Susan Hated Literature

I’m away tomorrow, so happy thanksgiving to all you Americans. I’ll be away Friday too.

May be back on Sunday. We’ll see.

Plans being the opposite of what I make, see
I don’t have any other planned posts to keep you all occupied. Too busy flicking through over 60 stations repeating over and over again, there is nothing on. There is nothing on. there is nothing on… You get the point.

Oh, and I’ve discovered the problem with Lost. Its shite! But fx:wailing I keep right on watching.
Anyways, like I said I’m not here, so expect to see a bazillion^[1] spam comments appear any minute now.

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Last episode of season 2 of Lost was on last night. And can I just say that this has to be the most pointless telly watching I have ever done. I don’t like the characters. Even Charlie is annoying at this stage. I despise Jack with his “leadership issues”. Kate is a moany cow who thinks she is tough but all she ever seems to do is stare out to sea mournfully. Okay, so Sawyer is interesting on the eyes, but, characterwise he aint going anywhere except round in circles.

None of the characters are.

Sure, we have flashback after flashback after flashback telling us backstory and revealing the trials and tribulations they all faced, along with cool, neat^[1] appearances from other characters that they didn’t know back then.

But it is all so annoyingly pointless and irrelevant. There is no development of characters. None of them understand the others any better because while we may see the flashback there is no sense of them sharing their histories with each other. And showing Sun in the background while Jack moans at the airport? I mean it isn’t even really all that much of a coincidence, they were boarding the same plane afterall.

And I totally get that there is this one big arc that will be revealed when the entire show is completed, but you know what’d be nice, do you? Any fucking sort of resolution. To anything. but we never get that. Everything is so openended and open to interpretation that it is pointless to watch what happens, because none of it means anything.

So why am I still watching? Honestly? cause there is nothing else on at the same time. but I don’t think I care enough to tune in next season. I’m bored with their boring adventures. Even that Show Spoilers ▼

Because I just don’t care. Course it does provide me with moan-worthy posts, so maybe that’s all it needs to do?

The problem, I think, is that they are going in circles, and even when shit happens, it takes so long that it feels like nothing has happened. And, despite all the stuff that has happened, it hasn’t had an impact. Nothing has changed. And it is all so boring.

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A cat came to the library today. Hesitant and silent as only a big-bellied pregnant cat can be. I told this tabby that we had no smell-o-books, so she left. For a weekend of feline debauchery, no doubt, as the college has quite a population of semi-feral cats.

It has been a strange sort of a week, or maybe I’m merely suffering withdrawel symptons from not being online so much. My contribution to the b’verse have been, for the most part, confined to the mornings at work. But it isn’t really my fault. You can blame Tim Minear.

Or, maybe you can blame Channel Six, as they were the ones who showed the promos for his show The Inside, but haven’t actually scheduled it yet. And they’ve ignored my emailing asking if they know when they might be airing it. But an idle comment on Whedonesque prompted me to look online, again. And lo and behold I found some episodes, that weren’t dead. So, since Monday evening Pavlov^[1] has been occupied downloading a folder containt 7 episodes of The Inside, hopefully it’ll be finished some time this evening.

And, while I can go online and do other stuff while the torrents do their thing, it does tend to slow everything down. And given that Pavlov is a whole two years old I decided to just leave him to it.

This, of course, also means that I’ll be waiting till alter to nab the most recent Veronica Mars episode. I’m prepared to wait though, especialy given the fact that at the moment it doesn’t look like there will ever be a dvd release of The Inside, while there will be one of VM.

And of course, there is also the fact that we are blessed with an abundance of wathcable weekly tv at the moment. Another factor keeping me from messing about online.

• Monday
  • Lost which has improved from the “oh god, let something happen before I die of boredom
  • Podge & Rodge - the terrible twosome.
• Tuesday
  • BSG where poor old Apollo was suffering last episiode
  • Desperate Housewives - which gets more and more surreal with every episode
  • Our second helping of Podge & Rodge though I do think they have eased back from the attacks on their guests. They were positively nice to Fr. Brian Darcy. And wasn’t he odd, with his fake-laughter?
• Wednesday is a bit of dead loss. Apart from soaps, which I didn’t actually watch this week, instead I went to see V for Vendetta for a second time>
• Thursday
  • House - bearing in mind that I’ve only seen two episodes of this show I have to say that all the reports of it have not been exagerations. It is funny and gross. It does have interesting storylines, and characters, and technobabble, because you can’t have a medical show without the technobabbale, and it has interesting directors like Bryan Singer.
  • Bones is also really enjoyable light-hearted^[2] entertainment.

So, that is a week filled with much tv-goodness and I haven’t even mentioned the shows on dvd that are waiting for me.

But it does pose a bit of a problem. My reading is suffering, as well as my blogging. Used to be I’d read a book every day or two. Now it is usually at least a week.

And also, what is the deal with the increasing use of maudlin songs over the final few shots in American TV shows? Cold Case is of course the worst offender. It spends the final half and hour recapping all the scenes we’ve already seen with people filing boxes away while some angst-filled emotional songs provides the only sound. But Bones seems to be spending longer and longer grave-side with the music, and House did the same thing. I don’t mind a bit of music at the end, but do we really need to be hit over the head with the “look how sad/resolved/emotional/important the ending is?

