We could not talk or talk forever and still find things to not talk about
It's been too long since I've written anything here, and to be able to talk about as many subjects as possible, I'm gonna go one topic at a time.
Books
I've been reading a lot this year, finishing off books I started reading years ago. I'm particularly invested in a sci fi collection called Remnants. It's 14 short books by K.A. Applegate.
This is the best description of the books I've find so far: In the first book nearly everyone dies. Then it gets worse. In a last-ditch effort to save some small remnant of the human race of the impending destruction of Earth by a big rock, a handful of people get shipped off to nowhere land. 500 years later, when they finally *land* somewhere, things start to go horrible wrong. It's one fo those stories that has lots and lots of characters, and every book ends up killing a few, because the stakes are high and that's what happen when you don't know what the hell you're doing and aliens are out to kill you.
The thing is, this was written as a "young adult" series, and as such, the main characters are mostly children and adults are usually useless. That's OK, because Applegate knows very well how to do attractive characters and she gives the limelight to pretty much everyone at one moment or another. And that's what I've always enjoyed best: stories with lots of characters and room for all of them to do something, even if that something is so horrible wrong!
I'm half way done with the books. It only takes me a couple of days to read them, but I'm also reading a lot of Japanese authors lately, because I got myself in a Book Club and that's what we're reading right now. It's been fun, and weird, because not since school I had to worry about understanding a book if I could just enjoyed it, but now I have to because I have to talk seriously about said book with several other people. It makes me focus better, I guess.
TV
Both Offspring and Eureka came back in April. And I'm enjoying both shows LOTS. I wasn't all that interested in the Offspring premiere because I wasn't all that into the finale last year, but in the end I ended up loving it anyway. I guess the Proudman family is just too lovable to not find them compelling and heart-breaking and sweet. Of course, the best parts of the first few episodes were Billie and Jimmy having no brain-to-mouth filters (which is a constant in this show) and the whole sperm debacle involving Billie, Mick, Mick's brother and now his new boyfriend. I'm hoping to laugh and cry and laugh again this season like I did the first two.
Now, Eureka... damn, knowing this is the last season makes me sad. While maybe *too* quirky for average taste (and thus, a bigger fandom), and the sometimes too silly storylines, I loved the big arcs this show has come up, and how the characters and their relationships have grown over the years. It's not something many shows can actually accomplish. And this season started with a bang. Space travel turning into time travel turning into THE MATRIX! I would have liked the whole issue to turn more dramatic and lasting longer (not four years longer! just, a few more months for dramatic effect), but I like that they're still dealing with what happened with the crew and their time apart after the rescue, so I can't complain. I'm glad it seems Zane and Jo are FINALLY hooking up for real (not that the casual sex and the angsty tension wasn't fun also). I'm sad Holly died, but that scene of Zane offering his sholder to Fargo and Parrish being nice totally compensate for it! And while I'm all for Jack/Allison and Zane/Jo, I'm with the fans that think Allison and Zane should have totally hooked up in the matrix!
Talking about quirky shows, I can't help talking about Community, that thankfully is getting a fourth season!! 13 episodes it's nine or ten episodes too short, but it's better than nothing at all. I've specially enjoyed the civil war documentary parody and the Law & Order homage, but there's no episode of that show that I don't find lots of fun. I'm glad I get another season of it!
I've been watching a lot of Shonda Rhimes' shows this past few months. While I've always know that Grey's Anatomy is a guilty pleasure and not all that good television, I wonder now just how BAD it actually is. See, I don't have a clue about medicine, so while I assume most of the super surgeries that come up on the show are not really that possible, for me they do sound probable. Like I just thought the writers did research and used whatever new technique has come up in science journals. Now I'm thinking most of it is just inventive crap.
I tried to stomach Off the Map when it was on, but it was way too offensive to watch after one or two episodes. I think I managed four. I mean, OMG, I know a big part of the US knows squat about how things work in Latin America and those kind of mistakes are made when dealing with pretty much any country that isn't yours, but what a way to go overboard with the stupid and offensive plots!
And now I'm trying to watch Scandal and not cringe at every dialogue and plot twist that comes out every week. It's just so... BAD! So basic and embarrasing! There a handful of good actors in here and they are wasted in an attempt of developing the bastard child of Grey's Anatomy and the West Wing!! I'm pretty sure this show is gonna get cancelled, but I do wonder how the hell did it manage to get on the air in the first place. It's just bad television.
And because I'm a sucker for Sci Fi, I've just downloaded Defying Gravity, which was selled as "Grey's Anatomy in space!!" which sounds horrible, but I'm a masoquist that way. Plus, the show is suppose to based on the BBC's Space Odyssey, which was a wonderful two hours drama filmed as a moslty believable mokumentary. Of course, I just saw that the nerdy Canadian geologist who was in a relationship with the no-nonsense Russian engineer in the original, is now a pretty faced American having the hots for the also hot American hero of the story, who punches his commanding officer and goes to space to save a suicidal crew member instead of following orders. Right. I'm seeing where this is going...
