Gender issues

Boredom drove me from Doctor Who premiere, which is just not working for me, with the possible exception of one brief sequence that contained a malevolent Xmas Tree. Rose is the only character that does not grate on my nerves. And I *really* miss Christopher Eccleston who left the role to take the lead in the new Prisoner. (Is it just me, or are the Brits suffering from the same malady as the Americans, being unable to come up with new ideas, so revisiting old ones? )Not that I blame Eccleston, found Doctor Who overall somewhat dull and repetitive, the dialogue, sigh, just well, it did not thrill me. In short, I've either seen one too many sci-fi tv analogy shows in my lifetime, or people just like to redo the same ideas over and over again. The only science fiction fantasy show that's blown me away since Farscape is well, BattleStar Galatica v.2. I'm thinking I'm either just burnt out on the genre or I never was truly into it to begin with? Or maybe I just find certain types of sci-fi unappealing? You can after all be a fan of a genre and not like everything in it.

So I tuned into 20/20 - which had a fascinating story on gender, the differences between the genders and the result of negative stereotyping. Two of the guests were particularly interesting:
( talks about sex and gender )

Watch, once I get a job, my tv interests will probably change completely. Brain is bored right now it requires constant stimulation. When it gets overloaded, I'll probably go back to non-stimulating material. Course, I'll also stop posting so much in this lj.

Not a great day on black rock...

Cable has been acting wonky since 12:43pm this morning. My high speed internet connection and the TV.
Both more or less unstable. The highspeed went out just as I attempted to post an extreemly long and involved response to a thread on a discussion board entitled www.teaatheford.com - which I hadn't visited in ages. It was all about the Television Business, Nielsen Ratings, TV shows, Sorkin, personal opinion and comedy. Also with intricate html. And no, did not back the baby up. So gone.
More annoying than anything else.

So took off for a walk to my area grocery store, before the weather got too gnarly. It's been threatening to rain since 2 pm. But doing zip. Had planned to leave earlier when it was sunny and clear blue skies, but got caught up in the post that well was eaten by time warner highspeed internet cable malfunction. (Am currently on dial-up, in case you haven't figure that out for yourselves). Anyhow, I go, stop by the local bakery first to pick up chocolat chip coconut macroons - the only things can eat at bakery, then two blocks down to the grocery store. Only to find my way blocked by yellow police tape. Fifteen cops. Three cop cars. And a bunch of bystanders. Not only is the grocery store blocked off, but about two blocks in both directs are. I ask an elderly man who appears to be of Middle Eastern or Mediterrean descent, what is up.

"Well, a cop killed a guy in front of the grocery store there."
"Really? Just now? Why?"
"The guy was holding a knife to a lady's neck and he shot him down."
"So have the closed the grocery store?"
"Yeah, it's shut down - don't know what they plan on doing there. Or if the guy robbed it. Or just
what happened."

I sigh, think okay, more information than I really want to hear right now - since, ahem, this is the only grocery store that has cheap veggies and meet and general grocery supplies within walking distance. So really sort of have to continue to go to it. I do my civic duty and inform everyone I pass headed in the direction of the grocery store and intersection that they can't get through, it's completely blocked off and to go around. Then I wander off to a discount meat market two blocks down to buy what I'd planned on buying at the grocery store. Oh well, suppose, I should count my lucky stars - gotten there much earlier - I could have found myself with a knife to the neck.

Came home, watched the rest of the BSG DVD's that I rented - I rented a DVD from netflix of the shows I missed last year due to the robbery/cable blow-out. Yes, I appreciate the irony.
( Whinging about Time Warner - Evil Cable Company )

Regarding the BSG DVD's - will say this "Scar" and "Sacrifice" - which I'd missed last year, really do explain Starbuck and Apollo's choices in the finale. If you've missed those two episodes, there's no way in hell that their actions in the finale make a whit of sense. Proving how much of a serial this show truly is. Also, there's a great podcast on the DVD about "Black Market", which I despised more than the episode that proceeded it. I saw both those episodes last year and felt no need to resee them, once was quite enough, but did watch the podcast on Black Market. And I have to say, I admire Ron Moore. ( Ron Moore's podcast on last seasons BSG episode, Black Market, cut for potential spoilers - in case someone out there reading this hasn't seen it yet. )