This Year's Model of Humanity

diane_mckay made a podfic for my Kris/Adam story "Melt Into Time" - here it is. It's two and a half hours long. Gosh!

I've been keeping up with three television shows this fall. I have... varying levels of satisfaction with the shows.

Smallville

I pretty much have a giddy adoration of this season. Even when the main plots are shaky, they've been great about keeping up the character interaction. And I think that Chloe not being on the show has helped free it - they seemed to be forcing a lot into some of the later seasons just to make Chloe have a reason to be in every episode when it wasn't natural.

I love the new addition of Cat (on occasion. I'm glad she isn't a regular). And the Tess-Lex storyline is clutching at my heart. It's awesome and it got to be quite chilling in the recent episode (that kid did a great Michael Rosenbaum smirk).

And Clark and Lois have had such a lovely and well-paced relationship over this season (so far) and last season. I love that she knows. Her reactions to knowing and then to Clark telling her have just been fantastic.

Wonderful stuff to watch.

Glee

There are things that I love about this show (the singing; Kurt; the singing; Rachel and Finn's relationship, which actually works surprisingly well; the singing). And there are things that make me put my face in my hands and go, "Why? Why?" (...too numerous to list, really, but since it just happened, let's start with Mr. Shue replacing himself as Rocky. Yes, because having Rachel feel him up in front of the student body would have been so much better than her doing the same to a fellow student. Good thinking there, Will.).

Merlin

Merlin had a pretty strong season one, especially in that it got better over the course of the season. It felt like the cast and the writers and everyone was really coming into their own at the end and it made me get excited about the future of the show.

And then season two happened. And it was... a mess, really.

Season three has been a bit better than season two, but still not anything close to what they managed at the end of season one. And they've replaced the clumsiness of the Arthur/Gwen (which they've gotten better at in season three) with the clumsiness of Morgana's turn to evil, which has apparently wiped away all the affection she ever felt for anyone in her life and reduced her to someone who can only smirk evilly or pretending that she's not smirking evilly inside.

*sigh*