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Jun. 11th, 2007 10:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
apocalypsos-- Oh, thank GOD. I think my writer's block is crumbling away -- *knocks on wood* -- but I'm going to try and finish the one story I'm working on right now before going back and answering comments on Cast Stones At Dragons. Because I am, good God, considering I feel like absolute shite when I don't answer comments. So now's as good a time as any to get back into the habit of it. *cracks knuckles*
-- I don't watch The Sopranos (mob stuff's never interested me at ALL, which may be why I've never sat through any of the Godfather movies), but I feel like I'm being a real snot every time I read people's reactions. It's just, the first recap or reaction I read to the finale was TWoP's, and my immediate reaction was, "Well, of course he died." Not that I hadn't thought he would -- I mean, how else do you end that show?
On the other hand, while I do like the abrupt-lights-out version, I'm not sure if it worked in context. From what I read, the entire episode wasn't seen from Tony's point of view, and I think that's what makes me uneasy about an ending that I genuinely like. I mean, okay, maybe it was his POV in that scene, but still. It seems like if there's a way to make that confusing, that's the way to do it. If you set the entire episode from Tony's POV -- only stuff that he's seeing, only his feelings and emotions and responses and whatnot -- then when the lights go out, HIS lights go out. When it's not set that way, thousands of people think their power just went out.
Or something. I don't know. Like I said, I don't even watch, although I do like knowing what happens in series finales even if I don't actually watch the shows. Go figure.
-- I bought a whole bunch of lunch stuff this week for work, including the makings for roast beef hoagies, so let's see how this turns out. If I don't bring money and just bring food, I figure I should be okay and not tempted to buy crap I don't want and waste money, particularly considering we usually go to Sheetz on lunch and the only thing I end up buying is a roast beef hoagie.
-- Speaking of not having any cash, still no unemployment check. I really need to call them up and be all, "Dude, the hell?" That's supposed to pay my cable bill, damn it.
-- I don't watch The Sopranos (mob stuff's never interested me at ALL, which may be why I've never sat through any of the Godfather movies), but I feel like I'm being a real snot every time I read people's reactions. It's just, the first recap or reaction I read to the finale was TWoP's, and my immediate reaction was, "Well, of course he died." Not that I hadn't thought he would -- I mean, how else do you end that show?
On the other hand, while I do like the abrupt-lights-out version, I'm not sure if it worked in context. From what I read, the entire episode wasn't seen from Tony's point of view, and I think that's what makes me uneasy about an ending that I genuinely like. I mean, okay, maybe it was his POV in that scene, but still. It seems like if there's a way to make that confusing, that's the way to do it. If you set the entire episode from Tony's POV -- only stuff that he's seeing, only his feelings and emotions and responses and whatnot -- then when the lights go out, HIS lights go out. When it's not set that way, thousands of people think their power just went out.
Or something. I don't know. Like I said, I don't even watch, although I do like knowing what happens in series finales even if I don't actually watch the shows. Go figure.
-- I bought a whole bunch of lunch stuff this week for work, including the makings for roast beef hoagies, so let's see how this turns out. If I don't bring money and just bring food, I figure I should be okay and not tempted to buy crap I don't want and waste money, particularly considering we usually go to Sheetz on lunch and the only thing I end up buying is a roast beef hoagie.
-- Speaking of not having any cash, still no unemployment check. I really need to call them up and be all, "Dude, the hell?" That's supposed to pay my cable bill, damn it.
