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I watched  Battlestar Galactica 2x 19, kinda anti-climatic after Downloaded, but it was to expect and now there's one week to wait until the finale...By the way does anyone remember how Baltar called Six on Caprica before the attack in the miniseries?  I'm pretty sure we heard her name then but I can't recall it. 

Secret/hidden names is an old plot device in literature and of course it was used in the Jossverse, obviously in Ats with the Jasmine arc and  a bit more subtly in BTVS with Anne and with Dawn and the Key arc, which was foreshadowed in Buffy's dream in Restless but also, according to me, in Willow's deam when Tara and Willow wondered about the kitty and her name, a name she hadn't told them yet!

Weeks ago I read a thriller by John Katzenbach, The Analyst, that besides being a good mystery novel, made me remember AT LAST a fairy tale from my childhood I'd been trying to recall for months. I think I even asked syderia about it once, although in such a confusing way that she couldn't help me. 

The Analyst  is about Dr. Frederick Starks , a psychoanalyst who receives an anonymous letter one day from a villain who calls himself Rumplestiltskin. Starks is given  30 days in which to guess the villain's identity. If he can’t guess it, Rumplestiltskin will begin killing off people close to Dr. Starks, and he’ll keep killing, unless Starks kills himself. 

The  fairytale was written down by the Grimm Brothers. Because I'm lazy, here's a summary from Wikipedia:

In order to make himself appear more important, a miller lied to the king that his daughter could spin straw into gold. The king called for the girl, shut her in a tower room with straw and a spinning wheel, and demanded that she spin the straw into gold by morning or be executed. She had given up all hope, when a dwarf (or mannikin) appeared in the room and spun straw into gold for her in return for her necklace; then again the following night for her ring. But on the third night, with nothing left, the strange creature spun straw into gold for a promise that the girl's first-born child would become his.

The greedy king was so impressed that he married the miller's beautiful daughter, but when their first child was born, the dwarf returned to claim his payment: "Now give me what you promised". The queen was frightened and offered him all the wealth she had if she could keep the child. The dwarf refused but finally agreed to give up his claim to the child if the queen could guess his name in three days. At first she failed, but before the second night, her messenger overheard the dwarf hopping about his fire and singing:

"Today I bake, tomorrow brew,

The next I'll have the young Queen's child.

Ha! glad am I that no one knew

That Rumpelstiltskin I am styled."

In case you wonder to where I was leading you...I wrote this whole entry just to justify post something I nicked from beanbeans, a meme about what your name means !

Find there

( My Result )

Nicked from syderia

( it's even better with Chani )

and I'm already tired and kinda depressed (I'm back from my sister's). The news on tv don't really cheer me up. So Churchill thought of letting the Mahatma die in 1943? Mmmm...

I'm stealing a BTVS meme from Dandy, a friend from the Buffy Cross and Stake Spoiler Board.

What's the worst thing each of the characters below did?

What's the best thing? (I'm talking morally here.)

Feel free to add characters.

Buffy

Giles

Xander

Willow

Joyce

Angel

Drusilla

Spike

Mayor

Faith

Ethan Rayne

Willie the bartender

Oz

Dawn

Ben

Cordy

Wesley

Riley

Anya

 

( My answers )

Submit your own plea to Cthulhu!

I know it's several entries in a row! But this is the last one, I'm heading to bed soon.

What are your top 5 shows (in order) that you're watching right now? They have to be shows that are currently airing new eps (where you live).

1. The Shield

2. Nip/Tuck (technically season 3 isn't airing yet here, I donwload)

3. Lost (ditto)

4. Rescue Me

5. True Calling (season 2 is airing on French tv)