Comments | danceswithwords: Less fun than a spiked barrel full of rabid monkeys but more fun than picking up dog hair

danceswithwords

Less fun than a spiked barrel full of rabid monkeys but more fun than picking up dog hair

Apr 29, 2007 21:09

This weekend, I got less work done than I should have, but more than if I hadn't worked on the weekend. This is one of those glass half empty situations, isn't it. I can't wait until this release ships. I've been kind of spotty about LJ recently, and probably will be for the next couple of weeks too, and I've missed a bunch of birthdays ( Read more... )

weird things i like, dresden files, my stargate is pastede on yay, the office, tales of the city

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amberlynne April 30 2007, 14:13:24 UTC

I was really positively impressed by the season finale of The Dresden Files, so much so that I'm really rooting for a second-season pickup (especially if it means an end to the execrable Painkiller Jane).

From what I read in the TwoP recap of the Sci-Fi upfronts, Paul Blackthorne attended so I assume that is good news for S2. And yes, PKJ is ridiculously awful. Like, worse than the SF Saturday movies awful.

danceswithwords April 30 2007, 17:32:22 UTC

That is encouraging.

I'm usually on board for a good trainwreck (see: Stargate Atlantis), but PKJ was so awful. I hate shows that flash back to events that happened three minutes previously on the assumption that the audience has been lobotomized or something.

amberlynne April 30 2007, 17:38:32 UTC

Oh, man. I know! I said the same thing the other day. Like, I get that the shadow moved and she planted the tracker. I've watched TV before, thanks. Gah. The need to bring Witchblade back to show how good, cheesy based-on-comics book tv show should be done!

dragonflymuse April 30 2007, 14:52:00 UTC

Thank you very much for the wishes! ::shares cake with you::

danceswithwords April 30 2007, 17:40:00 UTC

I hope this year brings you many good things!

thedeadlyhook April 30 2007, 15:00:47 UTC

Thank you for the birthday wishes! It's already shaping up to be a really nice day, and I'm up pretty early.

So many Stargate thoughts. I was surprised by how much I've gotten out of the last couple weeks of SG-1 as compared to Atlantis, when it's lately been more the other way around, but they're starting to knock 'em out of the park now, and color me glad for that. I'd love to see the show go out on a high note.

Sam's Dystopian!Future episode was killer - not without flaws, as I thought the ending was a bit easy/quickie, and the setup of Sam/Rodney made me wonder why Sam had never asked after Jack (after all, as you know, any true dystopian in Stargate features a pairing other than Sam/Jack) - but whoof, talk about making your political points razor sharp. And yeah, I totally agree about Landry. Nice to see his potential to be the guy who gets it really wrong called out.

I'm shading my eyes from the Altantis spoilers. Please god, not the pregnancy gambit. Again. Please god.

danceswithwords April 30 2007, 17:46:14 UTC

the setup of Sam/Rodney made me wonder why Sam had never asked after Jack

I think there's a law against Jack being mentioned in any episode where RDA isn't actually doing a guest spot. It's kind of annoying--the audience knows he still exists, and I don't see anything wrong with having the characters occasionally acknowledge that he's out there doing something. (That said, I really loved the interaction between Sam and Rodney in this episode, partly because Amanda Tapping makes the best faces ever and the scene where she found out that her alternate self had been married to Rodney was priceless, and partly because there was a level of regard between them that felt earned, especially since Alt Rodney had been in a relationship with Sam and had moved beyond adolescent fantasies to look at her as a person.)

Nice to see his potential to be the guy who gets it really wrong called out.The thing is, though, I don't think the writers are intentionally painting him that way. I feel a lot of disconnect between what they're telling me to ( ... )

sdwolfpup April 30 2007, 18:20:27 UTC

I liked this week's SG-1 episode except I felt bruised from the anvils of how this government was what America is/could be in our current political state. I felt it was so heavy-handed that it only served to annoy me. Not to mention that I felt both SG-1 and SGA spent all this time considering interesting, complex ideas in the first forty minutes and then spent the last seven minutes rushing their endings.

Of course my faith in SGA is dwindling by the second. Sigh.

danceswithwords April 30 2007, 19:43:23 UTC

I felt bruised from the anvils of how this government was what America is/could be in our current political state

It was not what you'd call subtle, was it? Even though the idea of what a double-edged sword all that alien technology could be was rather interesting.

asta77 May 1 2007, 04:19:19 UTC

I agree with you on the anvils. I think the episode raised some interesting points, I like when they address the consequences of revealing the Stargate program to the world, but saying they lacked finesse in dealing with the material is an understatement. I'm no Landry fan and I know this is an alternate reality, but I had a hard time buying he was so clueless about what he had become.

And we're bombing Ireland? That's up there with Cam's friendly fire situation.

danceswithwords May 1 2007, 17:24:33 UTC

I'm no Landry fan and I know this is an alternate reality, but I had a hard time buying he was so clueless about what he had become.

I just really do not think the writers understood the implications of what they were doing with him in this episode. He's no General Hammond, and then they went and put the two together and the contrast was even more apparent.

writteninstars May 1 2007, 03:44:15 UTC

I'm sorry, did you have something to say here? ;-)

Let's see. First off, I also really, really liked the DF finale. I have grown to love this radically different version of Murphy...and of course, I adore Paul Blackthorne as Harry. I absolutely love the dynamic between Murphy and Harry and not even neceassrily in a shipper sort of way. No, what I love is the cautionary friendship. And the stuff with her dad? Well, it's different from the books, but it works for this Murphy. All in all, I liked it very much.

Now, "Product Recall", I loved. It was ridiculous and wonderful. I absolutely adored Jim impersonating Dwight and my favorite thing ever is "Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica." I need a brush-up with my vocabulary. It was a long day and apparently the only words I can find to describe my feelings for the two shows I've mentioned are "adore" and "love". I'm crazy about The Office. How's that? That's sort of another way to describe my feelings.

Anyway, perhaps I'll chat more when my brain is essentially on auto-pilot. ;-)

danceswithwords May 1 2007, 17:17:16 UTC

I absolutely love the dynamic between Murphy and Harry and not even neceassrily in a shipper sort of way. No, what I love is the cautionary friendship. And the stuff with her dad? Well, it's different from the books, but it works for this Murphy.

Yes! And I especially like the way they've handled the way both of their sets of scar tissue plays into Harry's world and Murphy's growing realization that there are things out there she can't explain rationally, with Harry's fear of his own potential and need to maintain distance from other people and Murphy's trust issues.