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shadowkatDifficult work week - going back to it again tomorrow. Almost over with. With any luck...will be left alone to my own devices for most of the day, unlike last Friday. Snarky/cranky mood this week as a result of work and the monthly pain in the you know what.
Just finished watching Revenge - which I'm rather adoring at the moment. Such a fun manipulatively nasty soap.
Emily Thorn is turning into quite the complex heroine. As is her nemesis, the wicked Victoria Graystone. But my favorite character is definitely Nolan. Oh yes, dear friends, I definitely have a type. Somewhere around oh 2000, maybe 2002, my type shifted from tall thick dark andwhiny broody to lean, somewhat tall, light haired and snarky. I don't know what happened?
Last night's episode was a lot more fun than last week's - more happened, there were more twists, and more of the back-story was revealed. We now know why the Graystone's did what they did to Emily!Amanda's father and Emily herself.
This story is rather well plotted. Not that many gaps. And the emotion feels real and less manipulated than some of these types of series.
I also loved Nolan's what the fuck just happened, expression. We got more information on him as well and why he's hanging about. This series is moving along nicely. So far the best of the new crop of fall tv shows. Certainly the most entertaining.
Nolan to Emily: I promised your father that I would watch over you. But every time I try, you kick me out - so I set up a camera out of desperation.
Emily's Father in voice-over: Conrad Graystone and Victoria had friends go down in the flight - that their money-laundering resulted in. They had no choice but to set someone else to take the fall, so I was their patsy. But guilt is an interesting thing, it can make people go to extraordinary lengths.
Victoria to Conrad and his security chief: We have to do something to help those people. I'm not sure I can endure this guilt much longer.
Conrad (who clearly is not blessed with a conscience and a complete sociopath): Hmmm, you know that could make our company look even better and help our ratings and shares. Look into that.
Tyler? I'm wondering about Tyler and what his game is. He appears to have his own agenda, and much like Emily, it does not appear to be a nice one. He is not Daniel's friend. Did he kill Daniel? And set up someone else? Beginning to think it wasn't Emily or anything Emily did?
This show is not predictable. I did not see Lydia getting killed, I thought she'd left. Which means the other characters that Emily did in, could potentially pop up again. Also apparently Emily did not intend on Lydia getting killed by Conrad. Not sure what she intended. Nolan was clearly upset by it. I'm guessing Nolan is trying to follow the path the father wanted, and is torn up inside because he's failing miserably?
The show's depiction of the consequences of one's actions is rather interesting and reminiscent of both Dumas and Victor Hugo. Each action has a counter-action, and so on. Also the power games the characters are playing with each other are rather entertaining and unpredictable.
It's far from perfect, but it is fun.
In other news...I got my rant in this week, in part because I couldn't vent about work, so vented about cultural pursuits instead - not here, please, elsewhere, nicely hidden within 285 similar rants, I think mine may be wedged somewhere between a rant I agree with and one I don't quite agree with. LOL! A friend kindly gave us all a space to vent - some 285 comments and counting. (I wonder if they knew what they were getting into? And I seriously hope they turned off their comments and did not get all these emailed to them, I don't get any comments to my lj posts emailed to me anymore. Don't know why - lj just doesn't do it for some reason. And yes, I tried everything to change it, finally just gave up. It may be a good thing. Much prefer to check the inbox on lj instead.) No, I'm not telling where - if I said where, then the comment wouldn't be nicely hidden now would it? And there'd be no point. The people who found it - were similarily inclined, so next best thing to having it filtered.
I don't really permit myself to do much ranting on my lj, or try not to (I'm human I screw up on occasion) since it is a very good way to lose readers. Particularly when you rant about things your friends and readers love and adore, such as say... oh I don't know...Joss Whedon and the Buffyverse?
It's ironic really. What brought me online, and what I wrote obsessively about for an incredibly long time and avoided or ranked on other people for ranting negatively about ...is now something I feel the oddest desire to rank on. Highly ironic. That. Not quite sure why that is. It's almost as if I want to hurt the writer for disappointing me? For not living up to my expectations? For falling down on the job?
It's odd what we do to entertainers...this weird worship/putting up on pedestals that they can never quite live up to. They are after all, when it is all said and done, flawed human beings like ourselves, whose stories are well mere expressions of their psyche's and experiences...and as a result reflect their limitations as storytellers - because they cannot know what we know, they cannot see into the psyche of the other, the one who lies far outside themselves. I think one of the problems with loving something is ...disappointment lurks around every corner? We want the writer/entertainer to reflect our own experience or at the very least show us something new, show use a view that either reinforces our world-view or changes it or challenges it in a positive way. We want to be thrilled, fascinated, and well fill in the blank. And when we find a writer who has done that consistently and well, then suddenly doesn't. And we suddenly realize everything we saw in his work, everything that made us happy and thrilled was a mirage, it did not exist, except inside our own mind and the reality was well...what's the phrase...I thought I saw the light at the end of the tunnel, but in reality it was just a passing train? There's nothing worse...I think than disillusionment, disappointment, realizing what you loved is a fraud, an illusion that you created inside your head. And the question becomes...is this the fault of the writer or entertainer that you loved so dearly, or you..(I mean general you, or me actually) ?
I don't know. I need to go to bed now.
