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Accomplished little today, outside of going to the pharmacy, picking up groceries, and painting a bit. I was very sleepy. I've seen somewhere that diabetes can cause fatigue. But so can menopause. Depression. Sleep deprivation. Etc. I did sleep well enough the night before - but had nightmares. Something about a plane. Traveling somewhere with my workforce. Being stranded and left behind. I'm on vacation - give it a break subconscious. Oh also made ice cream concoctions for the Ninja Creami - which can turn most things into ice cream. I made coffee yogurt/peanut butter chocolate ice cream (with protein powders), and tropical frozen yogurt ice cream with orange yogurt, banana (not yogurt just a banana), and a few slices of pinapple blended. Both taste good. Should be interesting.
Got off social media - which keeps exposing me to stories about nasty people that I really was much better off not knowing about. I do not want to know these people exist or about their problems - stop informing me they do, internet. Honestly. It's enough to make me miss the 20th Century. The information age/technological age is annoying and kind of scary.
1. Finished Bridgerton, at least until the second part of S3 arrives on June 13. As an aside, there's a bunch of television critics and columnists out there - that a) I wish I didn't know existed (thank you so much internet for that), and b) should be fired from their jobs and never get paid for anything they write ever again (note I'm not censoring them, just cancelling their profitability). Dear god. It's a fluffy romantic fantasy series, not the Bachelor (which by the way should be ripped apart). I won't irritate you with what they wrote. Except that I wish I didn't know about it.
Oh, don't do this? Someone on twitter found an nasty article about an actress's looks, and felt the need to tell everyone on twitter to send said article to the attention of the actress, her agent/representation & the producer of the television series. Telling them that they should take action against the publication in defense of all of the fans who look like the actress and relate to her, and have been offended by the article on her behalf.
I was appalled. The publication is very obscure (I've never heard of it until now - it's some bad British gossip fashion magazine, are there any good ones?) as is the columnist. Never heard of her either. And sending this to the actress and the producer of Bridgerton - isn't going to do anything but annoy them. They already know these idiots exist. They don't need to be reminded. And it's not illegal to write and publish that crap.
What can you do? Don't read it. Don't subscribe to the publication. Don't subscribe, buy, or read anything the writer writes. That's it. Ignore it.
Ignore the nasty people. Maybe they'll go away.
In case you've never heard of it (I don't know how - it's got a great marketing team) - Bridgerton is a series adapted from a series of "stand-a-alone" romance novels. ( Read more... )
2. Moved on to the last episode of X-men '97 - this series is a lot better than the original 90s series. Better written and animated, it also is closer to the comics, and has tighter plotting. I was surprised by the ending - since I went in unspoiled. This series surprised in lot of ways, it went dark, it killed off a major character, and it separated the main characters at various points. That's what the comics does. It also did a very good job of getting across the relationship between Magnus and Charles, along with Storm/Forge, Jean & Scott, Magnus/Rogue/Gambit and Rogue/Nightcrawler. One of the better animated adaptations.
Add to the above? We get cameos from Daredevil, Captain America, Fantastic Four, and various others. Disney has shown that it has a better handle on this than Fox did. So, go Disney. Also it went dark, which surprised me.
Although that may explain why the show-runner was fired.
3. Then on to Doctor Who - this is the new series on Disney + and BBC. Disney basically bought the rights to Doctor Who, with the view of co-producing and distributing it with the BBC. What this means is - higher production values, and exclusive distribution on Disney (so no commercials) in the US, and it gets to air at the same time as it does in the BBC, not months later like it did under BBC America and AMC.
I had reservations. But, Disney was smart about it. ( Read more... )
Regarding the episodes? Davies brought back Stephen Moffat for the fourth episode. Who'd I missed. I like Moffat's banter, and tricky plots. ( Read more... )
Overall enjoying this season quite a bit. Disney is treating it as S1. Although I'm pretty sure they got other episodes on from other doctors.
(Oh it just occurred to me - Disney owns first distribution rights to three of the longest running serials right now. X-men, Doctor Who, and General Hospital. Also Disney is older than all three of them and their creators put together. Disney started in the 1930s.)
Got off social media - which keeps exposing me to stories about nasty people that I really was much better off not knowing about. I do not want to know these people exist or about their problems - stop informing me they do, internet. Honestly. It's enough to make me miss the 20th Century. The information age/technological age is annoying and kind of scary.
1. Finished Bridgerton, at least until the second part of S3 arrives on June 13. As an aside, there's a bunch of television critics and columnists out there - that a) I wish I didn't know existed (thank you so much internet for that), and b) should be fired from their jobs and never get paid for anything they write ever again (note I'm not censoring them, just cancelling their profitability). Dear god. It's a fluffy romantic fantasy series, not the Bachelor (which by the way should be ripped apart). I won't irritate you with what they wrote. Except that I wish I didn't know about it.
Oh, don't do this? Someone on twitter found an nasty article about an actress's looks, and felt the need to tell everyone on twitter to send said article to the attention of the actress, her agent/representation & the producer of the television series. Telling them that they should take action against the publication in defense of all of the fans who look like the actress and relate to her, and have been offended by the article on her behalf.
I was appalled. The publication is very obscure (I've never heard of it until now - it's some bad British gossip fashion magazine, are there any good ones?) as is the columnist. Never heard of her either. And sending this to the actress and the producer of Bridgerton - isn't going to do anything but annoy them. They already know these idiots exist. They don't need to be reminded. And it's not illegal to write and publish that crap.
What can you do? Don't read it. Don't subscribe to the publication. Don't subscribe, buy, or read anything the writer writes. That's it. Ignore it.
Ignore the nasty people. Maybe they'll go away.
In case you've never heard of it (I don't know how - it's got a great marketing team) - Bridgerton is a series adapted from a series of "stand-a-alone" romance novels. ( Read more... )
2. Moved on to the last episode of X-men '97 - this series is a lot better than the original 90s series. Better written and animated, it also is closer to the comics, and has tighter plotting. I was surprised by the ending - since I went in unspoiled. This series surprised in lot of ways, it went dark, it killed off a major character, and it separated the main characters at various points. That's what the comics does. It also did a very good job of getting across the relationship between Magnus and Charles, along with Storm/Forge, Jean & Scott, Magnus/Rogue/Gambit and Rogue/Nightcrawler. One of the better animated adaptations.
Add to the above? We get cameos from Daredevil, Captain America, Fantastic Four, and various others. Disney has shown that it has a better handle on this than Fox did. So, go Disney. Also it went dark, which surprised me.
Although that may explain why the show-runner was fired.
3. Then on to Doctor Who - this is the new series on Disney + and BBC. Disney basically bought the rights to Doctor Who, with the view of co-producing and distributing it with the BBC. What this means is - higher production values, and exclusive distribution on Disney (so no commercials) in the US, and it gets to air at the same time as it does in the BBC, not months later like it did under BBC America and AMC.
I had reservations. But, Disney was smart about it. ( Read more... )
Regarding the episodes? Davies brought back Stephen Moffat for the fourth episode. Who'd I missed. I like Moffat's banter, and tricky plots. ( Read more... )
Overall enjoying this season quite a bit. Disney is treating it as S1. Although I'm pretty sure they got other episodes on from other doctors.
(Oh it just occurred to me - Disney owns first distribution rights to three of the longest running serials right now. X-men, Doctor Who, and General Hospital. Also Disney is older than all three of them and their creators put together. Disney started in the 1930s.)
