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shadowkatDamp, cold, musty, moldy, rainy day...that makes me think of curling up with a good book under a lamp. Not that I did it. Been a bit annoyed with books lately. They aren't satisfying me. I don't know why.
New favorite tv show is The Good Wife - which I've decided is the most realistic and best legal procedural that I've seen in quite some time. It has a strong central character, who happens to be female. Is a realistic depiction of what it is like to be a litigator. And reminds me of why I am not one or a lawyer for that matter. Also unlike 85%, that's right 85% of the tv shows on at the moment, it is not "sexist"or "chauvinist" or blatantly "racist". Sort of a nice change of pace.
The lead is played by Julianna Marguiles (who had played Nurse Hathaway on ER), she has the same quiet understated presence that she did on that show. A steely drive. She plays the wife of a district attorney who got convicted of ethics violations (he was caught paying women with government funds to have sex with him amongst other things), forced to go back to work, she looks up a former school chum who gives her a job as a junior associate at a large Chicago law firm, doing the firm's pro-bono work - mainly. The main theme of the series seems to be that nothing is what it seems, and assumptions make asses of us all. Was quite surprised by this little gem - to be honest. It wasn't at all what I expected - I was expecting something more like the Closer or Private Practice, but it's not melodramatic in the least - it is a guiet realistic drama, sans the melodrama, yet with rich characters. Not hard to get into - since it is not that serialized. Cases wrap up each week. It's the characters internal issues that are on-going.
Highly recommend.
Well, Dollhouse has apparently been cancelled. The good news is that we will get to see all 13 episodes. Not suprised by the cancellation. It was a series that you either hated or enjoyed. I was admittedly ambivalent, in part because I knew it was going to get cancelled, just as I knew Pushing Daisies, Firefly, Drive, Wonderfalls, Tru Calling, and Sarah Connor Chronicles were going to be cancelled and was admittedly ambivalent about them as a result. (Figured this out just by reading the responses to all of them on either a fanboard or my own flist - people either adored or really hated or just did not get these shows at all, I remember the rants on fanboards about Firefly (which I find amusing, because the ranters are now praising the show as the best thing evah and why did it get cancelled? Sigh. LOL.). Oh well at least we got to see all the episodes created/ordered of Pushing Daisies, Sarah Connor, and Dollhouse - can't say the same about Firefly (which I had to buy to see them), Wonderfalls (ditto), Drive, and Tru Calling. Annoying that. The network owes the audience that is watching the show all the episodes it ordered. I don't care if it just has 1000 viewers - that's a 1000 people who want to know what happened, dang it.
I honestly don't get why some shows live and others die, or why people adore some things and hate others. I do wish it wasn't ratings motivated or commericially motivated - but I'm guessing the internet to a degree is changing all of that. We can now self-publish our critiques, stories, fantasies, woes, whines, reviews, and rants for all to see. We can self-publish and distribute music, films, tv shows, comics, games, art, and books. The fact that we can is scaring the professional writing, film, music, art, and publishing world. They have no idea how to handle it. If I can watch a tv show on the internet, why have cable? If I can read books and print them off the net for free - why buy them? Granted I do both. We all do both. It's not all or nothing. But it does, I think scare people who used to control our access to art and no longer do. They are not the sole monopoly. Whedon can for example develop a web series and distribute it. Personally, I think that may be his next step - it works better, because you do not have to please as large an audience, you can just go after your nitch. That is what cult is after all - stories that hit a small nitch audience and never do that well in ratings and are more often than not controversial.
Anywho..just in case you are feeling sorry for Whedon, don't. I just read in this week's EW that the Buffy S8 comic is number 8 in the Comic-Book Best-Sellers. That's actually an accomplisment, if you consider that most of the books on the list are Marvel or DC action comics featuring a decidedly male centric group of heros and with either Batman, Green Lantern, X-men or Spiderman in the title. Go Whedon - and kudos for getting a book about a female superhero that isn't wearing almost nothing in the top ten list. Granted, I'm more invested in the Buffy comics than Dollhouse...for a lot of reasons, I won't go into. I just like Buffy, Xander, Willow and Giles better than Echo, Sierra, Victor and Ballard -let's leave it at that.
Baked a gluten-free blueberry pie today. The pie crust is good. The filling, not so great - it lacks a tangy blueberry taste. From the Grainless Bakery and I'm guessing "frozen" too long? Not certain. Will try the apple to see if it is better.
New favorite tv show is The Good Wife - which I've decided is the most realistic and best legal procedural that I've seen in quite some time. It has a strong central character, who happens to be female. Is a realistic depiction of what it is like to be a litigator. And reminds me of why I am not one or a lawyer for that matter. Also unlike 85%, that's right 85% of the tv shows on at the moment, it is not "sexist"or "chauvinist" or blatantly "racist". Sort of a nice change of pace.
The lead is played by Julianna Marguiles (who had played Nurse Hathaway on ER), she has the same quiet understated presence that she did on that show. A steely drive. She plays the wife of a district attorney who got convicted of ethics violations (he was caught paying women with government funds to have sex with him amongst other things), forced to go back to work, she looks up a former school chum who gives her a job as a junior associate at a large Chicago law firm, doing the firm's pro-bono work - mainly. The main theme of the series seems to be that nothing is what it seems, and assumptions make asses of us all. Was quite surprised by this little gem - to be honest. It wasn't at all what I expected - I was expecting something more like the Closer or Private Practice, but it's not melodramatic in the least - it is a guiet realistic drama, sans the melodrama, yet with rich characters. Not hard to get into - since it is not that serialized. Cases wrap up each week. It's the characters internal issues that are on-going.
