{"id":494,"date":"2007-04-15T20:26:10","date_gmt":"2007-04-16T03:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/archives\/494"},"modified":"2007-04-15T20:26:10","modified_gmt":"2007-04-16T03:26:10","slug":"claudia-black-makes-everything-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=494","title":{"rendered":"Claudia Black Makes Everything Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Y&#8217;all know <a href=\"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/archives\/112\">how I feel about Claudia Black<\/a>. In fact, my new theory is simply that her mere presence &#8212; that banner of inky hair, that overload of pure charisma &#8212; makes everything better.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point: <i>The Dresden Files<\/i>. I was pretty excited about this show at first. Husband Jeff and other folks I respect are fans of the books, and indeed, they sound right up my Charles de Lint\/Emma Bull\/Will Shetterly\/urban fantasy-lovin&#8217; alley. So I figured the show would be awesome enough to get me to actually read the books, finally. But&#8230;eh. It kind of just sits there, a by-the-numbers B-level genre TV series aura floating around it. (At least that was the case with the couple of episodes I saw&#8230;perhaps I did not give it a fair shake?)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the unwatched episodes had been gathering dust on our DVR, when suddenly, I noticed that there was an eppy featuring very special guest star Claudia Black! So I watched it and&#8230;man, she really is the best. Something about her being there totally invigorated the proceedings &#8212; and she wasn&#8217;t even using her glorious accent! Plus, her character was named &#8220;Liz Fontaine,&#8221; which is one of the best names I have ever heard. I don&#8217;t know if Liz Fontaine is even in the books, but I would like to make a special plea to somehow add her to the show permanently, because then I would watch it. And I&#8217;m sure me watching <i>The Dresden Files<\/i> is SciFi&#8217;s top priority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Y&#8217;all know how I feel about Claudia Black. In fact, my new theory is simply that her mere presence &#8212; that banner of inky hair, that overload of pure charisma &#8212; makes everything better. Case in point: The Dresden Files. I was pretty excited about this show at first. Husband Jeff and other folks I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}