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Yesterday was a warm fall day, sky a crystal blue, so I took a long walk in Prospect Park and watched children feeding geese, swans, and ducks in the lake. Today, is much cooler and a bit overcast - it feels like it wants to rain, the clouds are looming heavy and dark overhead.
Been quite irritable of late - due to a high sugar count, so am attempting to detox. I'm highly sensitive to sugar - so need to be more careful than most. Probably should just treat it as an addiction and go off entirely, but that's easier said than done. It's in everything. And well, I also suffer from low-blood sugar - so feel ill when I don't have any. So scaling back to just nuts, occasional fruit, and carrots for sugar.
No baked goods and no more chocolate.
On the television front?
1. I've caught up on Marvel Agents of Shield, which while better than expected in some respects, is still a wee bit disappointing in others. I keep wishing television writers would be a bit more clever and innovative in their narratives and less into rehashing old tropes. It's a shame, but the most innovative of the Mutant Enemy series was probably either Dollhouse or Firefly, while the most entertainingly innovative was Buffy. SHIELD just can't quite break out of the safe model its stuck in.
While there are few tropes that Mutant Enemy does well and/or I apparently have a big weakness for, they don't seem to have anything new to say about them. I'm hoping I'm wrong about this -( spoilers for last season and first four episodes of this season )
2. Constantine - closer to the DC comics version than the Keanu Reeves film of the same name, as result a heck of a lot more interesting. He reminds me a bit of Spike or Bryan Lynch and James Marster's version of Spike. Definitely one of my favorite character tropes - plus, I like the actor and the look of the character (which is right out of the Hellblazer comics.). The mythology and other characters, however, not so much. Although Jeremy Davis - is interesting. Not a fan of Judeo/Christian mythology - aka Angels/Demons, find it to be a bit silly and overdone. Seriously there's only so much you can do with this trope before you fall into cliche territory. It is my main problem with SPN and Sleepy Hollow - and why I couldn't quite fall in love with either. The only two series that handled the demon thing well in my opinion were Buffy and Angel, in part because they kept away from angels, which is when things get silly. To be fair - SPN had a nice dark, noirish take on Angels reminiscent of Phillip K. Pullman's His Dark Materials series. But that show also has a rather dark and noirish take bordering on misogynistic towards women. Which after a while, became problematic and I gave up. That's the problem with the noir horror genre - (the misogyny) it doesn't handle/depict female characters well. Also, there's all the manpain, which gets wearing after a bit.
Anyhow, it's too soon to tell which direction Constantine will go. I know they retooled the series after the pilot. Apparently they discovered the female character introduced in the pilot episode didn't work, and decided to write her out in the first episode - and introduce a new female character based more closely on the comics.
And since the main character hits my story kinks hard and I sort of like the actor portraying him - I'll probably stick with it for a while. Like I said, he reminds me of Angel S5 and Buffy S7 Spike, and I have a huge weakness for that character trope. As well as Ripper(Giles) and Dark Wesley -another character trope that I have a weakness for.
What's it about? ( spoilers )
3. Doctor Who - hmmm... the preview for next week looked more interesting than this week's episode, which felt a bit silly. I have to remind myself that this is a television series that is directed towards children and families after all. The Eleven Arc made me sort of forget that, it was more adult.
( spoilers )
Been quite irritable of late - due to a high sugar count, so am attempting to detox. I'm highly sensitive to sugar - so need to be more careful than most. Probably should just treat it as an addiction and go off entirely, but that's easier said than done. It's in everything. And well, I also suffer from low-blood sugar - so feel ill when I don't have any. So scaling back to just nuts, occasional fruit, and carrots for sugar.
No baked goods and no more chocolate.
On the television front?
1. I've caught up on Marvel Agents of Shield, which while better than expected in some respects, is still a wee bit disappointing in others. I keep wishing television writers would be a bit more clever and innovative in their narratives and less into rehashing old tropes. It's a shame, but the most innovative of the Mutant Enemy series was probably either Dollhouse or Firefly, while the most entertainingly innovative was Buffy. SHIELD just can't quite break out of the safe model its stuck in.
While there are few tropes that Mutant Enemy does well and/or I apparently have a big weakness for, they don't seem to have anything new to say about them. I'm hoping I'm wrong about this -( spoilers for last season and first four episodes of this season )
2. Constantine - closer to the DC comics version than the Keanu Reeves film of the same name, as result a heck of a lot more interesting. He reminds me a bit of Spike or Bryan Lynch and James Marster's version of Spike. Definitely one of my favorite character tropes - plus, I like the actor and the look of the character (which is right out of the Hellblazer comics.). The mythology and other characters, however, not so much. Although Jeremy Davis - is interesting. Not a fan of Judeo/Christian mythology - aka Angels/Demons, find it to be a bit silly and overdone. Seriously there's only so much you can do with this trope before you fall into cliche territory. It is my main problem with SPN and Sleepy Hollow - and why I couldn't quite fall in love with either. The only two series that handled the demon thing well in my opinion were Buffy and Angel, in part because they kept away from angels, which is when things get silly. To be fair - SPN had a nice dark, noirish take on Angels reminiscent of Phillip K. Pullman's His Dark Materials series. But that show also has a rather dark and noirish take bordering on misogynistic towards women. Which after a while, became problematic and I gave up. That's the problem with the noir horror genre - (the misogyny) it doesn't handle/depict female characters well. Also, there's all the manpain, which gets wearing after a bit.
Anyhow, it's too soon to tell which direction Constantine will go. I know they retooled the series after the pilot. Apparently they discovered the female character introduced in the pilot episode didn't work, and decided to write her out in the first episode - and introduce a new female character based more closely on the comics.
And since the main character hits my story kinks hard and I sort of like the actor portraying him - I'll probably stick with it for a while. Like I said, he reminds me of Angel S5 and Buffy S7 Spike, and I have a huge weakness for that character trope. As well as Ripper(Giles) and Dark Wesley -another character trope that I have a weakness for.
What's it about? ( spoilers )
3. Doctor Who - hmmm... the preview for next week looked more interesting than this week's episode, which felt a bit silly. I have to remind myself that this is a television series that is directed towards children and families after all. The Eleven Arc made me sort of forget that, it was more adult.
( spoilers )