WoW rage and BSG depression.
May. 3rd, 2009 01:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bibliodragonThe person on the Blizzard team who came up with the School of Hard Knocks achievement deserves a special level of hell. Preferably one where they are forced to do the achievement for all eternity.
Oh God the horror! Having to actually cap the flag, or return the flag or whatever yourself, while making sure you've got the little brat out, while enemy faction bastards are pew pewing your face, just the sheer horror.
There is a little bit of positive, in a Warsong Gulch battleground, after an afternoon tearing my hair out trying to return the damn flag I eventually came across a bunch of nice Alliance who came into the flag room and kept picking it up and dropping it so everyone could get the achievement, after some Horde had managed to do the same for them.
Eye of the Storm was the last, and was driving me up the wall. Every time I had almost picked it up some Alliance bastard would come over and shoot at me. Or I had just picked it up and some damn Death Knight death grips me and kills me.
I was ready to cry when I finally got it done. I'm too obsessive compulsive, that's my trouble.
I think I've got my grief stages mixed up. First there is acceptance, then anger, now depression?
Mainly the realization just how depressing the finale is. As in, European art house cinema depressing. So after all that, all that struggle, Colonial and Cylon society is just genetic fodder for a new lot of humanity?
The giving up technology thing doesn't work. They gave up what gave humanity it's edge to survive, to go live in one extremely harsh environment? Most of them get killed by predators or illness or starvation, and those that survive do so by being assimilated into the native human society.
Basically, they exchange one desperate struggle for survival for another. That's really sad.
I think that, having come up with the "omgcool!" idea of Hera being Mitochondrial Eve, the writers then try and flinch away from the implications on what that meant happened to the characters we had been following for the past four seasons. So we get the throwing away of technology, as if it being their choice makes it better? Because a crash in technology was going to happen anyway, I sincerely doubt there were many remaining survivors who knew how to recreate everything they had been accustomed too. Their culture still dies, and that is really sad.
Sad endings work (though they can completely kill the urge to re watch), but it feels as if I'm being told that a sad ending is a happy ending. That doesn't work for me. It's still a sad ending.
So now I'm depressed. Sigh.
Oh God the horror! Having to actually cap the flag, or return the flag or whatever yourself, while making sure you've got the little brat out, while enemy faction bastards are pew pewing your face, just the sheer horror.
There is a little bit of positive, in a Warsong Gulch battleground, after an afternoon tearing my hair out trying to return the damn flag I eventually came across a bunch of nice Alliance who came into the flag room and kept picking it up and dropping it so everyone could get the achievement, after some Horde had managed to do the same for them.
Eye of the Storm was the last, and was driving me up the wall. Every time I had almost picked it up some Alliance bastard would come over and shoot at me. Or I had just picked it up and some damn Death Knight death grips me and kills me.
I was ready to cry when I finally got it done. I'm too obsessive compulsive, that's my trouble.
I think I've got my grief stages mixed up. First there is acceptance, then anger, now depression?
Mainly the realization just how depressing the finale is. As in, European art house cinema depressing. So after all that, all that struggle, Colonial and Cylon society is just genetic fodder for a new lot of humanity?
The giving up technology thing doesn't work. They gave up what gave humanity it's edge to survive, to go live in one extremely harsh environment? Most of them get killed by predators or illness or starvation, and those that survive do so by being assimilated into the native human society.
Basically, they exchange one desperate struggle for survival for another. That's really sad.
I think that, having come up with the "omgcool!" idea of Hera being Mitochondrial Eve, the writers then try and flinch away from the implications on what that meant happened to the characters we had been following for the past four seasons. So we get the throwing away of technology, as if it being their choice makes it better? Because a crash in technology was going to happen anyway, I sincerely doubt there were many remaining survivors who knew how to recreate everything they had been accustomed too. Their culture still dies, and that is really sad.
Sad endings work (though they can completely kill the urge to re watch), but it feels as if I'm being told that a sad ending is a happy ending. That doesn't work for me. It's still a sad ending.
So now I'm depressed. Sigh.