Just finished watching Revenge - which I'm rather adoring at the moment. Such a fun manipulatively nasty soap.
Emily Thorn is turning into quite the complex heroine. As is her nemesis, the wicked Victoria Graystone. But my favorite character is definitely Nolan. Oh yes, dear friends, I definitely have a type. Somewhere around oh 2000, maybe 2002, my type shifted from tall thick dark and
Last night's episode was a lot more fun than last week's - more happened, there were more twists, and more of the back-story was revealed. We now know why the Graystone's did what they did to Emily!Amanda's father and Emily herself.
This story is rather well plotted. Not that many gaps. And the emotion feels real and less manipulated than some of these types of series.
I also loved Nolan's what the fuck just happened, expression. We got more information on him as well and why he's hanging about. This series is moving along nicely. So far the best of the new crop of fall tv shows. Certainly the most entertaining.
Nolan to Emily: I promised your father that I would watch over you. But every time I try, you kick me out - so I set up a camera out of desperation.
Emily's Father in voice-over: Conrad Graystone and Victoria had friends go down in the flight - that their money-laundering resulted in. They had no choice but to set someone else to take the fall, so I was their patsy. But guilt is an interesting thing, it can make people go to extraordinary lengths.
Victoria to Conrad and his security chief: We have to do something to help those people. I'm not sure I can endure this guilt much longer.
Conrad (who clearly is not blessed with a conscience and a complete sociopath): Hmmm, you know that could make our company look even better and help our ratings and shares. Look into that.
Tyler? I'm wondering about Tyler and what his game is. He appears to have his own agenda, and much like Emily, it does not appear to be a nice one. He is not Daniel's friend. Did he kill Daniel? And set up someone else? Beginning to think it wasn't Emily or anything Emily did?
This show is not predictable. I did not see Lydia getting killed, I thought she'd left. Which means the other characters that Emily did in, could potentially pop up again. Also apparently Emily did not intend on Lydia getting killed by Conrad. Not sure what she intended. Nolan was clearly upset by it. I'm guessing Nolan is trying to follow the path the father wanted, and is torn up inside because he's failing miserably?
The show's depiction of the consequences of one's actions is rather interesting and reminiscent of both Dumas and Victor Hugo. Each action has a counter-action, and so on. Also the power games the characters are playing with each other are rather entertaining and unpredictable.
It's far from perfect, but it is fun.
In other news...I got my rant in this week, in part because I couldn't vent about work, so vented about cultural pursuits instead - not here, please, elsewhere, nicely hidden within 285 similar rants, I think mine may be wedged somewhere between a rant I agree with and one I don't quite agree with. LOL! A friend kindly gave us all a space to vent - some 285 comments and counting. (I wonder if they knew what they were getting into? And I seriously hope they turned off their comments and did not get all these emailed to them, I don't get any comments to my lj posts emailed to me anymore. Don't know why - lj just doesn't do it for some reason. And yes, I tried everything to change it, finally just gave up. It may be a good thing. Much prefer to check the inbox on lj instead.) No, I'm not telling where - if I said where, then the comment wouldn't be nicely hidden now would it? And there'd be no point. The people who found it - were similarily inclined, so next best thing to having it filtered.
I don't really permit myself to do much ranting on my lj, or try not to (I'm human I screw up on occasion) since it is a very good way to lose readers. Particularly when you rant about things your friends and readers love and adore, such as say... oh I don't know...Joss Whedon and the Buffyverse?
It's ironic really. What brought me online, and what I wrote obsessively about for an incredibly long time and avoided or ranked on other people for ranting negatively about ...is now something I feel the oddest desire to rank on. Highly ironic. That. Not quite sure why that is. It's almost as if I want to hurt the writer for disappointing me? For not living up to my expectations? For falling down on the job?
It's odd what we do to entertainers...this weird worship/putting up on pedestals that they can never quite live up to. They are after all, when it is all said and done, flawed human beings like ourselves, whose stories are well mere expressions of their psyche's and experiences...and as a result reflect their limitations as storytellers - because they cannot know what we know, they cannot see into the psyche of the other, the one who lies far outside themselves. I think one of the problems with loving something is ...disappointment lurks around every corner? We want the writer/entertainer to reflect our own experience or at the very least show us something new, show use a view that either reinforces our world-view or changes it or challenges it in a positive way. We want to be thrilled, fascinated, and well fill in the blank. And when we find a writer who has done that consistently and well, then suddenly doesn't. And we suddenly realize everything we saw in his work, everything that made us happy and thrilled was a mirage, it did not exist, except inside our own mind and the reality was well...what's the phrase...I thought I saw the light at the end of the tunnel, but in reality it was just a passing train? There's nothing worse...I think than disillusionment, disappointment, realizing what you loved is a fraud, an illusion that you created inside your head. And the question becomes...is this the fault of the writer or entertainer that you loved so dearly, or you..(I mean general you, or me actually) ?
I don't know. I need to go to bed now.
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Date: 2011-10-21 07:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-21 10:11 pm (UTC)That's exactly how I feel at the moment. Although I didn't come to this conclusion until the final 10 issues of the comics, in which I saw the pattern finally and realized, wait - I've made this whole series into way more than it ever was? Damn. How embarrassing. Not to mention disappointing.