1) I'm curious how much these are guesses, because this is correct. 'Tis my favorite Shakespeare, indeed.
2) Wonderful play, of course, maybe even objectively better than my favorite play, but no.
3) Definitely not! He was brillaint at times, but othertimes he was just a hack. I left my Shakespeare class in college liking Shakespeare a lot less than I did when I started.
4) Not quite. Firefly doesn't run quite so close to the adolescent fantasy as a certain, erm, fantasy show about adolescents with which we might both be familiar.
5) It is indeed by Heinlein. Some people view this novel as masturbatory, didactic, and self-indulgent. I'm actually part of that "some people." I love it so much.
6) Excellent musical, so much fun, and Kristin Chenowith is awesome. But no.
7) I'm sort of with you as to not seeing it as a fannish text. I think it has to do with different ways of approaching it as a text--it's hard to approach its aesthetics critically when one is busy asking "How many children had Lady Macbeth?"-type questions. Serenity may well be the best action movie ever made in my opinion, and of course it's more than "just" an action movie, but it's still far too concerned with weapons and explosions and not concerned enough with ideas to qualify as my favorite movie. (It probably ranks third or fourth among my favorite movies.)
8) Without a doubt I bow down before Joss' creative genius, and if he put all that effort into screenwriting without dividing his attention between screenwriting, directing, producing, and writing other things like comic books he'd probably rise to the top of the pack without difficulty. But as it stands, no he's not who I was thinking of.
9) I adore Summer to pieces, as you know. I'll fanboy her to the moon and back. But the fact remains that I've only seen her play three different characters, the Russian ballerina in "Waiting in the Wings," River on/in Firefly/"The R. Tam Sessions"/Serenity, and Tess on The 4400. So I don't feel qualified to make a judgment about her as an actress, you know. Summer and Tina are somewhat similar, actually. As long as they play their main characters (River and Mac, obviously) with enough depth, and they keep on being awesome elsewhere (and Summer is very awesome on The 4400, just as Tina was in Napoleon Dynamite) I don't really care if they can act or not. Because they are Summer and Tina. Who are awesome. That's enough for me. I don't particularly want to see Tina do a nuanced performance of Lady Macbeth. Although I do want to see her make Lady Macbeth awesome now. (Nuance would get in the way!)
*tries to plot Summer/Tina RPF* [Although what icon would I use to post it?]
10) That's what Carrie said too. I'm wondering what that says about me, that two of the online people who know me the best think that would be/could be my favorite season. But a very strong no.
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Re: guesses
Date: 2006-08-17 10:02 pm (UTC)2) Wonderful play, of course, maybe even objectively better than my favorite play, but no.
3) Definitely not! He was brillaint at times, but othertimes he was just a hack. I left my Shakespeare class in college liking Shakespeare a lot less than I did when I started.
4) Not quite. Firefly doesn't run quite so close to the adolescent fantasy as a certain, erm, fantasy show about adolescents with which we might both be familiar.
5) It is indeed by Heinlein. Some people view this novel as masturbatory, didactic, and self-indulgent. I'm actually part of that "some people." I love it so much.
6) Excellent musical, so much fun, and Kristin Chenowith is awesome. But no.
7) I'm sort of with you as to not seeing it as a fannish text. I think it has to do with different ways of approaching it as a text--it's hard to approach its aesthetics critically when one is busy asking "How many children had Lady Macbeth?"-type questions. Serenity may well be the best action movie ever made in my opinion, and of course it's more than "just" an action movie, but it's still far too concerned with weapons and explosions and not concerned enough with ideas to qualify as my favorite movie. (It probably ranks third or fourth among my favorite movies.)
8) Without a doubt I bow down before Joss' creative genius, and if he put all that effort into screenwriting without dividing his attention between screenwriting, directing, producing, and writing other things like comic books he'd probably rise to the top of the pack without difficulty. But as it stands, no he's not who I was thinking of.
9) I adore Summer to pieces, as you know. I'll fanboy her to the moon and back. But the fact remains that I've only seen her play three different characters, the Russian ballerina in "Waiting in the Wings," River on/in Firefly/"The R. Tam Sessions"/Serenity, and Tess on The 4400. So I don't feel qualified to make a judgment about her as an actress, you know. Summer and Tina are somewhat similar, actually. As long as they play their main characters (River and Mac, obviously) with enough depth, and they keep on being awesome elsewhere (and Summer is very awesome on The 4400, just as Tina was in Napoleon Dynamite) I don't really care if they can act or not. Because they are Summer and Tina. Who are awesome. That's enough for me. I don't particularly want to see Tina do a nuanced performance of Lady Macbeth. Although I do want to see her make Lady Macbeth awesome now. (Nuance would get in the way!)
*tries to plot Summer/Tina RPF* [Although what icon would I use to post it?]
10) That's what Carrie said too. I'm wondering what that says about me, that two of the online people who know me the best think that would be/could be my favorite season. But a very strong no.