wait for a while and we will surely sing
Flist, you are going to be seeing a lot of questions like this from me over the next few weeks, I fear:
I downloaded a story directly from AO3 last night onto the iPad (which I have decided to name Robin. Shut up.) as an epub and neither Stanza nor iBooks could read it. Is this a known thing or am I already running afoul of the bad luck peculiar to members of my family, wherein nothing ever works properly out of the box? Also, is there a way to delete it from showing up as an unsuccessful download in Stanza?
Which leads to my next question - is there a file manager app you would recommend? Something like Finder or Windows Explorer?
I don't expect to do any writing on the thing (though I like the touchscreen keyboard way more than I expected), but I'd like to be able to manage anything I do put on there. Which as of last night was mostly a bunch of comics I haven't read yet. Stanza handled them fine, I thought.
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So in addition to Batman: The Animated Series (Mondays) (ongoing since maybe March? They apparently plan to do the whole DCAU, which means at some point I should maybe try to get hold of Superman: The Animated Series?) and Avatar: The Last Airbender (Tuesdays), AV Club is now also doing Homicide: Life on the Street (aka The Best Damn Show on Network Television) (Fridays) (though the comments have already gone to the annoying "It's not The Wire" place, which, no, it's not, but it is great television in its own right), and, I discovered this morning, Veronica Mars (Fridays) (though the comments immediately went to the Logan-worship place, which, ugh; he's a great character, but a lot more interesting before the show tried to woobify him the way fandom did).
I've said this before, but I think the first season of Veronica Mars is an amazing season of television, and if you're watching it for the first time, I recommend stopping right at the end of the season finale. You don't need seasons 2 and 3, and you'll be better off for not having season 1 tainted by them. (Just pretend it's Wallace at the door at the end of the season and it's all good.)
As always, there is a good amount of trollery and dickery in the comments, but I find it's mostly easy to skim past, and a lot of the other commenters tend to be thoughtful and interesting. And it makes for good reading about shows I love.
Here's an interesting essay about Friday Night Lights and Glee: How Football Players Got Trounced by 'Glee'.
I think it's generally a bad idea to compare shows like this, but it's interesting because in some ways, Glee and FNL do focus on the same kinds of stories - high school kids and the adults who have to guide them to adulthood, and the ways questing for glory deforms that guidance and how the kids handle the damage (via dreams of entertainment stardom in Glee and sports stardom in FNL), and if you take the reading of Glee where it's about losers who never will get out of Lima, despite their dreams of glory, rather than as a triumphalist narrative of misfits overcoming bullying with song and dance, the shows do have more in common than it appears on first glance.
For me, Glee never had the emotional heft and pull that FNL does (which is why it was so easy to stop watching). I think I've probably cried at some point or another on 95% of FNL episodes (some more than others, and some lingeringly after the episode ended), whereas before I stopped watching, Glee mostly made me laugh and applaud musical numbers or rage about how annoying various characters and narrative choices were.
Work keeps interrupting so I can't remember where I was going with this, so I'm just gonna hit post now.
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This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/331769.html.
people have commented there.
I downloaded a story directly from AO3 last night onto the iPad (which I have decided to name Robin. Shut up.) as an epub and neither Stanza nor iBooks could read it. Is this a known thing or am I already running afoul of the bad luck peculiar to members of my family, wherein nothing ever works properly out of the box? Also, is there a way to delete it from showing up as an unsuccessful download in Stanza?
Which leads to my next question - is there a file manager app you would recommend? Something like Finder or Windows Explorer?
I don't expect to do any writing on the thing (though I like the touchscreen keyboard way more than I expected), but I'd like to be able to manage anything I do put on there. Which as of last night was mostly a bunch of comics I haven't read yet. Stanza handled them fine, I thought.
***
So in addition to Batman: The Animated Series (Mondays) (ongoing since maybe March? They apparently plan to do the whole DCAU, which means at some point I should maybe try to get hold of Superman: The Animated Series?) and Avatar: The Last Airbender (Tuesdays), AV Club is now also doing Homicide: Life on the Street (aka The Best Damn Show on Network Television) (Fridays) (though the comments have already gone to the annoying "It's not The Wire" place, which, no, it's not, but it is great television in its own right), and, I discovered this morning, Veronica Mars (Fridays) (though the comments immediately went to the Logan-worship place, which, ugh; he's a great character, but a lot more interesting before the show tried to woobify him the way fandom did).
I've said this before, but I think the first season of Veronica Mars is an amazing season of television, and if you're watching it for the first time, I recommend stopping right at the end of the season finale. You don't need seasons 2 and 3, and you'll be better off for not having season 1 tainted by them. (Just pretend it's Wallace at the door at the end of the season and it's all good.)
As always, there is a good amount of trollery and dickery in the comments, but I find it's mostly easy to skim past, and a lot of the other commenters tend to be thoughtful and interesting. And it makes for good reading about shows I love.
Here's an interesting essay about Friday Night Lights and Glee: How Football Players Got Trounced by 'Glee'.
I think it's generally a bad idea to compare shows like this, but it's interesting because in some ways, Glee and FNL do focus on the same kinds of stories - high school kids and the adults who have to guide them to adulthood, and the ways questing for glory deforms that guidance and how the kids handle the damage (via dreams of entertainment stardom in Glee and sports stardom in FNL), and if you take the reading of Glee where it's about losers who never will get out of Lima, despite their dreams of glory, rather than as a triumphalist narrative of misfits overcoming bullying with song and dance, the shows do have more in common than it appears on first glance.
For me, Glee never had the emotional heft and pull that FNL does (which is why it was so easy to stop watching). I think I've probably cried at some point or another on 95% of FNL episodes (some more than others, and some lingeringly after the episode ended), whereas before I stopped watching, Glee mostly made me laugh and applaud musical numbers or rage about how annoying various characters and narrative choices were.
Work keeps interrupting so I can't remember where I was going with this, so I'm just gonna hit post now.
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This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/331769.html.
people have commented there.