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[quarter_to_five]

More Sarah Connor:

It's awesome to me how obviously this show is fanfiction, much more than it is a strict sequel. It doesn't really care about "what happens next". It cares about taking existing characters and situations and playing around with them. Changing tone, following through to logical extremes, deconstructing, subverting, showing the villains POV, showing the sidekick's POV, making the off-screen on-screen, putting characters in new situations, exploring new corners of the world...Oh, show.

I also continue to wonder how this even got made. How did that meeting go, which started out with "Hey, we have a giant, action movie franchise with a bit of romance and a couple of kickass lines, where things blow up a lot. Let's make a tie-in show," and ended with "And it should totally be this intense, melancholy reflection on the nature of heroism, loyalty and leadership, with a keen respect for the value and fragility of human life, a meditation on the meaning of the soul and a complex and challenging approach to gender and motherhood. Awesome, dudes!"

We will never know.

(Unless we do know? There's probably a blog post somewhere, isn't there?)


Also,

Is it just me (data is not the plural of anecdote, but still...) or has it been chattier here since the change so thingy will tell you if comments have been replied to? My months on Dreamwidth so far have been relatively quiet. I read stuff, I write stuff. Sometimes I comment or get a comment and there's a sense that people are reading what I write, but it's all a bit vague. The past few days it feels like there's an almost constant snippet of conversation going somewhere. (That's cool.)

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[thisbluespirit]

Is it just me (data is not the plural of anecdote, but still...) or has it been chattier here since the change so thingy will tell you if comments have been replied to?

It's made a huge difference for me - but most people don't even get what I'm talking about when I've tried to explain why LJ was usable for me and Dreamwidth not because of it. So, it could just be because LJ's been trying to kill itself again for several days, so more people are on Dreamwidth than usual.

:-)

[quarter_to_five]

Lol, yes, I noticed that. Poor LJ :-(

I hate cut-off conversations, to be honest. I'm used to a forum format where you're constantly carrying on a particular subject with the same handful of people for months if not years, some times. Certainly at least for a few days. This more distributed style is something I'm still getting used to.

[thisbluespirit]

I like that LJ/Dreamwidth allows for both - you can have stop, or carry on the comment thread forever till you shrink it into nothing and have to start another one. And comment on things six years later. Why not? ;-)

[executrix]

I wonder if the US holiday had something to do with it? For ages, people have been saying "I wish there was more discussion," and then lots of people had some time on their hands, so they said, Hey! Let's discuss!

[quarter_to_five]

A bit of a perfect storm? There's time, there's the tools, and now there's the chatty meme which maybe makes you more invested in answering? Dunno. (...trying not to overthink here, for once :-))

[chaila]

All of this. <3333 It got a lot of flak while it aired for being too slow and stuff, but I really enjoyed that it wasn't obsessed with plot shenanigans and cleverly tying into the movie plots (though it did that pretty well too, when it wanted to). Even now I forget plot points, but I remember the subversions and plays on themes and POV and narrative shifts.

I don't think we know! Though judging by the marketing of the show, I halfway suspect that the network actually wasn't in on the secret and didn't know that the show was a lovely piece of sci-fi meditating on things like leadership, violence, love and motherhood. They thought they were making an action show with Summer Glau playing a hot robot beating up men three times her size. It must've been pitched as a different show. The pilot does kind of set it up as a sequel to the movies, with a lot of running from robots and time travel. And then Josh Friedman hid how smart it became from them. They were Fox executives, so it probably wasn't hard.

[quarter_to_five]

I have to assume! It's just such a well put-together show when marathoning it, thought I can't recall if it was frustrating week-by-week or not. (I was in combat duty for all of 2007, so I can't possibly have seen it as it aired back then. Maybe I caught up in monthly doses when I was home?)

[opusculasedfera]

Can I ask what DW change you mean? I haven't noticed one (I confess not to reading the tech updates, haha.) But more people hanging around on DW is always good! I miss it. I wonder if people have been more attentive to LJ/DW lately because the closing of crack_van made a lot of people feel more adamant that journaling sites are not going to be dead.

[quarter_to_five]

It now lets you know (in the DW inbox) if someone has replied to any comment you've made anywhere, rather than just telling you if someone has commented on something in your journal. I try to remember to follow up on comments I left places, but now it does it for me!

...tbh, I don't even know what crack_van is! I've gathered by context it's a beloved agreggator of some kind (recs? Odd recs?) that's going out of business, but that's it.

[opusculasedfera]

Huh, didn't it always? I feel like I've always gotten "so and so replied to your comment on this or that post" notifs, though perhaps I've been missing some! You have to have the setting turned on, I believe?

Yeah, it's a recs comm. Big on introductions to fandoms. Not universally used, but a lot of people are upset that it's closing, and I've seen quite a bit of recent activity related to that, and more general posts heavy on the WE ATEN'T DEAD.

[wendelah1]

I get notifications in my email for comments, no matter where I make them, both here and at LJ. I always have so I've never checked my inbox. But I just looked now and I do get comment notifications in my inbox for everywhere at LJ, not just my personal journal. I don't get many comments here at DW anyway.

crack_van is a huge multifandom rec site, for small fandoms, and large fandoms alike. People signed up and took turns "driving the van." Since 2008, I made somewhere between 150-200 recs for three different fandoms, one large and two small. I wrote the introductory posts for the two small fandoms. It's not being taken down, it's just not going to be open for more recs for old fandoms or any recs for new ones. I think it's a huge loss to fandom and I'm terribly sad that it's closing up shop.