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summercomfort) wrote2013-12-13 10:44 pm
summercomfort) wrote2013-12-13 10:44 pm
Many miscellaneous thoughts
Head swimming from perhaps too much procrastinatory media consumption. Need to expel into quick blog form. Jono is currently busy with some gamer coding thing, so I'm of course having a super late dinner type thing at the boba shop after an afternoon of snacking on salami. Saaaaa....
- LJ is such a better platform than tumblr. So sad that everyone is now on tumblr, and so sad that tumblr is so much better at image hosting.
- I just watched 1.5 seasons of Elementary in the last week or so. It's very different from Sherlock, and I think is better considered on its own merits instead of being considered an interpretation of Sherlock. I know everyone's like "omg for once Watson is (a) Asian, (b) female, and (c) and equal partner to Sherlock." And yes! That's amazing! Especially compared to, say, Doctor Who. I think it follows more in the American formula of "eccentric guy + rational girl" crime procedural (Castle, Bones, etc), and compared to that, it's Real Solid, but not earth-shattering. The earth-shattering-ness serves more to highlight the problems British series (especially the likes of Doctor Who, which... ugh.)
But Elementary isn't true to the Sherlock/Watson dynamic in the book. I guess in general that's a good thing, b/c original Watson basically exists as someone for Sherlock to explain things to. My ideal Sherlock/Watson relationship, though, is the one in ep 1 of the British Sherlock series: Watson's loyalty, his sharpshooting, him saving Sherlock from his own hubris... etc. No, he's not Sherlock's deductive equal, but he is the Sam to Sherlock's Frodo -- he's there to carry Sherlock to the finish line. (I have lots of problems with most of the other episodes, though, especially the sketchy Chinese one. I also love Elementary's Moriarty much more.)
Elementary is definitely freed from a lot of Sherlockian tropes, and I like what they've done with the characters -- Now let's just hope they don't do the Reichenbach Falls.
- Recent Arrow developments: I hate Ollicity shipping, so recent episodes gave me hope for non-Ollicity, but this week's episode brought it back. Sigh. Felicity deserves better than Oliver. (Especially since I ship Oliver/Black Canary) Also, can we stop having people come back from the dead, already? Also also, kind of upset that Murder Death Island, which is in the East China Sea, now has no Chinese people on it. :/ More Thea and Moira and Black Canary, less Laurel and Murder Death Island, please.
- I read the first volume of Captain America: Castaway in Dimension Z, and also cherry-picked my way through the Return of Condor Heroes manga. Self, remember these comic thoughts
---> Captions and internal monologues -- such a time saver for plot and character development! Too bad Tisquantum is pretty anti-both. Self, you are a dumbbutt for picking the hardest kind of comic to tell. :/ Remember this for the next comic.
---> Fights are really boring when it's just a bunch of writhing bodies. You need more unbalanced panels and sharp poses. Remember to use white space. Remember to contrast foreground/background. Don't feel compelled to draw all the bodies.
---> Remember to use the slow pan, sometimes. You really need to sloooooow doooooown for dramatic moments. More, smaller panels, with no background.
---> Remember to find a good dramatic moment for a wide shot.
---> Action scenes and quiet contemplative panels really help break up the monotony of people talking for plot or character purposes.
- Erg comicking is such a slow process. On the one hand, I can't believe I'm on pg 21, but on the other hand, I'm only on pg 21????? Can I stop drawing half-naked Indian men yet? (answer: no). Playing Candy Crush is so much easier than comicking. But I need to push myself to comic!!!!!!
- LJ is such a better platform than tumblr. So sad that everyone is now on tumblr, and so sad that tumblr is so much better at image hosting.
- I just watched 1.5 seasons of Elementary in the last week or so. It's very different from Sherlock, and I think is better considered on its own merits instead of being considered an interpretation of Sherlock. I know everyone's like "omg for once Watson is (a) Asian, (b) female, and (c) and equal partner to Sherlock." And yes! That's amazing! Especially compared to, say, Doctor Who. I think it follows more in the American formula of "eccentric guy + rational girl" crime procedural (Castle, Bones, etc), and compared to that, it's Real Solid, but not earth-shattering. The earth-shattering-ness serves more to highlight the problems British series (especially the likes of Doctor Who, which... ugh.)
But Elementary isn't true to the Sherlock/Watson dynamic in the book. I guess in general that's a good thing, b/c original Watson basically exists as someone for Sherlock to explain things to. My ideal Sherlock/Watson relationship, though, is the one in ep 1 of the British Sherlock series: Watson's loyalty, his sharpshooting, him saving Sherlock from his own hubris... etc. No, he's not Sherlock's deductive equal, but he is the Sam to Sherlock's Frodo -- he's there to carry Sherlock to the finish line. (I have lots of problems with most of the other episodes, though, especially the sketchy Chinese one. I also love Elementary's Moriarty much more.)
Elementary is definitely freed from a lot of Sherlockian tropes, and I like what they've done with the characters -- Now let's just hope they don't do the Reichenbach Falls.
- Recent Arrow developments: I hate Ollicity shipping, so recent episodes gave me hope for non-Ollicity, but this week's episode brought it back. Sigh. Felicity deserves better than Oliver. (Especially since I ship Oliver/Black Canary) Also, can we stop having people come back from the dead, already? Also also, kind of upset that Murder Death Island, which is in the East China Sea, now has no Chinese people on it. :/ More Thea and Moira and Black Canary, less Laurel and Murder Death Island, please.
- I read the first volume of Captain America: Castaway in Dimension Z, and also cherry-picked my way through the Return of Condor Heroes manga. Self, remember these comic thoughts
---> Captions and internal monologues -- such a time saver for plot and character development! Too bad Tisquantum is pretty anti-both. Self, you are a dumbbutt for picking the hardest kind of comic to tell. :/ Remember this for the next comic.
---> Fights are really boring when it's just a bunch of writhing bodies. You need more unbalanced panels and sharp poses. Remember to use white space. Remember to contrast foreground/background. Don't feel compelled to draw all the bodies.
---> Remember to use the slow pan, sometimes. You really need to sloooooow doooooown for dramatic moments. More, smaller panels, with no background.
---> Remember to find a good dramatic moment for a wide shot.
---> Action scenes and quiet contemplative panels really help break up the monotony of people talking for plot or character purposes.
- Erg comicking is such a slow process. On the one hand, I can't believe I'm on pg 21, but on the other hand, I'm only on pg 21????? Can I stop drawing half-naked Indian men yet? (answer: no). Playing Candy Crush is so much easier than comicking. But I need to push myself to comic!!!!!!