Sateda (no spoilers)

My parents got back today back from Svalbard (they saw polar bears!) and they brought me Norwegian candy called daim (pronounced "dime.") It's hard caramel covered in chocolate. Mmmm, so good.

So, I finally got to watch "Sateda" tonight. I don't have much commentary other than to say that I think rivier hit the nail on the head about what they're doing to Rodney, I liked reading hth's take on Ronon and implications for Ronon/John and Ronon/Rodney, and toft_froggy made some interesting points about who wins the "most fucked up" award, John or Rodney. I love commentary! And for Sateda tagfic, my favorite has to be Replay by khohen1. Apparently Kavan Smith was supposed to play the part of that major - this is a rewrite with him in that role and it's so, so much better.

popularity of fandoms

3_ships is having a poll of what the "biggest fandoms on LJ" are and I got curious about actual numbers. I tried using LJ fight but I don't know how they get their results, so I'm not sure how reliable it is. Then I just looked up interests on LJ. There's so much this doesn't account for, but it's sure interesting.

(The format is Title: LJ fight result; # of LJ comms that list as interest + # of LJ users that list as interest = total interest #. I tried variations and abbreviations and used whatever the highest count was. Note: this is their list of popular fandoms.)

Angel: 33,018; 386+469=859
Popslash: 391; 62+362=424
X Files: 1,369; 390+464=854
Firefly: 20,023; 409+498=907
Lord of the Rings: 124,116; 399+468=867
House: 15,080; 398+457=855
Pirates of the Carribean: 10,696; 386+461=847
LoTrips: 919; 147+455=602
Buffy: 36,502; 405+469=874
Stargate SG-1: 7,027; 407+482=889
Harry Potter: 210,696; 405+476=881
Stargate Atlantis: 4,252; 442+495=937
Supernatural: 10,041; 398+450=848
Battlestar Galactica: 5,250; 453+497=950
Dr. Who: 1,225; 88+459=457

According to LJ fight, the top three are Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and Buffy. According to livejournal's interest search, it's Battlestar Galactica, Stargate Atlantis and Firefly. (I can't even believe that SG-1 beat out Buffy!)

I think the results may be somewhat skewed because of nomenclature - e.g. some list "btvs" and some list "buffy" and some list "buffy the vampire slayer." Without doing a lot more work than I'm up for, I had no way of knowing which ones would be redundant and which ones should count, so I just used the highest one.