Popping the cherry
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sirona_ficsSaw my first episode of Hawaii Five-0 tonight, and -- yeah, okay, yes, I can see now what all the fuss is about. Aaaaand now I have to download all the episodes so far, which is a whole world of NOT GOOD since I have five weeks of exams coming up reeeeealy soon (like, next week soon). Ergo, this is a VERY BAD IDEA.
Doesn't look like that's going to stop me any. :/
I'm still stuck stuck stuck with my writing. I have three stories that are 2/3 done, and I can concentrate on finishing neither. On top of that I got my next Arthur/Eames exchange assignment (due 1st Feb), I have one A/E story planned out but not started, and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bugeyedmonster gave me one hell of a Sherlock plot bunny yesterday.
This is me, running around in a panic, frantically waving my arms around in desperation for any kind of muse interference. He's being an utter arse, and not in a nice way, either. He's pretty much hanging out of a window smoking his way through an entire pack of fags, shoving two fingers up at me with a sneer when I try to talk to him (he's starting to look more and more like Sherlock these days, complete with grumpy sulk). BUT IN MY HEAD. /0\
Scatterbrain = me today (and I thought I'd finally get the chance to write now that the hols are over). Doesn't help that I spent pretty much the entire day re-reading the twelve chapters of Jesse's Jack Saturday Can't Fail written so far (and flailing no end in excitement over Jack's backstory that Jesse just posted). WHY BRAIN WHY.
ANYWAY. Spent 45 minutes peeling Brussel sprouts and chestnuts tonight, in the process cutting my thumb under my fingernail. My fingers hurt. My brain hurts. It's been a shitty day all round. :/
Doesn't look like that's going to stop me any. :/
I'm still stuck stuck stuck with my writing. I have three stories that are 2/3 done, and I can concentrate on finishing neither. On top of that I got my next Arthur/Eames exchange assignment (due 1st Feb), I have one A/E story planned out but not started, and
bugeyedmonster gave me one hell of a Sherlock plot bunny yesterday. This is me, running around in a panic, frantically waving my arms around in desperation for any kind of muse interference. He's being an utter arse, and not in a nice way, either. He's pretty much hanging out of a window smoking his way through an entire pack of fags, shoving two fingers up at me with a sneer when I try to talk to him (he's starting to look more and more like Sherlock these days, complete with grumpy sulk). BUT IN MY HEAD. /0\
Scatterbrain = me today (and I thought I'd finally get the chance to write now that the hols are over). Doesn't help that I spent pretty much the entire day re-reading the twelve chapters of Jesse's Jack Saturday Can't Fail written so far (and flailing no end in excitement over Jack's backstory that Jesse just posted). WHY BRAIN WHY.
ANYWAY. Spent 45 minutes peeling Brussel sprouts and chestnuts tonight, in the process cutting my thumb under my fingernail. My fingers hurt. My brain hurts. It's been a shitty day all round. :/
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Date: 2011-01-05 12:50 am (UTC)Just watched ep 4. I'm pleased with the authenticity in general... they do a good job about not fucking around with the locations, and they serve up some local color in small bites, digestible by a mainland/international audience. The extras and small parts are all obviously local actors... which makes sense for cheaper casting, but. It's nice to see.
I had trouble buying Steve's supposed localness. I mean, okay, not every kama'aina haole has a pidgin accent (my family generally doesn't), but he had a faint extra accent that didn't belong. I looked up the actor and he's Australian. So I guess he's got one "American" accent in his repertoire, and that's the one he's doing, nevermind that it's out of place in the islands. XD;
I lol'd when they supposedly went to Moloka'i (it was still very obviously O'ahu, including one very obvious landmark and one less-obvious but recognizable one). I was pleased when Detective Kelly said it was a bad idea to drink the stream water, but they definitely dramatized the heck out of that– leptospirosis is a problem statewide, not just on Moloka'i, and symptoms would take days or weeks to appear, if at all, not guaranteed kicking in in an hour.
Overall... yeah, Steve and Danny (lol, I love that he doesn't want to be called Danno... "Book 'em, Danno" is a classic line) have some pretty good banter, but it doesn't really grab me the way, for instance, Peter and Neal did. The writing in the show doesn't grab me either... it's rather thoroughly mediocre, in my opinion. But they haven't done anything bad, and in fact they're being very careful with authenticity, so I don't have to march over to the set and start punching people. ;) And it's highly enjoyable for the "locate that Hawaiian landmark!" game, which I (and everyone in Hawaii) love to play whenever something's filmed here.
I'll watch those other two episodes and see what I think. I doubt I'll be going out of my way to watch it, but I don't hate it, and on the whole I'm fairly pleased, so.
AND THAT'S MY KAMA'AINA OPINION.