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sherrilinaUgh once again I find myself angry and disappointed by the Emmy nominations, I don't know why I even bother to expect anything different...*sigh*
My main beef is the way The Borgias once again got snubbed in all of the major categories, especially acting when such average performances as Mr. Bates, Anna, and the Earl of Grantham got recognized, what the hell?! I mean I love me some Downton Abbey, even enjoyed season 2 unlike most of fandom, but it certainly did not deserve to get SO many awards, especially at the expense of better shows that were ignored. (And if they wanted to insist on giving it that many acting ones, they couldn't have given nods to the more talented cast members like Laura Carmichael?) Michelle Dockery can get it though, hope she wins. And I hope The Borgias at least win in some of the technical categories it was nominated in, like music (the music in the finale was stunning) and costumes...should have been nominated for art direction too (one of the most beautiful shows I've ever seen), but oh well. It irritates me though when I see people complaining that Game of Thrones got screwed over or "hosed" because hello, YOU GOT BEST DRAMA AND BEST ACTOR THAT IS PRETTY MAJOR FOR A GENRE SHOW! /rant
Also rooting for Community to win for "Remedial Chaos Theory" (glad it got that at least, ugh) and for Veep (which was very funny and deserved recognition, though I feel it had a big advantage being on HBO, which seems to be where the nominators look first regardless of quality). And I was delighted to see Portlandia nominated for "One Episode More" (the BSG epp, and the only one I've seen actually, lol), because it is so accurate and clever! ;) But yeah, I don't think I will be watching, as usual. It's funny, I watch so much TV these days, and yet the Oscars are still a much bigger deal for me.
+ After 2.5 months of working on it, I finally finished reading Game of Thrones! Unfortunately too late to read the copy of ACOK I borrowed from my GG-and-GoT-loving classmate, since there's only 2 weeks (!!) left in the program and she moves away right after...but I'll find it somewhere else. I'm just happy to be finally done, each of these are so damn long it feels like a real accomplishment, lol.
I was impressed by how well they condensed this monster into the TV show and keep it mostly faithful. I wonder though, will we ever learn more about certain things like Rhaegar and Lyanna (what did she want Ned to promise her?), etc? Because that was a bit of intriguing backstory for me that was mostly cut from the show and which I wanted to know about...and then Ned died before dreaming more about it. :/ But looking back, I do think that aside from Roz and the sexposition scenes a lot of the things HBO added improved on the book, like showing Renly and Loras (explaining why he decided to contest for the crown and showing their relationship) and giving us more insights into Cersei, like that scene with Robert...
And of course Dany/Drogo was waaaay more shippable in the show, IMO, aside from the first scene. I found in interesting the way HBO changed that one scene where she tries to convince her husband to try to take the Iron Throne for her, making it into that intimate scene of her doing his hair when in the book they've just finished sex--amazed that HBO didn't take advantage of that for their usual female nudity quota! Also just the acting, the pain and panic in his voice when he almost lost her, which doesn't translate as well in the books...
One thing I found just as shippable though (if unrequited) was Dany/Ser Jorah...loved how desperate he was in the end when he thought she was going to kill herself! Honestly I don't find much that's shippable in this book so I have to go with what I can. Likewise Jon Snow was JUST as annoying and emo and useless in the book as on the show, contrary to what I had heard. The only way the books are better is that on the show he looks like he's in his mid-20s while he's acting 15, which makes it all so much worse.
Oh and it was nice to have everyone's names spelled out this time, made it easier to follow than it is on the show...for example I totally did not catch that the guy who torments Jon Snow on the wall, Yoren, was the same guy who helped Arya escape from King's Landing. And getting Sansa's inner voice was very interesting, you can better see how her whole worldview changes...
From a cursory flip-through ACOK though, did they move all the Jaimie and Brienne stuff from SoS into season 2 then? :s Since I notice they didn't have POV chapters in book 2...
+ I also finally finished watching Arrested Development for the first time, after starting it on Netflix about a year ago, lol. I hadn't known s3 wasn't a full season so the end took me by surprise....not sure how I feel about some of the twists, but it made for a good finale. I kind of worry about how the "new" season will be, thought it's neat they are actually bringing it back!
+ And finally I snagged this "Guess the Ship" meme from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rosaxx50 (I meant to do this when it emerged like a year ago, but um better late than never):
(1) Think of 15 ships you support.
(2) List them using descriptions of the characters involved rather than their names.
