DPP: Friday Recap
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no_takebacksGreetings and salutations, Shipper Nation! I'm Amy, your friendly neighborhood monkey ninja.
So far this week, we've talked about how we do (or don't) explain pilots to Muggles, we shared their secrets, we wrote (epic) Haiku, and there were more prompts than drabbles. Feel free to revisit any of those posts and keep adding to them. Today, it's:
What's on your mind, 'shipper nation? Have a gripe about an episode? Are you such a Lee fangirl you want to shout his praises from the nearest mountaintop? Want to try your hand at a comment!fic and need a prompt (go ahead and ask, we'll enable)? Have a neat picspam you want to stare at for a few minutes? Or that gif. You know the one I'm talking about. From EoJ. Yeah, that one. Mmmm...
The world's your proverbial oyster, people! Chat it up!
So far this week, we've talked about how we do (or don't) explain pilots to Muggles, we shared their secrets, we wrote (epic) Haiku, and there were more prompts than drabbles. Feel free to revisit any of those posts and keep adding to them. Today, it's:
What's on your mind, 'shipper nation? Have a gripe about an episode? Are you such a Lee fangirl you want to shout his praises from the nearest mountaintop? Want to try your hand at a comment!fic and need a prompt (go ahead and ask, we'll enable)? Have a neat picspam you want to stare at for a few minutes? Or that gif. You know the one I'm talking about. From EoJ. Yeah, that one. Mmmm...
The world's your proverbial oyster, people! Chat it up!
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Just another day in the life of Kara Frakkin' Thrace, baby
Date: 2011-05-13 11:58 am (UTC)Being an HBIC. Saving her man. YEAH!
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Date: 2011-05-13 12:02 pm (UTC)Re: Just another day in the life of Kara Frakkin' Thrace, baby
Date: 2011-05-13 06:33 pm (UTC)Re: Just another day in the life of Kara Frakkin' Thrace, baby
Date: 2011-05-13 06:40 pm (UTC)Re: Just another day in the life of Kara Frakkin' Thrace, baby
Date: 2011-05-13 07:15 pm (UTC)I feel like this is going to inspire fangirl anger but...
Date: 2011-05-13 06:22 pm (UTC)I mean, honestly what was it about? Because in my view, it came out of nowhere, made no sense, and faded into obscurity. It was like they suddenly decided to just put in this whole history about Lee which from where I stood, had nothing to do with his character and she no extra light on who he was, and it just frustrated me a whole lot because then I felt like he wasn't who I thought he was, or that I had missed something.
So, people who know much more about this show than I do and were watching at the time when all the shit went down, what was actually up with that? Was there a reason for all the crazy hooker/baby backstory insertion, or was it just filler?
Re: I feel like this is going to inspire fangirl anger but...
Date: 2011-05-13 06:31 pm (UTC)Re: I feel like this is going to inspire fangirl anger but...
Date: 2011-05-14 01:32 pm (UTC)Re: I feel like this is going to inspire fangirl anger but...
Date: 2011-05-14 09:56 pm (UTC)Re: I feel like this is going to inspire fangirl anger but...
Date: 2011-05-14 11:11 pm (UTC)Re: I feel like this is going to inspire fangirl anger but...
Date: 2011-05-13 06:48 pm (UTC)I don't think you'll inspire fangirl anger...lots of us wonder about Black Market...so no worries. I'm relatively ambivalent toward it though so I'll leave this one for someone else to try to rationalize/fix. ;)
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Date: 2011-05-13 08:05 pm (UTC)Re: I feel like this is going to inspire fangirl anger but...
Date: 2011-05-13 07:16 pm (UTC)Re: I feel like this is going to inspire fangirl anger but...
Date: 2011-05-13 08:07 pm (UTC)Things that are not wrong you ask? My shiny new icon featuring Kara and Helo, because I know how that makes you happy and not feel the need to drink :)
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Date: 2011-05-13 08:08 pm (UTC)Re: I feel like this is going to inspire fangirl anger but...
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Date: 2011-05-13 07:22 pm (UTC)Re: I feel like this is going to inspire fangirl anger but...
