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Stephen Colbert on newspapers: "like a blog that leaves ink on your hands and covers topics other than how much you love Fall Out Boy." I loled.
I feel awful, flist. I went to the Cherry Blossom Festival today, which was lovely, but the wind was awful and I didn't eat for most of the day and I didn't wear sunscreen and now, despite the fact I came home and slept for three hours (and dreamed strange, STRANGE, vivid things about underwater metro-ferries and my high school boyfriend) and then ate actual food, I still feel shaky and sunburned and nauseous and gross. All of this is my own fault for never remembering to do sensible things like eat before I leave the house or wear sunscreen.
Today I once again made an attempt to explain ficathons to school friends. NO GUYS, it's not just all school work I have to get done by the end of April! THAT IS ALSO FANDOM DEADLINE TIME. They try to humor me, which I appreciate, but I know they don't get it. And I wonder again how non-fannish people spend their time.
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Briefly, I have a few thoughts on Dollhouse.
Last week's episode gave me hope and this week's dashed it, and I don't quite know what to do with that. I get that Echo will slowly gain agency and eventually she is going to free herself or whatever, but I don't know how long I'm willing to wait for it. The fact that their escape was all perfectly orchestrated by the DH staff really left a bad taste in my mouth, but I think what's *really* bothering me is the fact that we are supposed to think there's any moral ambiguity at all in the situation or that any of the employees of the DH (except for Boyd, who I really do kind of like) are sympathetic or doing something that they even think is okay. They aren't and it's not. (I mean, like Claire telling Boyd that Echo was not leading the dolls to freedom, she was leading them to confusion and pain. Yeah? Whose fault is that? Not Echo's.) Worse than Echo going back at the end of that episode, though, was Sierra going back - where we know she'll be hired back out to the guy who put her there because he pays enough money? Gross. I'm glad Echo got a call out to Ballard but really, I was *really* disappointed that this episode didn't move the plot further. I'm still watching, but I don't see this show ever really winning me over.
Here is my (I think?) unpopular fannish opinion, though: I like Topher. Not in the sense that I think he's a good person (because no) or I want to be his BFF, but I definitely find him WAY more compelling as a character than I ever found, say, Andrew.
I feel awful, flist. I went to the Cherry Blossom Festival today, which was lovely, but the wind was awful and I didn't eat for most of the day and I didn't wear sunscreen and now, despite the fact I came home and slept for three hours (and dreamed strange, STRANGE, vivid things about underwater metro-ferries and my high school boyfriend) and then ate actual food, I still feel shaky and sunburned and nauseous and gross. All of this is my own fault for never remembering to do sensible things like eat before I leave the house or wear sunscreen.
Today I once again made an attempt to explain ficathons to school friends. NO GUYS, it's not just all school work I have to get done by the end of April! THAT IS ALSO FANDOM DEADLINE TIME. They try to humor me, which I appreciate, but I know they don't get it. And I wonder again how non-fannish people spend their time.
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Briefly, I have a few thoughts on Dollhouse.
Last week's episode gave me hope and this week's dashed it, and I don't quite know what to do with that. I get that Echo will slowly gain agency and eventually she is going to free herself or whatever, but I don't know how long I'm willing to wait for it. The fact that their escape was all perfectly orchestrated by the DH staff really left a bad taste in my mouth, but I think what's *really* bothering me is the fact that we are supposed to think there's any moral ambiguity at all in the situation or that any of the employees of the DH (except for Boyd, who I really do kind of like) are sympathetic or doing something that they even think is okay. They aren't and it's not. (I mean, like Claire telling Boyd that Echo was not leading the dolls to freedom, she was leading them to confusion and pain. Yeah? Whose fault is that? Not Echo's.) Worse than Echo going back at the end of that episode, though, was Sierra going back - where we know she'll be hired back out to the guy who put her there because he pays enough money? Gross. I'm glad Echo got a call out to Ballard but really, I was *really* disappointed that this episode didn't move the plot further. I'm still watching, but I don't see this show ever really winning me over.
Here is my (I think?) unpopular fannish opinion, though: I like Topher. Not in the sense that I think he's a good person (because no) or I want to be his BFF, but I definitely find him WAY more compelling as a character than I ever found, say, Andrew.