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And the world keeps happening
Jan. 7th, 2019 03:17 amSo, apparently I went silent for the weekend. Didn't finish reading anything, just bounced between stuff. Though if I count 'finished one short story in a compilation' I have actually been reading a lot, it's just The Time Traveller's Almanac is huuuuuge. And I set out to finish the last three issues of Analog on my subscription I let end, but for the same reasons of vaguely boring that I let it end, that has... not happened yet.
I also watched some more Supergirl, and the Feelings Overload problem wears off when they're not dropping heavy things on children, mostly, but then I'm kind of... bored? Like, I wasn't invested in Kara's relationship, because I kind of think he's a jerk, so all that angsty emotional continuity happening now is just... not where I'm at, really. And Alex breaking up was so annoying? I can see how they did a good story to go with it, they just... they did that. And I'm annoyed without even shipping it. Just, now they've made her miserable, they should stop doing that.
And then it was the xover episode, and I detest what they did with Earth X and all of that, ( Read more... )
Okay, so, being annoyed at last year's xover is apparently a way to make words happen.
But it didn't make me want to make the next episode happen so, Supergirl watching progresses slowly.
And I like the cast this year, Lena and Sam are great so far, though I miss Cat and the whole concept of mentors.
So I guess I'll watch more in a bit.
I've been thinking about an idea from cultural studies classes that unfortunately uses really ablist language in the version I can remember, that is basically saying that modern media, not even post internet but just tv and advertising walking down the street and radio and news and all that broadcast stuff, it makes it impossible to respond to the world in a sane way. (Bad phrasing.) Much worse now with media feeds being from so many more sources 24/7. Everything is disjointed, fragmented, connected by proximity but in no logical way. My Dash Did A Thing, but everything everywhere always. The world is loud loud loud, visually and in information density, but the signal to noise problem got weird and stayed that way. ( Read more... )
Was the world always this scary and we just tried not to notice?
I mean, probably.
But everything happens so much, and it's loud, and it's random, and before you're done with one feeling the next input demands another.
And this is why scripted entertainment is really doing good work, except for the thing where I mostly end up complaining about scripted entertainment. But it's putting a frame and some limits on, giving us coherence and emotional continuity instead of all of this... all.
Which is really compelling, which is what makes it so annoying when what it chooses to do with these tools is all that.
So I have absolutely no conclusion
except there is a lot going on, always, and we are not built for this.
But here we are anyway.
... I'm going to go read some more.
I also watched some more Supergirl, and the Feelings Overload problem wears off when they're not dropping heavy things on children, mostly, but then I'm kind of... bored? Like, I wasn't invested in Kara's relationship, because I kind of think he's a jerk, so all that angsty emotional continuity happening now is just... not where I'm at, really. And Alex breaking up was so annoying? I can see how they did a good story to go with it, they just... they did that. And I'm annoyed without even shipping it. Just, now they've made her miserable, they should stop doing that.
And then it was the xover episode, and I detest what they did with Earth X and all of that, ( Read more... )
Okay, so, being annoyed at last year's xover is apparently a way to make words happen.
But it didn't make me want to make the next episode happen so, Supergirl watching progresses slowly.
And I like the cast this year, Lena and Sam are great so far, though I miss Cat and the whole concept of mentors.
So I guess I'll watch more in a bit.
I've been thinking about an idea from cultural studies classes that unfortunately uses really ablist language in the version I can remember, that is basically saying that modern media, not even post internet but just tv and advertising walking down the street and radio and news and all that broadcast stuff, it makes it impossible to respond to the world in a sane way. (Bad phrasing.) Much worse now with media feeds being from so many more sources 24/7. Everything is disjointed, fragmented, connected by proximity but in no logical way. My Dash Did A Thing, but everything everywhere always. The world is loud loud loud, visually and in information density, but the signal to noise problem got weird and stayed that way. ( Read more... )
Was the world always this scary and we just tried not to notice?
I mean, probably.
But everything happens so much, and it's loud, and it's random, and before you're done with one feeling the next input demands another.
And this is why scripted entertainment is really doing good work, except for the thing where I mostly end up complaining about scripted entertainment. But it's putting a frame and some limits on, giving us coherence and emotional continuity instead of all of this... all.
Which is really compelling, which is what makes it so annoying when what it chooses to do with these tools is all that.
So I have absolutely no conclusion
except there is a lot going on, always, and we are not built for this.
But here we are anyway.
... I'm going to go read some more.