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damkiannaYAY I'M NOT A FAILBOAT.
By which I mean: yesssssss I finished Chapter Five yesssssss. Now I can stop feeling guilty about how I have already broken 9k with the Trudy/Grace story! \o/ Plus: NEXT CHAPTER IS TOPH TIME. w00t. I have had this book outlined for what feels like forever, I can't wait - but it's only been a little bit more than a year since I started seriously working on Book One. (And it is so weird to remember; I scribbled down the first giant hunks of it during classes. Classes. I am all old and graduated and employed now! D: )
Mostly I am waiting with bated breath for Burn Notice to start up again on Thursday; but I did catch the pilot-premiere-event thingy for Falling Skies last night. I'll confess right now that I wasreading porn not entirely paying attention to it; so this may not be a wholly accurate review, I am basing it solely off the bits I remember. For starters, I have a small girlcrush on Moon Bloodgood, so I was really glad to see her again, and I hope there's a lot more of her. Also, Seychelle Gabriel was a surprise - I hope they give her more to do besides rival the blond girl for that one kid's affections, because I really would like to watch her in something that doesn't make me want to claw my eyes out.
But! There were also men on the screen sometimes. I was not always looking, but it didn't seem like there were any women on the actual little militia team-thing that runs around shooting stuff; I'm hoping that will change? Maybe once the Librarian takes over from the vaguely-evil guy in charge right now. I have to confess that the main plot with Noah Wyle and his sons, where one of them is all mind-controlled by the aliens and another one is angry and impulsive and the last one is tiny and sincere ... mostly bores me, idk, I feel like I have seen this a bazillion times. Taking the alien control device off my son will kill him! But I want to save him! So at some point we will almost inevitably discover a way to get it off anyway! And the scene with the other teenage son seeing the mind-controlled one and wanting to charge off and get him, and the Librarian having to tackle him to the ground, and the son thinking this means he doesn't care about Mind-Controlled!Son, but he does! He cares so much! But this isn't the time! -_-
So. There were definitely some clichés at work; but I am willing to give them at least a few eps to grow the beard. I mean, I stuck it out through all of The Event. I can handle some contrived emotional scenes for the sake of Moon Bloodgood + guns and explosions. Plus I have to admit to a certain weakness for this kind of post-apocalyptic scenario. /o\
By which I mean: yesssssss I finished Chapter Five yesssssss. Now I can stop feeling guilty about how I have already broken 9k with the Trudy/Grace story! \o/ Plus: NEXT CHAPTER IS TOPH TIME. w00t. I have had this book outlined for what feels like forever, I can't wait - but it's only been a little bit more than a year since I started seriously working on Book One. (And it is so weird to remember; I scribbled down the first giant hunks of it during classes. Classes. I am all old and graduated and employed now! D: )
Mostly I am waiting with bated breath for Burn Notice to start up again on Thursday; but I did catch the pilot-premiere-event thingy for Falling Skies last night. I'll confess right now that I was
But! There were also men on the screen sometimes. I was not always looking, but it didn't seem like there were any women on the actual little militia team-thing that runs around shooting stuff; I'm hoping that will change? Maybe once the Librarian takes over from the vaguely-evil guy in charge right now. I have to confess that the main plot with Noah Wyle and his sons, where one of them is all mind-controlled by the aliens and another one is angry and impulsive and the last one is tiny and sincere ... mostly bores me, idk, I feel like I have seen this a bazillion times. Taking the alien control device off my son will kill him! But I want to save him! So at some point we will almost inevitably discover a way to get it off anyway! And the scene with the other teenage son seeing the mind-controlled one and wanting to charge off and get him, and the Librarian having to tackle him to the ground, and the son thinking this means he doesn't care about Mind-Controlled!Son, but he does! He cares so much! But this isn't the time! -_-
So. There were definitely some clichés at work; but I am willing to give them at least a few eps to grow the beard. I mean, I stuck it out through all of The Event. I can handle some contrived emotional scenes for the sake of Moon Bloodgood + guns and explosions. Plus I have to admit to a certain weakness for this kind of post-apocalyptic scenario. /o\
