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1. Work week from hell is over. And the saga of the company who can't decide whether or not to go out of business continues. ( Read more... )
Whenever I'd whine to my Granny back in the 1990s, she'd invariably relate a sad tale about
one of our many relatives. Whose lives resembled the heroine of the flick Winter's Bone. They even lived in the same area.
Whinging doesn't go over well in my family. We bop each other on the head.
2. Fake spider is permanently gone. Very happy about this. No idea why. But I'm not one to look a gift horse in the mouth.
3. On the TV show front...have realized there's really only a handful of shows that I care about watching or would miss. If they disappeared, it would be okay. No fretting or pounding of the breast, no campaigns to save them. Not that I ever did this in regards to TV series or films or books for that matter. I'm not a good fan. I don't organize campaigns to save tv shows. I figure if the network wants to cancel them, that's life.
Something else will pop up to capture my interest eventually. Granted, it would be nice if the network let the writers know ahead of time - so they could give the series a decent ending. But 9 times out of 10 even if the series got its full run - it wouldn't get a decent ending. How many tv series have you seen that had satisfying endings? Maybe 2 or 3?
So it begs the question why bother wasting time to campaign for it to continue? Naive optimism?
Should be noted that I'm a fan of weird tv series and have seen more cancelled before their time tv shows than I want to think about.
TV shows with satisfying endings - I can't really think of any that had a "satisfying" ending. Can you?
TV series that I'd buy on DVD assuming I had the money and space...
* Once Upon A Time S1-2
* The Wire S1-5
* Breaking Bad S1-4
* Game of Thrones S2
* The Good Wife S1-4
* Doctor Who S3-5 and S7
* Torchwood
4. Making my way through Carrie Fisher's Shockaholic, which is rather interesting, in some respects more so than Wishful Drinking. She shines a bright light on our celebrity culture and how insanely we worship these people's lives. And how corrupting a culture that worships a prosperity doctrine, wealth, and power/fame can be. In some respects Shockaholic is a horror tale. Carrie's life is not one you'd envy. It's filled with posturing and evil marketing people.
There's one enlightening chapter on Michael Jackson, in which Fisher states that Michael was if anything asexual. He's involvement with small children was more about escaping his celebrity and fame than anything else. She points out that small children tend to be less prone to "fan worship" or "star-struck", they don't quite understand it yet. It may sound like a justification, but she makes quite a few valid points. And to be honest, I never bought the argument that Jackson was a pedophile. Mainly because I couldn't imagine him having sex with anyone. And I get how people can fall outside strict gender or sexual orientation boundaries. Our society is a bit freakish about sex. We all think that everyone's experience is ours. That if you are still a virgin at 50, 60, 100...there's something wrong with you. Or if you've slept with lots of people - you are a slut. Not true. People can't be defined that neatly. And not everyone is turned on by the same things.
At any rate her depiction of her friend Michael is oddly endearing and enlightening. Not what you'd expect.
5. Did watch Nashville finally. Better than expected. Connie Britton's voice reminds me a great deal of Reba McIntyre's and Hayden Pantierre sounds a lot like LeeAnne Rhimes with a bit of Taylor Swift thrown in, although she looks more like Lee-Anne.
I have mixed feelings about some of the music - but that's mainly because I'm not necessarily a country-music fan.
( vague spoilers )
On Revolution - haven't exactly given up on it. I have a whole slew of episodes DVR'd. Just haven't watched anything since the premiere. As one person on my flist noted, it reminds me a great deal of a Western, or someone using sci-fi to create a Western with some of the same, ahem, issues that the last person who attempted this mash-up ran into.
Revolution sorry to say has the some of the same flaws as Firefly did, although Firefly admittedly had more interesting characters and better dialogue. Both were comic-bookish and claiming not to be. Both attempted to mash science fiction with Westerns, only to end up with a sticky and at times silly mess. Don't get me wrong, I liked Firefly. I own it on DVD - all of it. And I don't own that many things on DVD. It was a gift. I didn't buy it myself (so there is that caveat). But I know it was deeply flawed series and don't blame Fox for cancelling it. Feel much the same way about Revolution. Bot are deeply flawed series by grown men who want to write 1950s Western TV shows like Have Gun Will Travel or Maverick and they can't! Ah, the good old days. We were reminiscing about the good old days before desk-top computers, when you did everything on carbon paper or paper. And used, gasp, type-writers. I can't decide if it was easier back then. Yes, and no. Technology has made some things easier and other things far more complicated and insane.
