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shadowkat1. Was watching the Olympics because I'm too tired to focus on Breaking Bad, and it requires focus. My favorite events of the Olympics are the gymnastics, diving, track and swimming. During the weekend - I played videos from the Olympics on my ipad for my niece who loves the gymnastics. Like myself, she's impressed by anything she can't do. She is now watching old Mary Tyler Moore reruns on her ipad. I got into a bit of trouble with my brother for arguing with her about which version of Escape to Witch Mountain was better - the 2010 version with The Rock or the classic Disney version with Ike Eisenman and Kim Richards. She of course like visuals and CGI of the latter. But, she did watch the 1970s version twice in a row. So there is that. And was about to watch it 3rd time, before her Dad talked her into stopping and watch Mary Tyler Moore. (They watch all television on ipads or computers. Because they own an old tube tv with horrific resolution.)
2. On Breaking Bad...I've begun to like Skylar and Marie quite a bit. Didn't like either the first two years, but I didn't like anybody the first two years except possibly Hank. Everybody was very whiny. Breaking Bad is one of those series in which the characters sort of grow on you, and no, not like fungus. The characters are slowly revealed over the course of the series - layers peeled off like an onion. What I don't understand is why so many people don't? I've also noticed there are a lot of people who don't like Peggy on Mad Men or Meghan, but do love Joan and sigh Betty Draper?? I like Joan but not Betty. At any rate, what I'm seeing is an embrace of "traditional women" and
a denouncement of strong and difficult women who don't ahem stand by their man. Is this a reflection of our society? Or just personal taste? Not sure. I don't know why people like or don't like what they do. I only know why I do or don't like something, and well sometimes, I don't even know the answer to that.
3. Currently watching Bunheads - which I'm still enjoying, even though I would sort of like to kick the protagonist, Michelle, who seems to snark 24/7. I'm not sure she knows how not to snark. Proving that there actually can be too much snark. Who knew?
4. Lately there's been a lot of.. for want of a better word...trolling (or maybe bullying??) online. Yet another person on my flist went into rant mode about the crazy trolls/bullies commenting on her lj, who she had to beat back with a stick. (to be fair she had 100 of them) She'd become too popular. It happens. Particularly if you a)post a lot, b) are a good writer, and c) happen to have published a lot of books, one a best-seller (and/or are very active in either the fan community and/or the sci-fantasy, romance, and/or mystery genre communities. The more popular you become, the more likely you will get comments that make you see red or send your blood pressure sky-rocketing to the stratosphere. There are various ways of handling them. The most effective and the hardest is to blatantly ignore these comments and pretend these nitwits do not exist. I don't know about you? But, I've never been successful at that. (Or maybe it is the opposite.) I tend to de-friend, delete, and occasionally ban, and not necessarily in that order and depending on how badly you embarrass or humiliate me. I don't take being ripped apart and/or humiliated on the internet well. No one does. Actually. So don't do it. Well, not unless you want to be de-friended, deleted, and banned. If so.. go right ahead.
My rule? If the sight of your user name alone on my email makes my blood pressure go up and I'm afraid of what I'll read. You will most likely get banned eventually. Because seriously, who needs it? Go be an ass on your own journal. How to know if you will make my blood pressure go up? You've decided to rip apart my writing or me in some way. Folks, I do that myself, plus I get it ripped apart by people offline, so trust me when I state that I don't require your assistance. This is not the place for it. We aren't in school.
This isn't a presentation for a grade. Or a competition. You aren't my teacher. Or my parent. Or judge. Nor for that matter am I selling this to you. You haven't spent any money on it. So.. No one cares if this blog is perfect, error free, or factually accurate.
Or if they do, I have no idea why they are reading it. It's not like I'm getting paid or anything.
5. New shows coming next fall
* JJ Abhrams Revolution looks interesting. Has a female heroine that reminds me of Katniss Everdeen. And takes place on earth after a massive blackout takes out all electricity and technology. Which reminds me of a bunch of really bad sci-fi novels that I read a while back, entitled Dies the Fire by SR Stirling. So hopefully this will be better than those mildly chauvinistic sci-fi novels.
The Change occurred when an electrical storm centered over the island of Nantucket produced a blinding white flash that rendered all electronic devices and fuels inoperable. What follows is the most terrible global catastrophe in the history of the human race-and a Dark Age more universal and complete than could possibly be imagined.
The sci-fi and comic book genres have similar problems, they've unfortunately been dominated by short, fat, bearded, white men with serious gender/racial bias issues. You sort of want to smack them and tell them to get over their big white male hunter inner selves. Talk about inadequacy issues.
I doubt it will be like that. Abhrams has issues too, but not those issues.
* Last Resort has Andre Braugher and is about a sub that has turned rogue and has has set up shop and has become its own nation state.
* Nashville has Hayen Pantierre, Jonathan Jackson, and Connie Britton as the lead in a soap musical about the country western version of All About Eve.
