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1. "Do you keep livejournal a secret?"
( somewhat lengthy response )
2. Doctor Who been reading some of the Doctor Who Season Final reviews on my flist. Still not sure what I think about it. Will have to ponder it some more. Not sure the plot quite works. It does and it doesn't. Just as the romance works and it doesn't. But to be honest? I've always felt that way about Doctor Who. Felt the same way about last week's episode - which didn't quite work for me either.
Actually this plot arc works for me better than the Rose/Doctor arc did or Donna Noble/Doctor arc. The Donna Noble arc was a bit offensive, and don't get me started on Rose. So...that's not a problem. Also I like clever twists.
( spoilers on Doctor Who S6 and last episode. What bugged me. )
I may have to write a more lengthy review to truly figure out what worked and what didn't work for me. In short, still percolating in the brain.
3. The Good Wife continues to entertain me. ( vague spoilers )
4. Read that Tiger Beat Feminist Rant about GRR Martin's Song of Ice and Fire novels? And it made me realize that rants tend to make you look bug-shagging crazy, no matter how well-intentioned. Sad, but true. So apologies for all the crazy rants I've written in this journal about books, tv show, writers, etc. I don't know what came over me. Thankfully it was only temporary or at least I hope it was.
After reading the Tiger Beat rant, I'm half tempted to go back through my journal and delete all rants regardless of what they are about. (Although I'm guessing I probably already did that on a couple of them. The problem with me and rants or whines, is I come to my senses, read the thing, get horribly embarrassed, and delete it - along with all the comments. Which may not be the most mature way of handling it, but what the hey. ) I was deeply embarrassed for the poor woman. She sounds insane.
I mean, hello, if you hate the books that much - why did you read four of them? You'd think she'd stop with one, but nooo, she actually read all four. And they aren't exactly short books. We are talking the equivalent of 2000 pages with tiny print and not exactly skimmable (you'll get confused because Martin has a nasty habit of hiding future plot points in the weirdest places). (First book is about 876, second 996, third 1500 and some, fourth 696 or thereabouts). That's a heck of a lot of time to waste on something you hate, deeply offends you and makes you unhappy, don't you think? I mean granted I read the Buffy comics, but I did get a great deal of enjoyment out of some of them, not to mention loads of enjoyment out of snarking and making fun of some of them, and the one's I disliked? Were only abut 40 pages tops, mostly pictures, and cost less than 2 dollars a pop. And took less than an hour to read. Not quite the same thing. So this begs the question - why invest that much time in something that makes you miserable? And so what if other people love it? I mean people love tv shows I find offensive and despicable, but I'm smart enough to realize that they most likely don't see the same things I do when they watch them, so it really doesn't matter. Well, I'm smart enough to realize this when I'm a)not hormonal, and b) not irritable and therefore fairly sane. (In short not thinking with my emotions.)
( somewhat lengthy response )
2. Doctor Who been reading some of the Doctor Who Season Final reviews on my flist. Still not sure what I think about it. Will have to ponder it some more. Not sure the plot quite works. It does and it doesn't. Just as the romance works and it doesn't. But to be honest? I've always felt that way about Doctor Who. Felt the same way about last week's episode - which didn't quite work for me either.
Actually this plot arc works for me better than the Rose/Doctor arc did or Donna Noble/Doctor arc. The Donna Noble arc was a bit offensive, and don't get me started on Rose. So...that's not a problem. Also I like clever twists.
( spoilers on Doctor Who S6 and last episode. What bugged me. )
I may have to write a more lengthy review to truly figure out what worked and what didn't work for me. In short, still percolating in the brain.
3. The Good Wife continues to entertain me. ( vague spoilers )
4. Read that Tiger Beat Feminist Rant about GRR Martin's Song of Ice and Fire novels? And it made me realize that rants tend to make you look bug-shagging crazy, no matter how well-intentioned. Sad, but true. So apologies for all the crazy rants I've written in this journal about books, tv show, writers, etc. I don't know what came over me. Thankfully it was only temporary or at least I hope it was.
After reading the Tiger Beat rant, I'm half tempted to go back through my journal and delete all rants regardless of what they are about. (Although I'm guessing I probably already did that on a couple of them. The problem with me and rants or whines, is I come to my senses, read the thing, get horribly embarrassed, and delete it - along with all the comments. Which may not be the most mature way of handling it, but what the hey. ) I was deeply embarrassed for the poor woman. She sounds insane.
I mean, hello, if you hate the books that much - why did you read four of them? You'd think she'd stop with one, but nooo, she actually read all four. And they aren't exactly short books. We are talking the equivalent of 2000 pages with tiny print and not exactly skimmable (you'll get confused because Martin has a nasty habit of hiding future plot points in the weirdest places). (First book is about 876, second 996, third 1500 and some, fourth 696 or thereabouts). That's a heck of a lot of time to waste on something you hate, deeply offends you and makes you unhappy, don't you think? I mean granted I read the Buffy comics, but I did get a great deal of enjoyment out of some of them, not to mention loads of enjoyment out of snarking and making fun of some of them, and the one's I disliked? Were only abut 40 pages tops, mostly pictures, and cost less than 2 dollars a pop. And took less than an hour to read. Not quite the same thing. So this begs the question - why invest that much time in something that makes you miserable? And so what if other people love it? I mean people love tv shows I find offensive and despicable, but I'm smart enough to realize that they most likely don't see the same things I do when they watch them, so it really doesn't matter. Well, I'm smart enough to realize this when I'm a)not hormonal, and b) not irritable and therefore fairly sane. (In short not thinking with my emotions.)