Mar. 9th, 2005

RGB report

Mar. 9th, 2005 09:18 am
camwyn: Me in a bomber jacket and jeans standing next to a green two-man North Andover Flight Academy helicopter. (The boys)
Okay, so, last night I got up enough nerve to watch the first two episodes of Real Ghostbusters on my DVD- 'Ghosts R Us' and 'Killerwatt'.

Short version: the Suck Fairy did not succeed. The cartoon was good. I was happy.
Here's the long version. )

Totally unrelated to any of the above is the fact that I could feel the effects of other fandoms kicking in as I watched. See, for all that I love the main character, "Challenge of the Yukon" was not a good show. It was a radio show written to please an audience that wasn't particularly discriminating; its listeners wanted a clear-cut good guy, an adventure in fifteen (later thirty) minutes, and a nicely dramatic resolution. This is not a formula for great writing or heavy character development. I listened to quite a lot of the series and came away determined to create a viable, realistic version of Sergeant Preston that was still recognizable as the character from the show. The skills involved started patching over a lot of the holes in the two RGB episodes I watched last night. One of the skills in question involved taking what I was listening to or seeing, and mentally rewriting it into something more workable at the same time that I was listening/watching. That helped. So did the fact that if a scene didn't visually ring right, I still had the movie fresh in my head and could easily patch in a live-action version.

In summation: I was relieved that what I saw was still good, and my brain wanted very much to make it even better, so now I can breathe easy and watch other episodes later. Especially if [livejournal.com profile] ladymondegreen still wants to get together for that next week. (Or anyone else in the NYC/NJ area, for that matter.)
camwyn: Me in a bomber jacket and jeans standing next to a green two-man North Andover Flight Academy helicopter. (Default)
Tourism guide for Inuvik arrived today.

Farking Zarquon but it's a million miles from anything.

Looks like it should be fun, though... also I find myself wondering why the bloody thing is laid out in what looks like almost exactly the same pattern as Fairbanks, AK. Well, except for the fact that the river through Fairbanks isn't nearly so enormous....


ooooh, they've got a bookstore. That's always a promising sign. No, seriously.

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