Course stuff - and my thoughts on "Bones", "House" and "Veronica Mars"

[estepheia]

My printer ran out of ink. Thank god. Otherwise I might have considered producing even more handouts for my students. I think I'm going over the top with my 45 pages in 8 sessions... But now that I can't print anything out I can relax and just scribble a few notes on my post-its.
Ursula K. leGuin's Steering the Craft turned out to be a very

Comments

[eac]

I'm still enjoying House, but I think that your analysis is spot on. Someone needs to recenter the character.

Sleep with Wilson's wife?

Given Wilson's apparent inability to keep his wives (or to wait to acquire the next one before getting rid of the current one), this might make me laugh...

[estepheia]

Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if House slept with Wilson's wife. House would then bring up Wilson's indiscretions, and Wilson would feel betrayed... Maybe not this season. Oh well, we'll see. It's still fun. I loved the snark towards the really stupid girl with the jelly... But Bones was more touching and emotionally involving.

I also thought that the ducklings behaved weird in epi 2.09. They used to be much more open minded and tolerant. Is House's self-centeredness rubbing off on them? Cameron seemed like a pod person.

I think I miss the common enemy. I forgot what last season's investor/villain was called like, but it was more fun to watch the show when House and the ducklings had a common enemy.

[makd]

I've said this before on other LJs: I like Temperance Brennan. I've been working with anthropologists and archaeologists since 1974, and she's fairly typical: committed - passionately so - to her work, diligent, a work-aholic without (with very little) family attachments. Her life, her one true love, is her work. Pop culture is interesting, and easy for her to understand, but she doesn't get the references, since they are meaningless to her work and to her life. It's all about her work being her life

[makd]

And I, clearly, have spelling issues. "work", not "werk". my bad.

[herself_nyc]

I've decided that Temperence has Asperger's Syndrome. She can't help being that way.

[auroramama]

Hmm. It's a thought. Some people can write about people's emotions brilliantly, even though in their daily lives they seem not to notice them, or understand them.

[spiralleds]

w00t! Another Booth/Angela shipper. *g*

[auroramama]

I suppose it isn't really canon that Booth and Angela are fuckbuddies, is it? Even though this ep conveyed that to me quite strongly? Because that's not how TV romance works, is it?

[kaydee23]

I think it was the costuming on ATS. I say that because I went to David Boreanaz's Chicago con in May '04, right after the series ended. In fact, David celebrated his birthday that weekend. He was tall, very lean, very fit, and very muscular. He wasn't fat at all, and he couldn't have gotten that way from the end of shooting to May 15, or 16. He had less than a month to do it in, and he would have looked haggard if he'd lost that much weight that quickly. In the recent People Mag interview he said he works out with a personal trainer 3 times a week, but he's always been fit.

ATS had a lot of very slender to tiny people on it. I've seen Andy, Alexis, and Mercedes in person, and they're all very very slender. Amy looks like a rail in pictures.

[estepheia]

Okay, that actually explains a lot. Because he really looks fabulous on Bones. Yum!