Recovery Girl, checking in

[annathepiper]

Back at work again today, trying to regain some semblance of normalcy in my life, not to mention resumption of a steady paycheck until my contract runs out. But I feel all weak and wobbly and disconnected; part of this, as spazzkat observes to me, may be illness. But I'm also on Dayquil, and I'm coming off of a night on Nyquil--and an interrupted night at that. I woke up around 4:30 after having... well, I can't quite call it a nightmare, because it was not particularly traumatic or anything, but it was definitely an annoying bad dream.

I dreamed writersweekend was having a party in an enormous house, but I was exhausted and desperately in need of sleep. I remember having to retreat to an unfinished attic to sleep up there, only some workmen showed up to do remodeling, so I had to leave. I wound up in a spare bedroom with a couple of bunk beds, but visitors had already been given that room to sleep in, so I couldn't sleep there. Finally mamishka came to rescue me... only as we tried to go home, we wound up having to get her car out of an enormous parking garage full of people and deal with huge lines of cars. We wound up at a cafe to get me food, only then a friend of Mimi's showed up and started chattering socially at her, so I still couldn't get home and get to bed...

Meh.

I still haven't written a word since the flu hit, though yesterday I did at least finally regain enough braincells to peer at my timeline of events for Lament and try to figure out where in time I'm starting Kestar's next chapter. I'm not sure what words I'm going to use to start that chapter yet, but I did at least get a question answered about it.

And I started reading William Gibson's Pattern Recognition, since I was in the mood for something SF-noir-ish, thanks to Charlie Jade. Good read thus far, even though I'm not sure I care for Mr. Gibson's penchant for sentence fragments. Especially sentence fragments that start with verbs and which have no subjects. (She said, writing a sentence fragment.) It grated on me when I read The Shipping News, and it kind of grates with this book; I keep wanting to yell, "Where's the rest of this sentence?!" Now, okay, I get that this is a stylistic thing with Mr. Gibson, and with this book, unlike with The Shipping News, it actually kind of works for me in a way because it seems somehow more appropriate for the edgy SF feel of the work. Regardless, it's an interesting enough story that I'm enjoying the read.

Still working my way through the first season of Remington Steele, and solarbird reports that she's downloaded all of Charlie Jade now. We're also making a hard push to get through the rest of Lost in time for the season two opener; last night, we watched episode 18, "Numbers", which was fun. Hurley is one of the few members of this cast that I find genuinely likeable as a person.

However, I note with chagrin that I missed the premiere of Bones, the new thing that has David Boreanaz in it, which I kind of wanted to see because of, well, David Boreanaz. I see at least one person on my Friends list (alg) caught it and was less than impressed; any input from anyone else? Is it worth my time to track it down?

Comments

Bones

[chipmunck.livejournal.com]

I regret deleting it so fast- I didn't think anyone would have wanted to watch it. :P

It's not bad, but not great. I will most likely continue to watch it because it really wasn't that bad. They do tip their hat to quick and say "oh, here is some NPC that gives information to the Audience to let you know more about the person" Too much say, not enough showing. Though if they temper this down they will have a pretty good show. Unless every plot is going to be exactly the same. hehe.

I would rate it a B+

Re: Bones

[annathepiper]

Ah, thanks for the input! I wouldn't be looking at it if it didn't have David Boreanaz in it at all, I think--I barely have enough spare brain and time to follow the shows I'm watching right now, but I was willing to make an exception for ol' David, due to years of loyally following Angel through his adventures. :)

Glad to see you back awake on LJ!

Re: Bones

[chipmunck.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :)

btw: David is worth the watch.. though my more critical thoughts are:
1. David does play a serious person like he did before. There are simularities I find between the two characters- yet duh, they are the same person I suppose. He is soo neat to watch.

2. Ryan and I made the joke that this is X-files Part 2. IT has skully, mulder, and an eirily simular Mitch P. looking FBI boss.
They solve crime that deals with squimish things- there is a 'gross' factor for people who don't do well with bones. Hence the name. Interesting concepts, and a beutiful building of the lab where She does her work.
btw: I saw in the 'credits' that it is based off an actual person who is what the main actress does. She wrote a book and all. Thought that was sort of cool.

anyways. We should see if there is a rerun, I know most pilots get played fairly quickly afterwards. The WB is playing Supernatural 2 more times - we missed it because "Good Eats" had higher priority. oops. hehe. (We have tivo)

Re: Bones

[annathepiper]

I was interested to see if David could play a character that doesn't feel like Angel to me--guess I'm going to have to slap this thing on our Tivo, too, and suck up missing the premiere. :) Thanks for your verdict!

[cafiorello.livejournal.com]

We recorded it, and I'll probably watch it tonight. It's based on Kathy Reichs, who has a bunch of novels out featuring a forensic anthropoligist, and I like her books.
Cathy

[annathepiper]

Ah okay, cool. :) I'd read about the Kathy Reichs connection, but I am not familiar with those books. Thanks for the input!

Bones

[grian-ruadh.livejournal.com]

For a series premier it wasn't bad. There are smart women all over the place in this thing and the female lead is very reminiscent of Jodie Foster (probably no accident there). It does feel like The X-Files: Part 2 only without the extraterrestrial bent, but that's not necessarily a bad. There was even a line between the two leads early in the episode as they agreed to work together on a case, "Spit on it [her hand and then shake, for context] and we're Scully and Mulder." So they're quite aware of the comparison. :) The lab was high-tech eye candy that I only hope they don't come to overuse. I can also see coming that the long-term dynamic of the show is going to revolve around growing unresolved sexual tension between the leads, but I suppose it matters most how that's executed. If they don't handle it cleverly, this will get boring fast. So we'll see. This first episode didn't suck though.

Re: Bones

[annathepiper]

Cool, thanks for the summary! I wasn't too terribly inclined to check it out aside from David Boreanaz being in it, since I've got plenty of things to watch right now as it is and barely have enough time for them... but I'll see about adding this to the Tivo.

[starsongky.livejournal.com]

Bones was kind of interesting, not great but hopefully the kind of show that just takes a few episodes to really get going. I do have to agree with Gazer's assessment, though: the Boreanaz character is Angel with sunlight & no immortality. He was a military sniper, killed a crapload of people, and now his whole goal in life is to solve at least that many murders before he dies. Still trying to atone for his "evil" past.

[annathepiper]

Wow, that really is Angel plus sunlight minus immortality and fangs, isn't it? ;)

"Eh, it doesn't suck" does seem to be the majority verdict, yeah. Well, I found it on our Tivo; they are indeed re-running the pilot. So mamishka and I will be able to catch it. Thanks for your input! :)

[mamishka.livejournal.com]

Hee! The dream sounds like a very likely scenario if I were involved. Excited about Charlie and crossing my fingers that Bones shapes up nicely. :)

[annathepiper]

Yeah, I was totally not surprised that it was you who came to rescue me, or that you had a Random Social Friend come up to us in the cafe. Hee.

We have the Bones pilot on the Tivo now! And we have a couple more episodes of Battlestar for you to watch, last week's as well as last night's.