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shadowkatBasically just hung around the apartment and vegged out all day long watching television. Did manage to control the snacking - this round. In part due to the fact that I don't have things I want to snack on, and I've lost any interest in buying them.
Still eating chocolate though - just darker chocolate with a lower sugar content.
Feel less wired as result. And I took a break from the news, media, social media, and just vegged mindless on the coach while it rained outside. In the sixties. I should have taken a walk - but it was raining off and on, humid, and I didn't feel like it.
Television series that I watched?
1. Lupin on Netflix - this is the French series, which I mainly watched in the original French with subtitles. The English dubbing was jarring since it didn't fit the subtitles.
I enjoyed the series over all, but I got furious at the bad guys and realized once again why I've found it difficult to watch shows like this over the past several years, or read books - where there are villains who get away with shit for a lengthy period of time. I think I'm impotent with rage - and a sense of injustice, and watching this stuff tends to just throw gasoline on those flames? At any rate, I was yelling at the television set in episodes 5 - 9. I wanted Hubert, the villain, lynched.
Why am I impotently furious? Trump. Bloated old white men who get away with shit - need to rot in prison.
At least the bad guys got it in the end. I wanted them flayed alive and killed, but arrested and thrown in prison isn't too bad.
The lead is very good in it. And it does reference racism throughout - commenting strongly on how racist France still is, and how people either assume blacks are responsible for crimes, or don't take them seriously or care about their family, or think they all look alike. But alas, it is also marginally sexist. And there were two ...jarring plot bits that I struggled with - in the last two episodes, which could have been rendered better.
Oh, just found out on Twitter via Sam Neil, that Omar Sy (the lead in Lupin) is in the Jurassic Park movie with Sam Neil, Jeff Goldbloom, Laura Dern, Chris Pratt, and Bryce Dallas Howard.
Topped it off with Lupin III - Castle Calistroga - the Japanese adaptation of the Monkey Punch comic on the illustrious thief. It's not as good as I remembered, and I preferred the French series.
2. Loki
I liked Loki better - partly because it was more escapist. Also while the villains were "annoying" they weren't rage inducing (ie. they did not remind me of certain white pricks in the US who need to rot in prison for the rest of their natural life-spans.)
Loki is kind of a philosophical brain teaser - which I find entertaining, or I wouldn't read Marvel comics or watch the films and series. But it's not for everyone.
Also, I honestly think MCU is the only series who gets the conundrum that is time travel. In that it tends to cause parallel universes or branches.
You create a nexus event or do something that critically changes the time line - it creates a new time line, it doesn't change the current one - that keeps going. You can't change what has already happened, you can only create another branch of it. It's basically parallel string theory, a controversial sub-branch of quantum mechanics.
Other time travel shows grate on me, with the exception of Doctor Who and Star Trek - which also appears to understand the science of it.
Which may explain why I'm enjoying Loki, but couldn't make it through various other time travel series, such as DC Legends of Tomorrow, Outlander, and Timeless.
Plus, Hiddleston - is an actor that entertains me no matter what he's in, but particularly as Loki. (My brother can't stand him, but my brother has quirky tastes in actors.)
It is grating in places - I wanted to smack Owen Wilson's Mobius at various points, for example. But I do love Sylvie. There's some nice little twists.
And the dialogue like all the Marvel shows is "fun". It's fun banter.
Just seen four episodes to date - loved the last two the most - so it does pick up after episode two. And it feels like, much like Wandavision, that it may be setting the stage for Doctor Strange and the Madness of the Multi-verse movie coming in 2022 or 2023, along with the introduction of the X-men and Fantastic Four to the series.
I flirted with Manifest - A series I gave up on - five episodes into the second year. It made it to three seasons before finally getting cancelled. I think it made it to three because of the pandemic. If it weren't for the pandemic - it would have been gone much faster. This was a true of a lot of television shows. I read on Twitter that someone else had decided to give up on it after season 1, since it apparently went rapidly down hill in Season 2. (Kind of was going down-hill in S1.)
