering at the Pearl Restaurant and Nightclub in West Hollywood, California, on Thursday, Nov. 18.  Check out the Kimberly McCullough site for more info.  And if anyone can go and give us a first hand account, or even pictures, I would love to post them!

11-07-04: I'm going through a Wallpaper phase and made a bunch more tonight.  Yesterday I had added several of John/Aeryn and Scully/Mulder to their sites, as well as to Heather's Place, but forgot to mention the Heather's Place update.  Tonight I added a new page of Nathan/Haley wallpapers, and Lois/Clark wallpapers, as well as new wallpapers of Jake/Ham, LotR, Desmond Harrington, Kirk/Spock, and Nick/Natalie from Forever Knight. Check them out! 

11-06-04: Tonight I updated the JASON/ROBIN site, the JOSH/DONNA site, the JOHN/AERYN site, and the SCULLY/MULDER site.  Sorry there hasn't been more lately!  Now that I have finished revamping the KM site, this one should get back to being updated on a more regular basis.

News: According to the Kimberly McCullough site, Kimberly will be appearing in 4 more episodes of Joan of Arcadia!  Whoo-hoo!  Also, this last episode of The West Wing posted some of it's highest ratings ever!  Congrats to the show!

Notes: Well, I am changing the look of this page, but just a little bit.  I decided to adapt the front page here to contain some of my thoughts.  Read them or skip them, it's up to you!

First off, I have to say, sadly, that I have kind of lost interest in a couple of the shows I have highlighted here.  I don't know why, although it may have to do with the fact that the only reason I really liked the show was because of my couple, but I just haven't been interested in it much lately.  For the last 3 weeks, I've missed One Tree Hill.  I have 2.5 hours of it on tape, but haven't been able to muster much interest to watch, even for Naley.  It may have to do with the horrible flashbacks I am having of Roswell with this music storyline (even though I didn't watch that last season of Roswell, I heard enough to be afraid of it), but whatever, it's just not interesting me.  I will try and keep updating what I can though.  

Secondly, I do have to admit to becoming addicted (or almost addicted) to a couple of new shows!  Lost and Desperate Housewives.  Yes, I have hopped on the bandwagon!  Although to be fair, I have been watching these shows since the beginning.  I am finding myself starting to root for some couples on these shows (Kate and Jack on Lost and Mike and Susan on Desperate Housewives, who after this past week, are definitely one of my faves this season!), but it's the shows overall that I am truly enjoying.  Except for a couple of characters on Lost I hate, I am really liking all of the characters on that show, and the mysteries of Desperate Housewives have got me hooked.  It's really nice to have shows that I enjoy overall, instead of just for one couple who will probably get pushed to the backburner or ruined.  I highly recommend both, if you haven't started watching yet!

And I have to admit to getting caught up in some older shows as well this season.  I've actually found myself watching Smallville again.  I was an occasional viewer in first season, but got turned off quickly by Lana and the Clark/Lana romance.  It's funny, I always liked Lana in the other incarnations of the Superman shows, but boy this Lana is sooooo annoying.  And the inept and bland acting style of Kristen Kreuk has not helped this pitiful Lana incarnation at all.   But the addition of Erica Durrance as Lois Lane has been amazing!  I've never loved a Lois more: she's smart, she's strong, she's capable, and she isn't afraid to snark Clark or put him in his place.  I love these two!  And the recent episode with Bart Allen, aka The Flash, was brilliant!  I hope the show brings him back as well.  I do think I have found myself another couple to root for in Lois & Clark!

Speaking of couples...despite their problems on Charmed, Leo and Piper have been a lot of fun to watch this season.  I love Piper's devotion to helping Leo with his problems and her determination to bring him back to the fold of their family.  And I so feel for Leo and his feelings of rudderlessness after the harsh betrayal of Gideon, the death of adult Chris, and the blasé way the Elders dealt with Gideon's actions.  Hopefully this new Power stuff and the revelations of the Avatars will not wreck their reunion!

*Spoilers ahead for Farscape* And last but not least, how awesome was the Farscape mini?   I just simply loved it!  I am soooo happy that John, Aeryn, and Little D ended the mini happy, together, and alive!  Thank goodness!  I was keeping faith that they wouldn't let us shippy fans down, and they didn't!  Very sad that D'Argo died, but somehow, it didn't effect me that much.  Maybe because we didn't see him die, and even when we do see people die, they manage to bring them back in the next show, so I don't think he is really gone.  It was great to see John finally get away from all of the wormhole stuff!  I guess if we do get another show or mini, it will be a whole new storyline for this gang.  I was surprised about Sikozu's betrayal though.  I had no idea she was a Judas!

Anyways, those are my thoughts for now! 

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