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Nov. 18th, 2014 10:14 pm1. The polar vortex is baaaack!!! It's getting into the 20s in NYC and Hilton Head, SC.
Meanwhile the areas around the great lakes are getting lots of snow. (Really envy my kid brother who is living it up in a one bedroom apt in Hawaii...with his daughter and wife, and her aloha line, Language of Birds, beautiful cloths, but too rich for my blood at $350 buckeroos, and well I'm over 40, six foot with hips and a bust.
2. Really enjoying the latest Courtney Milan Unraveled - which provides a neat twist on the old tortured/traumatized hero and heroine with a bad boy complex trope.
He's not exactly a bad boy, and she's figured out the hard way that while she likes a bit of danger, she'd rather find a guy who was not dangerous to her. The hero reminds me a bit of Christian Grey in 50 Shades of Grey, except a heck of a lot better developed, more interesting, and ahem, likable. Same trope though. I'm admittedly a fan of the trope - not for the same reasons a lot of women are...I find the character trope interesting, not likable. (ie. I have no interest in dating tortured heroes or heroes with insane amounts of baggage, but they make fascinating fictional characters. The guys I'd date - I'd find incredibly boring to read or for that matter write about. It always bewilders me when I read reviews of these books, and women state - oh I love him, I want to date him, or I hate him - he'd make a horrible boyfriend. I keep thinking - uh, he's fictional, not real. Why do you care? Have the same reaction to people regarding actors - "oh he's gorgeous, I love him - damn he has a girlfriend or oh, gross he's gay, I can't have him - I don't want to follow him any more" - seriously? It's not like you'd be dating him if he were available. He's a celebrity, he doesn't know you exist. And if he meets you, you know more about him than he does you - so awkward. Plus he knows your a fan - so he's going to have his guard up and play a part. So, who cares who he is dating or what he's doing in his life - it has absolutely no bearing on the role he's playing - hello, ACTING. Seriously? This isn't rocket science. Some people bewilder me.)
3. Gotham and Marvel Agents of Shield - I like Gotham better, mainly because I prefer the noir comic trope to the cheesy superhero comic trope, unless of course it was the X-men (which was a bit of a combination of both at various times).
Agents of Shield has suckered me in - because I'm a sucker for the double agent trope or the ambiguous guy, (Agent Ward) - who I can't quite figure out. The character reminds me a great deal of Spike, Angel, and the guy Adam Baldwin portrayed on Firefly. It's a trope Mutant Enemy excels at and Whedon rather likes, which may explain why I keep watching whatever that group writes and produces. Because the character is neither hero nor anti-hero, sort of wades in between the two zones, and very noirish - he's the typical noir hero, wading in that grey zone, and with a tortured childhood or a made-up one. I apparently don't care if the actor is not that great. Although Brett Dalton isn't bad either (hello, I watch General Hospital and Revenge - Dalton is a better actor than well roughly the entire cast of Revenge, except for Nolan and Emily.) And unlike most of comic book serials, it doesn't focus on a superhero but on an ensemble, so more interesting. Gotham is equally interesting for that reason. While Gotham, so far, isn't quite playing into any of my story kinks, it is noir - which is a genre I adore. And it's unpredictable and twisty.
Barbara, Jim Gordon's girl friend, for example, is having an affair with one of the female cops that Jim is working with. And we get to watch Cat Woman and Bat Man as kids playing at the Wayne Manor.
4. About thisclose to giving up on Revenge. I don't like anyone but Nolan.
I think it may be dead in the water anyhow, the ratings are sinking. They really should have killed Madeline Stowe's Victoria off in the first season. Oh well, at least Charlotte left again...one down, just five characters to go...
Meanwhile the areas around the great lakes are getting lots of snow. (Really envy my kid brother who is living it up in a one bedroom apt in Hawaii...with his daughter and wife, and her aloha line, Language of Birds, beautiful cloths, but too rich for my blood at $350 buckeroos, and well I'm over 40, six foot with hips and a bust.
2. Really enjoying the latest Courtney Milan Unraveled - which provides a neat twist on the old tortured/traumatized hero and heroine with a bad boy complex trope.
He's not exactly a bad boy, and she's figured out the hard way that while she likes a bit of danger, she'd rather find a guy who was not dangerous to her. The hero reminds me a bit of Christian Grey in 50 Shades of Grey, except a heck of a lot better developed, more interesting, and ahem, likable. Same trope though. I'm admittedly a fan of the trope - not for the same reasons a lot of women are...I find the character trope interesting, not likable. (ie. I have no interest in dating tortured heroes or heroes with insane amounts of baggage, but they make fascinating fictional characters. The guys I'd date - I'd find incredibly boring to read or for that matter write about. It always bewilders me when I read reviews of these books, and women state - oh I love him, I want to date him, or I hate him - he'd make a horrible boyfriend. I keep thinking - uh, he's fictional, not real. Why do you care? Have the same reaction to people regarding actors - "oh he's gorgeous, I love him - damn he has a girlfriend or oh, gross he's gay, I can't have him - I don't want to follow him any more" - seriously? It's not like you'd be dating him if he were available. He's a celebrity, he doesn't know you exist. And if he meets you, you know more about him than he does you - so awkward. Plus he knows your a fan - so he's going to have his guard up and play a part. So, who cares who he is dating or what he's doing in his life - it has absolutely no bearing on the role he's playing - hello, ACTING. Seriously? This isn't rocket science. Some people bewilder me.)
3. Gotham and Marvel Agents of Shield - I like Gotham better, mainly because I prefer the noir comic trope to the cheesy superhero comic trope, unless of course it was the X-men (which was a bit of a combination of both at various times).
Agents of Shield has suckered me in - because I'm a sucker for the double agent trope or the ambiguous guy, (Agent Ward) - who I can't quite figure out. The character reminds me a great deal of Spike, Angel, and the guy Adam Baldwin portrayed on Firefly. It's a trope Mutant Enemy excels at and Whedon rather likes, which may explain why I keep watching whatever that group writes and produces. Because the character is neither hero nor anti-hero, sort of wades in between the two zones, and very noirish - he's the typical noir hero, wading in that grey zone, and with a tortured childhood or a made-up one. I apparently don't care if the actor is not that great. Although Brett Dalton isn't bad either (hello, I watch General Hospital and Revenge - Dalton is a better actor than well roughly the entire cast of Revenge, except for Nolan and Emily.) And unlike most of comic book serials, it doesn't focus on a superhero but on an ensemble, so more interesting. Gotham is equally interesting for that reason. While Gotham, so far, isn't quite playing into any of my story kinks, it is noir - which is a genre I adore. And it's unpredictable and twisty.
Barbara, Jim Gordon's girl friend, for example, is having an affair with one of the female cops that Jim is working with. And we get to watch Cat Woman and Bat Man as kids playing at the Wayne Manor.
4. About thisclose to giving up on Revenge. I don't like anyone but Nolan.
I think it may be dead in the water anyhow, the ratings are sinking. They really should have killed Madeline Stowe's Victoria off in the first season. Oh well, at least Charlotte left again...one down, just five characters to go...