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The general blogging silence over the past few days has been to spare you, my mostly innocent readers, from a stream of constant entries running more or less like this:
Ow, knee.
Knee, ow.
Oooooooooh! Look at all the pretty colors on my leg! Purple everywhere!
Apparently, my knee has decided to take up a second career as a balloon. I rather wish we'd chatted about this beforehand.
This riveting series of updates would then only be followed by yesterday's:
The water is off.
Why is the water off?
The water is still off.
AUUGH! THE WATER IS OFF!
Er. Is that a demon in the toilet?
Ok, either the toilet has taken up demon torture as a hobby or something damn strange is going on in the bathroom.
What would a water demon caught in a toilet look like, anyway?
Can I get a poem out of this?
Every drop you shake…
Every thirst you slake…
every earache you make every brain you break
I'll be watching you…
Do water demons actually slake thirst?
And so on.
I did, however, manage to catch FlashForward, which so far I have mixed feelings about. Lots of other people have already identified the two main issues: 1) the cool science-fictiony thing has already happened, leaving us knowing that nothing cool is going to happen again until April 29, not even remotely uncoincidentally the start of May sweeps (the show wins, hands down, for most blatant attempt to drive viewers to a chief sweeps episode seven months in advance ever) 2) the characters are, how to put this kindly, dull. Duller, I would say, than ditchwater, which actually has all kinds of awesomely cool critters living wildly dramatic lives inside it if you just take the time to look. The trouble with FlashForward is that it hasn't exactly convinced anyone to take the time to look. Not yet, anyway.
(Well, ok, I think many of us were looking at the cute babysitter and her decidedly fetching bra, but I mean, beyond a completely superficial look.)
I think part of the problem here was that the show had to focus on a lot – major worldwide disaster, bizarre and frankly not particularly credible partial explanation for worldwide disaster, without enjoying that time that most disaster movies have to introduce us to a nice set of Characters So Cliched We Already Know Or Can Guess Their Backstories, allowing us to Care For Them (or Not) in seconds. In theory Flashforward's characters are supposed to be a little less clichéd (the show hasn't shown any evidence of this one way or another) but regardless, we didn't see enough of them before the Great Disaster to know.
I did like the kangaroo, though. And the last 30 seconds or so.
Meanwhile, Fringe traded the cow for a lovely set of images gross even beyond Fringe's usual standards. Ugh. Sigh. Ugh.
More TV catchup later, although almost certainly sans Heroes; I had been watching it because my gaming group does, but I feel Fringe, cow or no cow, is enough of a sacrifice there, and so far, I haven't heard anything that's convincing me to give Heroes another try this season.
Ow, knee.
Knee, ow.
Oooooooooh! Look at all the pretty colors on my leg! Purple everywhere!
Apparently, my knee has decided to take up a second career as a balloon. I rather wish we'd chatted about this beforehand.
This riveting series of updates would then only be followed by yesterday's:
The water is off.
Why is the water off?
The water is still off.
AUUGH! THE WATER IS OFF!
Er. Is that a demon in the toilet?
Ok, either the toilet has taken up demon torture as a hobby or something damn strange is going on in the bathroom.
What would a water demon caught in a toilet look like, anyway?
Can I get a poem out of this?
Every drop you shake…
Every thirst you slake…
every earache you make every brain you break
I'll be watching you…
Do water demons actually slake thirst?
And so on.
I did, however, manage to catch FlashForward, which so far I have mixed feelings about. Lots of other people have already identified the two main issues: 1) the cool science-fictiony thing has already happened, leaving us knowing that nothing cool is going to happen again until April 29, not even remotely uncoincidentally the start of May sweeps (the show wins, hands down, for most blatant attempt to drive viewers to a chief sweeps episode seven months in advance ever) 2) the characters are, how to put this kindly, dull. Duller, I would say, than ditchwater, which actually has all kinds of awesomely cool critters living wildly dramatic lives inside it if you just take the time to look. The trouble with FlashForward is that it hasn't exactly convinced anyone to take the time to look. Not yet, anyway.
(Well, ok, I think many of us were looking at the cute babysitter and her decidedly fetching bra, but I mean, beyond a completely superficial look.)
I think part of the problem here was that the show had to focus on a lot – major worldwide disaster, bizarre and frankly not particularly credible partial explanation for worldwide disaster, without enjoying that time that most disaster movies have to introduce us to a nice set of Characters So Cliched We Already Know Or Can Guess Their Backstories, allowing us to Care For Them (or Not) in seconds. In theory Flashforward's characters are supposed to be a little less clichéd (the show hasn't shown any evidence of this one way or another) but regardless, we didn't see enough of them before the Great Disaster to know.
I did like the kangaroo, though. And the last 30 seconds or so.
Meanwhile, Fringe traded the cow for a lovely set of images gross even beyond Fringe's usual standards. Ugh. Sigh. Ugh.
More TV catchup later, although almost certainly sans Heroes; I had been watching it because my gaming group does, but I feel Fringe, cow or no cow, is enough of a sacrifice there, and so far, I haven't heard anything that's convincing me to give Heroes another try this season.