(3) Have your f-list guess as many of the ships as they can.
1) London teen helps war survivor heal from trauma as they hold hands through time and space. (Doctor/Rose guessed by sunnytyler001)
2) Brother and sister are each other's romantic ideals and the only other ones who understand each other's literary references. (Cesare/Lucrezia guessed by sunnytyler001)
3) Co-dependent king and ward are miserable without each other's love despite their ever greater clashes of wills. (Uther/Morgana guessed by sunnytyler001)
4) He continues to see and interact with his non-human girlfriend after her death, sometimes holding hands with thin air in public. (Jeremy/Anna guessed by rosaxx50)
5) A pair of young people from very different parts of the city find companionship and love through mutual intellectual interests. (Dan/Blair guessed by rosaxx50)
6) Two curly-haired dead flatmates feel alive when they're together. (Mitchell/Annie guessed by sunnytyler001)
7) A couple of pirates with intense chemistry are more alike than either is willing to admit. (Jack/Elizabeth guessed by rosaxx50)
8) An egoist unexpectedly falls in love with someone besides himself; she falls for him too despite her mission and beliefs. (Gaius/Six guessed by blasterboy606)
9) He makes her feel warm and whole and helps her cope with a devastating loss; she breaks his heart. (Jacob/Bella guessed by rosaxx50)
) He's rebelling against Heaven, she seeks power through the Church; when they're not trying to kill each other, they make out. (Marisa/Asriel guessed by rosaxx50)
11) Two nerds can relate to each other's pasts of unleashing apocalypses through hubris and alliances with demons. (*~SASSY~* guessed by probing_grays)
12) Two best friends often know what the other is thinking without speaking a word and are fiercely loyal to one another. (Harry/Hermione guessed by rosaxx50)
13) A criminal mastermind and a female police agent gradually develop friendship and romantic feelings despite being different species from different worlds. (Artemis/Holly guessed by hmsharmony)
14) Two kids grow closer while fighting in a war together, but are still too shy and awkward to ask each other to the school dance. (Jake/Cassie guessed by probing_grays)
15) A warrior and a seer become best friends and then something more, though outside forces prevent them from ever being together. (Cordy/Angel guessed by rosaxx50)
Also someone please rescue me from Tumblr.
Also rooting for Community to win for "Remedial Chaos Theory" (glad it got that at least, ugh) and for Veep (which was very funny and deserved recognition, though I feel it had a big advantage being on HBO, which seems to be where the nominators look first regardless of quality). And I was delighted to see Portlandia nominated for "One Episode More" (the BSG epp, and the only one I've seen actually, lol), because it is so accurate and clever! ;) But yeah, I don't think I will be watching, as usual. It's funny, I watch so much TV these days, and yet the Oscars are still a much bigger deal for me.
+ After 2.5 months of working on it, I finally finished reading Game of Thrones! Unfortunately too late to read the copy of ACOK I borrowed from my GG-and-GoT-loving classmate, since there's only 2 weeks (!!) left in the program and she moves away right after...but I'll find it somewhere else. I'm just happy to be finally done, each of these are so damn long it feels like a real accomplishment, lol.
And of course Dany/Drogo was waaaay more shippable in the show, IMO, aside from the first scene. I found in interesting the way HBO changed that one scene where she tries to convince her husband to try to take the Iron Throne for her, making it into that intimate scene of her doing his hair when in the book they've just finished sex--amazed that HBO didn't take advantage of that for their usual female nudity quota! Also just the acting, the pain and panic in his voice when he almost lost her, which doesn't translate as well in the books...
One thing I found just as shippable though (if unrequited) was Dany/Ser Jorah...loved how desperate he was in the end when he thought she was going to kill herself! Honestly I don't find much that's shippable in this book so I have to go with what I can. Likewise Jon Snow was JUST as annoying and emo and useless in the book as on the show, contrary to what I had heard. The only way the books are better is that on the show he looks like he's in his mid-20s while he's acting 15, which makes it all so much worse.
Oh and it was nice to have everyone's names spelled out this time, made it easier to follow than it is on the show...for example I totally did not catch that the guy who torments Jon Snow on the wall, Yoren, was the same guy who helped Arya escape from King's Landing. And getting Sansa's inner voice was very interesting, you can better see how her whole worldview changes...
From a cursory flip-through ACOK though, did they move all the Jaimie and Brienne stuff from SoS into season 2 then? :s Since I notice they didn't have POV chapters in book 2...
