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General Category / Other Media / Re: Avengers is awesome.
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on: April 29, 2012, 10:54:43 am
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Just been to see it. Tis indeed a most excellent movie with a somewhat confusing title - as someone else said, it makes it sound as though they are returning from a trip to IKEA.
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Episodes / Episodes, Season 4 / Re: 4x04 "Latency"
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on: April 24, 2012, 04:01:43 pm
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Just managed to read this - didn't realise how much I'd missed Shadow Unit eps!
With regard to Reyes' decision - the suspicious part of me saw it as a chance for Reyes the scientist to study Autumn, and therefore the Anomaly, at close quarters. Plus, he could have been desperate for a chance to retire for a long time and this presents an opportunity to retire without looking as though he is abandoning his team.
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Characters / Overheard on livejournal (and/or Twitter)-- / This is what you get for reading other people's locked/private entries
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on: September 16, 2011, 11:35:47 am
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Lots of ECR.
I don't like that Hafs can eavesdrop on private entries - yes, I know they kn Iow that she can but being able to do something still doesn't mean that you should do it.
I don't like that I can read private entries - yes, I know it is part of the fiction but it still makes me feel like I'm snooping.
However, my discomfort with my own snooping still isn't enough to make me skip over the entry.
And the desparation in Chaz's post is so sad.
Just going to find my pen. I think it is in the bathroom.
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Characters / Charles Villette / Re: I may have found Chaz's next hobby...
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on: July 14, 2011, 02:47:25 pm
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Nebula, holly carp, is that what the Bob Graham is like? O.O
Pretty much! It depends on which way you go round, but if you do it clockwise, then the descents off Blencathra, Seat Sandal and Scafell are quite hairy, Blencathra in particular. (For anybody that doesn't know, the Bob Graham round is a challenge in the English Lake District. You set off from the Moot Hall in Keswick and you have to reach 42 separate peaks (a distance of around 67 miles) and return to the Moot Hall within 24 hours. There are some flat bits, including a 5 mile road section, but most of it is up and down.) |
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Shadow Unit / Meta / Re: Reactions to Reactions to The Small Dark Movie Of Your Life
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on: June 18, 2011, 03:31:52 pm
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Aha.
I wish I had Mike here. He'd see what I was trying to say and he'd put it in two sentences, probably adorned with classical tags and a Mission:Impossible joke. As it is, I've been thinking of a bit he quoted many times from a television show, one of those cop shop shows that I can't remember the name of, after the death of one of the characters. One is having a really hard time with what's happened, and not really talking about it, and the other one cares a lot about him, and has a certain perspective based on accumulated experience. And the second one says this thing about how the whale is a huge animal, and yet it has only this teeny tiny throat, and asks the first one if he knows why that is. The first one says no, and the second one looks him square in the eye and says with infinite compassion, "Because that's how it is, and there's nothing you can do about it."
I think Mike and Daphne would have liked each other. She would have humored him some of the time and called him on his bullshit at strategic points.
Sure, I want Daphne back. But I want Mike back, too. And they're gone, and that's how it is, and there's nothing I can do about it. And on some weird deep level, their stories, their lives, have the same sort of fundamental integrity to me.
Hm. I wonder if that made any sense at all to anybody who isn't me.
It did make sense and I really liked Mike's quoted bit - it sounds like a good bit. |
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Shadow Unit / Meta / Re: Reactions to Reactions to The Small Dark Movie Of Your Life
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on: June 17, 2011, 03:30:05 pm
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Thank you for the kind thoughts and tea. Much appreciated. I'm shaken sometimes by how raw the grief can suddenly feel, months afterwards. But that's grief for you.
However, I didn't bring it up to switch the conversation to me - more to try to articulate that at first I thought I was underreacting, if anything. I didn't feel angry with the PTB and although I felt sad - both at the loss of Daphne and the loss of the interaction with her character - I didn't feel as bereft as other readers have done. And I assume that the other stuff in my life is why. In fact, if anything, Daphne's death being unexpected and unfair is bizarrely alright - that seems to mirror a lot of real life experiences.
But to move back to the thread, I think there is something about the way that SU has encouraged us to participate in the story through our involvement with the characters. That's something I've never experience before in fiction and I've really enjoyed it. Although it did diminish, for me, when cvillette's LJ went away and stopped being used.
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Shadow Unit / Meta / Re: Reactions to Reactions to The Small Dark Movie Of Your Life
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on: June 17, 2011, 11:45:17 am
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Also, something suddenly occurred to me when I read, "When the board went into mostly Reader Brain mode, I felt like I was a little crazy for having a more emotional response since there wasn't as much of that showing up on the board." I'm Scandosotan, so I've been reading what's been posted and seeing wild outpourings of grief and upset and anger and shock and all sorts of things.
Which probably isn't visible in anything I posted either, unless other people parse Scandosotan.
Hm.
Yes, Lioness, exactly. I too saw huge, huge response. It was very disconcerting for me to see the "wasn't much of that on the boards" thing. I felt like that's all there was. Of course, I'm challenged by the fact that my brain does the friend-brain/reader-brain thing in real life: how does that affect this and this and this? how does it fit into the idea of this grand-scheme-theory or that one? I was starting to worry about my "insensitivity" a few months ago, but SU gave me good insight then into the way we all experience reactions that don't necessarily communicate their emotional weight. If we Scandasotans are reeling from this "overwhelming-yet-scant" reactionary dichotomy... what are our delta-kin in the famous-for-their-stiff-upper-lip British contingent thinking? Not speaking for all British people, but just me, I don't have much of a stiff upper lip. I'm a little sad about Daphne's death and I'm sad for the loss to her loved ones. The suddenness of it all and the awfulness of her death has made me tearful. However, I'm not overwhelmingly sad about it. And that's not because I don't want to/can't share in the grief of others - I have a loss of my own that takes precedence. My grieving belongs to the loss of my Dad and I'm still crying enough over him, 9 months on, to spare too many tears for Daphne. I have read some of the responses and thought "Interesting - I didn't feel like that about it" but I know that's because my reactions are borne out of my experiences, rather than thinking that others are doing it wrong. |
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Characters / Stephen Reyes / Re: possible real bad road if Stephen Reyes goes gamma
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on: June 17, 2011, 10:11:34 am
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My mum's cats are quite a proficient team. Dad and I sat in the garden last summer and saw them tag-team to flush a bird of a a hedge and then catch it - it was horrible and impressive at the same time.
They do fetch mice in and don't always finish the job which is annoying. At Christmas they sat and washed, watching Mum and me trying to catch a mouse they'd momentarily lost interest in. I accidentally dropped a shredder on it - which I guess was a cleaner and quicker death than the cats were going to inflict.
My cat, Lulu, looks at the birds through the window. But being as she is scared of her own shadow, she can only dream of catching one.
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