Oh god, the ending, and random comments about it, *still* tick me off. Behold the insanity ( Read more... )

I will demonstrate the rightness of the above claim to you in a moment. But first, get a pair of headphones. Because listening to Phideaux works best with headphones. This is a true surround-sound experience: Phideaux's music is in the psychedelic-operatic mode ( Read more... )

So... went to bed... tried to go to sleep for several hours... failed thoroughly.

So I got back up again and switched on the computer. And took a look at my collected icons. And while it can't be denied that most of them (while often based on a nice idea) look like crap, I actually - wonder of wonders! - sort of like most of my LoM ones. True, ( Read more... )

I've already posted a longer ramble about this at jumping_off, but - shocking thought! - maybe not everybody reads jumping_off, so:

Would you say that this article implies that Ashley Pharoah also thinks that the ending of LoM is 'decidedly downbeat,' or is the latter just the opinion of the writer of the article? It's clearly not a quotation, but it is integrated with ( Read more... )

German viewers love the Life on Mars finale too, because it is so heartwarming and happy (albeit a tiny little bit melancholic) that you just have to grin ( Read more... )

Wow.

I looked up a few old posts at TRA today for a discussion in lifein1973. Out of morbid curiosity, I looked at my stats there, too. Well... For all intents and purposes, I stopped posting there in May 2007 (except for a short-lived attempt to return, in January '08 - 6 posts). Yet, despite an inactivity of *a year and a half*, I'm still, ( Read more... )

So... I decided to use my non-awesome icon making powers to make a 'happy ending pastede on yay!' icon today, because, hey, I only have four anti-2.08 icons and that's clearly not enough ( Read more... )

During the A2A discussions today - I've followed them around to some LJs off lifein1973, out of curiosity (I wanted to see the "happy jumping" folks' reactions) - I've seen that old bit of praise for the ending of LoM pop up again: to paraphrase, "I love the ending of LoM because it's so open to interpretation"; variously also, "whether Sam committed suicide ( Read more... )

cosmonusa, he of the delightfully insane Dark Doctor comics, has allowed me to use this icon. I've loved it since the first time I saw it. It makes me cackle madly, like the end of Starving on the Jump Down does. So, just in case I don't get a proper chance to use it, here it is, on a post all its own.

I just noticed jumping_off has 72 members now, about twenty more than there were last time I checked. This makes me happy.

lifein1973 has around 1400 members, so that means that the percentage of people who didn't like the ending is around 5 percent. We're a bigger minority than I thought! (I thought we might be around 1 percent ( Read more... )