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pellucid

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Dec 02, 2010 18:21

First official rejection of the 2010-11 job season today. Not a surprise--the job was a long shot at best--and really, it's hard to take it personally when you're informed that there were over 350 applicants (of whom I'd bet fully 300 were well-qualified for the job, and at least 100 would have been quite excellent, if hired). Anyway, thinking more ( Read more... )

i need a job!, fic rec, linkspam, vid rec

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gateslacker December 2 2010, 23:56:33 UTC

I know it wasn't a surprise but rejection still sucks, no matter what.

And, yeah, Olivia is AWESOME and it's worth it. Actually, there is a great deal of character awesomeness all around.

pellucid December 3 2010, 14:06:16 UTC

I've heard much about the awesomeness of Olivia, yes, but I'd seen an ep back in season 1 that mostly just bored me--but I'm hearing that it improves, overall, from then, so I should probably give it another go!

gateslacker December 3 2010, 14:16:52 UTC

Yeah, it is a bit of a momentum builder, this one. I merely liked Olivia in season one and I even felt that the show concentrated a little too much on her character. Plus, there were a few hits and misses that first season; too many standalones. I think season two really upped the ante, especially with regard to the overall mytharc, and now I cannot wait to see what is going to happen next!

nicole_anell December 3 2010, 00:28:11 UTC

Heeee, I love that scientist who made the nerdy Star Trek reference and that the person who wrote the article included it.

pellucid December 3 2010, 14:07:55 UTC

I know! It was really a perfect little moment--not to mention an actually effective way of explaining why the little arsenic-eating bacteria are cool.

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rose_griffes December 3 2010, 03:12:45 UTC

I can't speak for pellucid, but I know I'd like that, if you can find such a list. I have the second disc for season one at home right now, and without lots of free time, I'd much rather watch Olivia mytharc stuff than standalone episodes.

pellucid December 3 2010, 14:14:25 UTC

I feel like Becka's comment below about the ship explained the puzzling I was continuing to have about people's Fringe reactions. Or rather, about why your reaction continues to be a bit ambivalent when everyone else on my flist seems to be loving it. (*squishes you*) Because I was getting all of this "OMG, it's AWESOME," but I knew that you were not so completely gung-ho, and, well, you and I tend to have similar tastes in these things ( ... )

beanpot December 3 2010, 02:34:54 UTC

Fringe is awesome.

It is smart and sick and I have no idea what the end game is and I freaking love that. It is by no means the X files as it much more character driven and people are screwed up, perfect, honest, liars, kind, and evil and that's just ONE person.

Awesome.

beanpot December 3 2010, 03:42:57 UTC

I should note that I spent the first half of season one thinking, "really" with a side of "ew". Then the last few episodes of season one picked up until the finale went I literally sat up on my sofa and went, "holy fuck". Abyssinia was there.

Season Two was just great - Season three has been awesome and I appreciate the complexity.

We will see how it goes but so far...I like. Just don't watch while eating.

pellucid December 3 2010, 14:22:23 UTC

From what I'm hearing from people, it sounds like it sort of grows well into its own thing later in season 1, so it's good to hear that my initial impression of it from the little bit I saw in early s1, plus the blatantly XF original marketing, would no longer hold. And, of course, I LOVED XF, and my resistance to the way Fringe was originally selling itself had much more of a "but there's only one XF!" reaction behind it, rather than a "not a show like that!" reaction, if that makes sense?

My current ambivalence has actually had more to do with knowing that chaila43, who is generally one of my best barometers about what I will like and not like in a show like this and character like Olivia, has continued to be on the fence about it, even while many other people have been really enthusiastic. I think I've gotten to the bottom of why that is, more or less, and it might go either way for me--so I suppose the only thing for me to do is to check it out ( ... )

beanpot December 3 2010, 14:44:55 UTC

It did set itself up to be Xfiles Part Two but it really isn't. It is much more of an ensemble cast and bits of what seemed like a stand alone show will pop up as very key in another.

But I did think of when reading a review of last night's episode on ew.com. It said that a lot of shows like this - XFiles, BSG, etc - focus on how everything is dark and morbid with no hope. Fringe is dark and morbid- but there is always that flicker of a candle of hope and people act on the impetus that things can get better. It's an interesting contrast and one I want to ponder.

Then again, that is part of why I finally love this show - I think about it after the fact. It rolls around in my brain like a cherry flavored candy.

aurora_novarum December 3 2010, 02:44:24 UTC

Yes, you need to watch Fringe. Awesome woman being awesome...squared. And a cow!

(sorry about the rejection, sweetie)

aurora_novarum December 3 2010, 02:59:07 UTC

Okay, I shouldn't have been so flip. My Fringe experience went like this. Oooh, JJ Abrams series and the Mayor of SG-1 Camelot? Intriguing. And I watched, and it was kinda X-Filesish but still finding its way and it unfortunately adopted some of the gross factors of x-files. And I watched a few eps, and then gave up just as moonshayde was telling me to stick with it.

And then I heard some intriguing things in the ratings, and I realized where I left it was about the point it started to be really more consistent. And there was some really intriguing twists towards teh end of the season and...it's my cool roller coaster ride show.

It's only after I realized so many of my flist were watching too. It's silly and at times low rent x-files y (and sometimes more awesome than x-files). So yes it's rocky, but when it hits high, it really hits it.

That guy was in Dawson's Creek?

pellucid December 3 2010, 14:26:59 UTC

It sounds like I had something of the same experience as you did, except in microcosm. Because I saw the initial advertising and was both intrigued and turned off by what was at that time really blatant-seeming XF marketing (FBI agent investigates the paranormal?!?!)--but more because I loved XF, and not because I don't, if that makes sense. And I watched an ep (or maybe only part of it) and was underwhelmed and that was about it. But I've been hearing for a while that Olivia is amazing, and lately it seems that most people are enthusiastic about the show in general, so I've been wondering if I should check it out. Probably I will, and I'll let y'all know what I think if I do!