Sarchasm - word for the day.
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shadowkat1. Word for the day...assuming it is one?
Sarchasm -- the gulf between an author's sarcastic wit and the readership/audience that doesn't get it.
Yep. This is me........and my readership.
2. Reading "Where did you go, Bernadette" -- which I keep forgetting that I'm reading. On my way to the train after work, I had to remind myself that I actually read something on the commute to work this morning, and what it was. This does not bode well for the book in question.
Sarchasm...the gulf between the writer's wit and me the reader, who is not finding it amusing, annoying yes, amusing no.
Maybe, like "Barry", it will get better? Barry got better. There are things that I start off disliking and thinking why am I bothering with this? I don't think of myself as masochistic? Life is truly too short to be this irritated and bored...then wham, oh my god, this is so frigging good, I can't believe how frigging good this is! Wow!
List of things this has happened on?
1. Breaking Bad
2. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
3. Game of Thrones (the books) -- which to be honest were sluggish, then book 3 got really frigging good, then sigh...and the television series was great, great, great, not, uhm..better, looking really good, oh dear...you just jumped the shark didn't you? Alrighty then.
4. The Wire
5. Angel
6. Mad Men
And I'm sure there are others.
3. Apparently both Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams had to deal with mental illness as a direct result of the social media attention during Game of Thrones. (Note to self, if I ever get famous, do not, repeat, do not spend any time on the internet.)
Maise Williams speaks on mental health as does Sophie Turner
4. Out of curiosity, can you think of any really good, flawless endings to television series?
After reading email from co-worker, who is uncritical of the things she loves, I realized this is not how I think. I'm critical of everything I love. The more I love it -- the more critical I will be. I'm critical of myself. I ask questions, think okay what worked, what didn't work for me, how do we improve on it, and what do I learn from this. I'm enjoy being critical of art and television and films. It's fun.
I don't understand not being critical at all.
Hmm...let's see endings that worked for me:
* Mad Men's ending worked -- don't remember it, but it worked.
* I actually really liked the ending of Angel the Series...which I do remember, it worked. I didn't need anything after that.
* I also liked how The Wire ended.
* Star Trek Next Generation - with Picard going forward through time and back again.
* Farscape's four hour movie wrap up worked for me.
* Cheers -- I don't remember the ending, but it worked.
* Newart -- best use of a dream ending, ever.
* Fraiser's worked
*Bablyon 5 for the most part worked
Endings I am on the fence about, that I don't think worked, although others seem to:
* MASH -- too neat and overly long and sentimental, although I'm not sure what else they could have done (I liked it before I wrote a paper on the series and had it torn apart for not being critical enough.)
* The West Wing...can't remember it clearly and it felt off somehow
* BSG -- also felt off somehow
* St. Elsewhere -- not sure I bought that the whole show was in an autistic kids head
*Buffy the Vampire Slayer -- still on the fence, I can argue it both ways
* Firefly -- not fair to be too critical, had no time
Endings that were abysmal...and did not work at all:
* How I Met Your Mother -- this was...just...oh dear
* Lost...yeah, well, it's okay that you felt the need to make the island purgatory, but did you have to be convoluted about it?
* X-Files - pick your own ending
* Dollhouse - a convoluted mess
Sarchasm -- the gulf between an author's sarcastic wit and the readership/audience that doesn't get it.
Yep. This is me........and my readership.
2. Reading "Where did you go, Bernadette" -- which I keep forgetting that I'm reading. On my way to the train after work, I had to remind myself that I actually read something on the commute to work this morning, and what it was. This does not bode well for the book in question.
Sarchasm...the gulf between the writer's wit and me the reader, who is not finding it amusing, annoying yes, amusing no.
Maybe, like "Barry", it will get better? Barry got better. There are things that I start off disliking and thinking why am I bothering with this? I don't think of myself as masochistic? Life is truly too short to be this irritated and bored...then wham, oh my god, this is so frigging good, I can't believe how frigging good this is! Wow!
List of things this has happened on?
1. Breaking Bad
2. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
3. Game of Thrones (the books) -- which to be honest were sluggish, then book 3 got really frigging good, then sigh...and the television series was great, great, great, not, uhm..better, looking really good, oh dear...you just jumped the shark didn't you? Alrighty then.
4. The Wire
5. Angel
6. Mad Men
And I'm sure there are others.
3. Apparently both Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams had to deal with mental illness as a direct result of the social media attention during Game of Thrones. (Note to self, if I ever get famous, do not, repeat, do not spend any time on the internet.)
Maise Williams speaks on mental health as does Sophie Turner
4. Out of curiosity, can you think of any really good, flawless endings to television series?
After reading email from co-worker, who is uncritical of the things she loves, I realized this is not how I think. I'm critical of everything I love. The more I love it -- the more critical I will be. I'm critical of myself. I ask questions, think okay what worked, what didn't work for me, how do we improve on it, and what do I learn from this. I'm enjoy being critical of art and television and films. It's fun.
I don't understand not being critical at all.
Hmm...let's see endings that worked for me:
* Mad Men's ending worked -- don't remember it, but it worked.
* I actually really liked the ending of Angel the Series...which I do remember, it worked. I didn't need anything after that.
* I also liked how The Wire ended.
* Star Trek Next Generation - with Picard going forward through time and back again.
* Farscape's four hour movie wrap up worked for me.
* Cheers -- I don't remember the ending, but it worked.
* Newart -- best use of a dream ending, ever.
* Fraiser's worked
*Bablyon 5 for the most part worked
Endings I am on the fence about, that I don't think worked, although others seem to:
* MASH -- too neat and overly long and sentimental, although I'm not sure what else they could have done (I liked it before I wrote a paper on the series and had it torn apart for not being critical enough.)
* The West Wing...can't remember it clearly and it felt off somehow
* BSG -- also felt off somehow
* St. Elsewhere -- not sure I bought that the whole show was in an autistic kids head
*Buffy the Vampire Slayer -- still on the fence, I can argue it both ways
* Firefly -- not fair to be too critical, had no time
Endings that were abysmal...and did not work at all:
* How I Met Your Mother -- this was...just...oh dear
* Lost...yeah, well, it's okay that you felt the need to make the island purgatory, but did you have to be convoluted about it?
* X-Files - pick your own ending
* Dollhouse - a convoluted mess
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Date: 2019-05-23 02:25 am (UTC)Series I felt ended well:
Friday Night Lights
Star Wars Rebels
Travelers - mostly because it was recent, not that it was spectacular or memorable (but I thought it ended well, despite the plans they might've had for another season)
Series that didn't end well:
Star Trek: Enterprise
I'm sure there are others, these are off the top of my head.
I remember really liking the ending of M*A*S*H but a) I was young and b) I haven't watched it sense. What I probably like was the fact that it's the only time I can recall my mother and father and I all watching TV together.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-real-reason-fans-hate-the-last-season-of-game-of-thrones
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Date: 2019-05-23 02:31 am (UTC)Regarding the article link below? I actually posted that on my journal a while ago -- snagged it from elisi on 5/19/19. I think everyone on DW snagged it from elisi? LOL!
Go HERE for my thoughts.
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Date: 2019-05-23 02:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-05-23 02:38 am (UTC)I don't completely agree with it though -- because I don't watch stories from that angle and that's not what bothered me about GOT's finale season, nor what got me hooked on the show. Or at least not just that. But it is a fascinating read.