+ I also finally finished watching Arrested Development for the first time, after starting it on Netflix about a year ago, lol. I hadn't known s3 wasn't a full season so the end took me by surprise....not sure how I feel about some of the twists, but it made for a good finale. I kind of worry about how the "new" season will be, thought it's neat they are actually bringing it back!
+ And finally I snagged this "Guess the Ship" meme from
rosaxx50 (I meant to do this when it emerged like a year ago, but um better late than never):(1) Think of 15 ships you support.
(2) List them using descriptions of the characters involved rather than their names.
(3) Have your f-list guess as many of the ships as they can.
sunnytyler001)sunnytyler001)sunnytyler001)rosaxx50)rosaxx50)sunnytyler001)rosaxx50)blasterboy606)rosaxx50)rosaxx50)probing_grays)rosaxx50)hmsharmony)probing_grays)rosaxx50)Also someone please rescue me from Tumblr.
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Date: 2012-07-19 09:45 pm (UTC)I think I'm rooting for 30 Rock (because it was hilarious again this season!), Alec Baldwin (although I wouldn't mind Louis C.K. winning), Amy Poehler, Max Greenfield, Merritt Wever, Breaking Bad, Claire Danes, Bryan Cranston, and Anna Gunn for all the major categories. Also: COMMUNITY!!! But it's the Emmys...not much we can do about their stupidity haha
As for the meme, I was stumped on just about all of them. Is #8 Baltar/Six?
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Date: 2012-07-19 09:54 pm (UTC)And yep correct, it is Gaius/Six! ;) And lol, well there's at least one other one here you should be familiar with, in terms of shows we both have watched in the past...:p
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Date: 2012-07-19 09:46 pm (UTC)2. Cesare/Lucretia
3. Uther/Morgana???
6. Annie/Mitchell
8. Jaime/Brienne
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Date: 2012-07-19 09:50 pm (UTC)(Yes, I do ship Uther/Morgana, I choose to ignore the extremely obvious and clumsy Ret-Con in season 3...:p It clearly was never the writers' original intent for Uther and Morgana to be related, and it seems like something they came up with VERY late in the game, like late s2 at the earliest--since Morgause' backstory cited in the one epp makes no sense if Morgana is not Gorlois' child...and frankly IMO they still wrote them with a lot of romantic-like tension in s3 even after they'd decided they were father/daughter! ;)).
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Date: 2012-07-19 10:13 pm (UTC)Yeah, they moved the Jaime/Brienne stuff from ASOS up on the show. But there's still more for them to do! It wasn't all moved up. Just some of it.
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Date: 2012-07-19 10:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-19 10:51 pm (UTC)Oh my 15 ships? How would I come up with that? *scratches head*
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Date: 2012-07-19 10:54 pm (UTC)And lol, do you not have even 15 ships, or would it be just too hard to only pick that may? :p What can I say, I'm a hopeless shipper...though some were hard to come up with descriptions for so that was a factor in my selection.
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Date: 2012-07-20 09:06 pm (UTC)And no, I don't think I could come up with 15 ships. Ten perhaps if I really really try.
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Date: 2012-07-20 12:50 am (UTC)5) Blair/Dan?
7) Elizabeth/Jack
9) Jacob/Bella
12) Harry/Hermione
15) Angel/Cordelia?
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Date: 2012-07-20 01:01 am (UTC)So you have seen ATS then, yes?
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Date: 2012-07-20 01:52 am (UTC)HOW DID I MISS ARTEMIS/HOLLY? I was just listening to someone talk (unspoilery) about the last book!
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Date: 2012-07-20 02:05 am (UTC)Lol, yep that was one of them! ;) Haven't you not read that far though, as I recall from an earlier conversation? :s And yeah, I need to read this book soon, clearly! In the past I would have snapped that puppy up the day it came out...*sigh*
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Date: 2012-07-20 03:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-20 03:31 am (UTC)And oh yeah that's right! You've done better than me in some ways since I only read about 50% of TAC (i.e. the Artemis parts).
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Date: 2012-07-20 01:15 am (UTC)13. Artemis/Holly OBVS OTP YOU NEED TO READ THIS BOOK, K, I CAN'T DEAL WITH THESE FEELINGS.
