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icepixieBones watchers! Answer me this important question: last night's episode. Should I watch it and mock heavily, or will it just fill me with rage? Inquiring minds want to know!
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Date: 2009-05-09 04:04 am (UTC)Wow, you DO hate yourself.
One more vote for "DUDE WTF FAIL."
Good to know! (I hear that in addition to Brennan's sudden insane desire for a baby, or more specifically Booth's baby, Booth has a brain tumor? Because the show is now a soap opera? I've read better fanfic written by fifteen-year-olds!) Although spoiler pictures for next week look...interesting...
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Date: 2009-05-09 04:35 am (UTC)Did I tell you I'm writing a paper about a Ferneyhough piece? I just opened the score to a page at random and found a quintuplet nested in a 19:12-plet (i.e., 19 beat divisions in the space of 12) nested in an 11:10-plet. (We're in 5/8, btw.) Every other instrumental line has crazy borrowed beats too, and none of them match up with this line. And this was a page chosen at random!
I'm claiming it's a re-imagining of a '70s piece in which the performers are told to look up at the sky and sing the constellations they see as if they were on staves.
Because the show is now a soap opera?
Naw, soap operas have better pacing.
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Date: 2009-05-09 02:32 pm (UTC)Just the sound of that makes me want to run away screaming. YOU ARE OBVIOUSLY A MASOCHIST.
I'm claiming it's a re-imagining of a '70s piece in which the performers are told to look up at the sky and sing the constellations they see as if they were on staves.
On the other hand, this I am totally stealing for the piece I'm thinking about writing.
Naw, soap operas have better pacing.
True, true.
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Date: 2009-05-09 06:01 pm (UTC)Well, I'm talking about the text a lot. Here're somes samples from the text:
A la mode
Lehar:
Did eider
Braxy angary
Read a nork?
Kryokytic aboral "up-
Start, squamose
Abdicant!"
Umpteen stuff:
Take-out-rank ap-
Pendage (leastways)
Is spondulicks.
(They're slightly-mangled acrostics for the Arabic names of stars.)
On the other hand, this I am totally stealing for the piece I'm thinking about writing.
Problem is, the performance takes about twenty-five people, and if you can scare up twenty-five people who care about Stockhausen (enough to perform a three-hour piece that involves torches and runners), odds are you're in a big enough city that you can't see the stars.
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Date: 2009-05-10 05:35 pm (UTC)...Meep.
(They're slightly-mangled acrostics for the Arabic names of stars.)
So that's partly where the comparison to the Stockhausen piece comes in?
Problem is, the performance takes about twenty-five people, and if you can scare up twenty-five people who care about Stockhausen (enough to perform a three-hour piece that involves torches and runners), odds are you're in a big enough city that you can't see the stars.
Oh, I didn't say I was stealing it for a piece of fiction about humans. :D (Or stealing the Stockhausen name, for that matter. Just the general concept.)
Also...torches and runners? Oh, my.
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Date: 2009-05-11 02:07 am (UTC)Yeah. Stockhausen's indeterminacy was in the music, whereas Ferneyhough's indeterminacy is in textual interpretation (insert Barthes tangent here).
Oh, I didn't say I was stealing it for a piece of fiction about humans. :D
You write fiction about humans? :D
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Date: 2009-05-11 02:59 am (UTC)Occasionally I do, yes. :D
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Date: 2009-05-09 04:37 am (UTC)You... kind of need to watch it? Except... don't expect a real tv show. Expect fanfic. Because that's what it is. It takes certain canon stuff, like, you know, character, and throws it out the window, but then from that starting premise, things follow pretty rationally. The weird thing is, I haven't enjoyed a Bones episode that much since... last season, at least. There is PRIME MOCKERY to be had. It is excellent alt!universe crackfic. Just don't go in there expecting dignity. (Then again, this is Bones we're talking about.)
Oh, and the end is good, because it starts to resolve a long-standing plot arc unrelated to B/B shenanigans.
(Uh, my enjoyment of the episode may have been helped by me having some leftover gifted beer in my fridge that I really needed to get rid of. This was a perfect opportunity. I saw Hulu's synopsis (and your warning) and thought, "Well. I can't do this sober.")
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Date: 2009-05-09 02:34 pm (UTC)It sounds like it's worse than most fanfic I've read.
Oh, and the end is good, because it starts to resolve a long-standing plot arc unrelated to B/B shenanigans.
I hear rumors of a brain tumor for Booth? Hearing that made me laugh and laugh. And then roll my eyes really hard. (And...did Angela and Hodgins get back together? I've heard reactions that made it sound like they were, but no details.)
