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Feb. 19th, 2020 07:29 pmMy goal is to make it towards bed by 9pm tonight. Let's see if that happens. I think I'm suffering from a combination of stress, dehydration and sleep deprivation. I ach all over today. Was extremely tired. And having troubles focusing. Also, I'm trying to drink a lot of water.
As an aside - I have a love/hate relationship with the internet. I worry about alienating folks at the same time, I'm thinking, why the frakking heck should I care, why do they care? People offend/alienate/annoy me all the time. It's as if I'm furious at my own anxiety and determined to take it out on the cause?
Anyhow, television reviews...for what it's worth.
1. First, I explained to a Chidi recently that scholars had written journal articles and presentations on Buffy, and taught courses. He stared at me as if I were crazy. Of course he didn't really check it out in the later seasons, which he heard were more interesting.
Anyhow, here is yet another analysis of the Spike/Buffy relationship in S6 - The Disturbing Forgotten Scene in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Six - for scholars it might say something new, but not folks who have been in the fandom for twenty years, and watched it live and debated it live in 2002. Also what forgotten scene?
I honestly think there is a huge gap between the people who binge-watched, streamed or watched Buffy on DVDs, and those who watched it as it aired, with often huge gaps between episodes and commercials. It's not the same experience at all.
2. Ragnarok - the Norwegian series by way of Denmark or the Danes, which apparently stirred quite a bit of controversy in Norway. It's intriguing but not very good. The acting is...disappointing. Although, it is interesting that actors in other countries don't look like they stepped off of a model cover shoot the way they do in the US. Does the US just have better makeup artists and production design? Is it a camera editing thing? I don't know why the people aren't as pretty and flawless looking in imports...with the exception of the Korean imports, in which they are actually as pretty if not prettier.
It's an odd series -- has a very strong pro-environment, anti-corporation message. But alas, the plot is a bit sluggish, and it's hard to care that much about the characters. I was the most interested in Magna aka Thor's brother, Lauritas -- who I think might be Loki. But they never really went anywhere with it. He's queer, and unashamed of it. He was the most interesting character in the series, with the exception of Isolde who was killed off in the first episode. You know the television show has a problem when the most interesting female character is killed off in the first episode, and other two teen women are hard to tell apart. I didn't like any of the remaining female characters.
The series also comes across as ever-so-slightly sexist or misogynistic. Which is a problem. From the reviews I read, I wasn't the only one who picked up on it.
In other words? Stick with Marvel.
3. Locke and Key based on the best selling horror comic. This even had cameo's by the authors of the horror comic, much like Stephen King's adapted novels often had a cameo from King. Joe Hill by the way looks a lot like his father, if I didn't know better, I'd have thought it was Stephen King.
The television series is creepy. But not quite out there enough. I think it is hard to replicate the nuttiness of the comics. Although during a second season they might do it?
The biggest weakness was the uneven writing in regards to the demon or bad guy. That often felt a bit contrived in places, and didn't always work.
4. The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina -- I'm still stuck in S2, which is dragging. Have two episodes left. So far I've been a bit disappointed in it. I hear S3 is better. Maybe I'll skip ahead?
5. Did you get tired of the Winter shows already, and feel there's nothing new on TV? Well, never fear...there's even more shows popping up pretty much everywhere soon. Because we can never have enough television? Can we?
Entertainment Weekly is rather amusing about content now - it's as if they've thrown up their hands and admitted they can't cover everything, so why bother?
( a smattering of new series that looked interesting to me )
It also talked about books, but nothing I found remotely interesting. I'm in the reading slump to end all reading slumps.
As an aside - I have a love/hate relationship with the internet. I worry about alienating folks at the same time, I'm thinking, why the frakking heck should I care, why do they care? People offend/alienate/annoy me all the time. It's as if I'm furious at my own anxiety and determined to take it out on the cause?
Anyhow, television reviews...for what it's worth.
1. First, I explained to a Chidi recently that scholars had written journal articles and presentations on Buffy, and taught courses. He stared at me as if I were crazy. Of course he didn't really check it out in the later seasons, which he heard were more interesting.
Anyhow, here is yet another analysis of the Spike/Buffy relationship in S6 - The Disturbing Forgotten Scene in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Six - for scholars it might say something new, but not folks who have been in the fandom for twenty years, and watched it live and debated it live in 2002. Also what forgotten scene?
I honestly think there is a huge gap between the people who binge-watched, streamed or watched Buffy on DVDs, and those who watched it as it aired, with often huge gaps between episodes and commercials. It's not the same experience at all.
2. Ragnarok - the Norwegian series by way of Denmark or the Danes, which apparently stirred quite a bit of controversy in Norway. It's intriguing but not very good. The acting is...disappointing. Although, it is interesting that actors in other countries don't look like they stepped off of a model cover shoot the way they do in the US. Does the US just have better makeup artists and production design? Is it a camera editing thing? I don't know why the people aren't as pretty and flawless looking in imports...with the exception of the Korean imports, in which they are actually as pretty if not prettier.
It's an odd series -- has a very strong pro-environment, anti-corporation message. But alas, the plot is a bit sluggish, and it's hard to care that much about the characters. I was the most interested in Magna aka Thor's brother, Lauritas -- who I think might be Loki. But they never really went anywhere with it. He's queer, and unashamed of it. He was the most interesting character in the series, with the exception of Isolde who was killed off in the first episode. You know the television show has a problem when the most interesting female character is killed off in the first episode, and other two teen women are hard to tell apart. I didn't like any of the remaining female characters.
The series also comes across as ever-so-slightly sexist or misogynistic. Which is a problem. From the reviews I read, I wasn't the only one who picked up on it.
In other words? Stick with Marvel.
3. Locke and Key based on the best selling horror comic. This even had cameo's by the authors of the horror comic, much like Stephen King's adapted novels often had a cameo from King. Joe Hill by the way looks a lot like his father, if I didn't know better, I'd have thought it was Stephen King.
The television series is creepy. But not quite out there enough. I think it is hard to replicate the nuttiness of the comics. Although during a second season they might do it?
The biggest weakness was the uneven writing in regards to the demon or bad guy. That often felt a bit contrived in places, and didn't always work.
4. The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina -- I'm still stuck in S2, which is dragging. Have two episodes left. So far I've been a bit disappointed in it. I hear S3 is better. Maybe I'll skip ahead?
5. Did you get tired of the Winter shows already, and feel there's nothing new on TV? Well, never fear...there's even more shows popping up pretty much everywhere soon. Because we can never have enough television? Can we?
Entertainment Weekly is rather amusing about content now - it's as if they've thrown up their hands and admitted they can't cover everything, so why bother?
( a smattering of new series that looked interesting to me )
It also talked about books, but nothing I found remotely interesting. I'm in the reading slump to end all reading slumps.