rp, television, photoshop, film +7
+1 I would love to roleplay sometime, I mean love to. But god rps want so much. All of the sites I've visited want pointlessly detailed apps and required playbys. What is so wrong with just making a character and just giving a mock-up about their personality and psychology? What's with the overly-detailed backgrounds and five pointless sentences about what my character likes to do? All I want is to make a character and then go roleplay in an organic way that doesn't hinge too much upon plot so much as pure character. But I know that is too much to ask of the basic people of the internet who actually believe the Oscars and Emmys have any cultural relevance or award justly.
+2 It's premiere week in the world of television, and that just makes me hate everything even more. People come out and spout idiocy about their favorite tv shows which turn out to be shit like Two and a Half Men, Mike and Molly, and whatever other shit that there is out there. It's not just that people profess their love for the obviously horrible shows on television though, what also annoys me to no end is the idolization of shows like Hawaii Five-0, which are nothing special and leave want for something more.
+3 I know I singled out Hawaii Five-0 as one of these, but I actually do think that it has the potential to be quite good... That would be if it 1) was constantly progressing it's storyline in a serialized way that places the episodic elements as the B-plot, 2) offered a well-rounded focus on its characters that didn't leave everyone except Steve with nothing, 3) stayed away from the many stereotypes that I can see leaking through, 4) took the time to characterize the cast in a way that makes me care about what happens, and 5) MADE KONO A MORE IMPORTANT CHARACTER; FOR GODS SAKE THEY HAVE GRACE PARK PLAYING HER, AND SHE IS BETTER THAN THE REST OF THAT CAST COMBINED.
+4 I think I'll go on about television and say that I really want to like 2 Broke Girls, but I feel like something is going to pop up to make me hate it. I liked the pilot well enough - nothing problematic arose and the jokes were funny enough - but I do have one major criticism about it: the abrupt change of tone. There were multiple times during the pilot were it morphed into a drama with a ~serious and ~deep tone to it. I felt that those moments were entirely fake and contrived and took away from the promise of the show. It needs to be all snark and sarcasm all the time with some dramatic moments arising organically without an abrupt change of tone that is supposed to ~signify that it is ~important. I can't seem to stress this enough; a good comedy needs to keep it's comedic tone even when dealing with dramatic themes and events. That doesn't mean making fun of them, being lighthearted, or trivializing the issues, it means keeping in mind that this is a half-hour comedy about the story about two broke girls.
+5 !!! I have to retract my above statement about nothing problematic popping up, because there is some horrible racism going on in that pilot. I'm not going to talk about it because it's not my place, and furthermore my thoughts about it are not quite ready for human consumption at this point.
+6 The realization has hit me that I am much better at individual caps than full-blown picspams, but I am still gonna try my hand at becoming a great graphics maker.
+7 My love for Joe Wright's Hanna is creeping back up on me. I stan this film. Its surrealism*, fairytale theme, and bildungsroman undertone, are the aspects of the film that I admire the most and wish I could ever be able to recreate in a story of mine. Especially its surrealism.
*I know that I am using that word improperly, but I have no other word to describe the attitude that the film took. It never asked the audience to believe that the film ever took place irl despite its setting being Earth, and the film in fact embraced this in order to tie together the action, fairytale, and bildungsroman elements.
I really need someone to talk about Hanna with.
+2 It's premiere week in the world of television, and that just makes me hate everything even more. People come out and spout idiocy about their favorite tv shows which turn out to be shit like Two and a Half Men, Mike and Molly, and whatever other shit that there is out there. It's not just that people profess their love for the obviously horrible shows on television though, what also annoys me to no end is the idolization of shows like Hawaii Five-0, which are nothing special and leave want for something more.
+3 I know I singled out Hawaii Five-0 as one of these, but I actually do think that it has the potential to be quite good... That would be if it 1) was constantly progressing it's storyline in a serialized way that places the episodic elements as the B-plot, 2) offered a well-rounded focus on its characters that didn't leave everyone except Steve with nothing, 3) stayed away from the many stereotypes that I can see leaking through, 4) took the time to characterize the cast in a way that makes me care about what happens, and 5) MADE KONO A MORE IMPORTANT CHARACTER; FOR GODS SAKE THEY HAVE GRACE PARK PLAYING HER, AND SHE IS BETTER THAN THE REST OF THAT CAST COMBINED.
+4 I think I'll go on about television and say that I really want to like 2 Broke Girls, but I feel like something is going to pop up to make me hate it. I liked the pilot well enough - nothing problematic arose and the jokes were funny enough - but I do have one major criticism about it: the abrupt change of tone. There were multiple times during the pilot were it morphed into a drama with a ~serious and ~deep tone to it. I felt that those moments were entirely fake and contrived and took away from the promise of the show. It needs to be all snark and sarcasm all the time with some dramatic moments arising organically without an abrupt change of tone that is supposed to ~signify that it is ~important. I can't seem to stress this enough; a good comedy needs to keep it's comedic tone even when dealing with dramatic themes and events. That doesn't mean making fun of them, being lighthearted, or trivializing the issues, it means keeping in mind that this is a half-hour comedy about the story about two broke girls.
+5 !!! I have to retract my above statement about nothing problematic popping up, because there is some horrible racism going on in that pilot. I'm not going to talk about it because it's not my place, and furthermore my thoughts about it are not quite ready for human consumption at this point.
+6 The realization has hit me that I am much better at individual caps than full-blown picspams, but I am still gonna try my hand at becoming a great graphics maker.
+7 My love for Joe Wright's Hanna is creeping back up on me. I stan this film. Its surrealism*, fairytale theme, and bildungsroman undertone, are the aspects of the film that I admire the most and wish I could ever be able to recreate in a story of mine. Especially its surrealism.
*I know that I am using that word improperly, but I have no other word to describe the attitude that the film took. It never asked the audience to believe that the film ever took place irl despite its setting being Earth, and the film in fact embraced this in order to tie together the action, fairytale, and bildungsroman elements.
I really need someone to talk about Hanna with.