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Basically just hung around the apartment and vegged out all day long watching television. Did manage to control the snacking - this round. In part due to the fact that I don't have things I want to snack on, and I've lost any interest in buying them.
Still eating chocolate though - just darker chocolate with a lower sugar content.
Feel less wired as result. And I took a break from the news, media, social media, and just vegged mindless on the coach while it rained outside. In the sixties. I should have taken a walk - but it was raining off and on, humid, and I didn't feel like it.
Television series that I watched?
1. Lupin on Netflix - this is the French series, which I mainly watched in the original French with subtitles. The English dubbing was jarring since it didn't fit the subtitles.
I enjoyed the series over all, but I got furious at the bad guys and realized once again why I've found it difficult to watch shows like this over the past several years, or read books - where there are villains who get away with shit for a lengthy period of time. ( Read more... )
Oh, just found out on Twitter via Sam Neil, that Omar Sy (the lead in Lupin) is in the Jurassic Park movie with Sam Neil, Jeff Goldbloom, Laura Dern, Chris Pratt, and Bryce Dallas Howard.
Topped it off with Lupin III - Castle Calistroga - the Japanese adaptation of the Monkey Punch comic on the illustrious thief. It's not as good as I remembered, and I preferred the French series.
2. Loki
I liked Loki better - partly because it was more escapist. Also while the villains were "annoying" they weren't rage inducing (ie. they did not remind me of certain white pricks in the US who need to rot in prison for the rest of their natural life-spans.)
Loki is kind of a philosophical brain teaser - which I find entertaining, or I wouldn't read Marvel comics or watch the films and series. But it's not for everyone.
( Read more... )
I flirted with Manifest - A series I gave up on - five episodes into the second year. It made it to three seasons before finally getting cancelled. I think it made it to three because of the pandemic. If it weren't for the pandemic - it would have been gone much faster. This was a true of a lot of television shows. I read on Twitter that someone else had decided to give up on it after season 1, since it apparently went rapidly down hill in Season 2. (Kind of was going down-hill in S1.)
The show had a great premise, and the first five-six episodes were good, but then it kind of jumped the rails into a convoluted conspiracy plot that made no sense. Also a couple of characters that - I wanted to smack upside the head. I was kind of hate-watching it by season 2, and gave up entirely after a bit. But Netflix does have all three seasons and it's number one at the moment on the streaming. I think people are bored?
3. I've been interacting with the very liberal Stephen DeKnight on Twitter. The only Whedon writer - whose work has continuted to entertain me outside of maybe Jane Espenson and Drew Goddard. Deknight did Daredevil. Also he was responsible for various Buffy and Angel episodes that I found to be interesting, if controversial.
And, he's the only writer outside of Marti Noxon and Jose (Firefly) who supported Charisma Carpenter.
My favs on Twitter on DeKnight, George Taki (Sulu on Star Trek), Sam Neil, and Neil Gaiman. Also John Scalzi, Cat Sebastian, and Kate Mackie amuse.
I'm on Twitter mainly to follow entertainment news - and my two guilty pleasure fandoms - X-men, and General Hospital.
Mother: Your brother thinks Buffy was a soap opera.
Me: I can see why he may think that - but it's not.
Mother: I agree, I don't think so either.
Me: It's plots were too centered around a definitive goal, and not relationship drama. Soaps are more centered around "relationship" drama, and emotion. Buffy had more of a monster of the week set up. And was episodic at times.
It had relationship melodrama but it wasn't really focused solely on that. Soap operas are. Also Buffy's plotting was for the most part - more logical. My brother is horrid at plot and character analysis, he sees design and film techniques and angles. I see the fabric of the story. We think very differently, as you can see.
***
Shifting gears?
I'm annoyed that Marvel ended the X-Factor comic book. It was my favorite and the most innovative and best written that I'd seen in a long time. ( mini rant )
Life is frustrating because people don't do what I want them to do.
Read somewhere, possibly twitter, a post that said book critics felt that no one was reading any good books any longer. OR too few people were.
No, apparently we just aren't reading the books the critics want us to read. The whole concept that folks like to read what makes them happy or entertains them or informs them is apparently lost on the critics. It's similar to film and television critics - they get upset when people don't want to watch the films and television series they love. Sorry, that's how life works - people tend to watch what entertains them not what entertains you.
