What really makes me laugh...
is that, to most in the social networking line of work, creating interconnected-ness is desirable, because it's all about being seen and stuff, catering to that insatiable vibe. Moar moar moar. Meaning, LJ is just riding the same wave everyone else on on the intarwebs is. Unfortunately, fandom swims upstream.
Personally, I just can't muster up the proper amount of indignation. Sadly, I think I'm too lazy. lol. Or maybe I'm too zen. All things, good and bad, eventually pass. It's all a matter of degree. (And, you know, it's like getting mad a snake for being a snake). I x-post from DW, and that's about all I can do.
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Burn Notice is a lot of fun, and I truly enjoy watching it. I've motored through season 1 and 2, just started season 3. As enjoyable as it is, however, I find that all the episodes rather blend together. The overall arc of Michael getting to the bottom of his burn notice is clear and I can follow that very well, but all the rest of it? The clients and the jobs and all that? Are entertaining but interchangeable. Not that this is a bad thing. It's the same with Leverage. Makes the show a candy snack, which is good. Especially when you actually have good actors and decent writing.
Also, they make Miami look so shiny.
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I checked out an audio book for Emma from the library and fell in love with it all over again. haha. It's so *delightful*. I own the Gweneth Paltrow film, but then had to netflix the Kate Beckingsale version, which has it's own charms, not least of which is Mark Strong as Mr. Knightley. (OMG LOVE). I have the most recent version waiting for me -- Romala Garai as Emma and Jonny Lee Miller as Mr. Knightley (JLM also played Edmund Bertrum in the theatrical Mansfield Park. I find JLM a bit too... pretty and delicate looking for my leading men, but we'll see).
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I saw Inception way back when it first opened and meant to comment. It was a fun film, in many ways, and I'm fascinated with the discussions that grew out of it. Say what you will, but it's nice when a film can create that kind of continued excitement and interest.
But, I was more in the "fun but flawed" camp:
1. There were several logic holes in the film that kept throwing me out of the action, although for the most part the drive of the plot didn't let you dwell on any of them too long, which is good. If you're going to do a film like that, don't give your audience too much time to ponder. Always a sound approach. LOL.
2. I was so thrown by Ariadne's name being Ariadne, and how too on-the-nose that was, that I honestly spend much of the movie assuming Cobb called her that as a nick name, that it couldn't possibly be her real name, which would then throw the entire film into question....
3. I pretty much *hated* the entire Mal storyline, almost with a burning passion, but that would be giving the film more weight than it really had with me. Please, give me yet *another* film in which Leonardo's wife goes crazy and he gets to angst over his beautiful but crazy wife. Right on the heels of Shutter Island, too.
4. Somewhere I saw someone remark on how Inception was one big video game, and lord knows I completely agree. Being tragically familiar with video game plots because of work, that was basically all I could think from the moment the team entered the first dream layer. Also, how convenient was it that in the dreams they could kill as many people as they wanted and it was okay because none of it was real.
5. But still, I pretty much ate it up with a spoon for most of it, and, when Cobb wasn't being a big noob, loved the team and Arther and Eames and Saito and all of it. I tried reading some of the fiction, and it's kind of sad and bittersweet. I'm of the opinion that the whole thing never happened and it all existed in Cobb's head, which kind of puts a damper on it being a real fandom for me.
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I recently finished listening to the audiobooks version of Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, which I highly recommend.
It's also about to be released as a film (sometime in Sept.) staring Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan, and Andrew Garfield.
Dystopian modern day Britain, cloning exists and is used to create a "donor" program. Quietly creepy, the novel is more about the dynamics in a threesome of friends than in the science-fiction aspect of the plot. And also, it's immensely sad but in a very simple way. I think I read that it's "deceptively simple" and that's fairly accurate. On the surface it's about childhood and growing up and falling in love and the end of innocence sort of thing, but in reality it's soo far deeper and harder than that. And colder.
Saying all that, however, I still thought it was like a more literary less car chase/shut 'em up version of The Island. haha. I rather loved that movie.
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Incidentally, I just realized that Carey Mulligan played Kitty Bennet in the recent 2005 film version of Pride and Prejudice. I mean, I knew Carey Mulligan as Sally Sparrow on DW for years now, and of course I know she's been very fortunate in her career of late, but I TOTALLY had no clue ALL THIS TIME that she was also Kitty Bennet. You guys, you don't understand how many times I have watched that film! LOTS. And I never put two and two together.
She was a tad plumper back then. Which is saying something because she's rail thin now.
This makes 2 Bennet sisters who have appeared on DW. The other is Miss Evangilista who was Mary Bennet. And interestingly enough, both were Moffat episodes.... hm. Of course, I seriously doubt Jenna Malone will appear on DW, and it'd be pretty surprising of Keira Knightley ever did.
