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shadowkat1. FB: If only we could replace all the stupid people in the world with cats.
Me: Sigh, yes. But then we'd be overrun with cats.
Granted some may not see the problem with this...but I doubt we have enough mice to feed all of them.
2. Co-worker: You know a show that saw recently that I really really love?
Me: Eh -
Co-worker: What We Do in The Shadows.
Me (sigh): yes, I've seen it. It's told in documentary style which doesn't work for me -
Co-worker: you should see this! It's hilarious. I literally peed in my pants from laughing so hard.
Me (okay more information than I needed): the first episode wasn't that funny -- I did try it.
Co-worker: it's like we saw different shows. I saw a middle episode.
Me: Well technically we did see different shows. I saw the first one, you saw the middle -- sitcoms are often hit or miss.
Co-worker: True, you must see another one, they have the star from the television series Limitless making a cameo.
Me (okay no idea who that is...as opposed to say someone actually famous such as Tilda Swinton.)
Co-worker likes to bully me into watching supernatural television series.
Considering three people on my flist are loving this series...maybe I'll give it another shot?
Co-worker: it's about vampires, living in Staten Island, what's not to love?
Yes, you'd have to be a New Yorker to understand that.
3. My workplace is trying to kill me. Although it's been trying to do that since well forever...all my workplaces have, actually. One gets used to it after a bit. So taking a personal day tomorrow to go to a friend's funeral. He was a nice man, who ran the Weaving the Fabric of Diversity Group, and was also open with a hug or a handshake. Walked in the Civil Rights marches with MLK and traveled the south during the heights of the Civil Rights Movement. Also, an renowned acting teacher, one of his students was Ted Danson.
Am dreading the funeral. Social anxiety gets into full swing whenever I have to do large group activities, by myself. Work is responsible for the social anxiety. I got traumatized in an evil workplace around 9-11, and I've never quite been the same since. There was me before 9/11 and me after.
I'm working to overcome it. In stages.
This brings me to something I read about the Avenger's Endgame today, that I found interesting and resonated with me. Actually that movie franchise did on multiple levels. Not all do.
From the writer's interview in this week's EW:
Even though there's a lot of fun to be had in the movie with his physical condition, it's not a gag. It's a manifestation of where he is on a character level. It's a very common sort of response to depression and pain. What would happen if that character became extremely angry and started to punish himself and didn't care anymore? He doesn't care about anything. He doesn't care about himself. That's the reason why we didn't end up turning him back. It's an experience that stays with him.
I like that. I totally understand that. It's how I've gained the 40-50 pounds I lost right back again. I hit a low point, was stressed out, and got furious -- and did not care. It's why I've gained weight throughout my life and why I've binged. I punish myself with food and sometimes drink -- although that's numbing, and I never get drunk (because I don't like being drunk).
It makes sense in regards to Thor -- who is a very physical character. And very much about his body. He's the most physical of the Avengers. Captain America is the only other purely physical character. Their power is in their physicality.
4. More on the Avenger's interview...
The Russos saw Black Widow's final act as a chance to redeem her assassin past, as someone who once took lives rather than saved them. "The theme of the movie is, 'Can you change your destiny, and what does it cost to do it -- and are you willing to pay that cost? It's a resounding 'yes' from the Avengers. In Infinity War it was, we don't trad lives, a desire to protect, in this movie there's a desire to sacrifice. The true heroes step up and are willing to sacrifice for the greater good."
I totally got that, which is why it didn't bother me and felt earned and worked. While what happened on GoT did not.
If Cap were to go back in the past and live there, he would create a branched reality. The question then becomes: How is he back in this reality to give the shield away? Interesting question, right? Maybe there's a story there. There's a lot of layers built into this movie and we spend three years thinking through it, so it's fun to talk about it and hopefully fill in the holes for people so they understand what were thinking."
According to the interview they deliberately did things a certain way to leave various plot avenues open. In short everything in Avenger's Endgame was planned to the last letter and thought out over a three year period. And it shows. Which is why I loved it and found it to be narratively satisfying. I can handwave like the next person, but I'm picky about character narrative arcs.
This may explain my issues over the years with Doctor Who -- the character arcs on that series often defy logic.