The show had a great premise, and the first five-six episodes were good, but then it kind of jumped the rails into a convoluted conspiracy plot that made no sense. Also a couple of characters that - I wanted to smack upside the head. I was kind of hate-watching it by season 2, and gave up entirely after a bit. But Netflix does have all three seasons and it's number one at the moment on the streaming. I think people are bored?
3. I've been interacting with the very liberal Stephen DeKnight on Twitter. The only Whedon writer - whose work has continuted to entertain me outside of maybe Jane Espenson and Drew Goddard. Deknight did Daredevil. Also he was responsible for various Buffy and Angel episodes that I found to be interesting, if controversial.
And, he's the only writer outside of Marti Noxon and Jose (Firefly) who supported Charisma Carpenter.
My favs on Twitter on DeKnight, George Taki (Sulu on Star Trek), Sam Neil, and Neil Gaiman. Also John Scalzi, Cat Sebastian, and Kate Mackie amuse.
I'm on Twitter mainly to follow entertainment news - and my two guilty pleasure fandoms - X-men, and General Hospital.
Mother: Your brother thinks Buffy was a soap opera.
Me: I can see why he may think that - but it's not.
Mother: I agree, I don't think so either.
Me: It's plots were too centered around a definitive goal, and not relationship drama. Soaps are more centered around "relationship" drama, and emotion. Buffy had more of a monster of the week set up. And was episodic at times.
It had relationship melodrama but it wasn't really focused solely on that. Soap operas are. Also Buffy's plotting was for the most part - more logical. My brother is horrid at plot and character analysis, he sees design and film techniques and angles. I see the fabric of the story. We think very differently, as you can see.
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Shifting gears?
I'm annoyed that Marvel ended the X-Factor comic book. It was my favorite and the most innovative and best written that I'd seen in a long time. I may stop buying Excalibur in protest - actually I just don't like Excalibur. Besty Braddock is my least favorite character and grates on my nerves, also I'm not a fan of Jubliee, Rictor (who is whiny) and they got rid of Rogue and killed off my favorite - Pete Wisdom. Gambit - they've kind of defanged. Also, I really wish Marvel would drop the dialect.
X-Factor was a truly innovative comic book - it focused on solving murders, had a kind of noirish aspect to it, the leads were Northstar - a male mutant sarcastic queer speedster, married to a human black man, Polaris (who was barely in it - it focused more on Northstar and the others), Prodigy (a black queer boy who could learn anything anyone knew just by standing next to them), Eyeboy (a boy covered in eyes - who could analyze body language), Prestige (a traumatized telepath and time telepath/telekinetic) with a warwolve dog as a pet, Daken (Wolverine's son who is bisexual), Aurora (Northstar's sister). They did forensic analysis and investigated missing person cases, and if people had actually died.
I don't see why the comic had to end. There's an explanation - but it made no sense - it was because Polaris joined the X-men? But Polaris wasn't in charge of X-Factor and it rarely focused on her. Also Rogue joined the X-men, and we still have Excalibur. Same with New Mutants - Magic joined and we still have the New Mutants. Plus Wolverine is in about five books - so why can't Polaris be in two? It's so annoying. I rarely buy Wolverine - unless it's a cross-over. Why? Wolverine has been done to death - there's nothing else you can say about the character. Retire him to the background already - they retired Scott to the background, and there was more to say about Scott. Ugh. Comic Book Show-runners. Ugh.
Life is frustrating because people don't do what I want them to do.
Read somewhere, possibly twitter, a post that said book critics felt that no one was reading any good books any longer. OR too few people were.
No, apparently we just aren't reading the books the critics want us to read. The whole concept that folks like to read what makes them happy or entertains them or informs them is apparently lost on the critics. It's similar to film and television critics - they get upset when people don't want to watch the films and television series they love. Sorry, that's how life works - people tend to watch what entertains them not what entertains you.
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I don't want to talk about the news today. I'm taking a break from it.
Here's a picture from yesterday, instead.
Still eating chocolate though - just darker chocolate with a lower sugar content.
Feel less wired as result. And I took a break from the news, media, social media, and just vegged mindless on the coach while it rained outside. In the sixties. I should have taken a walk - but it was raining off and on, humid, and I didn't feel like it.
Television series that I watched?
