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MOVING + three fannish things
I am all packed! (Well, almost all, I still have a few accusatory items sitting outside my suitcases.) My life does not pack neatly into a duffle as it ideally should, and I have sent a hilarious cavalcade of boxes up ahead of me, but mostly the packing has been good and not too consuming. I also found some successful button-down shirts! It is all terribly exciting, and oh my god, tomorrow I am moving in with my BFF and I will actually be near friends and found family and all of this is SO GREAT.
Of course this means I probably won't have internet time again for a while, so before I go off on real life adventures, some fannish things:
i. I am bad at announcing things when I run out of exciting polls, but Zoe won my tiny Fandom March Madness! When I did a vote-for-attractive-people poll last year, Gina Torres won that too, so I think the only conclusion to draw is that you guys remain in excellent taste.
ii. Um ... this week's Community. I wasn't a big fan of the Jeff plot, probably because I like this show best when it commits to a genre gimmick or does something really genuine; Jeff's anxiety magically vanishing and the subsequent Hulking of his ego was just somewhere between those two sweet spots in some weird cartoon land, and meh. (On the other hand, when the Dean sees Jeff for the first time and actually falls over, I had to pause the episode in an attempt to stop laughing and start breathing again.) And I haaate basically everything they're doing with Chang this season. I think I was also almost entirely ambivalent on the stuff with the celebrity impersonators, although I loved Shirley's Oprah, and Abed's Jamie Lee Curtis meant Abed in makeup, sign me the hell up.
Of course what I actually have feelings about, though, is the last scene with Troy and Abed. It shoved me suddenly into an entirely different mode of fannish engagement; my Troy/Abed feelings have gone from "This would be so delightful and adorable" to "Actually this could be amazing and transformative and potentially really upsetting and I have SO MANY FEELINGS." I am crossing my fingers really hard that what they're struggling through won't ultimately break up their friendship but will instead teach them what balance between adult responsibility and joyous escapism will actually work for them. I am not actually that scared for them, because the show would become a really different beast if there was no Troy-and-Abed, but I suspect that the next few weeks are going to be harrowing.
la la some space to guard these spoilers from one another
iii. And I saw Hunger Games! I am not sure if I should be saying that this is a really good movie, but The Hunger Games was a book that always desperately wanted to be a movie, and I think it's infinitely better in its correct medium. The wider narrative perspective is a blessing, as is what the actors infused into Katniss and Peeta and Gale. I could have done with a wider literal perspective from the cameras, as sometimes I wanted an actual view and occasionally it got a little too shaky-cam for me, but that's actually my worst complaint. I really liked it!
The chief reason that I like this story much better as a film, though, is that it gave me the appropriate feelings. Susanne Collins is really good at writing action and she's decent at dialogue, but she's only eh on everything else, and a lot of that everything else was provided by the movie. I realized I might be in a bit of trouble, feelings-wise, around when Katniss volunteered and I started getting a bit misty; but I was really unprepared for the bit where I started actually crying when Peeta and Katniss are on fire in their chariot. I just really cared about them already! "Fuck," I thought, "I should have brought tissues, I still have to get through Rue." Oh man, you guys, Rue. I cried when she died, and I thought I was done, and then District Eleven started rioting and I cried again, and I thought I was done, and then Katniss was crumpled up in the woods crying, and I cried again. It was absurd and wonderful.
Now I am really excited for more! I like our main characters and genuinely care about them now, for one thing; for another, I'm feeling good about seeing more stuff outside Katniss' POV, especially in Mockingjay, oh my god. I belatedly see reasons to be into this story besides just that it's fast-paced and gripping! I am quite pleased that these books are now becoming the movies they should be.
Oh, and also: I really want a Hunger Games vid to Rox in the Box. I want it yesterday. Alas that I don't know how to vid.
Of course this means I probably won't have internet time again for a while, so before I go off on real life adventures, some fannish things:
i. I am bad at announcing things when I run out of exciting polls, but Zoe won my tiny Fandom March Madness! When I did a vote-for-attractive-people poll last year, Gina Torres won that too, so I think the only conclusion to draw is that you guys remain in excellent taste.
ii. Um ... this week's Community. I wasn't a big fan of the Jeff plot, probably because I like this show best when it commits to a genre gimmick or does something really genuine; Jeff's anxiety magically vanishing and the subsequent Hulking of his ego was just somewhere between those two sweet spots in some weird cartoon land, and meh. (On the other hand, when the Dean sees Jeff for the first time and actually falls over, I had to pause the episode in an attempt to stop laughing and start breathing again.) And I haaate basically everything they're doing with Chang this season. I think I was also almost entirely ambivalent on the stuff with the celebrity impersonators, although I loved Shirley's Oprah, and Abed's Jamie Lee Curtis meant Abed in makeup, sign me the hell up.
Of course what I actually have feelings about, though, is the last scene with Troy and Abed. It shoved me suddenly into an entirely different mode of fannish engagement; my Troy/Abed feelings have gone from "This would be so delightful and adorable" to "Actually this could be amazing and transformative and potentially really upsetting and I have SO MANY FEELINGS." I am crossing my fingers really hard that what they're struggling through won't ultimately break up their friendship but will instead teach them what balance between adult responsibility and joyous escapism will actually work for them. I am not actually that scared for them, because the show would become a really different beast if there was no Troy-and-Abed, but I suspect that the next few weeks are going to be harrowing.
la la some space to guard these spoilers from one another
iii. And I saw Hunger Games! I am not sure if I should be saying that this is a really good movie, but The Hunger Games was a book that always desperately wanted to be a movie, and I think it's infinitely better in its correct medium. The wider narrative perspective is a blessing, as is what the actors infused into Katniss and Peeta and Gale. I could have done with a wider literal perspective from the cameras, as sometimes I wanted an actual view and occasionally it got a little too shaky-cam for me, but that's actually my worst complaint. I really liked it!
The chief reason that I like this story much better as a film, though, is that it gave me the appropriate feelings. Susanne Collins is really good at writing action and she's decent at dialogue, but she's only eh on everything else, and a lot of that everything else was provided by the movie. I realized I might be in a bit of trouble, feelings-wise, around when Katniss volunteered and I started getting a bit misty; but I was really unprepared for the bit where I started actually crying when Peeta and Katniss are on fire in their chariot. I just really cared about them already! "Fuck," I thought, "I should have brought tissues, I still have to get through Rue." Oh man, you guys, Rue. I cried when she died, and I thought I was done, and then District Eleven started rioting and I cried again, and I thought I was done, and then Katniss was crumpled up in the woods crying, and I cried again. It was absurd and wonderful.
Now I am really excited for more! I like our main characters and genuinely care about them now, for one thing; for another, I'm feeling good about seeing more stuff outside Katniss' POV, especially in Mockingjay, oh my god. I belatedly see reasons to be into this story besides just that it's fast-paced and gripping! I am quite pleased that these books are now becoming the movies they should be.
Oh, and also: I really want a Hunger Games vid to Rox in the Box. I want it yesterday. Alas that I don't know how to vid.
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But on the other hand, I had really been hoping to see the Evilverse counterparts come back in RL this season, and while nothing has actually ruled out Evil Abed being real, it doesn't look like that's where they're going. And so if they're going to give Abed a hallucination to talk to, I really, really hope they manage to go somewhere zany and transformative with it, because that trope is starting to get really stale.
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Do you have any particular desires for the zany and transformative places they go with it, by the way? I'm drawing a blank offhand but I bet I could come up with things.
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