What? She killed them with mathematics. What else could it have been?

I like to have TV or movies or music on in the background while I work. Sometimes I stream stuff from Netflix or Hulu, or I turn on Create TV, my favorite PBS channel.

Today I am watching Firefly. Oh, Firefly. It is not without its problems (a huge amount of problems), but I love it anyway. Buffy is an okay show, Angel is great, but Firefly is my favorite -- which is funny, because it wasn't until casacorona sat me down to watch the whole series that I even liked it or took it seriously.

My favorite episode is "Out of Gas" and always has been. Sometimes my favorite character(s) or part(s) of a show will change over time, but this has not.

Oh, and in case you have never seen it, heresluck did my favorite Firefly fan vid, set to "Thistledown Tears" by Jeffrey Foucault. You can watch it streaming here at blip.tv.

I have also started my semi-annual rewatch of Alias. I ended up not watching it last year, so my dose of Jack Bristow is totally overdue. I loooooove Jack Bristow. It took me a while, the first time I watched Alias, to really warm up to him -- but by the third season, he was my favorite, with Irina Derevko and Weiss close behind. I can take or leave Sydney and Vaughn and their drama; Jack Bristow is pretty much where it's at. I'm about halfway through the second season, which is probably my favorite part of the whole show. The last half of the second season is amazing! I've already watched "Phase One" twice, and I'm really looking forward to "Endgame," "Second Double," and "The Telling" -- and then! Then I get to watch season three. Oh, the first few episodes of season three are so great!

I mean, I have a lot of deep thinky-thoughts about Alias and Firefly both, and there are places where I feel like they really fail me -- and, particularly in Alias, I have a really tough time relating to the characters and understanding their motivations.

But today is not for thinky-thoughts. Today is for watching "Objects in Space"!