Me: Sigh, yes. But then we'd be overrun with cats.
Granted some may not see the problem with this...but I doubt we have enough mice to feed all of them.
2. Co-worker: You know a show that saw recently that I really really love?
Me: Eh -
Co-worker: What We Do in The Shadows.
Me (sigh): yes, I've seen it. It's told in documentary style which doesn't work for me -
Co-worker: you should see this! It's hilarious. I literally peed in my pants from laughing so hard.
Me (okay more information than I needed): the first episode wasn't that funny -- I did try it.
Co-worker: it's like we saw different shows. I saw a middle episode.
Me: Well technically we did see different shows. I saw the first one, you saw the middle -- sitcoms are often hit or miss.
Co-worker: True, you must see another one, they have the star from the television series Limitless making a cameo.
Me (okay no idea who that is...as opposed to say someone actually famous such as Tilda Swinton.)
Co-worker likes to bully me into watching supernatural television series.
Considering three people on my flist are loving this series...maybe I'll give it another shot?
Co-worker: it's about vampires, living in Staten Island, what's not to love?
Yes, you'd have to be a New Yorker to understand that.
3. My workplace is trying to kill me. Although it's been trying to do that since well forever...all my workplaces have, actually. One gets used to it after a bit. So taking a personal day tomorrow to go to a friend's funeral. He was a nice man, who ran the Weaving the Fabric of Diversity Group, and was also open with a hug or a handshake. Walked in the Civil Rights marches with MLK and traveled the south during the heights of the Civil Rights Movement. Also, an renowned acting teacher, one of his students was Ted Danson.
Am dreading the funeral. Social anxiety gets into full swing whenever I have to do large group activities, by myself. Work is responsible for the social anxiety. I got traumatized in an evil workplace around 9-11, and I've never quite been the same since. There was me before 9/11 and me after.
I'm working to overcome it. In stages.
This brings me to something I read about the Avenger's Endgame today, that I found interesting and resonated with me. Actually that movie franchise did on multiple levels. Not all do.
From the writer's interview in this week's EW:
Even though there's a lot of fun to be had in the movie with his physical condition, it's not a gag. It's a manifestation of where he is on a character level. It's a very common sort of response to depression and pain. What would happen if that character became extremely angry and started to punish himself and didn't care anymore? He doesn't care about anything. He doesn't care about himself. That's the reason why we didn't end up turning him back. It's an experience that stays with him.
I like that. I totally understand that. It's how I've gained the 40-50 pounds I lost right back again. I hit a low point, was stressed out, and got furious -- and did not care. It's why I've gained weight throughout my life and why I've binged. I punish myself with food and sometimes drink -- although that's numbing, and I never get drunk (because I don't like being drunk).
It makes sense in regards to Thor -- who is a very physical character. And very much about his body. He's the most physical of the Avengers. Captain America is the only other purely physical character. Their power is in their physicality.
4. More on the Avenger's interview...
The Russos saw Black Widow's final act as a chance to redeem her assassin past, as someone who once took lives rather than saved them. "The theme of the movie is, 'Can you change your destiny, and what does it cost to do it -- and are you willing to pay that cost? It's a resounding 'yes' from the Avengers. In Infinity War it was, we don't trad lives, a desire to protect, in this movie there's a desire to sacrifice. The true heroes step up and are willing to sacrifice for the greater good."
I totally got that, which is why it didn't bother me and felt earned and worked. While what happened on GoT did not.
If Cap were to go back in the past and live there, he would create a branched reality. The question then becomes: How is he back in this reality to give the shield away? Interesting question, right? Maybe there's a story there. There's a lot of layers built into this movie and we spend three years thinking through it, so it's fun to talk about it and hopefully fill in the holes for people so they understand what were thinking."
According to the interview they deliberately did things a certain way to leave various plot avenues open. In short everything in Avenger's Endgame was planned to the last letter and thought out over a three year period. And it shows. Which is why I loved it and found it to be narratively satisfying. I can handwave like the next person, but I'm picky about character narrative arcs.
This may explain my issues over the years with Doctor Who -- the character arcs on that series often defy logic.