Sarchasm - word for the day.

1. Word for the day...assuming it is one?

Sarchasm -- the gulf between an author's sarcastic wit and the readership/audience that doesn't get it.

Yep. This is me........and my readership.


2. Reading "Where did you go, Bernadette" -- which I keep forgetting that I'm reading. On my way to the train after work, I had to remind myself that I actually read something on the commute to work this morning, and what it was. This does not bode well for the book in question.

Sarchasm...the gulf between the writer's wit and me the reader, who is not finding it amusing, annoying yes, amusing no.

Maybe, like "Barry", it will get better? Barry got better. There are things that I start off disliking and thinking why am I bothering with this? I don't think of myself as masochistic? Life is truly too short to be this irritated and bored...then wham, oh my god, this is so frigging good, I can't believe how frigging good this is! Wow!

List of things this has happened on?

1. Breaking Bad
2. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
3. Game of Thrones (the books) -- which to be honest were sluggish, then book 3 got really frigging good, then sigh...and the television series was great, great, great, not, uhm..better, looking really good, oh dear...you just jumped the shark didn't you? Alrighty then.
4. The Wire
5. Angel
6. Mad Men

And I'm sure there are others.

3. Apparently both Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams had to deal with mental illness as a direct result of the social media attention during Game of Thrones. (Note to self, if I ever get famous, do not, repeat, do not spend any time on the internet.)

Maise Williams speaks on mental health as does Sophie Turner

4. Out of curiosity, can you think of any really good, flawless endings to television series?

After reading email from co-worker, who is uncritical of the things she loves, I realized this is not how I think. I'm critical of everything I love. The more I love it -- the more critical I will be. I'm critical of myself. I ask questions, think okay what worked, what didn't work for me, how do we improve on it, and what do I learn from this. I'm enjoy being critical of art and television and films. It's fun.
I don't understand not being critical at all.

Hmm...let's see endings that worked for me:
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Endings I am on the fence about, that I don't think worked, although others seem to:
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Endings that were abysmal...and did not work at all:
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