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shadowkat1. The current fight debate on health care in the US (now that the bill has been signed into law) reminds me of the wars in various fandoms. Nice to know that people are consistently stubborn about adhering to their pov no matter what. And somewhat crazy in expressing it. Although to be honest? I think the people haggling over health care have long surpassed the craziest of fans. It's a bit frightening to realize that a professional news commentator can be crazier than a teenage fan on the internet. Or reassuring, I can't decide which. Been one of those weeks.
Overheard two co-workers discussing it this morning. One insisted that this was evidence that the end was near. Both sides had gone insane. Actually, everyone had gone crazy. And maybe he should head off to the hills and become a mountain person, live off the land, and in a bunker until it passes over. Granted work has been nutty lately, but not that nutty --- okay, wait, they are discussing the health care debate and NY State politics.
Got it.
2. Work is killing me right now. Strung out. Had several panic attacks. And feel like I'm being pulled in five directions at once. Don't want to talk about it. Just throwing it out there to let you know, real life is kicking my butt - so don't have the energy to spend much time writing or online and if this post comes across as a tad snarky and cranky, that's why. I come home at night and crash in front of the telly, a complete zombie (in the metaphorical sense not the literal one of course.)
3. I'm considering giving up on Damages - I don't care about anyone - both women characters, Rose and Patty, are people that I feel an overwhelming desire to slap repeatedly whenever they are on-screen, probably does not help that I've met them in real life and went to law school with them, reasons 500 and 501 of why I am NOT a lawyer, and find my attention wandering. Plus, bored. And it's plugging up my DVR. I may just let it delete itself.
4. Lost - sigh. Well that was a thrill and a half. NOT. You know actually![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
selenak pretty much said everything I thought about the episode in her journal already. So did wee_warrior for that matter. Which was basically... if I was stuck on an island with a sanctimonious prick who liked to lure people to the island in order to play out sick morality plays to convince me that people weren't corruptible, I might become a homicidial maniac too.
There were some interesting bits...unfortunately they were at the very beginning such as the first five minutes, but hey we can't have everything.
* The good: Ben's quip ..."Oh this should be interesting"...regarding Jack finding out FINALLY that Locke came back from the dead but as Smokey! Hilarious. I love Ben.
And Richard Alpert's response to Illana's statement that Jacob told them to ask Ricardo (Richard Alpert) what to do once they had the candidates together ...and Alpert said, "Don't look at me. I've no idea. Jacob never told me anything. It's time I went to try the other one."
The reappearance of the Man in Black otherwise known as Smokey - who explained why he had become smokey - Jacob removed his humanity. Also explained Not!Lock's comment about those chains.
*The bad? Alpert's entire back story - which appears to be stolen from a historical romance novel or maybe an Alexander Dumas novel, could be Captain Blood or a comic. Guessing a comic. At any rate it's a cliche. And a bad one.
I was bored from the moment we met the painfully beautiful and dying wife, Isabella. And it took forever for them to get to the point. I remember looking at the tv and saying - aloud - okay, enough with the lying about in chains, free him already. I'll say this for the Sideways verse episodes - at least we flipped back and forth and kept the momentum going. This baby spent far too much time with poor Alpert struggling in the boat...I almost fast-forwarded.
Personally, I think my idea about Alpert being part of the East India Company made more sense and was more interesting...or having him be an Egyptian. You know you have a problem with the way the story is going when... your ideas or your friends ideas for the plot are much more interesting and innovative than well what the writers have come up with. Not to mention the fact that my idea was more historically accurate.
They clearly made him Spainish - because a)the actor is Spainish and can speak fluid Spainish, and b) Hurley Reyes speaks Spainish. So voila. Hurley can't speak Egyptian. And they needed Hurley to use his ghost seeing skills...
Hurley is beginning to grate on my nerves. He is rapidly becoming like the Charlie character in S1 and 2, or the character that I most want to see bite the dust...shame, because I rather adored the character in the first three seasons. The character has had little development since maybe season 3. I think they ran into a brick wall. Don't worry, I'll be shocked if they kill him any time soon.
It's probably not a good thing that I'm rooting for Team Smokey, is it? Or Smokey period?
