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Today is being one of those all-over-the-place sort of days. Everything I start gets interrupted by half a dozen other enquiries/problems. Still most of them are also important?
So here is a post with a structure as fractured as my thoughts are right now (that sounds almost poetic doesn't it?)
In the shoes of … Ela Farrell | Specialist in photographic history, social care commissioner & technical writer
This link is absolutely fascinating to me, it's about the benefits of old photographs & a bit of historical knowledge when dealing with dementia patients (or just care of the elderly in general I suppose). It's why things like the arts and museums are so important when put together with other social services (dear government are you listening?)
In a morning of fannish glee for all so far I've discovered that
1) David Tennant is going to be playing Richard II in Stratford & then at the Barbican which should be fascinating. :D
2) SHIELD has started filming its pilot episode today :D:D
3) Doctor Who is returning on the 30th March :D:D:D
A thing about adaptations in general & the Lizzie Bennet Diaries in specific...
So at the moment with the LBD and The Hobbit being two of my main fandoms I've been thinking a lot about spoilers and whether avoiding them in adaptive fandoms is even possible. Because clearly a lot of LBD fans know the source and talk about it a lot and those who haven't read the book probably know most of the plot already either from general knowledge or because the rest of us can't shut up BUT when it comes to the Hobbit... I think there are a number of people who genuinely don't know about the deaths and I'm torn between thinking it's ridiculous to assume you can remain unspoiled and sort of hoping they do for that kick in the stomach reaction.
But also it's really interesting to see how the meta side of fandoms is different for adaptions. So a lot of Hobbit reviews talk about where the additional material has come from and what they've changed (and as a general note I think friends who've read far beyond The Hobbit seem to have enjoyed the film more than those who haven't? IDK maybe we just want to be in the world more so forgive the ridiculous length of the three movies?) but reviews also talk about the characters motivations in the film but there's this really interesting thing in the LBD fandom where EVERYTHING is judged from knowing what's coming in the book and this is particularly obvious with Wickham & Lydia.
Now Wickham is skeevy as all get out and I hate the way he's manipulating Lydia and I genuinely think he is BUT people need to stop being surprised that he's being charming and saying (outwardly) lovely things to Lydia and also stop being surprised that Lydia's falling for him because just from within the vlogs? He's the only one bothering to spend time with her right now and he IS saying things she wants to hear... plus for all Wickham's a bad guy he has to be charming and lovely and beautiful or why would Gigi & then Lydia fall for him? And Lydia never really gets entirely disabused of her vision of Wickham in the book so we should be prepared.
[at this point the entire internet crashed at work proving my point nicely that things keep interrupting me :-P so "later that day" as title cards often say]
I still need to write a review of Privates on Parade which was great but I got weirded out when it turned out the reason we had an understudy was the leading lady was really very ill and then she died this week :-( I will pull myself together and write about it soon though.
... there was definitely another thing I was going to write about here but the enforced gap during writing has made it flee my brain. It probably wasn't very important and if it was it'll come back to me.
(my brain was maybe a little addled by watching 3 episodes of Miranda in a row, I got a little behind *coughs*)
I have to go haul furniture around now so \o/
So here is a post with a structure as fractured as my thoughts are right now (that sounds almost poetic doesn't it?)
In the shoes of … Ela Farrell | Specialist in photographic history, social care commissioner & technical writer
This link is absolutely fascinating to me, it's about the benefits of old photographs & a bit of historical knowledge when dealing with dementia patients (or just care of the elderly in general I suppose). It's why things like the arts and museums are so important when put together with other social services (dear government are you listening?)
In a morning of fannish glee for all so far I've discovered that
1) David Tennant is going to be playing Richard II in Stratford & then at the Barbican which should be fascinating. :D
2) SHIELD has started filming its pilot episode today :D:D
3) Doctor Who is returning on the 30th March :D:D:D
A thing about adaptations in general & the Lizzie Bennet Diaries in specific...
So at the moment with the LBD and The Hobbit being two of my main fandoms I've been thinking a lot about spoilers and whether avoiding them in adaptive fandoms is even possible. Because clearly a lot of LBD fans know the source and talk about it a lot and those who haven't read the book probably know most of the plot already either from general knowledge or because the rest of us can't shut up BUT when it comes to the Hobbit... I think there are a number of people who genuinely don't know about the deaths and I'm torn between thinking it's ridiculous to assume you can remain unspoiled and sort of hoping they do for that kick in the stomach reaction.
But also it's really interesting to see how the meta side of fandoms is different for adaptions. So a lot of Hobbit reviews talk about where the additional material has come from and what they've changed (and as a general note I think friends who've read far beyond The Hobbit seem to have enjoyed the film more than those who haven't? IDK maybe we just want to be in the world more so forgive the ridiculous length of the three movies?) but reviews also talk about the characters motivations in the film but there's this really interesting thing in the LBD fandom where EVERYTHING is judged from knowing what's coming in the book and this is particularly obvious with Wickham & Lydia.
Now Wickham is skeevy as all get out and I hate the way he's manipulating Lydia and I genuinely think he is BUT people need to stop being surprised that he's being charming and saying (outwardly) lovely things to Lydia and also stop being surprised that Lydia's falling for him because just from within the vlogs? He's the only one bothering to spend time with her right now and he IS saying things she wants to hear... plus for all Wickham's a bad guy he has to be charming and lovely and beautiful or why would Gigi & then Lydia fall for him? And Lydia never really gets entirely disabused of her vision of Wickham in the book so we should be prepared.
[at this point the entire internet crashed at work proving my point nicely that things keep interrupting me :-P so "later that day" as title cards often say]
I still need to write a review of Privates on Parade which was great but I got weirded out when it turned out the reason we had an understudy was the leading lady was really very ill and then she died this week :-( I will pull myself together and write about it soon though.
... there was definitely another thing I was going to write about here but the enforced gap during writing has made it flee my brain. It probably wasn't very important and if it was it'll come back to me.
(my brain was maybe a little addled by watching 3 episodes of Miranda in a row, I got a little behind *coughs*)
I have to go haul furniture around now so \o/