Assorted stuffs
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newnumber6So, what's been going on in my life? Not a whole lot. Same job, same thing day after day, in a rut and can't even see any end to it. Meh. No, I haven't seen any of the latest movies because I'm lame and don't really go to them. So, random stuff.
We may be getting a kitten (by we, I mean more the roommates who will be taking care of it mostly, I'll just be giving it occasional scritches). We already have an older cat.
Been writing some, of course, and actually more than I've been before... even on my 'off' weeks I've usually been writing a fair bit. Right now still working on a novel-length work on my on weeks and a comic project on my off.
What else. TV I guess. Since it's summer, I've resumed my watching of Old School Doctor Who. On Terror of the Zygons, which features the Brigadier in a kilt!
Doctor Horrible concluded. Spoilery thoughts behind cut. Yeah, it ended on a tragic note. That doesn't bother me, it's Whedon, he likes to do that. And let's face it, there couldn't have been a _truly_ happy ending given the initial setup without it being a huge cheat, IMHO. Given the choice, I might have preferred a slightly different tragic note. However, that's not my issue. My issue was that it didn't _feel_ finished. It felt too abrupt, like he killed Penny and we see a quick song of him getting acclaim as a supervillain, and that's all. It just felt to me like more needed to be said. It's the kind of thing where, if Whedon intended to do a sequel (and it's a comic universe, so Penny could easily be involved again in one way or another, or Horrible plot to bring her back somehow and neglecting his League duties), I can enjoy it, but otherwise it all feels weak. Anyway, Part 3 was probably the weakest part, although I did love the groupies ("We do the weird stuff!"), the League of Evil, the cameos by Whedon's stable of writers, and for a second I thought that Doc Horrible defeated Captain Hammer intentionally - he knew Hammer always gets the drop on him so instead of designing a normal death ray, he designed one that fired backwards, so that when Captain Hammer turned it on him, he got hurt. That woulda been cool, but alas, no. Anyway, still fun. Probably won't get the DVD though, sorry. I don't like it _that_ much.
Watched Stargate Atlantis, but it was the kind of forgettable, 'we sort of have to do this set of character beats to get where we need to go next' type episode, and wasn't really memorable at all.
More annoying commercials. Wendy's is the offender again, with more tortured logic. Previously, we examined their analogy about cows coming from Antarctica, which really suggests that they believe they should serve their burgers raw. This time, though, they say "If chicken is good, and salad is good, then doesn't that make our chicken salad... good good?" No. I will demonstrate. "Gravy is good. Ice cream is good. So, logically, ICE CREAM COVERED WITH GRAVY, IS GOOD GOOD!". This all assumes 'good good' is a term at all.
Speaking of commercials, am I the only one disturbed that the Lucky Charms Leprechaun can now apparently CONTROL TIME? KILL IT NOW, BEFORE IT'S UNSTOPPABLE. Anyway, also disturbing, but for a different reason, here's a knife that will freeze your internal organs and make you explode when you get stabbed with it.
I had a dream where I was a time traveller back in the old West (specifically, Deadwood), and somebody said "Cool!" and so I suspected they were another time traveller, so I said something was "awesome" (explaining for the others involved that I merely meant literally inspiring of awe), to get his attention, and we later got together and confirmed that we were both time travellers. He was a historian, trying to find out what happened. *shrugs*.
And finally, the latest LJdickery... they announce "We're bringing back Basic Accounts", and make everybody happy, but you have to go to another community to see the truth - they're 'bringing them back', but they're going back on their word furthur by putting ads on them. Which means they're not actually bringing them back at all, they're removing them, and giving the name to something else. It's like "Due to popular demand, we're bringing back our vegetarian burger!" And then hiding somewhere, "Our vegetarian burgers will now all be made from beef". If you really, absolutely had to do crap like breaking the original promise and adding ads to basic accounts to survive as a business, you could earn a lot more of my respect by doing it honestly instead of constantly pulling bait and switch crap like this.