Sort of like well mashing up the old Western drama with science fiction. That's where we're at...we have the old mashed up with the new.
Whenever I'd whine to my Granny back in the 1990s, she'd invariably relate a sad tale about
one of our many relatives. Whose lives resembled the heroine of the flick Winter's Bone. They even lived in the same area.
Whinging doesn't go over well in my family. We bop each other on the head.
2. Fake spider is permanently gone. Very happy about this. No idea why. But I'm not one to look a gift horse in the mouth.
3. On the TV show front...have realized there's really only a handful of shows that I care about watching or would miss. If they disappeared, it would be okay. No fretting or pounding of the breast, no campaigns to save them. Not that I ever did this in regards to TV series or films or books for that matter. I'm not a good fan. I don't organize campaigns to save tv shows. I figure if the network wants to cancel them, that's life.
Something else will pop up to capture my interest eventually. Granted, it would be nice if the network let the writers know ahead of time - so they could give the series a decent ending. But 9 times out of 10 even if the series got its full run - it wouldn't get a decent ending. How many tv series have you seen that had satisfying endings? Maybe 2 or 3?
So it begs the question why bother wasting time to campaign for it to continue? Naive optimism?
Should be noted that I'm a fan of weird tv series and have seen more cancelled before their time tv shows than I want to think about.
TV shows with satisfying endings - I can't really think of any that had a "satisfying" ending. Can you?
TV series that I'd buy on DVD assuming I had the money and space...
* Once Upon A Time S1-2
* The Wire S1-5
* Breaking Bad S1-4
* Game of Thrones S2
* The Good Wife S1-4
* Doctor Who S3-5 and S7
* Torchwood
4. Making my way through Carrie Fisher's Shockaholic, which is rather interesting, in some respects more so than Wishful Drinking. She shines a bright light on our celebrity culture and how insanely we worship these people's lives. And how corrupting a culture that worships a prosperity doctrine, wealth, and power/fame can be. In some respects Shockaholic is a horror tale. Carrie's life is not one you'd envy. It's filled with posturing and evil marketing people.
There's one enlightening chapter on Michael Jackson, in which Fisher states that Michael was if anything asexual. He's involvement with small children was more about escaping his celebrity and fame than anything else. She points out that small children tend to be less prone to "fan worship" or "star-struck", they don't quite understand it yet. It may sound like a justification, but she makes quite a few valid points. And to be honest, I never bought the argument that Jackson was a pedophile. Mainly because I couldn't imagine him having sex with anyone. And I get how people can fall outside strict gender or sexual orientation boundaries. Our society is a bit freakish about sex. We all think that everyone's experience is ours. That if you are still a virgin at 50, 60, 100...there's something wrong with you. Or if you've slept with lots of people - you are a slut. Not true. People can't be defined that neatly. And not everyone is turned on by the same things.
At any rate her depiction of her friend Michael is oddly endearing and enlightening. Not what you'd expect.
5. Did watch Nashville finally. Better than expected. Connie Britton's voice reminds me a great deal of Reba McIntyre's and Hayden Pantierre sounds a lot like LeeAnne Rhimes with a bit of Taylor Swift thrown in, although she looks more like Lee-Anne.
I have mixed feelings about some of the music - but that's mainly because I'm not necessarily a country-music fan.
( vague spoilers )
On Revolution - haven't exactly given up on it. I have a whole slew of episodes DVR'd. Just haven't watched anything since the premiere. As one person on my flist noted, it reminds me a great deal of a Western, or someone using sci-fi to create a Western with some of the same, ahem, issues that the last person who attempted this mash-up ran into.
Revolution sorry to say has the some of the same flaws as Firefly did, although Firefly admittedly had more interesting characters and better dialogue. Both were comic-bookish and claiming not to be. Both attempted to mash science fiction with Westerns, only to end up with a sticky and at times silly mess. Don't get me wrong, I liked Firefly. I own it on DVD - all of it. And I don't own that many things on DVD. It was a gift. I didn't buy it myself (so there is that caveat). But I know it was deeply flawed series and don't blame Fox for cancelling it. Feel much the same way about Revolution. Bot are deeply flawed series by grown men who want to write 1950s Western TV shows like Have Gun Will Travel or Maverick and they can't! Ah, the good old days. We were reminiscing about the good old days before desk-top computers, when you did everything on carbon paper or paper. And used, gasp, type-writers. I can't decide if it was easier back then. Yes, and no. Technology has made some things easier and other things far more complicated and insane.
Sort of like well mashing up the old Western drama with science fiction. That's where we're at...we have the old mashed up with the new.