New Comic Day! + other foo
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newnumber6First new comic day in a couple weeks. This week I got one book:
New Warriors #8 (okay, still annoyed at too many characters looking alike)
Full reviews as usual at my comic reviews site for anyone interested.
Work was okay, but new drivers and so they arrived a bit later than usual and the load was heavier. Ah well.
The long walk wasn't bad, though. I just came off a writing cycle. Met my full quota, but I think I'm going to have to throw out about half of it. I worked on 3 stories. One, the one I wrote the most on, is more or less okay, but I still have to decide where I'm going with it and how to finish it. One of the others I need to revise drastically as I finally decided who the viewpoint character needed to be - I sort of wrote it with some kind of vague guy in mind as is, and it won't work. The third, well, there was something that wasn't clicking with it, and on the walk today I figured out what it is. The way I was writing it, the SFish concept was only known to the government, but it was something they couldn't keep secret for very long, by its very nature. Except, I didn't quite realize it while I was writing it, but that just doesn't work. It's going to be something the government learns much when the public does. And since that happens, the story has to be revised a lot. I'm thinking instead of a story of the discovery and what it means, I might have to shift it ahead and tell a more personal story in its aftermath. More personal stories are usually good, in theory at least, although I'm not certain of my ability to tell them, and still not 100% certain exactly what that more personal story is. But I have a few ideas.
So, Sarah Connor Chronicles. Episode One was similar to the pilot I saw, luckily. They changed a bit but not what I feared they'd change. The only big disappointment was the recasting of one of the characters - I liked the old actor much better. Second ep kept up the plot very well. I'm enjoying the show and glad it's done decently in the ratings. It's not perfect - there are a few potentially big glitches in the concept and the couple eps we saw, not to mention that you have to shut your brain off anytime they mention a timeline that's in any way supposed to match with the movies because it just doesn't no matter how much you try. Treat it as an alternate universe or rebooting where that much makes sense. But it's enjoyable, and love seeing Summer Glau active again.
New Warriors #8 (okay, still annoyed at too many characters looking alike)
Full reviews as usual at my comic reviews site for anyone interested.
Work was okay, but new drivers and so they arrived a bit later than usual and the load was heavier. Ah well.
The long walk wasn't bad, though. I just came off a writing cycle. Met my full quota, but I think I'm going to have to throw out about half of it. I worked on 3 stories. One, the one I wrote the most on, is more or less okay, but I still have to decide where I'm going with it and how to finish it. One of the others I need to revise drastically as I finally decided who the viewpoint character needed to be - I sort of wrote it with some kind of vague guy in mind as is, and it won't work. The third, well, there was something that wasn't clicking with it, and on the walk today I figured out what it is. The way I was writing it, the SFish concept was only known to the government, but it was something they couldn't keep secret for very long, by its very nature. Except, I didn't quite realize it while I was writing it, but that just doesn't work. It's going to be something the government learns much when the public does. And since that happens, the story has to be revised a lot. I'm thinking instead of a story of the discovery and what it means, I might have to shift it ahead and tell a more personal story in its aftermath. More personal stories are usually good, in theory at least, although I'm not certain of my ability to tell them, and still not 100% certain exactly what that more personal story is. But I have a few ideas.
So, Sarah Connor Chronicles. Episode One was similar to the pilot I saw, luckily. They changed a bit but not what I feared they'd change. The only big disappointment was the recasting of one of the characters - I liked the old actor much better. Second ep kept up the plot very well. I'm enjoying the show and glad it's done decently in the ratings. It's not perfect - there are a few potentially big glitches in the concept and the couple eps we saw, not to mention that you have to shut your brain off anytime they mention a timeline that's in any way supposed to match with the movies because it just doesn't no matter how much you try. Treat it as an alternate universe or rebooting where that much makes sense. But it's enjoyable, and love seeing Summer Glau active again.
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Date: 2008-01-17 03:56 am (UTC)At least the show is getting some exposure, more than it would have if the strike wasn't on.
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Date: 2008-01-18 02:37 am (UTC)For example, the 'Sarah dies of cancer' comes from T3, obviously. But they decided she would have died in 2005, not 1998. Because, if she died in 1998, she'd already be dead by the time the series started. But T2 was supposed to be 10 years after T1, IIRC (even though the movie came out only 7 years after)... young John was supposed to be 10. In T3 they retconned him into being a teenager, because the actor was. The series started 'two years' after T2, which meant they kept the idea of John being a teenager, and kept the cancer, but ditched the idea that she was diagnosed in Baha before Judgement day, and managed to hold out until Judgement Day passed, because Judgement Day was in 1998. SCC starts in 1999, so either they passed Judgement Day and thought they escaped it entirely (which I saw no sign of), and T2 was _extremely_ close to the date (which doesn't quite feel right), or they decided the originally scheduled Judgement Day was another, later date.
So it's all a bit of a mess timeline wise. I still think the best way to treat it is sort of like... well, like the Stargate movie to series translation. Roughly what happened in the movie(s) happened in the series. But they change whatever they need to in order to make their series work, and you just sort of have to accept it without questioning.