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shadowkatStupid pop up ads. The entire lap-top screen goes dark, except for this white bit that says when the following ad finishes you will be returned to your lj experience...then nothing happens or it comes on with audio before I can click closed. ARRGH. Can I complain to LJ? Would it make any difference? Ponders. Nah. Doubt it. Sigh, I stand by my generalization of years back the advertising and marketing industry is evil, I tell you, don't believe me? Watch Mad Men. Also attempting to use a tooth or mouth guard to stop grinding. It says it is comfortable on the package - evil copywriter probably has never worn a tooth guard. Hah!
I can't wear the damn things and sleep. It's like having those fake fangs in your mouth - you know the one's you get at Halloween?
Finished watching tv shows tonight, my favorite..I'm keeping to myself, because ahem, it helps to know one's audience...well except for this wonderful line, which bears repeating not to mention remembering. (If I write it down, I generally remember it, well most of the time.)
The thing about judgement, cupcake, is it always comes around like a boomerange and hits you in the face.
Sigh. So true.
Saw Dollhouse and Caprica tonight. The finale of Dollhouse - I think would have worked a lot better if we got a full season. The whole series felt very rushed to me and lacked the necessary emotional build-up to well have much impact. That said, I remember thinking while watching it - hmmm, if Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel were Whedon's take on vampire lore, Dollhouse is Whedon's twist on zombies - have to give him credit his zombie twist is far more innovative and a great deal better than any other zombie thing I've ever read, avoided, or seen in my lifetime, mostly avoided (and I've unfortunately attempted to avoide quite a few, not my favorite sub-genre.). But this one actually expands on the genre and does a really good job of pinpointing as well as exploring why it has always disturbed/scared the heck out of me. Plus, once again, he's ahead of the curve/trend. He always is, that's his problem - he doesn't benefit from it, because he set it and then left, just when people took notice and went nuts. Plus he's soo left of center and culty, that only a scant few like or notice what he is doing. I predict zombies are going to be hot in four years, if not sooner. Just give the vamps time to oversaturate the market, and we'll get the zombies.
What I liked about Dollhouse - particularly this episode, aptly named Epitaph 2 - is the heroes are women and the focal point is women. Nice. Also the very end was rather interesting metaphorically speaking, and something I had not thought of, so kudos to the writers for coming up with it. Outside of that, not a lot to say about the episode or series at the moment. I think it could have been brilliant, if given time to actually develop. Then again maybe not. Who knows? (shrugs). May say more in a separate and more spoilery post. Sort of impossible to discuss without spoilers.
Caprica - enjoying it, but not as much as I'd expected. It's a bit slow, but this type of genre, tends to be. Multilayered dialogue driven drama, as opposed to action driven. I do however like the focus on the two young girls, zoe and lacy, as well as on the teacher and zoe's mother. I'd expected it to more male centric, but it is actually the opposite. Also, much like Dollhouse, it has some interesting things to say about male/female roles, sexism, racism, and how we project our own desires and wants onto others. Making it all about us. Narcissism and it's negative reprecussions.
I also find the mythological/religious/psychological and philosophical themes interesting - really appeals to the frustrated cultural anthropology minor in me. Much like Whedon's work, Caprica is exploring questions such as what is a soul? Do we have them? What makes us who we are? Are we controlled by fate? Do we create ourselves? Who is God? Is there a God? How do we define God? And to what degree do our actions define us?
Caprica is lighter in tone than BSG. So may or may not appeal to the people who found BSG a bit too grim or gritty for their taste. But it is also a bit slower paced with a smaller cast, at least so far. The focal point is two families - the Graystone's and the Adama's.
Caprica in some respects reminds me a great deal of a Japanese Anime film entitled Ghost in the Shell...say much more than that, and I give it away. It's probably not to everyone's tastes, but I find it rather intriguing. At least so far.
