here where the daylight begins.
Jul. 14th, 2010 04:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
damkiannaOMG I HAVE A JOB.
Ahem.
The first two days were very slow, which I guess I was expecting; I have to learn how to use their website before I can really do anything. Unfortunately, the "webinars" on the subject are unbelievably dull, and I went in today expecting to be bored out of my mind yet again. But, miracle of miracles, today I got to edit things! They're fixing up the student handbook for the upcoming school year; I sank into it this morning and didn't come out 'til lunch. It was awesome. And my computer arrived, too - the monitor is gigantic and beautiful, which is great, but the OS is Windows 7, which ... I have not yet gotten to know, let's say. Still, it is very pretty, and I shall have to think of a name for it.
Also, I am already busily fantasizing about the things I can get myself once I have actual adult-type monies - books, mostly, although I am deeply, deeply tempted by the chance to buy myself some Rosetta Stone software. We'll see. :D
But back to more fannish things: I caught the pilot of Rizzoli & Isles. I enjoyed it reasonably well, for a pilot; my expectations weren't super high, I've gotten used to the idea of pilots as establishing episodes that often have relatively simplistic plots. (Not always, of course, but.) Generally speaking, I am more of a character girl than a plot girl; I can follow characters that I like through a shaky plot much, MUCH more easily than I can follow a riveting plot populated with characters I hate, or, worse, am bored by. And I like Rizzoli and Isles, both - and not!Jett Jackson whose name I can't remember, too. Their dynamic kind of reminds me of John and Rodney, except Rizzoli is the abrasive one.
I do wish the episode had been longer; that plot could have been a season-long arc, if they'd worked on it more, and it was squished into just an hour. I actually liked that Rizzoli had almost been a victim of the creepy serial killer - it made me even happier for her sake that she got it together and got herself out of trouble at the end. I liked starting out with the basketball game with her brother, and the broken nose, and Isles fixing it for her; I liked the young lady neighbor, and Rizzoli's mother, and that Isles came by to help her clean up the apartment. I'm definitely going to keep watching for a few more episodes, in the hope that it'll pick up some.
I also saw most of the Covert Affairs pilot, although the satellite signal kept going in and out. The beginning made me a little uncomfortable - I didn't see the whole thing, because of the satellite, but I've learned to be careful with anything that involves a set of flashbacks to the love story of two hot white people in an "exotic" locale. Still, I love Annie's character, and I thought they did a good job making her extremely competent but not flawless; I also love Auggie. It feels like they're planning to do something more with Emmanuelle Vaugier!Reporter Lady, which I hope they do, because I like her, too. I never saw much of Alias, so I can't really draw any comparisons there. I liked the breath-strip-thumbprint trick, that was nicely Burn-Notice-y; and I liked that she didn't break her cover with the FBI dude. I also liked that Annie and Auggie pulled out the same story under questioning, that was a fun set of scene cuts. I missed the final fifteen minutes, because the satellite gave up the ghost entirely at that point; but I liked pretty much everything else well enough that I'm going to try to catch it again.
... Clearly I'm not good at having deep thoughts about pilot episodes.
Ahem.
The first two days were very slow, which I guess I was expecting; I have to learn how to use their website before I can really do anything. Unfortunately, the "webinars" on the subject are unbelievably dull, and I went in today expecting to be bored out of my mind yet again. But, miracle of miracles, today I got to edit things! They're fixing up the student handbook for the upcoming school year; I sank into it this morning and didn't come out 'til lunch. It was awesome. And my computer arrived, too - the monitor is gigantic and beautiful, which is great, but the OS is Windows 7, which ... I have not yet gotten to know, let's say. Still, it is very pretty, and I shall have to think of a name for it.
Also, I am already busily fantasizing about the things I can get myself once I have actual adult-type monies - books, mostly, although I am deeply, deeply tempted by the chance to buy myself some Rosetta Stone software. We'll see. :D
But back to more fannish things: I caught the pilot of Rizzoli & Isles. I enjoyed it reasonably well, for a pilot; my expectations weren't super high, I've gotten used to the idea of pilots as establishing episodes that often have relatively simplistic plots. (Not always, of course, but.) Generally speaking, I am more of a character girl than a plot girl; I can follow characters that I like through a shaky plot much, MUCH more easily than I can follow a riveting plot populated with characters I hate, or, worse, am bored by. And I like Rizzoli and Isles, both - and not!Jett Jackson whose name I can't remember, too. Their dynamic kind of reminds me of John and Rodney, except Rizzoli is the abrasive one.
I do wish the episode had been longer; that plot could have been a season-long arc, if they'd worked on it more, and it was squished into just an hour. I actually liked that Rizzoli had almost been a victim of the creepy serial killer - it made me even happier for her sake that she got it together and got herself out of trouble at the end. I liked starting out with the basketball game with her brother, and the broken nose, and Isles fixing it for her; I liked the young lady neighbor, and Rizzoli's mother, and that Isles came by to help her clean up the apartment. I'm definitely going to keep watching for a few more episodes, in the hope that it'll pick up some.
I also saw most of the Covert Affairs pilot, although the satellite signal kept going in and out. The beginning made me a little uncomfortable - I didn't see the whole thing, because of the satellite, but I've learned to be careful with anything that involves a set of flashbacks to the love story of two hot white people in an "exotic" locale. Still, I love Annie's character, and I thought they did a good job making her extremely competent but not flawless; I also love Auggie. It feels like they're planning to do something more with Emmanuelle Vaugier!Reporter Lady, which I hope they do, because I like her, too. I never saw much of Alias, so I can't really draw any comparisons there. I liked the breath-strip-thumbprint trick, that was nicely Burn-Notice-y; and I liked that she didn't break her cover with the FBI dude. I also liked that Annie and Auggie pulled out the same story under questioning, that was a fun set of scene cuts. I missed the final fifteen minutes, because the satellite gave up the ghost entirely at that point; but I liked pretty much everything else well enough that I'm going to try to catch it again.
... Clearly I'm not good at having deep thoughts about pilot episodes.