A panoply of entertainment on the screen
Jun. 25th, 2005 05:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieHmph. Get me home, and I hardly update at all. (Although I haven't been doing too well over the last month or two, really, I suppose.) Mundane RL things: Um, actually, there's really just one, and it's how very nice it is not to be sleeping in a cement hammock anymore. It still feels strange not to have a giant hole in the middle of my bed, but believe me, I'm definitely getting used to it.
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I watched the BSG rerun on Skiffy last night, one called "Flesh and Bone." Since it's the eighth episode in, I was expecting to be more confused, and was pleasantly surprised when I could follow most of it. I'm totally lost on the whole Boomer thing, though. There are two of her, okay, and Helo is still alive and kicking on Caprica, which explains the Boomer/Helo shipper icons I've seen here and there despite Galactica-Sharon's relationship with Gimbal-guy (does he have a name?). And Galactica-Sharon is a Cylon, right...so is Caprica-Sharon a Cylon too? I would think so, since she's associating with Six (that is her name, right?) and, to steal from TWoP, Poor Man's Kevin Spacey, but isn't only one of each model supposed to be running around at any one time, and the others waiting in stasis somewhere or something? Is Caprica-Sharon the human they based the Cylon-Sharons off of, but forgot to kill? (I have no idea if that's how Cylons get themselves bodies and personalities, but it seems logical.)
If the explanation is complicated, I'll just get it from recaps, but if it can be explained in a few sentences, someone wanna tell me?
The religion thing is nifty. I wonder how the humans got back into worshiping Greek gods. Do they worship other mythological pantheons? Seems like an odd thing to keep from Earth, really, although it does fit rather nicely with how their colonies are named.
My complaint about the handheld cameras remains. For god's sake, GET A FREAKING (er, "frakking") TRIPOD. People. Oy. I'm gonna stop watching if the cameras don't quit bobbing around so much. Once in a while on Farscape was okay, especially for an episode that really benefitted from it like CDM, but I don't want to have to take Dramamine to watch a weekly TV show. And this show? Does not benefit from wacky camera work. When it's used, the scene usually isn't going for crazy, and that's really the only time it's justified, IMO.
I just realized from a visit to TWoP that season one was only thirteen episodes long. Or they only have thirteen episodes recapped, anyway. Hooray, my chances of catching up on all of them (well, if they quit with the nausea-inducing camera work) at some point this summer just doubled!
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I also rented the first two episodes of Carnivále on DVD from Blockbuster. The first episode was sort of slow for the first forty-five minutes, but was sufficiently intriguing in the last fifteen that I watched the second, and I think I need to see the rest of this. I don't love any of the characters yet, but I'm really interested in seeing what develops from the bits and pieces of information we've been given. I hope they tie the two plot arcs together somehow, and within the next few episodes; Hawkins & co. at the carnival are significantly more interesting than Brother Justin at the moment, although he has his moments as well. (He also has William Morris wallpaper in his bedroom. Cabbage leaves. I knew the Kenyon Seminar would leave me knowledge for life.) As an avid Earth 2 fan, I must say I'm ashamed that it took me until the second episode to figure out which character Clancy Brown was; without the long hair, he's just not as noticible.
I love love love the design of the whole show. The colors, the dust, the music, the clothing, everything. Very cohesive, very attractive, and very much a setting in which strange things can and do happen.
It kind of reminds me of a much better version of The Others (the TV show, not the movie) with a generous helping of John Steinbeck. (Like probably a lot of other people, when I think "1930s," I think Grapes of Wrath. Thank you, eleventh-grade English.) All the religious stuff has me thinking GoW, too. Please don't have someone named Rose of Sharon nursing some strange man in a barn at the end, that's all I ask.
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And I watched "Before I Sleep" on a much larger screen than the last time, which was lovely. I think I might finally be getting back into Atlantis after not even bothering to read fic, much less write it or make icons or anything, for months now, so yay! I should do something about those Vorkosiverse crossover and McKay babysitting fics...
That is, when I finish the nine thousand books I got from the library today...absolutely none of which have anything to do with my comps. Oops. I need to order them off Amazon sometime soon, so I can mark 'em up and remember what they're about come March and the Giant Test O' Horrible.
