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Time Heals All
Nov. 26th, 2011 09:18 pmEven Joss Whedon related rage. I have finally put Angel series 5 on my LoveFilm list.
Season 4 can still go fuck itself, however.
Season 4 can still go fuck itself, however.
Sigh, nerd rage...
Sep. 30th, 2009 12:58 pmOh BSG, why do you make me so bitter? Why can't it be the same as the X Files, sure I know I won't get a commitment and emotional support a mythology that makes sense and Scully back to her badass early seasons self, but I can still have a good time with it during rewatches.
But thinking about it, had I had a livejournal at the time of Closure airing, it would have been full of "starlight? The fuck? All that time and she was magic starlight that you only even bring up now? WHAT THE FUCK CHRIS CARTER, YOU SUCK!" and the like. And even then it wasn't immediately followed up with Mulder and Scully getting doomed to a life and death at the hands of nature and worse, bending over for it! Turns out that naive underestimating nature is a real pet peeve of mine, and while it is believable of a bunch of urbanites stuck in spaceships for years (though the whole unanimous agreement to it is a wall banger) the fact that from interviews I get that RDM also underestimates it that really frustrates me. It's that kind of thinking that leads to getting eaten by bears, people! Yeah, nature sucks, and will screw you over not because it is a robot with mommy issues but because it just does what it does. Wonder if Baltar will be talking about God being a force of nature when he's seeing nature up close.
...
So it turns out watching countless nature documentaries of lions eating zebra entrails while it's still alive all my life did probably have an effect on me.
So yeah, I'm still just a wee bit bitter ;). And that's not even going into the whole using "it's about the characters" to drop the hard to solve plot problems that came from screwing over the characters for cool plot points and then screwing over the characters for a cool plot point, and then getting the science of that cool plot point wrong.
I need a new fannish obsession to break my heart and make my old ones look good.
(And seriously Chris Carter, starlight?)
But thinking about it, had I had a livejournal at the time of Closure airing, it would have been full of "starlight? The fuck? All that time and she was magic starlight that you only even bring up now? WHAT THE FUCK CHRIS CARTER, YOU SUCK!" and the like. And even then it wasn't immediately followed up with Mulder and Scully getting doomed to a life and death at the hands of nature and worse, bending over for it! Turns out that naive underestimating nature is a real pet peeve of mine, and while it is believable of a bunch of urbanites stuck in spaceships for years (though the whole unanimous agreement to it is a wall banger) the fact that from interviews I get that RDM also underestimates it that really frustrates me. It's that kind of thinking that leads to getting eaten by bears, people! Yeah, nature sucks, and will screw you over not because it is a robot with mommy issues but because it just does what it does. Wonder if Baltar will be talking about God being a force of nature when he's seeing nature up close.
...
So it turns out watching countless nature documentaries of lions eating zebra entrails while it's still alive all my life did probably have an effect on me.
So yeah, I'm still just a wee bit bitter ;). And that's not even going into the whole using "it's about the characters" to drop the hard to solve plot problems that came from screwing over the characters for cool plot points and then screwing over the characters for a cool plot point, and then getting the science of that cool plot point wrong.
I need a new fannish obsession to break my heart and make my old ones look good.
(And seriously Chris Carter, starlight?)
WoW rage and BSG depression.
May. 3rd, 2009 01:27 pmThe 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? ( Cut for Battlestar finale spoilers )
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? ( Cut for Battlestar finale spoilers )
So now I'm depressed. Sigh.
So, the Battlestar finale.
Mar. 30th, 2009 11:41 amI like reading. I have my favorite genres and authors, but if there is absolutely nothing else to do I am not picky and will read anything. Sometimes I'll just skim through, or not really pay attention, or I'll spend the whole time thing "wow these people suck, I hope they all die horribly", though it would have to really, *really* piss me off for me to fling it to the other side of the room and never want to read it again.
And sometimes it will suck me in, and I'll sit and read and not resurface until it's finished. And if it's not possible to read it in one sitting, or it has really done a spectacular job of capturing my attention, I'll skip ahead to the end and read a bit of the end.
Yes, even books are not immune to my spoiler whore ways. But I only do this with things I like, no, adore, something that has succeeded in making me want to know what will happen next right now.
So, that's a long way of saying I'm going to talk a little bit about the Battlestar Galactica finale, despite still not having actually seen it.
( God )
( Laura Roslin )
So, Battlestar Galactica. It *was* a good ride, flaws and all.
( Anyway, here's a cat eating broccoli. )
And sometimes it will suck me in, and I'll sit and read and not resurface until it's finished. And if it's not possible to read it in one sitting, or it has really done a spectacular job of capturing my attention, I'll skip ahead to the end and read a bit of the end.
Yes, even books are not immune to my spoiler whore ways. But I only do this with things I like, no, adore, something that has succeeded in making me want to know what will happen next right now.
So, that's a long way of saying I'm going to talk a little bit about the Battlestar Galactica finale, despite still not having actually seen it.
( God )
( Laura Roslin )
So, Battlestar Galactica. It *was* a good ride, flaws and all.
( Anyway, here's a cat eating broccoli. )
Battlestar Finale
Mar. 23rd, 2009 11:33 amJust one thing to say just now.
DAMN YOU RON MOORE, YOU MADE ME CRY IN AN INTERNET CAFE.
Ahem. More thoughts will come later, once I'm home and actually, you know, *see* the episode.
DAMN YOU RON MOORE, YOU MADE ME CRY IN AN INTERNET CAFE.
Ahem. More thoughts will come later, once I'm home and actually, you know, *see* the episode.
