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Jan. 9th, 2010 11:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatCold day, but not as cold as I thought, so I'm either getting used to it or the news is exaggerating. Although in comparison to the cold that I put up with living in KC, this is nothing. 26 degrees feels like 19 or 30 feels like 26, not a big deal - in comparison to 30 degrees below 0. You can't go outside without covering every piece of skin and still you fear frostbite. Also, I'm sorry, at a certain point you can't really tell the difference between 19 below and 20 below. Seriously, NYC'ers are wimps when in comes to weather. They freak when it reaches 90 and they freak when it reaches 19 degrees. People - talk to me when it hits 115 or -30, okay?
Have mixed feelings about the whole Twilight reveal, part of me is half-convinced it's an April Fool's joke - after all the reveal came with the April cover. The other part is very relieved and really, really hopes it is true, because there are some cool things they could do with it and it does track quite well with the story and makes sense (I did not want it to Giles and after seeing this week's Dollhouse, I was rather certain it was - although in hindsight the other choice works with the Dollhouse reveal as well, if not actually better.). And a third part is sort of skeptical and fears this is going to be one of those story arcs that makes me wonder why I bother reading let alone paying 2.25 a month to read this shit. A fourth part is ambivalent. And a sixth hopes this isn't supposed to a romantic reunion because that would suck beans on more than one level. There's some decent meta on the reveal - my flist is actually more into meta than freakout. Haven't seen any freakout or worry, just lots of amusement about freakout elsewhere - which I'm delightfully non-privy too, and tons of lovely meta. Which while disappointing, is also quite reassurring. After all, just a comic book. If you want to read the meta - go see![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
2maggie2, aycheb, and stormwreath, if you want to see the giggling go see gabrielleabelle.
Also have mixed feelings about this week's Dollhouse. It works, I guess. And the plot twists did surprise me more or less, although I'd figured out the big reveal fifteen minutes before it happened. I felt overall it was too quickly done and has lots of plotholes and gaps in logic. They are cramming far too much into far too short a space of time - unfortunately the story is too big for the time and space alotted. Happens a lot with prematurely cancelled series, so not entirely their fault. Also, from a completely politically correct or PoC perspective...it is mildly disturbing and tends to reinforce certain views regarding Whedon's work that make it difficult to be a fan of said work.
That said, so far, none of the meta I've read on flist seems to pick up on it. Which is relieving, although I can't see these guys picking up on it anyhow. The ones who would, gave up on the show in S1 or after the first episode of S2. Overall, I liked it and there are bits that I thought were great - Topher Brink is fast becoming my favorite character arc on this series and the actor blows me away. Summer Glau is actually unattractive and creepy here. And the depiction of Caroline in flashback is far better than it was in S1, she's more interesting.
Have mixed feelings about the whole Twilight reveal, part of me is half-convinced it's an April Fool's joke - after all the reveal came with the April cover. The other part is very relieved and really, really hopes it is true, because there are some cool things they could do with it and it does track quite well with the story and makes sense (I did not want it to Giles and after seeing this week's Dollhouse, I was rather certain it was - although in hindsight the other choice works with the Dollhouse reveal as well, if not actually better.). And a third part is sort of skeptical and fears this is going to be one of those story arcs that makes me wonder why I bother reading let alone paying 2.25 a month to read this shit. A fourth part is ambivalent. And a sixth hopes this isn't supposed to a romantic reunion because that would suck beans on more than one level. There's some decent meta on the reveal - my flist is actually more into meta than freakout. Haven't seen any freakout or worry, just lots of amusement about freakout elsewhere - which I'm delightfully non-privy too, and tons of lovely meta. Which while disappointing, is also quite reassurring. After all, just a comic book. If you want to read the meta - go see
2maggie2, aycheb, and stormwreath, if you want to see the giggling go see gabrielleabelle.Also have mixed feelings about this week's Dollhouse. It works, I guess. And the plot twists did surprise me more or less, although I'd figured out the big reveal fifteen minutes before it happened. I felt overall it was too quickly done and has lots of plotholes and gaps in logic. They are cramming far too much into far too short a space of time - unfortunately the story is too big for the time and space alotted. Happens a lot with prematurely cancelled series, so not entirely their fault. Also, from a completely politically correct or PoC perspective...it is mildly disturbing and tends to reinforce certain views regarding Whedon's work that make it difficult to be a fan of said work.
That said, so far, none of the meta I've read on flist seems to pick up on it. Which is relieving, although I can't see these guys picking up on it anyhow. The ones who would, gave up on the show in S1 or after the first episode of S2. Overall, I liked it and there are bits that I thought were great - Topher Brink is fast becoming my favorite character arc on this series and the actor blows me away. Summer Glau is actually unattractive and creepy here. And the depiction of Caroline in flashback is far better than it was in S1, she's more interesting.