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shadowkatSympathize with masquethephilospher's post - about how cleaning, grocery shopping, socializing and working for a living is not all that conducive towards fiction writing. Yep, have the same problem. Tonight I managed to write a page. Working on my story is a bit like pulling teeth. Course doesn't help that whenever I start working on it, I want to hop over here and commiserate, vent, ramble or what-not over stuff.
Enjoyed reading livejournal tonight - which was interesting. Lately I've been wanting to shake it. My mood and it are not in sync. But tonight? Not so bad.
Course, I've been feeling sort of edgy lately, restless, as if I need to be doing something but can't figure out what the heck it is. Been cursing more too for some reason, I blame my workplace. Some foul mouths around that joint.
That and I think I've just been wrestling with too many people lately. Tomorrow I get to wrestle with the stupid billing dept. of a hospital - a hospital that managed to not only get my first name spelled wrong (and my name is a common one) but also fouled up on the id number. I gave the lady the card.
Granted it was 2 am in the morning at the time. But all she had to do was copy it off.
Finished watching most of the S7 BTVS DVD's or rather the commentaries.
Do not recommend most of the commentaries, unless of course you like listening to people fawn over one another.
The best commentaries are Lessons (where Whedon makes two very snide comments that made me cackle - 1)We're not supposed to say how pretty they look. We know they are pretty. That's why we hired them. 2)the Director to Whedon, after we worked so hard in the basement, I told James and Sarah, that sorry all Joss is going to notice is the hair. Whedon: And you'd have been right. It's completely off. We had the worst time with it.) and Chosen (We had to have the Angel thing because this was really important to a specific fan base, who just could not let go of it, they thought he was her one true love, have no clue why? Then there's the other fan base that wanted her with Spike. Personally, I always thought Parker was the one. Course there was that small problem of how I was going to get her to go from kissing Angel in the same act to sleeping with Spike without her being the slut queen of slutonia...)Whedon's commentary made me laugh. Fans, ugh, can't live with them, can't live without them - can you? Dirty Girls, the one where Xander loses an eye, is also worth a listen. Brendon cracks me up. And Goddard keeps pointing out all the scenes he didn't write. There's a wonderful bit during the Spike/Faith scene, where Goddard informs Brendon that the silly fans keep writing him letters telling him how much they love Clem (he never wrote for Clem and had zip to do with Clem)and that Spike belonged with Buffy. He wasn't quite sure why they did this. Since he did not write the Spike/Faith sequence, that was Marty - and the reason it's there is to see if Spike/Faith have enough chemistry for a potential spin-off. This amuses me to no end. Especially since it might very well be the best bit in the episode. Whedon apparently wrote all the Caleb scenes. LMPTM? Only good when DB Woodside is not talking. Marsters, Fury and Goddard actually have a few interesting things to say, but Woodside keeps interupting them with accolades - ie. "James was marvelous here...Fury is the best ever..." to the point that you begin to want to help Spike beat the crap out of him. The writers do the same thing with Tom Lenk. Every time he comes on screen - they go on and on and on about the actor as if he's the funniest thing they've seen since Charlie Chaplin. Honestly I think the biggest problem with the Andrew character was the writers gave Tom Lenk way too much free reign and adored him far too much for their own good. Whedon is just as bad with Nathan Fillion. As is David Lynch with Kyle McLachlan and Tim Burton with Johnny Depp. Writers who fall in love with actors, to the extent that they often miscast them in roles, although I sort of liked what Lynch did with McLachlan.
Episodes - overall I liked the Season better than most people seemed to and in some respects prefer it to the prior seasons. That said? It goes downhill after Lies My Parents Told Me, which no matter what your feelings are towards it, was possibly the last great episode of the series. Did it offend you? It was supposed to. It was supposed to be controversial and edgy. Not comforting.
They deliberately wrote it to be jarring in some ways.
Dirty Girls, Empty Places, Touched, End of Days, Chosen - all don't quite work.
Bits and pieces seem off somehow. I'm still not sure it works that Angel showed up. May have worked a bit better if they'd let him show the way he did in S4, with no kiss and no cookie dough speech, just leave the amulet and go.
That scene bathes Buffy in a negative light that I think the writer tried over time to get her out of and didn't entirely succeed. The commentary suggests that Whedon didn't like the set-up but had no choice due to the fanbase and network he had to appease. Perfect example of how a fanbase can hurt a story. The relationship between Buffy and Spike in the end run is kept a tad too mysterious in places to work. The writers keep flip-flopping, confusing the audience. To the extent that it is not clear what these two feel for each other. Which may be why the relationship still obsesses me on a certain level -that lack of clarity or ambiguity. Whedon's commentary suggests he feels much the same way - what he liked most about their relationship was it was unclear, ambiguous, unpredictable, not defined. From the commentaries, I honestly think in Whedon's head and the other writers, the B/A relationship ended in Season 4. This in a nutshell is one of the many reasons I adore Girl in Question - it makes fun of the fans, and trust me guys, we deserve it.
Okay must go to bed. Hot Shower. Sleep. Up to go to work. Then home to write, hopefully, and watch Gilmore Girls and Veronica Mars. (Hopefully Gilmore Girls will be better this week. Last week's sucked. Veronica Mars remains fascinating and adore the main character who is snarky just like me and reminds me of my high school self, but I'm afraid I've figured out the entire mystery already. I'm hoping I haven't, that it's not that predictable - but I think I have. Damn.)
