Current Things
Jul. 12th, 2022 01:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annavereReading: Took a break from the depressing Faulkner with Camilla by Madeleine L'engle, which I expected to be a light distraction. I think it was actually even more bleak, since at least Light in August has some fine atmosphere to go along with its sundry tales of woe. Powered through Camilla in a couple of nights just to get through the pain. Best part was discovering a single fanfic which did a good job taking some of the sting out of the story, but it was essentially an entire novel of petty cruelties and grown men creeping on the teen protagonist and that's not really what I'm looking for right now in my novels.
Watching: Best time for watching television is the evening when BF and I are both home from work. I campaigned to make 12 Monkeys our next evening show, but BF wanted to tackle Ashes to Ashes while we could still remember Life on Mars (which was a fair argument). We barrelled through season one, which I thought was mostly self-parody of Life on Mars, before it finally made an eleventh hour alteration in tone that improved things going forward. We're now at the start of season three and my investment comes purely from the long-running story arc and the two leads.
Consistently disappointing use of the secondary characters, who are trapped in the same limited roles they were introduced in - no matter how many mistakes they make, Chris and Ray will never grow as people; Viv will remain a token black character; and Shaz got a whole episode focused on her choice to resign from the force, even though it was completely predictable that she would get her mojo back and change her mind by the end of the episode. This is why I rarely watch police procedurals. I got into this show for the abundant mind screw (and Manchester, which change in location still annoys me) and luckily it still delivers on that premise, but for only having eight episodes per season, there's an awful lot of filler.
Listening: Getting Wish You Were Here stuck in my head for two days kind of killed that song and reminded me why I prefer Floyd's early years.
Writing: I have several scenes fully stitched up and feel pretty good about that (I need to be feeling good about something, because life ain't it right now). Also mapping out a couple of future crossovers I want to try (Buffy/American Gothic and Jeremiah/Brimstone - the latter is like dead fandoms squared).
Watching: Best time for watching television is the evening when BF and I are both home from work. I campaigned to make 12 Monkeys our next evening show, but BF wanted to tackle Ashes to Ashes while we could still remember Life on Mars (which was a fair argument). We barrelled through season one, which I thought was mostly self-parody of Life on Mars, before it finally made an eleventh hour alteration in tone that improved things going forward. We're now at the start of season three and my investment comes purely from the long-running story arc and the two leads.
Consistently disappointing use of the secondary characters, who are trapped in the same limited roles they were introduced in - no matter how many mistakes they make, Chris and Ray will never grow as people; Viv will remain a token black character; and Shaz got a whole episode focused on her choice to resign from the force, even though it was completely predictable that she would get her mojo back and change her mind by the end of the episode. This is why I rarely watch police procedurals. I got into this show for the abundant mind screw (and Manchester, which change in location still annoys me) and luckily it still delivers on that premise, but for only having eight episodes per season, there's an awful lot of filler.
Listening: Getting Wish You Were Here stuck in my head for two days kind of killed that song and reminded me why I prefer Floyd's early years.
Writing: I have several scenes fully stitched up and feel pretty good about that (I need to be feeling good about something, because life ain't it right now). Also mapping out a couple of future crossovers I want to try (Buffy/American Gothic and Jeremiah/Brimstone - the latter is like dead fandoms squared).
