Warning: abuse of exclamation points!
I have finally seen the new Star Trek, and now I can read all the bookmarked spoiler posts! ( Before that, I only have a couple of things to say: )
( SPN, from Lazarus to Lucifer: )
In the continuing saga of “meta vids I make in my mind,” I have mentally storyboarded a John Sheppard/SGA vid, on the order of![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
counteragent’s Still Alive, using both footage and fandom source, to Poe’s Angry Johnny (No Kill Version). I mean: “I can do it in the water/I can do it on dry land/I can do it with instruments/I can do it with my own bare hands.” How is that not about us? But I’m still hoping someone will make the “shows we break up with” vid to Voltaire’s Future Ex-Girlfriend.
If you’re wondering whether the critical/disruptive message of Dollhouse is penetrating, look no further than this New York Times article, identifying Eliza Dushku’s character as a “secret agent who becomes aware that her memory has been repeatedly erased.” Uh, no. Rape and coercion aside, I believe there’s a state action requirement before you can be a secret agent.
I’m reading a lot on film and sound, and I love that the theorists when recorded sound first came in kept talking about how sound was going to destroy cinema. Rudolf Arnheim: “It remains to be seen, however, whether there is, in the movies, any justification for the kind of involved plot that we find in the novel and the play.” Arnheim also decries how silly actors look when they talk (“visually monotonous, meaningless, and often ludicrous”), exactly like vidders do.
I have finally seen the new Star Trek, and now I can read all the bookmarked spoiler posts! ( Before that, I only have a couple of things to say: )
( SPN, from Lazarus to Lucifer: )
In the continuing saga of “meta vids I make in my mind,” I have mentally storyboarded a John Sheppard/SGA vid, on the order of
counteragent’s Still Alive, using both footage and fandom source, to Poe’s Angry Johnny (No Kill Version). I mean: “I can do it in the water/I can do it on dry land/I can do it with instruments/I can do it with my own bare hands.” How is that not about us? But I’m still hoping someone will make the “shows we break up with” vid to Voltaire’s Future Ex-Girlfriend.If you’re wondering whether the critical/disruptive message of Dollhouse is penetrating, look no further than this New York Times article, identifying Eliza Dushku’s character as a “secret agent who becomes aware that her memory has been repeatedly erased.” Uh, no. Rape and coercion aside, I believe there’s a state action requirement before you can be a secret agent.
I’m reading a lot on film and sound, and I love that the theorists when recorded sound first came in kept talking about how sound was going to destroy cinema. Rudolf Arnheim: “It remains to be seen, however, whether there is, in the movies, any justification for the kind of involved plot that we find in the novel and the play.” Arnheim also decries how silly actors look when they talk (“visually monotonous, meaningless, and often ludicrous”), exactly like vidders do.
