Awake: I think they just tacked that final scene on for no reason. I was thinking, going in, that it couldn't be as ludicrous and nonsensical as the end of Life on Mars, but I might have been wrong about that.
Also, you can tell it's not gonna have a happy ending when the main guy's all bumpy.
Tara ,'First Date'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
-t - May 26, 2012 9:35:06 am PDT #6882 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
§ ita § - May 26, 2012 9:46:41 am PDT #6883 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The ending of Awake pretty much validated my feelings toward it during its season. Those writers were not approaching the initial setup the way I found most interesting, so I figured that the resolution, even if only interim, wasn't going to be in tune with my likes.
And, bingo!
I'm not sure if it makes a liar of the creator or not, since his interviews have gotten vaguer and more coy as time passes.
Unrelatedly, when did folder take over and become a proper synonym for directory? I swear I remember struggling against it for a while, but that might very well have been me resisting Windows 3.1 metaphors. Has it always been thusly on the Mac and other graphical OSes? I don't remember it being that way on UNIX, but I'm not sure.
meara - May 26, 2012 9:59:29 am PDT #6884 of 30001
Once again glad to be in Seattle, where it's currently mid 60s and headed for a high of mid 70s. Whew!
Jealous of all the fruit though--our farmers markets pretty much have greens and root vegetables and that's it.
§ ita § - May 26, 2012 10:15:23 am PDT #6885 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I do miss the world. And the people in it. I might find myself on short term disability, and then I'd be bored beyond belief, because the world is just out there, but it takes me hours to be able to get ready enough to enter it. Or to let it in here, in any form but electronically, or those guys at the door bringing stuff.
DebetEsse - May 26, 2012 10:15:34 am PDT #6886 of 30001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Apparently, the last scene was in the plan from the get-go.
He was also making "the text supports either universe being real" noises, which just makes me roll my eyes.
I believe that I will be living with my headcanon, rather than try to think about what they were trying to convey.
-t, US or UK LoM?
-t - May 26, 2012 10:20:56 am PDT #6887 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
US, Debet.
-t - May 26, 2012 10:28:06 am PDT #6888 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I need to get back into the world on a regular basis. There's a lot of stuff out there I like.
Starting tomorrow.
Lee - May 26, 2012 10:39:11 am PDT #6889 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Hey, SF is in the world.
Do you want to come down to SF and see Avengers and have lunch on Monday?
-t - May 26, 2012 10:40:35 am PDT #6890 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Monday, day after tomorrow? Yes, I think I do! That would be swell.
DebetEsse - May 26, 2012 10:49:17 am PDT #6891 of 30001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
-t, ok, yes. Because the UK one was a whole different kettle of fish.