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The whole snow/ice/winter thing has become such a huge source of anxiety and depression for me that I'm trying a new technique for dealing with it: acknowledging its existence but otherwise ignoring it. My Twitter feed of local news has been moved to a place I can't easily see it (apart from local travel news, which is important), I'm only allowing myself two daily checks on the forecast, and I'm trying to focus on other things.
Fun things.
We had a good, clear day on Saturday, so I made a last minute decision to Do Something Fun, and took myself to a lunchtime show at the cinema. JUPITER ASCENDING OMG.
It's not a good movie, okay? Objectively and critically, it is not good. But I freaking loved it. Entertaining as hell, utterly bonkers, and the cast had clearly gone "Welp, it's insane and we want to have fun so *jazz hands*, which worked. And best of all, it left so many huge plot threads unresolved that there should be a shitton of fanfic coming out of it. Hell, there probably already is.
(If anyone has any JA recs, send them over this way. Please *flutters eyelashes*)
Guys, in terms of cheering myself the hell up, this movie *worked* on so many levels. Hells yes, I shall be preordering the DVD.
I've been working my way through The 100, but this weekend I took a break. Largely because I feel that something as intense and crushing as that show doesn't work well with my intense and crushing weather anxiety.
So instead, I resumed my ST:TNG rewatch. I got up to Skin of Evil on Sunday. Now, I haven't seen this episode since it first aired when I was a kid. ( spoilers )
Of course, in true ST:TNG style, that plot point didn't get acknowledged in the next episode. Oh, show.
One thing that I'm taking away from the rewatch is that my memories of the first season being incredibly uneven are totally true. Some episodes are quite good. Others are terrible. Thank goodness it wasn't being made now, it wouldn't have survived to season two.
And we wouldn't have got all those episodes that are actually genuinely brilliant :-D
Fun things.
We had a good, clear day on Saturday, so I made a last minute decision to Do Something Fun, and took myself to a lunchtime show at the cinema. JUPITER ASCENDING OMG.
It's not a good movie, okay? Objectively and critically, it is not good. But I freaking loved it. Entertaining as hell, utterly bonkers, and the cast had clearly gone "Welp, it's insane and we want to have fun so *jazz hands*, which worked. And best of all, it left so many huge plot threads unresolved that there should be a shitton of fanfic coming out of it. Hell, there probably already is.
(If anyone has any JA recs, send them over this way. Please *flutters eyelashes*)
Guys, in terms of cheering myself the hell up, this movie *worked* on so many levels. Hells yes, I shall be preordering the DVD.
I've been working my way through The 100, but this weekend I took a break. Largely because I feel that something as intense and crushing as that show doesn't work well with my intense and crushing weather anxiety.
So instead, I resumed my ST:TNG rewatch. I got up to Skin of Evil on Sunday. Now, I haven't seen this episode since it first aired when I was a kid. ( spoilers )
Of course, in true ST:TNG style, that plot point didn't get acknowledged in the next episode. Oh, show.
One thing that I'm taking away from the rewatch is that my memories of the first season being incredibly uneven are totally true. Some episodes are quite good. Others are terrible. Thank goodness it wasn't being made now, it wouldn't have survived to season two.
And we wouldn't have got all those episodes that are actually genuinely brilliant :-D
