Meandering Musings

So Joss now has a 'real job' (er...yay?) and cannot be arsed to write the Season 8 'Finale' all by his lonesome.  

After all, he only had three years to plan (because, he's known what he's doing all along, right? Isn't that the argument that his fans make?) and to write approximately twenty pages of actual text that someone else will illustrate.  (Or is it that he's figured out that there's no way to spin this shit into gold, so he needs someone to take a bullet for him after the multiple shark jumping and the inevitable "That's all?" of the ending.  You're designated kevlar, Allie.  Have fun).

So... why exactly is this supposed to be accepted as 'canon' again?

Still reeling from last night's ep.  (Which is good.  I may need it when the Buffy crackfest wank rolls around).  LOST last night was the great kind of awesome awful.   They ripped my heart out, stomped on it, and yet still left me hopeful that it will all work out in the end (and not in a desperate plea that maybe, somehow Joss Whedon will pull a crackfest out of the fire in the 11th hour [I'm not holding my breath.  At this point I just expect the awful with no awesome]). 

Anyway, I hee'd over the TWOP recap of last night's LOST because of this: 


And the recapper rates the episode an A+ 

Heh.

I think genre fans are willing masochists. :)

In my Bloodsucker Poll, rahirah's comment led me to respond with a few of my issues with Eric Northman (Am I the only one who laughs a little at Northman = Viking? Just me? *crickets*) Anyway, my issues with True Blood's Eric Northman, let me show you them...

I don't know him, and I don't understand him.

Really, it's just that simple. The actor is good looking. Eric is the anti-Bill Compton which, more often than not, is a really good thing. Eric is a Viking which is totally cool. Eric is hot. But, and here's the thing, Eric is an alien to me.

What do I mean by that? Well, first off, let me say that I haven't read the books. Perhaps this problem doesn't exist in the books. I'm just talking about the TV show and what has been shown to date. Up until now, Eric is opaque. I have no clue what makes him tick: not what he cares about, not what drives him, not what he loves or what he hates. I don't know why he deals 'V' or how he feels about being sheriff. The only thing I know with any certainty is that he cared about his sire. But, other than that, he's kind of a blank slate we can project anything onto. We don't know him well at all. Now, there's nothing particularly wrong with that in the framework of the show. I can easily see having a vampire be an enigmatic, detached character that views humans such as Sookie with the interest of an entomologist studying ants (which is the vibe I get when he stares so intently at her. I don't see love. I don't even see lust. I see an image of meditative 'Hmmmm...' as he looks at something completely foreign to him. Honestly, it's a bit of the same feeling I get when Spike stares at Buffy on the dance floor in School Hard. 'A slayer with friends...' that wasn't in the manual). At any rate, I'm just not going to be particularly fannish about a character that I don't really understand in an emotional way where I cannot figure out their motivation. I tend to become fannish about characters that I can endlessly dissect, ones who give me fodder to figure out why they do what they do, ones who behave according to emotions that I can comprehend... which led me to think of the BtVS episode Fool for Love and to appreciate anew why that episode is truly awesome.

( Thoughts on all the things FFL accomplished )

In my Bloodsucker Poll, rahirah's comment led me to respond with a few of my issues with Eric Northman (Am I the only one who laughs a little at Northman = Viking? Just me? *crickets*) Anyway, my issues with True Blood's Eric Northman, let me show you them...

I don't know him, and I don't understand him.

Really, it's just that simple. The actor is good looking. Eric is the anti-Bill Compton which, more often than not, is a really good thing. Eric is a Viking which is totally cool. Eric is hot. But, and here's the thing, Eric is an alien to me.

What do I mean by that? Well, first off, let me say that I haven't read the books. Perhaps this problem doesn't exist in the books. I'm just talking about the TV show and what has been shown to date. Up until now, Eric is opaque. I have no clue what makes him tick: not what he cares about, not what drives him, not what he loves or what he hates. I don't know why he deals 'V' or how he feels about being sheriff. The only thing I know with any certainty is that he cared about his sire. But, other than that, he's kind of a blank slate we can project anything onto. We don't know him well at all. Now, there's nothing particularly wrong with that in the framework of the show. I can easily see having a vampire be an enigmatic, detached character that views humans such as Sookie with the interest of an entomologist studying ants (which is the vibe I get when he stares so intently at her. I don't see love. I don't even see lust. I see an image of meditative 'Hmmmm...' as he looks at something completely foreign to him. Honestly, it's a bit of the same feeling I get when Spike stares at Buffy on the dance floor in School Hard. 'A slayer with friends...' that wasn't in the manual). At any rate, I'm just not going to be particularly fannish about a character that I don't really understand in an emotional way where I cannot figure out their motivation. I tend to become fannish about characters that I can endlessly dissect, ones who give me fodder to figure out why they do what they do, ones who behave according to emotions that I can comprehend... which led me to think of the BtVS episode Fool for Love and to appreciate anew why that episode is truly awesome.

( Thoughts on all the things FFL accomplished )

It's a question that came up for me when working on my WIP. I even went back and re-watched "You're Welcome" to see whether I had forgotten something, but the answer isn't in "You're Welcome."

Exactly why was Lindsey doing what he was doing in Season 5 AtS? In "You're Welcome"s big Angel/Lindsey fight scene he says he was pissed that Angel was handed everything that Lindsey had worked for... except... huh?

In the evil hand episode, Lindsey was given the job of head of the L.A. Branch. He turned it down and said to give it to Lilah instead.

So he's back in AtS 5 pissed because... Angel got the job? Huh?

I know that Lindsey long had a chip on his shoulder regarding Angel. And I know that there was also the issue of Darla (not that it was mentioned in AtS 5). But it just feels to me that Lindsey's motives and goal weren't well developed or identified in AtS 5.

This isn't really an issue in my WIP, other than it might be nice to know. Angel doesn't even appear in this story, and I know what Lindsey's motivation is within the context of my own story. But it does have me pondering Lindsey's Season 5 purpose. He went to a lot of trouble (including resurrecting Spike). But why and what he hoped to gain wasn't particularly well defined... at least from what I remember... and other than 'to piss off Angel.'

Am I forgetting something?

Okay, have read about the current issue and Allie wankage du jour.

Re: the state of the Whedonverse, let me quote AtS's Gunn:

"Don't tell us there's no where to go but up because the truth is there's always more down."

::Reads quote::

Nods. Sums up the comics nicely.

In honor of gabrielleabelle 's definition of a Spuffy Shipper, I bring you...



And, upon request, an icon:

Now, admittedly, I haven't been watching "Dollhouse." I was just somewhat curious about the last episode. I'm sure there's much more to the series that I don't understand, but looking at the finale, it looks like their post-apocalyptic world and a brain wiping/rebooting pulse is eerily similar to (okay, strikingly similar to) Stephen King's Cell .