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1. Well...they turned the air on at work, so it's no longer 81 degrees and I no longer have to run the small desk fan (although I think I inadvertently left it running on Friday). Also my allergies have cleared up - combo of changing allergy meds from zyrtec to allegra, and spending three days away from the work environment. So no bronchitis and no longer sick.
2. Out of curiousity, checked out Mark Watches...I do that from time to time...
and the problem with it, is, I feel this overwhelming desire to drop evil snarky misleads. Anyone else feel this odd compulsion? Just me then. Felt it with Game of Thrones and Hunger Games too. All his predictions are so far off the chart - it's hilarious. I'm tempted to pop back in and read his two-part review of Becoming - it's going to blow this poor boy's mind! OTOH...admittedly, it was impossible to predict Spike's arc in S2 or any season for that matter. Actually Spike was guaranteed to throw everyone off - mainly because the character simply refused to do what the writer planned, so the writer often had no idea going into any season what his arc would actually be or how it would play out. It got very hard to accurately spoil that series because of well, Spike. Talk about your Trickster characters. Spike was the ultimate Trickster - he actually played a number on the writers. The perfect metaphor for free will vs. determinism.
( Whedon's discussions with his Trickster character Spike )
I love it when a character plays havoc with a writer's brain to the extent that he or she almost takes over, it's pure magic. It also makes a story highly unpredictable and sort of realistic. One character can change an entire story, throw it into all sorts of wonderful directions. One tricky character that the writer didn't see coming. That's why when I read Mark Watches review of School Hard - I burst out laughing. Dude. Game-changer?? Talk about understatement. You've really got no idea!
2. Out of curiousity, checked out Mark Watches...I do that from time to time...
and the problem with it, is, I feel this overwhelming desire to drop evil snarky misleads. Anyone else feel this odd compulsion? Just me then. Felt it with Game of Thrones and Hunger Games too. All his predictions are so far off the chart - it's hilarious. I'm tempted to pop back in and read his two-part review of Becoming - it's going to blow this poor boy's mind! OTOH...admittedly, it was impossible to predict Spike's arc in S2 or any season for that matter. Actually Spike was guaranteed to throw everyone off - mainly because the character simply refused to do what the writer planned, so the writer often had no idea going into any season what his arc would actually be or how it would play out. It got very hard to accurately spoil that series because of well, Spike. Talk about your Trickster characters. Spike was the ultimate Trickster - he actually played a number on the writers. The perfect metaphor for free will vs. determinism.
( Whedon's discussions with his Trickster character Spike )
I love it when a character plays havoc with a writer's brain to the extent that he or she almost takes over, it's pure magic. It also makes a story highly unpredictable and sort of realistic. One character can change an entire story, throw it into all sorts of wonderful directions. One tricky character that the writer didn't see coming. That's why when I read Mark Watches review of School Hard - I burst out laughing. Dude. Game-changer?? Talk about understatement. You've really got no idea!