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This, That, the Other Thing, Dead Zone, and Bring me Ice Cream.
I am trying to do too much, basically simultaneously, and it's causing me to scatter. I can't even think straight these days for trying to just figure out what I'm supposed to be doing at any given moment, and I'm so far behind on everything, that if I think about it for more than 20 seconds, I panic. So, not very productive at the moment.
Things 1's computer decided to fry about a week after mine did. This meant about 2 1/2 weeks of just rebuilding computers. Mine, because WE MUST VID, and Thing 1's, because, you know, she'd have gone into withdrawal and battered me to death, or something violent. So Thing 1 brings over her Dell computer and the most challenging part of rebuilding it was... figuring out how to get the damn hard drive out. Dell clearly feels the need to have it's own little bizarre configuration, with screws where no screws should normally be. But after a lot of actual intense physical fighting to get parts into the machine (it always amazes me that with the yelling, and pushing, and squashing, and occasionally looking over and discovering the cat is sleeping on a vital part, that I never actually break the cards and chips and crap) the rest of the installation and OS upgrade went pretty smoothly. Thing 1 needed new harddrives and a new OS. I needed a new motherboard, so everything had to come out. Mine is still acting a little flaky at times, but I'm attributing it to Premiere's amazing abilities to crash anything that stands in its way.
Still, we're now so far behind in getting a vid ready for Vividcon, that I laugh scary little psycho laughs every few minutes. WE HAVE NO VID! AND WE ARE THE WORLD'S SLOWEST VIDDERS! PANIC!!!
And I owe 2,000 people feedback, and feel enormous random pangs of guilt all day long about this fact. Vid, stories, you name it.
And I'm absurdly far behind in projects for work, and freelance work. And most of the time, I can't gather the concentration to play spider solitaire.
And because I don't have enough to do, for some reason, I said "Hey, recapping Dead Zone sounds fun!" And it would be, I'm sure, if I had any idea what I was doing. Still, I love DZ too much to not try, and the reviews can be found over at Mediasharx. I wasn't at all thrilled with the first two, so I enlisted ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
merryish on this last one as a beta, but she rewrote me so much she should probably be listed as co-author.
I'm trying very hard to give Rebecca the benefit of the doubt, but so far, she's totally failing to grab me. I don't want to hold it against her that she's coming in between my slashy ideals for the show -- they were bound to write another woman in sooner or later. But, whereas I was totally behind Dana, (the snark! the sharpness of character!) Rebecca doesn't do a lot for me. There's no real spark there to capture me. She's more like what they think they *should* need, in a female love interest, or something.
I'm giving her more time because so far, the role has been a hard one. They've introduced her as a skeptic and someone who is under a whole lot of personal stress in the premiere, and now someone who is still trying to figure this psychic guy out. Still, I wish it didn't feel quite so formulaish. None of the scenes with her and Johnny really feel like they're connecting, more like they're just saying their lines. The exception would be that really cute smile Johnny gave her in Collision when she asked him what he would do if he felt himself blacking out. That was nice.
Bruce and Walt are both giving strange vibes too, although Walt's are far easier to understand. He's cranky. He really does like Johnny, and he really does understand that it's Sarah who is failing to get on with her life, and not Johnny, at this point. It's hard for him to deal with Johnny at some points, because he's a constant reminder of his wife's lack of commitment to the marriage right now, but his overriding reasonableness can't let him hold the grudge against the wrong person. So through the episode, he's going from standoffish, to worried, to hey! a HUG! And I loved the hug very much, yes. Far, far more than whatever that crap at the end with Rebecca was.
Bruce. As I've said elsewhere, and before, he seems more freaked and strange and standoffish than he ever has before, and I'm not entirely sure what's up with that. He's never been embarassed by Johnny's visions before, he was always the first one to offer Johnny's assistance, even when Johnny wasn't big on it, but suddenly, he's all about the uncomfortable looks. We need more time with him onscreen, obviously, for me to determine what's going on there.
Hey, Thing 1! Bring ice cream.
Things 1's computer decided to fry about a week after mine did. This meant about 2 1/2 weeks of just rebuilding computers. Mine, because WE MUST VID, and Thing 1's, because, you know, she'd have gone into withdrawal and battered me to death, or something violent. So Thing 1 brings over her Dell computer and the most challenging part of rebuilding it was... figuring out how to get the damn hard drive out. Dell clearly feels the need to have it's own little bizarre configuration, with screws where no screws should normally be. But after a lot of actual intense physical fighting to get parts into the machine (it always amazes me that with the yelling, and pushing, and squashing, and occasionally looking over and discovering the cat is sleeping on a vital part, that I never actually break the cards and chips and crap) the rest of the installation and OS upgrade went pretty smoothly. Thing 1 needed new harddrives and a new OS. I needed a new motherboard, so everything had to come out. Mine is still acting a little flaky at times, but I'm attributing it to Premiere's amazing abilities to crash anything that stands in its way.
Still, we're now so far behind in getting a vid ready for Vividcon, that I laugh scary little psycho laughs every few minutes. WE HAVE NO VID! AND WE ARE THE WORLD'S SLOWEST VIDDERS! PANIC!!!
And I owe 2,000 people feedback, and feel enormous random pangs of guilt all day long about this fact. Vid, stories, you name it.
And I'm absurdly far behind in projects for work, and freelance work. And most of the time, I can't gather the concentration to play spider solitaire.
And because I don't have enough to do, for some reason, I said "Hey, recapping Dead Zone sounds fun!" And it would be, I'm sure, if I had any idea what I was doing. Still, I love DZ too much to not try
merryish on this last one as a beta, but she rewrote me so much she should probably be listed as co-author.I'm trying very hard to give Rebecca the benefit of the doubt, but so far, she's totally failing to grab me. I don't want to hold it against her that she's coming in between my slashy ideals for the show -- they were bound to write another woman in sooner or later. But, whereas I was totally behind Dana, (the snark! the sharpness of character!) Rebecca doesn't do a lot for me. There's no real spark there to capture me. She's more like what they think they *should* need, in a female love interest, or something.
I'm giving her more time because so far, the role has been a hard one. They've introduced her as a skeptic and someone who is under a whole lot of personal stress in the premiere, and now someone who is still trying to figure this psychic guy out. Still, I wish it didn't feel quite so formulaish. None of the scenes with her and Johnny really feel like they're connecting, more like they're just saying their lines. The exception would be that really cute smile Johnny gave her in Collision when she asked him what he would do if he felt himself blacking out. That was nice.
Bruce and Walt are both giving strange vibes too, although Walt's are far easier to understand. He's cranky. He really does like Johnny, and he really does understand that it's Sarah who is failing to get on with her life, and not Johnny, at this point. It's hard for him to deal with Johnny at some points, because he's a constant reminder of his wife's lack of commitment to the marriage right now, but his overriding reasonableness can't let him hold the grudge against the wrong person. So through the episode, he's going from standoffish, to worried, to hey! a HUG! And I loved the hug very much, yes. Far, far more than whatever that crap at the end with Rebecca was.
Bruce. As I've said elsewhere, and before, he seems more freaked and strange and standoffish than he ever has before, and I'm not entirely sure what's up with that. He's never been embarassed by Johnny's visions before, he was always the first one to offer Johnny's assistance, even when Johnny wasn't big on it, but suddenly, he's all about the uncomfortable looks. We need more time with him onscreen, obviously, for me to determine what's going on there.
Hey, Thing 1! Bring ice cream.
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