An Update

[findmeinthealps]

It seems I started using Twitter and immediately abandoned my dreamwidth for many months, my bad. I want to try and write more frequent posts again next year, and since I'm currently on a Twitter break I might as well start getting back into the habit. So hi!

I'm on holiday break, and a little sick, like most people seem to be right now, but nothing too bad. I saw the Rise of Skywalker and ended up hating it. Which sucks for many reasons, but mostly because there are still Star Wars vids I want to make, and I need to figure out how to deal with this movie. Right now I'm having a hard time even with the thought of having to go through it for clips. Maybe with a little more time and distance I'll get over that though.

Other than that, vidding is going great. I already finished two projects for Festivids and am working on a possible third. I should do one of those end of the year memes since I actually finished a lot of vids this year. I'm really happy with how things have gone. When the year started, I was making a lot of plans (my first Festivids, Vid Big Bang, two cons) and I had no idea whether I was going to be able to stick with it and finish all those projects, but I did it! It feels really good to be this productive again and I hope I can keep it up next year.

I also just finished watching the new season of the Expanse, which I mostly loved but have to say felt too short in the end. Especially the Bobbie, Chrisjen and Drummer/Ashford plotlines felt more like setup for the next season than actual story arcs. These are some of my favorite characters and it was a little excruciating for them to be so trapped and static. I hope the next season gets things moving again.

Oh, and I started playing Pokemon Go again. If anyone wants to be friends, hmu in the comments.

Comments

[dirty_diana]

I so enjoy hearing about people's great vidding years. I thought Bobbie and Chrisjen had pretty good seasons - their characters were emotionally in transition, but that's a real life state that I thought they communicated clearly enough, though they could hit more notes with it, especially in Chrisjen's case. (I thought the Arjun recast dragged things down a bit.) Drummer was definitely just treading water though, and it was too bad after she had a great Season 3.

[findmeinthealps]

Yeah don't get me wrong, I did enjoy the emotional arcs that the characters went through and thought they were well done, I just wish they'd had more plot to accompany them. Especially with Bobbie, I kept waiting for the big reveal of what was going on and then the reveal ended up being... that there was something going on, and she's gonna figure it out next season. I hope that pays off.

I haven't read the books so I don't know how faithful the show is, or how far along they are in the book plot, but it felt a little like maybe those characters weren't around for this part, but the show creators didn't want to cut them out so they put in the setup for what happens later? Which I guess would be fair enough, it just frustrated me a little. But I still like and trust the show so I will wait and see.

[dirty_diana]

but it felt a little like maybe those characters weren't around for this part, but the show creators didn't want to cut them out so they put in the setup for what happens later

I haven't read the books either but I just read a comment that suggests that this is exactly the case! (For Bobbie at least, it didn't mention the others.)

[findmeinthealps]

Right, that makes sense then! I guess they did their best.