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mustinvestigate

can see the strings

Apr 08, 2011 20:59

What all has taken up my brain space lately:

• five seasons of Homicide: Life on the Street
• All three His Dak Materials
• Likewise The Hunger Games
• The odd Tobolowsky file and sundry slashfilm podcasts
• Cordelia Fine’s Delusions of Gender
• and a massive semi-digestible chunk of Philip K Dick. My brain kept trying to classify VALIS (via mp3) ( Read more... )

what you reading for?

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scarlet_carsons April 19 2011, 13:06:30 UTC

I was reading my flist backlog when I noticed this post, and had to comment because I've been watching H:LOTS as well. I haven't made it past season 2, though. After the perfection of season 1, season 2 felt like kind of a hot mess.

I'm inclined to keep watching it just for Pembleton and Munch, however.

So…my head’s a little strange. But I’ve developed some theories about the intersections of H:LOTS, Watchmen, and the worlds of PKD that are…actually, completely insane. Forget I mentioned that.

omg. Have you heard of the Tommy Westphall universe hypothesis?

mustinvestigate April 20 2011, 15:37:27 UTC

It’s worthwhile to keep watching, just with somewhat lowered expectations. We just finished the fifth season (called the fourth in the UK, for some reason), and decided to stop there. We’d survived the show-wounders, but the real show-killers were around the corner, and…sigh. I can’t go through that again. Last year I read a book called Digimodernism, which, long story short, made a convincing argument for a creeping childishness across all ostensibly adult or even teen media from mid-90s on, and I was really seeing this in Homicide seasons 4-5. Even though the characters were older than the first season, they began regularly acting like middle schoolers. Urk.

I’d known about Munch holding the tv world together, but man that grid…I are impressed. Thank you Tommy Westphall for being that damn imaginative :D ( ... )

scarlet_carsons April 20 2011, 22:15:59 UTC

Oh man, I don't know if I could put up with H:LOTS getting worse after season 2. I found it bad enough when Bayliss threw a tantrum over some cookies and pulled a gun on a store clerk, and I'd like to forget that the improbable 'female serial killer with DID' storyline ever happened.

last year I read a book called Digimodernism, which, long story short, made a convincing argument for a creeping childishness across all ostensibly adult or even teen media from mid-90s on

Now I'm intrigued. Would the book make much sense to someone who isn't very knowledgeable about postmodernism (i.e. me)?

conscious simulacrums several steps from a reality grounding which played in-universe with their made-up nature

My... brain hurts.

mustinvestigate April 21 2011, 15:29:29 UTC

Yeah, it’s a different show after the first season. Bayliss in particular has a lot of emo kid moments (royally pissing off his real-life counterpart, who had to put up with no end of teasing). There are more overdramatic cases like that serial killer, too. On the plus side, the complicated work relationships stretch out over episodes and seasons, and they do let Baltimore be Baltimore rather than the typical network “American City!”. Hell, I’m the wrong person to give an opinion, when it’s enough just to see my old coffeeshop every other episode.

My... brain hurts.How I got through grad school, right there :D Sorry, I seem to have only two modes, either in pidgin academic or "it's like, yeah, and stuff!" I blame an east coast education ( ... )

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