Radomness Seems to Be the Theme Lately, Huh?

How's things? Lately for reasons I'm not clear on, my Firefox, or maybe just my computer in general has been fighting with a few sites. I can get into my gmail, but can't get on blogger, I can follow a link to twitter, but can't go in through my bookmark & it'll let me get to yahoo, through the login screen, then won't load my mailbox. Plus, YM seems to have forgotten my computer exists. Fun, huh?

Everything around me seems to be falling apart lately; my computer runs -rather sporadically- on sheer force of will alone, I got a converter box & a new antenna & am getting fewer channels & last night, for what I'm certain was the very last time, I drained out my waterbed.

I know...Waterbeds are very 80s. I got it in the 80s. Get past it.

Anybody watch Dollhouse? What'd you think of it so far? I'm a big Firefly fan, so I was all over the idea of Joss coming up with a new show. So far, I like the premise, it has potential. I wonder how many Actives there are. And, with names like Echo, Sierra & Victor, ya gotta ask yourself....Does this mean somewhere there's a Lima, Tango & Whiskey running around? Gotta feel bad for a guy called Foxtrot, doncha?

Friday's kinda my big tv night; Sarah Connor Chronicles, Dollhouse & Battlestar Galactica. Any SCC fans in the audience? BSG? I'm a big fan of dystopias. Most people, I think, like happy endings, but give me a broken underdog dropped in the middle of a grimy, warped dystopian realm & I am a happy girl. It's a little messed up, I realize, but there it is. I like the skewed vision, the struggle against things greater than. I like the choices that need to be made & seeing where lines are drawn or crossed. I like the 'what if'. I like the hurt & the fight beyond what someone is to what they could become & I like seeing how they live with themselves once they get there. I'd take a world that's sleek & dingy & hard peopled with giants & zealots & madman, preying upon the unassuming & the yet to flourish & the too damned cussed to give up over a whole truckload of fluffy treacle.

But that's just me, I suppose.

In case I haven't mentioned it & you somehow failed to notice in any of my earlier missives, I am, in fact, a big geek. Particulary I loooove science fiction, hence the show list above. I like Sarah Connor, I like Terminator in general. Coulda lived without 3, I suppose, but i'm hoping Salvation makes up for it. Sarah herself is a great character. She's a tough chick I that was hard to find in a lotta media for a while without it coming out all campy. It's gotta be hard being her, putting up not just a tough as nails front but nearly a tough as Wolverine front. She's pretty firmly in the 'has destiny thrust upon them' camp & is doing what she can about it, even with this giant, ticking clock looming over her life. And yet, beneath it all, if you dig deep....ok, really deep, there's still a little glimmer of who she was before it all; the sometimes silly Sarah, the talks tough but is unwilling to kill just because she could (and sometimes maybe even should) Sarah.

Anyway, I'm wandering somewhat off the, rather sketchy, path I had to begin with, aren't I? Sorry. I'm tired & I get kinda stream of consciousnees when my brain starts winding down for the night. One thing I noticed about terminator though, and a lot of other stories - Harry Potter & Eragon just to name a couple, you ever notice how the villains create their own destruction? If Skynet hadn't sent someone back to kill Sarah, she never woulda had John, or gained the fortitude to fight like she has & teach him everything he'll use to try to take them down. HP too; if Voldemort heard the prophesy & just shrugged it off saying 'well, I'll cross that bridge when I come to it & besides, I'm me & that's some kid & no way that'll happen', Harry'd been just some random, ordinary wizarding kid.

I realize from the audience perspective, that without some initial catalyst that sets the villain down the path, which in turn creates their would be destroyer, there'd be no story. Still... ya gotta wonder , from the character's perspective, how different things'd been if they just let stuff be.

In other news, my X-Men game is about to make a full changeover to a whole new setting. I'm rather excited. In the new place there'll be lots of different places to see & expiriences to try, plus the structure is drifting away from a school somewhat which should open all sorts of new avenues to write. I'm the current mapmaker for our new digs as well. And, once they were finished, I was asked about coming up with a picture to go along with. I been trying out a 3d modeling program, a thing which I'd never tried before. If you ever have the chance....Don't. Lol, ok, maybe not don't, but if you're new to it, realize it's gonna take a while & there'll be lots & lots of stumbling blocks along the way.

Alright, my brain has just about closed up shop for the night, so I should go. i just wanted to post & say hey (and, it would seem, a few other things as well) since I hadn't been able to get on revently. Next time, I promise, I'll try to have an actual topic.