Comments | selenak: Rambling on

selenak

Rambling on

Jun 30, 2012 09:15

The iSonnets (tm

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sonnets, shakespeare, kids these days, 50 academics punched the air, lucy lawless, multifandom

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selenak July 1 2012, 05:32:16 UTC

Thanks for the tip! If life eases up a bit with accordingly more time I may follow up on that.

Yes, I heard about the Dawn (and real life teenage girl) bashing at the time. Appalling. :(

thornyrose42 July 2 2012, 00:12:43 UTC

Seconding that Medium rec. I did eventually abandon it due to procedural fatigue. But yes, one of the most realistic families on TV, despite the shared powers...

wal_lace June 30 2012, 16:00:39 UTC

Spartacus is a great guilty pleasure. It's got truly absurd levels of gratuitous violence and nudity, so it takes a while to notice that it's also got some excellent storytelling and some of the most beautiful visual design out there.

Lucy Lawless is particularly fantastic in season two/three. They make excellent use of the Xena Crazy Eyes.

boot_the_grime June 30 2012, 21:00:53 UTC

The nudity may be gratuitous, but is it really possible to have gratuitous violence in a TV show about the lives of Roman gladiators? Shocking and graphic, yes (Spartacus does violence in a way more graphic than most TV or even movies), but it can be argued that all violence on the show is there because it should be there.

selenak July 1 2012, 05:33:05 UTC

Excellent Lucy Lawless and good storytelling are powerful inducements...

leviathan0999 June 30 2012, 16:12:20 UTC

Well, it may make me a Bad Person™, but I'm still pefectly willing to hate on the "Next Gen" Harry Potter characters, if only because they exist in canon for all of, what, maybe a dozen lines of dialogue? And yet they're still the stars of endless, innumerable, uncountable fics, usually crappy, written by writers who make "vomit" noises when they see "OC" in a summary.

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selenak June 30 2012, 20:56:47 UTC

You've probably already seen it, but this link has a "browse all the sonnets" button, and thus you can watch the performances online sans iPad. (If you have a loudspeaker.)

shezan July 1 2012, 01:10:02 UTC

Ah, should have read all the comments. Sounds LUVVERLY (says the new owner of a brand-new iPad3 called ShinyCubed.)

*clickety-click*

boot_the_grime June 30 2012, 21:28:00 UTC

And if you like your Bard more on the gay side of bisexual, Patterson argues the "Shakespeare gay but repressed and guilty about same, hence channelizing sexuality in safe het ways but feeling hostile towards sexual partner for that and being over the top resentful towards Dark Lady" theoryHuh. That's really not working for me. He's not hostile to her in a way one would be towards someone they feel forced to have sex with and don't really want to. He resents her because he feels overwhelming lust for her and she has so much sexual power over him ( ... )

selenak June 30 2012, 21:50:38 UTC

Adama: I swear I was fine with him for the first two seasons and have written the Adama friendly fanfic to prove it (a TNG crossover, no less, in which he meets Lwaxana Troi; it was great fun to write). I grew steadily annoyed in s3. I think the point where I realised I didn't like him anymore, at all, was in "Unfinished Business" when his unfinished business was that he was ticked off Chief Tyrol went to New Caprica with his pregnant wife. I mean, what the hell? But it was s4 that made me go into active loathing territoy. Let me see whether I can find of my old Adama rants again...

Ah yes: here is a mid season 4 one.

Cain and Tigh: I hear you. I mean, I like Tigh, but certainly he's as flawed as they come. Re: Adama's line about Cain in "Razor", well, Bill, it's not that she didn't have a Lee and a Laura, it's that she shot them when they dared oppose her. So.