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shadowkat1. IS Your Favorite Show Renewed -- Here's a List to see what has been renewed, cancelled and is in trouble
No real surprises. Frustrating list though. But some bright spots here and there. The Good Place has been renewed. So has The Resident and The Gifted. (Although I'd rather FOX renewed Lucifer, I find it to be less frustrating than the Gifted and The Resident, which have a tendency to make me want to throw things at the television set. Which you know, not very helpful.)
By the way, where in the heck is Sense 8 - Final Four Hour Movie Wrap-Up??? I thought that was premiering in January of this year??? Where is it??? By the time it airs, I will have forgotten the show. (Note to self -- do not watch series that get prematurely cancelled on cliff-hangers.)
2. Rollicking thunderstorm outside...which explains the sick headache I've had all day long. Finally feel better -- because hello, thunderstorm!
3. The National News makes me ill. So I don't watch it or just look at it from between my fingers like I'm watching a horror movie or from the corner of my eye.
There's a few bright spots here and there...most of which seem to be undercut by a never-ending horror show.
4. I've switched back to comfort reads...reading romance novels again. Although subversive non-conventional writers. Because conventional romance novels bore me.
Courtney Milan -- is my go-to gal. I picked up several of her books cheaply on the Kindle.
And Alisha Roi, who writes contemporary romances with POC leads.
Still writing my own, which also falls within the subversive, non-conventional category. Mainly because nothing about me is conventional. And I'm proud of that.
Also, flirting with Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. I never read it. Seen about five movie versions of it. And am taping the Masterpiece Theater/BBC presentation of it.
I've actually read more classic genre writers than classic literary writers in my lifetime. For example? I've pretty much read all the classic mystery writers, most of the horror writers, several of the classic sci-fi and fantasy writers, most of the classic romance, quite a few of the historical, but not a lot of the non-fiction. Literary? I read if I was required to. Did read a few on my own but not many.
I prefer stories to prose stylings. Substance over style. A lot of literary writers get caught up in how to write the perfect sentence or poem, but they don't have much to say. There's no story in there. Proust? I'm looking at you. Also looking at Joyce and Faulkner for that matter.
I'm not as impressed with a beautiful turn of phrase as I once was, maybe because I now know how to do it myself and it doesn't seem like that big a deal. Writing isn't as hard as telling a good yarn.
Telling stories is a gift. Writing is a learned talent or something you can be taught. Often in school, they teach you to write like they do, so everyone comes out with the same voice. It's all rather dull. Takes people years to break out of that and find their own.
No real surprises. Frustrating list though. But some bright spots here and there. The Good Place has been renewed. So has The Resident and The Gifted. (Although I'd rather FOX renewed Lucifer, I find it to be less frustrating than the Gifted and The Resident, which have a tendency to make me want to throw things at the television set. Which you know, not very helpful.)
By the way, where in the heck is Sense 8 - Final Four Hour Movie Wrap-Up??? I thought that was premiering in January of this year??? Where is it??? By the time it airs, I will have forgotten the show. (Note to self -- do not watch series that get prematurely cancelled on cliff-hangers.)
2. Rollicking thunderstorm outside...which explains the sick headache I've had all day long. Finally feel better -- because hello, thunderstorm!
3. The National News makes me ill. So I don't watch it or just look at it from between my fingers like I'm watching a horror movie or from the corner of my eye.
There's a few bright spots here and there...most of which seem to be undercut by a never-ending horror show.
4. I've switched back to comfort reads...reading romance novels again. Although subversive non-conventional writers. Because conventional romance novels bore me.
Courtney Milan -- is my go-to gal. I picked up several of her books cheaply on the Kindle.
And Alisha Roi, who writes contemporary romances with POC leads.
Still writing my own, which also falls within the subversive, non-conventional category. Mainly because nothing about me is conventional. And I'm proud of that.
Also, flirting with Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. I never read it. Seen about five movie versions of it. And am taping the Masterpiece Theater/BBC presentation of it.
I've actually read more classic genre writers than classic literary writers in my lifetime. For example? I've pretty much read all the classic mystery writers, most of the horror writers, several of the classic sci-fi and fantasy writers, most of the classic romance, quite a few of the historical, but not a lot of the non-fiction. Literary? I read if I was required to. Did read a few on my own but not many.
I prefer stories to prose stylings. Substance over style. A lot of literary writers get caught up in how to write the perfect sentence or poem, but they don't have much to say. There's no story in there. Proust? I'm looking at you. Also looking at Joyce and Faulkner for that matter.
I'm not as impressed with a beautiful turn of phrase as I once was, maybe because I now know how to do it myself and it doesn't seem like that big a deal. Writing isn't as hard as telling a good yarn.
Telling stories is a gift. Writing is a learned talent or something you can be taught. Often in school, they teach you to write like they do, so everyone comes out with the same voice. It's all rather dull. Takes people years to break out of that and find their own.
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Date: 2018-05-11 02:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-05-11 12:16 pm (UTC)Oh, thank you!!! I've been wondering...and waiting for it. June 8th is perfect. Although I was hoping for four hours not just two hours. Dang it. Then again, it might force the writer's to tighten up the scripts and plot.
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Date: 2018-05-11 03:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-05-11 03:04 pm (UTC)In my book, that show is disgusting. I've rarely watched much TV in the last few years. (Remember, I don't have anything but 40 odd channels of broadcast TV.) I guess I don't care for the gen-x ideas about entertainment. About all I watch are premieres hoping to find something good or at least something good for mocking. Or else I watch ancient reruns. The old man is set in his ways. ;o)
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Date: 2018-05-11 04:03 pm (UTC)I avoided AP Bio...and it's not Gen X, but millenials or the kids of the Baby Boomers/Gen X that are running the show and are the target demo. Gen X ran the show about ten years back. We're in our late 40s, 50s and 60s now. Xennials/Millenialls = 30s and 20s.
Shame you don't have Netflix or Hulu...that has a broader range.
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Date: 2018-05-11 06:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-05-11 04:07 pm (UTC)Joss Whedon, Diane English, Amy Sherman-Pallindino, David Fury, David Greenwalt, Jane Espenson, Stephen DeKnight, Shondra Rhimes -- are gen X. They are the ones who did Murphy Brown, Buffy, Gilmore Girls, Angel, Moonlight, Grey's, etc.
The new stuff is by the kids of GenX and Baby Boomers.