The Whine Post
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shadowkatWith any luck we won't get a foot of snow tomorrow and I'll be able to get to work. Because I really don't want to use up a personal day or vacation day on this. Reserving the comp hours for doctor appointments. Work is frustrating enough. We can't pay anyone because of stupid new purchasing database system. Why is it that every time someone comes up with a great new software upgrade or improvement it sets everyone back five years? EX: Hopstop used to be the best way to figure out how to get to and from places fast, but they upgraded their site and are now useless.
Been re-reading Nautibitz's Crave on my Kindle, because I can't find anything else that fits that specific type of story to read instead. Believe me, I looked. A lot. Ended up on an insane manip porn site that had me cackling...those poor poor actors.
Came to the conclusion, after much pondering (okay not that much) - that Whedon is no longer telling stories that interest me. He's asking and answering the wrong questions. This was a bit of an epithany actually - the latter bit, not the former (I figured out that his story wasn't interesting me last year, I may be dense but not that dense.) This happens on occasion - you become obsessed with a story or characters in a story (happens more if you become obsessed with the characters and not the story - always dicey that - particularly for the writer), and suddenly you realize that the questions you want asked and answered the writer isn't asking or for that matter bothering to answer, instead he's answering or asking a whole slew of other questions that you either don't give one fig about (or could not care less), already knew and therefore don't understand why he's posing them since they are pretty obvious to you and therefore a bit redundant, or really would rather not think about, focus on, or consider (because they offend you or really, really push your buttons and make you want to kick the writer really hard in the balls for bringing up such a sore topic and in such an offensive way to you (- note I mean "you" generally and offensive specifically to an individual person). All of the above, in case you are at all curious - happened to me regarding the Buffy comics.
I realized this while reading a review of Caprica, oddly enough. When the writer stated Caprica is asking the wrong questions and answering the wrong ones - I thought, A-HA, that's it! Whedon in his comic books has been answering the wrong questions and asking the wrong ones from my pov.
(And since I need to make dinner and it's getting late - have decided to spare you a lengthy discourse on exactly which questions he's not answering or asking that I really wish he was. )
Been re-reading Nautibitz's Crave on my Kindle, because I can't find anything else that fits that specific type of story to read instead. Believe me, I looked. A lot. Ended up on an insane manip porn site that had me cackling...those poor poor actors.
Came to the conclusion, after much pondering (okay not that much) - that Whedon is no longer telling stories that interest me. He's asking and answering the wrong questions. This was a bit of an epithany actually - the latter bit, not the former (I figured out that his story wasn't interesting me last year, I may be dense but not that dense.) This happens on occasion - you become obsessed with a story or characters in a story (happens more if you become obsessed with the characters and not the story - always dicey that - particularly for the writer), and suddenly you realize that the questions you want asked and answered the writer isn't asking or for that matter bothering to answer, instead he's answering or asking a whole slew of other questions that you either don't give one fig about (or could not care less), already knew and therefore don't understand why he's posing them since they are pretty obvious to you and therefore a bit redundant, or really would rather not think about, focus on, or consider (because they offend you or really, really push your buttons and make you want to kick the writer really hard in the balls for bringing up such a sore topic and in such an offensive way to you (- note I mean "you" generally and offensive specifically to an individual person). All of the above, in case you are at all curious - happened to me regarding the Buffy comics.
I realized this while reading a review of Caprica, oddly enough. When the writer stated Caprica is asking the wrong questions and answering the wrong ones - I thought, A-HA, that's it! Whedon in his comic books has been answering the wrong questions and asking the wrong ones from my pov.
(And since I need to make dinner and it's getting late - have decided to spare you a lengthy discourse on exactly which questions he's not answering or asking that I really wish he was. )
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Date: 2011-01-12 12:47 am (UTC)Joss can write great stories, as long as there is a budget to restrain him. Then he can sit down and put his mind into real action, and think about it.
With Buffy's story now going into a comic form, he has had no restrains, and he just went wild, without trying to find ways to actually fit a story into something realistic, something that actually makes sense.
So, he just let his imagination rule his ideas, without actually thinking about them the way he would have done if he had had a budget in front of him.
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Date: 2011-01-12 01:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-12 01:41 am (UTC)But, but - i wanna know. (Because most of what You say is interesting to me. Hence, the questions You have....)
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Date: 2011-01-12 01:46 am (UTC)Must likely will list when I get around to doing the review of issue 40 - when it comes out.
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Date: 2011-01-12 10:15 am (UTC)Agreed. It's why the comics have alternately bored and upset me and at all times left me feeling frustrated.