Thanks to my vacation, I've managed to get some of my brain back, though it did take a week and a half to get back to a point where I felt I could write for fun again. I was just overloaded and overstressed, I guess. Anyway, I'm happily tapping out the last of my Merlin Big Bang, which is going to land somewhere between 45,000 and 47,000 words, it
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Heh, as much as I gripe, it was sort of nice to see Weaver hesitate about blowing the bridge. He's come a long way since the pilot and that scene really highlighted just how far. I suppose I'd much rather them be stupid for good reasons (wanting to hold onto some humanity, etc) than turn too ruthless and selfish all in the name of survival and logic.
Definitely need more Dai.
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I will say, I give them credit for being aware that as an alien invasion story, there should be aliens. (I'm looking at you, dinosaur show that got canceled whose name I have now forgotten.)
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::sigh:: yes. That's kind of where I am. I mean, yeah, the intrafamily drama is certainly dramatic, but I really wish the writing would do a better job with the characters. Thirteen episodes in we should have a much better understanding of them all, and I'm including the Mason family in that.
Frankly, for me the only one who pops out against the background is Pope, and that has entirely to do with Colin Cunningham making his hairball douchebag entertaining, even while you still want to clock him with something heavy half the time.
IOW, I want to like FS more than I do, because I should be eating it up with a spoon, and instead I keep fantasizing about how great it would be if they spent part of the special effects budget on writers like Minear, Manning, or Greenwalt...
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Now. Where to find the time...
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The series is really beautiful. I'm thinking that animation is where it should have been all along; the first movie was that weird graphic overlay-slash-animation blend, and the second was computer graphics which mimic animation, and...now that they can do beautiful things with animation so cheaply, this seems like the right realm for it, and all the untold stories. PLUS, RINZLER ie TRON! :D
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(That's when, not if. *g*)
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