Doodlebug.
First things first-- I'm getting a new phone, and it's free! Verizon gives you a free phone up to $150 every two years. It is time to retire my poor, old battered, beaten-up Kyocera and replace it with a shiny silver Razr. I got a flippy phone, yay.
Secondly, since I've seen this a few places on the f-list and I almost died this morning, Alanis Morrisette wins at life. I also have a total girlcrush on her smile.
I had a wonderful dinner last night. Skyler and I made lemon verbena pesto pasta with a side salad of spring greens (it all looked very pretty) and an appetizer of garlic hummus on pita. We had a riesling recommended to us by the guy at Mount Washington wines, and though it was a little sweet and nectary for what we ate, it had great apricot and pear notes, and I'd drink it again, especially chilled. For dessert, we had beautiful translucent chocolates that were incredibly delicious. We had the winter mix with chocolate-covered sunflower seeds, metallic midnight blue almonds, chai tea cordials, and M&M type things. I definitely want to try the 'Blue Metallic Euphoria' mix and one of the pink springy ones. I also find it incredibly amusing that you can make your own Pantone-matched chocolate mix. At any rate, we watched BSG while I worked on some beading stuff.
Anyway, brief thoughts on Doctor Who and BattleStar Galactica, as promised (season 1 of both, only).
It took me awhile to get into Doctor Who. It's campy and bright and fun most of the time, but nothing draws me into a show like good characterization, and I just didn't feel a connection to the characters. Granted, Christopher Eccleston's great to watch, and I like how Rose acted for all intents and purposes like a real young woman. That said? The show is much more about plot than emotional development, and that probably accounts for my "fun, but meh" reaction to the show.
From a plot standpoint, I liked that it was largely episodic, but those episodes didnt really feel like they were going anywhere-- to make a comparison, Angel season 1 was anthology-style, too, and yet there was a bigger plot that got slowly meted out and built a sense of cohesion. Aside from the last-minute "Bad Wolf" thing and the early introduction of the Daleks, I felt the show was largely drifting. PS? The Daleks are irritating as hell. I did like, however, that they wrought the few moments of truly fine acting from the season-- Christopher Eccleston's "I am intensely serious and quite a bit pissed off" face is a truly beautiful thing. I did appreciate some of the cultural commentary: ie-- the ways in which we placate our hypocrisies, our dependency on mass-media and entertainment as substance, etc.
I'll watch s2 because, let's face it, you don't have to follow the plot all that closely, and that's good when I'm multitasking. I watch when I'm doing beadwork. And Anthony Stewart Head next season! Also? Props for Rose being woman-shaped. She's extraordinarily beautiful, but not a twiggy twig. Yay.
I'm sucked in to BSG. I like the character interactions, and the plot is pretty nicely paced. I heart Starbuck and Adama and Roslin and Helo. I'm tiring of Baltar, though. While I like the actor, and I get that his thinking in circles is indicative of his mental state, it gets a little tiresome to watch. Oh, Gaius is crazy, what else is new? I want to know if Six is a manifestation of his consience or his intellect, or if she's an implant. Gaius could be a Cylon, judging on his mental deterioration a la Boomer, but I don't know that the show would pull such a plum Judas role into Cylon territory. Regardless, I want more insight into Gaius's decision-making process, 'cause he's confusing the hell out of me, and that's frustrating like whoa. And who wtf mate, Cylons and humans can have babies? Cree-e-epy.
I like Starbuck a lot, once her characterization settled a bit from obnoxious to cocky but cool. I'm interested to see where the mythology goes, and further commentary on the Cylons' monotheistic God vs. the humans' Hellenistic Gods. And I bet at least one more of the main characters is a Cylon-- but who? I was thinking someone with high clearance and lots of trust. Either Tigh or maybe the Chief, though he seems far too sentimentally human. I don't know, though. Just speculation, no spoiling.
My favorite line: "No more Mr. Nice Gaius!" I totally need an icon of that.
Okay, back to the salt mines. I had something else to say, but I can't remember because the boss is having one of his "I'm going to say everything as condescending as humanly possible 'cause need to feel important" type days. Not even necessarily to me, but it's still no fun to hear him be a total tool to other people, either. Somebody obviously needs a cookie and a nap.
