Random updates, the night before class starts

[rivkat]

 1. I'm trying the federated thing but not super sure how it works/how I will use it in a way that is not like Dreamwidth. Me: https://fandom.stopthatimp.net/channel/rivkat

2. Along with Black Lightning, I am enjoying S1 of The Orville far more than I probably should. It's not exactly good, but it is trying one thing with total commitment (being Star Trek with sitcom-office-interactions among the crew who are after all doing a job that in their universe is just a job).  I'm oddly charmed.

3. I just saw an announcement for a con called FanWorks and felt good about being a norm entrepreneur.  I do think there was a point in calling the varied kinds of fan creativity we wanted to preserve "fanworks"--"works" has a politics around labor and desert, and while it takes the focus off of the process of creation, which is valuable in and of itself, I think we needed that at the time because it was the material and immaterial artifacts that we needed to publicly protect and defend.

Comments

[destina]

Re The Orville, I stopped after ep 3 because of the tonal issues I experienced (which clearly no one else is experiencing). It's not funny, and it's not serious enough not to be a parody, and it's got some really skeevy things about it that are off-putting, and...I feel like a Trek pastiche is not what I thought I'd be getting when I watched the first ep. So basically not Trek enough, and also too much like Trek, and not funny enough, and also not serious enough.

...I'm going back to watching Hannibal. *g*

[rivkat]

Oh, I agree that the tone is weird--too stiff in the acting for either the full Trek goodness or the office sitcom to really work for me. And I'm not thrilled with the treatment of consent/skeevy sexual harassment treated as just another one of those things you have to put up with in a multispecies starship. I do not disagree with anyone who finds those sufficient to stop watching. I'm still intrigued by the attempt to melt classic Trek and office sitcom and so I'm still watching (though only partway through S1).