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shipperxIs it my f-list or me? I've felt very out of the fandom loop lately. Are things that quiet? As a round-up of things I've been doing and thoughts I've had:
* Saw some of the Scott Allie "Comic editor hates Spike" quasi-kerfuff. I joined the message board that brought all of this up with the intention of politely wording my response to Allie's post, but then I never got around to it.
* I have managed to put some time into my WIP re-start for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
wip_out. I've somewhat substantially re-organized the chapter that I've been stalled on for about a year. (Seriously! And, yes, I'm ashamed. But I'm also determined to reach the June 23 "Finish a Chapter" ficathon deadline.)
* Finished reading Dean Koontz's Odd Thomas I was intrigued by the small town supernatural superhero premise, and parts of the book were very atmospheric. However, I found the ending somewhat weak and I found the death of Odd's fiance a mix of being predicable and as not playing fair with the audience. All of Odd's insistence on the psychic saying that he and his fiance would 'be together forever' was practically a Joss Whedon anvil of "she's gonna DIE, dude!" But the author hiding her death by having her arrive as a ghost (which, given a premise of the novel wasn't a stretch), but a ghost who spoke wasn't playing fair with the audience. I had been convinced that when he woke up at the hospital that the fiance was dead, but by having her ghost violate all the the rules he'd set down in the rest of the novel so as to fake the reader out until the big reveal at the very end at that she had died mildly irked me. All in all, it was interesting enough, but I'm not tripping over myself to read the rest of the series.
* I'm about half-way through Dresden Files: Proven Guilty
* I'm beginning The Rise and Fall of Alexandria
* Not having downloaded Season 4 Doctor Who when it aired in the UK, I've been watching at the Sci-Fi Channel pace. While I have nothing significant to say about the season thus far, I have to confess to totally loving Donna.
* Speaking of Sci-Fi Channel, can someone please explain to me in small, comprehensible words what in the frakking hell is going on?! I mean in terms other than 'everyone has gone batshit crazy and shown themselves to be so very unsympathetic that I'm rooting for them to never find Earth because Earth is frakked up enough without these people. Please blow each other up already, m'kay?'
* On another front, it's probably a commentary on how boring TV in general has been lately (it is now summer, after all) that I've found myself being seduced by the soap channel evening airings of One Life to Live, which has for the most part been rocking (Weddings! Deaths! Bitch slaps! Oh my!) Got a peek at the Summer Spoilers and...
Remember the fantastically ridiculous, unabashedly over the top, crazy-ass 80s soaps that had trips to heaven just to visit dead people, madcap schemes to steal the crown jewels of small fictional countries, death dives over Argentine waterfalls, and time travel? Well, to celebrate OLTL's 40th anniversary, the current headwriter has chosen to write a two-day celebratory homage to the fantabulously campy past... by revisiting and (BSG term) re-imagining all of these stories at once! Whee! They're bringing back long dead characters to be visited in heaven (Asa! Megan! Ben! And more!) Not-dead Tina, Cord, Carlo, and the original recipe Marty also return. Meanwhile Bo and Rex are hit by lightening and find themselves in 1968 (I wonder if they'll dig up 40 year old clips from the show. Anyway, Bo will become Asa in the past and Rex will become Bo in the past, and I'm sure wackiness ensues). All they're missing is Nathan Fillion visiting like he did last winter! This sounds in keeping with the "Fan February" episodes they did a decade or so ago where they fans contributed (some seriously whacked out) ideas for scenes they wanted to see so that the show could deliver them in a 'special event' episode. Hee!
It's crazy, but whatever headwriter Ron Carlivati is smoking, keep smoking it. This sounds crackficalicious!
* Saw some of the Scott Allie "Comic editor hates Spike" quasi-kerfuff. I joined the message board that brought all of this up with the intention of politely wording my response to Allie's post, but then I never got around to it.
