Catching up

[erinwrites]

I've been working a lot lately, which means no access to LJ during school hours. I am, however, able to update erin-go-blog. Here's what I've been up to:

( I reviewed peanut butters ) (and forgot Kraft! Sorry, Walter!)

( I gave a reading, watching, listening update )

( I wrote erin-go-blog's guide to the Dixie Chicks )

There's a few other random things, too, but I'll let you browse on your own, should you be so inclined.

So, what'd you think of Heroes? I cried...

Comments

[ldwheeler.livejournal.com]

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I thought it was very well done. Didn't cry, though: For some reason, I just haven't been able to like/identify with Peter as much as the writers clearly want us to. We hear from people how strong and loving and decent and intelligent he is, and we see him doing things that back up those assertions ... the characterization is well-done. And yet ... I just don't feel an identification with or connection with him as I do to, say, Hiro or Claire or even her father.

If you've ever read the Claremont/Byrne X-Men run (ask Rand), Peter's a bit like Cyclops/Jean to me: Yes, they're noble and passionate and all that but ... I can't bring myself to really care about them. (Granted, that might be because I read those issues years after the fact, knowing that the Jean character would be revived later -- and killed again, and revived again, and killed again, etc. etc. etc. One writer did a riff on that several years ago when one of the other characters was being all self-pitying and emo: "Oh, please, let's have some perspective. I've been killed so many times I've lost count."

Was it just me, or did D.L. seem a lot more conclusively dead last week than he apparently was? For that matter, have we really seen the last of Linderman?

(I was rather hoping to see Christopher Eccleston's character again. Maybe next season.)

[allisona.livejournal.com]

Well, there you go, 'cause I've really liked Peter from the beginning, though I've felt like the only one who has :). I warmed to the character from the beginning, been with him all the way and was really terrified throughout last night's episode that he was going to die (and will have to wait until fall to know for sure whether or not he has).

Still, the unexpected sacrifice of -both- Petrellis last night had me a bit too outraged to cry (though it was a wonderfully touching moment). I'm still fangirlish enough to hope they find ways to bring them both back next season. Anything can happen in a comic book...

[lord-korak.livejournal.com]

"( I reviewed peanut butters ) (and forgot Kraft! Sorry, Walter!)"

Hey, I figured you were only reviewing locally available peanut butters so Kraft wouldn't be in there. :-)