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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.
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.
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Date: 2009-03-09 02:26 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2009-03-09 04:01 am (UTC)Absolutely. And help, too, to contextualize who these men will become, what we learn about their personalities that only emerges as the war progresses.