There's some possibilities there. Currently the trend appears to be apocalyptic sci-fi serials and soapy musicals. Which is okay by me. I have a weakness for survival stories, post-apocalpytic sci-fi, soap opera and musicals. Plus, I've admittedly burned out on gothic horror series aka werewolves, ghosts, and vampires. There's only so much you can do here after all. Although rumor has it that someone is doing a Dracula series, why, I've no clue. Apparently they think there's a demand? I've also gotten burned out on super-hero tv series and movies. You've seen one, you've seen them all. Best of the bunch were Misfits, Heroes, Smallville and the Chris Nolan Batman series. Although I did enjoy the Iron Man movies and the Avengers, but that's mostly because of Robert Downy Jr, Don Cheadle, Scarlette Johnannson, Mark Ruffalo, Sam L Jackson, and Jeremy Renner.
It must be hard coming up with a new, innovative, and different television series. So many are pitched each year and discarded.
If I were to pitch one - I'd pitch a Harry Potter or Ender's Game concept. Except with a young girl in the lead role. At least that's what I'd do right now. Talk to me tomorrow, and it might be something else.
2. On Breaking Bad...I've begun to like Skylar and Marie quite a bit. Didn't like either the first two years, but I didn't like anybody the first two years except possibly Hank. Everybody was very whiny. Breaking Bad is one of those series in which the characters sort of grow on you, and no, not like fungus. The characters are slowly revealed over the course of the series - layers peeled off like an onion. What I don't understand is why so many people don't? I've also noticed there are a lot of people who don't like Peggy on Mad Men or Meghan, but do love Joan and sigh Betty Draper?? I like Joan but not Betty. At any rate, what I'm seeing is an embrace of "traditional women" and
a denouncement of strong and difficult women who don't ahem stand by their man. Is this a reflection of our society? Or just personal taste? Not sure. I don't know why people like or don't like what they do. I only know why I do or don't like something, and well sometimes, I don't even know the answer to that.
3. Currently watching Bunheads - which I'm still enjoying, even though I would sort of like to kick the protagonist, Michelle, who seems to snark 24/7. I'm not sure she knows how not to snark. Proving that there actually can be too much snark. Who knew?
4. Lately there's been a lot of.. for want of a better word...trolling (or maybe bullying??) online. Yet another person on my flist went into rant mode about the crazy trolls/bullies commenting on her lj, who she had to beat back with a stick. (to be fair she had 100 of them) She'd become too popular. It happens. Particularly if you a)post a lot, b) are a good writer, and c) happen to have published a lot of books, one a best-seller (and/or are very active in either the fan community and/or the sci-fantasy, romance, and/or mystery genre communities. The more popular you become, the more likely you will get comments that make you see red or send your blood pressure sky-rocketing to the stratosphere. There are various ways of handling them. The most effective and the hardest is to blatantly ignore these comments and pretend these nitwits do not exist. I don't know about you? But, I've never been successful at that. (Or maybe it is the opposite.) I tend to de-friend, delete, and occasionally ban, and not necessarily in that order and depending on how badly you embarrass or humiliate me. I don't take being ripped apart and/or humiliated on the internet well. No one does. Actually. So don't do it. Well, not unless you want to be de-friended, deleted, and banned. If so.. go right ahead.
My rule? If the sight of your user name alone on my email makes my blood pressure go up and I'm afraid of what I'll read. You will most likely get banned eventually. Because seriously, who needs it? Go be an ass on your own journal. How to know if you will make my blood pressure go up? You've decided to rip apart my writing or me in some way. Folks, I do that myself, plus I get it ripped apart by people offline, so trust me when I state that I don't require your assistance. This is not the place for it. We aren't in school.
This isn't a presentation for a grade. Or a competition. You aren't my teacher. Or my parent. Or judge. Nor for that matter am I selling this to you. You haven't spent any money on it. So.. No one cares if this blog is perfect, error free, or factually accurate.
Or if they do, I have no idea why they are reading it. It's not like I'm getting paid or anything.
5. New shows coming next fall
* JJ Abhrams Revolution looks interesting. Has a female heroine that reminds me of Katniss Everdeen. And takes place on earth after a massive blackout takes out all electricity and technology. Which reminds me of a bunch of really bad sci-fi novels that I read a while back, entitled Dies the Fire by SR Stirling. So hopefully this will be better than those mildly chauvinistic sci-fi novels.
The Change occurred when an electrical storm centered over the island of Nantucket produced a blinding white flash that rendered all electronic devices and fuels inoperable. What follows is the most terrible global catastrophe in the history of the human race-and a Dark Age more universal and complete than could possibly be imagined.
The sci-fi and comic book genres have similar problems, they've unfortunately been dominated by short, fat, bearded, white men with serious gender/racial bias issues. You sort of want to smack them and tell them to get over their big white male hunter inner selves. Talk about inadequacy issues.
I doubt it will be like that. Abhrams has issues too, but not those issues.
* Last Resort has Andre Braugher and is about a sub that has turned rogue and has has set up shop and has become its own nation state.
* Nashville has Hayen Pantierre, Jonathan Jackson, and Connie Britton as the lead in a soap musical about the country western version of All About Eve.
