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shadowkat1. Meditation made me think of the Doctor Who episodes I saw last night. In the guided meditation or rather immediately after, the guide said as the world constantly flows and changes around you, try to focus on the physical changes in your body to ground you in the moment. Each small change in position.
It made me think of Doctor Who, because at the very end of Fugitives of Judoon, the Doctor states that she feels as if Time is swirling about her, past, present, future, and other timelines, and she's caught in its flow -- too fast to see what is happening and anxious that something is coming for her.
I found that oddly relatable. I feel as if I'm watching history and various changes on a cultural, political, workplace, and personal level swirl around me, and at times it's hard to ground myself.
Also, I've found oddly relatable, or maybe not so much, the constant struggle the Doctor has of being a woman in a patriarchial world, and how people are constantly dismissing her as the Doctor's companion or not worth listening to. I work in male centric workplace and am constantly dismissed, spoken over, or shut down. It's interesting to see it shown in Doctor Who -- because up until a year or so ago, it was a male-centric series, and at times quite sexist. To have the authority of that sexism suddenly be on the opposite side of it...is interesting.
Speculative fiction can often force us to see things from another angle. While meditation can calm the mind down enough to pay attention to it. For me, my mind gets very noisy. But then I live in a noisy world. The best thing about my little apartment is the silence.
2. I wonder sometimes how television critics pick which series to review and promote? Or television mags? They used to promote everything -- but that was when everything was pretty much 20-30 television shows, if that. Now? It's not humanly possible. There's over 1000.
What I spotted that was worth looking into?
* Lock & Key based on the popular comic books by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodgriquez. It's a psychological horror comic. The set-up - The Lock family moves across country after the father's murder -- only to discover his ancestral home (which happens to be in New England - because they always are) is full of magical keys. One can even open a person's head, allowing them to revisit memories or even remove certain personality traits. Carlton Cuse of Lost is the show-runner. It premiers on Feb 7 on Netflix.
*I'm not okay with this - another horror-fantasy series based on a graphic novel, which follows a teenager as she navigates school, coming of age, family, sexuality and new superpowers. It's also on Netflix and starts Feb 26.
*Hunters - Jordan Peel's new drama starring Al Pacino about a team of Nazi hunters in 1970s New York - on Amazon Prime - Feb 21.
Also in EW was an excerpt from Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games Prequel - The Ballard of Songbirds and Snakes -- which focuses on a teen Corinalaus Snow, that is set 64 years prior to the Hunger Games novels. I have no idea why they thought this was a good idea. But okay.
3. Links That Won't Make Your Blood-Pressure Sky-Rocket or make you want to shoot people with water pistols.
* Did Tolkien Write the Lord of the Rings to Avoid Academic Work? - subtitle: "How a literary icon always felt guilty about his failings with Chaucer." LOL. I love that title.
* Cheer Captures What it Really Felt Like to be a Cheerleader - hmmm, I may check this out on netflix, more than one person on correspondence list has rec'd.
* For Petz - How West Side Story Was Reborn
* A Trillion Worlds To Explore...big data statistics have revealed among other things that our solar system is a kind of an oddball
It made me think of Doctor Who, because at the very end of Fugitives of Judoon, the Doctor states that she feels as if Time is swirling about her, past, present, future, and other timelines, and she's caught in its flow -- too fast to see what is happening and anxious that something is coming for her.
I found that oddly relatable. I feel as if I'm watching history and various changes on a cultural, political, workplace, and personal level swirl around me, and at times it's hard to ground myself.
Also, I've found oddly relatable, or maybe not so much, the constant struggle the Doctor has of being a woman in a patriarchial world, and how people are constantly dismissing her as the Doctor's companion or not worth listening to. I work in male centric workplace and am constantly dismissed, spoken over, or shut down. It's interesting to see it shown in Doctor Who -- because up until a year or so ago, it was a male-centric series, and at times quite sexist. To have the authority of that sexism suddenly be on the opposite side of it...is interesting.
Speculative fiction can often force us to see things from another angle. While meditation can calm the mind down enough to pay attention to it. For me, my mind gets very noisy. But then I live in a noisy world. The best thing about my little apartment is the silence.
2. I wonder sometimes how television critics pick which series to review and promote? Or television mags? They used to promote everything -- but that was when everything was pretty much 20-30 television shows, if that. Now? It's not humanly possible. There's over 1000.
What I spotted that was worth looking into?
* Lock & Key based on the popular comic books by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodgriquez. It's a psychological horror comic. The set-up - The Lock family moves across country after the father's murder -- only to discover his ancestral home (which happens to be in New England - because they always are) is full of magical keys. One can even open a person's head, allowing them to revisit memories or even remove certain personality traits. Carlton Cuse of Lost is the show-runner. It premiers on Feb 7 on Netflix.
*I'm not okay with this - another horror-fantasy series based on a graphic novel, which follows a teenager as she navigates school, coming of age, family, sexuality and new superpowers. It's also on Netflix and starts Feb 26.
*Hunters - Jordan Peel's new drama starring Al Pacino about a team of Nazi hunters in 1970s New York - on Amazon Prime - Feb 21.
Also in EW was an excerpt from Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games Prequel - The Ballard of Songbirds and Snakes -- which focuses on a teen Corinalaus Snow, that is set 64 years prior to the Hunger Games novels. I have no idea why they thought this was a good idea. But okay.
3. Links That Won't Make Your Blood-Pressure Sky-Rocket or make you want to shoot people with water pistols.
* Did Tolkien Write the Lord of the Rings to Avoid Academic Work? - subtitle: "How a literary icon always felt guilty about his failings with Chaucer." LOL. I love that title.
* Cheer Captures What it Really Felt Like to be a Cheerleader - hmmm, I may check this out on netflix, more than one person on correspondence list has rec'd.
* For Petz - How West Side Story Was Reborn
* A Trillion Worlds To Explore...big data statistics have revealed among other things that our solar system is a kind of an oddball
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Date: 2020-01-30 12:48 am (UTC)The bit about Tolkien amused me -- that's certainly how a lot of fanfic ends up getting written, though it's not always school work that's being avoided. (I know I did a lot of writing while in class).
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Date: 2020-01-30 02:37 am (UTC)1. Just streaming - one or two services, that's it. (My brother has Netflix and I think Hulu.)
2. Cable - but it is either Optimum/Altice, Time Warner/Spectrum, Xfinity,
Hargraves, etc -- and they aren't created equal.
3. Simple Broadcast
4. Satellite
5. Premium Cable - usually just one
6. Apps
And they watch on different things.
So, it's often hard to find people who are watching the same show you are, and within the same time frame. I'm on a GH fanboard on FB. And we're all trying to get access to a show that keeps getting preempted by the hearings. Some stations show GH, some the hearings. For a while wasn't airing at all. And now it's on - but hard to find. Either on Abc.com or Daily Motion, underground/off the wire provider. Said "On-Demand" but that's a rerun. And not everyone has access to internet. It's a mess.
If it weren't for the board - I'd have had troubles seeing it. They made it hard.
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Date: 2020-01-30 11:51 am (UTC)