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I vaguely remember seeing a few episodes of Gundam Wing on TV many years ago. Not too many years ago, because I think I did read some fanfic, but very little. Then a few days ago I found a rec for a Stargate/GW crossover fic and I decided to watch it again. Great decision! I didn't remember it being this good.

It has so many things I love! Very competent people, fierce loyalty, the enemy of my enemy is my ally, allies growing closer to almost-friends, shifting fronts - fantastic! I love the interactions between the Gundam Pilots, how they're constantly almost killing each other and themselves (all the time!) and yet they are the only ones who share what they're going through. I love Noin and her loyalty to Zechs, and I cheered when she took Relena under her wings for a short while. And Relena, she has the potential to be amazing, so much fire and stubbornness waiting to unfold and become something great. And Sally, Sally's the best! Treize and Zechs and Une are also interesting. I still have half of the series to watch, I can barely wait to see what happens.

Other TV shows I'm currently watching (or not):

Borgen: I decided to watch this show on an enthusiastic recommendation by

jae despite the fact that I didn't think Danish politics would make a great show. But it totally does! I haven't gotten very far, I'm currently stuck in the middle of season 1. The "problem" is that the show made me care so much about the characters so quickly that it became very hard to watch the first 30 minutes of each episode before the plot gets more or less resolved. It's a great show, but not very suitable for casual comfort TV.

The Lizzie Bennett Diaries: I'm too tired to list all the reasons why this Pride & Prejudice adaption in form of videoblogs (!) is so great. It's funny and heart-warming and the actors are fantastic and the modern translation is very well done. I haven't read P&P in years and I still enjoy it very much.

Elementary: I watched the first two episodes and I agree with the opinion I've seen most often: the actual crime-solving was boring, but the dynamic is great. And that aspect is not that hard to fix in future episodes, I hope.

Farscape: I'm still in the middle of season 2 of Farscape, I don't even know for sure why... I'm just not very interested in what happens next, for some reason? I loved the first season, and people told me the second and third one were better, but so far I found the second season mostly alternately strange and boring overall. Okay, not all episodes - "The Way We Weren't" was great, and episodes like "Crackers Don't Matter" were fun, most of them were on their own, but the sense of "going somewhere" or at least fleeing something from the first season is lacking. And I'm still not over what they did to Zhaan. I keep thinking I should give it another try, but something else always gets in the way.

SGA: I rewatched a few SGA episodes and it was a lot of fun. But then I decided to watch "Sanctuary" next because I thought that competent!Chaya would make a nice subplot in an AU, and apparently I underestimated how much I don't want to watch that episode. I heard so many terrible things about it! There's a few SGA episodes I haven't watched yet - Sanctuary, Irresistible, Michael, Misbegotten... Hopefully I'll be more motivated when I get my