Writing and Treme
Oct. 4th, 2013 06:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapinglightI don't have a Treme icon, (if anyone knows where I can get one, please tell me), so Lester from The Wire will have to do.
I didn't mean to go so long without posting (it's two whole days!) but I've been writing. Yes, really. I'm 4000 words into the last in my Spike/Giles season 7 series, and beginning to think I may actually finish it this year after all. Hoorah! I've also written several more chapters of that Ten Years After thing, but am not much closer to working out What Is Going On.
Speaking of Spike/Giles, what is wrong with the 'ship anyway (as opposed to other non-canon 'ships like Spike/Xander)? I saw a rather good comment fic the other day on a community actually called![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
comment_fic, in a post entitled 'Ships of Shame. Apparently, according to the writer of this post, Spike/Giles is one of those. I don't get it. Can anyone explain why (beyond the obvious, Spike is Evil etc, etc, because that doesn't seem to bother the Spander 'shippers as far as I can see)?
But anyway, yay! for writing. The other thing I've been doing this week is finally starting to watch Treme. This is the first David Simon show I've watched since The Wire (I have Generation Kill on the shelf but am reluctant to tackle it), and so far I love it to bits.
Mild spoilers behind cut, as I've only seen four episodes of season 1 as yet. No spoilers please.
Of course, I've never been to New Orleans, but as far as I can tell the show is very authentic. It helps that, like in The Wire, Simon has used a huge array of local talent, including some musicians playing themselves. It also helps, I would imagine, that Wendell Pierce (Bunk from The Wire) who plays trombonist Antoine Batiste, is a native of New Orleans.
So far, the show is moving very slowly. Various storylines are evolving, and will evolve further over time (I assume). One character (Steve Zahn's Davis McAlary) started off being so obnoxious in the first episode you wanted to slap him, but has already become so complex after only four episodes that - well, you still want to slap him, but you also want to see him in more scenes. And all through the show, in every episode so far, there's music. Wonderful, wonderful music.
In fact, the only false note (that's a pun, see?) for me so far came in the pilot episode, when John Goodman's character was being interviewed by a British TV presenter, who was the usual supercilious bore and snob that Americans seems to imagine such people are. Did not like that, and felt annoyed for the sake of John Snow, the anchorman of Channel 4 over here, who went to New Orleans to cover the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and found himself in a boat rescuing people from the flood water. No need for those sorts of stereotypes (fear of which cropping up are also keeping me away from Sleepy Hollow, have to say). Anyway, Goodman's telephone argument with a US TV station had way more relevance to the story than anything a Brit might say.
Not much of a review, I know. It's nice to see Bunk and Lester Freamon back on the telly, and I really enjoyed the Slim Charles cameo in episode 4. Shall be on the watch out for any more appearances by alumni of The Wire.
I didn't mean to go so long without posting (it's two whole days!) but I've been writing. Yes, really. I'm 4000 words into the last in my Spike/Giles season 7 series, and beginning to think I may actually finish it this year after all. Hoorah! I've also written several more chapters of that Ten Years After thing, but am not much closer to working out What Is Going On.
Speaking of Spike/Giles, what is wrong with the 'ship anyway (as opposed to other non-canon 'ships like Spike/Xander)? I saw a rather good comment fic the other day on a community actually called
comment_fic, in a post entitled 'Ships of Shame. Apparently, according to the writer of this post, Spike/Giles is one of those. I don't get it. Can anyone explain why (beyond the obvious, Spike is Evil etc, etc, because that doesn't seem to bother the Spander 'shippers as far as I can see)?But anyway, yay! for writing. The other thing I've been doing this week is finally starting to watch Treme. This is the first David Simon show I've watched since The Wire (I have Generation Kill on the shelf but am reluctant to tackle it), and so far I love it to bits.
Mild spoilers behind cut, as I've only seen four episodes of season 1 as yet. No spoilers please.
Of course, I've never been to New Orleans, but as far as I can tell the show is very authentic. It helps that, like in The Wire, Simon has used a huge array of local talent, including some musicians playing themselves. It also helps, I would imagine, that Wendell Pierce (Bunk from The Wire) who plays trombonist Antoine Batiste, is a native of New Orleans.
So far, the show is moving very slowly. Various storylines are evolving, and will evolve further over time (I assume). One character (Steve Zahn's Davis McAlary) started off being so obnoxious in the first episode you wanted to slap him, but has already become so complex after only four episodes that - well, you still want to slap him, but you also want to see him in more scenes. And all through the show, in every episode so far, there's music. Wonderful, wonderful music.
In fact, the only false note (that's a pun, see?) for me so far came in the pilot episode, when John Goodman's character was being interviewed by a British TV presenter, who was the usual supercilious bore and snob that Americans seems to imagine such people are. Did not like that, and felt annoyed for the sake of John Snow, the anchorman of Channel 4 over here, who went to New Orleans to cover the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and found himself in a boat rescuing people from the flood water. No need for those sorts of stereotypes (fear of which cropping up are also keeping me away from Sleepy Hollow, have to say). Anyway, Goodman's telephone argument with a US TV station had way more relevance to the story than anything a Brit might say.
Not much of a review, I know. It's nice to see Bunk and Lester Freamon back on the telly, and I really enjoyed the Slim Charles cameo in episode 4. Shall be on the watch out for any more appearances by alumni of The Wire.