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Goodbye/Hello

So, my brain currently feels like mush. It's an interesting feeling, to say the least. The mushiness of my brain is one of the contributing factors as to why I've not updated my blog in AGES (the other is I am lazy as anything).

I think the mush is in effect due to Enslaved being almost finished and ready for publication, the new story (code name: Roman Man) slowly forming, and general life-y stuff. However, because I love you peeps, I have endeavoured to provide bloggy goodness for you. Thus, Cassandra's bullet-point descriptions of awesome telly in the last week or so.

Oh, and

*** SPOILERS ***

after the jump

Supernatural

The Man Who Would Be King

• written AND directed by Ben Edlund

• Castiel being awesome

• allusions to Gethsemane

• no easy answers. Indeed, no answers

• Castiel being awesome (Misha Collins is super cool, and def rates a second mention)

Parks and Recreation

The Fight/Road Trip

• Drunken interviews with the characters (Ron Swanson is awesomeness personified)

• April and Andy pretending to be other people, especially April's mysterious heiress complete with pillbox hat and cigarette holder

• Snakejuice, like kahlua

• Chris is just! So! Peppy!

• The little girl's essay on government and why it matters. Apparently, "It doesn't". Ah, Ron, you are such the role model

Community

A Fistful of Paintballs/For a Few Paintballs More

• Western style!

• Paintballs!

• Josh Holloway!

• Annie being all action/western hero-y!

• The change to Star Wars in the second ep!

• So much love for the meta geek in us all!

Smallville

Finale

•  John William's Superman theme – so amazingly stirring

•  Clark walking with Lois down the aisle

•  Future Chloe reading to her future son

•  The whole future coda

•  John William's Superman theme (so cool it gets mentioned twice!)

Doctor Who

The Doctor's Wife

• A perfect, beautiful episode

• The TARDIS stole a Time Lord and ran away

• The writing

• I cried

• 'I wanted to say 'hello'.'

• 'Fear me, I've killed hundreds of Time Lords.' 'Fear me, I killed them all.'

• 'Are you thinking what I'm thinking?' 'That we are looking at the bodies of my dead sisters.' 'Ah. Not what I was thinking.'

• Consumed-by-hate Rory

• Running around TARDIS corridors

• The 10th Doctor's control room!

• I could go on and on and on, but I won't

• One final thing, did I mention it was perfect?

How I Met Your Mother

Challenge Accepted

• As if Barney's bride isn't Robin. I mean, seriously

The Good Wife

Closing Arguements

• The pacing and tension was fabulous

• LOVE Christine Baranski

• I also quite like Owen. Would be super cool if he is in the next season more

• So Alicia and Will spend a crapload of money and do the proverbial it. Very interesting for next season

• I really like this show but I can't think of any standout moments. I think the plotting is so intricate it all melds together in a beautiful mesh. So, in general, the episode

Smallville vs Spartacus

This week, Smallville unnecessarily but rather awesomely detoured into Spartacus.  Seriously, Clark and Oliver needed to get all gladiatory?  Okay, sure, why not.  Also, Oliver is rather buff.

Check it out via the link below.  Maybe.  It didn't work for me but maybe you peeps will have Teh Luck!

Smallville pays homage to 300 with awesomely pointless gladiator duel

via io9

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Yes, I watch Smallville.  It sucked me in in its 9th season – seriously, check it out and tell me it's not kinda awesome.

Blogging fun!

Hey peeps,

I'm blogging over at Decadent Publishing today – check out how Enslaved came to be!

Wild Wednesday with Cassandra Dean

Enslaved Excerpt!

Peeps,

I am totally stoked to announce I have an excerpt of Enslaved in the offering!  No news yet on a release date but I hope to have that info for you guys very soon!

Please see after the jump

 

Uncorrected, unfinalised excerpt

Enslaved by Cassandra Dean

coming soon from Decadent Publishing!

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Rubbing my arm, I took breath and turned.  The slave yet stood in the middle of my chamber, his eyes ahead and his posture still.

I forced myself to take a step toward him, and then another, and then I stood before him.  By the gods, he was tall, and bigger…So much bigger.  His hands…They could crush me, the muscles of his arm screaming of his strength.  He could rush at me, he was trained for such, and I would be broken before any could stop him.

Why would my father do this to me?

My voice, when it came, betrayed my fear.  "I…I am Lucia.  I shall be teaching you.  Do you…"  I swallowed and tried again.  "Do you know much of our legends?"

No response.

My fingers shook as I tucked an errant almost-black curl behind my ear.  "Yes.  Well.  If you do not know…We should…We should start with Saturn.  He was once ruler of the gods and their father.  He–"  Taking a breath that shook, I gestured.  "Will you come to my desk?"

A flicker of expression, quickly gone.  He complied, the clink of the chains he bore overwhelmingly loud.  Once he reached position, he stood with gaze ever forward and waited.

Hesitantly, I moved also to the desk and slid in to my chair.  I fussed with the scrolls under the pretence of finding the right one, though I could quote the story and pantheon by heart.

These lessons would bear disaster.  I knew it already. .