while I continue to battle mildew

[chanter1944]

Because the carpet under the stupid divider wall separating living room from bedroom (not actually a wall, as it's movable and, you know, not attached to the floor) is probably the source of the ongoing, if lesser, stink I'm still dealing with here...

Have a meme.

5 TV shows to watch to understand me:

1: Star Trek: Deep Space 9 (this was formative, but then again, so were TNG and Voyager; any or all of these could work for this option, really)

2: Miraculous Ladybug, but do so with your eyes closed

3: ER (this was a favorite of teenage!me, and many of my friends, and funny story, I was once told by a teacher that all her older, cognitively able blind students were big ER fans, because the characters were always talking through what the heck they were doing, back and forth to each other, etc)

4: Babylon 5 (especially season 1, not so much season 5)

5: not television shows, but the six original Trek movies, plus Generations are vital when trying to understand me

6: I could list off a bunch of both translated children's animation and Canadian kids' shows here, but that goes waaaaay back into the psyche of tiny Chanter and is probably deeper than the intent of this meme.

Comments

[cmcmck]

I had a born blind friend, Judy, at uni and she was a fan of the very early star trek stuff.

I remember getting to take her guide dog walkies!

Great fun.

[chanter1944]

Very cool. Also a fan of the original Star Trek series here!

Guide dogs are love. See icon for mine. Our university campus had, at one count midway through my degree, something like a dozen service dogs of various stripes, and all but one was either a Labrador or a golden retriever. So basically, we had all the sweet dogs forever. :) My best friend at the time had a golden service dog (Katie was in a wheelchair, Willow was essentially her hands) and she and my velvet fuzzball lab played together like siblings. Oh it was cute. If you couldn't find one dog, checking the other girl's dorm room pretty much always turned them up.

[cmcmck]

Guide dogs here are mostly labs or golden retrievers although I've seen the odd standard poodle and alsatian and even one labradoodle.

[chanter1944]

Here too. Most guides tend to be labs, goldens, or lab/golden mixes, sometimes German shepherds (it takes a certain personality to work with most shepherds, and I categorically do not have it) and the occasional standard poodle. I've met one smooth-coated collie guide and heard of another, but they were a couple of adorable rarities.

[cmcmck]

The Welsh border collie, our local sheepdog, is bright as a button and has a lovely personality but I suspect they'd be way too lively to be a guide dog.

Alsatians scare me witless as I was attacked by one as a kid.

[chanter1944]

Re border collies, awwww. :) Your local variety of sheepdog sounds darling. Guide dog criteria can include difficulty of coat maintenance as well, so, say, a keeshond might not be a great guide dog candidate due to all the easily-matted cotton fluff. If I remember correctly, border collies are fluffballs, aren't they? And yes, some breeds have more energy even than a guide dog usually needs.

Re shepherds, ooh. I'm sorry that happened to you. Yikes! They can be fierce, including for the wrong reasons.

[muccamukk]

I hope your maint people get the rug sorted out before you get actual mould :(

That's so interesting about ER! I was watching it because Alex Kingston was hot, lol.

Agreed on B5.

[chanter1944]

Re mold, meeeeee tooooo! I suppose this is a benefit of being a supersniffer; I notice and react to smells fairly quickly and strongly. Per my property manager, maintenance is coming in tomorrow morning and dealing with hopefully (!!! knocks the heck on wood) the rest of the mess.

Re ER, color me predictable, but I only know actor names for about half a dozen of that cast, and the person you mentioned is not one of them. Who do they play? As for me, I thought Luka, especially early Luka, was soooooo darn dreamy. Susan occasionally pinged the cute-o-meter as well, and Gallant definitely did, because I have a type.

[muccamukk]

Oh lord. British surgeon, married Doctor Green, later played River Song on Doctor Who. Do not remember the character name. I also thought Luka was super dreamy.

[chanter1944]

*goggles* Whaaaat? Lizzie Corday's actor played River Song? You're serious? Aaaaaah squeak! This is what I get for not having seen the River Song episodes of Doctor Who, isn't it? I'd probably be all, "Wait, Elizabeth, what the heck are you do--oh, jeez, this is bizarre! Why are you not in Chicago? Where the frak is Ella?" :P

Luka took a far too cynical turn for my tastes later in his arc. Early Luka, though, wow. I always thought Carol should've left Ross in the past and gotten together with him instead. The hints were certainly there.

[muccamukk]

Yeah, the later Luka plots weren't great. I think I bailed around when his stuff got so dire, and a couple characters I liked left. I've forgotten exactly when that was (this being some years ago). I did just realise that Dr. Gallant was Clay on White Collar though.

[chanter1944]

I never got into White Collar, though I've heard about the series. I do know that Dennis Gant on ER, he who was an intern with Carter, had a depressive spiral, a horrible dynamic with Benton, and a tragic fate, became I think it was Wilson? on House. That is, the actor appeared in both series. I believe there's been fanfiction crossing the two series by way of Gant surviving and starting a new life under a new name. I wonder if anyone's done the same with Corday and River Song... or, for that matter, with Pierce and Lawrence!

I stuck with the series through to the end, though I was not impressed with Luka's arc going so unremittingly cynical and dark. Can't say I was ever the biggest fan of Abby, either. "Freefall" remains one of my favorite episodes of the whole run, if not at the top of the list.

[pauraque]

Oh, I loved ER. I never thought about the fact that it kind of includes its own audio description because they're always saying what they're doing to the patient, but you're right, it does have that effect!

[chanter1944]

I never thought of it either, until it was specifically mentioned to me. Then again, I wasn't exactly in a position to know! :) It makes total sense, looking back, that a bunch of blind teenage nerds like us went for the show.

The exception to the audio description rule was what happened to Carter and Lucy; that scene had very little audible audio, because in-story, the music from the party was drowning events in the exam room out. Someone had to clue me in, and then I went... oh jeez! :( I do remember that they pulled the music from the 'previously, on...' clips at the beginning of the next episode, so you were able to hear what went on, including a badly-injured Carter realizing Lucy was also down. Shudder.

To this day, I can't hear that song without flinching. True story.

[firecat]

I love how many people doing this meme are including Babylon 5

[chanter1944]

There do seem to be a lot of us! One or more of the Treks also appear common to quite a few of us. :)

[texelations]

Just yoinked this meme for my own use, thank you! I'm glad to see you have so much Trek on here. Trek is love.

[chanter1944]

Trek is indeed love. :) Also quite formative for a lot of us, evidently.