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[kittydesade]

1. David hat viele Fragen, weil er in Deutschland studieren möchte.
2. Er studiert vielleicht vier Semester dort, wenn die Uni nicht zu teuer ist.
3. Nicole sagt, dass es nichts kostet.
4. Dann studiert er, wenn er einen Studentenjob finden kann.
5. Nicole sagt, dass es gibt leider wenige Studentenjobs.

... I don't have enough time really to complete this writing assignment. Although if I get through my work emails I might do. Hm.


Oh science, why are you so weird. No, seriously, a glow in the dark dog? I think this article would have made a lot more sense to me if they'd tied in the glowing with the Alzheimer's/Parkinson's treatment potential. But they didn't. They just gave me a glowing beagle.

Closing tabs. Also have finally been dicking around with customizing the layout for my DW journal, since the latest round of DDoS attacks on LJ has prompted another round of people going 'fuck this, I'm moving to DW.' Yay? Yay ish! And offering to help monitor for responses and whatevers dealing with the slowness of DW ended up getting me possibly recruited to write FAQs and Guides and things for DW. I have no idea how I get myself into these things, I swear. No, wait, I know. It looks shiny. And then I go "oh yeah, I could totes do that." And then I go, "crap, what did I get myself into." BUT, even with allowing for that, actually, working on some non-fiction/copy editing/copy writing should be very good mental floss for between scenes in the evening, so I'm not trying to do an additional twenty things at once.

I swear I had something else to talk about here. I could froth over the current state of US politics, which is basically everyone whining and screaming at each other about how they can't have their way and no one actually thinking about the increasingly mob-like population of most of the rest of the country who are suffering because of it. But I don't want to froth. I want to be cheerful. Bele Chere is coming soon, I can't decide if I want to work it or if I want to take a freaking day off. I think I will end up coming in, if for no other reason than I can always use the extra money before Dragon*Con.

Oh! The other thing. I want to take this as a challenge, but I'm not sure how. Help? Thoughts? Anyone? Admittedly, I have almost everything for the next several fic challenges lined up. Most of my SFBB/NovelBB/Original BB is done, none of which qualifies, I'm doing Black Ice collection for Nano, and while I could try doing another fantasy novel for it, I don't know what world I'd set it in or if I would just have to make up a new one in September. Oh, and Horror Big Bang, which I signed up for ages ago and at some point I need to input those dates, is already half written too. And also does not involve fantasy. So, thoughts? Or would anyone else like to take up the challenge for me?

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[clockwork_girl]

The "Eve" storyline had a lot of potential. I haven't seen all of season six yet - I think I might just sit through it just because I hate to leave things hanging - but I have heard some horror stories. I also don't think I'll be buying the DVD box set.

I saw the first movie. Thought: "Ah, this is interesting" and then went looking for the books. Funny how many books I've wound up reading because of that.

It was a bit of a dark horse, wasn't it?

[kittydesade]

That irritated me just on the basis of, really? You're going to make the hithertofore benevolent Mother of All the mother of demons? I try not to see women bashing in everything but that was either bad planning and writing or latent misogyny. Possibly just the former, but it irritated me. Even if they couldn't use Lilith again they could have gone with something else.

I did pretty much the same thing. Do pretty much the same thing. So far the only one I've regretted is Last of the Mohicans.

Just a wee bit. On the other hand, at least lately, those tend to be more fun.

[clockwork_girl]

Again, it might have worked better if they'd found a way to incorporate the Eve idea into the fourth/fifth season, as a sort of: "Oh dear, the wheels have really come off and shit is about to go down" thing rather than trying to make it stand on it's own. They could have then substituted Lilith for Eve. It would've certainly worked a lot better, given how Lilith is, canonically, the mother of demons/beasts, if I remember correctly. At least in my humble opinion.

They didn't seem especially fond of female characters on the show, no. They either pop up for an episode or so only to disappear into the aether afterwards, or they're killed off brutally. Which is unfortunate. I was rather fond of a couple of them.

I certainly wouldn't mind seeing more of them. Movies like X-Men and Transformers are fun and all but sometimes it's nice to be caught off guard. If only to stir things up a bit.

[kittydesade]

You do remember correctly, and they really should have. Or possibly not tried to retroactively explain all the monsters at one fell swoop. Bad, bad writing.

