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Summer Days, Ticking Away
So I'm already starting to feel a sort of burn out with my rewatches/completion watches of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and Higurashi When They Cry - not really because of the stories themselves but rather because binge-watching subtitled anime requires me to pay a lot more direct attention to the screen than normal television would. So I decided that either today or within the next couple of days I'm gonna start my viewing of the Fifth Doctor era of Classic Doctor Who. I was going to watch Blake's 7 first, but considering what the world is like right now I can't really bring myself to tackle something like that which is by all accounts very depressing, and somehow it doesn't feel like the right time to do Sapphire & Steel even though I'd also planned to do that at this point. I think what's ultimately going to happen is they're going to join Star Cops and the like in a massive, post-Who watch of other "related" properties, which is probably a better plan if I'm being honest with myself.
Also, I suspect I'm gonna wanna put any binge-watches on hold come mid-September anyway, as I'll be devoting myself to the Halloween season and watching a bunch of horror movies and Halloween and Autumn-themed programming. I started a running list but I need to refine it somewhat. Quarantine may have killed the other activities I had planned but I can still do that much.
I'm getting the stitches out of my finger in slightly under a week and I'm really looking forward to it. I went on the elliptical the other day and while it went fine, the sensation of blood pumping in that respective arm and hand was very disconcerting. I also want to finish up some writing by the month's end, as this month I've just seemed to accumulate working drafts of greater length. I'm also kind of annoyed with myself because one of them is the draft of a prompt that was originally supposed to be completed in June.
As far as Summer itself goes, I'm hopeful to have at least one more instance of "summer plans" over Labor Day weekend, even though it will involve me being essentially isolated in a pool. It's the small victories I guess. Especially since the weather pretty much guarantees any outdoor activities in Autumn will be a no-go. At least Pumpkin Spice has made it's triumphant return.
Also, I suspect I'm gonna wanna put any binge-watches on hold come mid-September anyway, as I'll be devoting myself to the Halloween season and watching a bunch of horror movies and Halloween and Autumn-themed programming. I started a running list but I need to refine it somewhat. Quarantine may have killed the other activities I had planned but I can still do that much.
I'm getting the stitches out of my finger in slightly under a week and I'm really looking forward to it. I went on the elliptical the other day and while it went fine, the sensation of blood pumping in that respective arm and hand was very disconcerting. I also want to finish up some writing by the month's end, as this month I've just seemed to accumulate working drafts of greater length. I'm also kind of annoyed with myself because one of them is the draft of a prompt that was originally supposed to be completed in June.
As far as Summer itself goes, I'm hopeful to have at least one more instance of "summer plans" over Labor Day weekend, even though it will involve me being essentially isolated in a pool. It's the small victories I guess. Especially since the weather pretty much guarantees any outdoor activities in Autumn will be a no-go. At least Pumpkin Spice has made it's triumphant return.
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A twelfth light novel was confirmed the other day (the anniversary of the endless eight) comprised of two of the uncollected short stories along with a new one, and part of me wonders if it'll have a wrap-around band announcing more anime since we're approaching the 20th anniversary and a lot of other properties from the late 90s/early 00s have been getting revivals/remakes lately.
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I've been meaning to watch the Nagato series. I saw Disappearance for the first time recently too, and I was quite taken with it, although I felt I missed a lot because it was before my re-watch of the series.
I'd actually really like to read the light novels, despite all my complaints recently about such works, and whilst I found myself really annoyed by aspects of the show 10 years later, I wouldn't be absolutely adverse to watching something new with these characters... in fact, I think I'd actually quite like it.
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And when it comes to watching stuff, running with the thing you're really into right now is always a good plan. Besides which, it's not as if there's anything like the amount of 1980s Who compared to 1970s (and 1960s), so you may as well go for it.
which is by all accounts very depressing, and somehow it doesn't feel like the right time to do Sapphire & Steel
B7 is hard to explain because in theory it ought to be depressing and it is genuinely set in a pretty bleak and terrible universe but it is actually a lot of fun! It's just a thing where you have huge fun and like everyone (they're all fascinating) and laugh at the mind-boggingly terrible SFX and then in between your heart breaks a bit every so often and even more the next time round and it's all awesome. (Or you realise you have reached maximum Terry Nation exposure around ep3 of S1 and give up, although that would be even sadder.)
Sapphire & Steel OTOH can be a bit depressing indeed. It's also very weird and seeing as you tend not to prefer the weirder DW stuff, you may not like it that much! (But it's unique enough to be worth trying, and it does have some humour. And one evil pillow.)
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The only thing I ever really disliked about his Doctor Who stuff is that he tended to reuse the same tropes and story beats ad naseum, but considering this is a whole show and the other writers involved I very much doubt that'll end up being the case. (Of course, I don't really have a sense of what his writing is like outside of Dalek stories.)
Sapphire & Steel OTOH can be a bit depressing indeed. It's also very weird and seeing as you tend not to prefer the weirder DW stuff, you may not like it that much!
I actually like a fair amount of the weird Doctor Who stuff (I really loved "Horns of Nimon" for example, which *might* be the campiest the show has ever been?) but its also easier for the weirder stuff to fall off the cliff into being completely incomprehensible, and I wanna at least be able to follow what's happening in the story more than anything. I'm surprised to learn Sapphire & Steel can be depressing TBH. I was under the impression was lighter but I haven't actually seen any clips of it.
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Yep. And you can expect to meet them all again over the course of S1!!
B7 is far more cheerful and camp than S&S! It's the most fun bleak thing out there. It's a tragedy, but definitely a Shakespeare tragedy where it's all fun and games and you go large until somebody loses an eye. Or whatever. XD
S&S is weird and inexplicable and I saw that you disliked the brilliantly weird Warrior's Gate, for instance (although that is, tbf, probably even weirder than S&S, which at least never looked like a 1980s pop video), but definitely more in that line, or, say Ghostlight, than Horns of Nimon (which is far too camp for me), so that might be a warning caveat to go in with. It's not necessarily that depressing, but definitely eerie & dark at times and it depends how you take stuff like Assignments 2, 4 and 6 in particular, really. It is unique and mysterious, though, and well worth giving a try. Certainly, you will see that it influenced DW from its arrival, rather than the other way round, which is cool. I love it.
ETA: Btw, if you are doing a seasonal watch, you could even throw S&S in, because there's not very much of it and it's basically all creepy hauntings of some kind, even if A3 and A6 come from a different direction.