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verushka70My tendinitis continues. It's been -- I've lost track -- 5 weeks I think. Icing, splints, ointment, epsom salts, massage (I'll be getting another tomorrow) have made only minimal improvement. Ibuprofen and naproxen are temporary relief only; the pain and stiffness come back. The warm, damp weather here has made it worse. So thanks, la Niña --
Got a massage & acupuncture yesterday after work. It gave me the first 100% relief I've had in over a month. It's back today but not as bad. Most of this has been copied and pasted from speech to text on my phone using my left hand only. It's not perfect but it helps.
I honestly can't wait for freezing weather to come. The older I get, the happier I am when it's cold. Preferably with snow. Not bitter like 2 winters ago when I (the Polar Vortex winter), but you know what? after a few days of that, 20 degrees F seemed positively balmy & I was over it. I got so sick and tired of hearing inappropriately dressed people bitch about the cold. It's Chicago: winter requires more than a fucking hoodie. (At least for now...) Plus snow makes everything much prettier and quieter.
Now that the clocks have changed, SAD is hitting me big time. On the plus side, last year Costco had SAD lamps on sale; I got one. I guess without it I'd be worse. I've already been late to work twice this week. Not that that is so surprising; I'm chronically late. Usually it's me clocking in 1-3 minutes late. This week twice it was 10-15 minutes late. Sigh.
I'm watching S3 of Hemlock Grove and... can't get into it. What happened? Maybe if I'd re-watched all of S1-S2 first I'd like it more. But... meh. The slashiness of S1 and S2 is missing. I started rewatching S1 but didn't have time to rewatch both S1 & S2 before S3 dropped. I'm up to 3x4 and I'm still pretty 'meh' about it.
iZombie S2, however, I am loving. I caught up with S1 on Netflix. I get some of the same feels from iZombie I used to get from Veronica Mars (the series). I love the score/whoever scores it; I think it's the same person... at least, it is a similar sound -- the scoring/soundtrack for VM was atmospheric and spot-on. Plus I just love the characters. I never really thought I'd dig a zombie show but it's not all that zombie-ish because there's only one main zombie and she's rarely zombie-ish. I love it because of Rob Thomas' writing, Rose McIver/Liv Moore (the most Veronica-ish character) and -- I admit it -- hottie Rahul Kohli as coroner Dr. Ravi Chakrabarti who is clearly the Mac character of iZombie (or as Mac once put it to Veronica, "Q to your Bond"). Detective Babineaux is clearly Wallace. David Anders, who has creeped me out on other shows in the past, is a sexy villain on iZombie as well, with no clear VM character antecedent except maybe Weevil, but only in a very super opposite way. The least compelling person is Major, Liv's ex-fiancee. He is no Duncan -- and he's definitely no Logan.
The premiere of S4 of Elementary was... well, it wasn't terrible. It picks up the threads left dangling intentionally last season. We get to see the much-ballyhooed Holmes pater familias. (Now will Mycroft return in any substantial way, or was he just a convenient way to shoehorn in a plot line that, once finished, was no longer needed thus he was summarily dismissed...?) I continue to enjoy Johnny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu but... I reserve judgment until I see a few more eps of S4. At least Holmes and Watson professed to each other their individual feelings that their work together and partnership is the most important thing to each of them and for both of them, come hell or high water. That was good to see.
Bojack Horseman is a *weird* show, but pretty damn funny. It's animated, sort of like Bob's Burgers crossed with Dirt (the only show I ever truly loved Courtney Cox on). Except instead of the dark disturbing aspects of Dirt's examination of celebrity/tabloid-paparazzi journalism/D-list (ex)celebrity/Hollywood-eats-its-young aspects, BH plays those for laughs. I'm only on 1x4 though. It makes me laugh pretty hard. I've read it gets darker with more pathos later in S1. We'll see; I'm going to keep watching
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Got a massage & acupuncture yesterday after work. It gave me the first 100% relief I've had in over a month. It's back today but not as bad. Most of this has been copied and pasted from speech to text on my phone using my left hand only. It's not perfect but it helps.
I honestly can't wait for freezing weather to come. The older I get, the happier I am when it's cold. Preferably with snow. Not bitter like 2 winters ago when I (the Polar Vortex winter), but you know what? after a few days of that, 20 degrees F seemed positively balmy & I was over it. I got so sick and tired of hearing inappropriately dressed people bitch about the cold. It's Chicago: winter requires more than a fucking hoodie. (At least for now...) Plus snow makes everything much prettier and quieter.
