Starting on a new foot
Feb. 6th, 2006 12:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
itsallovernowSo, I had every intention of getting up and doing yoga this morning, showering, making breakfast and getting to work on time. Guess which, of any, of those things happened. That's right. None!! I have always had a hard time getting out of bed, and it gets harder as I get older, and wasn't helped by the fact that I got up at 6:00 a.m. yesterday to go volunteer at KCRW.
But I was happy to do the volunteer work, and was SUPER productive yesterday, so go me! Dishes, Target, met with a student, volunteered, had dinner with a friend, watched some TV for
SMRT-TV. Hee, if I'd had time to write, it would have been an A++ of productivity.
There was TV on Friday night, and mostly I liked it.
In no particular order:
I liked Ethon because things actually happened and there were consequences and they seriously fucked everything up and that poor pretty ship with the world's worst set design for this day and age blew up.
I particularly liked Mitchell bringing Daniel crappy beer and Daniel looking at it like he didn't quite understand and trying to drink it anyway.
Sorry. I'd had two martinis and missed the 10 minutes where they explained what had happened before and what was going on, so I was vaguely lost. But the momentum was terrific, and I really felt so terribly bad for Pendergast and for all of them at the end.
SGA. This is my Friday night nap show. If I'm awake during the 12-1 hour, I write or surf. If not, I nap. But Sheppherd? Dude, he never sees it coming because there is no way he actually sleeps with women!! Dude. Even I recognize the gay.
BSG. Much, much better. Thank god. And dude, yes the pilot almost sex was extremely hot. I actually found Lee attractive in this ep - amazing what humor and poise and confidence will do. When he is angsting, I wanna smack him. Competence and hot drunken sex with his best friend, that I can get behind. And they handled the whole thing well - anger and frustration, but not a deal breaker. I think having to wank Anders into "everything left behind" is stupid, but then Lee's dead knocked up girlfriend was stupid too. So it's mostly even. But I wish it had been "everything left behind, left on Caprica, left undone and not Anders who is sweet and all, but didn't leave much of an impression." I liked that they were willing to highlight Kara's flaws (and desperately wished for a more thorough treatment of Lee, wish for the same caliber of ep for him so that I cared what happened to him outside of his relationships to the people I do care about), to show that she's not a terribly good leader, and she's not really trying to be. And the scene at the end, when she recites the names, that really did make me teary. It was very well done. In so many ways, she's alone now. So many of the people she "grew up" with are gone, Boomer's a Cylon, Helo's adorable but dumb and smitten with a Cylon and Lee is... well, Lee. It's a very real testament to what's lost. And I liked the acknowledgement of how uncertain their individual fates were, how likely it was they would go out and not come back. It's one of the things the show has always done well.
Now, onto the show that I think is doing the best job of presenting myriad female characters (or characters in general for those of you who object to the gender differentiation, but for me, it makes a difference). When I first started watching Grey's Anatomy, I just casually flipped it on because I liked Sandra Oh, and I loved that the preview was using The Postal Service, and I was astonished that geeky Patrick Dempsey turned out to be so hot. I am astonished at how compelling this show is, and also how diverse and interesting the female characters are. These are women with hearts and minds, with pasts and poor behavior and intelligence and snark and really, I like them all. Even Meredith. Mostly, I love Christina beyond the telling of it because she is so smart, so ambitious, so ruthlessly honest. Because she and Meredith balance each other out. Because she stood on the bed and kicked Meredith out after having listened and nodded and then told her to basically get over herself. And I love Bailey, and mostly, I love that the interns love Bailey, and I love that George hugged her when he saw her.
I love that Izzie is smart, and that Katherine Heigel is just luminously beautiful, and that she was right when she said she and George are watchers. I also loved that Alex really did take his pants off instantly once his brain caught up! I'd have to work hard to do a critical analysis on this show, and what it's doing right for me, but suffice it to say, it's presenting women in a way that we simply don't see on a regular basis, complicated, irrational, intelligent, ambitious, kind, blunt, funny, torn and that I'd trade Starbuck for Christina Yang any day (which surprises no one more than me).</lj-cut?