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Personally, I just can't muster up the proper amount of indignation. Sadly, I think I'm too lazy. lol. Or maybe I'm too zen. All things, good and bad, eventually pass. It's all a matter of degree. (And, you know, it's like getting mad a snake for being a snake). I x-post from DW, and that's about all I can do.
~~~
Burn Notice is a lot of fun, and I truly enjoy watching it. I've motored through season 1 and 2, just started season 3. As enjoyable as it is, however, I find that all the episodes rather blend together. The overall arc of Michael getting to the bottom of his burn notice is clear and I can follow that very well, but all the rest of it? The clients and the jobs and all that? Are entertaining but interchangeable. Not that this is a bad thing. It's the same with Leverage. Makes the show a candy snack, which is good. Especially when you actually have good actors and decent writing.
Also, they make Miami look so shiny.
~~~
I checked out an audio book for Emma from the library and fell in love with it all over again. haha. It's so *delightful*. I own the Gweneth Paltrow film, but then had to netflix the Kate Beckingsale version, which has it's own charms, not least of which is Mark Strong as Mr. Knightley. (OMG LOVE). I have the most recent version waiting for me -- Romala Garai as Emma and Jonny Lee Miller as Mr. Knightley (JLM also played Edmund Bertrum in the theatrical Mansfield Park. I find JLM a bit too... pretty and delicate looking for my leading men, but we'll see).
~~~
I saw Inception way back when it first opened and meant to comment. It was a fun film, in many ways, and I'm fascinated with the discussions that grew out of it. Say what you will, but it's nice when a film can create that kind of continued excitement and interest.
But, I was more in the "fun but flawed" camp:
1. There were several logic holes in the film that kept throwing me out of the action, although for the most part the drive of the plot didn't let you dwell on any of them too long, which is good. If you're going to do a film like that, don't give your audience too much time to ponder. Always a sound approach. LOL.
2. I was so thrown by Ariadne's name being Ariadne, and how too on-the-nose that was, that I honestly spend much of the movie assuming Cobb called her that as a nick name, that it couldn't possibly be her real name, which would then throw the entire film into question....
3. I pretty much *hated* the entire Mal storyline, almost with a burning passion, but that would be giving the film more weight than it really had with me. Please, give me yet *another* film in which Leonardo's wife goes crazy and he gets to angst over his beautiful but crazy wife. Right on the heels of Shutter Island, too.
4. Somewhere I saw someone remark on how Inception was one big video game, and lord knows I completely agree. Being tragically familiar with video game plots because of work, that was basically all I could think from the moment the team entered the first dream layer. Also, how convenient was it that in the dreams they could kill as many people as they wanted and it was okay because none of it was real.
5. But still, I pretty much ate it up with a spoon for most of it, and, when Cobb wasn't being a big noob, loved the team and Arther and Eames and Saito and all of it. I tried reading some of the fiction, and it's kind of sad and bittersweet. I'm of the opinion that the whole thing never happened and it all existed in Cobb's head, which kind of puts a damper on it being a real fandom for me.
~~~
I recently finished listening to the audiobooks version of Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, which I highly recommend.
It's also about to be released as a film (sometime in Sept.) staring Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan, and Andrew Garfield.
Dystopian modern day Britain, cloning exists and is used to create a "donor" program. Quietly creepy, the novel is more about the dynamics in a threesome of friends than in the science-fiction aspect of the plot. And also, it's immensely sad but in a very simple way. I think I read that it's "deceptively simple" and that's fairly accurate. On the surface it's about childhood and growing up and falling in love and the end of innocence sort of thing, but in reality it's soo far deeper and harder than that. And colder.
Saying all that, however, I still thought it was like a more literary less car chase/shut 'em up version of The Island. haha. I rather loved that movie.
~~~
Incidentally, I just realized that Carey Mulligan played Kitty Bennet in the recent 2005 film version of Pride and Prejudice. I mean, I knew Carey Mulligan as Sally Sparrow on DW for years now, and of course I know she's been very fortunate in her career of late, but I TOTALLY had no clue ALL THIS TIME that she was also Kitty Bennet. You guys, you don't understand how many times I have watched that film! LOTS. And I never put two and two together.
She was a tad plumper back then. Which is saying something because she's rail thin now.
This makes 2 Bennet sisters who have appeared on DW. The other is Miss Evangilista who was Mary Bennet. And interestingly enough, both were Moffat episodes.... hm. Of course, I seriously doubt Jenna Malone will appear on DW, and it'd be pretty surprising of Keira Knightley ever did.
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