We may be getting a kitten (by we, I mean more the roommates who will be taking care of it mostly, I'll just be giving it occasional scritches). We already have an older cat.
Been writing some, of course, and actually more than I've been before... even on my 'off' weeks I've usually been writing a fair bit. Right now still working on a novel-length work on my on weeks and a comic project on my off.
What else. TV I guess. Since it's summer, I've resumed my watching of Old School Doctor Who. On Terror of the Zygons, which features the Brigadier in a kilt!
Doctor Horrible concluded. Spoilery thoughts behind cut. Yeah, it ended on a tragic note. That doesn't bother me, it's Whedon, he likes to do that. And let's face it, there couldn't have been a _truly_ happy ending given the initial setup without it being a huge cheat, IMHO. Given the choice, I might have preferred a slightly different tragic note. However, that's not my issue. My issue was that it didn't _feel_ finished. It felt too abrupt, like he killed Penny and we see a quick song of him getting acclaim as a supervillain, and that's all. It just felt to me like more needed to be said. It's the kind of thing where, if Whedon intended to do a sequel (and it's a comic universe, so Penny could easily be involved again in one way or another, or Horrible plot to bring her back somehow and neglecting his League duties), I can enjoy it, but otherwise it all feels weak. Anyway, Part 3 was probably the weakest part, although I did love the groupies ("We do the weird stuff!"), the League of Evil, the cameos by Whedon's stable of writers, and for a second I thought that Doc Horrible defeated Captain Hammer intentionally - he knew Hammer always gets the drop on him so instead of designing a normal death ray, he designed one that fired backwards, so that when Captain Hammer turned it on him, he got hurt. That woulda been cool, but alas, no. Anyway, still fun. Probably won't get the DVD though, sorry. I don't like it _that_ much.
Watched Stargate Atlantis, but it was the kind of forgettable, 'we sort of have to do this set of character beats to get where we need to go next' type episode, and wasn't really memorable at all.
More annoying commercials. Wendy's is the offender again, with more tortured logic. Previously, we examined their analogy about cows coming from Antarctica, which really suggests that they believe they should serve their burgers raw. This time, though, they say "If chicken is good, and salad is good, then doesn't that make our chicken salad... good good?" No. I will demonstrate. "Gravy is good. Ice cream is good. So, logically, ICE CREAM COVERED WITH GRAVY, IS GOOD GOOD!". This all assumes 'good good' is a term at all.
Speaking of commercials, am I the only one disturbed that the Lucky Charms Leprechaun can now apparently CONTROL TIME? KILL IT NOW, BEFORE IT'S UNSTOPPABLE. Anyway, also disturbing, but for a different reason, here's a knife that will freeze your internal organs and make you explode when you get stabbed with it.
I had a dream where I was a time traveller back in the old West (specifically, Deadwood), and somebody said "Cool!" and so I suspected they were another time traveller, so I said something was "awesome" (explaining for the others involved that I merely meant literally inspiring of awe), to get his attention, and we later got together and confirmed that we were both time travellers. He was a historian, trying to find out what happened. *shrugs*.
And finally, the latest LJdickery... they announce "We're bringing back Basic Accounts", and make everybody happy, but you have to go to another community to see the truth - they're 'bringing them back', but they're going back on their word furthur by putting ads on them. Which means they're not actually bringing them back at all, they're removing them, and giving the name to something else. It's like "Due to popular demand, we're bringing back our vegetarian burger!" And then hiding somewhere, "Our vegetarian burgers will now all be made from beef". If you really, absolutely had to do crap like breaking the original promise and adding ads to basic accounts to survive as a business, you could earn a lot more of my respect by doing it honestly instead of constantly pulling bait and switch crap like this.
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Date: 2008-07-20 11:44 pm (UTC)I agree with you about Act III -- it started off so well, and the ending felt... I don't know, like it was unfinished. I do like how the ironic ending was left for us to deduce (I took a second to figure it out), though.
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Date: 2008-07-21 03:11 am (UTC)