They've ordered the first 12 of season 2, as I understand it.

Well, you do an AU with Bronze as a vampire (of course).

Few things could be more fitting. And where would that leave B.org/WorldCrossing?

Fay, Blood Ties has been picked up for 12 episodes. They're being paired with some other genre show for a theme night on Lifetime, and are on the bubble, whether they'll be picked up for the rest of the season or not.

Ah - I understood that they'd filmed 22 episodes, but only aired the first 12, with the intention of the remaining 9 being aired as 'Season 2'? But that there was no word yet on whether they would go on to film new episodes?

Also, there's no word on dvds.

Ah, but here in Bangkok, we are not so much reliant upon the kosher existence of DVDs. It's more a case of "Can it be ahemed?" For if it can, then some brave soul HAS ahemed it, burned it to disk, created little covers and will sell you it at a rate of roughly a dollar a disk. Thus have I caught up on The Dresden Files and Blood Ties, both of which I really rather liked. Particularly the latter - Tanya Huff's my favourite purveyor of vampire-centric prose, and although the show didn't do as good a job of eschewing genre cliches as the books (Book!Henry being a diminutive ginger bisexual who writes bodice rippers, whereas TV!Henry is a pouty Byronic prettyboy who writes gruesome comics and makes no mention of banging boys) I still really enjoyed it. (Er...I would be lying if I said that an appreciation of the chemistry between said pouty Byronic prettyboy and the splendid Vicki Nelson - and indeed the Vicki/Mike thing - played no part of my appreciation. For I am shallow. So sue me.)

...damn, I do envy you your up-to-date Eureka, though.

Check it out! Torchwood is going to be On Demand!!!

Just watched the Dead Zone with the priest in it. Now that I've been told there were budget cuts to the show I can't help staring at it more intently. Week before last Sarah didn't even appear, did she? Or the sheriff.

I'm surprised narratively that Johnny didn't just call in a bomb threat. Not that it'd have worked, due to the nature of the explosion, but it is what I'd have tried.

In the priest one he's really obviously moving his hands above things until he feels enough to touch what'll give him a vision. Have we been shown that before?

Also, in the explosion episode, he gets a hit off the phone call. That definitely looks like something I'd remember--has he done that before?

I can't remember.

That was the season opener, wasn't it?

No, the recent one in the train station. He calls the husband of the woman in the wheelchair and gets a vision.

Okay, there've been two in train stations, I realise. And they were both light on the regular cast--not the noir one, but the reconnecting couples with the crossword-puzzle lady.

I think I'm starting to be bored by the show.

Oh gosh yes. THAT one. A very pointless episode - I don't remember it because I could barely watch it.

And now that they've cleared the politico of the apocalypse he comes back in as a romantic rival.

I don't even want Johnny and Sarah together, but I was irritated that he didn't say "Walt didn't want me to tell you about my visions, and that's why I made the bad choice."

Unless he really wouldn't have told her without prompting--but I don't get that idea. He just got started on a lie and was too chickenshit (but in a human manner) to back out of it later.

I would heap scorn on the exploding wheelchair, but at least I understood the plot. The noir one...I have no idea what was happening.

There was a call on the PA in this last one that mentioned Montreal. I know they're filming there, but it's been a little heavy on the Montreal references this season.

I mean, two? On a show set in the US?

Was it at the train station? Because I know that the Montrealer used to go through Vermont -- but I'm sure that there are trains that could get you from Maine to Montreal too.

Yes. I just don't know why they bother to keep mentioning it.

I'm pretty sure I've taken the Montrealer, now that I think about it--one spring break we took the train to Miami.

Don't, for the record.

Ah, no. That was the Washingtonian we took, wiki says.