A bit off topic, but I read this bit which made me laugh:
No one over twenty-one could sustain moral superiority.
Sigh. If only that were true. ;-)
I can't wear the damn things and sleep. It's like having those fake fangs in your mouth - you know the one's you get at Halloween?
Finished watching tv shows tonight, my favorite..I'm keeping to myself, because ahem, it helps to know one's audience...well except for this wonderful line, which bears repeating not to mention remembering. (If I write it down, I generally remember it, well most of the time.)
The thing about judgement, cupcake, is it always comes around like a boomerange and hits you in the face.
Sigh. So true.
Saw Dollhouse and Caprica tonight. The finale of Dollhouse - I think would have worked a lot better if we got a full season. The whole series felt very rushed to me and lacked the necessary emotional build-up to well have much impact. That said, I remember thinking while watching it - hmmm, if Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel were Whedon's take on vampire lore, Dollhouse is Whedon's twist on zombies - have to give him credit his zombie twist is far more innovative and a great deal better than any other zombie thing I've ever read, avoided, or seen in my lifetime, mostly avoided (and I've unfortunately attempted to avoide quite a few, not my favorite sub-genre.). But this one actually expands on the genre and does a really good job of pinpointing as well as exploring why it has always disturbed/scared the heck out of me. Plus, once again, he's ahead of the curve/trend. He always is, that's his problem - he doesn't benefit from it, because he set it and then left, just when people took notice and went nuts. Plus he's soo left of center and culty, that only a scant few like or notice what he is doing. I predict zombies are going to be hot in four years, if not sooner. Just give the vamps time to oversaturate the market, and we'll get the zombies.
What I liked about Dollhouse - particularly this episode, aptly named Epitaph 2 - is the heroes are women and the focal point is women. Nice. Also the very end was rather interesting metaphorically speaking, and something I had not thought of, so kudos to the writers for coming up with it. Outside of that, not a lot to say about the episode or series at the moment. I think it could have been brilliant, if given time to actually develop. Then again maybe not. Who knows? (shrugs). May say more in a separate and more spoilery post. Sort of impossible to discuss without spoilers.
Caprica - enjoying it, but not as much as I'd expected. It's a bit slow, but this type of genre, tends to be. Multilayered dialogue driven drama, as opposed to action driven. I do however like the focus on the two young girls, zoe and lacy, as well as on the teacher and zoe's mother. I'd expected it to more male centric, but it is actually the opposite. Also, much like Dollhouse, it has some interesting things to say about male/female roles, sexism, racism, and how we project our own desires and wants onto others. Making it all about us. Narcissism and it's negative reprecussions.
I also find the mythological/religious/psychological and philosophical themes interesting - really appeals to the frustrated cultural anthropology minor in me. Much like Whedon's work, Caprica is exploring questions such as what is a soul? Do we have them? What makes us who we are? Are we controlled by fate? Do we create ourselves? Who is God? Is there a God? How do we define God? And to what degree do our actions define us?
Caprica is lighter in tone than BSG. So may or may not appeal to the people who found BSG a bit too grim or gritty for their taste. But it is also a bit slower paced with a smaller cast, at least so far. The focal point is two families - the Graystone's and the Adama's.
Caprica in some respects reminds me a great deal of a Japanese Anime film entitled Ghost in the Shell...say much more than that, and I give it away. It's probably not to everyone's tastes, but I find it rather intriguing. At least so far.
A bit off topic, but I read this bit which made me laugh:
No one over twenty-one could sustain moral superiority.
Sigh. If only that were true. ;-)
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Date: 2010-01-30 07:34 am (UTC)I think the comparison with Ghost in the shell (the movie, there are so many versions of that thing I stopped counting)is very fitting, with zoe living on in the net.
I'm really looking forward to the next episodes, though I try to rail in my enthusiasm and not get invested in the mystery plot, since I want to avoid to have the BSG experience again. It's a pity because it starts off very interesting with the suicide conspiracy and everything.
