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shadowkat1. This link touched me today in such a way that tears silently rolled from my eyes:
http://65redroses.livejournal.com/139488.html?nc=1147
It's the journal of a young woman who had cystic fibrosis and recently died. Her words remind me a bit of Cassie's from the BTVS episode "Help" except different.
2. Today is cool, but soft and springlike, with a bit of flower in the air, and a light dusting of rain...and I went to my new church to listen to a liturgical choir on Palm Sunday. The Choir was singing a new arrangement on Handel's Chandos Anthem - using the psalm from David in the Old Testament, My song Alway. Was quite lovely and I'm not a fan of liturgical choral music - tends to put me to sleep or just annoy me. But this was lovely, felt a bit like listening to a rumbling brook or a quiet breeze in a glade as swans swim by. Although, in reality, I was sitting on a cedar pew, with a red cushion beneath me, staring up at tiffany stained glass, with light streaming in, as the choir sang...their voices melding with the string instruments that backed them.
As I sat there, I thought on other things...
As a child my father used to entertain me in church by clasping his hands together and saying, this is the church, then steepling his index fingers, and here is the steeple, and...he'd open up his thumbs (open the doors), and then wriggle his fingers - "here are all the people".
Looking around the church - it struck me, not for the first time, that it was the people that made it what is was. The choir, the pastor/minister, the congregation...it always is, regardless of the religion.
3. Found this while looking for spoilage on Buffy Issue 35 - which I'm still being foiled on.
Dang it. I want to know where the stupid story is heading before I invest any more of my precious time and money on it. If it's heading towards Twuffy fighting the big bad and living happily ever after? Count me out. Because you know, that's just beyond my capabilities of suspenison of disbelief. Plus if I wanted to read that - I'd be reading the Twilight novels, thank you very much.
Anyhow, what I did find out, which you may already know about and chose to ignore...is what that one-shot I predicted would show up either in August or December would be.
In the break between Buffy #35 and 36, there will be a one-shot centered on Riley the purpose of which will be to explain a lot of the plot developments that have recently happened in "Season Eight." #36 will be out in September where Joss Whedon will conclude the writing of the final five-issue arc.
Apparently they realized that Riley hasn't been doing anything in the comics and they sort of need to explain what he has been doing so that we can you know actually care when and if he kicks the bucket. (Don't worry, Whedon only kills characters I like not one's I'm ambivalent about. Well he might kill them, but they usually get brought back without skin.)
Am curious to see if they can make the character actually interesting and not just further the cliche on military dudley do-right that they started - since As You Were. Shame. Was a half-way interesting character up As You Were, and any hopes that I might have had of the comics changing that foul-up has been blown to smithereens. Something tells me the one-shot isn't going to help that any - unless Whedon writes it, as opposed to Petrie or someone else.
Personally, I just wish they'd get on with the story already. The fact they are still doing well and still have readers, like myself, is bewildering considering how thin this story has been stretched out. What can I say? We're all clearly masochists when it comes to serials written by Joss Whedon.
4. Caprica - not much to say really. I liked last week's episode better. The best parts were the three girls, the weak parts focused on Clarice Willow and Amanda Graystone - who may have died, but not so lucky on Clarice Willow - who I was really hoping would die, that character is beginning to just annoy me. And I'm beginning to agree - the STO story isn't working. I only know why Barnabas is a terrorist from James Marsters interviews on the topic, not from the show. I should know from the show! We need an episode that tells us exactly why Barnarbas is blowing things up. Right now, he seems to be doing it as a bit of a power-play with Willow. He's more of a smuggler than anything else - but we don't know what or why he is smuggling things. All we know is he like Willow manipulates teens to do his bidding - which is realistic, lots of religious cults recruit teenagers to do their bidding - was all the rage back in the 1970s. Saw numerous movies about it.
At any rate, I will state I liked the scenes with Marsters, even if they didn't make a lot sense. And felt incoherent. Not Marsters fault. That's the writing. The writers clearly have not figured out the whole STO angle yet.
What does work...is the scenes between Zoe and Philoben, Zoe and Graystone, and Zoe and Lacey.
Also the whole bit with Tamara, Josef and Josef's female friend (who it turns out was also aiding him in the V-world). Her interaction with Tamara was interesting. She lets Tamara know that Tamara has to sever the link to her father so both of them can move on. Her father can't live in the virtual world and Tamara can't come back to the real one.
So while I still adore Caprica on many levels, the story is uneven when it comes to the STO.
This could change once things heat up...and we get into Lacy's character a bit more. Up to now, she's been on the periphery aiding Zoe. When the series picks up again, she may be front and center. Also Willow is clearly going to be more involved...according to the previews.
But right now...that part of the story is the weak link. I'm hoping they are daring enough to let Amanda Graystone bite the bullet so to speak, because her arc was also weighing the story down. But I doubt it. There's a secret there - that we haven't been told - a reason why she wanted to kill herself - what did she see in that room. Was it a memory? Not sure.
http://65redroses.livejournal.com/139488.html?nc=1147
It's the journal of a young woman who had cystic fibrosis and recently died. Her words remind me a bit of Cassie's from the BTVS episode "Help" except different.
2. Today is cool, but soft and springlike, with a bit of flower in the air, and a light dusting of rain...and I went to my new church to listen to a liturgical choir on Palm Sunday. The Choir was singing a new arrangement on Handel's Chandos Anthem - using the psalm from David in the Old Testament, My song Alway. Was quite lovely and I'm not a fan of liturgical choral music - tends to put me to sleep or just annoy me. But this was lovely, felt a bit like listening to a rumbling brook or a quiet breeze in a glade as swans swim by. Although, in reality, I was sitting on a cedar pew, with a red cushion beneath me, staring up at tiffany stained glass, with light streaming in, as the choir sang...their voices melding with the string instruments that backed them.
