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The weekend was marginally productive. No surprise to me but the account of my surgical adventure is not exactly flowing from me for my life writing class. I did get some editing done for the anthology we're putting out, so not all was lost.
Media Consumed Recently:
Movies
Imagine Me & You
TV
30 Rock 2.12
Battlestar Galactica 4.03
Doctor Who 4.03
ER, Bones, L&O:SVU latest episodes
Books
Still working my way through Anna Karenina - Russians are wordy, God!
Doctor Who was a serviceable romp that once again highlighted the differences between Donna and Ten's previous companions. I can see the much more traditional sidekick/partner dynamic NuWho is trying to build between them and I like it. However, the best part of the episode was the trailer for next week - why hello, old friend. You look particularly made of awesome in that jacket. Good to see you, please proceed to kick much ass.
I'm tempted to break up with BSG and if the Internet weren't in love with the show, I would probably wait and watch the whole thing when it comes out on DVD. I'm not loving the idea of waiting another year for the last 10 episodes and I'm not loving the fourth season so far. The performances and individual scenes have been very good. The overall effect, I find to be less than the sum of its parts - with only 20 episodes left, BSG should be starting to give us some answers butis laying more questions on us instead. 17 episodes left and I'm not feeling terribly confident about Ron Moore and his writers' ability to answer them all by the end of the series run. I have a terrible feeling we're going to be stuck with a Trek-esque two-hour finale to wrap things up rather than a proper third act to the series.
I'm also not loving the way BSG is throwing out story beats of all of a sudden like ( spoiler ) More scifi tokenism - it's really not very progressive to have all these strong female characters if you're going to spend all your time making them crazy (Starbuck), grasping (Roslin) and untrusty (Tory, Boomer, Caprica, Gina, Starbuck, Roslin). C'mon, Ron, take your head out of your press clippings and take a look at how you are actually portraying the women on your show.
Finally, Tina Fey has officially made my short list of women I want to be when I grow up. Tina Fey is made entirely of awesomesauce and snark. It's a beautiful thing.
Media Consumed Recently:
Movies
Imagine Me & You
TV
30 Rock 2.12
Battlestar Galactica 4.03
Doctor Who 4.03
ER, Bones, L&O:SVU latest episodes
Books
Still working my way through Anna Karenina - Russians are wordy, God!
Doctor Who was a serviceable romp that once again highlighted the differences between Donna and Ten's previous companions. I can see the much more traditional sidekick/partner dynamic NuWho is trying to build between them and I like it. However, the best part of the episode was the trailer for next week - why hello, old friend. You look particularly made of awesome in that jacket. Good to see you, please proceed to kick much ass.
I'm tempted to break up with BSG and if the Internet weren't in love with the show, I would probably wait and watch the whole thing when it comes out on DVD. I'm not loving the idea of waiting another year for the last 10 episodes and I'm not loving the fourth season so far. The performances and individual scenes have been very good. The overall effect, I find to be less than the sum of its parts - with only 20 episodes left, BSG should be starting to give us some answers butis laying more questions on us instead. 17 episodes left and I'm not feeling terribly confident about Ron Moore and his writers' ability to answer them all by the end of the series run. I have a terrible feeling we're going to be stuck with a Trek-esque two-hour finale to wrap things up rather than a proper third act to the series.
I'm also not loving the way BSG is throwing out story beats of all of a sudden like ( spoiler ) More scifi tokenism - it's really not very progressive to have all these strong female characters if you're going to spend all your time making them crazy (Starbuck), grasping (Roslin) and untrusty (Tory, Boomer, Caprica, Gina, Starbuck, Roslin). C'mon, Ron, take your head out of your press clippings and take a look at how you are actually portraying the women on your show.
Finally, Tina Fey has officially made my short list of women I want to be when I grow up. Tina Fey is made entirely of awesomesauce and snark. It's a beautiful thing.