I watch too much television
Aug. 31st, 2009 10:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI watched Princess Mononoke. Pretty! But... I thought it would be about a Princess. Possibly negotiating peace between gods and humans, like it said on the digital box when I hit record. But it is about a boy. Who is not a princess. He goes around telling everyone they're wrong. And on the plus side he's telling them don't hate, hate is poison, so I have no argument with that. And there's lots of female characters. But, er, slight problem, it adds together to be about a boy going around telling women they're wrong. Also all these strong women turning out to be wrong kind of undermines the 'strong' part. And one of them had started a town and done equal rights for women and got them weapons and looked after lepers and yet still was the one spreading hate and fear and poisons and stuff. So I ended up kind of puzzled.
Then I watched Primeval. Reckon it was the first episode ever being shown again.
Pretty dinosaurs, shiny anomalies, characters where I can totally see why people were writing slash about them from the first five seconds they were on screen. Two named women who talk to each other about which way the dinosaur went.
Also? I think that was young!Jack being nearly ate by dinosaurs. I have complicated timey wimey crossover ideas now. So I won't look it up to check because that would be less interesting.
... it was still pretty boring, even with the pretty, because they just run around and catch dinosaurs. Do they run around and catch dinosaurs some more later, or does it acquire a theme and stuff?
Depressingly? I have concluded that everything I've watched recently, even the random stuff, is more interesting than that script I just spent all summer on.
... being a better writer: must work on that.
Then I watched Primeval. Reckon it was the first episode ever being shown again.
Pretty dinosaurs, shiny anomalies, characters where I can totally see why people were writing slash about them from the first five seconds they were on screen. Two named women who talk to each other about which way the dinosaur went.
Also? I think that was young!Jack being nearly ate by dinosaurs. I have complicated timey wimey crossover ideas now. So I won't look it up to check because that would be less interesting.
... it was still pretty boring, even with the pretty, because they just run around and catch dinosaurs. Do they run around and catch dinosaurs some more later, or does it acquire a theme and stuff?
Depressingly? I have concluded that everything I've watched recently, even the random stuff, is more interesting than that script I just spent all summer on.
... being a better writer: must work on that.