posting for the very first time
Nov. 21st, 2003 10:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Here I am, posting in my livejournal. I'm not sure why I think I'll be better with this than I was with my blog -- but really, I can't be any worse, so what do I have to lose?
So: Tru Calling. It's a silly show, but having seen three episodes of the four shown, I am really getting into it. I like that it has all the resolution I could want without tying up all the loose ends. Like last week's episode, where she found the person, and she helped the person, but the person was still dead. Good. If she saved the victim *every* time, how much fun would that be? Or tonight's episode, in which messing with the timeline gaveth and messing with the timeline tooketh away. Or her sister, who really is just *awful*, but (so far at least) within the possible realm of cruddy family members. Nice. More nuanced than you might expect, considering that the first segment of the first ep was all about Eliza Dushku's bouncing breasts.
This reminds me, someone at lunch the other day observed that nonfiction offers a much wider latitude than fiction does. Because, think about it, in nonfiction, you know it's true; the fun is in how outrageous the truth can be. With fiction, you know it's untrue; the challenge is to make you believe it's real, and implausibility makes that more difficult.
Miscellaneous observations: Spellcheck for livejournal doesn't recognize blog. Heh.
last book read: He's the One, by Timothy James Beck. Basically a gay romance. Not even a Harlequin Romance, a Silhouette Romance. But the dialogue was pretty snappy. It really needs to be a sitcom.
last movie watched: Matrix Re-whatevered. I like it better than the middle one, but I think they overextended themselves, overexplicated their cosmology, and underutilized Laurence Fishburne.
So: Tru Calling. It's a silly show, but having seen three episodes of the four shown, I am really getting into it. I like that it has all the resolution I could want without tying up all the loose ends. Like last week's episode, where she found the person, and she helped the person, but the person was still dead. Good. If she saved the victim *every* time, how much fun would that be? Or tonight's episode, in which messing with the timeline gaveth and messing with the timeline tooketh away. Or her sister, who really is just *awful*, but (so far at least) within the possible realm of cruddy family members. Nice. More nuanced than you might expect, considering that the first segment of the first ep was all about Eliza Dushku's bouncing breasts.
This reminds me, someone at lunch the other day observed that nonfiction offers a much wider latitude than fiction does. Because, think about it, in nonfiction, you know it's true; the fun is in how outrageous the truth can be. With fiction, you know it's untrue; the challenge is to make you believe it's real, and implausibility makes that more difficult.
Miscellaneous observations: Spellcheck for livejournal doesn't recognize blog. Heh.
last book read: He's the One, by Timothy James Beck. Basically a gay romance. Not even a Harlequin Romance, a Silhouette Romance. But the dialogue was pretty snappy. It really needs to be a sitcom.
last movie watched: Matrix Re-whatevered. I like it better than the middle one, but I think they overextended themselves, overexplicated their cosmology, and underutilized Laurence Fishburne.