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a miscellaney
Jan. 27th, 2013 04:44 pmI feel like I've forgotten how to be fannish in journal culture. Fandom, why so weird? I'm pretty sure this is the first time I've been overwhelmingly, life-ruiningly, heartbreakingly fannish about something and barely posted about it at all. (Though if you've been on Twitter anytime in the past month, you've probably noticed.) Though not in a production kind of way, which probably accounts for some of the radio silence on DW/LJ, since I have no interest in writing fic and that's about all I can contribute to the fandom. (Uh. I should perhaps mention the fandom? Hobbitses. Ugh, my precious dwarven babies, I just don't know what to do with all these feelings. Except turn them into Narnia fic, because what the hell, brain, what the hell.)
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Hmm hmm hmm. I saw the Fringe finale -- this is one of two shows that I have watched straight through from pilot to finale, more or less as aired. I've seen a lot of shows from beginning to end, but usually I pick up the first season on DVD or Netflix or something, not as aired. Actually, I think this is a lie, I think it's three shows -- I always forget about Harper's Island because it only lasted one season, so it feels more like a miniseries than a show. The other one is The Unit. (I MISS YOU UNIT. Man, I think that was the year that the PTB cancelled three or four of my favorite shows in one fell swoop.) Fringe...I don't know what to say about the finale, really. It ended on a trope I'm not particularly fond of, so that makes me unhappy, but I'm not sure what else they could have done.
Fringe is the show that was there for me all through my undergraduate years and through this year. It premiered the same year that I started college, and I guess that it's appropriate that it ended when I was in graduate school. It made some strange choices these past few years, I don't think anybody will disagree with that, but...it was the show that I started the year that I moved away from home. It was the show that I was still watching when I moved out of the country. I have the first season on DVD and I started rewatching it a few days ago -- I always like going back to the beginning after seeing the end of things -- and, gods. It's not perfect, but there's just something about it. I can remember how world-shattering it was to me the first time I saw the pilot, what's still world-shattering to me: a woman with a gun, a woman saving a man, a man fridged -- almost literally -- so that a woman can go out and do things. That was spectacular to me at eighteen. It still is today at 23. I'm sad to see the show go, but man, they lived life on the edge, and some days, they were fantastic.
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Classes start tomorrow. My main goal for the term is to be a little more organized -- did I mention that I got one of the deadlines for a final paper wrong? I realized it a week before it was due, but STILL. That is the second deadline I got wrong for that class. I ONLY HAD TWO DEADLINES FOR THAT CLASS. So that is a thing which I hope not to do this term.
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Hmm hmm hmm. I saw the Fringe finale -- this is one of two shows that I have watched straight through from pilot to finale, more or less as aired. I've seen a lot of shows from beginning to end, but usually I pick up the first season on DVD or Netflix or something, not as aired. Actually, I think this is a lie, I think it's three shows -- I always forget about Harper's Island because it only lasted one season, so it feels more like a miniseries than a show. The other one is The Unit. (I MISS YOU UNIT. Man, I think that was the year that the PTB cancelled three or four of my favorite shows in one fell swoop.) Fringe...I don't know what to say about the finale, really. It ended on a trope I'm not particularly fond of, so that makes me unhappy, but I'm not sure what else they could have done.
Fringe is the show that was there for me all through my undergraduate years and through this year. It premiered the same year that I started college, and I guess that it's appropriate that it ended when I was in graduate school. It made some strange choices these past few years, I don't think anybody will disagree with that, but...it was the show that I started the year that I moved away from home. It was the show that I was still watching when I moved out of the country. I have the first season on DVD and I started rewatching it a few days ago -- I always like going back to the beginning after seeing the end of things -- and, gods. It's not perfect, but there's just something about it. I can remember how world-shattering it was to me the first time I saw the pilot, what's still world-shattering to me: a woman with a gun, a woman saving a man, a man fridged -- almost literally -- so that a woman can go out and do things. That was spectacular to me at eighteen. It still is today at 23. I'm sad to see the show go, but man, they lived life on the edge, and some days, they were fantastic.
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Classes start tomorrow. My main goal for the term is to be a little more organized -- did I mention that I got one of the deadlines for a final paper wrong? I realized it a week before it was due, but STILL. That is the second deadline I got wrong for that class. I ONLY HAD TWO DEADLINES FOR THAT CLASS. So that is a thing which I hope not to do this term.
