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trinityvixenI feel pretty detached today. I'm in no hurry to do anything, but I'll do whatever comes along without arguing the point. Like, for instance, my boss tells me to pH something for half an hour. Yes, that's unnecessary, but I'm going to do it.
It's been like this all day. Just sorta going through the motions. I'm not mad. Not happy, not sad--was a bit anxious, but am mostly mellowed--it's just weird.
Bizarre.
A couple of ideas have been kicking around in my head, including a Crime and Punishment-esque, black "comedy," boredom-leads-to-homicide story; another Jeremy story, involving his experiences on painkillers following his accident; and, for no reason I can fathom, a bunch of ideas for Sylar-centric Heroes fanfic. The murder story has lost interest, but I'm beginning to work on concrete ideas for the Jeremy story in hopes of having something for next week's writing group. The debate I have with Jeremy's story is how much I want to disassemble the ambiguous way Jeremy lives his life. To this point, he's been erratically adhering to rules that he pretty much made up based on his observations with assists from his precognitive skills. There's also a question of whether to break the fourth wall about his character voice, and I'm up in the air on it.
The Sylar fanfic...I dunno? I think of all the characters in Heroes, I can understand his motivations the best. Everyone else is selfish, fucked-up, immature or just plain boring (so: Peter and Nathan, Niki, Claire and Hiro--in the good way!--and Simone, Isaac, Mohinder, and anyone else I'm forgetting). Plus, forgive me, the story is rather comic-y in the bad way for each of them: inconsistently characterized, with shoddy continuity of story and inane or implausible sequences of events. Sylar is a creature who could exist outside of a fantastical story. His backstory is such that you understand where he evolved from--you are sympathetic to his feelings of frustration with his life, not empathetic with his ultimately homicidal tendencies. It's important thata he be a monster because he is a socio/psychopath and not human in that sense, but also that he have human failings to bring the monster down to a level where he isn't comprehended but he is understood.
And somewhere in there, there is a story.
After the powerhouse of the first half, the latter episodes of series 2 were a little lacking. The frustrating nature of yanking Tom away and then inserting him again only to remove him a heartbeat later...it all felt wrong. There wasn't enough build up to his total break down in episode 9. He escaped being killed in series one when he saw another agent be murdered with less distress than he had when he took a walk and missed being massacred. I dunno, maybe these things are additive? It just felt too rushed, as if the writers hadn't known Matthew McFayden was moving on and had only one episode to write him out. No thanks, I get enough of that from Battlestar Galactica.
Sigh. Still want to cry that Tom is gone for good. Better be careful, though--he's more emotionally fragile then Tessa, but no less smart. If she's trouble, what might Tom be?
Blargh. I wanna go home and forget the world. Hanging out with some folks tonight should make things better. And donuts. Donuts always fix things.
It's been like this all day. Just sorta going through the motions. I'm not mad. Not happy, not sad--was a bit anxious, but am mostly mellowed--it's just weird.
Bizarre.
A couple of ideas have been kicking around in my head, including a Crime and Punishment-esque, black "comedy," boredom-leads-to-homicide story; another Jeremy story, involving his experiences on painkillers following his accident; and, for no reason I can fathom, a bunch of ideas for Sylar-centric Heroes fanfic. The murder story has lost interest, but I'm beginning to work on concrete ideas for the Jeremy story in hopes of having something for next week's writing group. The debate I have with Jeremy's story is how much I want to disassemble the ambiguous way Jeremy lives his life. To this point, he's been erratically adhering to rules that he pretty much made up based on his observations with assists from his precognitive skills. There's also a question of whether to break the fourth wall about his character voice, and I'm up in the air on it.
The Sylar fanfic...I dunno? I think of all the characters in Heroes, I can understand his motivations the best. Everyone else is selfish, fucked-up, immature or just plain boring (so: Peter and Nathan, Niki, Claire and Hiro--in the good way!--and Simone, Isaac, Mohinder, and anyone else I'm forgetting). Plus, forgive me, the story is rather comic-y in the bad way for each of them: inconsistently characterized, with shoddy continuity of story and inane or implausible sequences of events. Sylar is a creature who could exist outside of a fantastical story. His backstory is such that you understand where he evolved from--you are sympathetic to his feelings of frustration with his life, not empathetic with his ultimately homicidal tendencies. It's important thata he be a monster because he is a socio/psychopath and not human in that sense, but also that he have human failings to bring the monster down to a level where he isn't comprehended but he is understood.
And somewhere in there, there is a story.
After the powerhouse of the first half, the latter episodes of series 2 were a little lacking. The frustrating nature of yanking Tom away and then inserting him again only to remove him a heartbeat later...it all felt wrong. There wasn't enough build up to his total break down in episode 9. He escaped being killed in series one when he saw another agent be murdered with less distress than he had when he took a walk and missed being massacred. I dunno, maybe these things are additive? It just felt too rushed, as if the writers hadn't known Matthew McFayden was moving on and had only one episode to write him out. No thanks, I get enough of that from Battlestar Galactica.
Sigh. Still want to cry that Tom is gone for good. Better be careful, though--he's more emotionally fragile then Tessa, but no less smart. If she's trouble, what might Tom be?
Blargh. I wanna go home and forget the world. Hanging out with some folks tonight should make things better. And donuts. Donuts always fix things.
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Date: 2007-02-23 10:37 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-02-23 11:00 pm (UTC)I still stand by what i told your brother last night, anything that makes girl scount cookies unappealing should be illegal. If girlscount cookies are no longer yummy, i fear krispy kream or dunkin' doughnuts.
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Date: 2007-02-23 11:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-23 11:42 pm (UTC)Have a dougnut for me, tell it i say hi, and that i miss them :D
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Date: 2007-02-24 06:21 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-02-25 07:46 am (UTC)just got done watching "adventures in babysitting"
some movies just remain classics :D