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I may be a little hooked on Psych now. I spent half the morning watching a mini-marathon on USA, because I am feeling incredibly lethargic this weekend. Probably not of the good. But I just can't seem to care. Meh.
I also messed around with my LJ format a bit. It is different but no less boring now. *shrug* Eventually I'll actually feel ambitious about changing it.
There's this certain picture in the October SciFi magazine (scans making the rounds online) that is all kinds of awesome. Leoben and Kara! The look on Kara's face as he's bending over her at the table!
I made an icon, but I guess I'm not supposed to use it until the season starts to air? Whatever.
I've finally caught up on all the BSG podcasts, and I guess I'm in the minority when I say I really, really enjoy them. I wouldn't want to listen to them in the midst of the season, I don't think. He's really quite free with the spoilers and the references to where things might go or what might be important later on, and I'd rather have my own take on the events before I hear his, but honestly, I find his honesty about the inner workings of the development of a TV show fascinating. He frequently admits mistakes, remarks on unflatteringly haphazard-sounding script writing, or reveals that significant events from an episode or a plot thread were reworked, replaced, or thought up at the last minute. It's an amazing look at the creative process and speaks volumes about the incredible ongoing importance of the true collaborative process on TV shows (and this show in particular). It's basically a high-risk, balls-in-the-air full-time process, rightfully so, as it *is* a years-long work-in-progress business. I listen to Ron Moore explain what went into an episode and it's like a vicarious adrenaline high. Of course, I'm going: wow, what if they hadn't done that? What if nobody came up with this? As a viewer, I would have totally missed out on this. And I don't get why some people think there's something wrong with it that they don't have everything planned out in advance. That's impossible. These are ongoing storylines. I love hearing about how real life and casting and budget limitations affect the final result. The creative process does not exist in a vacuum. I'm fascinated by the clash of reality with imagination. Surely I'm not the only one.
I also find it amusing that he gives the "whiners," as he calls them, such a hard time--knowing as I do, though I don't venture onto the SciFi Channel message boards, how people can complain about everything under the sun. I *like* that he does the podcasts from home, and how you get a sense of setting in the background. (I love how his wife, in one of the "LDYB" podcasts, actually vocally describes the scene for the listeners. Her personality comes across as strongly as Ron's does, and I love her for that.) I love that he's so comfortable being a human face, flaws and tics and cuss words and all, behind the show. Because television viewing can be such a...strangely distancing experience. He is so firmly oriented on the idea that though this is *his* creative project, he does what he can with it, he combines his vision with so many others, and he provides it to all of us, the viewers, so that we may experience it, interpret it, and do with it as we wish.
Sometimes he talks about plot threads in 2.5 that are deeply, deeply flawed (his talk about how they "gradually" set up the Lee/Dee romance? um, no, Ron.), and I'm listening and going, "dude, no, you screwed up there..." but it's okay, because that's what the creative process is about, and he is so very proactive and so detail-oriented, and so real about incorporating mistakes, in general, that I'm inclined to forgive him. And I'm so impressed with these guys, and I feel like--if I'm going to hand over so much of my time and emotions to a TV show, this team really understands what to do with that.
BSG fan manifesto much? Heh.
I also messed around with my LJ format a bit. It is different but no less boring now. *shrug* Eventually I'll actually feel ambitious about changing it.
There's this certain picture in the October SciFi magazine (scans making the rounds online) that is all kinds of awesome. Leoben and Kara! The look on Kara's face as he's bending over her at the table!
I made an icon, but I guess I'm not supposed to use it until the season starts to air? Whatever.
I've finally caught up on all the BSG podcasts, and I guess I'm in the minority when I say I really, really enjoy them. I wouldn't want to listen to them in the midst of the season, I don't think. He's really quite free with the spoilers and the references to where things might go or what might be important later on, and I'd rather have my own take on the events before I hear his, but honestly, I find his honesty about the inner workings of the development of a TV show fascinating. He frequently admits mistakes, remarks on unflatteringly haphazard-sounding script writing, or reveals that significant events from an episode or a plot thread were reworked, replaced, or thought up at the last minute. It's an amazing look at the creative process and speaks volumes about the incredible ongoing importance of the true collaborative process on TV shows (and this show in particular). It's basically a high-risk, balls-in-the-air full-time process, rightfully so, as it *is* a years-long work-in-progress business. I listen to Ron Moore explain what went into an episode and it's like a vicarious adrenaline high. Of course, I'm going: wow, what if they hadn't done that? What if nobody came up with this? As a viewer, I would have totally missed out on this. And I don't get why some people think there's something wrong with it that they don't have everything planned out in advance. That's impossible. These are ongoing storylines. I love hearing about how real life and casting and budget limitations affect the final result. The creative process does not exist in a vacuum. I'm fascinated by the clash of reality with imagination. Surely I'm not the only one.
I also find it amusing that he gives the "whiners," as he calls them, such a hard time--knowing as I do, though I don't venture onto the SciFi Channel message boards, how people can complain about everything under the sun. I *like* that he does the podcasts from home, and how you get a sense of setting in the background. (I love how his wife, in one of the "LDYB" podcasts, actually vocally describes the scene for the listeners. Her personality comes across as strongly as Ron's does, and I love her for that.) I love that he's so comfortable being a human face, flaws and tics and cuss words and all, behind the show. Because television viewing can be such a...strangely distancing experience. He is so firmly oriented on the idea that though this is *his* creative project, he does what he can with it, he combines his vision with so many others, and he provides it to all of us, the viewers, so that we may experience it, interpret it, and do with it as we wish.
Sometimes he talks about plot threads in 2.5 that are deeply, deeply flawed (his talk about how they "gradually" set up the Lee/Dee romance? um, no, Ron.), and I'm listening and going, "dude, no, you screwed up there..." but it's okay, because that's what the creative process is about, and he is so very proactive and so detail-oriented, and so real about incorporating mistakes, in general, that I'm inclined to forgive him. And I'm so impressed with these guys, and I feel like--if I'm going to hand over so much of my time and emotions to a TV show, this team really understands what to do with that.
BSG fan manifesto much? Heh.