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1. So, flirting with watching Anime on Hulu and Netflix over the weekend. But there's lot a million to choose from. Any recs? The one's I am considering?

Black Butler
Full Metal Alchemist (assuming I can find a dubbed version, I hate reading subtitles with anime, it gives me a headache. I think it's that words over animation don't work well? (shrugs) ).
Cowboy BeeBop
Gundam ?

Suggestions? Note, I like powerful female characters, and tend to swing more towards het over LGBT romance, but can go with male/male or male/female, female/female? Not as into. I like male and female characters in stories.

Also more adult, than kid. So adult characters over just teens if possible?

Any anime fans?

(If you hate anime - scroll on by. Don't have the patience. Difficult week.)

2. Given up on posting on GH Spoiler Fan Board. Just lurking now, for the spoilers. Two of the moderators pushed my patience today to its limit. They don't like it when people disagree with them or view something differently, and try to "bully" them into changing their mind. I don't like bullies.

Moderator/Admin: Grade Today's Show

Me: F for frustrating. Felt it dragged. Not helped by frustrating day at work. Also my mother and I have issues watching the Altziemer's storyline because my Dad has recently been diagnosed with it.
And had to fast-forward a lot. Depise the Ferncliff bits. Why are Carly's hair and makeup perfect and what do the hair and makeup people have against Maxie?

Moderator: How dare you rate it an F. Why an F? Other members loved it. And what problem do you have with Maxie's hair, I think it's amazing. Also it's finally moving forward!

Me: Eh..to each their own? If that big an issue I'll raise it to a C. I just felt it dragged.

Moderator 2: Don't do us any favors! You rated it badly based on your personal life and it had nothing to do with the show!!

Me: Gee. I rated it the way I did because I felt the episode drug. And thank you so much for your compassion and understanding towards my personal issues. Greatly appreciated.

Bye now. And no longer bothering to tell you what I think, since you just want people to parrot back your own views.

(They think they can bully me into cursing. I've been on social media a long time -- the best way to deal with a bully is to say how lovely they are, how nice they've been, thank them for their kindness and understanding. Then leave the conversation completely. The bully looks like a bully and an idiot. The other method is to patronize and condescend to them. Or? Just leave. Actually just leaving works best.)

(And I turned off notifications for the post, and hid her notification and refused to look at her response and stopped posting. It's good for spoilers, but the moderators are bullies and bit insane. Then again, it is a Facebook posting board for a daytime soap opera fandom, so what did I expect? Soap fans are notorious for their trollish behavior online. So too are comic books fans. It's why I've swung clear of them for the most part. I miss the Voy ATPOBTVS board, it had cool moderators, who were opposed to censorship and didn't bully people. Also it was harder to bully folks on Voy. You didn't notifications. You'd have to physically visit the board and click on the link. After a while, I would just avoid certain posters responses regarding certain characters or episodes, and I was fine. FB sends you notifications (because it is impossible to follow otherwise).)

I've 0 patience for this crap now. People can be assholes.

3. Thinking about watching Suits and Mozart in the Jungle on Amazon Prime. Yellowstone has gotten a bit on the dark side...and I can't even. Also, Wyonana Earp, assuming S2 has made it to the US Netflix yet. Hadn't when I last checked. I wonder if it might be on Hulu?

4. May need a new phone, after last upgrade, it's been freezing on me. Stupid Apple Software Updates that are useless. I honestly think there is a place in hell reserved for software engineers. (No, I don't, since I don't believe in hell -- you sort have to believe in hell for their to be a place in it for software engineers...don't you?)

5. MD introduced me to the folk group Cowboy Junkies on FB, while CW introduced me to Erasure on FB.
I think I may like Erasure better. But if I had to go to a concert? Cowboy Junkies. Rock Concerts - I find headache inducing.

Any new music to recommend? Try to stay away from Electrica, Rap, and Hip Hop...I'm picky on those three.

Doctor Who Shada...

1. Oh forgot to mention in last post that Apple sent me the Powerbeats3 Wireless earphones, priced at $199.99 as a gift for their failure to help me. So...hmmm. Jut no clue how to work them.

2. Now, I'm watching this odd episode of Doctor Who written by Douglas Adams, from the 1970s, at least I think it is the 1970s, it might be the 80s. But it looks like the 70s. Entitled Shada, and has the curly haired Doctor that I remember from the 70s. (I watched it briefly in the 70s on PBS before we moved, and I found it too scary (because I was 8 or 9 at the time). [ETA: definitely the 70s Doctor, Paul Walker? The one with the scarf.]

Oh wait..it's animated. Why is it animated??? I knew it was supposed to be animated, but it wasn't and now, all of a sudden...I looked away for a moment from the Doctor rowing a boat with his companion discussing Issac Newton of all things, and suddenly it was animated. Rewind. Oh the professor is reading HG Wells The Time Machine (which is a crappy book by the way). "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction" -- ie logic and causal relationships - The Doctor tells us for no apparent reason whatsoever (I'm guessing it's the THEME of the episode). His companion discusses Spring, but it is October, he tells her. (I don't know looks like Spring or Summer to me.) She thinks they were coming for May Week. She's confused. So is the Tardis he says...and the audience, I think, ie. me. There's no changing colors of trees that I can see - and the grass is insanely green. Then we leave the pastoral scene and all of a sudden it is animated...not clear transition or anything. Sigh. Douglas Adams sense of humor. Sigh.