As for Grey's. Well, I was DELIGHTED with the last episode giving Alex all those nice things he totally (and finally!) deserve... except all is gonna be taken away from him by next week, because that's how things work for him. Oh, how I wish Justin Chambers wasn't interested in staying around for the next season. He didn't had anything to DO during this season! I love Alex and I will always enjoy him on my TV, but it was a good ending for him, taking the dream fellowship program with all those wonderful perks (paying his loans! Having enough money to buy a house! Having enough money to help his family! Come on!!), just as the year before it would have been a good ending having him go to Africa. Now I have two head!canons to chose from when things get crappy for him again. I think his boards' storyline was ridiculous because he loves to savotage himself but going back on a whim from SanFran to Seattle was just silly, as was getting angry at his evaluators for not waiting for him and trying to trick him. I'm glad he looked so sure of his answers, though. And that comment Cristina made about the Hopkins' guy knowing Alex is a jerk kind of fixed the issue for me. Of course, the whole interaction between Alex and Cristina was awesome, both the hug and the dialogue about spaguetti being a reason to stay. Loved it. I could totally do without the plane crash, and by know I do hope the death is Lexie because it just depresses me how she was wasted as a character and while I don't want to deal with Mark's angst next year, I prefer it to any more Mark/Lexie debacle and babbleling. We'll see.
I think that's it for now. I'm in the middle of buying an apartment, which is taking way more time than it should but it will happen this month, I hope. Work is crazy busy, but what else is new? I got myself back to school taking a class on Environmental Law, it last until October, so we'll see how crazy it makes me by then. I went to the stadium last week and watched a wonderful soccer match where my favorite team won 6-0 in a fantastic display of what the sport is all about.
NEWS is coming back!! At least they are realising an album, which is good enough for now! Now I'm hoping for my next Pi activity and I'm trying not to watch Ryo's new drama because while it's innocent enough, it still makes light of issues you're not suppose to be so obvious at making light on!
I've also been VERY into comic books lately, and watching the Avengers movie certainly hasn't help in slowing down on the downloading and reading. Same goes for the Avengers animated TV show, who just helped confirm that beside Wanda, Hank Pym and Clint Barton are probably my favorite avengers. I also have a soft spot for Scott Lang, Luke Cage and Jessica Jones, so far. I'm also really, really enjoying Wolverine and the X-Men and Bobby and Kitty having "moments". I just wish people wrote about it!! So much fic potential!!
OK, now I do stop.
Books
I've been reading a lot this year, finishing off books I started reading years ago. I'm particularly invested in a sci fi collection called Remnants. It's 14 short books by K.A. Applegate.
This is the best description of the books I've find so far: In the first book nearly everyone dies. Then it gets worse. In a last-ditch effort to save some small remnant of the human race of the impending destruction of Earth by a big rock, a handful of people get shipped off to nowhere land. 500 years later, when they finally *land* somewhere, things start to go horrible wrong. It's one fo those stories that has lots and lots of characters, and every book ends up killing a few, because the stakes are high and that's what happen when you don't know what the hell you're doing and aliens are out to kill you.
The thing is, this was written as a "young adult" series, and as such, the main characters are mostly children and adults are usually useless. That's OK, because Applegate knows very well how to do attractive characters and she gives the limelight to pretty much everyone at one moment or another. And that's what I've always enjoyed best: stories with lots of characters and room for all of them to do something, even if that something is so horrible wrong!
I'm half way done with the books. It only takes me a couple of days to read them, but I'm also reading a lot of Japanese authors lately, because I got myself in a Book Club and that's what we're reading right now. It's been fun, and weird, because not since school I had to worry about understanding a book if I could just enjoyed it, but now I have to because I have to talk seriously about said book with several other people. It makes me focus better, I guess.
TV
Both Offspring and Eureka came back in April. And I'm enjoying both shows LOTS. I wasn't all that interested in the Offspring premiere because I wasn't all that into the finale last year, but in the end I ended up loving it anyway. I guess the Proudman family is just too lovable to not find them compelling and heart-breaking and sweet. Of course, the best parts of the first few episodes were Billie and Jimmy having no brain-to-mouth filters (which is a constant in this show) and the whole sperm debacle involving Billie, Mick, Mick's brother and now his new boyfriend. I'm hoping to laugh and cry and laugh again this season like I did the first two.
Now, Eureka... damn, knowing this is the last season makes me sad. While maybe *too* quirky for average taste (and thus, a bigger fandom), and the sometimes too silly storylines, I loved the big arcs this show has come up, and how the characters and their relationships have grown over the years. It's not something many shows can actually accomplish. And this season started with a bang. Space travel turning into time travel turning into THE MATRIX! I would have liked the whole issue to turn more dramatic and lasting longer (not four years longer! just, a few more months for dramatic effect), but I like that they're still dealing with what happened with the crew and their time apart after the rescue, so I can't complain. I'm glad it seems Zane and Jo are FINALLY hooking up for real (not that the casual sex and the angsty tension wasn't fun also). I'm sad Holly died, but that scene of Zane offering his sholder to Fargo and Parrish being nice totally compensate for it! And while I'm all for Jack/Allison and Zane/Jo, I'm with the fans that think Allison and Zane should have totally hooked up in the matrix!
