I Have Nothing Pithy for This Subject Line. Pity Me.

I have finished my Premiere vid. I have uploaded it to VVC. It is done. I'm a bit astounded at how much I have *vidded* in the past month and then I look around my home and yeah...I've pretty much only vidded. The state of affairs at my house are pretty much - yech.

I was going to tackle cleaning yesterday, but I was all post-vid depressed and restless so me and The Boy went to see Spiderman II cause I love it so. The more I read Ultimate Spiderman, the more I just think MJ is adorable and funny and a great character. The more I watch The Spiderman movies the more I either think "Wow, Kirsten Dunst's teeth look really bad in this movie. I don't remember them looking bad in 'Bring It On'" or "God, I hate MJ." - I'm glad that it has nothing to do with female characters (cause I like the well-drawn character, regardless of sex) and everything to do with just not liking anything at all about her as a person or finding any of her actions as "inspiring" or "romantic" as the movie obviously intended me take them. Now - if it was Ultimate MJ that did what Movie MJ does at the end of the movie - I would not hate her for it, I'd understand and there would be consequences. Movie MJ does not get it. The movie dudes do not get it. Is this because the Smallville guys were involved in the movie? Cause so was Michael Chabon and he is like one of my writer-boys crushes - but since I love everything else about the movie so much - I am willing to just ignore all the MJ bits. I have a song for Spiderman, but I think I can do better. I think I will hold out for the perfect song...

So that was pretty much what I did yesterday. I cooked some kind of chicken noodle thing and took it to Dawn's and watched Dead Like Me and I am such a Rube/George shipper that it hurts. I should probably have that looked at...

sockkpuppett not only held my hand as I freaked out on an hourly basis about this last vid, she also mourned and commiserated OUR SHOW and was supportive when I just could not watch *that* scene with Wes in order to clip it cause Wah! And! And! And! She encouraged me to keep going even when I felt like I was making crap and/or there is no way I can say everything I want to see and/or there is no way I can finish this. And then! She let me rant all about my post-vid letdown and also did something so sweet it is not to be believed. So, I'm not telling y'all anything you did not know already - just restating that that Lum - she is good people.

Last Night's Dead Like Me

So okay - sockkpuppett likes it and now thebratqueen is plugging it and this is on FX - so it isn't as if I have my "Wonderfalls" excuse not to watch - So is "Rescue Me" up on any newsgroups so far? Cause I will watch another show and I am willing to invest fully in a well done series, but I am not so certain about doing so on Wednesday nights. That is like taking the new dude to your dead husband's parents house for dinner. It isn't necessarily wrong, just extremely weird and uncomfortable.

And FX is Fox and they have cancelled stuff before - but I think they are more likely to give a show a complete run - or is this just wishful thinking on my part? They are pretty invested in "The Shield" if ad schedules are anything to go by...

I think I have cancellation-anxiety. Something must be done, though. My favorite continuing TV show until last week was "Reno 911!"

Thankfully "Dead Like Me" is back. Whew. Now I know I don't watch QaF anymore - and I'm not really sure why I stopped. I think it was when I found out Brian was gonna get cancer. See, I was all into Brian is a Superhero - Brian is Batman and I accepted the ridiculousness QaF threw at me because it was Fantasy to me. There is no such place as Babylon and there is no real and true Brian Kinney (don't tell drdawn I said that), but I have never had a problem with accepting fantastical plot twists and/or settings - my issues are usually more character based. In fact - I prefer a fantastical setting plot to something more mundane. And I was not watching QaF for gritty reality. I was watching for escapism - to a world where the fight to have sex in public was pure and just. I was so down with that. And dude - we go from Brian being Batman to Brian having testicular cancer. I'd rather watch Bruce Wayne go through chemo. *If* the show had the writing to support a reality-based Brian storyline or even an investment in the supporting cast... but it really did not. On average an episode of QaF is about on par with a pretty good episode of Smallville - writing wise. This is not high praise, but it is not condemnation. I don't *have* to have Whedon-esque writing, but it really helps, as long as I still care about the characters and story overall - and QaF - it just could not keep me interested. Which is really kinda sad cause I was all down with it for a long time.

Now all of this is just my opinion and mine alone. If you think the show has Emmy-Award winning everything - then good for you and what do I know? But, this is why I lost interest.

But - "Dead Like Me" - I still am down with that and I enjoyed last night's ep (even if I did miss last weeks ep due to vid farr). Cutting to talk.

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