But I was happy to do the volunteer work, and was SUPER productive yesterday, so go me! Dishes, Target, met with a student, volunteered, had dinner with a friend, watched some TV for
SMRT-TV. Hee, if I'd had time to write, it would have been an A++ of productivity.
There was TV on Friday night, and mostly I liked it.
In no particular order:
I liked Ethon because things actually happened and there were consequences and they seriously fucked everything up and that poor pretty ship with the world's worst set design for this day and age blew up.
I particularly liked Mitchell bringing Daniel crappy beer and Daniel looking at it like he didn't quite understand and trying to drink it anyway.
Sorry. I'd had two martinis and missed the 10 minutes where they explained what had happened before and what was going on, so I was vaguely lost. But the momentum was terrific, and I really felt so terribly bad for Pendergast and for all of them at the end.
SGA. This is my Friday night nap show. If I'm awake during the 12-1 hour, I write or surf. If not, I nap. But Sheppherd? Dude, he never sees it coming because there is no way he actually sleeps with women!! Dude. Even I recognize the gay.
BSG. Much, much better. Thank god. And dude, yes the pilot almost sex was extremely hot. I actually found Lee attractive in this ep - amazing what humor and poise and confidence will do. When he is angsting, I wanna smack him. Competence and hot drunken sex with his best friend, that I can get behind. And they handled the whole thing well - anger and frustration, but not a deal breaker. I think having to wank Anders into "everything left behind" is stupid, but then Lee's dead knocked up girlfriend was stupid too. So it's mostly even. But I wish it had been "everything left behind, left on Caprica, left undone and not Anders who is sweet and all, but didn't leave much of an impression." I liked that they were willing to highlight Kara's flaws (and desperately wished for a more thorough treatment of Lee, wish for the same caliber of ep for him so that I cared what happened to him outside of his relationships to the people I do care about), to show that she's not a terribly good leader, and she's not really trying to be. And the scene at the end, when she recites the names, that really did make me teary. It was very well done. In so many ways, she's alone now. So many of the people she "grew up" with are gone, Boomer's a Cylon, Helo's adorable but dumb and smitten with a Cylon and Lee is... well, Lee. It's a very real testament to what's lost. And I liked the acknowledgement of how uncertain their individual fates were, how likely it was they would go out and not come back. It's one of the things the show has always done well.
Now, onto the show that I think is doing the best job of presenting myriad female characters (or characters in general for those of you who object to the gender differentiation, but for me, it makes a difference). When I first started watching Grey's Anatomy, I just casually flipped it on because I liked Sandra Oh, and I loved that the preview was using The Postal Service, and I was astonished that geeky Patrick Dempsey turned out to be so hot. I am astonished at how compelling this show is, and also how diverse and interesting the female characters are. These are women with hearts and minds, with pasts and poor behavior and intelligence and snark and really, I like them all. Even Meredith. Mostly, I love Christina beyond the telling of it because she is so smart, so ambitious, so ruthlessly honest. Because she and Meredith balance each other out. Because she stood on the bed and kicked Meredith out after having listened and nodded and then told her to basically get over herself. And I love Bailey, and mostly, I love that the interns love Bailey, and I love that George hugged her when he saw her.
I love that Izzie is smart, and that Katherine Heigel is just luminously beautiful, and that she was right when she said she and George are watchers. I also loved that Alex really did take his pants off instantly once his brain caught up! I'd have to work hard to do a critical analysis on this show, and what it's doing right for me, but suffice it to say, it's presenting women in a way that we simply don't see on a regular basis, complicated, irrational, intelligent, ambitious, kind, blunt, funny, torn and that I'd trade Starbuck for Christina Yang any day (which surprises no one more than me).</lj-cut?
