brief summary
friday:
1. a day of chick flicks and finding a scene to do for my duo project in intro drama
2. started list of 100 metaphorical questions regarding the word "approachable" for my intro to illustration class (what is the most approachable car? vw bug. most approachable ice cream flavor? vanilla. most approachable children's story character? classic winnie the pooh. you get the picture)
saturday:
1. dim sum in the morning with kwc, redchilipepper and m.
2. triplets of belleville (which i enjoyed, regardless of what m and kwc thinks).
3. smallville season premier.... very painful (overacting, weird pacing, bad dialogue, bad direction. the story had potential which was quickly snuffed out by it being rushed through within an oddly paced hour of bad high school overacting)
4. dinner and a storytelling performance in felton. very nice. saw a lot of animation/illustration people as well as classmates. hung out with jamaica at her place after. yummy tea and very friendly cat.
5. itchiness. something that started this morning. lots of hives. developed into full-blown breakout by afternoon. some benadryl from kwc helped but by midnight, i was really miserable again and disgusted with my own skin. more benadryl. sleep.
sunday:
1. more benadryl.
2. dropped off bunnies at diane's. i will spend next two weeks thoroughly cleaning my place. any volunteers?
3. disappointed by various animation. the new batman....i tried to give it the benefit of the doubt and a fair shot. they have managed to disappoint me in plot, character design, dialogue, animation.... pretty much everything.
i mean geez... how do they make CATWOMAN uncool?
and this has been pretty true across the board for many other shows... like justice league unlimited, jackie chan adventures, super monkey robot something or another... anyway... it's all disappointing right now.
jamaica did a pretty cool catwoman design. the batman crew can take a tip from her. (to find the pic... click on comics. then spark generators II.)
i guess the studios aren't willing to put in the money for tv animation anymore. i guess it makes sense, since they don't even want to put in money for 2d animated movies these days.
i can only hope that that trend will change and we will see quality animation like that in triplets of belleville again.
Comments
hey-
it seems to me that smallville could not forever stay as good as it initially was. there's only so much tension between lana and clark, and we know lex and clark become enemies at some point. so... i stopped watching it last year because i don't want lex to become evil (i'm in love with him despite the fact that he's not asian), though i used to be so addicted to it...
Posted by: rcp | October 3, 2004 08:29 PM
i realize that shows can't keep up their momentum. i honestly thought that even starting with the first season smallville was devolving into a set pattern and limiting themselves on how they approach a truly good premise.
lana and clark... we already know they're supposed to end up as friends. they took their sweet time about even starting to date.
lex and clark... yeah, it's going to happen, and i like lex's character (he's actually more interesting than clark) but i wouldn't mind seeing him fall as long as it was interesting, since i already know that that's what's going to happen.
but what i really protest to about the season premier is that... well... it sucks. the acting sucks (and i don't think it's the actors' faults). the dialogue is wooden and stiff and highly implausible. the interactions between characters are annoying rather than interesting. the pacing is all out of whack (is this some weird trend set by a weird generation from some drama/performance/directing/editing school? because i'm seeing this problem everywhere). and that's just some of the issues.
i'm disappointed because so much of a show isn't just about the story. most stories have already been done. it's how that story is told. and man... this one was told horribly.
Posted by: honeyfields | October 4, 2004 02:20 PM
i gave up on smallville last season. it just got to be too much trouble to record (no tivo here) for what it was. anyway, everwood is pretty good acting, albeit a bit sappy at times. but, it's definitely a different feel. i'm disappointed with jla and batman this season too. the only show i watch with any desire or regularity is teen titans. it rarely disappoints, although i wish they'd put one season out on dvd instead of half of it. "p if you go into 2d animation (provided the industry is still there), maybe you could produce something worth watching. i can't get past the design of the characters in batman.
Posted by: bleusky | October 4, 2004 06:38 PM