Highly recommend.
Well, Dollhouse has apparently been cancelled. The good news is that we will get to see all 13 episodes. Not suprised by the cancellation. It was a series that you either hated or enjoyed. I was admittedly ambivalent, in part because I knew it was going to get cancelled, just as I knew Pushing Daisies, Firefly, Drive, Wonderfalls, Tru Calling, and Sarah Connor Chronicles were going to be cancelled and was admittedly ambivalent about them as a result. (Figured this out just by reading the responses to all of them on either a fanboard or my own flist - people either adored or really hated or just did not get these shows at all, I remember the rants on fanboards about Firefly (which I find amusing, because the ranters are now praising the show as the best thing evah and why did it get cancelled? Sigh. LOL.). Oh well at least we got to see all the episodes created/ordered of Pushing Daisies, Sarah Connor, and Dollhouse - can't say the same about Firefly (which I had to buy to see them), Wonderfalls (ditto), Drive, and Tru Calling. Annoying that. The network owes the audience that is watching the show all the episodes it ordered. I don't care if it just has 1000 viewers - that's a 1000 people who want to know what happened, dang it.
I honestly don't get why some shows live and others die, or why people adore some things and hate others. I do wish it wasn't ratings motivated or commericially motivated - but I'm guessing the internet to a degree is changing all of that. We can now self-publish our critiques, stories, fantasies, woes, whines, reviews, and rants for all to see. We can self-publish and distribute music, films, tv shows, comics, games, art, and books. The fact that we can is scaring the professional writing, film, music, art, and publishing world. They have no idea how to handle it. If I can watch a tv show on the internet, why have cable? If I can read books and print them off the net for free - why buy them? Granted I do both. We all do both. It's not all or nothing. But it does, I think scare people who used to control our access to art and no longer do. They are not the sole monopoly. Whedon can for example develop a web series and distribute it. Personally, I think that may be his next step - it works better, because you do not have to please as large an audience, you can just go after your nitch. That is what cult is after all - stories that hit a small nitch audience and never do that well in ratings and are more often than not controversial.
Anywho..just in case you are feeling sorry for Whedon, don't. I just read in this week's EW that the Buffy S8 comic is number 8 in the Comic-Book Best-Sellers. That's actually an accomplisment, if you consider that most of the books on the list are Marvel or DC action comics featuring a decidedly male centric group of heros and with either Batman, Green Lantern, X-men or Spiderman in the title. Go Whedon - and kudos for getting a book about a female superhero that isn't wearing almost nothing in the top ten list. Granted, I'm more invested in the Buffy comics than Dollhouse...for a lot of reasons, I won't go into. I just like Buffy, Xander, Willow and Giles better than Echo, Sierra, Victor and Ballard -let's leave it at that.
Baked a gluten-free blueberry pie today. The pie crust is good. The filling, not so great - it lacks a tangy blueberry taste. From the Grainless Bakery and I'm guessing "frozen" too long? Not certain. Will try the apple to see if it is better.
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Date: 2009-11-15 10:08 am (UTC)That's interesting. Because here:
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/16243.html
the newest Buffy issue keeps position #28 and has a circulation about 50,000 (half of the 100,000-plus circulation of the first issue).
Hopefully your source is more trustworthy :)
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Date: 2009-11-15 10:56 pm (UTC)Entertainment Weekly Magazine quoting the Time Warp Comics and Games in Boulder, Colorado - Bestseller List for the month of October.
So it appears to be a snap-shot of what sales may be like in the US market, specifically the Western market or Midwestern based on comic book stores similar to the one in Boulder, Colorado (a small liberal suburban college town northwest of Denver).
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Date: 2009-11-15 11:07 pm (UTC)So both sources are correct, they are just taking different snapshots of the marketplace. Entertainment Weekly's source is taking a snapshot of one comic book store in one specific market - Boulder, Colorado - while icv2 is taking a snapshot of the US comic book speciality store sales as it applies to comic books distributed by Diamond. (This basically excludes subscribers like yourself, people who buy them in regular book stores, libraries, and anyone who buys them off of Amazon.com. It also excludes anything not distributed by Diamond.) What this means is that it is completely possible that Buffy is #10 worldwide or number #50 worldwide...depends on who you ask and what they are tabulating.
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Date: 2009-11-16 01:16 am (UTC)As for letting things go? Don't say that to a Trekkie. ;-)
I think it depends on the things. And what they mean to us and why. It is easier to let certain things go, over others. And mileage varies on this. And some tales are even more wonderful when we rewatch them.
If Whedon let Firefly go - we would not have had the film Serenity. And if he had let Buffy go, we would not have had the tv series.
OTOH...after Serenity, he did move on to other things.
As did the fandom eventually. And if Gene Roddenberry let Star Trek go...
So I think it depends on the thing or the person, and our relationship with it and that I think is personal.