I have returned
Sep. 25th, 2006 11:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zdashamberLo, for the world has spun and deposited me once again in Oakland. Living on only caffeine Sunday was a bit of a problem, since apparently you have to cut it with water and food, but I recovered from the trip to Seattle, and now I'm slowly ramping down the dosage...
Seattle! Nice city, fine people.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nakedvilliany and cochese have a great home, where they have found a place for all of their stuff and all of their seven cats, and kept it clean and fresh despite the onslaught of stench their odd neighbors leave in the rest of the building. Their cats treated me most kindly, generally steering well clear. Somewhere in there I picked up anti-cat abilities. Ahwell.
Tonight, I happened to read Tim Goodman's review of NBC's "Heroes" 10 minutes before it was supposed to be on, and it sounded interesting (a few humans in today's world discovering they are X-men-like mutants), so I watched it. It reminded me of an amusing clip that Marisa had pointed me to: Yellow Fever, a corny-ish SoCal Asian production about white/Asian relations. Specifically, "Heroes" set up the guy from India as the mystical guru, a stereotype that "Yellow Fever" used and then laughed at with full knowledge. I'm not sure the Heroes guru is ever going to be something other than a stereotype. I mean, sure, on a 9-person show, it's hard to get decent characterization, but it's a lot easier if you aren't starting from lame stereotypes. See: Firefly.
Also, he was an annoying guru, and you didn't get enough shots of other people pointing that out. Seriously, WTF, we can evolve until we're blue in the face, but it's still not going to explain teleportation. So you can shut right the fuck up about your brilliant genetics background. Sheee-it. I like supers universes, but it's a fatal flaw if they try to explain it all, particularly by using a field I work in.
EDIT: And WTF was with the "in God's image" hooey? Is he one of the 21 million Christians in a population of 1 billion Indians? No wonder his class looked so blank. And it was said far better by JBS Haldane: "If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of creation, it would appear that God has an inordinate fondness for beetles." Learn to quote! And get your philosophy straight--"better survivors" isn't the same as "more blessed"! And don't hand out this dorm-room philosophizing as if it's deep! Arrrg! (Ok... The other characters are ok... I'm chilling...) (I wonder if Television Without Pity is on this. It cries out for them. Yes! Awesome! Saved!)
Still, giving them a shot, maybe, next week. Eh.
Seattle! Nice city, fine people.
nakedvilliany and cochese have a great home, where they have found a place for all of their stuff and all of their seven cats, and kept it clean and fresh despite the onslaught of stench their odd neighbors leave in the rest of the building. Their cats treated me most kindly, generally steering well clear. Somewhere in there I picked up anti-cat abilities. Ahwell.Tonight, I happened to read Tim Goodman's review of NBC's "Heroes" 10 minutes before it was supposed to be on, and it sounded interesting (a few humans in today's world discovering they are X-men-like mutants), so I watched it. It reminded me of an amusing clip that Marisa had pointed me to: Yellow Fever, a corny-ish SoCal Asian production about white/Asian relations. Specifically, "Heroes" set up the guy from India as the mystical guru, a stereotype that "Yellow Fever" used and then laughed at with full knowledge. I'm not sure the Heroes guru is ever going to be something other than a stereotype. I mean, sure, on a 9-person show, it's hard to get decent characterization, but it's a lot easier if you aren't starting from lame stereotypes. See: Firefly.
Also, he was an annoying guru, and you didn't get enough shots of other people pointing that out. Seriously, WTF, we can evolve until we're blue in the face, but it's still not going to explain teleportation. So you can shut right the fuck up about your brilliant genetics background. Sheee-it. I like supers universes, but it's a fatal flaw if they try to explain it all, particularly by using a field I work in.
EDIT: And WTF was with the "in God's image" hooey? Is he one of the 21 million Christians in a population of 1 billion Indians? No wonder his class looked so blank. And it was said far better by JBS Haldane: "If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of creation, it would appear that God has an inordinate fondness for beetles." Learn to quote! And get your philosophy straight--"better survivors" isn't the same as "more blessed"! And don't hand out this dorm-room philosophizing as if it's deep! Arrrg! (Ok... The other characters are ok... I'm chilling...) (I wonder if Television Without Pity is on this. It cries out for them. Yes! Awesome! Saved!)
Still, giving them a shot, maybe, next week. Eh.
Why am I reminded of...
Date: 2006-09-26 03:59 pm (UTC)Mr. Furious: Okay, am I the only one who finds these sayings just a little bit formulaic? "If you want to push something down, you have to pull it up. If you want to go left, you have to go right." It's...
The Sphinx: Your temper is very quick, my friend. But until you learn to master your rage...
Mr. Furious: ...your rage will become your master? That's what you were going to say. Right? Right?
The Sphinx: Not necessarily.
Re: Why am I reminded of...
Date: 2006-09-26 05:56 pm (UTC)Did you watch Heroes? What did you think?
Re: Why am I reminded of...
Date: 2006-09-27 01:56 am (UTC)You gonna be available to help Saturday? I've forgotten. Give me a call.
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Date: 2006-09-27 05:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-27 09:40 pm (UTC)My second major beef with the show was that there are like four POCs awash in a sea of white. I don't think New York has that many white people in the background... And why should 3 of the 5 heroes be white Americans? Eh.