Preciousss!

Once upon a time, not so very long ago, I would have laughed if anyone has asked me what my favourite item of kitchenware was. I had favourite foods, favourite books, favourite films, favourite places, but inedible things in kitchen cupboards weren't worth wasting emotions on. However, I've caught myself feeling quite ridiculously attached to my stock pot, in a way that makes me think I could soon be cherishing it like some magical cauldron of rebirth, and launching doomed quests to recover it if anyone stole it. (Did anyone ever launch doomed quests to recover a stolen corkscrew or turkey baster, I wonder? I know a story about a magical tea spoon and all-purpose kitchen knife, but are tin openers and baking trays ever magical in stories?) Anyway, this stock pot might even fill me with even more delight than the teeny tiny little grater that makes me giggle madly whenever I see it. (I believe it's a cinnamon grater, but its only role in our household is to occasionally surface in a drawer and cause mirth.) It's all quite worrying.

Buffy

I've decided to rewatch Buffy from the very beginning. How long this resolution will last, I don't know. I've only got the first four seasons on DVD, anyway, so I'd have to do some buying if I wanted to watch beyond that. I didn't like the final season much at all, since it was all one long continuous, angst-ridden story, while I prefer self-contained episodes that although they might have a small thread of ongoing story in them, aren't dominated by them. While I loved Once More With Feeling, and found quite a lot of the geek trio's antics amusing, I found a lot of seasons 5 and 6 too grim, too. But we'll see how far I get. Buffy was always odd, in that I very much liked it, but never felt any urge to indulge in any fannish activity related to it.

Season 3 of Buffy is probably my favourite. Season 3 is probably my favourite season of the X-Files, too, due mostly to Darin Morgan's episodes, and I think my favourite Stargate Atlantis season is season 3, too. In all cases, season 3 contains episodes I don't like, and other seasons contain episodes I love, but I think that the general feel of all these shows was most to my taste during their third season. It makes me wonder just how much I would have loved season 3 of Firefly. (Although, knowing Joss Whedon, by then half the characters would have been dead, and the rest not speaking to each other. I do disagree with Joss Whedon's statement that he will always split up happy couples, because "happy couples are boring." Why can't we sometimes have a happy couple who are interesting individuals, who do interesting things and live interesting lives and have interesting relationships with friends and family and enemies and all, but just happen to do it against the backdrop of having a happy romantic partnership to go back to every night?)