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lls_mutantI so need blatant escapism today. Trevor is sick. Not life-threatening sick, of course- it's a GI bug. But definitely disgusting sick. The kind where you run as fast as you can with your kid to the kitchen so when he does puke, it's on the linoleum.
The LJ talk about people being laid off? Not helping.
You know, this is about a month late, and I don't normally rec reviews, but my friend Sue wrote one of the funniest reviews of Twilight that I've ever read. It's here (scroll down, although Justin's is a good read, too), at MRFH, and seriously- she totally outdid herself on this one. It's a "serious" review in that it's not like Twilight in 15 minutes or anything, but actually has paragraphs and stuff. But it's great.
Saw Slumdog Millionaire. Long version of my review will be written up for MRFH, the short version is SEE IT! I'd say it's the best movie I've seen all year, but it's January 6th. I think it deserves a much higher compliment than that.
In case anyone missed it, Al and I also wrote our Top 10 and Bottom 5 BSG Moments article. Fun article to write.
You know what my real wish is for the final season? I wish I could get all my online (and real life) friends that watch BSG together, make one heck of a dinner, and have a viewing party each week. Bon Appetit keeps putting out these awesome menus I want to try, and it would be so much fun. Of course, everyone's super scattered, so it's not an option, but maybe I'll at least try to arrange something with my RL friends (the whole two or three that watch) for the finale.
In other news: two things I really wish I discovered earlier: the comic strip Piled Higher and Deeper and the TV show Big Bang Theory. Both have way too many things I've said or done, although the first more than the second. (Including plotting to serve my committee food that would keep them happy but barely conscious and the joys of being the only woman on a road trip.) Except every time in BBT that Howard comes on the screen, I keep thinking "Moist." But even the theme song is by my favorite band (Barenaked Ladies), so... how did we miss this for so long?
And hey, while I'm feeling grumpy:
1.) You're reading too much into the Plan. The Cylon Plan? The one mentioned in the credits? I always thought it was basically "nuke humanity." The implication of that statement to me was that the Cylons had evolved beyond machines that did what they were told and had managed to think for themselves, to the extent that they could plan. That's it. Anything beyond that, they have plans like the RTF has plans. They change depending on what the other side does and what's going on.
2.) Yes, they're making a lot of it up as they go along. So what? It is obvious, especially what my friend Al terms the "mid season wasteland." (The stand-alone episodes.) And while it bugs me as much as anyone when they retcon or flat out contradict themselves, it doesn't bug me that they didn't have every detail planned from the beginning, especially since they didn't know how many shows they were going to get.
3.) Sometimes a cigar is a cigar. I can overanalyze with the best of them, I admit it. But there's a point where you have to say, "um, how would anyone expect the entire plot of the show to rest on this one tiny detail that 95% of fans didn't even notice?" If you have to write a story to make it work, it probably isn't canon. (But go ahead and write the story, because that's fun.)
4.) The final cylon is not THAT big a deal. Sure, we all want to know who it is. But the truth, I suspect, is that it's just not as big a deal as we fans are making it out to be. Somehow, I doubt he or she is the Cylon god. It's a piece of the puzzle, but it's not the entirety of the puzzle. And yes, 90% of fans will be disappointed, because they all have someone picked in their heads and are attached to their theories and of COURSE people will be disappointed when they're wrong. Me, I'll be disappointed if it's not Ellen Tigh, Cally, Dee, or Gaeta. (But no matter what, it's still not Baltar.)
Eh, that's all I've got for now.
The LJ talk about people being laid off? Not helping.
You know, this is about a month late, and I don't normally rec reviews, but my friend Sue wrote one of the funniest reviews of Twilight that I've ever read. It's here (scroll down, although Justin's is a good read, too), at MRFH, and seriously- she totally outdid herself on this one. It's a "serious" review in that it's not like Twilight in 15 minutes or anything, but actually has paragraphs and stuff. But it's great.
Saw Slumdog Millionaire. Long version of my review will be written up for MRFH, the short version is SEE IT! I'd say it's the best movie I've seen all year, but it's January 6th. I think it deserves a much higher compliment than that.
In case anyone missed it, Al and I also wrote our Top 10 and Bottom 5 BSG Moments article. Fun article to write.
You know what my real wish is for the final season? I wish I could get all my online (and real life) friends that watch BSG together, make one heck of a dinner, and have a viewing party each week. Bon Appetit keeps putting out these awesome menus I want to try, and it would be so much fun. Of course, everyone's super scattered, so it's not an option, but maybe I'll at least try to arrange something with my RL friends (the whole two or three that watch) for the finale.
In other news: two things I really wish I discovered earlier: the comic strip Piled Higher and Deeper and the TV show Big Bang Theory. Both have way too many things I've said or done, although the first more than the second. (Including plotting to serve my committee food that would keep them happy but barely conscious and the joys of being the only woman on a road trip.) Except every time in BBT that Howard comes on the screen, I keep thinking "Moist." But even the theme song is by my favorite band (Barenaked Ladies), so... how did we miss this for so long?
And hey, while I'm feeling grumpy:
1.) You're reading too much into the Plan. The Cylon Plan? The one mentioned in the credits? I always thought it was basically "nuke humanity." The implication of that statement to me was that the Cylons had evolved beyond machines that did what they were told and had managed to think for themselves, to the extent that they could plan. That's it. Anything beyond that, they have plans like the RTF has plans. They change depending on what the other side does and what's going on.
2.) Yes, they're making a lot of it up as they go along. So what? It is obvious, especially what my friend Al terms the "mid season wasteland." (The stand-alone episodes.) And while it bugs me as much as anyone when they retcon or flat out contradict themselves, it doesn't bug me that they didn't have every detail planned from the beginning, especially since they didn't know how many shows they were going to get.
3.) Sometimes a cigar is a cigar. I can overanalyze with the best of them, I admit it. But there's a point where you have to say, "um, how would anyone expect the entire plot of the show to rest on this one tiny detail that 95% of fans didn't even notice?" If you have to write a story to make it work, it probably isn't canon. (But go ahead and write the story, because that's fun.)
4.) The final cylon is not THAT big a deal. Sure, we all want to know who it is. But the truth, I suspect, is that it's just not as big a deal as we fans are making it out to be. Somehow, I doubt he or she is the Cylon god. It's a piece of the puzzle, but it's not the entirety of the puzzle. And yes, 90% of fans will be disappointed, because they all have someone picked in their heads and are attached to their theories and of COURSE people will be disappointed when they're wrong. Me, I'll be disappointed if it's not Ellen Tigh, Cally, Dee, or Gaeta. (But no matter what, it's still not Baltar.)
Eh, that's all I've got for now.
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Date: 2009-01-07 04:16 am (UTC)that's right, suckers, there is no Plan!
Isn't fandom fun? (...to watch from the sidelines?)
I wanna come over to your house and watch BSG! Where's my transporter, damnit? It's the 21st century! (also, then I wouldn't be paying $50 for cable to watch one damn show.)
PhD is awesome. It's worth your time to read the archives.
my favourite Twilight "review" (more of a recap. Mormonism yipes!)