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the_blue_fenix

General life blather

Feb 12, 2009 07:58

Fannish: I continue to enjoy Leverage but it's clearly not going to replace The Middleman for me personally either as an affair-of-the-heart intense fandom or as a source of fanfic ideas. (But I repeat myself.) Caper stories demand really top-notch plotting, and while theirs is okay only a couple of episodes have been really stellar. Good ( Read more... )

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kyryn February 12 2009, 14:20:47 UTC

You should probably see your doc or an eye doc. A sudden increase in floaters can be a BAD thing as it can signal a possible detaching retina or a number of other problems.

novemberhour February 12 2009, 15:58:11 UTC

I had a dramatic increase in floaters while I was in the UK. Got it checked out, and it was nothing. Gone now, too. Probably good to get it looked at just in case, though.

This is why I want lots of comedy in my dramas, tragedy fits my inner biases and character flaws all too well.

This, rather.

I reread four of Mercedes Lackey's 'elemental mages act out fairy tales' books, that low have I sunk.

I lol'd. Indeed, out loud did I laugh.

Aurora Teagarden ejmam February 12 2009, 21:21:20 UTC

I like those a lot as well, but in case you haven't got all the way through, there is some actual tragedy in some of the later ones, which I wasn't completely expecting. If you want more detail, let me know -- I don't want to spoil them, but if you are looking for comfort reads you might trip over something unexpectedly sharp.
Beth

Re: Aurora Teagarden the_blue_fenix February 12 2009, 23:36:08 UTC

I've read them all before, so no surprises. I'm not sure why the bad stuff in them is non-upsetting to me, but it is.

Her "Shakespeare" series, OTOH, starts rugged and gets ruggeder. You probably already know that.

eumenidis February 12 2009, 22:33:08 UTC

Sorry for the illnesses, hope everyone's well soon.

It certainly does *not* look good on Galactica. You recall my observation that I found it strange that Roslin had to adopt an anti-abortion policy to try to increase births since it's more usual for there to be a sharp rise in births after a massive die-off? From the numbers at the beginning of each ep, that didn't work , so I wonder if the Colonials weren't so traumatized & despairing that they're not interested in continuing the species.

the_blue_fenix February 12 2009, 23:38:19 UTC

You know the Bujold theme that asks whether our civilization is on the outside or on the inside, i.e. how we treat each other? I think the Colonials have failed on both counts. The writers seem aware of this theme, e.g. the story arc about Baltar on trial, but I don't see how they can pull a happy ending out of the way things are going.

eumenidis February 13 2009, 00:18:59 UTC

By Bujold's standards, yeah, they have, though by a lot of the older SF writers' standards, not at all. At this point I'm mostly curious to see if the writers have a story left that makes any kind of sense--I *mean*: they've found Earth, but it's a radioactive wasteland & has been for the last 1,000 years--oh, & by the way, the people of Earth were Cylons. Cylons can breed with each other after all, but there are still only 13 types--one of which is MIA--are we going to ignore basic genetics? Tyrol's son isn't really his--is Helo really the father of Hera? Starbuck found her own dead body--who is she, really? Let's see the writers come up with explanations to just those questions that make sense.