Hawaii Five-oooh, you wanted realism? And WoW raiding!

[thistlechaser]

The new version of this show has quite a following in fandom, but I'm having a very hard time getting into it. My first impression was that it seems like only a typical cop show (though how many of those have a cylon as a team member? Heh!). What's really killing my interest of it is how unrealistic it is. I've only seen the pilot so far, and only the first 30 minutes of it, but so far:

-To "rescue" a team member, they drove a truck into the building, into the room she was in. How in the world could they be sure they wouldn't hit her?

-A high speed chase. Neither of the two cops in the car had their seatbelts on. (This one is nearly a deal-breaker for me. So stupid. So easily fixed!)

-Whenever they're driving and having a conversation, they never ever look at the road! They look at each other for minutes, up at the ceiling, out the side window, but never at the road ahead. ARG.

So often I can't get into these shows because you're not supposed to notice things like that, but it drives me crazy. I'll probably stick with it another ep or two, maybe the storyline will hook me, but as of right now it's very questionable. (Once the ep did end, I found I liked the characters somewhat. I'll probably give it another ep or two and see if it hooks me at all.)

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Raiding! In WoW! Who'd have thought I would ever do it? Not current-level stuff, but still! Two quarters of Naxxramas. I only died once (on that floor that shoots death up from the cracks), and only made one seriously stupid mistake (I was too far out of the room and the gate came down between me and the boss *cough*). Strangely, it wasn't really any different than doing an instance (just with more people).

I didn't have recount installed, which is probably for the best otherwise I would die of shame. But bosses died and we rarely did, so good enough I guess. I did have DBM installed, but it never once gave me a single alert, so maybe it needed to be configured or something.

It was really nice doing OOC stuff with the TLF folks. :D Plus I got more RP gear, eee! Thistle just ICly needs to make more money so he can ICly buy it. Right now he's living pretty much hand-to-mouth (he does one or two newbie level starter area quests per day) and he has to pay for his housing and stabling his horse. I can't see there being much left over, so he has to save for each new piece of gear. It'd be nice if he would ICly take up a profession, but he wouldn't really think to do it. Maybe the tauren could have him do some herb-picking task and then offer to keep paying him for them (a fictional daily!).

New characters are so much fun! I have a list as long as my arm of things I want him to do, questions to ask, progress to make. It kills me to go slow, but 1) it's more realistic, and 2) if I run through everything now, then what?

And... it feels funny to talk about this now, since a bunch of them can read this, but I'm so happy I met the TLF folks. Such a fun group of people, OOCly and ICly. :D

Comments

[redtangents.livejournal.com]

lol-raids are /so much fun/ :D

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

It was! I was surprised that I actually enjoyed it (the company helped a lot!). I would not ever ever ever want to do current level stuff, but on something like this, where mistakes are forgivable? This I can handle!

[alaias-stories.livejournal.com]

^^^

This. I've seriously been contemplating making a guild just for this purpose. If I could find enough people/played alts to make it do'able. XD

But it's definitely something I'll be looking into when I come back. I need a place to put all my toons anyway. I'm at a point where I really kind of need out of Corvidae. XD

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I've heard some things are going on in Corvidae lately! *pats lots* Hope you find a good new home. I hear a lot of ex-Corvidaes are going to Large War Club?

[alaias-stories.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I have no idea. I joined it because all of the rp groups I'd put Alaia in were run by/full of people from Corvidae & they were the only people she interacted with. Those groups all folded & none of those people play with any of my characters now.

I did old raids with Layam but he left the guild a week or two ago. I'm never going to be allowed to do current content or pvp on the scale they do so my presence there is absolutely pointless. Not to mention there are a couple of people there that I'd just rather not be in the same guild as.

As far as I know most of the trouble had to do with the raid groups but that's been going on for a few months, basically when my net time became sporadic so I missed most of what was going on. And since I never look at gchat with this guild I never tried to catch up on it all! Too many people for me to keep track of anyway.

All I know is I need somewhere better to be!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, man it sure does sound like some other guild would be better for you! I hope you find one that you love!

[aliceinazeroth.livejournal.com]

I love lolraids. We do them all the time with the Gnomes for the guild achievements, but I'd love to do more of them on my other toons, both Alliance and Hordes. :D

[aliceinazeroth.livejournal.com]

Hit send too early grr. Also, grats on new RP gear! I bet you got some great DeathKnighty lookin stuff from Naxx. :3

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I had to take a screenshot so I could exit the game and use the model viewer to try to find new pants.



Of course he blinked while taking the picture! :P The chest is what he got last night. :D

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

Ya, I read "WoW raiding" and immediately what whobahwha?! But if it's older content that makes more sense for RP reasons. Had me confused for a second there.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Had ME confused, too! :P

[kelen.livejournal.com]

Ha! We call the room with the cracks the Safety Dance. ;) Everyone dies there the first time so don't feel bad.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Hee, yes! That's what they called it, too. :D

[tersa.livejournal.com]

"Hawaii Five-Oh" is oh so not realistic. The only reason I watch it is for the interaction between Steve and Danny, which is deliciously awesome in its repartee. Oh, and slashy.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's what I'm going to try to watch it for, both of those things. I meant to watch another ep today, but the day got away from me.

[kriatyrr.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen the show in question, but I feel exactly the same way about the all car safety issues you listed.
It scares me, and angers me, when I see someone driving and not paying much attention to their surroundings. People DIE because of inattentive drivers. I've been hit once and it was the scariest moment of my life, because there was no way in my mind he couldn't have seen me (car stopped before a crosswalk, I crossed, when I was in the middle of the road he suddenly accelerated and hit me) so for those few seconds I thought he was trying to kill me. But it turned out he hadn't seen me.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

That was my issue, too. Just watching it on TV, knowing it was fiction, still scared me.

Arg! I'm glad he didn't kill you!

[alaias-stories.livejournal.com]

I have not seen Hawaii Five-O yet and probably won't so I can't comment on that!

I just wanted to say, again, that I'm so glad you've found a group of people you have fun with! :)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Eee, thank you! I am, too!

[doxxxicle.livejournal.com]

on that floor that shoots death up from the cracks

The Heigan dance!

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I was pretty good at that one.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ha! I could see it being easier with practice. I'm looking forward to the second two quarters, we might be going back this weekend!

[firebyrd.livejournal.com]

To save on space, the main DBM module only has current content (i.e. Cata). You need to make sure to download the DBM that specifically mentions Wrath/BC/etc in its title in order to have the older content too.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Oh! Thank you! I need to do that before this weekend.