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Slacking off am I? I’ll give you slacking off^[1] I’ll make your eyes weep from reading so much. So I will.

Or maybe not.

I was listening to the radio on my way home from work yesterday, and I heard a comment that surprised me. Seems that an interrogation with An Garda Síochána is nothing like what you might see on TV cop shows. Not even like a moderately hard job interview.

They had this former detective on discussing the drive-by shooting on the M50^[2] and he was saying that the gardaí have to submit their questions in writing before the interrogation takes place. That three questions in a row can lead to evidence being inadmissible as they were pressing too hard.

He can’t have described the situation accurately can he?

And as for those fucking idiots who texted in to The Last Word! “shure twasn’t it only the criminals that were killin’ each other. And shure isn’t that grand that they’d be taking care of the problem themselves. And isn’t it grand that the blackguards chase each other down the motorway at half-four in the morning, shooting automatic weapons. At least it wasn’t rush hour when other people might have been involved, isn’t that right?”
Tools!

That Lost show was on last night. And it really is getting worse, imo of course.

My big problem with Lost, apart from Jack and Kate being moronic idiots, is that Nothing. Ever. Happens. Oh, there is plenty of running around and messing things up going on, but where are the plot developments? Anyone seen any character growth?

NM was right when she said it was the WOT of TV-land.

Last night’s episode was The Other 48 Days wherin we got a lovely pointless view of what life was like Show Spoilers ▼

A pointless recap. have I said that already? Let me say it again, pointless.

Show Spoilers ▼

I think the makers of Lost should watch some Battlestar Galactica and learn a few things. Like, just because something is happening doesn’t mean you have to ram it down our throats. like maybe trusting their audience to have even half a brain, and letting the viewers engage with the show instead of feeling nothing but exasperation.

First break last night and my flatmate turned to me and said she was getting rather frustrated with Lost and its pointlessness. And you know what, a few more episodes like this, and there will be no frustration from me cause I won’t be watching.

We got ourselves a brand new station starting on thursday. With the clever title of Six, despite the fact that it’ll be the fifth Irish channel. Something to do with them furrin Englander stations we all get. Anyways, that is all beside the point, cause I caught a bit of their promo yesterday, and joy of joys I’ll finally be able to watch The Inside, can I get a w00t? and a squeeee? Plus they will be showing House, Prison Break the American version of the Office, the Sopranos from the start, and many more shows both crap and interesting. So you see Lost, I don’t need you. There is shiny new tv coming my way.

And while I’m moaning about Lost, can I just suggest that they stole the plot from Spy Kids II^[3] Where the kids get shipwrecked on a strange island, that no one has ever heard of, and there are strange animals in the jungle, and nothing is what it seems. Hell, there are even bunkers with mad-men. A coincidence, I hardly think so

Hmmm, anything else I can witter on about. Probably not. Although you will be excited to hear that I have begun to get tough on noise in the library. Yeah, thats right, I’m tough on noise, tough on the causes of noise. You know, like students.

I was going to exclaim over the fact that while The Proposition only got a 16 rating, Inside Man was 18’s. And the only thing I could think of to justify this was the fact that the mayor (I think) in Inside Man refers to the Jodie Foster character as a fantastic cunt. Ooooooh, the c word… But then I checked the censor’s website, and it turns out its only 15A and that Cineworld put up the wrong cert outside the screen. So there for ya.

okay, I’m done. For the moment.

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Episode 14

This episode centres on Walt and Michael, with flashbacks of how Walt ended up not knowing his father, and living in Australia. As well as how Michael regained custody. We also see more hints that Walt is, as the episode title suggests, special.

But this show would want to start doing a little more than hinting.
I mean I do get that there are a whole load of characters and they all have their own backstories, but Lost is starting to drag. The problem, I think, is that every aspect of the story is arc-base. There is no resolution at all in any of the episodes, everything is focused on what happens next.

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Ep. # 11

You know Lost is starting to bug me. The storylines are interesting and the mysterious island is a great device. Throwing all these people together, the never knowing quite what to expect. All interesting and promising much.

But despite this I often just don’t care what happens. Maybe it is down to Jack. I’ve said all along I don’t like him, and I haven’t changed my mind yet. But there is also the fact that he is a total fool, and I don’t really know why the others think he is such a great leader. I’m willing to accept that he is a great doc., but his mad running around in the jungle in this episode. What was that all about?

Maybe I’m being too harsh?

Also, most of this episode seemed to provide an opportunity for more Jack flashbacks. Bored Now!
Still, there were some interesting developments. First off, that Ethan was pretty dangerous don’t you think? And Sayid and Sawyer seemed to have resolved at least some of their differences. Although I never bought Sawyer as the “bad guy”, he was too OTT at the start. Sayid’s character I do like, and i think his past is kinda interesting.

Of course the big development this week was what happened to Charlie and Claire. Claire is still missing, why do the mysterious jungle-people want her? As for Charlie, Show Spoilers ▼

And then there is that little kid. He seems very lucky, don’t you think?

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