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Aug. 14th, 2011 10:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatThe sky has opened up and it is raining buckets...with rumblings of thunder - so not braving the wilds for church today or the farmer's market for that matter. Rather like rainy days, they give you an excuse to sit at home and do relatively little but pitter about on the net, watch tv, read, and make up stories in one's own head. (I'm easy, I never really require much in the way of external entertainment, have always been quite capable of entertaining myself.)
If you, like me, found the NPR Sci/Fantasy Top 100 List relatively boring/annoying...go here to nominate your favorite sci-fantasy book, comic book, cartoon, graphic novel, short story, tv series, film or music (apparently there is actually music that fits in this category):
http://eruthros.dreamwidth.org/323096.html?page=4#comments
There's already 185 comments. I nominated Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the tv series) - rather glad I did, since there were quite a few Angel and Angel/Buffy nominations but no Buffy nominations. How can people think Angel was better? (I used to have this argument with my brother and sisinlaw and got no where...they hated the high school bit of Buffy and thought Angel dealt with more adult themes. Bullshit, in my opinion. The last four seasons, the best and most innovative were after high-school.) Haven't you guys watched/read much male centric anti-hero noir sci-fantasy tv, books, films, and comics? I mean - Angel had been done before quite a few times actually - hello? Forever Knight! Brimstone! American Gothic! Surely I wasn't the only person who watched those series? While Buffy had not EVER been done on TV before. Before Buffy - we didn't have female vampire slayers on tv - they were always the damsels. Angel was more comforting in a way because it stuck to the standard traditional trope -classic noir hero in a disfunctional world, filled with damsels and femme fatals...Buffy subverted that trope and jumped up and down on it.
Very glad someone else nominated Farscape, because I forgot about it - I know, insane, considering it is my favorite science-fiction series, bar none. Did nominate Joan D. Vinge's The Snow Queen and Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow - which no one else did (the later surprised me - The Sparrow is rather brilliant). Was rather glad people nominated Octavia Butler and CJ Cherryh - but no one nominated the Chanur series - which I adore, and forgot about - should have nominated that over Kim Harrison's The Hollows (dammit!). I need to read more Cherryh - The Foreigner series sounds rather interesting - I'm currently obsessed with sci-fi that delves in miscommunication or communication issues - which is what I loved about Farscape.
Hmmm..am I the only person who fell in love with LadyHawk? Hee.
We should do our own list for mystery and thrillers too, not to mention romance novels...was not happy with either of those lists either. Tried to do the romance novel list and gave up. Personally, favorite genre at the moment is sci-fantasy...I got burned out on straight up mystery/thriller and romance/chicklit a while back.
If you, like me, found the NPR Sci/Fantasy Top 100 List relatively boring/annoying...go here to nominate your favorite sci-fantasy book, comic book, cartoon, graphic novel, short story, tv series, film or music (apparently there is actually music that fits in this category):
http://eruthros.dreamwidth.org/323096.html?page=4#comments
There's already 185 comments. I nominated Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the tv series) - rather glad I did, since there were quite a few Angel and Angel/Buffy nominations but no Buffy nominations. How can people think Angel was better? (I used to have this argument with my brother and sisinlaw and got no where...they hated the high school bit of Buffy and thought Angel dealt with more adult themes. Bullshit, in my opinion. The last four seasons, the best and most innovative were after high-school.) Haven't you guys watched/read much male centric anti-hero noir sci-fantasy tv, books, films, and comics? I mean - Angel had been done before quite a few times actually - hello? Forever Knight! Brimstone! American Gothic! Surely I wasn't the only person who watched those series? While Buffy had not EVER been done on TV before. Before Buffy - we didn't have female vampire slayers on tv - they were always the damsels. Angel was more comforting in a way because it stuck to the standard traditional trope -classic noir hero in a disfunctional world, filled with damsels and femme fatals...Buffy subverted that trope and jumped up and down on it.
Very glad someone else nominated Farscape, because I forgot about it - I know, insane, considering it is my favorite science-fiction series, bar none. Did nominate Joan D. Vinge's The Snow Queen and Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow - which no one else did (the later surprised me - The Sparrow is rather brilliant). Was rather glad people nominated Octavia Butler and CJ Cherryh - but no one nominated the Chanur series - which I adore, and forgot about - should have nominated that over Kim Harrison's The Hollows (dammit!). I need to read more Cherryh - The Foreigner series sounds rather interesting - I'm currently obsessed with sci-fi that delves in miscommunication or communication issues - which is what I loved about Farscape.
Hmmm..am I the only person who fell in love with LadyHawk? Hee.
We should do our own list for mystery and thrillers too, not to mention romance novels...was not happy with either of those lists either. Tried to do the romance novel list and gave up. Personally, favorite genre at the moment is sci-fantasy...I got burned out on straight up mystery/thriller and romance/chicklit a while back.
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Date: 2011-08-14 06:51 pm (UTC)I never felt that Angel could hold a candle to Buffy or Firefly....
Although I did feel that the 5th season of Angel was a lot more interesting.
I'm not adding my picks to that blog because she obviously has way too many suggestions already, and I don't feel like signing in to dreamwidth.
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Date: 2011-08-14 08:59 pm (UTC)I liked the last two seasons of Angel, but admittedly those two seasons were more about Wesley, Fred, and Spike than they were Cordy and Angel, so that may be why.
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Date: 2011-08-14 10:22 pm (UTC)Of course neither site (ie dreamwidth and lj) seems to be relevant these days; most of my old friends from lj are only to be found at twitter and/or facebook now (which are both a very poor substitute because no one write more than a sentence at either one of those). It is a little frustrating because I still prefer the longer blog myself.