Sweet Merciful Silence
The boys (all of them) are out camping this weekend. They left last night, and are supposed to return tomorrow morning. Although, I'm pretty sure Mother Nature is going to put an end to the festivities early this afternoon. Of course not only are strong thunderstorms forecast, but now we are under a tornado watch. I just put in a call to the husband to let him know. Yet another reason why I'm glad it's him and not me out there.
To kick off the weekend, I went out with my mom and a few of her friends to see Sex and the City last night. We had bought tickets earlier in the week, which was great planning as our show as well as two others sold out well ahead of time. We had dinner at Friday's, and then went over to the movie. We got there forty five minutes ahead of time, which was another good idea because the place was packed, and the lines to get in were pretty crowded. But we got the seats we wanted, so it was all good. It was funny, while we were waiting in line, two guys walked past us to go into the theater playing Indiana Jones. One guy stopped, looked down the line of all women and asked what movie we were going to see because he never saw so many women in one place. The experience of going to see it definitely added to a fun night. I liked the movie except for one issue: Before we went to see the movie, I kept myself unspoiled except for some comments my mom would make after she watched some of the morning talk show reviews. She told me how this one reviewer said she was disappointed in the ending because Carrie's friends would never let her do what she did. I was curious as to what that cryptic line meant, but as the movie started to unfold I guessed at exactly how it was going to play out. Once Big started dropping comments about second guessing the wedding, I knew he was going to leave her at the altar but it would all work out okay in the end. And that pissed me off. Sure, they played it well as it was a case of Big's nerves getting the best of him, combined with Miranda's comment, Carrie's obsession with a perfect wedding, and the last minute loss of the cell phone. So it wasn't like Big was a complete asshole, and he did have a change of heart very quickly and tried to right the wrong before too much damage was done. But he still left Carrie heartbroken and humiliated, and she was devastated for most of her Mexican honeymoon as well as for weeks later. Plus this was yet another way that Big proved he couldn't commit to her. But still the movie had to have a happy ending, so all of that was forgiven and they end up with the ceremony he wanted at the end. It was at that point that I completely agreed with the reviewer. Charlotte especially (I could see Miranda being okay with forgiveness after her guilt and her recent make-up with Steve). She knew how badly Big hurt Carrie, and to just be all okay with it at the end doesn't sit right with me.
What I found interesting though, is out post movie discussion, and how people can watch the same movie and have completely different reactions to it. One comment from my mom's friend really stuck with me. She liked the ending because it was only characters in a movie. If it had happened to people she knew in real life she would have completely different feelings about it. Which made me realize how seriously I take things I watch. I like to believe that the people I'm watching are real people. Even in Sci-Fi/Fantasy genres, I want characters to play by a set of rules of whatever universe they are inhabiting. That is also why the argument 'But the good guys have to win no matter how against the odds they are and how many physic rules that break in the process because it's a TV show" never sat right with me either. But her comment last night made me start to think whether I just need to chill out about fictional things :)
In other fictional news, I'm slowly getting through my TIVO backlog. I really didn't care much when the TV shows came back, which meant I didn't care that much when they went back off the air. Still haven't seen an episode of BSG or Doctor Who yet this season. Doctor Who will be watched at some point, but I'm not sure about BSG. I was holding those eps so I could watch them with the husband. But he has no strong desire either, so I think that might be a lost cause. The bad thing about watching TV months after they air, is that I don't have the flist's post episode reactions readily available. Like this morning I just finished Torchwood season 2, and after my "Holy shit, did that really happen?" reaction subsided I wanted to dig up what other people had said two months ago.
And one other post season finale reaction - one not quite as old as Torchwood I was totally unspoiled (again thanks flist for letting me scroll through entries without seeing season finales news plastered all over the pages) except for knowing something big happened based on cut tags and cryptic comments to entries. I hadn't seen any eps once it came back on air, so I had a backlog to get through before I got to the finale. But I did it in two nights and I got to the season finale. I thought for sure Gormogon's assistant was Hodgins. They played that ep perfectly. How Cam, Sweets, and Hodgins were under suspicion, and how each of the characters made questionable moves. So when it turned out to be Zach, I was totally surprised by that. I kept waiting for one final twist, but when he confessed I was relieved that it wasn't Hodgins. The tribute at the end to him was also nicely done.