Now that the clocks have changed, SAD is hitting me big time. On the plus side, last year Costco had SAD lamps on sale; I got one. I guess without it I'd be worse. I've already been late to work twice this week. Not that that is so surprising; I'm chronically late. Usually it's me clocking in 1-3 minutes late. This week twice it was 10-15 minutes late. Sigh.
I'm watching S3 of Hemlock Grove and... can't get into it. What happened? Maybe if I'd re-watched all of S1-S2 first I'd like it more. But... meh. The slashiness of S1 and S2 is missing. I started rewatching S1 but didn't have time to rewatch both S1 & S2 before S3 dropped. I'm up to 3x4 and I'm still pretty 'meh' about it.
iZombie S2, however, I am loving. I caught up with S1 on Netflix. I get some of the same feels from iZombie I used to get from Veronica Mars (the series). I love the score/whoever scores it; I think it's the same person... at least, it is a similar sound -- the scoring/soundtrack for VM was atmospheric and spot-on. Plus I just love the characters. I never really thought I'd dig a zombie show but it's not all that zombie-ish because there's only one main zombie and she's rarely zombie-ish. I love it because of Rob Thomas' writing, Rose McIver/Liv Moore (the most Veronica-ish character) and -- I admit it -- hottie Rahul Kohli as coroner Dr. Ravi Chakrabarti who is clearly the Mac character of iZombie (or as Mac once put it to Veronica, "Q to your Bond"). Detective Babineaux is clearly Wallace. David Anders, who has creeped me out on other shows in the past, is a sexy villain on iZombie as well, with no clear VM character antecedent except maybe Weevil, but only in a very super opposite way. The least compelling person is Major, Liv's ex-fiancee. He is no Duncan -- and he's definitely no Logan.
The premiere of S4 of Elementary was... well, it wasn't terrible. It picks up the threads left dangling intentionally last season. We get to see the much-ballyhooed Holmes pater familias. (Now will Mycroft return in any substantial way, or was he just a convenient way to shoehorn in a plot line that, once finished, was no longer needed thus he was summarily dismissed...?) I continue to enjoy Johnny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu but... I reserve judgment until I see a few more eps of S4. At least Holmes and Watson professed to each other their individual feelings that their work together and partnership is the most important thing to each of them and for both of them, come hell or high water. That was good to see.
Bojack Horseman is a *weird* show, but pretty damn funny. It's animated, sort of like Bob's Burgers crossed with Dirt (the only show I ever truly loved Courtney Cox on). Except instead of the dark disturbing aspects of Dirt's examination of celebrity/tabloid-paparazzi journalism/D-list (ex)celebrity/Hollywood-eats-its-young aspects, BH plays those for laughs. I'm only on 1x4 though. It makes me laugh pretty hard. I've read it gets darker with more pathos later in S1. We'll see; I'm going to keep watching
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Date: 2015-11-10 06:04 pm (UTC)Yes, I too have found myself watching more Netflix. I don't use iTunes, because I thought you had to pay for that? also, the iTunes app is not available via my Roku device. I think that's because iTunes restrict its availability to only Apple devices. I mean, obviously, you pay for Netflix too. But my impression was that you have to pay per episode on iTunes or per season. I'm cheap, I'd rather just pay for a subscription service like Netflix, or Amazon Prime and get entire seasons when they're available which is usually right when the new season becomes available. So right now the only things that I watch on network television would be Elementary, & iZombie. and some of the PBS shows like Nova, Nature and the mysteries.
Other then over the air antenna TV, and the HBO that comes with my high speed internet, I use my Roku to watch TV on my television. It has some free streaming apps like the Sony Studios app Crackle, which has the rotating list of Sony Studios owned movies and TV shows you can watch for free. But the main things that I use Roku for are Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, YouTube, Amazon music so I can listen to my music/mp3s from Amazon through my sound bar connected to my TV, and a media player that lets me play my accumulated video and audio from an external hard drive. It's basically like having an internet-connected streaming PC with a good GUI and no keyboard, although it is possible to sync a tablet or a mobile phone to the Roku device so you can do your searches on your phone or tablet and they get transmitted to the Roku device. because using that little tiny keyboard one button at a time to do searches on YouTube is kind of annoying. And since nearly everything streams in HD now, whatever I'm watching looks gorgeous. Now if only it had an actual web browser, and some kind of an e-reader that allowed me to magnify the text, it would be a basically perfect replacement for a desktop computer with a huge HD TV screen, and the only thing I wouldn't want to do on it is write stories or edit something.
