My So-Called Life (TV, WoW, RL)
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thistlechaserOnce upon a time there lived a girl. She slept in a lovely little cottage made of gingerbread and candy. She was always asleep. One morning she woke up, and the candy had mold on it. Her father blew her a kiss and the house fell down. She realized she was lost. She found herself walking down a crowded street, but the people were made of paper, like paper dolls. She blew everyone a kiss goodbye, and watched as they blew away.
The Sundance Channel had a marathon of My So-Called Life. (No, don't ask me what Sundance Films would have to do with that show, I don't know either.) I really enjoyed it at the time it originally aired, so I figured I'd check it out now. Amazingly, nearly 10 years later, it held up perfectly*.
Surprisingly, I think it actually works even better for me now. When I watched it the first time through, I mostly rolled my eyes at and ignored the adult characters, but this time I was just as invested in them as I was the kids.
It was really fun seeing Claire Danes in it, especially with Homeland so much in my thoughts right now. She's really not changed all that much in ten years! Her voice is exactly the same, her hair is the same style (just a different color). I really like her as an actress.
Unfortunately they only showed five eps, but that was plenty for one sitting. Even after just that handful of eps, I felt such fondness for the characters. They're all so imperfectly human -- perfectly imperfect? Wonderfully flawed and real and very, very interesting.
* The only thing that didn't hold up was the 'film' itself. The quality seemed really low, as if I were watching it on an old VHS tape. No sharp details, things were very slightly blurred, as if they were replaying it from a VCR.
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WoW news is meh. Reed the paladin hit 69 (Northrend flying, yay!). He has 10 or 11 rares in archaeology already, which is just silly. I've quested/instanced for three of those post-60 levels, so he got all those rares in six levels of archaeology. *stops before a rant can start*
Christmas! I'm ready for it RL (that was actually the one I got done first, heh), ICly, and OOCly. :D It's so hard to wait to give out gifts! Except ICly, since now Thistle is certain that Nik is going to hate his gift and will be all IDIOT >:[ at him. :D
Work is busy. I have to work through the holiday shutdown, which very much sucks, but at least I get to take the days off later. I'm in a 'down' period mentally right now, which of course is depressing (ha ha), but at least it didn't bring with it the usual inability to sleep, and for that I'm really very thankful.
Ramble, ramble. I've not posted in a few days, so I feel like I should have important stuff to write about, but nothing much has been happening so this is it.
The Sundance Channel had a marathon of My So-Called Life. (No, don't ask me what Sundance Films would have to do with that show, I don't know either.) I really enjoyed it at the time it originally aired, so I figured I'd check it out now. Amazingly, nearly 10 years later, it held up perfectly*.
Surprisingly, I think it actually works even better for me now. When I watched it the first time through, I mostly rolled my eyes at and ignored the adult characters, but this time I was just as invested in them as I was the kids.
It was really fun seeing Claire Danes in it, especially with Homeland so much in my thoughts right now. She's really not changed all that much in ten years! Her voice is exactly the same, her hair is the same style (just a different color). I really like her as an actress.
Unfortunately they only showed five eps, but that was plenty for one sitting. Even after just that handful of eps, I felt such fondness for the characters. They're all so imperfectly human -- perfectly imperfect? Wonderfully flawed and real and very, very interesting.
* The only thing that didn't hold up was the 'film' itself. The quality seemed really low, as if I were watching it on an old VHS tape. No sharp details, things were very slightly blurred, as if they were replaying it from a VCR.
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WoW news is meh. Reed the paladin hit 69 (Northrend flying, yay!). He has 10 or 11 rares in archaeology already, which is just silly. I've quested/instanced for three of those post-60 levels, so he got all those rares in six levels of archaeology. *stops before a rant can start*
Christmas! I'm ready for it RL (that was actually the one I got done first, heh), ICly, and OOCly. :D It's so hard to wait to give out gifts! Except ICly, since now Thistle is certain that Nik is going to hate his gift and will be all IDIOT >:[ at him. :D
Work is busy. I have to work through the holiday shutdown, which very much sucks, but at least I get to take the days off later. I'm in a 'down' period mentally right now, which of course is depressing (ha ha), but at least it didn't bring with it the usual inability to sleep, and for that I'm really very thankful.
Ramble, ramble. I've not posted in a few days, so I feel like I should have important stuff to write about, but nothing much has been happening so this is it.
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Date: 2011-12-19 05:54 am (UTC)I came here just to make you feel old! Because My So-called Life started in '94. So... SEVENTEEN YEARS! D: I do feel bad saying that btw.
And film quality is the worst thing about watching re-runs. It sucks when you find something you thought was so amazing and the quality seems so poor now that it's almost painful to watch.
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Date: 2011-12-19 03:40 pm (UTC)I'm looking less forward to rewatching MASH now. I can't imagine how low the quality of that might be.
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Date: 2011-12-20 08:28 pm (UTC)But you know, while I find problems in shows from the 80's and 90's I don't so much with reruns from the 50's & 60's. I Love Lucy and Andy Griffith seem ok for the most part but then you get something like The Honeymooners and it's barely watchable.
Maybe it depends on what network aired them?
I have no idea.
There's also the fact that you expect something that was made before you were born to be less, so it might just be that factoring in: lower expectations mean less disappointment or something.
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Date: 2011-12-20 08:40 pm (UTC)I'll be sure to post about the quality once I've started it! :D
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Date: 2011-12-19 07:39 am (UTC)What you got something against VCRs now?
Kids these days and their HD TVs and their PVRs and their movies from 1994!
But seriously, VCRs are awesome! They taught me patients. Want to watch favourite movie again? Too bad! Wait 5 minutes while we rewind this tape.
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Date: 2011-12-19 03:42 pm (UTC)