so much for a Bo-dacious beginning

[fflo]

This afternoon I ended up hanging at the library for much longer than I'd realized I was there; barely got home for the beginning of the ballgame. And before my pizza could even arrive, the Sox were down 6-0. I confess: that was just too depressing, so I watched some of what looked like a Frontline piece on PBS about Bush & Kerry, and then popped in the second DVD in the first season of Six Feet Under (here Lisa caves to disclaimerwill's style of italicizing TV show titles---partly cuz it's just easier than quotation marks, and partly cuz a whole TV series is a body of work bigger'n many movies, so I can get behind it being given large typographical weight/distinction)----SO I didn't realize, as I do looking at the box score now, that the Beantown Hairies came rallying back to within one, 8-7, before losing 10-7. (Maybe it's just as well I wasn't watching.)

Comments

[disclaimerwill.livejournal.com]

Wow- you put a lot more thought into the practice of italicizing than I have! My rationale was basically, "Entertainment Weekly does it, so might as well. Me like slantiness." :)

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I like that poem titles get quotation marks. (Unless they're a whole book, I guess---like you have "Howl" and Howl.) Short stories, too, unless they're borderline novellas. I mean, I like that there's some designation of bigness or something we're trying to indicate with the choice.

[groovesinorbit]

Love yer icon.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Thank ya, ma'am! (Johnny D for you and me!)

[sprig5.livejournal.com]

How do you like Six Feet Under? I think I've watched 2 full seasons on DVD now.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I do like it---rather very! I'm at the end of the first season now. It's dark, yeah, but it ain't like I don't know the darkness of the dysfunctional. It's unabashedly character-driven, and I'm given to understand that the characters do change, and keep on changing, as the show progresses.

I like that it has some fondness for pretty much every (variously screwed-up) character, with the possible exception (I haven't seen much yet) for the dead father. But even he (in his ghost version) has had a few moments. His character is more a subject of concern and investigation and reflection for the other characters, though (particularly the sons), than a character in his own right. And of course he's static, though we may learn more about him.

[sprig5.livejournal.com]

yeah, in all the ones i've seen, they haven't had the daughter use the father much as a subject for reflection, and she wasn't that young when he died, given that he dies the moment the series opens! they like to get into some of the boys' memories that took place before Claire was born, so she does get 'left out.' But then she and Nate, well, sort of, start to bond a little.

i can't remember how far you are, but it seems you might learn a little more about the father.

My comparision of the Sopranos to Six Feet Under:
The Sopranos has bad people who occasionally do good things; Six Feet Under has good people who occasionally do bad things. LTM sorta helped me construct that comparison, although I don't know that she's watched either.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

My comparison of the Sopranos to Six Feet Under:
Both are on DVD, and if I'm no more careful about the second than H & I were about the first, I'll lose track of which one I'm on.

Have to start a log of some sort, as I'm also going through a few other series, as the proper volumes come available at the library.