Lee's surrender at Appomattox
I'm still obsessing over Love the Hard Way, and Adrien Brody's body language. This morning, I was thinking about how in any other circumstance, I think I would be so blinded by my hatred for Claire's character that I'd have to give up on the movie entirely - but Claire is meant to be a cliche - she's a pretty girl from Maine in the Big City, she's getting straight A's in her tough science classes, she falls head over heels for the ultimate bad boy and continues to believe, despite everything he does to the contrary, that he loves her. What's more, he does love her, and that's why this movie is Jack's story, not Claire's, and why I can stomach Claire's almost pathetic devotion and frightening descent - it isn't Claire uncovering Jack's heart of gold after all. It's Jack discovering his own heart.
Oh, good lord, the second Rodney McKay story that I wasn't going to write? Has a title, and an opening paragraph. This is problematic mostly because I have not actually finished the FIRST Rodney McKay story.
I've given up on The Mermaid Chair for now. We suddenly switched to the monk's point of view in the middle of a dramatic moment for the main character and there was talk of egret mating dances and I just.....needed a break. Argh.
In its place, I've started Metro Stop Dostoevsky, which is a fantastic travel memoir of St. Petersburg. The author is wonderful at sensory details and conveying complicated social interactions without over-explaining them. I'm looking forward to my bus ride so I can read more, and that's always a good sign.
I finished the Firefly comics and.....eh. I don't know what I was expecting - maybe some detail that we couldn't have inferred from the movie. They tied the series together with the movie opening - Inara's departure, Sheppard Book's departure, and the assigning of the Operative. But they didn't explain anything about the events other than to tell us they happened. The comics were fun, the voices dead-on, it's just that they were not the secret canon insight I would have preferred.
And finally, yesterday's CSI Season One viewing of Crate and Burial: GOD I have seen this episode SO MANY TIMES. Thank you, SpikeTV. I hadn't realized how early in the season it was. I like the way Catherine and Warrick work together, I like the way Grissom pushes Nick to take his investigation deeper, and most of all, I like the way Grissom and Sara interact like they're picking up where they left off - Sara striving to prove herself to her mentor and yet questioning him at the same time.
Oh, good lord, the second Rodney McKay story that I wasn't going to write? Has a title, and an opening paragraph. This is problematic mostly because I have not actually finished the FIRST Rodney McKay story.
I've given up on The Mermaid Chair for now. We suddenly switched to the monk's point of view in the middle of a dramatic moment for the main character and there was talk of egret mating dances and I just.....needed a break. Argh.
In its place, I've started Metro Stop Dostoevsky, which is a fantastic travel memoir of St. Petersburg. The author is wonderful at sensory details and conveying complicated social interactions without over-explaining them. I'm looking forward to my bus ride so I can read more, and that's always a good sign.
I finished the Firefly comics and.....eh. I don't know what I was expecting - maybe some detail that we couldn't have inferred from the movie. They tied the series together with the movie opening - Inara's departure, Sheppard Book's departure, and the assigning of the Operative. But they didn't explain anything about the events other than to tell us they happened. The comics were fun, the voices dead-on, it's just that they were not the secret canon insight I would have preferred.
And finally, yesterday's CSI Season One viewing of Crate and Burial: GOD I have seen this episode SO MANY TIMES. Thank you, SpikeTV. I hadn't realized how early in the season it was. I like the way Catherine and Warrick work together, I like the way Grissom pushes Nick to take his investigation deeper, and most of all, I like the way Grissom and Sara interact like they're picking up where they left off - Sara striving to prove herself to her mentor and yet questioning him at the same time.