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Sep. 25th, 2012 10:44 pmAfter spending an entire day trying to wake up, or just stay awake, now, when it is time for bed, I'm awake?
Finished watching episode 2 of Revolution - which is unfortunately a bit too predictable for its own good. I feel like I've seen or read this story somewhere before, there's the oddest feeling of deja-vue. And I'm not surprised by any of the twists or turns. I should be.
The other problem with it is the central character, "Charlie", isn't interesting and the actress isn't charismatic. She feels like the poor man's Jennifer Lawrence or what the casting agency hunted down when they were told to find someone who was like Jennifer Lawrence. You know there's a problem when the little girl portraying the same part emotes more than adult version. Elizabeth Mitchell who plays her mother, and the actress portraying Doctor Lydia on the other hand do have screen presence and I wish I could see more of both and the story centered more on both. Not sure how much longer I'm going to stick with this...I just keep feeling like I've read the comic book already.
This season's Doctor Who isn't thrilling me for some reason. (Yet I did sort of like this week's episode, more than some and less than others.) ( Doctor Who )
In other news, The People of Forever Are Not Afraid is a fascinating book. Interesting narrative structure - which I want to call post-modern stream of consciousness hyper-realism. It is told in three different points of view, all first person close, then omniscient, then back again to first person close. And the style does a great job of depicting the mindset of someone serving in the military. It pulls you into the minds of the characters. You can feel monotony, and the madness of what they are being made to do. And how meaningless it feels. This sense of inertia. And despair. Yet, sparked with hope.
Takes a while to read though. These sort of books often do. Also feels a lot like a memoir, the narrative has a deeply personal aspect to it, as if the writer is attempting to understand something through her writing, while communicating it to her audience. I feel like I'm inside the writer's dreams, or more likely nightmares.
On a whim, I bought Carrie Fisher's latest memoir - "Shockalocic" about her time on Star Wars and in Hollywood during the late 1970s and 1980s. Mainly because I'm a pop culture junkie and have deep nostalgic feelings towards everything "Star Wars" related. You either get that or you really don't. At any rate, as I stated in another post, I tend to get obsessed by everything to do with deeply flawed visual masterpieces such as Star Wars, Farscape, Buffy. I don't know why.
Finished watching episode 2 of Revolution - which is unfortunately a bit too predictable for its own good. I feel like I've seen or read this story somewhere before, there's the oddest feeling of deja-vue. And I'm not surprised by any of the twists or turns. I should be.
The other problem with it is the central character, "Charlie", isn't interesting and the actress isn't charismatic. She feels like the poor man's Jennifer Lawrence or what the casting agency hunted down when they were told to find someone who was like Jennifer Lawrence. You know there's a problem when the little girl portraying the same part emotes more than adult version. Elizabeth Mitchell who plays her mother, and the actress portraying Doctor Lydia on the other hand do have screen presence and I wish I could see more of both and the story centered more on both. Not sure how much longer I'm going to stick with this...I just keep feeling like I've read the comic book already.
This season's Doctor Who isn't thrilling me for some reason. (Yet I did sort of like this week's episode, more than some and less than others.) ( Doctor Who )
In other news, The People of Forever Are Not Afraid is a fascinating book. Interesting narrative structure - which I want to call post-modern stream of consciousness hyper-realism. It is told in three different points of view, all first person close, then omniscient, then back again to first person close. And the style does a great job of depicting the mindset of someone serving in the military. It pulls you into the minds of the characters. You can feel monotony, and the madness of what they are being made to do. And how meaningless it feels. This sense of inertia. And despair. Yet, sparked with hope.
Takes a while to read though. These sort of books often do. Also feels a lot like a memoir, the narrative has a deeply personal aspect to it, as if the writer is attempting to understand something through her writing, while communicating it to her audience. I feel like I'm inside the writer's dreams, or more likely nightmares.
On a whim, I bought Carrie Fisher's latest memoir - "Shockalocic" about her time on Star Wars and in Hollywood during the late 1970s and 1980s. Mainly because I'm a pop culture junkie and have deep nostalgic feelings towards everything "Star Wars" related. You either get that or you really don't. At any rate, as I stated in another post, I tend to get obsessed by everything to do with deeply flawed visual masterpieces such as Star Wars, Farscape, Buffy. I don't know why.