Date: 2011-05-13 08:09 pm (UTC)Re: I feel like this is going to inspire fangirl anger but...
Date: 2011-05-14 06:11 am (UTC)FAIL
My thoughts on why Black Market was so misguided (http://taragel.livejournal.com/127648.html)
Re: I feel like this is going to inspire fangirl anger but...
Date: 2011-05-14 09:06 pm (UTC)Like, retcon is one thing, and I don't like it most of the time but I can see why it's necessary sometimes when you want to develop a character in a certain way but don't want it to seem like it's coming out of left field, but COMPLETELY reinventing a character's motives and (for want of a better word) self-ness in a way that means that everything they've done and everything you've ever thought about them up until that point means absolutely nothing? What is that?
Ugh.
I don't dislike RDM as much as a lot of people seem to, maybe because I wasn't watching in real time and so didn't go through all the waiting and the disappointment and such in the same way, but that just pisses me off.
Re: I feel like this is going to inspire fangirl anger but...
Date: 2011-05-14 09:09 pm (UTC)Keep reading the transcripts and you might. ;)
No, but seriously, I think as the seasons progressed he became more and more in love with throwing in random plot twists just for the sake of them being random. IMO, he's a little too much in love with the element of surprise and the "gotcha" moments, and a little too lazy to actually lay the groundwork so that they ALSO felt organic to the character development so you could see where they were coming from.
Re: I feel like this is going to inspire fangirl anger but...
Date: 2011-05-14 09:51 pm (UTC)But I agree that he seems to get caught up with the big ideas and less concerned with making them work. Like, All Along The Watchtower? How does that make any sense? I mean, I enjoyed it, and it was cool, and Bear McCreary is MADE OF AWESOME, but does it make any kind of sense at all? No. No it does not.
*sigh*
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Date: 2011-05-13 06:44 pm (UTC)I'm sad about no Jamie/James/Tricia on NBC. :(
I thought I'd feel enough "karma's a bitch" toward RDM that I wouldn't be super upset if NBC didn't pick up 17P. I thought wrong though. It turns out the power of JB/JC buddy cops and Tricia necromancing overrides the RDM angst. I suppose this realization is healthy...i.e. positive thoughts for those I love is now winning over the extreme negative thoughts that RDM creates in my soul...but still...SADNESS!! (I went and watched some L+O:UK to cope but it's not the same as bsg reunion.)
*sighs and hugs the fangirls*
In happier news, when will (or how do) we have access to French speaking Jamie!hotness in movie form?? When will we find out about Longmire? How do we bribe Katee and Jamie to come to D*C? Enquiring fangirls need to know!!
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Date: 2011-05-13 07:13 pm (UTC)Still, I can understand Jamie's frustration with the formula that would not allow further exploration of those themes. Secondly, his desire to be in LA for the additional opportunities it affords him is understandable.
I don't watch much TV at all, but what series that people here also enjoy would they like to see him guesting in?
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Date: 2011-05-13 08:10 pm (UTC)Bad times.
But it's good that you're growing as a person :)
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Date: 2011-05-13 11:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-14 04:23 pm (UTC)As soon as I heard that Jamie had left my greatest fear was that the pilot would not get picked up and then he would be left looking for something else long term. It does seem like he's been successful at having a nice mix though, so I'm confident we'll see lots more of him. I would though love to see him in a more "mainstrream" movie role at this point.
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Date: 2011-05-14 05:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-14 05:22 pm (UTC)I've just looked at the Wiki article on the eps in combination with this statement A third order of 13 episodes was announced in October 2010. in the general show article. From that I would say there's a good chance Matt will just disappear if the statememt is taken to mean they were just given the go ahead for those eps. I guess one would need to know when they started those and when the pilot work started on 17th P though. Maybe there was enough time to get in a departure for Matt in one of the earlier eps.
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Date: 2011-05-14 09:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-14 06:13 am (UTC)ETA: The way to get Katee and Jamie to D*C? Maybe through peer pressure? Tricia would have to work on Katee and Ioan Gruffudd (who might be there for Ringer, although not a supernatural show) would have to get Jamie to go!
probably didn't help.