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Apr. 23rd, 2016 11:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatToday was nice, generally speaking. Did the whole spring clothes sorting bit. Removed the winter clothes and put them in the trunk in front of my bed, took out the spring clothes, put them in the dresser and closet. Figured out what I still need to get for my excursion to that yoga/meditation/massage/hiking retreat in the Berkshires next week. The retreat's building is ugly, but the surrounding grounds are quite lovely. And I've never been to the Berkshires. Poconos, the Rockies, the Sierra's, and whatever is in Maine and New Hampshire and the Hudson River Valley.
Finished another Patricia Briggs novel. I'm thinking after I finish my binge of Briggs' Mercy series, I might binge on the October Daye series. The metaphors in both series sort of work for what I'm struggling with at the moment. In between, I'm reading Hamilton.
My own creative writing, after a brief splash of creative energy last week, has once again hit a standstill. The problem is ...I have one too many stories in my head at the moment, all fighting to be heard. And, I'm trying to focus on the first sci-fi story, then get around to the other ideas. But what is happening is we've reached a stalemate of sorts. And it all feels entangled together and out of focus. So, sitting back and letting things percolate. I might write a bit in long-hand on my retreat next weekend. Or not. There's a lot to do at the retreat.
Saw the controversial episode of The 100 entitled "Thirteen", which explained quite a bit, and was a heck of a lot better than I'd expected. I had more or less predicted that Lexa would die, but was pleasantly surprised by how she died. That worked. It fit with the story. The only problem was that I got confused regarding which character was which. I thought at one point, okay, the guy torturing Murphy looks like Lexa's top advisor, Flamekeeper. But it can't be the same person. Turns out that it was.
I liked the Lexa/Clark relationship. Although I think Clark may be bisexual. I hope they make her bisexual. Not sure it matters. The writers did a good job of not making a big deal of her sexual orientation. In this world it really doesn't matter. No one appears to care. Nor should they. But it is a huge step for a television genre show not to make a big deal out of it. It wasn't that long ago, in which WB told Whedon not to show Willow and Tara kissing on screen, and such things were considered forbidden. Now? Grey's Anatomy, The Catch, and The 100 have racy, sexy, and explicit lesbian relationships without blinking an eye. There was a time that you only saw gay men on television, now we have both. I'm pleased. The world is shifting in some respects for the better.
Okay, enuf. Going to bed. It's late.
Will state that the series continues to engage me and I'm not having the problems with it that others did. But I'm admittedly not that picky a television viewer. Also, it's not like I'm shipping anyone.
I'm not. I do hope they don't kill Murphy or Octavia or Indira off anytime soon, because they are interesting. But I'm not shipping any of them really. I liked Bellamy up until about two episodes ago, when he started doing insane out of character things...which I'm not sure quite work. So, if they kill him off, well, I'm not sure I'll mind at this point. Would be a colossal waste of a good character however.
The sci-fi bit felt hokey, until it was revealed that what made each commander of the grounders special, was an AI device that Bettany of Polaris station implanted in their spines...to aid them towards survival. After her other AI device, which also looks like her and is hanging around with Johra - destroyed the world. Poor Murphy has been privy to both.
Finished another Patricia Briggs novel. I'm thinking after I finish my binge of Briggs' Mercy series, I might binge on the October Daye series. The metaphors in both series sort of work for what I'm struggling with at the moment. In between, I'm reading Hamilton.
My own creative writing, after a brief splash of creative energy last week, has once again hit a standstill. The problem is ...I have one too many stories in my head at the moment, all fighting to be heard. And, I'm trying to focus on the first sci-fi story, then get around to the other ideas. But what is happening is we've reached a stalemate of sorts. And it all feels entangled together and out of focus. So, sitting back and letting things percolate. I might write a bit in long-hand on my retreat next weekend. Or not. There's a lot to do at the retreat.
Saw the controversial episode of The 100 entitled "Thirteen", which explained quite a bit, and was a heck of a lot better than I'd expected. I had more or less predicted that Lexa would die, but was pleasantly surprised by how she died. That worked. It fit with the story. The only problem was that I got confused regarding which character was which. I thought at one point, okay, the guy torturing Murphy looks like Lexa's top advisor, Flamekeeper. But it can't be the same person. Turns out that it was.
I liked the Lexa/Clark relationship. Although I think Clark may be bisexual. I hope they make her bisexual. Not sure it matters. The writers did a good job of not making a big deal of her sexual orientation. In this world it really doesn't matter. No one appears to care. Nor should they. But it is a huge step for a television genre show not to make a big deal out of it. It wasn't that long ago, in which WB told Whedon not to show Willow and Tara kissing on screen, and such things were considered forbidden. Now? Grey's Anatomy, The Catch, and The 100 have racy, sexy, and explicit lesbian relationships without blinking an eye. There was a time that you only saw gay men on television, now we have both. I'm pleased. The world is shifting in some respects for the better.
Okay, enuf. Going to bed. It's late.
Will state that the series continues to engage me and I'm not having the problems with it that others did. But I'm admittedly not that picky a television viewer. Also, it's not like I'm shipping anyone.
I'm not. I do hope they don't kill Murphy or Octavia or Indira off anytime soon, because they are interesting. But I'm not shipping any of them really. I liked Bellamy up until about two episodes ago, when he started doing insane out of character things...which I'm not sure quite work. So, if they kill him off, well, I'm not sure I'll mind at this point. Would be a colossal waste of a good character however.
The sci-fi bit felt hokey, until it was revealed that what made each commander of the grounders special, was an AI device that Bettany of Polaris station implanted in their spines...to aid them towards survival. After her other AI device, which also looks like her and is hanging around with Johra - destroyed the world. Poor Murphy has been privy to both.