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Date: 2012-07-20 01:22 am (UTC)YES OFC, I KNOW I WAS REALLY SUBTLE AND TRICKSY WITH THIS ONE...:p And oh man...IDK I'M JUST SO SCARED BECAUSE I DON'T WANT MY OTP MESSED UP AFTER IT WAS SUCH A BLESSING TO SEE IT BECOME CANON IN THE FIRST PLACE! ;_; BUT I WILL BUY IT SOON I PROMISE, LIKE AFTER I FINISH GRAD SCHOOL NEXT FRIDAY (HOLY SHIT BTW)!
But like, is it a decent book? Can you hint if the writing is as bad as the last two (barring A/H in TTP)? Last book I literally skipped all the non-A/H parts and hence read only about 50% of the book, lol...can you tell me that much?
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Date: 2012-07-20 01:53 am (UTC)EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP. (At grad school.)
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Date: 2012-07-20 02:12 am (UTC)And thanks! AND OMG THIS IS AN INTENSE STORM I'VE JUMPED A FEW TIMES AT THE THUNDER BOOMS AND THE LIGHTNING IS REALLY BRIGHT! D:
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Date: 2012-07-20 03:19 am (UTC)also yeah, the Jaime & Brienne thing was moved up in the show so that Jaime would have something to actually do in season 2
11 is saaaaaaaaasssssssssyyyyyyyyyyyyy
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Date: 2012-07-20 03:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-20 03:23 am (UTC)Jake/Cassie were my first ever OTP, beginning my attraction for d00med ships, lol. I liked Rachel/Tobias okay too, but I was never as invested in that ship...probably because Jake and Cassie were also my favorite characters. I actually made a fanmix for J/C once (my first one (http://sherrilina.livejournal.com/8001.html)--I need to get around to re-uploading it to a site like mediafire or something), and at one point in college I began a project of going through the e-books and recording all the J/C quotes for each book...
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Date: 2012-07-20 04:02 am (UTC)hahaha, here is something else we disagree on! I always liked Rachel/Tobias more, but that was because Tobias was my faaaaav. And Rachel was my second fav.
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Date: 2012-07-20 04:10 am (UTC)Haha what else is new? :p Yeah Jake was my ~first literary crush~ and the one I loved most
and may or may not have planned to name a son after if I had one, and I loved him even more for the way his arc went in the end, the effect the war had on him--he is such a tragic hero! (Also I feel like he had a lot in common with Future!Dean in "The End"). Cassie is the one I identified with most (especially in terms of wearing unfashionable clothes and not being super into shopping and appearances and such). And just, THEY WERE BOTH ALIVE so I was heartbroken and confused why they couldn't be together when I first read it! ;_; I was sad to see there are many Cassie haters in fandom...:/Tobias...I did really love his one book where he learned the truth about his father. He did have an interesting perspective.
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Date: 2012-07-20 03:22 am (UTC)And lol I take it then that it is explained more later in the series then? ;) I keep seeing people shipping them so I kind of hoped there would be more behind it than just the little that's in book 1. And so with Jaimie is him being released also not until SoS, or does ACOK like end with his release?
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Date: 2012-07-20 04:04 am (UTC)The best Rhaegar/Lyanna stuff is in aCoK, so you're almost there! And yeah, aSoS opens with Jaime's POV (or at least, if it's not the first chapter, it's pretty damn close to the front)
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Date: 2012-07-20 03:58 pm (UTC)Tbh I have given up with award shows as everyone I think should get awards never do *sigh*
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Date: 2012-07-23 12:56 am (UTC)And so true...I mean I mostly try to ignore the Emmys at least, but it's hard sometimes...
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Date: 2012-07-25 12:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-21 07:00 pm (UTC)Annoyed that they keep on ignoring Simon Baker just because The Mentalist is procedural.no subject
Date: 2012-07-23 12:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-25 12:26 pm (UTC)Honestly, at this point, GRRM could kill off Danerys and I wouldn't care.
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Date: 2012-07-25 09:24 pm (UTC)Yes, I hear her storyline gets boring, but at this point I like her. The one I wouldn't mind seeing offed is Jon Snow because GOD is he so whiny and irritating and useless...and for a storyline with Wildlings the Wall has the capacity to be SO boring most of the time...:s
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Date: 2012-07-27 04:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-27 05:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-30 02:56 am (UTC)He's rebelling against Heaven, she seeks power through the Church; when they're not trying to kill each other, they make out.
This was Asriel/Marisa wasn't it?
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Date: 2012-11-30 03:07 am (UTC)