epic levels of procrastination
Jul. 11th, 2014 02:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
healingmirthI have things that I should be doing, but the weather is just... really nice. Like, really, really nice. So I've been sitting on the porch with my cat, watching the birds, and pretending that I am not going to be in a total panic meltdown tomorrow.
Possibly relevant to some of y'all's interests (particularly anyone who braves the wilds of Tumblr, where some days it seems like 30 might as well be dead)
Pop Culture Happy Hour (podcast): Too Old for Youth Culture and Toys
This is from last week and I haven't listened yet, but like I've mentioned many, many times, I'm a big fan of Monkey See, and I generally enjoy the things they have to say.
Following up on the previous entry's television that isn't terrible, have some television that... sort of is.
Tyrant - aka the one where the prodigal son, if you'll excuse the lazy and inappropriate metaphor, returns to his dictatorial family in a fictional Arab nation.
Too "real" for my tastes. Real like an unnamed woman is raped on screen. Real like the teenagers are sooooooo annoying. Real like the family raised in the US is somehow incapable of perceiving the rampant human rights offenses in the country, because there's a palace with a sweet pool. Fairly widespread criticism for a number of racial and cultural fails, including casting a biracial guy as the lead and, reportedly, needing to cast an anglo woman as his mother to make sense of it. (He's referred to as white or caucasian in about half of the reviews I read, because he's got blue eyes. Not your best work, reviewing people, even if it is in service of a somewhat valid point).
Dominion - aka the one based on that film where Paul Bettany is a post-apocalyptic (mid-apocalyptic?) fallen angel trying to save the "chosen one"
To be fair I've only watched the first episode so far. In the most shallow sense possible, the dude playing Michael is no Paul Bettany. On a more critical note, the writing is very Pilot-y. The casting choices in the pilot are not great by any measure other than (possibly, hard to judge, with the writing...) acting ability. Anthony Stewart Head is quite good?
Possibly relevant to some of y'all's interests (particularly anyone who braves the wilds of Tumblr, where some days it seems like 30 might as well be dead)
Pop Culture Happy Hour (podcast): Too Old for Youth Culture and Toys
First, is it possible to be too old for youth culture? We approach this from a couple of angles: can you be too old for the content itself? Can you be too old for the experience of swooning over cultural experiences the way you did when you were younger? And what is it, exactly, that makes people feel old and tell you how old they feel?
This is from last week and I haven't listened yet, but like I've mentioned many, many times, I'm a big fan of Monkey See, and I generally enjoy the things they have to say.
Following up on the previous entry's television that isn't terrible, have some television that... sort of is.
Tyrant - aka the one where the prodigal son, if you'll excuse the lazy and inappropriate metaphor, returns to his dictatorial family in a fictional Arab nation.
Too "real" for my tastes. Real like an unnamed woman is raped on screen. Real like the teenagers are sooooooo annoying. Real like the family raised in the US is somehow incapable of perceiving the rampant human rights offenses in the country, because there's a palace with a sweet pool. Fairly widespread criticism for a number of racial and cultural fails, including casting a biracial guy as the lead and, reportedly, needing to cast an anglo woman as his mother to make sense of it. (He's referred to as white or caucasian in about half of the reviews I read, because he's got blue eyes. Not your best work, reviewing people, even if it is in service of a somewhat valid point).
Dominion - aka the one based on that film where Paul Bettany is a post-apocalyptic (mid-apocalyptic?) fallen angel trying to save the "chosen one"
To be fair I've only watched the first episode so far. In the most shallow sense possible, the dude playing Michael is no Paul Bettany. On a more critical note, the writing is very Pilot-y. The casting choices in the pilot are not great by any measure other than (possibly, hard to judge, with the writing...) acting ability. Anthony Stewart Head is quite good?
