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Oct. 28th, 2010 06:31 pmBetween marking and freelance work—let's be honest, I was utterly procrastinating, long past the point of being productive—I finally caught up with the latest season of Sarah Jane Adventures. And found myself relating to children's TV far more than I should.
The thing is, activists on telly are usually portrayed as either one-note earnest martyrs for the cause (not that we don't know people like that, am I right?) or laughable strawpeople, and the latest SJA episode was most decidedly Not That. And despite it being not the best episode ever in terms of narrative, it hit home for me emotionally in a way that I feel the need to babble about.
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The other thing I enjoyed yesterday was the latest installment of Slacktivist's Left Behind reviews. I mean, the posts are always good, but the comments are the big exception to Don't Read the Comments. People have started writing fanfiction. Or, anti-fanfiction, I guess. Basically, ficlets that are Left Behind if it were any good at all: fleshing out stereotypical side characters, calculating a functional resistance, what the disappearances would look like from a Muslim point of view (then, later, a Norse pagan point of view and a Cthulhu-cultist's point of view. The latter had me in stitches.). It's really enjoyable fiction that I want to see made into an actual novel.
The thing is, activists on telly are usually portrayed as either one-note earnest martyrs for the cause (not that we don't know people like that, am I right?) or laughable strawpeople, and the latest SJA episode was most decidedly Not That. And despite it being not the best episode ever in terms of narrative, it hit home for me emotionally in a way that I feel the need to babble about.
( spoilers )
The other thing I enjoyed yesterday was the latest installment of Slacktivist's Left Behind reviews. I mean, the posts are always good, but the comments are the big exception to Don't Read the Comments. People have started writing fanfiction. Or, anti-fanfiction, I guess. Basically, ficlets that are Left Behind if it were any good at all: fleshing out stereotypical side characters, calculating a functional resistance, what the disappearances would look like from a Muslim point of view (then, later, a Norse pagan point of view and a Cthulhu-cultist's point of view. The latter had me in stitches.). It's really enjoyable fiction that I want to see made into an actual novel.
