Sunday Scaries...
Apr. 24th, 2022 10:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatTrying not to dread work tomorrow, although I think I've resolved the brain fog and fatigue issue. Definitely a side-effect of high blood sugar. Noticed when the blood sugar is high - I'm overly tired, sluggish, and foggy. Also tendency to be irritable.
It's going to be easier to go off things now. I hate pain. When I figure out a direct link between my pain or physical discomfort and a specific food item or drink? I stop partaking of it. It's how I stopped eating glutens - they hurt, and made me sick, so no more glutens. Now, I'm figuring out that candy, cookies, sweets, cakes, excess carbs makes me ill too - so bye bye. Did the same thing with alcohol - realized it was making me ill - so stopped drinking alcohol.
It's how I'm wired. Cause - effect, if it makes logical sense to not do it, I won't. I'm the same way with the virus - the masks protect me from getting sick, so I'll wear the masks. Wearing them outside is kind of pointless, but in crowds or situations in which I can't effectively social distance, it makes sense to wear them. I'm not sure how to handle work yet - except I always got sick because of work - and wearing a mask has prevented that.
In a way, it's an effective survival skill.
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Station Eleven
I'm mainly watching this because my brother recommended it. But it's kind of slow, and a lot of the main characters are creepy. The two I like, Miranda and Steevan appear to be dead.
Also all the kids in this story are highly annoying, and I kind of wish were dead.
My other issue with it - is the writer clearly doesn't understand how viruses work. Nor are they that interested in the mechanisms of survival. Instead there's a lot of pontificating about Shakespeare, ideals regarding humanity and socialization, and a comic book entitled Station Eleven.
It is funny in places due to absurd situations. But I'm having troubles caring what happens to the people. Yet, at the same time, I'm compelled to continue.
Also there's that LOST gimmick - where you end on a cliff-hanger in one episode, and the next one shifts to a completely different group of characters or decides to give you the back story on the antagonist that lead to the cliff-hanger. I think it's LOST that started it, it may have been something else.
That said? There's a lot of interesting touches here and there, and it is weirdly compelling. I keep trying to figure out where it is going with all of these disparate threads.
The thru line appears to be also a theme of the piece - which is all the main point of view characters are connected by a comic book, Station Eleven, created by the ex-wife of Arthur Laurents - who dies while performing Shakespeare the night the pandemic hit. Each character is connected somehow to Laurents and to the comic book Station Eleven.
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Off to bed. Best not to discuss the Sunday Scaries.
It's going to be easier to go off things now. I hate pain. When I figure out a direct link between my pain or physical discomfort and a specific food item or drink? I stop partaking of it. It's how I stopped eating glutens - they hurt, and made me sick, so no more glutens. Now, I'm figuring out that candy, cookies, sweets, cakes, excess carbs makes me ill too - so bye bye. Did the same thing with alcohol - realized it was making me ill - so stopped drinking alcohol.
It's how I'm wired. Cause - effect, if it makes logical sense to not do it, I won't. I'm the same way with the virus - the masks protect me from getting sick, so I'll wear the masks. Wearing them outside is kind of pointless, but in crowds or situations in which I can't effectively social distance, it makes sense to wear them. I'm not sure how to handle work yet - except I always got sick because of work - and wearing a mask has prevented that.
In a way, it's an effective survival skill.
**
Station Eleven
I'm mainly watching this because my brother recommended it. But it's kind of slow, and a lot of the main characters are creepy. The two I like, Miranda and Steevan appear to be dead.
Also all the kids in this story are highly annoying, and I kind of wish were dead.
My other issue with it - is the writer clearly doesn't understand how viruses work. Nor are they that interested in the mechanisms of survival. Instead there's a lot of pontificating about Shakespeare, ideals regarding humanity and socialization, and a comic book entitled Station Eleven.
It is funny in places due to absurd situations. But I'm having troubles caring what happens to the people. Yet, at the same time, I'm compelled to continue.
Also there's that LOST gimmick - where you end on a cliff-hanger in one episode, and the next one shifts to a completely different group of characters or decides to give you the back story on the antagonist that lead to the cliff-hanger. I think it's LOST that started it, it may have been something else.
That said? There's a lot of interesting touches here and there, and it is weirdly compelling. I keep trying to figure out where it is going with all of these disparate threads.
The thru line appears to be also a theme of the piece - which is all the main point of view characters are connected by a comic book, Station Eleven, created by the ex-wife of Arthur Laurents - who dies while performing Shakespeare the night the pandemic hit. Each character is connected somehow to Laurents and to the comic book Station Eleven.
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Off to bed. Best not to discuss the Sunday Scaries.
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Date: 2022-04-25 09:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-04-26 04:50 pm (UTC)While an interesting gimmick from a character centric perspective, it plays havoc with plotting and pacing. "Oh cliffhanger! Next episode - we tell you why the cliff-hanger happened, and give you the villain's motivation! Then we may get back to the cliffhanger again, by which time, you will have forgotten what happened in it. " Audience? UGH!