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Dreams So Real
1. Someone has uploaded the entirety of Mother Love to Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unPXDSOcIsc (I have no watched it twice through and gotten the book from the library and re-read it) Also, I've watched ML a good twenty+ times, so you can imagine that I think it's amazing and people should watch it (what a pity it's not on dvd)
2. I marathonned seasons 9, 10, 6 and 7 of SG-1 a bit ago. I really really liked 9 & 10, more than I remember doing--and I think it didn't get enough airplay, but the Adria-Vala relationship was fun. Then I took at least half a season to adjust to NO CAM OR VALA. And Teal'c's hair. Seriously, I missed the crap out of the season 10 team and wasn't expecting to (I even missed Daniel, which was VERY CONFUSING for me, ngl). And, um, I discovered that I don't really like Jack much anymore--this is even more confusing than missing Daniel, but I kept getting impatient/annoyed with Jack, and with the dynamic when Jack was around--and he was the only thing that wasn't in 9/10, so. I really appreciate Sam getting to do her own thing without constant "sir, may I?" stuff.
3. Having managed 9 and 10, I decided to get over my rage about certain (Atlantis) things (goddamn, I hold a grudge a long time), and watched Ark of Truth and Continuum. I really really liked AoT (IS SO AMAZING I CAN'T EVEN). Continuum, not so much. Too little Vala (I'm aware Claudia was pregnant, but...), too little Teal'c. But it was all right (also, this is what, the sixth? Seventh? time that SG-1 has re-written history).
4. Then I took a break and watched some Atlantis, but the constant "We Are So Amazing and Right, and We Can Take All Your Stuff" mind-set of Rodney McKay/his team just... I wanted to smack them a lot, and NO ONE DOES SO in the show (they tried to give Weir some verbal "you can't do that"s, but no one LISTENS TO HER). Although it was interesting to go from Steen's Weir to Torri's on Atlantis, and see some of the things they did for the former in the latter. (also, the "we can take stuff" thing was a BAD GUY TRAIT from SG-1, so it's a bit hard to take our 'heroes' using it)
5. We are partially-moved into the new apartment (mostly stuff we can haul over in the car). At some point, we're going to have to get a truck and move the Bit Stuff.
6. Book list update:
- The Unwritten book 1 by Mike Carey. (Sigh. Yet another comic about dudes. Doing shit. I think it was trying to do things with 'literature' and 'stories', but it was hard to tell since I kept skipping things out of boredom. I'm hoping the next trade is less uninteresting.)
- Althea's Grand Tour by Emily Hendrickson (a book about a too-tall Amazon of a woman. Unlike the last book I read with such a heroine [the first Parasol Protectorate book], this one actually doesn't think other women are stupid fribbles and useless, she interacts with them and while she despairs of her height, the size of her bust isn't mentioned every three pages. The amusingly confused lord in love with her is also not an asshole.)
- The Stepsister Scheme by Jim C Hines (not too bad. It took forever to get into, but was mostly all right)
- The Mermaid's Madness by Jim C Hines (I kept skipping the passages from the ~villain's pov. And, um. Was unsurprised by some of the twists. I didn't hate it, but I wanted to like it more.)
- Red Hood's Revenge by Jim C Hines (I only managed to finish this out of a sense of completion. I literally put it down in the middle of several Dangerous Moments out of boredom. Also, like MM, it had some pretty specific narrative twists that happened in the same place. I also couldn't help it--the Kha'iida were basically Lackey's Shin'a'in/Teyladras/Kaled'a'in "non-white tribespeople guarding great magics" Which basically confirmed my initial thought that Talia and Snow were Tarma and Kethry. Right down to Tarma/Talia having been raped with her family entirely slaughtered and then turning into a mighty warrior. Kethry and Snow are both sorceresses who continue to over-reach themselves, though Keth's a bit more intelligent about it and pushes herself only in the direst need.)
- Mother Love by Domini Taylor (one that's definitely better as a mini-series than a book. The prose is a bit in love with itself and dreary, and there's a bit of... not homophobia? But something close to it--the mini-series has it, too, but it's only touched upon once, there. Also, Danuta is a construct for the TV show that is sorely missing in the novel)
Tried to read:
- Key to Conflict by Talia Gryphon (I should have taken the last name as a clue, but no, I had to wait for the "Nile-green eyes" line and the "vampires exude testosterone, tee hee" bits. Then I was done. Pity, because the concept of a psychologist to the supernatural was vaguely interesting.)
- The Snow Queen's Shadow by Jim C Hines (I've reached the point where I just don't care about the main characters, and have no interest in the ~villains. I read about a quarter of it before realizing I was skipping every couple pages out of boredom, so went to the end to find out how it ended. Also, the whole "clone falls in love where original can't" trope wasn't any better when Rusty did it, and continues to be entirely insulting.)
