The death of OctoRhyMo
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icepixieWell, I suppose it's pretty obvious now that I've completely given up on OctoRhyMo. Oops. On the other hand, my ultimate goal was to get six to ten poems that I can polish up and start submitting to journals, so in that respect, I succeeded. Counting three that I had already, I actually have twelve that I can, with some revision work on my part, put together into two collections of six (the usual limit for these things) and start sending out. Now I just have to target some journals that like quirky, quasi-scientific, anthropomorphic poems. Hmmm.
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Speaking of quasi-scientific, more Fringe thoughts:
- So is there some kind of law requiring that all alternate universes have zeppelins, and probably zeppelins docking at the Empire State Building? 'Cause that seems really common. It's the first thing that gets shown when you want to indicate "not our universe/history!"
- Although I'd figured out pretty much everything they revealed in "Peter," it was nice to get some "how" for the "what." I hadn't counted on the kidnapping not being entirely intentional before, although pretty much the moment we saw Peter's mother, I caught on to how it was going to go down. I'm glad they explained the "mistake" the Observer made, and connected it to the car crash. The retro credits and location tags were also hilarious.
- Curious how Nina said that Peter was important to her. I'm starting to wonder if she was, say, an egg donor or a surrogate for Walter and Elizabeth (since "in vitro fertilization" was listed in the retro credits), or is otherwise related to him.
- Walter shipping Peter and Olivia is the most adorable thing ever. "Do you think she'll call me 'Dad'?" And he was more excited about Peter's not-a-date with her than Peter was. And they even nearly kissed! (Heh, there was even a "damn bee!" moment, except without the bee.) Aaaand then it all goes to hell when she sees that Peter's from the other universe. Sadness. Then there's the stalling tactic of Peter thinking she's freaked out by the near-kiss, and...argh, so annoying. I hope the show isn't going to end with him having to go back to the other universe in order to reset the balance, leaving them forever separated. I would be so sad.
- Peter basically arranging a babysitter for Walter so he could go out on his not-a-date was also pretty funny. There was a scene in...one of the earlier episodes this season where he and Olivia are in the front seat of a car, and Walter's in the back, and they're commenting on how he's had a big day and gone to sleep, and the "parents" vibe there was such a combination of *facepalm* and "awww."
- In "Jacksonville," Walter putting on a pair of round-frame glasses and sort of thinning his upper lip so that he looked freakishly like Leonard Nimoy/William Bell in the mirror had to be significant, right?
- So who/what got sucked into the other universe to replace Peter when Walter took him? (Not to mention the soldiers, etc. coming over now?) And if there needed to be something of equal mass sent over there to replace the building that came over here, wouldn't getting everyone out of it have changed that mass? And for that matter, why did it have to be a building, and not just a bunch of cars or trees or something? Dammit, the problem with J.J. Abrams writing a show where the details are really important is that he sucks at keeping details consistent and adhering to his own rules of logic (c.f. also Peter saying he didn't remember being sick as a kid, when obviously he was in both universes). [/bitter former Alias fan] Although possibly some of the plot holes will be cleared up later.
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Speaking of quasi-scientific, more Fringe thoughts:
- So is there some kind of law requiring that all alternate universes have zeppelins, and probably zeppelins docking at the Empire State Building? 'Cause that seems really common. It's the first thing that gets shown when you want to indicate "not our universe/history!"
- Although I'd figured out pretty much everything they revealed in "Peter," it was nice to get some "how" for the "what." I hadn't counted on the kidnapping not being entirely intentional before, although pretty much the moment we saw Peter's mother, I caught on to how it was going to go down. I'm glad they explained the "mistake" the Observer made, and connected it to the car crash. The retro credits and location tags were also hilarious.
- Curious how Nina said that Peter was important to her. I'm starting to wonder if she was, say, an egg donor or a surrogate for Walter and Elizabeth (since "in vitro fertilization" was listed in the retro credits), or is otherwise related to him.
- Walter shipping Peter and Olivia is the most adorable thing ever. "Do you think she'll call me 'Dad'?" And he was more excited about Peter's not-a-date with her than Peter was. And they even nearly kissed! (Heh, there was even a "damn bee!" moment, except without the bee.) Aaaand then it all goes to hell when she sees that Peter's from the other universe. Sadness. Then there's the stalling tactic of Peter thinking she's freaked out by the near-kiss, and...argh, so annoying. I hope the show isn't going to end with him having to go back to the other universe in order to reset the balance, leaving them forever separated. I would be so sad.
- Peter basically arranging a babysitter for Walter so he could go out on his not-a-date was also pretty funny. There was a scene in...one of the earlier episodes this season where he and Olivia are in the front seat of a car, and Walter's in the back, and they're commenting on how he's had a big day and gone to sleep, and the "parents" vibe there was such a combination of *facepalm* and "awww."
- In "Jacksonville," Walter putting on a pair of round-frame glasses and sort of thinning his upper lip so that he looked freakishly like Leonard Nimoy/William Bell in the mirror had to be significant, right?
- So who/what got sucked into the other universe to replace Peter when Walter took him? (Not to mention the soldiers, etc. coming over now?) And if there needed to be something of equal mass sent over there to replace the building that came over here, wouldn't getting everyone out of it have changed that mass? And for that matter, why did it have to be a building, and not just a bunch of cars or trees or something? Dammit, the problem with J.J. Abrams writing a show where the details are really important is that he sucks at keeping details consistent and adhering to his own rules of logic (c.f. also Peter saying he didn't remember being sick as a kid, when obviously he was in both universes). [/bitter former Alias fan] Although possibly some of the plot holes will be cleared up later.
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Date: 2010-10-28 07:39 pm (UTC)I don't know, I think I'm a bad SF TV fan because unless they're huge, glaring errors, I just don't tend to care that much. It's tough trying to maintain continuity while building story and character on a show as arc-dependent as this one.
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Date: 2010-10-28 09:38 pm (UTC)I do think this season has been better than the first one. It seems like things started to cohere better when Charlie kicked it, which makes me sad to say, but...it's kinda true. Being Olivia's partner gave Peter a purpose, and that seemed to help the show as a whole. Also, getting answers to some of the big arc questions is nice. (I'm still here mainly for the mythology. I like the characters pretty well, especially Olivia, but I don't flove any of them like I do with, say B5 or BSG.)