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Things are looking decreasingly good about Iceland. I feel a strong urge to resort to all the Farscape curses I know (okay, granted, not all that many, but still). I filed a request for a passport yesterday - they were missing something in the file! But no, they couldn't have told me yesterday, that would have meant my file would have been complete after all. *sigh*
I have very, very little hope left. Thanks, Joss, mate. Sometimes I just plain hate chance.
On the good side, my brother reviewed The tear of a warrior, and a hell of an interesting, challenging review it was.
As I figured, his view of Vicious and mine didn't much agree, and I unknowingly had him read his first slash (or yaoi, as they say) fic, after four years of his trying not to read any. Sorry! *sheepish grin* (Which got me thinking about the labels you put on fiction, which I don't much like. You tell a story, not a slash story. Just a story. If two men just so happen to get it on in it, well it's part of the story. I sure as hell didn't *plan* to write that, until I realised I had no choice, the story needed it.)
He thought the story might have been better if I had stuck to the show more, but to explain what was *not* said on the show and make my own story from it was my very aim, so... Besides, Cowboy Bebop is quite amazing in everything it can convey in just a few images and words, so sticking to the show overly would simply have felt far too redundant.
Finally, he raised the issue of the structure. Linear=boring, for him (he found the whole first part about Gren's growing-up not interesting enough, actually, which rather saddened me - was it boring to you guys?). Now I'm wondering about that. *Could* the story get better if I worked on the structure? And mostly, should we make it a goal to always be original? It's a constant desire in today's artists, to be original. To do something new. I'm not saying copycats should abound, but I think it might have been Mark Twain who said something along the lines of, to be original is simply to be able to hide your inspiration.
We should strive for something new, yes, but I, first, wonder whether we really can attain it. Nothing truly new is created, it's all about transformation. Can you truly create out of nothing? I doubt it. Moreover, and more to the point, should we obsess about being so original so damned much? Shouldn't we just go with the flow of our muses, and stribe to do something *good*? If it is truly good, it is bound to be special in its own way. Originality should stem from quality, and not the other way around.
Let's take the examples of Buffy, or Firefly. To me, two masterpieces of TV shows, and their very originality stems from the mix of pre-existing stuff they lean on. Original, yet so far from new.
(Or is it me just overthinking things?)
On another topic altogether, found another scarred man I like - or rather, liked a whole good deal when I was a kid: Captain Harlock! I'm not sure he qualifies, since I'm very much not obsessed with him anymore. But he might have started it all.
Also finished watching Cowboy Bebop. I have to say, I actually liked Ed by the end, which I did not think would happen. She must be quite a lot of fun to write! That show is incredibly good. They have amazing ideas, fascinating, complex characters, and that soundtrack... that soundtrack. (And before any of you remarks that Jet has a scar, yes, I know. And I love his character. But I'm not obsessed with him. Yet. Might come, though. Who knows. We'll see after I write him, if I ever do.)
For some reason, I have a strong urge to do capoeira again. Something that requires physical effort, but also focus. Something physical on which I can concentrate, really, pour myself into and stop being anything but the movement for a while.
I have very, very little hope left. Thanks, Joss, mate. Sometimes I just plain hate chance.
On the good side, my brother reviewed The tear of a warrior, and a hell of an interesting, challenging review it was.
As I figured, his view of Vicious and mine didn't much agree, and I unknowingly had him read his first slash (or yaoi, as they say) fic, after four years of his trying not to read any. Sorry! *sheepish grin* (Which got me thinking about the labels you put on fiction, which I don't much like. You tell a story, not a slash story. Just a story. If two men just so happen to get it on in it, well it's part of the story. I sure as hell didn't *plan* to write that, until I realised I had no choice, the story needed it.)
He thought the story might have been better if I had stuck to the show more, but to explain what was *not* said on the show and make my own story from it was my very aim, so... Besides, Cowboy Bebop is quite amazing in everything it can convey in just a few images and words, so sticking to the show overly would simply have felt far too redundant.
Finally, he raised the issue of the structure. Linear=boring, for him (he found the whole first part about Gren's growing-up not interesting enough, actually, which rather saddened me - was it boring to you guys?). Now I'm wondering about that. *Could* the story get better if I worked on the structure? And mostly, should we make it a goal to always be original? It's a constant desire in today's artists, to be original. To do something new. I'm not saying copycats should abound, but I think it might have been Mark Twain who said something along the lines of, to be original is simply to be able to hide your inspiration.
We should strive for something new, yes, but I, first, wonder whether we really can attain it. Nothing truly new is created, it's all about transformation. Can you truly create out of nothing? I doubt it. Moreover, and more to the point, should we obsess about being so original so damned much? Shouldn't we just go with the flow of our muses, and stribe to do something *good*? If it is truly good, it is bound to be special in its own way. Originality should stem from quality, and not the other way around.
Let's take the examples of Buffy, or Firefly. To me, two masterpieces of TV shows, and their very originality stems from the mix of pre-existing stuff they lean on. Original, yet so far from new.
(Or is it me just overthinking things?)
On another topic altogether, found another scarred man I like - or rather, liked a whole good deal when I was a kid: Captain Harlock! I'm not sure he qualifies, since I'm very much not obsessed with him anymore. But he might have started it all.
Also finished watching Cowboy Bebop. I have to say, I actually liked Ed by the end, which I did not think would happen. She must be quite a lot of fun to write! That show is incredibly good. They have amazing ideas, fascinating, complex characters, and that soundtrack... that soundtrack. (And before any of you remarks that Jet has a scar, yes, I know. And I love his character. But I'm not obsessed with him. Yet. Might come, though. Who knows. We'll see after I write him, if I ever do.)
For some reason, I have a strong urge to do capoeira again. Something that requires physical effort, but also focus. Something physical on which I can concentrate, really, pour myself into and stop being anything but the movement for a while.