My Brain and I need to talk
I think I've adjusted rather well over the last few months to my brain's need to wake me up after 5 hours of sleep. This all started in March when I became seriously underemployed due to cut backs in the healthcare sector. I wake up to thoughts just racing through my head and if it's after 0330 I'm pretty game to calling it a night and putting the coffee on. But when my brain chooses to go into full on rant mode at 0210 the least it can do is remember what was so bloody important when I finally get my body up two hours later. It's not like it hasn't been running it on a continuous loop that whole time.
What kills me is my thoughts are so articulate and just move fluidly from one point to another. I should keep a tape recorder on my bedside table or else a pad of paper to write things down because when I go to reconstruct them later I struggle to find the coherency that I know was present earlier. Then again, maybe I'm just dreaming about how rational and lucid my thoughts are. Maybe all that would be on that tape would be g/jibberish.
I was rewatching eps 408-410 last evening so it's no surprise to me that the subject of my nocturnal musings was QAF. The basic gist of it was that 1) even the most beautiful of things, examined under a microscope, will take on the grostesque. The trick is finding the best distance for viewing pleasure. One of the advantages to being a day behind(thankfully only a day this year)Showtime viewers is that a multitude of opinions of the episode are available for review before I'll see the episode. I still form my own opinion but in the case of the most recent episode for example, having the heads up on the lack of B/J interaction and the almost total absence of Justin screentime allowed me to enjoy the episode for other reasons. Yes, I'd rather there had been more of my favourite pairing but there's that whole beggars and horses thing going on.
I also can't get too caught up in the whole timeline debate. I am too much of a pragmatist to insist the show's timeline make strict sense when they only film in the fall and winter in a country that has four clearly defined seasons. It's just not a nit I'm prepared to pick.
The second point, and herein lies the rant, was about many a B/M shipper's total disregard for canon in their microscopic search for subtext. I don't know if this stems from the days of old for slash fans where all that existed was the subtext to sift through but in a show where the m/m relationships are text the practice seems absurd. I also don't understand the whole argument that if TPTB don't end the series on the same note that played out in QAFUK, that the audience has been lied to and the show shouldn't have been called QAF. Hunh? WTF are these people smoking?
My introduction to the show came by way of the UK original series. Eight half hour episodes followed up by a two hour movie when the fans demanded more. Russell T. Davies was not keen on adding on to his story as he felt the original eight stood complete on their own. He eventually bowed to the pressure but not without getting a bit of his own back. The second series, to use the British parlance, was a much darker, fantastical piece with an ambiguous outcome.
When Cowlip and Showtime took on this bold new adventure they were determined to take the original template and make it their own. With 70 episodes in the can and presumably one more season on the horizon, this they certainly have succeeded in doing. And while a number of the UK storylines did appear in the US version, they clearly stepped away from the original with the ending of 103. Cowlip's version is exactly that and I don't see the ending straying from their vision, their stories.
Okay, I'm definitely going to need a nap this afternoon.
What kills me is my thoughts are so articulate and just move fluidly from one point to another. I should keep a tape recorder on my bedside table or else a pad of paper to write things down because when I go to reconstruct them later I struggle to find the coherency that I know was present earlier. Then again, maybe I'm just dreaming about how rational and lucid my thoughts are. Maybe all that would be on that tape would be g/jibberish.
I was rewatching eps 408-410 last evening so it's no surprise to me that the subject of my nocturnal musings was QAF. The basic gist of it was that 1) even the most beautiful of things, examined under a microscope, will take on the grostesque. The trick is finding the best distance for viewing pleasure. One of the advantages to being a day behind(thankfully only a day this year)Showtime viewers is that a multitude of opinions of the episode are available for review before I'll see the episode. I still form my own opinion but in the case of the most recent episode for example, having the heads up on the lack of B/J interaction and the almost total absence of Justin screentime allowed me to enjoy the episode for other reasons. Yes, I'd rather there had been more of my favourite pairing but there's that whole beggars and horses thing going on.
I also can't get too caught up in the whole timeline debate. I am too much of a pragmatist to insist the show's timeline make strict sense when they only film in the fall and winter in a country that has four clearly defined seasons. It's just not a nit I'm prepared to pick.
The second point, and herein lies the rant, was about many a B/M shipper's total disregard for canon in their microscopic search for subtext. I don't know if this stems from the days of old for slash fans where all that existed was the subtext to sift through but in a show where the m/m relationships are text the practice seems absurd. I also don't understand the whole argument that if TPTB don't end the series on the same note that played out in QAFUK, that the audience has been lied to and the show shouldn't have been called QAF. Hunh? WTF are these people smoking?
My introduction to the show came by way of the UK original series. Eight half hour episodes followed up by a two hour movie when the fans demanded more. Russell T. Davies was not keen on adding on to his story as he felt the original eight stood complete on their own. He eventually bowed to the pressure but not without getting a bit of his own back. The second series, to use the British parlance, was a much darker, fantastical piece with an ambiguous outcome.
When Cowlip and Showtime took on this bold new adventure they were determined to take the original template and make it their own. With 70 episodes in the can and presumably one more season on the horizon, this they certainly have succeeded in doing. And while a number of the UK storylines did appear in the US version, they clearly stepped away from the original with the ending of 103. Cowlip's version is exactly that and I don't see the ending straying from their vision, their stories.
Okay, I'm definitely going to need a nap this afternoon.