Yeah, I dunno if I'll manage to actually watch this episode. Maybe if I can find some kind of alcohol substitute...
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Date: 2009-05-10 03:05 am (UTC)Oh, BURN! Nah, once you get past the main premise of "Uh, Brennan suddenly wants to spawn wtf??" the writing's not too bad. Better comedy than we've had in a while. And they nearly came up with a rationalization for it: Brennan's idea of emotionally "safe," commitment-free intimacy is... artificial insemination to acquire desirable genes. Of course it is. So... yeah. Alt!universe crackfic.
And then, yes, brain tumors. But! They explain the hockey hallucination, and the ship ghost! (And the appearance of Stewie, and that appearance alone was almost enough to keep me from watching the ep. But it was done... about as well as a hallucinated cartoon character can be done. Think Farscape.)
And yeah, Angela and Hodgins got back together... sorta? Vaguely? They're definitely headed in that direction, anyway, and soon. They were all, "Oh, the ephemerality of this life we lead! We could be snatched away at any moment by a brain tumor! Let us frolic!" Which... I'm kinda thinking B&B will be headed down that path next week. My eyes, too, were a-roll.
Yeah, I dunno if I'll manage to actually watch this episode.
Think low expectations. Then lower them some more. Then you'll have fun!
Maybe if I can find some kind of alcohol substitute...
A solid caffeine- or sugar-high would help, I believe...
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Date: 2009-05-10 05:44 pm (UTC)Of course, there is actually some good fanfic out there.
And they nearly came up with a rationalization for it: Brennan's idea of emotionally "safe," commitment-free intimacy is... artificial insemination to acquire desirable genes. Of course it is.
Well, yes, but...all of a sudden? Without reference to, I dunno, maybe her brother's stepkids or Baby Andy from back in S3? Feh. It reeks of the plot device it is.
And then, yes, brain tumors. But! They explain the hockey hallucination, and the ship ghost!
...The ship ghost which Brennan saw later in the episode?
I've heard that the Stewie appearance was basically the best part of the episode. Which shocked me.
Angela and Hodgins got back together... sorta? Vaguely? They're definitely headed in that direction, anyway, and soon.
Yay! (I mean, I still kind of hate Angela. But I thought they were so cute.)
They were all, "Oh, the ephemerality of this life we lead! We could be snatched away at any moment by a brain tumor! Let us frolic!"
Ooooof course. How many miles away could anyone see that coming?
A solid caffeine- or sugar-high would help, I believe...
Those just tend to make me easily-distracted, and then it takes hours to get through an episode.
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Date: 2009-05-11 02:46 am (UTC)There is! It's just that it accounts for about 1% of fanfic... (btw, your recent excellent one reminded me that I should go watch B5, and I'm having much better luck with the end of S1 than the beginning...)
Without reference to, I dunno, maybe her brother's stepkids or Baby Andy from back in S3?
They tossed in some references to Parker and Baby Andy (phalanges!), but... yeah. Out of the blue.
It reeks of the plot device it is.
There is a stench, yes. This could've been planned better.
...The ship ghost which Brennan saw later in the episode?
Folie a deux? (Or... bad continuity?)
I've heard that the Stewie appearance was basically the best part of the episode.
It was... not the worst? The best may have been the rest of the team going D: D: D: at Brennan's sudden babylust.
(I mean, I still kind of hate Angela. But I thought they were so cute.)
Yes! A big \o/ for Hodgins, at least .
How many miles away could anyone see that coming?
I believe that was visible from space.
Those just tend to make me easily-distracted, and then it takes hours to get through an episode.
Try ODing on ritalin? (It's like vitamins!)
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Date: 2009-05-11 05:35 am (UTC)True, true.
(btw, your recent excellent one reminded me that I should go watch B5, and I'm having much better luck with the end of S1 than the beginning...)
Aw, thank you! And yay B5! If you're liking the end of S1, you will totally love S2-4. It starts ramping up like crazy in S2.
They tossed in some references to Parker and Baby Andy (phalanges!), but... yeah. Out of the blue.
Nice.
There is a stench, yes. This could've been planned better.
Although I'm pretty sure "plan" isn't in the PTB's vocabulary on this show.
Folie a deux? (Or... bad continuity?)
They need to beg for more change outside the studio in order to hire a script supervisor.
It was... not the worst? The best may have been the rest of the team going D: D: D: at Brennan's sudden babylust.
Haha. It might be worth it for that.
Yes! A big \o/ for Hodgins, at least .