At any rate, I think I've figured out Jacob and Smokey. Jacob is a jailer, the island is a jail, and Smokey is a prisoner that Jacob must keep confined and hopefully rehabilitate. It's either that or another twist on the conceit that God is a dick and the devil is basically just trying to have a life, wait no...maybe it's supposed to be the other way around. Hard to tell, Mark Pellingero seems to be playing Jacob much the same way he is playing the Devil in Supernatural except I like him better in Supernatural.
At any rate...have come to the conclusion that this story is going to end with everyone dead but Not!Lock and Jack, who are sitting on a cliff-face, with Jack luring more people to the island to play out morality games, while Lock pesters him about leaving. Which would be ironic, sure, but isn't all that interesting to me.
5. Been watching or streaming Being Erica , the Canadian tv series, via my DVR - which is shown on SoapNEt in the US. Watched several episodes in a row this week. Quite a cool little show. Rather enjoying it and its premise. Also it meets the Bechdel Test, well most of the time, just not in the last two episodes, but you can't have everything. I'm in love with Kai - who has a definite Spike-ish air about him. He even moves a little like Marsters did in that role. And Erin Karplunk as Erica is wonderful. She's also the best thing on Life Unexpected - which I'm getting close to giving up on. Yep, the one notable thing about Life Unexpected is the actress playing Erica, has a recurring role as Kate Cassidy's best bud and producer on Life.
Overheard two co-workers discussing it this morning. One insisted that this was evidence that the end was near. Both sides had gone insane. Actually, everyone had gone crazy. And maybe he should head off to the hills and become a mountain person, live off the land, and in a bunker until it passes over. Granted work has been nutty lately, but not that nutty --- okay, wait, they are discussing the health care debate and NY State politics.
Got it.
2. Work is killing me right now. Strung out. Had several panic attacks. And feel like I'm being pulled in five directions at once. Don't want to talk about it. Just throwing it out there to let you know, real life is kicking my butt - so don't have the energy to spend much time writing or online and if this post comes across as a tad snarky and cranky, that's why. I come home at night and crash in front of the telly, a complete zombie (in the metaphorical sense not the literal one of course.)
3. I'm considering giving up on Damages - I don't care about anyone - both women characters, Rose and Patty, are people that I feel an overwhelming desire to slap repeatedly whenever they are on-screen, probably does not help that I've met them in real life and went to law school with them, reasons 500 and 501 of why I am NOT a lawyer, and find my attention wandering. Plus, bored. And it's plugging up my DVR. I may just let it delete itself.
4. Lost - sigh. Well that was a thrill and a half. NOT. You know actually
selenak pretty much said everything I thought about the episode in her journal already. So did wee_warrior for that matter. Which was basically... if I was stuck on an island with a sanctimonious prick who liked to lure people to the island in order to play out sick morality plays to convince me that people weren't corruptible, I might become a homicidial maniac too. There were some interesting bits...unfortunately they were at the very beginning such as the first five minutes, but hey we can't have everything.
* The good: Ben's quip ..."Oh this should be interesting"...regarding Jack finding out FINALLY that Locke came back from the dead but as Smokey! Hilarious. I love Ben.
And Richard Alpert's response to Illana's statement that Jacob told them to ask Ricardo (Richard Alpert) what to do once they had the candidates together ...and Alpert said, "Don't look at me. I've no idea. Jacob never told me anything. It's time I went to try the other one."
The reappearance of the Man in Black otherwise known as Smokey - who explained why he had become smokey - Jacob removed his humanity. Also explained Not!Lock's comment about those chains.
*The bad? Alpert's entire back story - which appears to be stolen from a historical romance novel or maybe an Alexander Dumas novel, could be Captain Blood or a comic. Guessing a comic. At any rate it's a cliche. And a bad one.
I was bored from the moment we met the painfully beautiful and dying wife, Isabella. And it took forever for them to get to the point. I remember looking at the tv and saying - aloud - okay, enough with the lying about in chains, free him already. I'll say this for the Sideways verse episodes - at least we flipped back and forth and kept the momentum going. This baby spent far too much time with poor Alpert struggling in the boat...I almost fast-forwarded.
