The state of me...

[briarwood]

Other than my crazy shoes post of yesterday, it's been ages since I posted. So here's a brief round-up of the state of Morgan:

• I'm on the last day of a lovely week off work. I spent most of my time writing, and working on some stuff for geonncannon.


• The writing is going well, though my goal was to finish a fic and I didn't do that. Still, I'm closer than I was :-)


• I finished uploading my old Hercules and Xena fics to The Archive of Our Own. I posted a list of the stories for reference here. I did leave out two series, because they were, respectively my first ever published fanfic and my first ever slash. Both written before I'd even heard of a beta. Reading them now makes me cringe and I'd prefer to forget them altogether! The rest still make me happy :-)


• The dogs have been...unwell, this week. Mum and I have spent rather more time than anyone ever should cleaning up stinky stuff from the carpets. *touch wood* all seems okay today.


• To explain my insane shoes post of yesterday: do you know how hard it is to find exactly the right shoes? Well, it is when you have my lack of fashion sense anyway. I wanted platforms to wear at Asylum con, 'cause I'm a little short person and look tiny next to these tall actors in photos, but I can't wear shoes with a solid piece at the heel - I need mules or slingbacks. This limits my choices somewhat. But when I saw that crazy pair I just had to have 'em. Everyone's gonna laugh at me and I'll probably look like a clown but I don't care. I just hope I can walk in them when they arrive :-)

I also saw Watchmen and...actually I'm not all that impressed. It's got the depth I expect from a comic book (i.e. none at all) which wouldn't be a problem except I was lead to believe that the source material actually has depth. I wouldn't know; I gave up reading cartoons a long time ago, but still.

Watchmen is what you'd expect from Zack Snyder: stylish, violent and shallow. I also prefer my sci-fi to have some kind of internal logic and I couldn't see any here. So, thumbs down from me. Maybe it's better for fans of the source.

That said, it was wonderful to see JDM in a role that's not crappy romcom, and the Comedian is easily the best thing about the film.

I've been enjoying most of the season's TV:

• Joss's new show, Dollhouse: Five episodes in I am distinctly unimpressed, but hanging on because I do trust Joss to have a rabbit in the hat somewhere. Joss tells long stories in small pieces; I've often found that a season I haven't enjoyed watching week-by-week turns into my favourite once I've got the full season and can cram it into a marathon-session. Buffy S3: so very irritating when I saw it one ep per week. Now I love it. Same with Angel S2, and actually Firefly, too. So, although I think Dollhouse is failing to deliver so far, I will trust Joss and wait until season's end.


• BSG: OMGWTF! I have a feeling what I said about Joss's shows is going to apply to this season. It feels very disjointed to me, too many threads, too many questions, and can't Roslin die already? I don't hate her, it's just I feel like we've been watching her die for years... I am looking forward to the finale, though.


• TSCC just keeps getting better. I know it's likely to get cancelled so I really hope they tie some of the questions up this season. I love their unique way of telling the story, the future flashes, the way you can't tell if some of it's real or hallucinations or dreams...the show makes you work hard, which is probably why it's not doing great in the ratings. But, like Farscape, it's worth it.


• What can I say about SPN? The show has almost lost me several times this season. I just don't do angels. No matter what. Every show I've gotten invested in that has introduced angels has therafter gone totally off the rails. HTLJ, Xena - perfect examples. (Sentinel got away with it because it was just one ep and the guy could have been nuts.) Angels just don't fit into any reasonable mythology. But I'm hanging on, and though I'm less than thrilled with this season so far I'm still looking forward to the next episode.


Today Sis and the Boyfriend are away someplace so I'm having a do-nothing day. I'm going to do my washing, have a hugely unhealthy lunch, and tonight I will be watching The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency on BBC1. I know it's not SF, but I love that series so much!

Comments

[blackjedii.livejournal.com]

Charmed did okay with angels... but Charmed was already so campy and bad that everything in it was acceptable by default?

But yeah, I'm unimpressed too. For all the "we're making badass warrior angels!!" that Kripke promised... so far all I'm seeing is a lot of monologuing and blank stares. Maybe SPN's angels really are boring tax accountants but they're too embarassed to admit it?

[charli-macboyd.livejournal.com]

The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency is my secret vice - it's like an African Hetty Wainthrop!!

[krazykipper.livejournal.com]

Spn is losing me more and more each episode. The only ep I've really enjoyed this season was the magic murders one, which I thought was very well done, and very creepy. (Oh, and the sorta token Ted Rami ep was kinda funny too).

But the mythology, it's just a bit too much with the whole, Angels vs Demons fighting to stop hell breaking out on earth etc. I miss the family business episodes of S1.