There's some possibilities there. Currently the trend appears to be apocalyptic sci-fi serials and soapy musicals. Which is okay by me. I have a weakness for survival stories, post-apocalpytic sci-fi, soap opera and musicals. Plus, I've admittedly burned out on gothic horror series aka werewolves, ghosts, and vampires. There's only so much you can do here after all. Although rumor has it that someone is doing a Dracula series, why, I've no clue. Apparently they think there's a demand? I've also gotten burned out on super-hero tv series and movies. You've seen one, you've seen them all. Best of the bunch were Misfits, Heroes, Smallville and the Chris Nolan Batman series. Although I did enjoy the Iron Man movies and the Avengers, but that's mostly because of Robert Downy Jr, Don Cheadle, Scarlette Johnannson, Mark Ruffalo, Sam L Jackson, and Jeremy Renner.
It must be hard coming up with a new, innovative, and different television series. So many are pitched each year and discarded.
If I were to pitch one - I'd pitch a Harry Potter or Ender's Game concept. Except with a young girl in the lead role. At least that's what I'd do right now. Talk to me tomorrow, and it might be something else.
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Date: 2012-08-07 04:14 am (UTC)It's not sci-fi. Not even if the little green men shut off the power. It's a Mad Max movie (without the cars) with all the warts of those spun out into a series.
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Date: 2012-08-07 10:29 pm (UTC)Dies the Fire is part of The Change novel series by Stirling. Think Mad Max Beyond Thunderdom meets Little House on the Prarie but in the US, and you got the idea. Except Stirling isn't that good a writer. (He's sort of like Timothy Zane of the Star Wars books). Really bad books.
I have yet to find a tv series that does survival tales well. Outside of a few PBS non-fiction reality series. They all get soapy. While I adore soaps, not as survival tales. The Walking Dead isn't bad, it has its moments. (And I normally hate zombies). But everything else has tended to bore me after a bit.
Also, JJ Abhrams is admittedly hit or miss. I like his stuff, but don't love it. There's always something missing or off.
I'm actually more interested in the Syfy channel's mid-season series about
a post-apocalyptic culture entitled "Defiance" which is being developed by Rockne O'Bannon of DS9 and Farscape fame, with Julie Benze of all people playing the town Mayor.
Dexter alumna Julie Benz will star opposite Grant Bowler Bowler in the Syfy series Defiance. Tony Curran (Pillars Of The Earth), Jaime Murray and Stephanie Leonidas also have been cast in the live-action drama, written/executive produced by Rockne S. O’Bannon, Kevin Murphy and Michael Taylor, which was developed concurrently with an online video game. Set on a future Earth, Defiance is set in a world where humans and aliens live together on a planet ravaged by decades of war and transformed by alien terra-forming machines. It centers on Jeb Nolan (Bowler), the law-keeper in a bustling frontier boomtown that is one of the new world’s few oasis of civility and inclusion. Benz, repped by ICM and Vincent Cirrincione, will play Amanda Rosewater, the idealistic newly appointed mayor of the mining boomtown who is determined to maintain peace in the community.
Go here for more info:http://www.deadline.com/2012/03/julie-benz-gets-female-lead-in-syfy-series-defiance-pilot-rewind-casts-first-actor/
Now that sounds different and a credible Sci-Fi/Western blend.
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Date: 2012-08-07 05:34 pm (UTC)As you know I'm mad about 'Misfits' because there is no taking anything seriously, and actually I think that it is more realistic that these immature uneducated punks would end up misusing their powers and further screwing up their lives. Heck if I had super powers I would probably only use it in totally lame self-serving ways! LOL
I'm sorry I can't try Breaking Bad (I was going to check to see if the library has the DVDs, but really I'm watching too much TV right now anyway... I'll probably wait a year or two and catch it later).
I definitely agree w/you about banning people who upset you online, no one needs the grief. You need to surround yourself with people and things that uplift your spirit.
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Date: 2012-08-07 10:11 pm (UTC)* The Wire is an example of me loving something w/very little humor in it because the writing was wonderful.
You thought it had very little humor in it? I thought it was hilarious in places. Far funnier than most comedies actually. The whole McNulty/Lester fake serial killer bit, the McNulty tricking his superiors into taking on the case of the women killed in the container,
Omar's antics. Plus the whole bit about Bunny Colvert and allowing the drug trade in that one precinct. The Wire is hilarious. Not a good example.
A good of example of a series that takes itself too seriously, is very dark and doesn't have much humor which you love would be Game of Thrones. Now that series doesn't have a lot of humor...outside of maybe
Tyrion and Jamie Lannister's wry wit. The books are even worse. Martin is a lot of things, witty, ain't one of them. ;-)
Then again, YMMV...it's all so subjective. One person's comedy is another's tragedy, I've learned.
Anyhow..if you didn't find The Wire funny, you most likely won't find Breaking Bad funny. They have similar types of humorous scenarios.
The only people I've banned are people I don't know. If I know the person, I'm more likely to give them the benefit of the doubt. Because - I know them. It makes a difference, I think.