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Jan. 22nd, 2011 03:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwydion* Saman Arbabi is distractingly good looking.
* I have to show you these shoes, mostly to explain why I find high fashion baffling: http://cdn03.cdn.gofugyourself.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/108045519-1-390x494.jpg
* Congressman Cohen has apologized for dragging Joesph Goebbels in debate. Good. It's wrong whichever side does it.
* Keith Olberman is done on MSNBC. rm is significantly more interesting and eloquent on this topic than I can be today: http://lettersfromtitan.com/2011/01/21/my-own-special-comment/
* "How Creed Saved a Norwegian Boy From a Pack of Wolves:" http://gizmodo.com/5739091/how-creed-saved-a-norwegian-boy-from-a-pack-of-wolves
* RM found, Alien terrariums: http://www.etsy.com/shop/GreenAppleLandArts
* "Please Don't Be That Guy:" http://seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com/313532.html?style=mine
* "The French house untouched for 100 years:" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12214885
* "8 Famous Fictional Archaeologists Who Suck At Their Job:" http://www.cracked.com/article_18988_8-famous-fictional-archaeologists-who-suck-at-their-job.html#ixzz1BkWqvEn1
* What's going on in Egypt: http://www.theawl.com/2011/01/hushed-and-growing-dissent-in-cairo-it-is-going-to-happen-here
* There are a lot of reasons I generally can't stand sitcoms, without even getting into the gender/orientation stuff. The most important of these are in no particular order: 1. I don't like humor based on embarrassment. I don't find it uncomfortable, merely unpleasant. 2. so much of the plots are based on people failing to share information another character needs, usually for no good reason at all. 3. The characters often do or say things not because that's what the character would do, but because whoever wrote them thinks this random thing that makes no character sense is funny.
I think it's that third thing that's wrong with Castle, even though it's a drama, not a sitcom. We are told this is grown man who was able to convince a grown woman to mate with him and have a child together. This man is supposedly intelligent enough to be writing mystery novels. Despite this, most of the time the character acts like a fairly gullible eight year old. He does and says things because the writers think they are funny, not because a grown man of average intelligence might say or do them. He feels like a cartoon character, not a real person. I had the same trouble with Skanke in Forever Knight. I've had the same problem with any number of sitcom characters over the years.
I feel better having put my finger on it.
* Ms Maddow did a thing on the history of white supremacist stuff in Idaho and Eastern Washington and the latest bombing attempt:
* I have to show you these shoes, mostly to explain why I find high fashion baffling: http://cdn03.cdn.gofugyourself.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/108045519-1-390x494.jpg
* Congressman Cohen has apologized for dragging Joesph Goebbels in debate. Good. It's wrong whichever side does it.
* Keith Olberman is done on MSNBC. rm is significantly more interesting and eloquent on this topic than I can be today: http://lettersfromtitan.com/2011/01/21/my-own-special-comment/
* "How Creed Saved a Norwegian Boy From a Pack of Wolves:" http://gizmodo.com/5739091/how-creed-saved-a-norwegian-boy-from-a-pack-of-wolves
* RM found, Alien terrariums: http://www.etsy.com/shop/GreenAppleLandArts
* "Please Don't Be That Guy:" http://seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com/313532.html?style=mine
* "The French house untouched for 100 years:" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12214885
* "8 Famous Fictional Archaeologists Who Suck At Their Job:" http://www.cracked.com/article_18988_8-famous-fictional-archaeologists-who-suck-at-their-job.html#ixzz1BkWqvEn1
* What's going on in Egypt: http://www.theawl.com/2011/01/hushed-and-growing-dissent-in-cairo-it-is-going-to-happen-here
* There are a lot of reasons I generally can't stand sitcoms, without even getting into the gender/orientation stuff. The most important of these are in no particular order: 1. I don't like humor based on embarrassment. I don't find it uncomfortable, merely unpleasant. 2. so much of the plots are based on people failing to share information another character needs, usually for no good reason at all. 3. The characters often do or say things not because that's what the character would do, but because whoever wrote them thinks this random thing that makes no character sense is funny.
I think it's that third thing that's wrong with Castle, even though it's a drama, not a sitcom. We are told this is grown man who was able to convince a grown woman to mate with him and have a child together. This man is supposedly intelligent enough to be writing mystery novels. Despite this, most of the time the character acts like a fairly gullible eight year old. He does and says things because the writers think they are funny, not because a grown man of average intelligence might say or do them. He feels like a cartoon character, not a real person. I had the same trouble with Skanke in Forever Knight. I've had the same problem with any number of sitcom characters over the years.
I feel better having put my finger on it.
* Ms Maddow did a thing on the history of white supremacist stuff in Idaho and Eastern Washington and the latest bombing attempt:
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