As I sat there, I thought on other things...
As a child my father used to entertain me in church by clasping his hands together and saying, this is the church, then steepling his index fingers, and here is the steeple, and...he'd open up his thumbs (open the doors), and then wriggle his fingers - "here are all the people".
Looking around the church - it struck me, not for the first time, that it was the people that made it what is was. The choir, the pastor/minister, the congregation...it always is, regardless of the religion.
3. Found this while looking for spoilage on Buffy Issue 35 - which I'm still being foiled on.
Dang it. I want to know where the stupid story is heading before I invest any more of my precious time and money on it. If it's heading towards Twuffy fighting the big bad and living happily ever after? Count me out. Because you know, that's just beyond my capabilities of suspenison of disbelief. Plus if I wanted to read that - I'd be reading the Twilight novels, thank you very much.
Anyhow, what I did find out, which you may already know about and chose to ignore...is what that one-shot I predicted would show up either in August or December would be.
In the break between Buffy #35 and 36, there will be a one-shot centered on Riley the purpose of which will be to explain a lot of the plot developments that have recently happened in "Season Eight." #36 will be out in September where Joss Whedon will conclude the writing of the final five-issue arc.
Apparently they realized that Riley hasn't been doing anything in the comics and they sort of need to explain what he has been doing so that we can you know actually care when and if he kicks the bucket. (Don't worry, Whedon only kills characters I like not one's I'm ambivalent about. Well he might kill them, but they usually get brought back without skin.)
Am curious to see if they can make the character actually interesting and not just further the cliche on military dudley do-right that they started - since As You Were. Shame. Was a half-way interesting character up As You Were, and any hopes that I might have had of the comics changing that foul-up has been blown to smithereens. Something tells me the one-shot isn't going to help that any - unless Whedon writes it, as opposed to Petrie or someone else.
Personally, I just wish they'd get on with the story already. The fact they are still doing well and still have readers, like myself, is bewildering considering how thin this story has been stretched out. What can I say? We're all clearly masochists when it comes to serials written by Joss Whedon.
4. Caprica - not much to say really. I liked last week's episode better. The best parts were the three girls, the weak parts focused on Clarice Willow and Amanda Graystone - who may have died, but not so lucky on Clarice Willow - who I was really hoping would die, that character is beginning to just annoy me. And I'm beginning to agree - the STO story isn't working. I only know why Barnabas is a terrorist from James Marsters interviews on the topic, not from the show. I should know from the show! We need an episode that tells us exactly why Barnarbas is blowing things up. Right now, he seems to be doing it as a bit of a power-play with Willow. He's more of a smuggler than anything else - but we don't know what or why he is smuggling things. All we know is he like Willow manipulates teens to do his bidding - which is realistic, lots of religious cults recruit teenagers to do their bidding - was all the rage back in the 1970s. Saw numerous movies about it.
At any rate, I will state I liked the scenes with Marsters, even if they didn't make a lot sense. And felt incoherent. Not Marsters fault. That's the writing. The writers clearly have not figured out the whole STO angle yet.
What does work...is the scenes between Zoe and Philoben, Zoe and Graystone, and Zoe and Lacey.
Also the whole bit with Tamara, Josef and Josef's female friend (who it turns out was also aiding him in the V-world). Her interaction with Tamara was interesting. She lets Tamara know that Tamara has to sever the link to her father so both of them can move on. Her father can't live in the virtual world and Tamara can't come back to the real one.
So while I still adore Caprica on many levels, the story is uneven when it comes to the STO.
This could change once things heat up...and we get into Lacy's character a bit more. Up to now, she's been on the periphery aiding Zoe. When the series picks up again, she may be front and center. Also Willow is clearly going to be more involved...according to the previews.
But right now...that part of the story is the weak link. I'm hoping they are daring enough to let Amanda Graystone bite the bullet so to speak, because her arc was also weighing the story down. But I doubt it. There's a secret there - that we haven't been told - a reason why she wanted to kill herself - what did she see in that room. Was it a memory? Not sure.
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Date: 2010-03-29 09:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-29 04:40 pm (UTC)I get that Whedon's going for some metaphorical theme on Buffy and her exe's who resemble her Daddy issues here...but seriously...this could be better done.
Oh well, I'll wait and see what people think of it.
I'm just hoping it's not Espenson filling the blanks of her Retreat arc.
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Date: 2010-03-29 05:04 pm (UTC)Agreed. Was so disappointed in that arc, though looking back I'm not sure how much of it was Jane's fault. It depends on whether she was just given marks to hit to get the story from A to B, or whether she was told in specific detail what to write.
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Date: 2010-03-30 04:56 pm (UTC)(Which explains a lot.) She acted more like a hired gun, then
part of the actual team, which to date appears to be just Whedon, Meltzer, Jeanty and Allie.
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Date: 2010-03-30 08:48 pm (UTC)Mind you, she was badly let down by the art. Battle scenes are not Jeanty's forte.
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Date: 2010-03-30 11:58 pm (UTC)Although - I think the plot points are Whedon's not Espenson. I give Espenson credit for the stuff I liked and Whedon/Allie credit for the stuff I didn't. ;-)
Sigh. To be honest, I'm very close to giving up on the comics at this point. After looking at the preview pages of issue 34, it's going to take a lot for me to buy that issue (which looks like a piece of crap based on those four pages alone) and issue 35. OR to
continue after that. I'm not liking the story the writer has chosen to tell me and I've reached the point in my life that if I don't like a story, if it bores me? I stop reading. Life is painful and tough enough without adding to it.