but I don't want to go on the cart
First off: Beth Kinderman & the Player Characters will perform an electric show at the St. Paul Eagles Club on Saturday, February 6 at 9 p.m. Music starts at 8, the show is 18+, and the suggested donation at the door is $5. Once again, we've had relatively low fan response for this show so far, so please make it out if you can.
Apart from that, TV!
I tore myself away from video games long enough to watch the Lost premiere last night and I thought it was pretty awesome. I really like the new direction they are taking and I'm surprised they didn't go there earlier, honestly. It's also cool that I think more questions were answered than asked in the premiere. Here's hoping for an awesome conclusion this spring.
Today on my lunch break, I also watched the finale of Dollhouse from last week. I thought it was good, but not great, same as my perspective on the show overall, really. The show was made a lot better by its sudden cancellation in many ways, as I've mentioned before, but in the finale I also saw evidence of how the show's truncated nature caused the logic of the plot to suffer. Like when did the main characters become so buddy-buddy with Alpha? And how did Rossum succeed at wiping everybody anyway? Neither of those plot points was explained well, and I feel like something huge was cut out there. Also, I thought all of the supposedly epic romances on the show came off as really flat and tedious because they lacked the build-up that made other Jossverse couples so memorable. I'm glad I saw it through to the end, particularly because there were some great moments toward the end (Bennett getting killed was an awesome punch in the gut, and I did enjoy Topher as a character no matter what others thought of him), but I don't see myself buying the series on DVD or rewatching it again as I've done with other Whedon shows. Mostly I'm glad it's over so that I can be free of all the polemic surrounding it, where it was alternatively THE BEST SHOW EVER OMG WHY CAN'T YOU SEEEEEEE or AN INSULT TO ALL HUMANS EVERYWHERE. My feelings toward the show were never so clear-cut, but I felt a large pressure from both the fan and anti-fan community to conform to one opinion or another. Joss has become a polarizing guy as of late, particularly among feminists, and I really just need to disengage from all of that stuff until liking or disliking his shows can be a preference instead of a political statement.
I haven't gotten around to watching last week's episode of Caprica yet but I'll probably check that out tomorrow sometime. Come to think of it, I haven't gotten around to watching The Plan, either. I'm surprised that I wouldn't immediately devour the last new BSG we are likely to get, but I don't know, I feel like after "Daybreak" I had so much emotional closure regarding that show that going back to that universe would just seem redundant. I'm sure I'll get caught up eventually but I can't say it's a priority, or that I have high expectations for it considering how much I disliked the Caprica pilot when I saw it on DVD over the summer.
In case you somehow haven't notice, most of my energy and excitement lately has been expended upon Dragon Age. I finished Orzammar a couple of nights ago, and have since been running around doing various sidequests, which glitchy glitch glitch glitch glitch glitchy ARGH. I had a whole conversation with a yellowish-reddish blur in the mages' tower last night that had the dialogue of an NPC I had left behind in Orzammar, but who was loading in the tower and I don't know? I am starting to be concerned that the strain on the Xbox from eustacio and I playing it pretty much constantly, and from him having probably about 100 saves across his two playthroughs. Or maybe it's just an inherently buggy game, I don't know. Either way, I am irritated and concerned, yet also putting off doing the last main quest because I know that after I do that the game will make me go to the Landsmeet and I don't WANT to go to the Landsmeet because I'm going to have to make Alistair be king and then he probably can't be in my party anymore and I am honestly incapable of going anywhere without Alistair so I'll probably end up sitting in camp sulking about it all. QQ CRAI MOAR.
So yeah I am getting a little overinvested in this game, which like BSG means that it's time for it to be over. Luckily I have Friday night and Saturday afternoon to do that in so hopefully I can deal with a big chunk of it then. Somehow I have to poopsock my way through both that and Mass Effect 2 before the Winter Olympics start on the 12th or I'm so screwed. *looks at calendar* Well, then, I guess I'm just screwed.
Okay, responsibility scallop says get back to work now.
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Apart from that, TV!
I tore myself away from video games long enough to watch the Lost premiere last night and I thought it was pretty awesome. I really like the new direction they are taking and I'm surprised they didn't go there earlier, honestly. It's also cool that I think more questions were answered than asked in the premiere. Here's hoping for an awesome conclusion this spring.
Today on my lunch break, I also watched the finale of Dollhouse from last week. I thought it was good, but not great, same as my perspective on the show overall, really. The show was made a lot better by its sudden cancellation in many ways, as I've mentioned before, but in the finale I also saw evidence of how the show's truncated nature caused the logic of the plot to suffer. Like when did the main characters become so buddy-buddy with Alpha? And how did Rossum succeed at wiping everybody anyway? Neither of those plot points was explained well, and I feel like something huge was cut out there. Also, I thought all of the supposedly epic romances on the show came off as really flat and tedious because they lacked the build-up that made other Jossverse couples so memorable. I'm glad I saw it through to the end, particularly because there were some great moments toward the end (Bennett getting killed was an awesome punch in the gut, and I did enjoy Topher as a character no matter what others thought of him), but I don't see myself buying the series on DVD or rewatching it again as I've done with other Whedon shows. Mostly I'm glad it's over so that I can be free of all the polemic surrounding it, where it was alternatively THE BEST SHOW EVER OMG WHY CAN'T YOU SEEEEEEE or AN INSULT TO ALL HUMANS EVERYWHERE. My feelings toward the show were never so clear-cut, but I felt a large pressure from both the fan and anti-fan community to conform to one opinion or another. Joss has become a polarizing guy as of late, particularly among feminists, and I really just need to disengage from all of that stuff until liking or disliking his shows can be a preference instead of a political statement.
I haven't gotten around to watching last week's episode of Caprica yet but I'll probably check that out tomorrow sometime. Come to think of it, I haven't gotten around to watching The Plan, either. I'm surprised that I wouldn't immediately devour the last new BSG we are likely to get, but I don't know, I feel like after "Daybreak" I had so much emotional closure regarding that show that going back to that universe would just seem redundant. I'm sure I'll get caught up eventually but I can't say it's a priority, or that I have high expectations for it considering how much I disliked the Caprica pilot when I saw it on DVD over the summer.
In case you somehow haven't notice, most of my energy and excitement lately has been expended upon Dragon Age. I finished Orzammar a couple of nights ago, and have since been running around doing various sidequests, which glitchy glitch glitch glitch glitch glitchy ARGH. I had a whole conversation with a yellowish-reddish blur in the mages' tower last night that had the dialogue of an NPC I had left behind in Orzammar, but who was loading in the tower and I don't know? I am starting to be concerned that the strain on the Xbox from eustacio and I playing it pretty much constantly, and from him having probably about 100 saves across his two playthroughs. Or maybe it's just an inherently buggy game, I don't know. Either way, I am irritated and concerned, yet also putting off doing the last main quest because I know that after I do that the game will make me go to the Landsmeet and I don't WANT to go to the Landsmeet because I'm going to have to make Alistair be king and then he probably can't be in my party anymore and I am honestly incapable of going anywhere without Alistair so I'll probably end up sitting in camp sulking about it all. QQ CRAI MOAR.
So yeah I am getting a little overinvested in this game, which like BSG means that it's time for it to be over. Luckily I have Friday night and Saturday afternoon to do that in so hopefully I can deal with a big chunk of it then. Somehow I have to poopsock my way through both that and Mass Effect 2 before the Winter Olympics start on the 12th or I'm so screwed. *looks at calendar* Well, then, I guess I'm just screwed.
Okay, responsibility scallop says get back to work now.
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