* I have managed to put some time into my WIP re-start for
wip_out. I've somewhat substantially re-organized the chapter that I've been stalled on for about a year. (Seriously! And, yes, I'm ashamed. But I'm also determined to reach the June 23 "Finish a Chapter" ficathon deadline.)* Finished reading Dean Koontz's Odd Thomas I was intrigued by the small town supernatural superhero premise, and parts of the book were very atmospheric. However, I found the ending somewhat weak and I found the death of Odd's fiance a mix of being predicable and as not playing fair with the audience. All of Odd's insistence on the psychic saying that he and his fiance would 'be together forever' was practically a Joss Whedon anvil of "she's gonna DIE, dude!" But the author hiding her death by having her arrive as a ghost (which, given a premise of the novel wasn't a stretch), but a ghost who spoke wasn't playing fair with the audience. I had been convinced that when he woke up at the hospital that the fiance was dead, but by having her ghost violate all the the rules he'd set down in the rest of the novel so as to fake the reader out until the big reveal at the very end at that she had died mildly irked me. All in all, it was interesting enough, but I'm not tripping over myself to read the rest of the series.
* I'm about half-way through Dresden Files: Proven Guilty
* I'm beginning The Rise and Fall of Alexandria
* Not having downloaded Season 4 Doctor Who when it aired in the UK, I've been watching at the Sci-Fi Channel pace. While I have nothing significant to say about the season thus far, I have to confess to totally loving Donna.
* Speaking of Sci-Fi Channel, can someone please explain to me in small, comprehensible words what in the frakking hell is going on?! I mean in terms other than 'everyone has gone batshit crazy and shown themselves to be so very unsympathetic that I'm rooting for them to never find Earth because Earth is frakked up enough without these people. Please blow each other up already, m'kay?'
* On another front, it's probably a commentary on how boring TV in general has been lately (it is now summer, after all) that I've found myself being seduced by the soap channel evening airings of One Life to Live, which has for the most part been rocking (Weddings! Deaths! Bitch slaps! Oh my!) Got a peek at the Summer Spoilers and...
Remember the fantastically ridiculous, unabashedly over the top, crazy-ass 80s soaps that had trips to heaven just to visit dead people, madcap schemes to steal the crown jewels of small fictional countries, death dives over Argentine waterfalls, and time travel? Well, to celebrate OLTL's 40th anniversary, the current headwriter has chosen to write a two-day celebratory homage to the fantabulously campy past... by revisiting and (BSG term) re-imagining all of these stories at once! Whee! They're bringing back long dead characters to be visited in heaven (Asa! Megan! Ben! And more!) Not-dead Tina, Cord, Carlo, and the original recipe Marty also return. Meanwhile Bo and Rex are hit by lightening and find themselves in 1968 (I wonder if they'll dig up 40 year old clips from the show. Anyway, Bo will become Asa in the past and Rex will become Bo in the past, and I'm sure wackiness ensues). All they're missing is Nathan Fillion visiting like he did last winter! This sounds in keeping with the "Fan February" episodes they did a decade or so ago where they fans contributed (some seriously whacked out) ideas for scenes they wanted to see so that the show could deliver them in a 'special event' episode. Hee!
It's crazy, but whatever headwriter Ron Carlivati is smoking, keep smoking it. This sounds crackficalicious!
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Date: 2008-06-12 08:34 am (UTC)Me too! And now they're all sat feeling sorry for themselves because the nasty people scared the nice Mr Allie away...
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Date: 2008-06-12 02:49 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-06-12 02:00 pm (UTC)Honestly? I think it's a combination of PTSD and claustrophobia sending them all batshit crazy.
Because they are, every single one of them, batshit crazy.
Thanks for the heads up about the
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Date: 2008-06-13 02:28 am (UTC)And I think the WIP post wasn't pimped a great deal so it sort of got overlooked.
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Date: 2008-06-12 06:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-13 02:29 am (UTC)I remember Marlena going yellow-eyed and levitating off the bed and, I swear to God, it's the only time in my life where I literally rolled on the floor laughing.
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Date: 2008-06-14 02:15 am (UTC)Do you think the writers seriously thought they were writing horror or were they in on the joke?
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Date: 2008-06-12 07:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-13 02:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-12 08:01 pm (UTC)I'll still read it, probably, but I'm not going to fash about it too much.
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Date: 2008-06-13 02:32 am (UTC)That said, the part where Thomas goes through the door that seemed connected to hell or whatever was creepy in a good way.