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shadowkat1. Rather impressed with Fringe - Season 3 is actually fairly interesting. It's a mixed bag of course, but overall innovative. If you want to try the series? Skip Season 1 - which spends most of its time on Olivia figuring out what happened to her lover, who appears to be a traitor, and introducing Walter and Peter. All you really need on that season in the last four episodes. Since the series tends to be fairly episodic in nature up to about the last four episodes in S2, you can more or less leap into it there. Far more interesting than X-Files in my opinion and a little less predictable and cliche in places. (ie. no stupid alien abduction coverup storyline that has been done to death since 1950.) This story is about parralell universes...and weird science, as well as the consequences. So far the highlights of Season 3 are Marionette, Entrapte, Olivia, and Consequences and Asked. The Peter/Olivia relationship angst is extremely interesting.
Far more so than expected. It reminds me, oddly enough, of Farscape. Here, Peter (we aren't in his pov, but Olivia's), has to choose between two Olivia's who are exactly the same yet completely different. He has relationships with both, but much like Aeryn Sun in Farscape, he consummates his relationship with one, while the other is trapped elsewhere - away. He loses the one he consummated with, and ends up with the original or other. It's a fascinating way to cause conflict between the leads - and by far my favorite. The character of Olivia, much like John Crichton, is in competition with herself. Except in Fringe, the Olivia - Peter chooses, could well mean which parrallel universe survives, and how he chooses, may alter the outcome. To complicate things, Olivia has reasons to want both universes to survive, not one over the other. Oh, multiple things going on at the same time. Very cool. [I'd cut for spoilers, but I think that just confuses anyone not watching the series. OR it may intrigue you.]
2. Ever wonder why you read or watch what you do? Maybe not. I've decided it's often to resolve issues that are bugging me on either a conscious or subconscious level, and to a degree to help turn off my brain. To calm it down. To comfort. Other times to stimulate. But always to resolve some issue that is bugging me.
The problem though with the information, the internet, etc...is we are constantly inundated with other's opinions about things we love or hate to watch, read, etc. Constant flow of information.
I find myself retreating from it at times. The modern day version of the tower of babble - except in English. Reading reviews is an odd experience now - I find myself critiquing the reviewer more than the work, analyzing them, trying to figure out what made them dislike it. Was it something they ate that day? Or hormones? Or their background? And why did they like it? I often will read the review like a code-breaker...hunting a pattern that does not exist. And find myself discounting stuff like "badly written" or "morally reprehensible", because seriously? It's all about perspective isn't it? In reading these books, I've often read the reviews first, then I'll read the book and think...uhm okay, are these reviewers insane? How is this brilliant? Or why did they think this was boring??? And..okay, how can't you see this as rape? I'm often bewildered.
People are bewildering, aren't they? Particularly when their opinion differs. Sometimes I wish people would keep their opinions to themselves...but hey, as the Popster states, Democracy is dirty and complicated. As is free speech. In order to have the stuff you love and to squee and whine about it, you sort of have to be tolerant of stuff you don't like, hate or makes you nutty - goes with the territory. Can't have one without the other. Not possible. Will state this is not necessarily bad thing...since it does make life a heck of lot more interesting and at times incredibly entertaining.
3. Sims is addictive...I feel like I'm playing god. Building homes. Sending people to work. Setting up romances. Friendships. But I'm a nice god. I want everyone to be happy and get along, and have love. Complaining and arguments, not so much. My Sims are happy people...well when I remember they are there and aren't busy elsewhere.
Back to work tomorrow...sigh. Well did accomplish the following: I'm no longer coughing and managed to remove the elephant from my chest, cooked a quiche, finished another book, finished watching three of the four DVD's that have been sitting on my tv stand for the last four weeks,
and made it to church where I met new people. Not too bad.
Far more so than expected. It reminds me, oddly enough, of Farscape. Here, Peter (we aren't in his pov, but Olivia's), has to choose between two Olivia's who are exactly the same yet completely different. He has relationships with both, but much like Aeryn Sun in Farscape, he consummates his relationship with one, while the other is trapped elsewhere - away. He loses the one he consummated with, and ends up with the original or other. It's a fascinating way to cause conflict between the leads - and by far my favorite. The character of Olivia, much like John Crichton, is in competition with herself. Except in Fringe, the Olivia - Peter chooses, could well mean which parrallel universe survives, and how he chooses, may alter the outcome. To complicate things, Olivia has reasons to want both universes to survive, not one over the other. Oh, multiple things going on at the same time. Very cool. [I'd cut for spoilers, but I think that just confuses anyone not watching the series. OR it may intrigue you.]