Enjoyed reading livejournal tonight - which was interesting. Lately I've been wanting to shake it. My mood and it are not in sync. But tonight? Not so bad.
Course, I've been feeling sort of edgy lately, restless, as if I need to be doing something but can't figure out what the heck it is. Been cursing more too for some reason, I blame my workplace. Some foul mouths around that joint.
That and I think I've just been wrestling with too many people lately. Tomorrow I get to wrestle with the stupid billing dept. of a hospital - a hospital that managed to not only get my first name spelled wrong (and my name is a common one) but also fouled up on the id number. I gave the lady the card.
Granted it was 2 am in the morning at the time. But all she had to do was copy it off.
Finished watching most of the S7 BTVS DVD's or rather the commentaries.
Do not recommend most of the commentaries, unless of course you like listening to people fawn over one another.
The best commentaries are Lessons (where Whedon makes two very snide comments that made me cackle - 1)We're not supposed to say how pretty they look. We know they are pretty. That's why we hired them. 2)the Director to Whedon, after we worked so hard in the basement, I told James and Sarah, that sorry all Joss is going to notice is the hair. Whedon: And you'd have been right. It's completely off. We had the worst time with it.) and Chosen (We had to have the Angel thing because this was really important to a specific fan base, who just could not let go of it, they thought he was her one true love, have no clue why? Then there's the other fan base that wanted her with Spike. Personally, I always thought Parker was the one. Course there was that small problem of how I was going to get her to go from kissing Angel in the same act to sleeping with Spike without her being the slut queen of slutonia...)Whedon's commentary made me laugh. Fans, ugh, can't live with them, can't live without them - can you? Dirty Girls, the one where Xander loses an eye, is also worth a listen. Brendon cracks me up. And Goddard keeps pointing out all the scenes he didn't write. There's a wonderful bit during the Spike/Faith scene, where Goddard informs Brendon that the silly fans keep writing him letters telling him how much they love Clem (he never wrote for Clem and had zip to do with Clem)and that Spike belonged with Buffy. He wasn't quite sure why they did this. Since he did not write the Spike/Faith sequence, that was Marty - and the reason it's there is to see if Spike/Faith have enough chemistry for a potential spin-off. This amuses me to no end. Especially since it might very well be the best bit in the episode. Whedon apparently wrote all the Caleb scenes. LMPTM? Only good when DB Woodside is not talking. Marsters, Fury and Goddard actually have a few interesting things to say, but Woodside keeps interupting them with accolades - ie. "James was marvelous here...Fury is the best ever..." to the point that you begin to want to help Spike beat the crap out of him. The writers do the same thing with Tom Lenk. Every time he comes on screen - they go on and on and on about the actor as if he's the funniest thing they've seen since Charlie Chaplin. Honestly I think the biggest problem with the Andrew character was the writers gave Tom Lenk way too much free reign and adored him far too much for their own good. Whedon is just as bad with Nathan Fillion. As is David Lynch with Kyle McLachlan and Tim Burton with Johnny Depp. Writers who fall in love with actors, to the extent that they often miscast them in roles, although I sort of liked what Lynch did with McLachlan.
Episodes - overall I liked the Season better than most people seemed to and in some respects prefer it to the prior seasons. That said? It goes downhill after Lies My Parents Told Me, which no matter what your feelings are towards it, was possibly the last great episode of the series. Did it offend you? It was supposed to. It was supposed to be controversial and edgy. Not comforting.
They deliberately wrote it to be jarring in some ways.
Dirty Girls, Empty Places, Touched, End of Days, Chosen - all don't quite work.
Bits and pieces seem off somehow. I'm still not sure it works that Angel showed up. May have worked a bit better if they'd let him show the way he did in S4, with no kiss and no cookie dough speech, just leave the amulet and go.
That scene bathes Buffy in a negative light that I think the writer tried over time to get her out of and didn't entirely succeed. The commentary suggests that Whedon didn't like the set-up but had no choice due to the fanbase and network he had to appease. Perfect example of how a fanbase can hurt a story. The relationship between Buffy and Spike in the end run is kept a tad too mysterious in places to work. The writers keep flip-flopping, confusing the audience. To the extent that it is not clear what these two feel for each other. Which may be why the relationship still obsesses me on a certain level -that lack of clarity or ambiguity. Whedon's commentary suggests he feels much the same way - what he liked most about their relationship was it was unclear, ambiguous, unpredictable, not defined. From the commentaries, I honestly think in Whedon's head and the other writers, the B/A relationship ended in Season 4. This in a nutshell is one of the many reasons I adore Girl in Question - it makes fun of the fans, and trust me guys, we deserve it.
Okay must go to bed. Hot Shower. Sleep. Up to go to work. Then home to write, hopefully, and watch Gilmore Girls and Veronica Mars. (Hopefully Gilmore Girls will be better this week. Last week's sucked. Veronica Mars remains fascinating and adore the main character who is snarky just like me and reminds me of my high school self, but I'm afraid I've figured out the entire mystery already. I'm hoping I haven't, that it's not that predictable - but I think I have. Damn.)
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Date: 2005-05-03 10:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-03 11:18 am (UTC)with Andrew - people online thought he was a comment on either the character Spike or Xander, when truth was - he was a comment on the writers themselves, which was why the writers loved him so much - they enjoyed making fun of themselves.