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Sep. 26th, 2012 06:47 pmI feel like Alexander and the Terrible No Good Horrible Day, albeit, to be fair, it falls more into death by tiny paper cuts day. Not melodramatic in the least. So won't bore with details. Myself or you. Some days are worth forgetting about. If I write about it, I won't forget it.
Has everyone seen Neil Gaiman's oral storytelling at The Moth? Best thing I've seen him write. It made me laugh. I like Gaiman's blog more than his fiction, which is odd. It's more emotional and resonates more - while his fiction distances me, and I feel as if I'm relating to characters from miles and miles away.
Flist (the five percent that is left, which is roughly 15 people) is commenting on the deadness of lj, so it's not just me then? This is reassuring. I was beginning to think half my flist had filtered me out. Nope. They just scampered off to tumblr, apparently. Which I don't understand. I've checked out tumblr. The appeal is completely lost on me. Can't follow it at all. But so is the appeal of Twitter and Facebook. Things haven't improved with new technology, they've just gotten more cluttered and busy. More meaningless babble and chatter, less content.
Not feeling fannish at all at the moment. Talked myself out of buying the DVDs to Once Upon a Time, because it's not like I watched the reruns when they aired this summer. One watch was enough for me apparently. I love the narrative style of the series. I love the twisty fairy tales. I find many of the supporting characters interesting, and do adore Rumple and Emma. But...there's something lacking, and the four characters that are the leads and get most of the focus are not that interesting: Regina, Snow White, Charming, and Henry. If we could just have a bit less of them...So the series, while highly entertaining and engrossing, does not quite have the same magic as Buffy did.
I miss Buffy. I know there are comics. But they didn't work for me for various reasons. I tried them, I tried hard to like them, but it is what it is. I also miss being fannish about something...but nothing quite clicks. Maybe that's a good thing? I do on occasion check out Mark Watches. While I do have issues with the person ( I think he's disingenuous in the extreme and understand completely why various people on my flist despise him), I do on occasion agree with him. His take on Killer in Me is not off the mark. He liked the episode better than I did, but most people did. And he is right - Whedon and his writers have an eerie pattern of punishing characters whenever they kiss or have sex. I'm guessing it has to do with the slasher horror trope that Whedon is obsessed with mocking and paying homage to. Because that does happen in the slasher horror movie trope. Kevin Williamson also mocked this trope in his Scream flicks. You have sex - you die. Usually right after the fact. When watching anything by Joss Whedon it is probably good to keep in mind that the man is a horror flick critic and obsessed with the genre. Well that and Westerns. Also superhero comic books. But you won't pick up on it, unless you've seen some of the films he's critiquing, read the comic books, and the Westerns - particularly during the 1980s and 1990s.
Has everyone seen Neil Gaiman's oral storytelling at The Moth? Best thing I've seen him write. It made me laugh. I like Gaiman's blog more than his fiction, which is odd. It's more emotional and resonates more - while his fiction distances me, and I feel as if I'm relating to characters from miles and miles away.
Flist (the five percent that is left, which is roughly 15 people) is commenting on the deadness of lj, so it's not just me then? This is reassuring. I was beginning to think half my flist had filtered me out. Nope. They just scampered off to tumblr, apparently. Which I don't understand. I've checked out tumblr. The appeal is completely lost on me. Can't follow it at all. But so is the appeal of Twitter and Facebook. Things haven't improved with new technology, they've just gotten more cluttered and busy. More meaningless babble and chatter, less content.
Not feeling fannish at all at the moment. Talked myself out of buying the DVDs to Once Upon a Time, because it's not like I watched the reruns when they aired this summer. One watch was enough for me apparently. I love the narrative style of the series. I love the twisty fairy tales. I find many of the supporting characters interesting, and do adore Rumple and Emma. But...there's something lacking, and the four characters that are the leads and get most of the focus are not that interesting: Regina, Snow White, Charming, and Henry. If we could just have a bit less of them...So the series, while highly entertaining and engrossing, does not quite have the same magic as Buffy did.
I miss Buffy. I know there are comics. But they didn't work for me for various reasons. I tried them, I tried hard to like them, but it is what it is. I also miss being fannish about something...but nothing quite clicks. Maybe that's a good thing? I do on occasion check out Mark Watches. While I do have issues with the person ( I think he's disingenuous in the extreme and understand completely why various people on my flist despise him), I do on occasion agree with him. His take on Killer in Me is not off the mark. He liked the episode better than I did, but most people did. And he is right - Whedon and his writers have an eerie pattern of punishing characters whenever they kiss or have sex. I'm guessing it has to do with the slasher horror trope that Whedon is obsessed with mocking and paying homage to. Because that does happen in the slasher horror movie trope. Kevin Williamson also mocked this trope in his Scream flicks. You have sex - you die. Usually right after the fact. When watching anything by Joss Whedon it is probably good to keep in mind that the man is a horror flick critic and obsessed with the genre. Well that and Westerns. Also superhero comic books. But you won't pick up on it, unless you've seen some of the films he's critiquing, read the comic books, and the Westerns - particularly during the 1980s and 1990s.