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Got a late Christmas present today in the form of the 1st season of Invisible Man on DVD, which I won off eBay for only 8 pounds. It's region 2, so I'm watching it on Christina's dvd player; it's also from the Netherlands, so the Dutch packaging and subtitles amuse me greatly. Can't tell you how thrilled I am to have this show on dvd finally. The quality is fantastic, and the set has all 22 episodes from season one, compared to the UK version where you have to buy a two-part set.

Really, everyone needs to see this show. The love! Darien and his pants of extreme dorkiness, the hair, the SHORTS! Come now, how many primetime male tv characters have been seen wearing shorts in the past few decades? They just don't do shorts anymore, but Darien shows up in them all the time. There's the wonder that is BobbyHobbes, who cannot be encapsulated in a few mere words, but must be experienced, loved, revered. You should read

sisabet's treatise on bobbyhobbes here, then read the other parts to the photo review, then go see the series. Seriously, these two are brilliant. They banter, they argue, they touch a hell of a lot, they casually discuss whether or not Bert and Ernie were actually gay. They refer to themselves as Starsky and Hutch. There are uses of the L-word (the love word, that is, not the lesbian word like in that other show). They're practically married.

There is also an unwritten rule in IMan fandom - you must respect the Eberts. You must love the Eberts.

If there's anything I love in a show, it's a misfit family. Darien, bobbyhobbes, Claire, the Official and Eberts are a marvelously quirky misfit family. And the gland, too, of course.

*watches more, impatiently waiting for "Flowers for Hobbes"*

I'll have more Yuletide recs soon, but in the meantime, a meme gacked from

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It is sad that I don't recognize some of those.

Oh yes, I've been meaning to thank everyone who sent Christmas cards. So far I've received cards from

deborak,

writerlibrarian,

artifuss,

cteare, and

daegaer (complete with the usual brilliant bit of fic, thanks!). My mother also tells me a few things have arrived for me at home in the US as well. Thanks to all of you for brightening my holiday.

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Ohhh how I envy you your Invisible Man DVDs!!!!!

They're so shiny!! I have Bobby Hobbes on my tv, and all is right with the world.

*squees with you at I-Man*

OMGIlovethisshow. The end.

*loves joined squeeage*

Bobbyhobbes! I miss my dead gay show.

I know! Did you see them on that Las Vegas ep a couple years ago? So damn awesome!

Oh, yes indeed! Same old chemistry, just leaping off the screen. They were so cute in that.

Oh, yes, it was gleeful. As is your icon. Heeee!

As is yours! Ah, first meetings. <3

I envy you your dutch packaging and subtitles because I am sad like that :-P

Am also much intrigued by mention of show, as have never seen it!

You should do! Besides being a good show in general, it's fun and quirky and slashy as all hell.

Hey, make us some I-Man icons! I need one :P

Heh, I'll do that. Time to make with the screen cappage!!

I just watched Flowers for Hobbes twice in a row, and man, that stuff never gets old. The sheer LOVE, omg. Genius!Bobby (who manages to be both creepy and sexy as hell all at once), Darien so determined to fix him, the look on Darien's face when Bobby says friendship is just an illusion, then the looks on BOTH their faces when Dariens injects himself and it's just...*implodes of squee* I will never tire of this ep.

*faints of the love* All true, all true!

And Bobby has tears in his eyes. Tears! After this ep, there is nothing he wouldn't do for Darien. Nothing. And vice versa.

God, that scene is so awesome. It just tears your teeth out with emotion.

It really does. You can just see that Bobby finally believes, believes that Darien loves him, and Darien believes the same about Bobby and it's all one big love fest.

*puddles*

Will you still be around in about ten minutes, btw?

*nods* Yup!