Oh, it's already December
Some randomness updates, I guess:
1. We can downgrade from Level Green to Level Yellow because I didn't have to go into jury duty!
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1. We can downgrade from Level Green to Level Yellow because I didn't have to go into jury duty!
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2. Let me know when you finish Gracepoint because, having seen the finale, I really don't want to say anything that will spoil you.
Priest Guy--or Paul--is extra creepy in the US version. If I remember correctly, UK!Paul didn't have any connection to Beth other than being her spiritual adviser. For Renee, this is just a personal thing, but I really, really hate this blasé, I must know the TRUTH and I don't care who gets hurt attitude that a lot of fictional reporters have. I'm sure that was the point to her characterization, so congrats there, show.
3. Awesome about the Secret Santa. Heh. My mom's work is doing Secret Santa, too, and she was asking me help. I'm pretty helpless with coming up with ideas unless I have an actual list of what people want. Good luck with your gift hunt!
4. I listen to two podcasts. Serial is the only one I've listed episode to episode because you HAVE TO. A Matter of Taste is the only other one; but usually for the Hannibal episodes when Cleolinda's on.
I find I don't have the patience to listen to an hour long podcast. I need the visual simulation tbh.
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2. I will! Mom likes to watch it with me, so we'll probably sit down either tonight or tomorrow to see the OnDemand episode.
I really, really hate this blasé, I must know the TRUTH and I don't care who gets hurt attitude that a lot of fictional reporters have.
That seems to happen a lot, doesn't it? How many real life reporters are like that, I wonder? A few, I suppose, with tabloids being what they are... But for a respected newspaper?
Unrelated: HOW did you get that accent on "blase?" Is there a keyboard shortcut to do that on here, or did you just copy-paste it from Word the way I do?
3. Oh, we made lists! The Reference department put together a "survey" of favorite things (music, books, shops, food, etc.) for everyone to fill out and uploaded the answers onto the network drive, so we all have some ideas to work with.
4. I find I don't have the patience to listen to an hour long podcast. I need the visual simulation tbh.
Yeah, that, and they can get a bit rambly if they don't have a specific theme. I should check out more, but it's a big time commitment.
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2. I was thinking earlier about why I hated Renee, but like Freddie Lounds, even though they're sorta similar, and I came to the conclusion that Freddie owns her awfulness and knows she's does what she does for the controversy. Renee, I think, just wanted the story and notoriety and unintentionally forgot that these are people, too.
I can't really talk because there is a sneaky reporter in The Book who creates a larger mess. It's an interesting trope to play with; I just don't like it when we're suppose to side with the shady reporter or feel sympathy for them after they mess up.
HOW did you get that accent on "blase?"
On a regular, desktop keyboard you hold down ALT and type 1-3-0 on the NUMBER PAD right of the main keyboard. (If you have a "Number Lock" option on the keyboard, it needs to be turned "ON".) The method may be a little different on a laptop. For mine, you have to press ALT and like a blue sunburst thing, and the "number pad" corresponds with the far right letters on the keyboard. (The numbers for the pad are in blue, in the right corner of the keys.) 5 years of Spanish teaches you where all the "extra" letters are on a keyboard.
3. Well, your library is a hell of a lot more organized than my mom's place of work. I did ask if they had lists of what people wanted and she said, "No." So I suggested for next year they create a master list like the one your library did.
4. Yeah, Serial gets ramble-y and the narrator focuses on a few details that seem so tedious, just to dismiss them 10 minutes later. I usually play solitaire or hearts on the computer if I'm listening, just to keep my mind active but not too active where I miss something.
Lots of people listen to Serial/podcasts on their commutes; so if you have a long one I can see that as one way to get into them. I did intend on bringing Serial to the courthouse if I had to go (which was my main reason for getting into it the first place). Don't know how well that would've gone over, though, if I had been placed on a jury for a murder trial. . . .
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*taking three minutes to remember whether Tom is the kid or the dad*
*okay, ready*
*too many names, I swear*
How do you do that? I mean, I know you said something about the original series, but you've said you're good at figuring out twist endings, but how? What made you think so this time? I personally have been wading through this endless vat of "Everybody's nuts and hiding something, what threads should I even be following now?" pretty much from the first episode onward. I will say I'm choking a bit on the irony of what happened with Dad Miller, considering that vampire book I just put back on the shelf. SO. MUCH. NOPE. Not quite sure what else to say at this point.
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A few things:
1. The US creators mentioned that they changed the murderer. (Actually, they specifically said "ending", but whatever.)
2. They kept all of the character arcs the same from the UK version: Mark cheating on Beth w/ Gemma, Jack's background, Susan's story and connection to Vince, etc. Tom even smashes his computer to hide the email exchanges.
Now BROADCHURCH SPOILERS In Broadchurch, it was Joe, the dad, who killed Danny. And yes, he was still a pedophile and had a "special" relationship with Danny. The big AHA! moment for most of the Broadchurch viewers was when Ellie says to Susan "how could you not know what was going on inside your own home?" Because the US creators swore Gracepoint would have a different ending AND with the characters being set as the same from Episode 1, I knew it had to be a Miller--and the only plausible suspect was Tom, after Joe.
After they kept Ellie's line to Susan, I KNEW it was going to be Tom. It's very telling, actually, that they changed the line to include "your husband and your child".
A few other things:
--They changed the Cause of Death in Gracepoint. In Broadchurch, Danny was strangled and they specifically mentioned the killer was a male. Here, it's blunt force trauma, which doesn't require a lot of strength, normally.
--I can't remember if this happened in BC, but when Beth asked Tom for a hug I was like, "hmm, that'll suck if Tom killed Danny and now Beth is hugging her son's killer." YIKES
--Tom's "escape" or disappearance. My crack!theory was that he meant to plant Danny's crossword book in the hiker's cabin to throw the police off his dad and his trail. This came right after Carver tried to talk to Tom and delve deeper into Tom's relationship with Danny.
--Tom's overall grief read more hostile and he acted more cagey than UK!Tom. But that could just be me zeroing on Tom from the word "go".
Honesty? It helped that I'd already seen BC; otherwise I agree that there were so many threads and suspicious characters and I probably wouldn't have latched onto Tom since the first episode. Since Gracepoint kept all the same characters, I knew how Jack, Susan, and Vince's stories would end. Keeping Ellie's line to Susan cinched the whole thing. To be fair, though, I expected the death to be more malicious and not as "accidental" as it was. And I didn't connect that Joe would help Tom cover up the crime until the previous episode. I also didn't think 1. Joe would gladly take the fall and 2. Ellie would let him.
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