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May. 30th, 2005 06:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexxkayWent to visit folks on Sunday. Mom is physically weak, but in reasonably good spirits. She's glad that, through KitchenCons past, she knows many of you, and she wouldn't say no to a phone call. 508-754-6812. Dad and I moved her computer into the bedroom, so she'll be able to be online a bit more than she has lately.
Since mom won't be driving any time soon, they loaned me a car, to facilitate more frequent visits. It will also come in handy for other stuff, like making to to the Palio event on my own schedule.
Today, I went to the comic book store, for the first time in (estimated) seven weeks. *Vast* pile of comics. Two issues worth of most regular series. On the plus side, I brought back three long boxes worth of trade-in material to get rid of. Incidentally, they were the last three long boxes in my collection, everything else having moved to the half-size ones, which are much kinder to my aging back.
Played a bit of T2X last night. It's a fan-made expansion pack to the computer game Thief II: The Metal Age. It's quite good, close to on par with the original. Ah, if only there was money to be made in playing Thief fan missions all day...
Also this weekend, caught up on Lost and Battlestar Galactica.
Lost has exhausted my patience and their grace period. The revelations during the finale were, let's see: The Black Rock was a slave ship (cool), the hatch has a ladder underneath it (cheap), and The Monster likes to hide in holes (lame). Uh, yeah. *Real* exciting. As far as plot developments, we had: Walt gets kidnapped, and... well, nothing else really. As![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kestrell put it, "They don't give the viewer a cookie often enough." I'm really not terribly interested in what happen next, because I expect that it's mostly going to be a lot more teasing and undue stretching-out of minimal story elements. Five bucks says that the viewer doesn't see what's at the bottom of the hatch until at least episode three next season.
BSG, on the other hand, was quite satisfying. It's a show less based on 'mysteries', per se, and more about how the characters react to the ongoing plot developments. And, boy howdy, are there *plenty* of plot developments in the finale. I *really* want to know what happens next there. No "Big Reset Button" on this show; they don't appear to *have* a status quo to return to. I'm curious to see how much of the encroaching mysticism is real, as opposed to manipulated into existence by Cyclon conspiracy. Assuming, of course, that those *are* in fact contradictory states...
Since mom won't be driving any time soon, they loaned me a car, to facilitate more frequent visits. It will also come in handy for other stuff, like making to to the Palio event on my own schedule.
Today, I went to the comic book store, for the first time in (estimated) seven weeks. *Vast* pile of comics. Two issues worth of most regular series. On the plus side, I brought back three long boxes worth of trade-in material to get rid of. Incidentally, they were the last three long boxes in my collection, everything else having moved to the half-size ones, which are much kinder to my aging back.
Played a bit of T2X last night. It's a fan-made expansion pack to the computer game Thief II: The Metal Age. It's quite good, close to on par with the original. Ah, if only there was money to be made in playing Thief fan missions all day...
Also this weekend, caught up on Lost and Battlestar Galactica.
Lost has exhausted my patience and their grace period. The revelations during the finale were, let's see: The Black Rock was a slave ship (cool), the hatch has a ladder underneath it (cheap), and The Monster likes to hide in holes (lame). Uh, yeah. *Real* exciting. As far as plot developments, we had: Walt gets kidnapped, and... well, nothing else really. As
kestrell put it, "They don't give the viewer a cookie often enough." I'm really not terribly interested in what happen next, because I expect that it's mostly going to be a lot more teasing and undue stretching-out of minimal story elements. Five bucks says that the viewer doesn't see what's at the bottom of the hatch until at least episode three next season.BSG, on the other hand, was quite satisfying. It's a show less based on 'mysteries', per se, and more about how the characters react to the ongoing plot developments. And, boy howdy, are there *plenty* of plot developments in the finale. I *really* want to know what happens next there. No "Big Reset Button" on this show; they don't appear to *have* a status quo to return to. I'm curious to see how much of the encroaching mysticism is real, as opposed to manipulated into existence by Cyclon conspiracy. Assuming, of course, that those *are* in fact contradictory states...