Random randomness

[wiseheart]

Cos I'm on sick leave, although the sickness has passed, and feel like babbling a bit, yo!

The telly - or why I might end up spend my hard-earned cash on shows that I cannot watch, even though everyone says they're rubbish.

I heard really, really bad things about Starz' Camelot. So I googled a bit, and what I saw confirmed my worst fears. Come on, guys, WTF, Arthur a girl??? Okay, I know he technically isn't a girl, but he looks like one. Imagining him having sex with the actual girls on the show is... off-putting, to say the least. No offence against anyone, but if I wanna watch femslash, the least I could demand would be that both participants be real girls, right? At least Bradley James looks like a knight who would be capable of raising his sword without collapsing under its weight.

But... the show stars Eva Green as Morgan, and she looks absolutely stunning. I could never warm up to Katie McGrath's Morgana, so perhaps I should give "Camelot" a chance, after all. Plus, it has Sean Pertwee, with whom I've been in selfless love ever since I saw him as Hugh Beringar. And Clive Standen! *flails* Granted, I only saw him in Dr. Who, where he had a total of about three seconds of screen time, but I'm so totally fangirling him. Embarrassing, really, considering that I could be his mother. Ah, well. I might even buy some random Robin Hood episodes to watch him. I'm shallow that way. I like me some ruggedly handsome men from time to time.


Procrastinating - or the pain of too many choices after finishing a story.

Now that I've finally gotten "Eye Witness" out of my hair (not that anybody but artemis10002000 would give a rat's arse about my Torchwood fic), I've taken a good hard look of my unfinished WIPs - and blanched. There are too many, in too many different fandoms!

My best candidates to be finished in the foreseeable future would be "Vox Angelica" in the Cadfael fandom, "Brothers-in-Arms" (also in the Cadfael fandom) and "A Visitor from Avalon", my Merlin-Torchwood crossover. Consequently, what have I done all day? Background work on "Sea-Flower", a pre-Ring-War Tolkienfic taking place in Umbar.

Yeah, right. That's me, doing the least logical thing. But at least I've figured out how to include the bull games and cast some of the characters. Not surprisingly, Princess Ivriniel will be played by Eva Green and Lord Caliondo of Umbar will be played by Clive Standen. What? I told you I'm shallow! And I need my visuals. I'm seriously considering having Colin Morgan play the Dark Elf assassin, but I'm not sure I can pull that one out. Although he'd be creepy. Oh, and the malicious Haradric slave girl is played by Indira Varma.


Baking - yep, I did some of that, too!

Not much; we won't dare eating anything with cream in the next few days, so I made some Ischler and a small lamb out of almond biscuit. And I hung up the decorated eggshells in the living room. Mum is pleased with the results, so I'm pleased, too.


Other than that, I'm lazing around and wishing I had people I could discuss silly fannish things with. But you can't have everything.

Comments

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, apparently "adult" means gratutious sex and violence - not the expectation that viewers would be able to follow an intricate storyline or enjoy characterization or a good plot. Gah.

Anyway, new Sea-Flower stuff + updates are posted to edhellondawards for your viewing pleasure. I'll post an update alert here later, but now I have to go and watch "Richterin Barbara Salesh" *ducks from flying rotten tomatoes.

[artemis10002000]

Cool! What with my father arriving tomorrow, I don't know if I'll get around to commenting on Sea Flower stuff and Everything Changes 09 before the middle of next week, but rest assured I have it bookmarked and won't forget about it.

Haha, there will be no flying rotten tomatoes from me - considering my own cracky fandom obsessions, I'm in no position to point fingers ;)

*nodnod* Yeah, it is very frustrating with the sex and violence. I mean, they're welcome to put all the sex and violence in there they want, whatever helps with the ratings and thus keeps my shows alive, I just wish it wouldn't eat up so much valuable screen time. Especially when there are plenty of interesting plots which they don't get around to exploring because there is no time left.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

No worries, I can wait. Wishing you mucho strength for dealing with the Family Soap (TM). If your father doesn't behave, you can always threaten that you'd introduce him to me. That perspective has made grown men quake in their boots before. ;)

I ruefully admit that I love Richterin Barbara Salesch. Mum and I call her the carrot-headed judge, but nonetheless, I find her very funny. Plus, I need my one hour of German TV daily, so that I won't forget the spoken language, and court shows keep me on the track.

"Adult" shows ought to be renamed "adolescent male" shows, IMO. Only hormonally overdosed guys can find people having sex - or imitating to do so - really hot, most of the times. It's very hard to film them in a way that would still allow them to actually look good. Unless women of any age having their boobs bouncing like rubber balls (or hanging to their kneecaps) counts as hot by the opposite sex.

To be completely impartial, I laughed my head off, too, when in the supposedly oh-so-hot scenes of "Queer as Folk" naked guys ran around like headless chicken, their family trees going like *boing, boing, boing*. In my opinion, very few people look really good when completely naked.

[artemis10002000]

Indeed! They're rarely aesthetically pleasing. I guess you need to be a horny teenage boy to appreciate it properly... It wouldn't be so bad if the sex scenes at least weren't copy-and-paste, but they're utterly dull. I mean, I can't blame the writer, if you have three or four sex scenes in every 40 minutes episode, you will start repeating yourself sooner or later. But it's soooo dull and repetitive. Like very bad smutfic where you feel you're reading the same thing over and over with different names. If the sex scenes were good, I would at least appreciate them as inspiration for writing smut.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I just saw a picture of this new "Camelot" series, where a bare-assed naked blonde bimbo was sitting astride of the guy. She looked like a cow, from the weird angle she was filmed from, although I'm sure she isn't really fat. But these half-profile angles are really not flattering, spreading a three-dimensional body in two dimensions and make everyone look like a whale.

I'm not against smutfic per se. I've written my fair share of smut, as you know, and enjoyed writing it. But it has to be some function for me.

[jsks.livejournal.com]

it is not that the naked bodies or the sex scenes offend but the sense that the writers view of 'adult drama' has not the left the mindset of a 15 year old boy. the scenes almost seem thrown as if to say this the reason you pay for cable and you don't get to naked people having sex on free tv. i am a fan of hbo's six feet under which had it's share of sex with could be highly erotic at times, camelot leaves me feeling bored and hitting the fast forward button. starz brand of sex feels like their are using the sex to cover plotholes.

[artemis10002000]

starz brand of sex feels like their are using the sex to cover plotholes.
That doesn't sound appealing at all! :S

And yeah, I get what you man with it feels like they think they need to give you a certain amount of sex. Since I only have free tv, I didn't connect it to the cable vs. free TV issue, however. That's a very interesting point made! I'll have to pay special attention to whether the shows which annoy me are produced for cable TV.