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Oct. 15th, 2013 06:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ivyficIn other news...
- I attempted a push-up today. I failed. But the fact that I felt like it might be a possiblity--that's an improvement!
- Today was our audit midterm. There are two sections in my program. For all the other classes, we have the same teacher in both sections (which means they do the exact same two-hour class back-to-back). For audit, we have different teachers. Our exam--well, he allowed us to start 15 minutes early if we got there in time. I did, and I was still writing right up until the end of class. Everyone was shaking out cramps in their hands at the end. The other section? Their exam was no big. They got out in less than an hour. CURSE THEM. CURSE THEM TO HELL.
- I am feeling super productive today. Let's see how long that lasts!
- I'd forgotten how much I love Schubert's "Death and the Maiden."
Oh! TV:
I DON'T CARE ABOUT SNOW WHITE AND PRINCE CHARMING JESUS CHRIST. Haven't we gotten their entire story? I don't need any more flashbacks to their time in the Enchanted Forest! I am really, really done with it.
At least this season they've managed to pare down on the number of extraneous characters by taking the show to Neverland. I'm digging Pan, but could care less about Henry. And I just want to give the show a big ol' hug by going all out with the lesbian romance.
It's been one episode and I already LOVE the Knave of Hearts. Alice's romance with the Genie is kind of a wet blanket, but on her own Alice is alright. Hopefully she'll get some clothes next episode. I'm hoping the Red Queen isn't another Regina, cause I'm sorry, there's only so much I can find in my heart to feel sympathy for someone who's killed a bunch of people. But pretty much, I'm in it for the Knave. And I can see pretty well where they're going with the wishes. Should be interesting.
For all that many of the Once Upon a Time storylines bore the hell out of me, I do kind of love that there's a show on TV that is just ludicrously over-the-top fantasy, with mermaids and dragons and fairies and pirate ships on my screen every week. Half the time the actors are floating in a void of special fx (the Red Queen's hand was definitely in a banister in one shot), but I do love that CGI has come far enough that you can even have something like this on the small screen. I mean, remember the special fx in Hercules? Yeah. We've come a long way, baby.
Obvious subplot is obvious, and they use the most cliched music cuts in the world (Sympathy for the Devil? Really? Hey Man, Nice Shot? Cold Case has called. They want their music editor back), but I'm really just in it for James Spader. And as long as James Spader keeps James Spadering, I don't care about much else.
Aaaaah, show of my heart. I'm not even going to try to list the historical inaccuracies--there's a new one every week. (Chaucer's English in 1587, you say.) But so far I'm enjoying the hell out of it. Don't know how they can possibly sustain the momentum, but go, show, go.
There's also Person of Interest and Elementary, but eh. Elementary's managed to pull itself completely out of the horror that was the early half of season one. And hopefully PoI can pull itself out of the nosedive it's currently in. See? This is what happens when you have too many cast members.
Oh! That reminds me. Agents of SHIELD. This week was the first time the plot actually made sense and wasn't overtly offensive, but truly, the characters all bore the shit out of me. I'm hoping they pull a Doyle and do some serious recasting in the next couple of episodes, cause this is for real a cast of characters created by committee. Bland, bland, bland. Even Torchwood had better characters, and Torchwood was a hot mess.
- I attempted a push-up today. I failed. But the fact that I felt like it might be a possiblity--that's an improvement!
- Today was our audit midterm. There are two sections in my program. For all the other classes, we have the same teacher in both sections (which means they do the exact same two-hour class back-to-back). For audit, we have different teachers. Our exam--well, he allowed us to start 15 minutes early if we got there in time. I did, and I was still writing right up until the end of class. Everyone was shaking out cramps in their hands at the end. The other section? Their exam was no big. They got out in less than an hour. CURSE THEM. CURSE THEM TO HELL.
- I am feeling super productive today. Let's see how long that lasts!
- I'd forgotten how much I love Schubert's "Death and the Maiden."
Oh! TV:
I DON'T CARE ABOUT SNOW WHITE AND PRINCE CHARMING JESUS CHRIST. Haven't we gotten their entire story? I don't need any more flashbacks to their time in the Enchanted Forest! I am really, really done with it.
At least this season they've managed to pare down on the number of extraneous characters by taking the show to Neverland. I'm digging Pan, but could care less about Henry. And I just want to give the show a big ol' hug by going all out with the lesbian romance.
It's been one episode and I already LOVE the Knave of Hearts. Alice's romance with the Genie is kind of a wet blanket, but on her own Alice is alright. Hopefully she'll get some clothes next episode. I'm hoping the Red Queen isn't another Regina, cause I'm sorry, there's only so much I can find in my heart to feel sympathy for someone who's killed a bunch of people. But pretty much, I'm in it for the Knave. And I can see pretty well where they're going with the wishes. Should be interesting.
For all that many of the Once Upon a Time storylines bore the hell out of me, I do kind of love that there's a show on TV that is just ludicrously over-the-top fantasy, with mermaids and dragons and fairies and pirate ships on my screen every week. Half the time the actors are floating in a void of special fx (the Red Queen's hand was definitely in a banister in one shot), but I do love that CGI has come far enough that you can even have something like this on the small screen. I mean, remember the special fx in Hercules? Yeah. We've come a long way, baby.
Obvious subplot is obvious, and they use the most cliched music cuts in the world (Sympathy for the Devil? Really? Hey Man, Nice Shot? Cold Case has called. They want their music editor back), but I'm really just in it for James Spader. And as long as James Spader keeps James Spadering, I don't care about much else.
Aaaaah, show of my heart. I'm not even going to try to list the historical inaccuracies--there's a new one every week. (Chaucer's English in 1587, you say.) But so far I'm enjoying the hell out of it. Don't know how they can possibly sustain the momentum, but go, show, go.
There's also Person of Interest and Elementary, but eh. Elementary's managed to pull itself completely out of the horror that was the early half of season one. And hopefully PoI can pull itself out of the nosedive it's currently in. See? This is what happens when you have too many cast members.
Oh! That reminds me. Agents of SHIELD. This week was the first time the plot actually made sense and wasn't overtly offensive, but truly, the characters all bore the shit out of me. I'm hoping they pull a Doyle and do some serious recasting in the next couple of episodes, cause this is for real a cast of characters created by committee. Bland, bland, bland. Even Torchwood had better characters, and Torchwood was a hot mess.