1. Lupin on Netflix - this is the French series, which I mainly watched in the original French with subtitles. The English dubbing was jarring since it didn't fit the subtitles.
I enjoyed the series over all, but I got furious at the bad guys and realized once again why I've found it difficult to watch shows like this over the past several years, or read books - where there are villains who get away with shit for a lengthy period of time. I think I'm impotent with rage - and a sense of injustice, and watching this stuff tends to just throw gasoline on those flames? At any rate, I was yelling at the television set in episodes 5 - 9. I wanted Hubert, the villain, lynched.
Why am I impotently furious? Trump. Bloated old white men who get away with shit - need to rot in prison.
At least the bad guys got it in the end. I wanted them flayed alive and killed, but arrested and thrown in prison isn't too bad.
The lead is very good in it. And it does reference racism throughout - commenting strongly on how racist France still is, and how people either assume blacks are responsible for crimes, or don't take them seriously or care about their family, or think they all look alike. But alas, it is also marginally sexist. And there were two ...jarring plot bits that I struggled with - in the last two episodes, which could have been rendered better.
Oh, just found out on Twitter via Sam Neil, that Omar Sy (the lead in Lupin) is in the Jurassic Park movie with Sam Neil, Jeff Goldbloom, Laura Dern, Chris Pratt, and Bryce Dallas Howard.
Topped it off with Lupin III - Castle Calistroga - the Japanese adaptation of the Monkey Punch comic on the illustrious thief. It's not as good as I remembered, and I preferred the French series.
2. Loki
I liked Loki better - partly because it was more escapist. Also while the villains were "annoying" they weren't rage inducing (ie. they did not remind me of certain white pricks in the US who need to rot in prison for the rest of their natural life-spans.)
Loki is kind of a philosophical brain teaser - which I find entertaining, or I wouldn't read Marvel comics or watch the films and series. But it's not for everyone.
Also, I honestly think MCU is the only series who gets the conundrum that is time travel. In that it tends to cause parallel universes or branches.
You create a nexus event or do something that critically changes the time line - it creates a new time line, it doesn't change the current one - that keeps going. You can't change what has already happened, you can only create another branch of it. It's basically parallel string theory, a controversial sub-branch of quantum mechanics.
Other time travel shows grate on me, with the exception of Doctor Who and Star Trek - which also appears to understand the science of it.
Which may explain why I'm enjoying Loki, but couldn't make it through various other time travel series, such as DC Legends of Tomorrow, Outlander, and Timeless.
Plus, Hiddleston - is an actor that entertains me no matter what he's in, but particularly as Loki. (My brother can't stand him, but my brother has quirky tastes in actors.)
It is grating in places - I wanted to smack Owen Wilson's Mobius at various points, for example. But I do love Sylvie. There's some nice little twists.
And the dialogue like all the Marvel shows is "fun". It's fun banter.
Just seen four episodes to date - loved the last two the most - so it does pick up after episode two. And it feels like, much like Wandavision, that it may be setting the stage for Doctor Strange and the Madness of the Multi-verse movie coming in 2022 or 2023, along with the introduction of the X-men and Fantastic Four to the series.
I flirted with Manifest - A series I gave up on - five episodes into the second year. It made it to three seasons before finally getting cancelled. I think it made it to three because of the pandemic. If it weren't for the pandemic - it would have been gone much faster. This was a true of a lot of television shows. I read on Twitter that someone else had decided to give up on it after season 1, since it apparently went rapidly down hill in Season 2. (Kind of was going down-hill in S1.)
The show had a great premise, and the first five-six episodes were good, but then it kind of jumped the rails into a convoluted conspiracy plot that made no sense. Also a couple of characters that - I wanted to smack upside the head. I was kind of hate-watching it by season 2, and gave up entirely after a bit. But Netflix does have all three seasons and it's number one at the moment on the streaming. I think people are bored?
3. I've been interacting with the very liberal Stephen DeKnight on Twitter. The only Whedon writer - whose work has continuted to entertain me outside of maybe Jane Espenson and Drew Goddard. Deknight did Daredevil. Also he was responsible for various Buffy and Angel episodes that I found to be interesting, if controversial.