2. I marathonned seasons 9, 10, 6 and 7 of SG-1 a bit ago. I really really liked 9 & 10, more than I remember doing--and I think it didn't get enough airplay, but the Adria-Vala relationship was fun. Then I took at least half a season to adjust to NO CAM OR VALA. And Teal'c's hair. Seriously, I missed the crap out of the season 10 team and wasn't expecting to (I even missed Daniel, which was VERY CONFUSING for me, ngl). And, um, I discovered that I don't really like Jack much anymore--this is even more confusing than missing Daniel, but I kept getting impatient/annoyed with Jack, and with the dynamic when Jack was around--and he was the only thing that wasn't in 9/10, so. I really appreciate Sam getting to do her own thing without constant "sir, may I?" stuff.
3. Having managed 9 and 10, I decided to get over my rage about certain (Atlantis) things (goddamn, I hold a grudge a long time), and watched Ark of Truth and Continuum. I really really liked AoT (IS SO AMAZING I CAN'T EVEN). Continuum, not so much. Too little Vala (I'm aware Claudia was pregnant, but...), too little Teal'c. But it was all right (also, this is what, the sixth? Seventh? time that SG-1 has re-written history).
4. Then I took a break and watched some Atlantis, but the constant "We Are So Amazing and Right, and We Can Take All Your Stuff" mind-set of Rodney McKay/his team just... I wanted to smack them a lot, and NO ONE DOES SO in the show (they tried to give Weir some verbal "you can't do that"s, but no one LISTENS TO HER). Although it was interesting to go from Steen's Weir to Torri's on Atlantis, and see some of the things they did for the former in the latter. (also, the "we can take stuff" thing was a BAD GUY TRAIT from SG-1, so it's a bit hard to take our 'heroes' using it)
5. We are partially-moved into the new apartment (mostly stuff we can haul over in the car). At some point, we're going to have to get a truck and move the Bit Stuff.
6. Book list update:
- The Unwritten book 1 by Mike Carey. (Sigh. Yet another comic about dudes. Doing shit. I think it was trying to do things with 'literature' and 'stories', but it was hard to tell since I kept skipping things out of boredom. I'm hoping the next trade is less uninteresting.)
- Althea's Grand Tour by Emily Hendrickson (a book about a too-tall Amazon of a woman. Unlike the last book I read with such a heroine [the first Parasol Protectorate book], this one actually doesn't think other women are stupid fribbles and useless, she interacts with them and while she despairs of her height, the size of her bust isn't mentioned every three pages. The amusingly confused lord in love with her is also not an asshole.)
- The Stepsister Scheme by Jim C Hines (not too bad. It took forever to get into, but was mostly all right)
- The Mermaid's Madness by Jim C Hines (I kept skipping the passages from the ~villain's pov. And, um. Was unsurprised by some of the twists. I didn't hate it, but I wanted to like it more.)
- Red Hood's Revenge by Jim C Hines (I only managed to finish this out of a sense of completion. I literally put it down in the middle of several Dangerous Moments out of boredom. Also, like MM, it had some pretty specific narrative twists that happened in the same place. I also couldn't help it--the Kha'iida were basically Lackey's Shin'a'in/Teyladras/Kaled'a'in "non-white tribespeople guarding great magics" Which basically confirmed my initial thought that Talia and Snow were Tarma and Kethry. Right down to Tarma/Talia having been raped with her family entirely slaughtered and then turning into a mighty warrior. Kethry and Snow are both sorceresses who continue to over-reach themselves, though Keth's a bit more intelligent about it and pushes herself only in the direst need.)
- Mother Love by Domini Taylor (one that's definitely better as a mini-series than a book. The prose is a bit in love with itself and dreary, and there's a bit of... not homophobia? But something close to it--the mini-series has it, too, but it's only touched upon once, there. Also, Danuta is a construct for the TV show that is sorely missing in the novel)
Tried to read:
- Key to Conflict by Talia Gryphon (I should have taken the last name as a clue, but no, I had to wait for the "Nile-green eyes" line and the "vampires exude testosterone, tee hee" bits. Then I was done. Pity, because the concept of a psychologist to the supernatural was vaguely interesting.)
- The Snow Queen's Shadow by Jim C Hines (I've reached the point where I just don't care about the main characters, and have no interest in the ~villains. I read about a quarter of it before realizing I was skipping every couple pages out of boredom, so went to the end to find out how it ended. Also, the whole "clone falls in love where original can't" trope wasn't any better when Rusty did it, and continues to be entirely insulting.)