Yeah, yeah, squeeeee

[ealgylden]

I'm sick and I'm mopey, so I've been letting everything slide (like I ever need an excuse), but I think I'd lose my geek card if I didn't flail around Kermit-style about the Serenity trailer. So, um, flail flail flail! Heh. Okay, yeah, it really is very shiny. Possibly too shiny and dust-free, but I've seen a lot of movie trailers over the years, so it's not like I don't know how deceptive they can be (and usually are). It seems silly to me to get riled up over a trailer before you've seen the actual film. Then again, it seems silly to me to cut for spoilers from a trailer, so I'm obviously not a hardliner. I don't have the willpower. Anyway, my beloved show is back (sorta), I'm thrilled, they're all so damned wonderful, and I'm still scared absolutely blind that this movie's going to break my heart.

Simon sure is pretty, though. As is everyone else. And River is just... I've missed the show so badly, and while a movie's not the same, at least it's something. I can't wait until my head's not wrapped in cotton and I can treat this moment like a moment.

I also finally finished Finding Serenity, which is nice. I kept putting it down and wandering off. So distractible these days. It was a mixed bag which, overall, tended toward the positive. The wacky fun essays were generally more satisfying for me than the serious ones, and the ones on gender all managed to tick me off for one reason or another. There were quite a few times throughout that I wished I were reading LJ posts instead of a book, which was a strange feeling. But then I don't read that much in the way of fannish analysis in book form, and I'd forgotten that, oh yeah, books don't let you comment back. Unless you want to talk to them, of course, but then your cats look at you funny. Or so I've heard.

One of the things I was surprised at was that both times it was mentioned (both times I saw, anyway- there was one essay I only skimmed), the authors took the interaction between Inara and the Councilor in "War Stories" at face value. Huh. Seriously? I found that puzzling, because I never thought there was anything more to Inara's whole "those silly men take so much handling, but with another woman, I can be myself" shtick than good Companion psychology. She's still on, she's not being herself, whoever that is. She just readjusts and approaches the client from the angle that will be most effective, and she's successful as a result. It really surprised me to see an analytical approach to the scene that didn't, you know, analyze. Twice. And I'm not saying that the interpretation I favor is the only one (though it's the only one that feels real to me), but reading the surface alone, particularly with a masked and mirrored character like Inara, seems unwise. Ah well. Can't leave comments on a book, darn it!

Right, so back to moping, not sleeping, feeling sorry for myself and obsessing about Bellisario's vague, hinty NCIS finale semi-spoilers. I was sort of relying on that show to balance CSI, but now... we'll see, I guess. Off to bed I go, to wake up healthy and lively and rich. Can't hurt to dream, right?

Squeee, Serenity! Flail flail flail!

Comments

[serrico.livejournal.com]

the authors took the interaction between Inara and the Councilor in "War Stories" at face value. Huh. Seriously?

Yes! I found that excessively odd, too, because I've always read that scene the way you do. Taking it at face value, in my opinion, cheapens Inara's character. So between that and the gender-focussed essays (do I EVER have issues with "feminist" essays in general--and then there are my issues with "feminist" readings of TV shows, *any* TV shows)...yeah, I think I just share your opinion all-'round on that book. The wacky fun ones really were the best of the bunch.

Feel better!

Blows the dust off this comment (sorry!)

[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

It cheapens her, that's exactly it. And I'd like to think she's better at her job than that. It just seemed like a shallow and lazy reading of the scene for the authors to support, when a little analysis might have added some interesting dimensions to their arguments. Not that either essay was a fave of mine to begin with- I liked whatsherbucket's, the sex therapist's, more than Nancy Holder's, but neither was high on my list. Thank goodness for the funny essays!

[holyschist.livejournal.com]

I haven't read the book, but I agree -- taking that scene at face value is somewhat peculiar.

[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

Peculiar, that's the perfect word for it. It is peculiar, and for two different authors to do it even more so. Not to mention a bit sloppy, even lazy.

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

Hi. ::waves shyly:: mrkinch said (rather firmly *g*) that I should check you out - well, your lj, actually - and now I have, and I've decided she's right: I should be reading you. So would you mind deeply (or at all) if I friended you?

You may have guessed that I'm not very punctual...

[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

Hello and welcome! Please, feel free to friend if you're interested (I'll confess, I've often read and enjoyed your posts on friendsfriends), though I should warn you (if you somehow haven't noticed *g*), I often disappear and reappear randomly, and my comment-answering speed is... unstable. But I usually get to them eventually. Heh.

Re: You may have guessed that I'm not very punctual...

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

You're all friended now. And don't worry - mrkinch said you come and go, so I won't worry if I don't see you for a while.