World Enough and Time

And the news (from ohnotheydidnt) is that Sarah Shahi got married to Steve Howey in a rather ugly brown dress with an Elvis Impersonator present. Which at least implies a lovely playfulness to the occasion.

I'm mad over that woman. Lucky Steve.

On the other hand, he looks pretty cute, and must have a good sense of humour. So... lucky Sarah.

And I wish them both well.

A link to a challenge to write six-word memoirs. My favourite:

Fancied self as haiku. Was clerihew.
- Sam Leith

One could do this as a fannish game, too. Let me see....

Reprobate met Time Lord: everything changed.
- Captain Jack Harkness

Space-time continuum brought adventure through lifetimes.
- The Doctor

Misjudged, condemned, escaped. Searching for Mother.
- Francis Crawford of Lymond

Forward momentum sometimes led backwards. Drat.
- Miles Vorkosigan

Life inside, life outside: breathe deeply.
- Charlie Crewes

At first I thought I was getting echoes of Torchwood in Life just because I was being delusionally obsessive. This isn't a problem, you understand - being obsessively deluded where Captain Jack Harkness is concerned is sheer pleasure.

The first time I saw Crews standing on a roof I thought Torchwood, and then dismissed it as a silly thought - it was just a hero on a roof, and he had a reason for being on a roof. Anybody on a roof these days will make me think of Captain Jack Harkness, with or without a greatcoat.¹ And when Charlie Crews was standing on a rooftop with Ted, and Ted made a Batman reference, I thought of the Batman references made in connection with Torchwood - but of course any hero lurking on a rooftop will make a person think of Batman. That's what Batman is all about.

Then Charlie Crews stands on a rooftop with a guy named Captain Jack Reese.

When they found the Zen master's dessicated body in the construction site, I thought of the body found in the construction site at the beginning of Torchwood's "Greeks Bearing Gifts" and laughed at myself.

Then I realized they were playing as background music the same song used in Torchwood's episode "Day One".

They are messing with my head.

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¹ Though not invariably. The rooftop in New York in Heroes where Claude kept his pigeons and Charles had his terrace does not remind me of Torchwood in the least.