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Date: 2010-01-30 05:07 pm (UTC)Or was it BSG : The Plan? I tried to watch BSG- The Plan, which was written by Jane Espenson, and well, it makes the Retreat arc in the Buffy comics look tight, well-plotted, and amazing in comparison. In other words, I found it unwatchable. I'm beginning to wonder about Espenson and am now a little wary of Caprica.
The second episode is intriguing, because it explores what it would be like to be a girl stuck in a frightening and scary robot. I need to write a meta on Caprica...it's playing with my head. I could potentially fall in love with this series, but I am wary. I have a long love/hate relationship with BattleStar Galatica that goes back over 20 years. (I was in love with the first version back in the early 1980s, late 70s,
of course I was also 11 at the time - now I find the first version unwatchable, demonstrating how our tastes change over time. ;-) )
Loved version 2, the first season has got to be one of the best seasons of TV that I've ever seen...but by the third season it wandered off on a lot of tangents that did not entirely work. So we shall see, what this one does...so far, I'm intrigued, it's hitting a lot of topical issues - such as identity in an increasingly technological environment.
There's this great line - I'm Zoe, I'm her Avatar, and I'm a robot all at the same time - who am I?
Dollhouse is equally interesting but for different reasons.
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Date: 2010-01-30 05:25 pm (UTC)And yes, I wanted to throw things at my tv during the BSG finale (seriously in a way it even outdid the Neon genesis evangelion ending, with the crying shinji) and the plan did absolutely nothing to redeem it. It was only further proof that the cylons were just idiots.
The sad thing is, the show was amazing in so many ways, the characters were great, the first season was made of brilliant and half of the second too and then it started to go downhill, looking up a little bit during s4 only to come crashing in the end. Bwah, how could the same people who made 33 make up this lame esoteric excuse for a plot (omg, that turned into a rant again...sorry...I really have to stop that, I actually liked the Laura/Adama bits).
And yes, I was very intrigued by the second Caprica episode, by Zoe of course and also by the polyamourous teacher. I like the setting of this show a lot and I love that it relies on the female characters so strongly. It's really good, and it's going to have JM, but like you, I'm wary.
Epitaph Two on the other hand I really loved, the only bad fator being that the show was not as good as the epitaph episodes and I wish they had not had so bad timing. First they got stuck with far too many fillers and in the end everything was so rushed, some of thedevelopments ended up hard to believe.
But Epitaph two itself. great tv. I loved topher and they made me get behind Echo and Ballard (which I thought impossible), I loved the "I come with baggage" line.
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Date: 2010-01-30 06:05 pm (UTC)I liked the BSG finale more than you did, but I wasn't in love with it. I more or less expected it. There were a limited number of ways that they could go...and I figured that avenue was by far the most likely. Also the cylons were basically like the humans - they were reflections of each other. The show was rather obsessed with mirrors. That said? I admittedly preferred the darker ending when they landed on earth, only to discover a burned out planet.
It could have ended there, and I'd have been happy with it. ;-)
Didn't love Epitaph Two as much as you did. Not sure why, exactly.
Parts of it, I thought were rather striking and I wanted a bit more on - the Prya(Sierra)/Tony(Victor) relationship fascinated me, as did Topher/Adelle, and Alpha. Ballard and Echo...I just didn't care that much about one way or the other - the actors just didn't sell me on it for some reason. I don't know why. Very subjective, I know, because a lot of people loved those two big time.
Also, it felt..well, I felt like I'd seen it before. Probably watched one too many post-apocalyptic tv shows and movies in my lifetime. After a while they all look a bit alike. ;-)
That said, there were some fascinating themes...the idea of the guy going inside the woman's head, becoming a part of her persona.
She incorporated him, he doesn't incorporate her. He becomes her construct, her anima. A nice role reversal - it is usually the opposite. That by itself made the episode well worth the trip.