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betagoddess! May you have all the happiness you could wish for, darling.
I changed my banner and layout colours again. I was getting bored with blue, and needed something colourful.
Apparently SPN fandom is imploding over some rumoured S3 spoilers. I don't know what they are (and if you tell me I will beat you to death with a damp lettuce leaf) but hell, you'd think the fandom would have learned to trust Kripke by now.
Supernatural has a lot wrong with it, and they've made mistakes (*cough* Heart *cough*) but despite the occasional bobble the show still delivers, over and over. Fact is, Supernatural at its worst is better than most current shows can come up with at their best, and Supernatural at its best rocks like a rocking thing.
This is coming from me, the fan least likely to trust TPTB in any fandom: Trust the Krip. At least until he proves we can't. For a man with virtually no track record in TV to deliver two spectacular seasons is a good sign. I'm not saying the show might not jump the shark, but I'm willing to give the man the benefit of the doubt and say he probably knows what he's doing.
I finally got around to watching the rest of Blood Ties. I really must get hold of those books. I'm turning into an urban fantasy addict. Anita Blake got me started, then Kelley Armstrong's wonderful Women of the Otherworld books, Kat Richardson's fantastic Greywalker, Carrie Vaughn's werewolf stories...and I just started reading the Rachel Morgan books. Guess this is one to add to the list. But that's books. As for the TV adaption...
The good: I loved the characters and the basic setup of the plot. I can't figure out whether or not it's meant to be a "everyone knows about the supernatural" verse. The pilot implied not, but as the season went on there was way too much acceptance of the weird among the supporting characters. Yay for strong female leads, and I love that Vicki is a disabled character and still kicks ass with the best of 'em. Henry's a cool character, too. The background mythology is very different from most of the supernatural shows I've loved.
The bad: The film quality (and admittedly this might be because my copies are downloaded) is really poor, and the scripts are pretty weak (can't blame that on illegal downloads). Worst of all, there's very little chemistry between the leads, and I get the impression there's supposed to be a lot of sparkage there. I just don't see it.
I finished reading The Harlequin. It's a huge improvement over the last few AB novels, proving my theory that the AB books are no longer worth reading unless it's an Edward story. But even Edward's presence failed to save it. The awful thing is I can see how easily a decent editor could fix this novel: just talk LKH into giving the plot as much loving attention as she does the sex, and actually explain what's really happening occasionally and this one would be really, really good. It's not that sex is bad. It's that sex is not plot. A novel-length story requires plot.
The Harlequin actually has plot. And mostly the sex is relevant to it. I was all set to give the book an amazing review until I got to the last few chapters where Anita & Co are in the middle of a confrontation with the scary bad guys and take time out to talk about their feelings. I mean...seriously? And where the hell was Edward in that sequence? He was there, but the author ignored his presence totally until she needed him - which is wrong, Edward is action-guy, not stand-around-listening-while-the-bad-guys-do-bad-shit guy. So it ends up with 6/10. Best since Obsidian Butterfly but it's ample evidence that it's not worth buying any more of them.
I gave in to temptation and am downloading the next season of Numb3rs. I've found it's a great series to write to (to, not about - I write in front of the TV). It's interesting and exciting without being distracting. This may not be a compliment to the show, but it's good for me :-)
betagoddess! May you have all the happiness you could wish for, darling.I changed my banner and layout colours again. I was getting bored with blue, and needed something colourful.
Apparently SPN fandom is imploding over some rumoured S3 spoilers. I don't know what they are (and if you tell me I will beat you to death with a damp lettuce leaf) but hell, you'd think the fandom would have learned to trust Kripke by now.
Supernatural has a lot wrong with it, and they've made mistakes (*cough* Heart *cough*) but despite the occasional bobble the show still delivers, over and over. Fact is, Supernatural at its worst is better than most current shows can come up with at their best, and Supernatural at its best rocks like a rocking thing.
This is coming from me, the fan least likely to trust TPTB in any fandom: Trust the Krip. At least until he proves we can't. For a man with virtually no track record in TV to deliver two spectacular seasons is a good sign. I'm not saying the show might not jump the shark, but I'm willing to give the man the benefit of the doubt and say he probably knows what he's doing.
I finally got around to watching the rest of Blood Ties. I really must get hold of those books. I'm turning into an urban fantasy addict. Anita Blake got me started, then Kelley Armstrong's wonderful Women of the Otherworld books, Kat Richardson's fantastic Greywalker, Carrie Vaughn's werewolf stories...and I just started reading the Rachel Morgan books. Guess this is one to add to the list. But that's books. As for the TV adaption...
The good: I loved the characters and the basic setup of the plot. I can't figure out whether or not it's meant to be a "everyone knows about the supernatural" verse. The pilot implied not, but as the season went on there was way too much acceptance of the weird among the supporting characters. Yay for strong female leads, and I love that Vicki is a disabled character and still kicks ass with the best of 'em. Henry's a cool character, too. The background mythology is very different from most of the supernatural shows I've loved.
The bad: The film quality (and admittedly this might be because my copies are downloaded) is really poor, and the scripts are pretty weak (can't blame that on illegal downloads). Worst of all, there's very little chemistry between the leads, and I get the impression there's supposed to be a lot of sparkage there. I just don't see it.
I finished reading The Harlequin. It's a huge improvement over the last few AB novels, proving my theory that the AB books are no longer worth reading unless it's an Edward story. But even Edward's presence failed to save it. The awful thing is I can see how easily a decent editor could fix this novel: just talk LKH into giving the plot as much loving attention as she does the sex, and actually explain what's really happening occasionally and this one would be really, really good. It's not that sex is bad. It's that sex is not plot. A novel-length story requires plot.
The Harlequin actually has plot. And mostly the sex is relevant to it. I was all set to give the book an amazing review until I got to the last few chapters where Anita & Co are in the middle of a confrontation with the scary bad guys and take time out to talk about their feelings. I mean...seriously? And where the hell was Edward in that sequence? He was there, but the author ignored his presence totally until she needed him - which is wrong, Edward is action-guy, not stand-around-listening-while-the-bad-guys-do-bad-shit guy. So it ends up with 6/10. Best since Obsidian Butterfly but it's ample evidence that it's not worth buying any more of them.
I gave in to temptation and am downloading the next season of Numb3rs. I've found it's a great series to write to (to, not about - I write in front of the TV). It's interesting and exciting without being distracting. This may not be a compliment to the show, but it's good for me :-)
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