I am exhausted. Also, I am a bad fan

[healingmirth]

Confession: I hadn't seen Sherlock Holmes until yesterday. It was good? I feel like I need to watch it again, though, because while I know what happened in the movie, I can't remember a single line of dialogue. Them's a lot of words they used.

However, not today, because I am exhausted. Ex-haus-ted. I am trying to work up the energy to either watch whatever edit of 2 Fast 2 Furious FX saw fit to broadcast, or hit the delete button, because its recorded in HD. Seriously, so tired. But am I going to go play volleyball in an hour? Of course I am.

Also yesterday, I watched the 1995 version of Persuasion, since I finally read the book a few months ago. And I almost gave up a few minutes in to the 1995 movie because Elizabeth seems like such a shrew, rather than the sort unintentionally hurtful shallow woman that I pictured in reading the book. I maybe understand the raaaaage now of people who read the Harry Potter books before seeing the movies? Because, seriously, it's not like Elizabeth's characterization is key to the story. Her words are enough. I was also dissatisfied with the exposition of whatisname Cousin Eliot's bad doings. I actually really like that Mrs. Smith in the book was either slightly underhanded, or completely in the thrall of polite manners that she wasn't going to tell her supposed friend that her supposed fiance is a complete scoundrel. That's not actually about the loooooove story, though, and I understand that the clock was ticking on the closing credits.

However! Kissing! On the street! When you have a perfectly good shoehorned engagement scene that you could have tacked it on to somehow? Not on, filmmakers. Not on.

Fun fact: The first two "bonus trailers" on the Persuasion DVD were for Sense and Sensibility and Much Ado about Nothing, both of which I have on VHS. My dad's got Much Ado on laserdisc. Ah, 90s. As much as I'd like to see people making movies from original plots, I do really miss that Merchant-Ivory period. I watched A Room With a View a *lot* of times. I don't even remember what happens, now.

I sort of don't get the vampire thing. I mean, I'll read or watch just about anything if its done well, but nothing in me says "ooh, vampires" and seeks it out. I've been pretty much keeping away from True Blood because of that. Also, I don't have HBO, but that's barely a stumbling block. Er, because I can watch it at a friend's house. Clearly that's what I meant. This worked just fine, until I actually (accidentally! sort of!) saw a clip of Alexander Skarsgard as Eric this season. See, I don't get the vampire thing, as such, but I totally get the leashed-and/or-bored power thing.

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And, totally unrelated to vampires, or Really Old Books: I am not easily squicked, like, not for-real squicked, by sex-related things. There's stuff that I'd rather not see, things that I don't approve of, but there are very few (legal on the internet/in the US) things that disturb me to the point that I have to go seek out a palate cleanser. Found something last night that made me say whyyyyyyyyy, though. So, good job me?

Comments

[stepps]

I get your vampire feelings. I'm pretty take-it-or-leave-it about vampires as well, and find them a bit cliche. True Blood it keeping me entertained with the characters though, and the insane plot. And they're most of them really hot, it helps :D

[healingmirth]

See, I've got RL friends who rave about True Blood, but they also love the Twilight books... so. Maybe I should have paid more attention when they were talking about why. Apparently I am willing to be convinced. Sigh. My life is so hard, yeah?

[kitewithfish]

True Blood on HBO is kind of fluffy. There's some significantly pretty actors and enough plot to keep things together, but I was never really blown away by it. I watched the first season in a marathon, but once I was done with that the itch was gone.

The books, however, are significantly better. The first-person narrator thing works much, much better to show Sookie's character and her mental powers, and I think that she comes across as much more charming and intelligent than HBO bothers to make her. I skipped ahead from the first novel to the earliest one in the series that had significant amounts of Eric in it, and I feel it was a Good Choice.

Vampires in paranormal romance never seem to be doing the work of a monstrous blood sucker to me. They're always a metaphor or euphemism by which people deal with other issues like sex, power, addiction, or non-normative sexual appetites. I think of Eric as just running an S&M theme mafia, and frankly I think that view makes the idea more interesting. But vampires give authors more room to play. :)

[healingmirth]

Except for the part where I'm still not all that into vampires, I'm tempted to read one of the books now, because I'm in the middle of trying to figure out what it is that I hate about first-person pov in fanfic lately, and I can only think of one first-person profic (that I've read in the past couple years, at least) to compare to. I figure if I'm going to hate on things, I need to give properly edited authors a shot at it.

I'm at a bit of a take-it-or-leave-it point with TV now, and now that the weather's nice into the evenings, I suspect that it's going to be even less of a priority. (What do the suits call it when you have to watch something when it's on? Destination/appointment television or something?) I can add the first season to my netflix queue though, and I might get around to watching it sometime this year ;)

Thanks for the info!

[stepps]

My BFF loves both, but the problem there is that she saw Twilight the film first and fell for RPatt. So she's just shallow and watches/reads for the eyecandy. She doesn't want to read the Vampire Mysteries though, for some reason? Maybe because they have different canon.