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I watched the BSG rerun on Skiffy last night, one called "Flesh and Bone." Since it's the eighth episode in, I was expecting to be more confused, and was pleasantly surprised when I could follow most of it. I'm totally lost on the whole Boomer thing, though. There are two of her, okay, and Helo is still alive and kicking on Caprica, which explains the Boomer/Helo shipper icons I've seen here and there despite Galactica-Sharon's relationship with Gimbal-guy (does he have a name?). And Galactica-Sharon is a Cylon, right...so is Caprica-Sharon a Cylon too? I would think so, since she's associating with Six (that is her name, right?) and, to steal from TWoP, Poor Man's Kevin Spacey, but isn't only one of each model supposed to be running around at any one time, and the others waiting in stasis somewhere or something? Is Caprica-Sharon the human they based the Cylon-Sharons off of, but forgot to kill? (I have no idea if that's how Cylons get themselves bodies and personalities, but it seems logical.)
If the explanation is complicated, I'll just get it from recaps, but if it can be explained in a few sentences, someone wanna tell me?
The religion thing is nifty. I wonder how the humans got back into worshiping Greek gods. Do they worship other mythological pantheons? Seems like an odd thing to keep from Earth, really, although it does fit rather nicely with how their colonies are named.
My complaint about the handheld cameras remains. For god's sake, GET A FREAKING (er, "frakking") TRIPOD. People. Oy. I'm gonna stop watching if the cameras don't quit bobbing around so much. Once in a while on Farscape was okay, especially for an episode that really benefitted from it like CDM, but I don't want to have to take Dramamine to watch a weekly TV show. And this show? Does not benefit from wacky camera work. When it's used, the scene usually isn't going for crazy, and that's really the only time it's justified, IMO.
I just realized from a visit to TWoP that season one was only thirteen episodes long. Or they only have thirteen episodes recapped, anyway. Hooray, my chances of catching up on all of them (well, if they quit with the nausea-inducing camera work) at some point this summer just doubled!
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I also rented the first two episodes of Carnivále on DVD from Blockbuster. The first episode was sort of slow for the first forty-five minutes, but was sufficiently intriguing in the last fifteen that I watched the second, and I think I need to see the rest of this. I don't love any of the characters yet, but I'm really interested in seeing what develops from the bits and pieces of information we've been given. I hope they tie the two plot arcs together somehow, and within the next few episodes; Hawkins & co. at the carnival are significantly more interesting than Brother Justin at the moment, although he has his moments as well. (He also has William Morris wallpaper in his bedroom. Cabbage leaves. I knew the Kenyon Seminar would leave me knowledge for life.) As an avid Earth 2 fan, I must say I'm ashamed that it took me until the second episode to figure out which character Clancy Brown was; without the long hair, he's just not as noticible.
I love love love the design of the whole show. The colors, the dust, the music, the clothing, everything. Very cohesive, very attractive, and very much a setting in which strange things can and do happen.
It kind of reminds me of a much better version of The Others (the TV show, not the movie) with a generous helping of John Steinbeck. (Like probably a lot of other people, when I think "1930s," I think Grapes of Wrath. Thank you, eleventh-grade English.) All the religious stuff has me thinking GoW, too. Please don't have someone named Rose of Sharon nursing some strange man in a barn at the end, that's all I ask.
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And I watched "Before I Sleep" on a much larger screen than the last time, which was lovely. I think I might finally be getting back into Atlantis after not even bothering to read fic, much less write it or make icons or anything, for months now, so yay! I should do something about those Vorkosiverse crossover and McKay babysitting fics...
That is, when I finish the nine thousand books I got from the library today...absolutely none of which have anything to do with my comps. Oops. I need to order them off Amazon sometime soon, so I can mark 'em up and remember what they're about come March and the Giant Test O' Horrible.
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Date: 2005-06-26 10:36 pm (UTC)Ahhhh, okay. So the mini's implication that only one of each model could be active at any one time was totally not true. Good to know.
Then a Sharon comes out at the back of the group, and the audience is supposed to go "*gasp!* Sharon's really a Cylon!"
I remember something like that at the end of the mini, although it was only Six, Leoben, and Poor Man's Kevin Spacey there along with Sharon, IIRC.
Suspension of disbelief about the Earth-like stuff on this show is easy compared to Stargate. Vikings were transported to another planet a thousand years ago and haven't changed a bit. So have Mongolians, medieval English, and lots of others. Right. And they can all speak perfect English. Totally, man. *g*
Heh. It probably helps that the stuff I understand about this show, I understand on a very simple, basic level. Makes it easier to explain the basics, but ask me to go any deeper and poof, it's gone. *g*
Simple and basic is a-okay with me! Although I'd love to read fic that deals with Kobol and the origins of the separate colonies. That would be nifty.