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1. FB: If only we could replace all the stupid people in the world with cats.
Me: Sigh, yes. But then we'd be overrun with cats.

Granted some may not see the problem with this...but I doubt we have enough mice to feed all of them.

2. Co-worker: You know a show that saw recently that I really really love?
Me: Eh -
Co-worker: What We Do in The Shadows.
Me (sigh): yes, I've seen it. It's told in documentary style which doesn't work for me -
Co-worker: you should see this! It's hilarious. I literally peed in my pants from laughing so hard.
Me (okay more information than I needed): the first episode wasn't that funny -- I did try it.
Co-worker: it's like we saw different shows. I saw a middle episode.
Me: Well technically we did see different shows. I saw the first one, you saw the middle -- sitcoms are often hit or miss.
Co-worker: True, you must see another one, they have the star from the television series Limitless making a cameo.
Me (okay no idea who that is...as opposed to say someone actually famous such as Tilda Swinton.)

Co-worker likes to bully me into watching supernatural television series.

Considering three people on my flist are loving this series...maybe I'll give it another shot?

Co-worker: it's about vampires, living in Staten Island, what's not to love?

Yes, you'd have to be a New Yorker to understand that.

3. My workplace is trying to kill me. Although it's been trying to do that since well forever...all my workplaces have, actually. One gets used to it after a bit. So taking a personal day tomorrow to go to a friend's funeral. ( Read more... )

This brings me to something I read about the Avenger's Endgame today, that I found interesting and resonated with me. Actually that movie franchise did on multiple levels. Not all do.

From the writer's interview in this week's EW:

( spoilers on Thor's transformation )

4. More on the Avenger's interview...

( spoilers - Natasha )

( Captain America's final scene )

According to the interview they deliberately did things a certain way to leave various plot avenues open. In short everything in Avenger's Endgame was planned to the last letter and thought out over a three year period. And it shows. Which is why I loved it and found it to be narratively satisfying. I can handwave like the next person, but I'm picky about character narrative arcs.

This may explain my issues over the years with Doctor Who -- the character arcs on that series often defy logic.