Secondly, since I've seen this a few places on the f-list and I almost died this morning, Alanis Morrisette wins at life. I also have a total girlcrush on her smile.
I had a wonderful dinner last night. Skyler and I made lemon verbena pesto pasta with a side salad of spring greens (it all looked very pretty) and an appetizer of garlic hummus on pita. We had a riesling recommended to us by the guy at Mount Washington wines, and though it was a little sweet and nectary for what we ate, it had great apricot and pear notes, and I'd drink it again, especially chilled. For dessert, we had beautiful translucent chocolates that were incredibly delicious. We had the winter mix with chocolate-covered sunflower seeds, metallic midnight blue almonds, chai tea cordials, and M&M type things. I definitely want to try the 'Blue Metallic Euphoria' mix and one of the pink springy ones. I also find it incredibly amusing that you can make your own Pantone-matched chocolate mix. At any rate, we watched BSG while I worked on some beading stuff.
Anyway, brief thoughts on Doctor Who and BattleStar Galactica, as promised (season 1 of both, only).
It took me awhile to get into Doctor Who. It's campy and bright and fun most of the time, but nothing draws me into a show like good characterization, and I just didn't feel a connection to the characters. Granted, Christopher Eccleston's great to watch, and I like how Rose acted for all intents and purposes like a real young woman. That said? The show is much more about plot than emotional development, and that probably accounts for my "fun, but meh" reaction to the show.
From a plot standpoint, I liked that it was largely episodic, but those episodes didnt really feel like they were going anywhere-- to make a comparison, Angel season 1 was anthology-style, too, and yet there was a bigger plot that got slowly meted out and built a sense of cohesion. Aside from the last-minute "Bad Wolf" thing and the early introduction of the Daleks, I felt the show was largely drifting. PS? The Daleks are irritating as hell. I did like, however, that they wrought the few moments of truly fine acting from the season-- Christopher Eccleston's "I am intensely serious and quite a bit pissed off" face is a truly beautiful thing. I did appreciate some of the cultural commentary: ie-- the ways in which we placate our hypocrisies, our dependency on mass-media and entertainment as substance, etc.
I'll watch s2 because, let's face it, you don't have to follow the plot all that closely, and that's good when I'm multitasking. I watch when I'm doing beadwork. And Anthony Stewart Head next season! Also? Props for Rose being woman-shaped. She's extraordinarily beautiful, but not a twiggy twig. Yay.
I'm sucked in to BSG. I like the character interactions, and the plot is pretty nicely paced. I heart Starbuck and Adama and Roslin and Helo. I'm tiring of Baltar, though. While I like the actor, and I get that his thinking in circles is indicative of his mental state, it gets a little tiresome to watch. Oh, Gaius is crazy, what else is new? I want to know if Six is a manifestation of his consience or his intellect, or if she's an implant. Gaius could be a Cylon, judging on his mental deterioration a la Boomer, but I don't know that the show would pull such a plum Judas role into Cylon territory. Regardless, I want more insight into Gaius's decision-making process, 'cause he's confusing the hell out of me, and that's frustrating like whoa. And who wtf mate, Cylons and humans can have babies? Cree-e-epy.
I like Starbuck a lot, once her characterization settled a bit from obnoxious to cocky but cool. I'm interested to see where the mythology goes, and further commentary on the Cylons' monotheistic God vs. the humans' Hellenistic Gods. And I bet at least one more of the main characters is a Cylon-- but who? I was thinking someone with high clearance and lots of trust. Either Tigh or maybe the Chief, though he seems far too sentimentally human. I don't know, though. Just speculation, no spoiling.
My favorite line: "No more Mr. Nice Gaius!" I totally need an icon of that.
Okay, back to the salt mines. I had something else to say, but I can't remember because the boss is having one of his "I'm going to say everything as condescending as humanly possible 'cause need to feel important" type days. Not even necessarily to me, but it's still no fun to hear him be a total tool to other people, either. Somebody obviously needs a cookie and a nap.