You're right, a more insular cast has not made things better on Elementary, only worse. and as you rightly point out, it is NYC for god sake! obviously, it's a good idea for them to avoid any kind of romantic pairing between Watson and Holmes. but as we both agree, all of the external threats and problems between them have resulted in us being less invested in the show, because it does feel forced.
I don't really do the femslash thing but Moriarty obviously seems fixated on/ fascinated with Joan. Whether it is a function of Joan being able to catch her, or not, it's a really interesting dynamic that seems somewhat dangerous and edgy. I do get the feeling that Moriarty would do something bad to Joan if she could, but then again the way she is with Holmes now, maybe she would see the opportunity to hurt Joan and then not do it. which might change Joan's perspective on Moriarty, which is rather limited. either way, I think that Holmes is an integral part of the dynamic between Joan and Moriarty, because Joan wants to protect Sherlock from Moriarty, but she can't very well do that if Sherlock is willingly continuing correspondence with Moriarty. all she can do is watch the train wreck as it happens, if it happens, and try to help him pick up the pieces afterwards. which leads to Joan being frustrated with Sherlock, engaging in something that is essentially dangerous to himself. in a way, Moriarty corresponds with heroin. he knows he shouldn't indulge in her, but he can't help himself. it's obvious that Joan disapproves of his correspondence with Moriarty, and probably sees it as corresponding with heroin in terms of his recovery specifically from Moriarty, and basically doesn't understand it. I like that Joan is very protective of Sherlock. because although he is very capable in most respects, he really really isn't in some others. and Joan's got that covered, if he would listen to her or take her advice. and he more or less does in other arenas -- just not Moriarty.
with respect to the Moriarty / Holmes dynamic, I don't have any real desire to see them hook up again romantically. but when Moriarty was let out from prison when her biological daughter was kidnapped to assist with solving the case, there were some exchanges between Moriarty and Holmes that led me to believe that she might be trying to change and debating internally whether or not it is worth it. Questions that she asked Holmes about "Is this why you do it?" or "Is this how you fake being one of them ?," acknowledging the fact that she and Holmes can't really relate to other people as well as they can relate to each other, acknowledging that sociopathic element to their personalities, were really the most interesting parts of that relationship to me after the big reveal that Irene was Moriarty at the end of season one. Joan's perspective on Moriarty is much more limited, I think. She just sees her as an irredeemable criminal sociopath with no hope of ever being a worthwhile human being of any kind. in a way, that kind of limits the Jones / Moriarty possibilities, but the fact that Sherlock himself seems to be trying to make himself less isolated, less unfriendly, developing more of a support network for himself despite his prickliness, his intense need for privacy -- as he continues to work on his addiction recovery -- and the fact that none of this really comes naturally to him makes him far better able to relate to Moriarty, and more inclined to think that if perhaps he can change, if he can redeem those misanthropic, somewhat sociopathic qualities in himself, maybe she can too. I wish that they would give Joan a more complex response to Moriarty in the writing, but they seem to have settled on her just being baffled as to why Sherlock would continue corresponding with Moriarty -- baffled, disapproving, and ultimately chalking it up to romantic / erotic fascination. which I think Holmes is actually past at this point.
So more Moriarty and Joan interaction would hopefully expand on Joan's more rigid take on Moriarty. of course, if anything were to happen, it wouldn't be unusual to see Moriarty revert to type or in general be rather femme fatale ish, and I hate to say it, but I kind of like her evil! she's just more fun that way. the suspense is in whether or not she will choose to be evil, or go a different route, and there are strong hints that she might do the latter, if only because she sees that in Holmes and either wants those things for herself that Holmes now has (expanded circle of support and friends), where that some small part of her wishes for his approval. and I don't mean the latter in any traditional romantic "woman pleasing man" sense but in a kind of therapeutic/change oriented "this person sees me as more capable of these things than I see myself, but maybe I am capable of it -- or maybe he needs to see it that way for himself" kind ofway.
Yes, absolutely, more Mrs Hudson ! and you're right, the Mycroft / Joan thing seemed to have more going for it the less explicitly spelled out it was, especially in terms of Sherlock's / the audience's "did they or didn't they" reaction.
sorry if this isn't quite grammatically correct or spelled properly or the wrong words are being used. I'm using speech to text, but my wrist have been pretty bad the last couple days so it's really, really painful for me to go back and fix things. I think you get the gist of things, even if the wrong words are substituted.