Ravished by art
Jul. 21st, 2008 02:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grinninfooleIt's late, and I don't want to take to stay too much later, but I MUST post about this.
(No, not Nouri al-Maliki's interview in Der Spiegel in which he basically endorses Obama's timetable for troop withdrawal....though I'm depressed how poorly covered this story is by my regular news sources.)
No, I want to remark on how, recently, I have been emotionally overwhelmed by art. Lots of it.
Last month, it was the half-season finale of BSG.
Then, a couple of weeks ago, it was the Doctor meeting, maybe, the woman of his lifetime, in Silence In The Library and Forest Of The Dead.
in just the last few days, it's been relentless.
Dr. Who struck again with Turn Left, and bids fair to wring me dry with the two part finale. (Rose is back, and the cloister bell is ringing, and I hear rumors of lots of old characters returning! My nickel is on Davros for this year's secret antagonist, though how he's managed to step up to shutting off the stars is a puzzle.)
Then, Avatar The Last Airbender at last aired its final seven episodes, culminating in a two hour movie that was amazingly good.
Then, Joss Whedon dropped Dr. Horrible on me.
And tonight, I saw Dark Knight. And it was just... wow. So many good performances--Heath Ledger, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Maggie Gyllenhall..... A genuinely intelligent, interesting, morally complex script. A well-shot action film in which I could usually tell what was going on.
And, now, I'm overloaded. I can't take any more awesome.
I need to decompress for a bit.
And, man, do I really feel the need to get to work on my writing. I want to wow millions of other people like this.
(No, not Nouri al-Maliki's interview in Der Spiegel in which he basically endorses Obama's timetable for troop withdrawal....though I'm depressed how poorly covered this story is by my regular news sources.)
No, I want to remark on how, recently, I have been emotionally overwhelmed by art. Lots of it.
Last month, it was the half-season finale of BSG.
Then, a couple of weeks ago, it was the Doctor meeting, maybe, the woman of his lifetime, in Silence In The Library and Forest Of The Dead.
in just the last few days, it's been relentless.
Dr. Who struck again with Turn Left, and bids fair to wring me dry with the two part finale. (Rose is back, and the cloister bell is ringing, and I hear rumors of lots of old characters returning! My nickel is on Davros for this year's secret antagonist, though how he's managed to step up to shutting off the stars is a puzzle.)
Then, Avatar The Last Airbender at last aired its final seven episodes, culminating in a two hour movie that was amazingly good.
Then, Joss Whedon dropped Dr. Horrible on me.
And tonight, I saw Dark Knight. And it was just... wow. So many good performances--Heath Ledger, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Maggie Gyllenhall..... A genuinely intelligent, interesting, morally complex script. A well-shot action film in which I could usually tell what was going on.
And, now, I'm overloaded. I can't take any more awesome.
I need to decompress for a bit.
And, man, do I really feel the need to get to work on my writing. I want to wow millions of other people like this.
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Date: 2008-07-21 01:28 pm (UTC)I really liked Midnight, which gave the Doctor a much needed reminder that for all his powers, he is mortal.
I still don't like Donna Noble too much (all too often, she is anything but noble), but Turn Left was very good, and Catherine Tate did an excellent job of carrying an episode by herself. And boy was it good to hear the cloister bell..though I wish they'd retire "Bad Wolf."