Long time, little see
Apr. 10th, 2011 10:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
roginThought it's time to post something again. I'm mostly lurking these days. I'm burried in work at the moment, but it actually feels good, because I feel like I'm getting on with my career now in a way that I didn't before.
But there is of course time for a little tv, even if it is much less than it was before. I started to watch Camelot as brainbubblegum, but I'm afraid it's even too bad for that. Where did they find those actors? I think I'll stick with Merlin as King Arthur shows go, at least that one is fun. I really hope Starz (or what they're called) will do a better job with Torchwood.
I'm also finally catching up with Being Human (two episodes left, no spoilers please) and wow. Good season. Great season. Dark season. I think I want to marry Nina because she's made of awesome and so are the side characters, like the poor social worker and Nancy Reed. And Herrick...he's got to be the creepiest vampire ever to live in an attic.
I pretty much love how they are dealing with Mitchell, even if I have no idea how the show can go on without him. I'm horribly late to the party but I get what people were writing about the addiction metaphore in BH being played much much better than on other vampire shows. I also think it's a brilliant take on the concept of guilt, and how it eats Mitchell up from the inside. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. I hope I get to watch the last two episodes tonight.
But there is of course time for a little tv, even if it is much less than it was before. I started to watch Camelot as brainbubblegum, but I'm afraid it's even too bad for that. Where did they find those actors? I think I'll stick with Merlin as King Arthur shows go, at least that one is fun. I really hope Starz (or what they're called) will do a better job with Torchwood.
I'm also finally catching up with Being Human (two episodes left, no spoilers please) and wow. Good season. Great season. Dark season. I think I want to marry Nina because she's made of awesome and so are the side characters, like the poor social worker and Nancy Reed. And Herrick...he's got to be the creepiest vampire ever to live in an attic.
I pretty much love how they are dealing with Mitchell, even if I have no idea how the show can go on without him. I'm horribly late to the party but I get what people were writing about the addiction metaphore in BH being played much much better than on other vampire shows. I also think it's a brilliant take on the concept of guilt, and how it eats Mitchell up from the inside. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. I hope I get to watch the last two episodes tonight.
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Date: 2011-04-10 12:33 pm (UTC)And nice to see you.
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Date: 2011-04-10 12:47 pm (UTC)Hopefully I'll be raound more again in a few months.
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Date: 2011-04-10 12:54 pm (UTC)If so, I feel the same. Or it's not so much that my interest has waned (am happily writing fic again), but more that the poison from the comic has leeched into a lot of other stuff that used to interest me. I can't often be bothered to read BtVS meta any more. I don't even feel like leaping in and defending Spike when I see someone slagging him off the way I used to.
I suppose I'm jaded, and every new argument I see turns out not to be new at all.
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Date: 2011-04-10 01:56 pm (UTC)That's part of it. Though it's mainly that I'm really focused on my work at the moment, and I have to spend every concentrated moment on writing papers and grand applications. I've even had some interesting fic ideas, but at the moment it's hopeless to think I can get anything done properly in that department. It should be better in two months or so though.
But yeah, the comics still mess with my liking of the show. Part of it did depend that it ended on "awesomeness lies ahead" and knowing that creator only went with crap in the future, is still frustrating. I can't really get into the boards either anymore, all that Spuffy in the comics stuff seems so desperate and I have a hard time loving the characters if I even think of the comic.
I did have some interesting fic ideas though and I hope to get back to those when the stress relents. meta is more complicated because I can't really get rid of the hostility I'm feeling for S8. Will write meta on being human though, because, the Mitchell thing, wow it's well done.
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Date: 2011-04-12 09:13 am (UTC)Yes, same here. I even find myself at times thinking that Joss is basically a fanboys' writer and will never rise above it, and that season 8 is the final proof of that. All his attempts to write something more 'grown-up', such as The Body, or doing the AR, or, I suppose, Dollhouse, always have that air of "Look at me-ee! I'm all grown up and stuff!" about them. Then I think it's just my bitterness talking.