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calliope85

Comments migration

Sep 07, 2010 15:49

Hullo again all ^_^ Gosh, two posts in a month, never were such days. Anyway, I'm considering moving mostly over to Dreamwidth - or at any rate setting myself up a journal over there from which I can poke around a bit and get used to the place, in case of future migration - and I'll be importing the contents of this journal over there. I'm also ( Read more... )

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(...not about comments, argh) highfantastical September 7 2010, 17:08:15 UTC

This is horribly irrelevant, but I cannot resist: I know you are dissertating and thus probably in a hole or something, but when you emerge - do go and see Danton's Death if you possibly find time/cash/energy/will. The Max actor was super and Quite Tortured, and there was some very good Danton/Camille cuddling. I mean, it wasn't perfect (Hérault de Séchelles was Strangely Young; there wasn't really enough Max/Camille), but still absolutely worth seeing for anyone with...certain interests. ^__~

I am now hugely regretting not have noted down my favourite lines, because I was too wrapped up in the action - it's a new translation, better than the ones currently available, IMO (unfortunately my German's fairly bad, so I can't read it in the original). I wish someone would produce The Danton Case!

Re: (...not about comments, argh) calliope85 September 7 2010, 18:10:59 UTC

:D :D :D I went to see it about a fortnight ago :D :D :D Was going to totally spam the hell out of your blog entry about it last night, but I refrained because of the EPIC RAMBLING I could feel myself about to engage in at about 2am ( ... )

Re: (...not about comments, argh) calliope85 September 7 2010, 18:11:32 UTC

(ahaha, maxed out comment length, yo. CONT'D.)

Gahhhh, oh god, this is the other reason I didn't spam the hell out of your blog yesterday, I knew it'd come out ABSURDLY CRITICAL AND NEGATIVE, when I actually enjoyed the play a lot and fangirled the hell out of adorable Camille and the epic amounts of hugging and general nuzzling in the prison scenes :D Just that I have more to say about the things I wanted to pick holes in, as always. Other things I loved included Collot (whoa, never thought I'd say that), the gorgeous gorgeous set and lighting, ROBESPIERRE'S GREEN COAT YAY (though not the stripey one, woe), the fact that an analogy to do with whores can apparently be introduced into any piece of revolutionary rhetoric or repartee (this has now become a favoured game amongst my friends), and the fact that several thousand people have now sat through a really dense dramatisation of a key bit of the Revolution :D

Also, oh God, yes, I wish someone would produce The Danton Case :D (Pref. someone who's not Wajda and has at any rate a ( ... )

Re: (...not about comments, argh) highfantastical September 7 2010, 19:04:03 UTC

I actually do agree with pretty much all the criticisms, I think it's just that my objections to various bits (admittedly not all part of the production, some just the play itself) were TOTALLY SWAMPED by the prison-related glee. (OH GOD, I feel guilty typing that given the subject matter/real historical facts.)

BUT YES. Oh God, they were so cute in that scene.

Anyway, I had a point. Or something. I am so pleased that you've seen it, I was feeling the lack of fellow fans to squee/critique with (in no way mutually exclusive positions, for me at least). Probably the bit that most surprised me was the weird lack of any real agonising on Max's part over Camille's death. There were, what, two lines devoted to it? Not much more than that. Just him saying 'Not Camille', or whatever it was, and then the bit about everyone leaving him. WHAT WHERE IS THE BELOVED SCHOOLFRIEND DEATH ANGST. I didn't get any sense of their closeness...I know it's partly the play's own orientation (all that bit about Camille having been the only one to speak to ( ... )

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parrot_knight September 7 2010, 17:17:14 UTC

I have no problem with comments migration. I keep thinking I should use Dreamwidth (where I am sir_guinglain) more, but LJ is cosy, even when it blunders about aggravating its customers; and expansion might take Dreamwidth in the same direction.

calliope85 September 7 2010, 18:18:35 UTC

*nods* I quite agree, I don't want to leave LJ, especially as fandom hasn't really kicked off on DW yet - they haven't reached sufficient critical mass of user numbers really. But I am increasingly cross about the way livejournal have handled (or rather failed to handle) this nonsense; so quite apart from the current privacy questions, I'm not filled with confidence that they'll deal with any future crises better ( ... )

parrot_knight September 7 2010, 21:59:55 UTC

I think that ownership and business structure are probably important questions here, though would need to do more research and know more about internet business revenue streams and how both LJ and DW survive (are display/classified ads and subscriptions enough? how does income grow?) to reach a useful opinion.