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Nov. 19th, 2023 06:16 pm1. Interesting podcast by someone who was most likely not alive when this first aired Why you should watch S6 Buffy.
My view of television watching is that it is very subjective, and people watch for different reasons, and certainly watched Buffy for different reasons - and related to different characters. No two people will agree.
I used to debate it weekly or monthly with a friend over Sushi, and daily on a fan board - but it should be noted? I didn't do any of this until S6 Buffy. ( Read more... )
2. Fall of the House of Usher - seen three episodes to date, entitled Once Upon a Midnight Dreary, Masque of the Red Death, Murders of the Rue Morgue. All three cleverly reference Poe short stories, and underline unethical medical and pharmaceutical issues. The deaths are often a result of those issues.
I'm not positive? But it may help if you are familiar with Edgar Allen Poe's stories prior to watching this? The references are basically half the fun. And the main reason I'm watching it. The story and characters aren't all that interesting, and the characters (all of them) aren't remotely relatable or likable - they are all rather nasty, immoral, and worse? Dull.
The only interesting ones are the ones played by veteran actors, Madeline (Mary McDonnell), Roderick (Bruce Greenwood), Pym (Mark Hamill), Vera (Carla Guigona), and August Dupin (Carl Lumbly). Everyone else? It's hard to care. And that's a big problem with a horror series - horror only really works if you care about the characters. Otherwise, it's not scary. Although I'm not certain this is meant to be scary so much as satirically amusing?
It is gory, although it doesn't dwell too long on it - so I had no issues.
[Examples? One character and his friends are well...killed by corrosive acid - which basically melts pipes, so just imagine what it would do to human skin. I spent a good portion of the end of that episode trying to figure out if one of the characters had gotten out in time - they hadn't. It didn't bother me - I thought it looked kind of fake. And in another episode, a chimp brutally kills a woman. We don't see it - just her body and again, it didn't bother me. It was brief.]
3. Barbara Streisand memoir.
Mother: Have you gotten to her relationship with Elliot Gould yet?
Me: I've not gotten to Funny Girl yet, it's a 46 hour book. She's currently touring as a lounge singer and struggling to become an actress.
She gets on Jack Parr, and talks about her first appearance on television at 18.
The odd thing about the singing career - is Streisand didn't see herself as a singer, she saw herself as an actress. But people were blown away by her voice. She sends a recording to an agent - who lost the tap and sends her an empty one as an apology. But is talked into participating in a singing contest at a local nightclub by friends - who are blown away by her singing. So she participates and easily wins. And gets a job as a lounge singer at a gay club, the Boise Lounge. They send her to get voice lessons, but she doesn't understand what the teacher wants, and is annoyed by them, so promptly quits and just does it her way. Streisand is not a trained singer - she never had a voice lesson in her life.
Singing really is a natural talent. You either can sing or you can't. There are a lot of singers out there who really can't sing, but do it anyway. Bob Dylan comes to mind. Streisand can sing.
My view of television watching is that it is very subjective, and people watch for different reasons, and certainly watched Buffy for different reasons - and related to different characters. No two people will agree.
I used to debate it weekly or monthly with a friend over Sushi, and daily on a fan board - but it should be noted? I didn't do any of this until S6 Buffy. ( Read more... )
2. Fall of the House of Usher - seen three episodes to date, entitled Once Upon a Midnight Dreary, Masque of the Red Death, Murders of the Rue Morgue. All three cleverly reference Poe short stories, and underline unethical medical and pharmaceutical issues. The deaths are often a result of those issues.
I'm not positive? But it may help if you are familiar with Edgar Allen Poe's stories prior to watching this? The references are basically half the fun. And the main reason I'm watching it. The story and characters aren't all that interesting, and the characters (all of them) aren't remotely relatable or likable - they are all rather nasty, immoral, and worse? Dull.
The only interesting ones are the ones played by veteran actors, Madeline (Mary McDonnell), Roderick (Bruce Greenwood), Pym (Mark Hamill), Vera (Carla Guigona), and August Dupin (Carl Lumbly). Everyone else? It's hard to care. And that's a big problem with a horror series - horror only really works if you care about the characters. Otherwise, it's not scary. Although I'm not certain this is meant to be scary so much as satirically amusing?
It is gory, although it doesn't dwell too long on it - so I had no issues.
[Examples? One character and his friends are well...killed by corrosive acid - which basically melts pipes, so just imagine what it would do to human skin. I spent a good portion of the end of that episode trying to figure out if one of the characters had gotten out in time - they hadn't. It didn't bother me - I thought it looked kind of fake. And in another episode, a chimp brutally kills a woman. We don't see it - just her body and again, it didn't bother me. It was brief.]
3. Barbara Streisand memoir.
Mother: Have you gotten to her relationship with Elliot Gould yet?
Me: I've not gotten to Funny Girl yet, it's a 46 hour book. She's currently touring as a lounge singer and struggling to become an actress.
She gets on Jack Parr, and talks about her first appearance on television at 18.
The odd thing about the singing career - is Streisand didn't see herself as a singer, she saw herself as an actress. But people were blown away by her voice. She sends a recording to an agent - who lost the tap and sends her an empty one as an apology. But is talked into participating in a singing contest at a local nightclub by friends - who are blown away by her singing. So she participates and easily wins. And gets a job as a lounge singer at a gay club, the Boise Lounge. They send her to get voice lessons, but she doesn't understand what the teacher wants, and is annoyed by them, so promptly quits and just does it her way. Streisand is not a trained singer - she never had a voice lesson in her life.
Singing really is a natural talent. You either can sing or you can't. There are a lot of singers out there who really can't sing, but do it anyway. Bob Dylan comes to mind. Streisand can sing.