2. Ever wonder why you read or watch what you do? Maybe not. I've decided it's often to resolve issues that are bugging me on either a conscious or subconscious level, and to a degree to help turn off my brain. To calm it down. To comfort. Other times to stimulate. But always to resolve some issue that is bugging me.
The problem though with the information, the internet, etc...is we are constantly inundated with other's opinions about things we love or hate to watch, read, etc. Constant flow of information.
I find myself retreating from it at times. The modern day version of the tower of babble - except in English. Reading reviews is an odd experience now - I find myself critiquing the reviewer more than the work, analyzing them, trying to figure out what made them dislike it. Was it something they ate that day? Or hormones? Or their background? And why did they like it? I often will read the review like a code-breaker...hunting a pattern that does not exist. And find myself discounting stuff like "badly written" or "morally reprehensible", because seriously? It's all about perspective isn't it? In reading these books, I've often read the reviews first, then I'll read the book and think...uhm okay, are these reviewers insane? How is this brilliant? Or why did they think this was boring??? And..okay, how can't you see this as rape? I'm often bewildered.
People are bewildering, aren't they? Particularly when their opinion differs. Sometimes I wish people would keep their opinions to themselves...but hey, as the Popster states, Democracy is dirty and complicated. As is free speech. In order to have the stuff you love and to squee and whine about it, you sort of have to be tolerant of stuff you don't like, hate or makes you nutty - goes with the territory. Can't have one without the other. Not possible. Will state this is not necessarily bad thing...since it does make life a heck of lot more interesting and at times incredibly entertaining.
3. Sims is addictive...I feel like I'm playing god. Building homes. Sending people to work. Setting up romances. Friendships. But I'm a nice god. I want everyone to be happy and get along, and have love. Complaining and arguments, not so much. My Sims are happy people...well when I remember they are there and aren't busy elsewhere.
Back to work tomorrow...sigh. Well did accomplish the following: I'm no longer coughing and managed to remove the elephant from my chest, cooked a quiche, finished another book, finished watching three of the four DVD's that have been sitting on my tv stand for the last four weeks,
and made it to church where I met new people. Not too bad.
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Date: 2012-01-03 03:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-03 05:11 pm (UTC)But I do find the serial plot arc fascinating. The whole time-travel/parallel universe anamoly. And how if you change or do one thing - it causes or can cause a devastating ripple effect...ie. saving Peter's life.
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Date: 2012-01-03 04:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-03 05:09 pm (UTC)The thing about the Wire...is like most tv series, it's a mixed bag. Especially the first season. Season 2 is in some respects better, but it gets a little bogged down in the middle like S1 - because the writers get a little preachy about the drug trade - which I found grating at times (because yeah, yeah, we know, let's move on already). They do this in all four seasons. (We spend a lot of time with Nick and Vinnie- although I liked aspects of their arc quite a bit.) Beadie is my favorite female character in S2.
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Date: 2012-01-03 05:37 pm (UTC)I was getting pretty attached to D'Angelo, even though I knew that with a 20 year prison sentence they may not have any place for him to go without losing his integrity, so I was really sorry to have him killed off... They had really spent some time showing him growing and evolving, so that death was disappointing.
And I adore Cedric Daniels... I love that they have so many Black characters with real depth and interesting lives. It really makes the show a rewarding experience to watch.
Of course partly I love S2 because I'm interested in the docks and shipping... it was a relief to not have the show only about drugs (it is fine as a side issue, but not something I want to focus on exclusively).
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Date: 2012-01-03 07:50 pm (UTC)S2- shipping/docks.
The guy playing Cedric Daniels pops up as the head of the Fringe unit in Fringe, and
the guy who plays Butters - pops up in the third season of Fringe.
This show does a great job with minority characters. Women not so much - but it is a male world and a male genre...(cop noire).
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Date: 2012-01-03 08:53 pm (UTC)Yeah I think I'll love the politics, education, and the press seasons...
They really are doing some interesting in-depth stuff with this show.
And yeah, there aren't very many women... but Sonja Sohn as Kima Greggs is very cool. Mainly I love the show because the acting is wonderful, I find the characters believable, and the plots are definitely convoluted! Very complex interesting stuff.
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Date: 2012-01-04 01:06 pm (UTC)The Wire aired on HBO from 2003-2006 or thereabouts. It's an old series.
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Date: 2012-01-04 02:21 pm (UTC)I'm into the 3rd season now, and mad at Cedrick's wife for kicking him out of the house.... Doesn't she know he is the only man of integrity in Baltimore? LOL