a post with actual fannish content!
Fall break! Family! Puppy! Enough sleep! BABY NEPHEW!!! I feel quite restored and far more capable of surviving the rest of the semester.
Of course, then I came home to an epic computer meltdown. Aeryn the Laptop, just a little over a year old and with which I have had zero trouble before this, apparently crashed mid-Windows update (that's the theory, anyway; I'm not entirely sure what happened, since one minute she was fine, the next minute she crashed, and the next she was totally useless; I was given no notice of updates being downloaded, though I was trying to update Java--but the IT guys at work say that a crash during a Java update should not have caused catastrophic meltdown, whereas a crash during a Windows update might have). Now, not only can I not restore the machine to is previous state of being, I can't even reinstall Windows. It's not even blue screen of death-ing. It just tells me it can't do anything, reboots itself, then tells me it can't do anything again. Very sad!!! Fortunately, I let myself be talked into the Best Buy extended warranty, so they'd better fix it! Also fortunately, I had most things--and everything really important--backed up. But I will most likely lose all of my clips for my stupid first vid of doom. I'm...not entirely sure I'll be able to resurrect the vid momentum after this.
Mostly, *keysmash* Stupid technology!!! I miss Vita the Orange Laptop. She wasn't fancy, but dammit, she worked. For five+ years!
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In more fannishly-oriented news, while I was at home, my mother got me a bit hooked on Revenge, which I'd dismissed before that, based on the soap opera-y commercials. The commercials would have gotten much further with me if they'd just said, "Madeleine Stowe plays a morally ambiguous middle-aged woman!" Because Madeleine Stowe!!!!!!! Both Last of the Mohicans and 12 Monkeys played key roles in my formative years, and then she sort of disappeared for 15 years or so. Now she's back! As a morally ambiguous middle-aged woman! So I'm pleased.
Anyway, so far it's a pretty good show. Not a great show, though I think it has potential to be even better than it is, depending on how they go with it. But very solidly good in terms of plotting and characterization, and it does a number of things that are pretty guaranteed button-pushers for me: the two main characters are women, and the complicated relationship between them is the most important of the show; there is no easy morality here, and really, not a whole lot of morality of any kind, but the show doesn't make light of that; and it's really foregrounding people's choices and the consequences of those choices. Downsides include the fact that it is still rather soap opera-y, that the relationship between Emily and Victoria is largely played out by proxy through men, and that it's easy to see how the show could go off the rails if it's not handled carefully.
But so far I'm cautiously optimistic.
Otherwise, I'm continuing to enjoy Prime Suspect, and I'm considering checking out the pilot of Once Upon a Time (that's the one that looks like it might actually have some originality to it, as opposed to Grimm, which looks like it's about a cop whose Extra Special Thing is his ability to see monsters?). Anything else I'm missing? Not that I have time to watch even this much TV, but whatever.
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments. Comment here or there.
Of course, then I came home to an epic computer meltdown. Aeryn the Laptop, just a little over a year old and with which I have had zero trouble before this, apparently crashed mid-Windows update (that's the theory, anyway; I'm not entirely sure what happened, since one minute she was fine, the next minute she crashed, and the next she was totally useless; I was given no notice of updates being downloaded, though I was trying to update Java--but the IT guys at work say that a crash during a Java update should not have caused catastrophic meltdown, whereas a crash during a Windows update might have). Now, not only can I not restore the machine to is previous state of being, I can't even reinstall Windows. It's not even blue screen of death-ing. It just tells me it can't do anything, reboots itself, then tells me it can't do anything again. Very sad!!! Fortunately, I let myself be talked into the Best Buy extended warranty, so they'd better fix it! Also fortunately, I had most things--and everything really important--backed up. But I will most likely lose all of my clips for my stupid first vid of doom. I'm...not entirely sure I'll be able to resurrect the vid momentum after this.
Mostly, *keysmash* Stupid technology!!! I miss Vita the Orange Laptop. She wasn't fancy, but dammit, she worked. For five+ years!
**
In more fannishly-oriented news, while I was at home, my mother got me a bit hooked on Revenge, which I'd dismissed before that, based on the soap opera-y commercials. The commercials would have gotten much further with me if they'd just said, "Madeleine Stowe plays a morally ambiguous middle-aged woman!" Because Madeleine Stowe!!!!!!! Both Last of the Mohicans and 12 Monkeys played key roles in my formative years, and then she sort of disappeared for 15 years or so. Now she's back! As a morally ambiguous middle-aged woman! So I'm pleased.
Anyway, so far it's a pretty good show. Not a great show, though I think it has potential to be even better than it is, depending on how they go with it. But very solidly good in terms of plotting and characterization, and it does a number of things that are pretty guaranteed button-pushers for me: the two main characters are women, and the complicated relationship between them is the most important of the show; there is no easy morality here, and really, not a whole lot of morality of any kind, but the show doesn't make light of that; and it's really foregrounding people's choices and the consequences of those choices. Downsides include the fact that it is still rather soap opera-y, that the relationship between Emily and Victoria is largely played out by proxy through men, and that it's easy to see how the show could go off the rails if it's not handled carefully.
But so far I'm cautiously optimistic.
Otherwise, I'm continuing to enjoy Prime Suspect, and I'm considering checking out the pilot of Once Upon a Time (that's the one that looks like it might actually have some originality to it, as opposed to Grimm, which looks like it's about a cop whose Extra Special Thing is his ability to see monsters?). Anything else I'm missing? Not that I have time to watch even this much TV, but whatever.
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments. Comment here or there.