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Mar. 30th, 2006 10:07 pmA long update, because I've been away for awhile. Just busy. Well, and okay, not feeling very well. But that's all a bit TMI. Maybe I'll get into that later.
I've signed up for Writercon. I couldn't, ultimately, resist. I've made no travel plans as of yet, no hotel reservations, but I'll have to soon. Anybody still need a roommate?
Tonight's Smallville: Quoth Clark, "my _____ is greater than all my other powers put together. Answer under the cut. (Hint: sadly, not the answer it really should be.)( Read more... )
More to come shortly: finally saw V for Vendetta, about which I had a number of thoughts; I feel like I can explain now both why the Wachowski Brothers are successful filmmakers and why the end of the Matrix trilogy dropped the ball. Relation to the original comic? Peripheral, although the visual set was well reproduced, but what was changed was interesting. And Hugo Weaving ratchets up in my estimate for going through the whole movie in the mask. I'm becoming quite the fangirl for that guy.
... and I've finished Herself's book. (sniff) More on this to come.
Farscape thoughts: Ultimately, the more of this series I watch, even in order, the more convinced I am that it has not several points to make, but one major point - that John Crichton is a new kind of explorer, of a generation who knows what to expect from space travel from watching sci-fi. All his in-jokes and references make sense in this context - Crichton, by being able to efficiently "map" the aliens he meets into recognizable character patterns, can understand other cultures and creatures the way his companions can't. (Do any of the races in Farscape even understand the idea of drama, or narrative? Do they have a tradition of theater, entertainment?) Crichton's seeming frivolity is really a bitchin' survival skill. He manages to cope with things that would drive others mad - Brain Scorpius, for example, is internalized as "Harvey," his own personal companion rabbit. Somewhere between The Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, and Buckaroo Banzai, and yes... Star Trek... there you are.
I've signed up for Writercon. I couldn't, ultimately, resist. I've made no travel plans as of yet, no hotel reservations, but I'll have to soon. Anybody still need a roommate?
Tonight's Smallville: Quoth Clark, "my _____ is greater than all my other powers put together. Answer under the cut. (Hint: sadly, not the answer it really should be.)( Read more... )
More to come shortly: finally saw V for Vendetta, about which I had a number of thoughts; I feel like I can explain now both why the Wachowski Brothers are successful filmmakers and why the end of the Matrix trilogy dropped the ball. Relation to the original comic? Peripheral, although the visual set was well reproduced, but what was changed was interesting. And Hugo Weaving ratchets up in my estimate for going through the whole movie in the mask. I'm becoming quite the fangirl for that guy.
... and I've finished Herself's book. (sniff) More on this to come.
Farscape thoughts: Ultimately, the more of this series I watch, even in order, the more convinced I am that it has not several points to make, but one major point - that John Crichton is a new kind of explorer, of a generation who knows what to expect from space travel from watching sci-fi. All his in-jokes and references make sense in this context - Crichton, by being able to efficiently "map" the aliens he meets into recognizable character patterns, can understand other cultures and creatures the way his companions can't. (Do any of the races in Farscape even understand the idea of drama, or narrative? Do they have a tradition of theater, entertainment?) Crichton's seeming frivolity is really a bitchin' survival skill. He manages to cope with things that would drive others mad - Brain Scorpius, for example, is internalized as "Harvey," his own personal companion rabbit. Somewhere between The Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, and Buckaroo Banzai, and yes... Star Trek... there you are.