Yay Hodgins! The one character on that show I still like! (Well, there's Cam, I guess.)
Try ODing on ritalin? (It's like vitamins!)
Hmmm. Perhaps I should wait until the next time I get sick, which tends to produce a sort of drunken effect in me. Then I might be able to get through it...
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Date: 2009-05-11 06:07 am (UTC)I'm starting to see what you're talking about with the crazy Tolkien references, too. In that two-parter, I was all, "Bilbooooo! Go into the West, Bilbo!!! The
elvesaliens are waiting!!"Although I'm pretty sure "plan" isn't in the PTB's vocabulary on this show.
Absent like "dignity"...
They need to beg for more change outside the studio in order to hire a script supervisor.
Seriously, would it kill them to throw together a show bible? Or even a collection of post-its saying, "THIS IS STUFF BRENNAN SHOULD NEVER EVER DO BECAUSE IT IS OUT OF CHARACTER"?
Haha. It might be worth it for that.
One of the main reasons I could stand her sudden need to spawn was the fact that every other character in the show agreed with me that it was a bizarre and unreasonable development.
The one character on that show I still like!
Uhhhhh did you see, a few episodes ago, when Hodgins took a page out of Un!Brennan's book and attacked Middle Eastern Intern Dude in a racist fashion? It was ugly and Not Canon.
Then I might be able to get through it...
It builds character! (Just not Brennan's...)
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Date: 2009-05-11 04:58 pm (UTC)elvesaliens are waiting!!"Hee, YES. The Minbari are totally elves in this universe, in more ways than one. It is fabulous. (Although that's not the most blatant reference. Two words: Marcus Cole. You'll find out what I mean in S3.)
Absent like "dignity"...
Siiiiiigh.
Seriously, would it kill them to throw together a show bible? Or even a collection of post-its saying, "THIS IS STUFF BRENNAN SHOULD NEVER EVER DO BECAUSE IT IS OUT OF CHARACTER"?
Maybe we should mail them Post-Its. With pre-written rules for what they should do!
One of the main reasons I could stand her sudden need to spawn was the fact that every other character in the show agreed with me that it was a bizarre and unreasonable development.
Mwahahahaha!
Uhhhhh did you see, a few episodes ago, when Hodgins took a page out of Un!Brennan's book and attacked Middle Eastern Intern Dude in a racist fashion? It was ugly and Not Canon.
Really? Damn. That's no good. I stopped watching regularly when Perotta left (I think), and then I (stupidly) came back and watched the episode where Sweets showed his entirely-too-literal scars. Haven't seen any others. Apparently this was a good plan.
It builds character! (Just not Brennan's...)
D:
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Date: 2009-05-12 02:49 am (UTC)If only they had pretty hair!
Maybe we should mail them Post-Its. With pre-written rules for what they should do!
It could all be so simple!
Really? Damn. That's no good.
Not the Hodgepodge!! Is nothing sacred??
Sweets showed his entirely-too-literal scars.
ENTIRELY. (But at least there was Stephen Fry!)
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Date: 2009-05-12 02:52 pm (UTC)*has a sudden coughing fit*
Not the Hodgepodge!! Is nothing sacred??
:( :( :(
ENTIRELY.
I may be scarred for life.
(But at least there was Stephen Fry!)
The shining bright spot of this season!
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Date: 2009-05-12 02:58 pm (UTC)O_o
I may be scarred for life.
But then you'll have something to show off at parties!
The shining bright spot of this season!
Come baaaaaack! (How much would I watch The Stephen Fry And Zack Show? A lot.)
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Date: 2009-05-12 05:41 pm (UTC)Ummm...if you haven't figured it out already, don't look at my icon until you reach season two?
But then you'll have something to show off at parties!
Or at death metal concerts!
Come baaaaaack! (How much would I watch The Stephen Fry And Zack Show? A lot.)
He should TOTALLY counsel Zackaroni.
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Date: 2009-05-15 02:36 am (UTC)Ummmmm....
Or at death metal concerts!
For me, the Venn diagram of "parties" and "death metal concerts" is a single circle.
He should TOTALLY counsel Zackaroni.
YES! Zack has angst on his mind!
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Date: 2009-05-09 11:44 pm (UTC)Given the ranting Jodie did during the episode and through most of SPN I would say just watch the last two minutes of the ep. I think the baby thing is a non issue now.
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Date: 2009-05-10 05:36 pm (UTC)Hurrah!
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Date: 2009-05-21 04:47 am (UTC)Too bad it was replaced by something must worse.