Okay the Doctor and his companion with the funky and somewhat ugly white and read dress, and the weird name aren't animated. Nor is the Professor. Just the guy looking for them on the bicycle.

This is just weird. And oh so seventies...in that it is cheesy, bad hair and clothing (the 70s had no fashion or design sense whatsoever) and filled with iconoclastic philosophizing.

So...the Buffy Reboot appears to be actually happening now?

Apparently all it took was for Joss Whedon to get booted out of the Marvel-verse and the DC-verse, to go back to his own verse. They considered rebooting Firefly in 2017, but it's harder to reboot -- I think because too short lived and too small a fan base? (Apparently, he's not interested in going back there again?? I don't know. You'd think he would reboot that one first??)

From sueworld, got the link:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Series Reboot in Works with Black Female Lead and Monica-Owusu Breen and Joss Whedon Producing

One of the most beloved TV series of the past two decades, Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer, is making a comeback. A reboot of the supernatural drama is in development at Fox 21 TV Studios, the cable/streaming division of 20th Century Fox TV, the studios behind the original series, which ran for seven seasons, first on the WB and then on UPN.

Midnight, Texas creator Monica Owusu-Breen has been tapped as writer, executive producer and showrunner of the new Buffy the Vampire Slayer, with the original series’ creator and showrunner Whedon set to executive produce alongside original series’ exec producers Gail Berman, Fran Kazui and Kaz Kazui as well as Joe Earley from Berman’s Jackal Group.

The new version, which will be pitched to streaming and cable networks this summer, will be contemporary, building on the mythology of the original. Per the producers: “Like our world, it will be richly diverse, and like the original, some aspects of the series could be seen as metaphors for issues facing us all today.”

According to sources, the diversity in the show’s description reflects the producers’ intention for the new slayer to be African American. The sources cautioned that the project is still in nascent stages with no script, and many details are still in flux.

Hmmm...IDK...this could be a good or bad thing. 98% of it depends on the writing. And Midnight, Texas and Marvel Agents of Shield were poorly written series that put me to sleep. I gave up on both really quickly. (It is worth noting that the first season of Buffy was hardly stellar. It didn't start taking off until the Second and Third Seasons.)

Also, why can't they come up with new series? Why reboot it?

OTOH...I am admittedly curious to see how they'd reboot it. Would they keep the same characters and dynamic, except with different actors and a more diverse cast? Could genders be flipped? How about LGBTQ casting and relationships? (You have to have diverse casting and diverse sexuality now, if you want anyone under the age of forty-five to watch. Gen X and the Baby Boomers grew up with all-white casting, the millenials grew up with diversified casting and have no patience for television shows that do not reflect the world we see daily. (Thank god). We had no choices. (Hello? Twelve Channels, maybe Twenty-Five if that in the 1970s-2005. Now we have over a million. ) They do.)

This could be really interesting.

Instead of a Single Mom raising Buffy, have a single Dad.
Giles be a female Watcher.
Flip the Genders on Xander and Willow.
Also Flip the Genders on Angel, Spike, Darla, and Drusilla.
Make it kinkier -- because if it goes on streaming, you can get away with that.
Have Buffy in College instead of high-school, and in a more urban environment.

There's possibilities.

I'm beginning to understand why they are wrapping up the Buffy comic verse now. (Although, the other reason is because sales were most likely dwindling. I could tell. They mentioned a Spike/Willow comic which never happened. And the number of issues for S11 dwindled, as they did for S12. Interest began to wane.)

Streaming also changes the whole story-telling dynamic. Shorter seasons. Higher production quality. More sex. Darker content. Older target audience. And no waiting between episodes. You can binge.

Mixed feelings.

That said? I wouldn't hold my breath. They teased about a Firefly reboot a year ago, after all. And someone has to pick it up (Buffy not Firefly). Buffy isn't as easy to reboot as it looks, it has a huge and rather entrenched fanbase who are all quite attached to the actors who'd formerly played the roles. You'd have to either attract new viewers and/or convince the existing ones to give it a try. Add to this, quite a few of those fans have become disillusioned by Joss Whedon, but still love Buffy and everything else involved with Buffy BUT Whedon. So...if the reboot only has Whedon and the executive producers of the original attached...the fans may not come aboard.

So, we shall see what happens. Don't get your hopes up though...or for that matter get too upset over it. Nothing is definite until we get an actual air date.

Does seem that after a long silence, and a lot of missteps, Whedon suddenly has a lot of interesting new balls in the air. A female detective series with an odd Swede-repelling name on Freeform. Some bizarre female action Victorian Steam Punk series on HBO, and now a Buffy reboot on streaming. He certainly landed on his feet? Didn't he? And been busy to boot.