Well, my self imposed computer time limit has come. I have a hair appointment in a couple of hours, and I don't want to be a complete slug before then.
To kick off the weekend, I went out with my mom and a few of her friends to see Sex and the City last night. We had bought tickets earlier in the week, which was great planning as our show as well as two others sold out well ahead of time. We had dinner at Friday's, and then went over to the movie. We got there forty five minutes ahead of time, which was another good idea because the place was packed, and the lines to get in were pretty crowded. But we got the seats we wanted, so it was all good. It was funny, while we were waiting in line, two guys walked past us to go into the theater playing Indiana Jones. One guy stopped, looked down the line of all women and asked what movie we were going to see because he never saw so many women in one place. The experience of going to see it definitely added to a fun night. I liked the movie except for one issue: Before we went to see the movie, I kept myself unspoiled except for some comments my mom would make after she watched some of the morning talk show reviews. She told me how this one reviewer said she was disappointed in the ending because Carrie's friends would never let her do what she did. I was curious as to what that cryptic line meant, but as the movie started to unfold I guessed at exactly how it was going to play out. Once Big started dropping comments about second guessing the wedding, I knew he was going to leave her at the altar but it would all work out okay in the end. And that pissed me off. Sure, they played it well as it was a case of Big's nerves getting the best of him, combined with Miranda's comment, Carrie's obsession with a perfect wedding, and the last minute loss of the cell phone. So it wasn't like Big was a complete asshole, and he did have a change of heart very quickly and tried to right the wrong before too much damage was done. But he still left Carrie heartbroken and humiliated, and she was devastated for most of her Mexican honeymoon as well as for weeks later. Plus this was yet another way that Big proved he couldn't commit to her. But still the movie had to have a happy ending, so all of that was forgiven and they end up with the ceremony he wanted at the end. It was at that point that I completely agreed with the reviewer. Charlotte especially (I could see Miranda being okay with forgiveness after her guilt and her recent make-up with Steve). She knew how badly Big hurt Carrie, and to just be all okay with it at the end doesn't sit right with me.
What I found interesting though, is out post movie discussion, and how people can watch the same movie and have completely different reactions to it. One comment from my mom's friend really stuck with me. She liked the ending because it was only characters in a movie. If it had happened to people she knew in real life she would have completely different feelings about it. Which made me realize how seriously I take things I watch. I like to believe that the people I'm watching are real people. Even in Sci-Fi/Fantasy genres, I want characters to play by a set of rules of whatever universe they are inhabiting. That is also why the argument 'But the good guys have to win no matter how against the odds they are and how many physic rules that break in the process because it's a TV show" never sat right with me either. But her comment last night made me start to think whether I just need to chill out about fictional things :)
In other fictional news, I'm slowly getting through my TIVO backlog. I really didn't care much when the TV shows came back, which meant I didn't care that much when they went back off the air. Still haven't seen an episode of BSG or Doctor Who yet this season. Doctor Who will be watched at some point, but I'm not sure about BSG. I was holding those eps so I could watch them with the husband. But he has no strong desire either, so I think that might be a lost cause. The bad thing about watching TV months after they air, is that I don't have the flist's post episode reactions readily available. Like this morning I just finished Torchwood season 2, and after my "Holy shit, did that really happen?" reaction subsided I wanted to dig up what other people had said two months ago.
And one other post season finale reaction - one not quite as old as Torchwood I was totally unspoiled (again thanks flist for letting me scroll through entries without seeing season finales news plastered all over the pages) except for knowing something big happened based on cut tags and cryptic comments to entries. I hadn't seen any eps once it came back on air, so I had a backlog to get through before I got to the finale. But I did it in two nights and I got to the season finale. I thought for sure Gormogon's assistant was Hodgins. They played that ep perfectly. How Cam, Sweets, and Hodgins were under suspicion, and how each of the characters made questionable moves. So when it turned out to be Zach, I was totally surprised by that. I kept waiting for one final twist, but when he confessed I was relieved that it wasn't Hodgins. The tribute at the end to him was also nicely done.
Well, my self imposed computer time limit has come. I have a hair appointment in a couple of hours, and I don't want to be a complete slug before then.