I've got three weeks of vacation coming up (yay!) during which I won't be around the internet all that much (boo!). It doesn't start until this weekend, but I'm so backed up with stuff I have to get done that you probably won't be hearing much from me until toward the end of August. I still have to get my columns in, of course -- no vacation from the newspaper -- so I won't disappear entirely. However, for the first time since last year's vacation, I won't be able to keep up on my flist, so I hope you'll all be prepared to let me know what I missed!
I'm going to Missouri for a week or so, then bringing Emily back up here for a couple of weeks more until she has to go back to college; she's staying down in Missouri for school because she's got a free ride to the local community college, and it would be crazy to pass up a chance at an associate's degree that doesn't including running up a lot of student loan bills. We don't *like* it, but she has to look out for her future, after all. That's why I won't be online more than necessary -- I want to spend every moment I can with her.
After that, I'll have to make some hard decisions about the way I spend my time. With two jobs, the volunteer fire department, and two new grandbabies, I haven't gotten any writing done to speak of. It's amazingly difficult to become a novelist when you aren't writing novels.
As always, Joss' newest effort was well made, technically excellent, and loads of fun. The actors did a sterling job and the songs were great. I'd recommend Doctor Horrible's Singalong Blog to anyone.
But the ending sucked.
It didn't fit in with the spirit of the rest of the show at all. Yes, Dr. Horrible had a point to make, yes it was about real people with real emotions, but it was also an upbeat experience that could and should have had a happy ending.
Dammit Joss, sometimes couples DO end up happy together. All your relationships don't have to end in tragedy. I don't know what horrible thing happened in your past, but even if the guy didn't get the girl, there was no reason for the story to end with such a sense of hopelessness. Give us a happy ending every now and then, will ya?
Meanwhile, happy birthday to
redwolf! And since I won't be around, happy early birthday to 
zessa, fangfaceandrea, zenofthesword, dragonsong, and lilachigh. Also to darthsindel1981 and 
bipolarcat, in case I'm still backed up that far into August.
I'm going to Missouri for a week or so, then bringing Emily back up here for a couple of weeks more until she has to go back to college; she's staying down in Missouri for school because she's got a free ride to the local community college, and it would be crazy to pass up a chance at an associate's degree that doesn't including running up a lot of student loan bills. We don't *like* it, but she has to look out for her future, after all. That's why I won't be online more than necessary -- I want to spend every moment I can with her.
After that, I'll have to make some hard decisions about the way I spend my time. With two jobs, the volunteer fire department, and two new grandbabies, I haven't gotten any writing done to speak of. It's amazingly difficult to become a novelist when you aren't writing novels.
As always, Joss' newest effort was well made, technically excellent, and loads of fun. The actors did a sterling job and the songs were great. I'd recommend Doctor Horrible's Singalong Blog to anyone.
But the ending sucked.
It didn't fit in with the spirit of the rest of the show at all. Yes, Dr. Horrible had a point to make, yes it was about real people with real emotions, but it was also an upbeat experience that could and should have had a happy ending.
Dammit Joss, sometimes couples DO end up happy together. All your relationships don't have to end in tragedy. I don't know what horrible thing happened in your past, but even if the guy didn't get the girl, there was no reason for the story to end with such a sense of hopelessness. Give us a happy ending every now and then, will ya?
Meanwhile, happy birthday to
zessa, fangfaceandrea, zenofthesword, dragonsong, and lilachigh. Also to darthsindel1981 and bipolarcat, in case I'm still backed up that far into August.- Current Mood:
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Enjoy your vacation if you can and I hope you squeeze in some writing somewhere along the way....
Anyway, thanks! I don't think I'm going to get any writing in during my vacation, but I'm hoping to hop right into it again afterward.
Yes, they do. I personally think that can be just as interesting as unhappy endings but I don't think that's the story Joss wants to tell, sadly. Basically I agree with you. Dr Horrible was sparkling until the end, which kind of leaves a nasty taste.
Have a lovely holiday.
But tacking a tragic ending on Doctor Horrible worked no better than adding a happy ending to a tragedy would. It makes me wonder if the commenter I read tonight was correct: He suggested Joss pushed so hard to make a Serenity movie because Firefly was canceled before Joss had a chance to kill anybody off.
Oh, I just noticed! Your icons are from the Kevin Sullivan "Anne" movies. Aren't they? Haven't watched them yet, but I've stalked a lot of all things Anne. Love the series to pieces.
On the other hand, it's still a better show than 90% of what else is out there.
Enjoy your hols!
As for the Joss thing - I think he must have been traumatised by a happy couple sometime in his past...
Have a great vacation, and I wish you many happy memories made with E. to tide you both over.
The overwhelming response seems to be that almost no one was thrilled by the ending of Dr. Horrible. That's too bad, especially considering how much we all raved over the first two parts.
I haven't had the chance to watch Dr Horrible, and I'm kind of thinking I've got too many other things I want to watch first. I'm torn when it comes to Joss. He giveth and he taketh away, and you can pretty much bet he'll do both if given the chance.
Yep -- Joss both giveth and taketh with Dr. Horrible! I would still recommend it, despite my dissatisfaction, if only for the great fun everyone obviously had making it.
Have a great vacation. What's Emily's degree going to be in? Someday when all three of us are in Indiana and have the same day off and everyone's cars are working and the weather's good (laughing yet?), I'll have to show you around some neat little Marshall and St. Joseph County cemetaries.
Emily wasn't really sure what she wanted to study in college, so she was going for the required classes while she figured it out; but recently she's started leaning toward a writing career. yay! Now there'll be two of us sharing the same interests and lack of income! :-)
It would be great to get out and explore someday -- but I know what you mean about weather and working cars! We're always up to explore cemetaries.
Now what I would have loved to see is have Penny turn out to be Bad Horse in disguise so she'd be evil and they could have had an evil happily ever after BUT as Bad Horse is an actual horse and that's frakking awesome I'm okay with forfitting that idea.
Now, Penny as Bad Horse -- that would have been a great twist!