(no subject)

[proximoception]

Rian Johnson just won whatever you win for that.

Comments

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

At present imdb has the episode at 10/10, with 8000 votes. Can't last but wow.

Was just talking to Julie today about the difference between 4 out of 5 stars for apps reviewed 40 times and those reviewed 4000 times, about how there should be some algorithm to put those on an equal footing.

You know how sometimes you're briefly sad about where art can't go, about the various secret limits preventing any story from being about what it promises to, any hint of which it makes it all taste like cardboard?

That's the real fear that was just assuaged - the collective agitation wasn't about the ending but about how the misbuilt bridge would fall. Depicting which requires not just misbuilding a bridge but a portion of air, two shores, a stretch of river. Hence the gratitude.

For once the promise was kept.

[nightspore.livejournal.com]

I tired of BB. But I would always take your aesthetic advice. So can I watch just that one episode, or do I have to gin up the last two seasons first?

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

Tired is tired. But there's a lot in the 5th season no one should miss, even setting aside the Johnson episodes, so maybe try again after some time's passed?

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

Where'd you stall, btw? I.e. do you mean last two years of shows by "last two seasons?" Or all of 4 and 5? I wrote after season 4 that some of the bloom was gone, that the show had hit some inevitable point where we knew it too well, where its potential to be really new had been spent.

But I'm now wondering if I was wrong, and my other theory that we all mostly hit the same doldrums (e.g. the newspaper section of Ulysses, for people not minding difficulty; not much past "ineluctable modality" for others) is the relevant one - that we just get tired when someone's being tiresome, stop when they stop, but are liable to mistakenly believe the fault's ours for being short-winded or theirs for being long-winded, at any rate assume it's a permanent feature of the relationship and terminate the experience. Where in reality what a shame it is to drop Ulysses at either place.

But if you stopped after 3 that's way different, and something's either wrong with you, me or my theory.

[grashupfer.livejournal.com]

I've watched the pilot four or five times. It has an amazing economy of establishment and I'd say a perfect structure.

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

You're right. But I'm not sure it, or any in the first season, would make my top fifty episodes of the sixty thus far released.

I do this show no favors by hard selling it this way. But I don't know how to stop.

[wolodymyr.livejournal.com]

I'll take anything that says I can enjoy part of it, not having enjoyed eps 1-3.

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

I squinted to see just when it became a real boy on our recent rewatch but couldn't zero in on a particular moment. There's a few silly '90s crime movie tropes still kicking around near the end, even, but you barely register them.