***
I don't want to talk about the news today. I'm taking a break from it.
Here's a picture from yesterday, instead.
Still eating chocolate though - just darker chocolate with a lower sugar content.
Feel less wired as result. And I took a break from the news, media, social media, and just vegged mindless on the coach while it rained outside. In the sixties. I should have taken a walk - but it was raining off and on, humid, and I didn't feel like it.
Television series that I watched?
1. Lupin on Netflix - this is the French series, which I mainly watched in the original French with subtitles. The English dubbing was jarring since it didn't fit the subtitles.
I enjoyed the series over all, but I got furious at the bad guys and realized once again why I've found it difficult to watch shows like this over the past several years, or read books - where there are villains who get away with shit for a lengthy period of time. ( Read more... )
Oh, just found out on Twitter via Sam Neil, that Omar Sy (the lead in Lupin) is in the Jurassic Park movie with Sam Neil, Jeff Goldbloom, Laura Dern, Chris Pratt, and Bryce Dallas Howard.
Topped it off with Lupin III - Castle Calistroga - the Japanese adaptation of the Monkey Punch comic on the illustrious thief. It's not as good as I remembered, and I preferred the French series.
2. Loki
I liked Loki better - partly because it was more escapist. Also while the villains were "annoying" they weren't rage inducing (ie. they did not remind me of certain white pricks in the US who need to rot in prison for the rest of their natural life-spans.)
Loki is kind of a philosophical brain teaser - which I find entertaining, or I wouldn't read Marvel comics or watch the films and series. But it's not for everyone.
( Read more... )
I flirted with Manifest - A series I gave up on - five episodes into the second year. It made it to three seasons before finally getting cancelled. I think it made it to three because of the pandemic. If it weren't for the pandemic - it would have been gone much faster. This was a true of a lot of television shows. I read on Twitter that someone else had decided to give up on it after season 1, since it apparently went rapidly down hill in Season 2. (Kind of was going down-hill in S1.)
The show had a great premise, and the first five-six episodes were good, but then it kind of jumped the rails into a convoluted conspiracy plot that made no sense. Also a couple of characters that - I wanted to smack upside the head. I was kind of hate-watching it by season 2, and gave up entirely after a bit. But Netflix does have all three seasons and it's number one at the moment on the streaming. I think people are bored?
3. I've been interacting with the very liberal Stephen DeKnight on Twitter. The only Whedon writer - whose work has continuted to entertain me outside of maybe Jane Espenson and Drew Goddard. Deknight did Daredevil. Also he was responsible for various Buffy and Angel episodes that I found to be interesting, if controversial.
And, he's the only writer outside of Marti Noxon and Jose (Firefly) who supported Charisma Carpenter.
My favs on Twitter on DeKnight, George Taki (Sulu on Star Trek), Sam Neil, and Neil Gaiman. Also John Scalzi, Cat Sebastian, and Kate Mackie amuse.
I'm on Twitter mainly to follow entertainment news - and my two guilty pleasure fandoms - X-men, and General Hospital.
Mother: Your brother thinks Buffy was a soap opera.
Me: I can see why he may think that - but it's not.
Mother: I agree, I don't think so either.
Me: It's plots were too centered around a definitive goal, and not relationship drama. Soaps are more centered around "relationship" drama, and emotion. Buffy had more of a monster of the week set up. And was episodic at times.
It had relationship melodrama but it wasn't really focused solely on that. Soap operas are. Also Buffy's plotting was for the most part - more logical. My brother is horrid at plot and character analysis, he sees design and film techniques and angles. I see the fabric of the story. We think very differently, as you can see.
***
Shifting gears?
I'm annoyed that Marvel ended the X-Factor comic book. It was my favorite and the most innovative and best written that I'd seen in a long time. ( mini rant )
Life is frustrating because people don't do what I want them to do.
Read somewhere, possibly twitter, a post that said book critics felt that no one was reading any good books any longer. OR too few people were.
No, apparently we just aren't reading the books the critics want us to read. The whole concept that folks like to read what makes them happy or entertains them or informs them is apparently lost on the critics. It's similar to film and television critics - they get upset when people don't want to watch the films and television series they love. Sorry, that's how life works - people tend to watch what entertains them not what entertains you.
***
I don't want to talk about the news today. I'm taking a break from it.
Here's a picture from yesterday, instead.