Comments | jjtaylor: Looking for the evil warehouses in my neighborhood

jjtaylor

Looking for the evil warehouses in my neighborhood

Jul 24, 2009 09:53

If you ever have the occasion to write a tv show set it, say, in Boston, remember these two things: 1. sometimes less specifics are better, and 2. there's a whole career where people find information for other people all day long. And I'm pretty sure your story-editing intern also knows how to google in her sleep. These handy words of advice come ( Read more... )

either ferrets or cookies, in search of a master narrative, someone is going to cut open your head, no going to the lighthouse

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birdsflying July 24 2009, 15:10:04 UTC

Ooh, what were you thinking of using it for at work? My team-within-the-team uses tumblr to collect links for our bigger rss aggregator projects.

Also - username@lj is a good email for me. My tumblr is sleeping at the moment but I hope to wake it up soon.

jjtaylor July 27 2009, 13:25:57 UTC

We're hopefully using it for a community reads online book group, because I like the way multiple users can post without everything being one blog post and a thread of discussion. I'll let you know how it works!

octette July 24 2009, 15:23:33 UTC

i had to quit watching vol 3 just a few episodes in; i found it bizarre and offputting. :(

i would love to read yr tumblr -- i love food! i'm at cu2.co3.oh.2 at gmail.

jjtaylor July 27 2009, 13:27:31 UTC

You are not wrong about Volume 3 being offputting.

And yay Tumblr!

octette July 27 2009, 13:29:22 UTC

honestly, it was a struggle to get through the first two seasons; i stuck it out for ali larter, but she was never given a really interesting storyline.

thanks for the link -- those pictures make my mouth water!

aurora_84 July 24 2009, 16:38:55 UTC

(which, I feel like, with a character who has intuitive aptitude, which means he SEES HOW THINGS WORK, it should be harder for Sylar to be manipulated.)
RIGHT!? Season 3 was so, so frustrating.

jjtaylor July 27 2009, 13:28:56 UTC

Ugh, Heroes, how can you make such a mess of YOUR OWN CHARACTERS?? I'm going to watch Volume 4 soon, I think, but very reluctantly.

aurora_84 July 27 2009, 13:48:32 UTC

Volume 4 was better-ish...

And it had a lot of Sylar being hot. (It's pretty sad that that is the first positive thing I can come up with.)

jjtaylor July 27 2009, 14:07:27 UTC

I feel like being guided by the Sylar Prettiness/Delightfully Evil Scale is a very appropriate way to approach the show.

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reflectedeve July 24 2009, 16:45:12 UTC

I'm sorry about Heroes. :( I really have no idea how you can deal with continuing to watch it; I went and read up on some of the third season plot points a couple months back, and it just made me want to tear my hair out. I'm all for villains eventually becoming heroes (or at least, more fully human) in a lot of contexts, but like everything else on that show, it sounds so clumsily handled. And I can't even think about the women, or the fact that they seem to have butchered all my favorite characters (I was rather fond of Mr. Bennett in the first season, but ugh).

You should tell me where your tumblr is! :) Once I get mine set up, I'll reciprocate.

jjtaylor July 27 2009, 13:30:06 UTC

Heroes, seriously, it's extremely frustrating to watch them make the same mistakes, as well as to undo the things I thought they were doing well. SIGH

kjabernathy July 29 2009, 21:27:41 UTC

Oh, tell me about the food thing!