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Mar. 8th, 2009 09:16 pm
kaydeefalls: Big Bird and CJ Cregg share a bench (just another day at the office)
[personal profile] kaydeefalls
BigBang fic: I have a massive exposition dump that needs, well, dumping. And I have no idea how to do it without just having the character monologue for a few paragraphs. This is greatly frustrating to me. I hate exposition dumps. There has to be another way to get this information across to the characters (and audience), but I cannot find it, and that's going to hang me up for a really, really long time. Urg. I suppose I should just keep it as a monologue for now, move on, and then go back and figure out how to fix it up later. But it is exceedingly annoying. Stupid characters needing to know things in order for the plot to proceed.

Fandom: I have nothing in particular to say about the latest Dollhouse, except that it managed to hit both one of my biggest kinks AND one of my biggest squicks in the same episode, which left me reeling a bit. Nor have I any deep thinky-thoughts about BSG, except a general HOW IS THIS SHOW ALMOST OVER WHAT THE FRAK with a side of MORE NOW PLEASE.

Also, I finished watching Band of Brothers today, which left me curled into a little ball of WAH. Oh, boys. Also, "Why We Fight" caught me completely off guard, which, really, it shouldn't have, but I was not expecting to see that for some reason. I was hugging myself and shaking, which is rather out of character for me. Ow. In general, though, wow that was good, and I need to go back to the beginning and rewatch it to try to actually keep track of the different characters, since it took a WHILE for me to figure out who was who and follow individual storylines. I mean, I had Winters and Nixon down from the beginning, and Malarkey shortly thereafter (not sure why him, of all of them), but the rest didn't sort themselves until near the end. I mean, it's a bunch of white guys in identical uniforms and HELMETS, it's hard for me to identify characters from their eyes alone unless I already recognize the actor (see: James McAvoy and LEE ADAMA WTF).

I'll need a bit of time before I rewatch, though. Too intense, too much, too soon. Maybe once my show is over.

And in RL: Oh, right, show. Because I'm out of my mind, I'm assistant stage managing a show with a funky independent theater company. We started rehearsals a couple of weeks ago. So I REALLY have no free time these days. But while my current day job in theater admin has been actively working to destroy my love of theater for months now, this ASM gig is reminding me why I wanted to be in this business in the first place, so that's good.

Date: 2009-03-09 01:50 am (UTC)
newredshoes: possum, "How embarrassing!" (what the hell happened to them?)
From: [personal profile] newredshoes
Yeah.

...Yeah. To all of it. ([livejournal.com profile] lindensphinx pointed out that "Why We Fight" was filmed like a horror movie. Which, God, yes. I think it's one of the best Holocaust sequences I've seen. It's certainly the most unsentimental.)

Date: 2009-03-09 03:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kaydeefalls.livejournal.com
Yeah. It's...you'd think I'd be desensitized to those sorts of images by now, but the utter unexpectedness of it -- and just the soldiers' complete inability to contextualize that sort of horror...oh. I forget, sometimes, how they never knew it was happening. That the war wasn't about that at all.

Date: 2009-03-09 04:09 am (UTC)
newredshoes: possum, "How embarrassing!" (oral fixation - Luz)
From: [personal profile] newredshoes
I can't gild your answer any more, so I'll just agree. Yes.

On a completely different note, now that you've seen it all through once, you should watch the special features. They will make you inordinately happy. Like, even happier than the swell of love you may have experienced during the baseball scene. There are no words for what an incredible creature Ron Livingston is.

(Also, icons! \o/)

Date: 2009-03-09 04:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kaydeefalls.livejournal.com
I'll probably watch the special features tomorrow night, so yes. You know, I'm still not entirely sure what Nixon did for the whole war, besides banter with Winters and drink. And not ever fire his weapon, apparently.

Date: 2009-03-09 04:15 am (UTC)
newredshoes: possum, "How embarrassing!" (didn't know you were so sentimental)
From: [personal profile] newredshoes
Oh, you know. Scrounged up tanks. Battled both his inner demons and his facial hair. Powered whole divisions by the sheer power of his awesome. He talks about it some in the boot camp feature!

Date: 2009-03-09 04:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kaydeefalls.livejournal.com
Drank every bottle of whiskey in Europe. Stuff.

I just realized you have approximately 500 BOB icons. You nutter. There's hardly a Dean in sight!

Date: 2009-03-09 04:22 am (UTC)
newredshoes: possum, "How embarrassing!" (meanest sonofabitch in the Roman Legion)
From: [personal profile] newredshoes
Trust me, nobody's more shocked than me! There's sort of a token cluster here and there, but for the most part, well, all shall love BoB and despair.

Date: 2009-03-09 02:02 am (UTC)
andrealyn: (bob: gonna be good times web)
From: [personal profile] andrealyn
JOIN US IN THE WEBGOTT BRIGADE.

We have Eion Bailey.

Date: 2009-03-09 04:53 pm (UTC)
andrealyn: (bob: shooting leftie all night?)
From: [personal profile] andrealyn
And you know, codependent dysfunctional married-couple bickering? Oh, I love them so

Date: 2009-03-13 04:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kaydeefalls.livejournal.com
Heh. I can see the appeal, but my heart currently belongs to Winters/Nixon. (I know, it's almost too obvious, but there you go.)

Date: 2009-03-09 02:26 am (UTC)
semielliptical: winters and nixon (band of brothers) (band of brothers)
From: [personal profile] semielliptical
it's a bunch of white guys in identical uniforms and HELMETS

Hee! Very true. It definitely took me a while to sort out many of the guys - one of the many aspects that makes it worth rewatching. It certainly gives a different perspective to remember individual fates while watching the earlier episodes.

Date: 2009-03-09 04:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kaydeefalls.livejournal.com
It certainly gives a different perspective to remember individual fates while watching the earlier episodes.

Absolutely. And help, too, to contextualize who these men will become, what we learn about their personalities that only emerges as the war progresses.

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