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Supernatural. The t.v. series... Never saw. Could be interesting but seems a bit cheesy. Still... I looked around. Some places wanted to rent it out. But I found the series for free. All the way back. Sure beats $1.99 per. Watched the first two, and will probably turn it into a... fest... either tonight or tomorrow. A few more tonight, perhaps. Yeah... Sleep. Yeah... But...
Later... Actually, probably, good night. Oh... yeah... there are things that go bump in the night. And there are things that bump back. Thing is, if you are one, the other, or cross over? Even if you started out... normal? It'll... change you. You do, probably, mostly, get a choice. Might take a bit. Not something most of you have to worry about, in any of the various cases. Baaah! :) Good night.
I've heard of "Supernatural" but have never watched it. There was a time when I was familiar with every SF/Fantasy genre program on television. But now it's a plague of riches and I can't keep up.
ReplyDeleteI have only seen shadows of it, until now. Now... I am digging a bit deeper. Careful where you tread? Piss on it, the dead go where their dreams take them.
ReplyDeleteIf you look, but know of something... better... let me know. If it doesn't have rock in it. Shoot it and take a crap on it, for me. Unless it is worth crow fodder... then... let me know.
Bastages are ALWAYS holding out on me. :p
Wow. A request for recommendations. I'm afraid that, in terms of contemporary television, I'm not much help. I follow new episodes of "Game of Thrones" and "Doctor Who", but that's about it. If ABC-TV was still running "Max Headroom" I'd suggest that. I recently caught part of an episode of TNT's "The Last Ship", but not enough to make a value judgement. On the other hand, "Falling Skies" looks interesting and I may try to give it a closer look.
ReplyDeleteDoctor Who I gave up one decades ago. Changing Doctors leaves me cold, and BBC mickey mouse leaves me colder still. Europeans are certified wrist flippers. Good on some fish, lousy on anything presenting as masculine. Academics are NOT masculine roll models either. Nor do they make convincing heroes or enemies, especially when usually pacifist. Good for serving thought or developing what usually proves to be very incorrect theories, often just making up their own data sets. The world just doesn't work like that. If this is tea, go back to Europe. If this is your idea of coffee, go to South China.:p
ReplyDeleteGame of Thrones though... Haven't see a single showing. Commercials have been an impediment up to now. Didn't they recently have a fight between a man and a women? My one question is... did she win? That might pretty much kill interest. I love fantasy, fiction, and such. Just not into the queer side of things. And, yeah, that's the Lilith scenario, and not even a true one. Adam wouldn't let Lilith be a "co-equal" so she ran off without a tail between her legs, now lures Adam's sons of all generation to disease and outright murder, but through vexations, poison, and intrigue. Even when putrefied into a demon through disobedience, and leaving God's protection, she can't take man directly.
Just... saying. Grumpy much? Not so much. Imagination simply has limits. I'm nearly 50, been mostly dead for 30 years, sit all day, and you won't find a woman who can take me in hand to hand. That's what guns are for. So a healthy, vigorous warrior? That's what the pagans used to call a dinner date, going all the way back to cave men.
*ding, ding, ding* And now we have Mr. and Miss, soon to be Mrs. Man and Woman getting into the ring. Oh, before the first hit she is on the mat. Curtains are lowered and it sounds like... Yep, they are getting busy. Without Christian morals, an ethics system that understands women's limits and vulnerabilities on many fronts, and even to a degree with those... Not a chance. Now most women know this, instinctively, and so... don't wave flags at raging bulls and then wonder why they are charged, if feminists are trying to set them up for exactly what happens in many situations. Especially in a secularizing world. Nature without wisdom is animal.
Oh, my... blathering. Later.
"Academics are NOT masculine roll models either. Nor do they make convincing heroes or enemies."
ReplyDeleteOops! Well, so much for offering you some of my fiction. Oh well . . .
Game of Thrones. Yes, there are men fighting women, women fighting men, men fighting men, women fighting women, dogs fighting cats, water buffalos in mortal combat with boomslangs, etc. etc. Practically the entire original cast has met a violent end by this time in the series. One wonders how the various kingdoms in the story have survived all the bloodshed and mayhem. Still, the fantasy foofaraw is kept to a minimum, there are no singing elves, and the political ins and outs (those that manage to shine through the various massacres) can be intriguing.
Urhm, sorry. But I had to refute some things... from practical experience. I love fiction, but it has to have some basis in reality. The series MacGyver? That was as far as I could stretch things, even it was some sort of far out totally fantasy thing. And... pacifism loses, and worse, usually turns into the most monstrous forms of human brutality when that dam breaks against the weight of reality.
ReplyDeleteSo... yeah... History, and reality, even good science and most art, come from advanced military... not the other way around. America was just another simple nation, but didn't go straight to corruption, save were citizens were disarmed. *cough* Big cities. And, only became a real power, then a super power, when it was decided that mens' lives were more valuable than gold, so gold was spilled so blood would be less necessary.
I know, people want to escape. The problem is, too many have escaped too far, and I avoid that. They have no way to deal with reality when it hits them. Too much is vested in feeling, and too little in practical truths. About which good fiction, science fiction, and even fantasy, can easily thrive. Bleh.
"Morning" blather... :)
Fiction with a basis in reality? Wow, then you really don't want to read my stuff (except for, perhaps, the non-fiction items, such as my film reviews).
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, I unabashedly describe myself as an escapist. If Reality was what I wanted I'd hardly have anything to do with fiction in the first place. As no less a worthy than J.R.R. Tolkien once remarked: the only people who inveigh against escape are jailers.
Hmm? Tolkien was very reality based. And, you do read here, correct? While there is probably more truth than might be suspected here, what isn't real falls along potential lay-lines. Some things do not work when they are crossed.
ReplyDeleteI can't remember who developed it, but they found that, visually, there is a reference that seems to be attractive to most people. A ratio... the golden ratio? I tend to believe that there is such a ratio in all artistic endeavors. The mind looks for these things, and if they don't fit, it is generally rejected. The further from the ratio, the quicker and harsher the rejection. Of course, I think many people have allowed themselves to surrender any hope of the ratio from today's world, so either surrender to the McArt or, like me, ignore it for the most part.
Now, the formula to the ratio can be manipulated. But it has to have a framework that fits, and the manipulations need to be covered. Imagine the golden ratio as a recipe. If I order stroganoff at a restaurant, they might change some things. But some things have to be there or they are making something else. Trade-offs, but limits.
Most fiction, whether sci-fi or fantasy, or such... well... it seems like someone opened a can of chef boyardee and are trying to pass that off as homemade stroganoff. It is artificial and messed up, but certainly isn't stroganoff whatever else it is.