Talking about quirky shows, I can't help talking about Community, that thankfully is getting a fourth season!! 13 episodes it's nine or ten episodes too short, but it's better than nothing at all. I've specially enjoyed the civil war documentary parody and the Law & Order homage, but there's no episode of that show that I don't find lots of fun. I'm glad I get another season of it!
I've been watching a lot of Shonda Rhimes' shows this past few months. While I've always know that Grey's Anatomy is a guilty pleasure and not all that good television, I wonder now just how BAD it actually is. See, I don't have a clue about medicine, so while I assume most of the super surgeries that come up on the show are not really that possible, for me they do sound probable. Like I just thought the writers did research and used whatever new technique has come up in science journals. Now I'm thinking most of it is just inventive crap.
I tried to stomach Off the Map when it was on, but it was way too offensive to watch after one or two episodes. I think I managed four. I mean, OMG, I know a big part of the US knows squat about how things work in Latin America and those kind of mistakes are made when dealing with pretty much any country that isn't yours, but what a way to go overboard with the stupid and offensive plots!
And now I'm trying to watch Scandal and not cringe at every dialogue and plot twist that comes out every week. It's just so... BAD! So basic and embarrasing! There a handful of good actors in here and they are wasted in an attempt of developing the bastard child of Grey's Anatomy and the West Wing!! I'm pretty sure this show is gonna get cancelled, but I do wonder how the hell did it manage to get on the air in the first place. It's just bad television.
And because I'm a sucker for Sci Fi, I've just downloaded Defying Gravity, which was selled as "Grey's Anatomy in space!!" which sounds horrible, but I'm a masoquist that way. Plus, the show is suppose to based on the BBC's Space Odyssey, which was a wonderful two hours drama filmed as a moslty believable mokumentary. Of course, I just saw that the nerdy Canadian geologist who was in a relationship with the no-nonsense Russian engineer in the original, is now a pretty faced American having the hots for the also hot American hero of the story, who punches his commanding officer and goes to space to save a suicidal crew member instead of following orders. Right. I'm seeing where this is going...
As for Grey's. Well, I was DELIGHTED with the last episode giving Alex all those nice things he totally (and finally!) deserve... except all is gonna be taken away from him by next week, because that's how things work for him. Oh, how I wish Justin Chambers wasn't interested in staying around for the next season. He didn't had anything to DO during this season! I love Alex and I will always enjoy him on my TV, but it was a good ending for him, taking the dream fellowship program with all those wonderful perks (paying his loans! Having enough money to buy a house! Having enough money to help his family! Come on!!), just as the year before it would have been a good ending having him go to Africa. Now I have two head!canons to chose from when things get crappy for him again. I think his boards' storyline was ridiculous because he loves to savotage himself but going back on a whim from SanFran to Seattle was just silly, as was getting angry at his evaluators for not waiting for him and trying to trick him. I'm glad he looked so sure of his answers, though. And that comment Cristina made about the Hopkins' guy knowing Alex is a jerk kind of fixed the issue for me. Of course, the whole interaction between Alex and Cristina was awesome, both the hug and the dialogue about spaguetti being a reason to stay. Loved it. I could totally do without the plane crash, and by know I do hope the death is Lexie because it just depresses me how she was wasted as a character and while I don't want to deal with Mark's angst next year, I prefer it to any more Mark/Lexie debacle and babbleling. We'll see.
I think that's it for now. I'm in the middle of buying an apartment, which is taking way more time than it should but it will happen this month, I hope. Work is crazy busy, but what else is new? I got myself back to school taking a class on Environmental Law, it last until October, so we'll see how crazy it makes me by then. I went to the stadium last week and watched a wonderful soccer match where my favorite team won 6-0 in a fantastic display of what the sport is all about.
NEWS is coming back!! At least they are realising an album, which is good enough for now! Now I'm hoping for my next Pi activity and I'm trying not to watch Ryo's new drama because while it's innocent enough, it still makes light of issues you're not suppose to be so obvious at making light on!
I've also been VERY into comic books lately, and watching the Avengers movie certainly hasn't help in slowing down on the downloading and reading. Same goes for the Avengers animated TV show, who just helped confirm that beside Wanda, Hank Pym and Clint Barton are probably my favorite avengers. I also have a soft spot for Scott Lang, Luke Cage and Jessica Jones, so far. I'm also really, really enjoying Wolverine and the X-Men and Bobby and Kitty having "moments". I just wish people wrote about it!! So much fic potential!!
OK, now I do stop.