Personally, I think my idea about Alpert being part of the East India Company made more sense and was more interesting...or having him be an Egyptian. You know you have a problem with the way the story is going when... your ideas or your friends ideas for the plot are much more interesting and innovative than well what the writers have come up with. Not to mention the fact that my idea was more historically accurate.
They clearly made him Spainish - because a)the actor is Spainish and can speak fluid Spainish, and b) Hurley Reyes speaks Spainish. So voila. Hurley can't speak Egyptian. And they needed Hurley to use his ghost seeing skills...
Hurley is beginning to grate on my nerves. He is rapidly becoming like the Charlie character in S1 and 2, or the character that I most want to see bite the dust...shame, because I rather adored the character in the first three seasons. The character has had little development since maybe season 3. I think they ran into a brick wall. Don't worry, I'll be shocked if they kill him any time soon.
It's probably not a good thing that I'm rooting for Team Smokey, is it? Or Smokey period?
At any rate, I think I've figured out Jacob and Smokey. Jacob is a jailer, the island is a jail, and Smokey is a prisoner that Jacob must keep confined and hopefully rehabilitate. It's either that or another twist on the conceit that God is a dick and the devil is basically just trying to have a life, wait no...maybe it's supposed to be the other way around. Hard to tell, Mark Pellingero seems to be playing Jacob much the same way he is playing the Devil in Supernatural except I like him better in Supernatural.
At any rate...have come to the conclusion that this story is going to end with everyone dead but Not!Lock and Jack, who are sitting on a cliff-face, with Jack luring more people to the island to play out morality games, while Lock pesters him about leaving. Which would be ironic, sure, but isn't all that interesting to me.
5. Been watching or streaming Being Erica , the Canadian tv series, via my DVR - which is shown on SoapNEt in the US. Watched several episodes in a row this week. Quite a cool little show. Rather enjoying it and its premise. Also it meets the Bechdel Test, well most of the time, just not in the last two episodes, but you can't have everything. I'm in love with Kai - who has a definite Spike-ish air about him. He even moves a little like Marsters did in that role. And Erin Karplunk as Erica is wonderful. She's also the best thing on Life Unexpected - which I'm getting close to giving up on. Yep, the one notable thing about Life Unexpected is the actress playing Erica, has a recurring role as Kate Cassidy's best bud and producer on Life.
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Date: 2010-03-27 11:56 pm (UTC)How bringing people to an island where the odds are excellent that they will end up dead long before they solve their problems counts as benevolent, I'm not sure. And in any case, the sidewaysverse as an expression of jacob's benevolent plan makes no sense, because it also includes people like Claire and Locke who are on Smokey's side, and people like Sawyer who don't give a damn for either side.
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Date: 2010-03-28 03:18 am (UTC)a) Jacob had nothing to do with the SidewaysVerse - Juliet pushed the button, and Juliet was not touched by Jacob nor lured there by Jacob. Ben lured her to the island.
b) Even if you could prove Jacob influenced Juliet - he wasn't responsible for Faraday or Jack deciding to blow up the island.
Actually he was oblivious. As was Smokey.
c)How bringing people to an island where the odds are excellent that they will end up dead long before they solve their problems counts as benevolent, I'm not sure - considering everyone who has worked them out is either dead, crazy, or close to it...I can't see how it is benevolent either - that's sort of like saying Jigsaw in the Saw flicks (which I haven't seen because ewww, torture porn, but know enough about from reviews...) is benevolent for making people work out their issues by playing his twisted games. Where's the benevolence?
People are bewildering to me at times. I do know for a fact that everyone thinks differently, which explains a lot - I guess.
My cousin for example is a brilliant nuclear physicist, but when it comes to figuring out subtext, metaphors, and story threads in literature - he is clueless. He had his mom read the books and explain them to him. Yet, he can see math in five dimensions in his head. I see stories in my head, all the variables, and patterns ...but I can't count.
Also, a lot of it is what you want to see, what you filter out. It's like that old story about five people witnessing an accident and getting five contradictory stories...one of which sounds like it came from the planet mars.