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darchildre) wrote2011-04-14 07:42 pm
darchildre) wrote2011-04-14 07:42 pm
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Things:
- One of the things I always do when I clean my bedroom is rearrange my altar. My room's been messy for a while this time and I haven't redone my altar since Disting (missing Ostara entirely, yes) but now it is all red candles and copper and Loki. And orange soda and gummi worms, because I like to give Loki silly things and sweets occasionally. It feels good, getting back to altar work. Like waking up, somehow.
- Like everyone else, I watched that behind-the-scenes video from the filming of The Hobbit. I watched it this morning, and immediately went to amazon and bought the book for my kindle, since the only copy I have is an enormous hardback. I don't think I've read Tolkien since the movies happened - it is still so amazingly good. Maybe I will reread LotR as well.
- Along with DS9, recently, I have been watching Sanctuary. I had watched something like half of the pilot once before, but got bored and wandered off. However, recently, I've been seeing lots of people talk about it online, so I decided to give it another chance. (The fact that I read spoilers helped a bit too - if I know that, eventually, there's going to be Nikola Tesla the electrokinetic mad scientist vampire, I can put up with a good deal of boring protagonist guy.) Unlike Fringe - the other show where I wandered off during the pilot and then came back later and enjoyed things more - I don't think this is actually a good show, but it is a terribly enjoyable show, and it's fun to watch while I crochet. Also, it gave me an episode where the plot was "shapeshifters and/or paranoia in frozen places". That is pretty much my favorite sci-fi/horror plot ever, so I was terribly glad to see it.
- I got the yarn for the Kira vest yesterday and started working on, since the shawl was finished. (Well, except for weaving in ends.) It is knitpicks' Cotlin, which I used before on my skirt and which I absolutely love. It is a cotton/linen blend (hence the name) and has a really pleasing weight to it. I think it'll work nicely for the openwork in this project and will hang nicely once the thing is done.
- One of the things I always do when I clean my bedroom is rearrange my altar. My room's been messy for a while this time and I haven't redone my altar since Disting (missing Ostara entirely, yes) but now it is all red candles and copper and Loki. And orange soda and gummi worms, because I like to give Loki silly things and sweets occasionally. It feels good, getting back to altar work. Like waking up, somehow.
- Like everyone else, I watched that behind-the-scenes video from the filming of The Hobbit. I watched it this morning, and immediately went to amazon and bought the book for my kindle, since the only copy I have is an enormous hardback. I don't think I've read Tolkien since the movies happened - it is still so amazingly good. Maybe I will reread LotR as well.
- Along with DS9, recently, I have been watching Sanctuary. I had watched something like half of the pilot once before, but got bored and wandered off. However, recently, I've been seeing lots of people talk about it online, so I decided to give it another chance. (The fact that I read spoilers helped a bit too - if I know that, eventually, there's going to be Nikola Tesla the electrokinetic mad scientist vampire, I can put up with a good deal of boring protagonist guy.) Unlike Fringe - the other show where I wandered off during the pilot and then came back later and enjoyed things more - I don't think this is actually a good show, but it is a terribly enjoyable show, and it's fun to watch while I crochet. Also, it gave me an episode where the plot was "shapeshifters and/or paranoia in frozen places". That is pretty much my favorite sci-fi/horror plot ever, so I was terribly glad to see it.
- I got the yarn for the Kira vest yesterday and started working on, since the shawl was finished. (Well, except for weaving in ends.) It is knitpicks' Cotlin, which I used before on my skirt and which I absolutely love. It is a cotton/linen blend (hence the name) and has a really pleasing weight to it. I think it'll work nicely for the openwork in this project and will hang nicely once the thing is done.
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And then season two and AWWWW YEAH. And in season 3, boring protagonist guy finally starts to get somewhat less boring!
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Poor boring protagonist guy. I don't hate him or anything, but he is so unrelentingly normal and doesn't even manage to be funny or marvelously attractive to make up for it. I'm glad to hear that he gets more interesting.
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Yeah, he's clearly an awkward relic of their attempt to focus the show on an ~everyman~ POV character instead of just being in Magnus' or other existing team members' POV, which turns out to work a lot better. He does have one pretty good episode in s1, and he's tolerable in s2, and then suddenly, a personality!
(I mean, he spends a LOT of time before that with his shirt off and sometimes his pants, which I appreciate on an abstract political level, but...it's like he's literally made out of whitebread.)
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Then again the rest of the conversation with him went like this:
him: "But it's like Doctor Who! You LOVE Doctor Who."
me: "...It's nothing like Doctor Who."
him: "Oh, I mean the other one."
me: "Torchwood? I don't like Torchwood."
him: "Oh, I don't like it either. But not because he's gay!"
me: "Yeah okay this conversation is stopping now."
him: "I'm okay with gay people. It's just. He makes me uncomfortable."
me: "You really, really need to stop talking now."
So I am willing to accept that I am unfairly biased against the show. :p
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Sanctuary did get better (for me at least) by about episode 5, but I completely understand being turned off. The first several episodes are a bit of a slog.
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