And, he's the only writer outside of Marti Noxon and Jose (Firefly) who supported Charisma Carpenter.
My favs on Twitter on DeKnight, George Taki (Sulu on Star Trek), Sam Neil, and Neil Gaiman. Also John Scalzi, Cat Sebastian, and Kate Mackie amuse.
I'm on Twitter mainly to follow entertainment news - and my two guilty pleasure fandoms - X-men, and General Hospital.
Mother: Your brother thinks Buffy was a soap opera.
Me: I can see why he may think that - but it's not.
Mother: I agree, I don't think so either.
Me: It's plots were too centered around a definitive goal, and not relationship drama. Soaps are more centered around "relationship" drama, and emotion. Buffy had more of a monster of the week set up. And was episodic at times.
It had relationship melodrama but it wasn't really focused solely on that. Soap operas are. Also Buffy's plotting was for the most part - more logical. My brother is horrid at plot and character analysis, he sees design and film techniques and angles. I see the fabric of the story. We think very differently, as you can see.
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Shifting gears?
I'm annoyed that Marvel ended the X-Factor comic book. It was my favorite and the most innovative and best written that I'd seen in a long time. I may stop buying Excalibur in protest - actually I just don't like Excalibur. Besty Braddock is my least favorite character and grates on my nerves, also I'm not a fan of Jubliee, Rictor (who is whiny) and they got rid of Rogue and killed off my favorite - Pete Wisdom. Gambit - they've kind of defanged. Also, I really wish Marvel would drop the dialect.
X-Factor was a truly innovative comic book - it focused on solving murders, had a kind of noirish aspect to it, the leads were Northstar - a male mutant sarcastic queer speedster, married to a human black man, Polaris (who was barely in it - it focused more on Northstar and the others), Prodigy (a black queer boy who could learn anything anyone knew just by standing next to them), Eyeboy (a boy covered in eyes - who could analyze body language), Prestige (a traumatized telepath and time telepath/telekinetic) with a warwolve dog as a pet, Daken (Wolverine's son who is bisexual), Aurora (Northstar's sister). They did forensic analysis and investigated missing person cases, and if people had actually died.
I don't see why the comic had to end. There's an explanation - but it made no sense - it was because Polaris joined the X-men? But Polaris wasn't in charge of X-Factor and it rarely focused on her. Also Rogue joined the X-men, and we still have Excalibur. Same with New Mutants - Magic joined and we still have the New Mutants. Plus Wolverine is in about five books - so why can't Polaris be in two? It's so annoying. I rarely buy Wolverine - unless it's a cross-over. Why? Wolverine has been done to death - there's nothing else you can say about the character. Retire him to the background already - they retired Scott to the background, and there was more to say about Scott. Ugh. Comic Book Show-runners. Ugh.
Life is frustrating because people don't do what I want them to do.
Read somewhere, possibly twitter, a post that said book critics felt that no one was reading any good books any longer. OR too few people were.
No, apparently we just aren't reading the books the critics want us to read. The whole concept that folks like to read what makes them happy or entertains them or informs them is apparently lost on the critics. It's similar to film and television critics - they get upset when people don't want to watch the films and television series they love. Sorry, that's how life works - people tend to watch what entertains them not what entertains you.
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I don't want to talk about the news today. I'm taking a break from it.
Here's a picture from yesterday, instead.
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Date: 2021-07-04 12:15 pm (UTC)In media, recently I've definitely hungered more for silly fun fluff than Serious Stuff. I don't subscribe to Disney+ but, if I did, I'd enjoy the escapism.
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Date: 2021-07-04 02:46 pm (UTC)I may go on an MCU binge again, or finish Mandalorian.
The picture is of a garden of wildflowers in front of the NY Public Library in Lower Manhattan.
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Date: 2021-07-04 03:05 pm (UTC)Yeah, those are the kind of show! I even recently appreciated a very simple and silly Korean science fiction film, it was just nice to escape. I wonder if Disney+ are purposely not releasing The Mandalorian (and maybe their other shows) on DVD, otherwise I could watch it via dvd.com someday.
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Date: 2021-07-04 10:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-07-04 10:26 pm (UTC)