If all the rumors about all the screaming about the girl characters on the show blocking the fans' enjoyment of the boys is true, I do feel a little sorry for them. Trying to accommodate fans and treat their characters realistically at the same time. On the other hand, I haven't encountered that much screaming lunacy and misogyny. On the gripping hand, I also don't venture into fandom very much, and that's exactly why.

Still a little irked that they wrote Cassie in as this special girl in season 1, and then when they circled all the way back to Dean's significant beloveds in season... 5 and 6, I think it was, they didn't even give her a line mention. Oh, just. irked at the sloppy writing as the show went on in general.

I'm hoping that we'll see a trend swinging back to thoughtful movies soon. Really hoping. There's a few young actors I wouldn't mind seeing get to stretch.

[clockwork_girl]

To be honest, I hadn't really given much thought to where they'd come from aside from the occasional pause to consider just how shapeshifters came about. Because - and again, it's been a while since I saw season...1, I think it was, or possibly it was one of the shapeshifter episodes where they sort of alluded to the fact that a shapeshifter could have at least one human parent - they weren't the generic horror movie monster and most of them seemed, well...sort of tragic in a way. And batshit, but that more or less made sense.

Now that's just utterly ridiculous. Fandom, much as I love it, is something that really shouldn't be indulged if it can be avoided. Oh, there are some lovely ideas that pop up from time to time but considering the sort of stuff that seems to happen - usually in dark corners that most people with any inkling of sense avoid like the plague - it's probably best not to really take the risk. It's just not worth it.

I found Lisa an odd choice for Dean's "the one". I get that they were trying to give him a family and everything - a part of me still wonders if Ben mightn't have actually been his - but it did seem a bit contrived.

I suppose you run that risk when you get on, particularly if there's no longer a plan. Things also tend to get a bit random at times, and unfortunately no amount of Mark Sheppard can really fix that.

I'm sure they will. Although I've often found that the ones that are the most fun to pick apart often don't really intend to be. Or maybe that's just me.

[kittydesade]

... Damn, now I want to go back and rewatch season 1. If only for the research into the initial lore into the monsters and seeing how that diverges, if it does, from how they portray and describe them in season 6.

It isn't. And it seems to be a lot of what they're doing in the 6th season, or at least, it felt like they took a bunch of fanfic, looked at the common elements, and did that. All the alternate world type things, Western world and swapping into the actors world. They already did the meta commentary with Chuck and the books, and that was actually pretty well done, I thought. That worked, especially in the context of him being a prophet or possibly actually God. Adding on more was heavy handed.

If they'd laid more of a groundwork for him having more connection with her other than "she's bendy" I could have bought it. But when he went back, there was no sense that he had any connection to her or wanted one, and when she told him the kid wasn't his, that neatly tied that off. And then they brought it back. While they left behind the one girl he was established to have a connection with. Which might have been for actress reasons, I think it was, but they still could have mentioned.

Pretty much. I love Mark Sheppard to bits, but I'm not touching season 6.

If nothing else, they don't get in the way of having a good time. And if they're tightly or solidly written, you can take that and extrapolate all kinds of things from it.

[clockwork_girl]

I think they keep pretty much to their mythology, though they do introduce some new monsters - some of them I'd have actually liked to have seen earlier like dragons.

I'm sure they did something similar in Heroes at some point. In fact, both shows seem to have suffered from a similar problem, which is that they ...went off the plan, I guess. Although Supernatural at least had a plan to begin with!

I think that they could have found some sort of way to make it work, Dean's love interest thing I mean. If nothing else I would have bought him meeting someone else and settling down with them more than I bought the Lisa thing. Really, I just didn't feel it.

It's a delicate balance, it seems. You want a story that gives you enough wiggle room without there being massive plot holes, which just ruin the story!

[kittydesade]

LJ needs to stop going crazy and falling asleep. It irks me. .... and of course the second I type that the power goes out to half of downtown. I wonder if that's the universe's way of telling me it could be worse.

I know they keep forgetting stuff, or at least it seems as though they do, but I don't know if they rewrite stuff.

They did. Heroes had a stellar first season and then... I don't know what happened. Any semblance of reasonable, coherent, and skilled storytelling went straight out the window. And nuance. I missed the nuance, the deftness. I hear it tightened up later, but by that point I had become so disgusted I stopped watching.

They probably could have. I think there's a number of ways they could have made things work, they just didn't choose to. For whatever reason.

Yes! Exactly.

[clockwork_girl]

It always makes me sad when a story with such potential goes to waste. Or, in this case, is fucked up to the point of being nearly unrecognizable.