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    Ladywriter got a reaction from Sledgstone in The Walking Dead Season 4 Episode Discussion [Possible Spoilers]   
    I do want to read it!!!!!  but I've been forcing myself to stay away until the show is a little further along so I can read the stuff slowly so it doesn't catch up to the show. I want to be able to enjoy both tellings of the story without my "the book was better!" getting in the way lol.
    When visual media is done right you can extrapolate volumes of information in one conversation. Body language, tone, setting etc. Art by its very nature is open to interpretation. I like that they have deliberately done things different between tv show and graphic novel. When a Stephen King book gets movied up he usually screws w the ending somehow so it is different then the written piece. When you switch mediums with a story the delivery of some things has to change. You can't read a chapter of back story, you have to do a flashback or have the characters talk about it to deliver that information to the audience. Story format and script format are miles apart. The point is telling a good story worthy of being shared and retold indefinitely.  
     
    BSG pulled off the whole post apocalypse story brilliantly in mutherfuckin space. They changed some things from the original, the big one was making Starbuck a woman. It worked amazing. There was great balance in the show; Bill commanded the military, Laura the citizens. Guias is pushed to greatness by  Caprica 6.Lee outranks Kara but she runs those pilots and he leaves to go into politics.Character growth and relationships on the show was unlike anything I'd ever seen on tv. Series ended well, we got closure and cried a lot. As the show went on a bigger budget gave us awesome battle scenes. Bear McCreary did all the music for BSG and is also doing TWD, SHIELD etc.  
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    Ladywriter got a reaction from DeathscytheX in The Walking Dead Season 4 Episode Discussion [Possible Spoilers]   
    I do want to read it!!!!!  but I've been forcing myself to stay away until the show is a little further along so I can read the stuff slowly so it doesn't catch up to the show. I want to be able to enjoy both tellings of the story without my "the book was better!" getting in the way lol.
    When visual media is done right you can extrapolate volumes of information in one conversation. Body language, tone, setting etc. Art by its very nature is open to interpretation. I like that they have deliberately done things different between tv show and graphic novel. When a Stephen King book gets movied up he usually screws w the ending somehow so it is different then the written piece. When you switch mediums with a story the delivery of some things has to change. You can't read a chapter of back story, you have to do a flashback or have the characters talk about it to deliver that information to the audience. Story format and script format are miles apart. The point is telling a good story worthy of being shared and retold indefinitely.  
     
    BSG pulled off the whole post apocalypse story brilliantly in mutherfuckin space. They changed some things from the original, the big one was making Starbuck a woman. It worked amazing. There was great balance in the show; Bill commanded the military, Laura the citizens. Guias is pushed to greatness by  Caprica 6.Lee outranks Kara but she runs those pilots and he leaves to go into politics.Character growth and relationships on the show was unlike anything I'd ever seen on tv. Series ended well, we got closure and cried a lot. As the show went on a bigger budget gave us awesome battle scenes. Bear McCreary did all the music for BSG and is also doing TWD, SHIELD etc.  
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    Ladywriter got a reaction from Sledgstone in The Walking Dead Season 4 Episode Discussion [Possible Spoilers]   
    There are very few television series that I would call art. Ron Moore's Battlestar Galactica and The Walking Dead are art. With this medium the writing, directing, acting all have to be the tip of the top. I look at each episode, season then series over all. It has to be a thought provoking and emotionally impacting story, the delivery has to be amazing. Not an easy thing to do on the small screen.
     
    I think its awesome they open w Michonne. You see her transition in the ep from someone willing to blend in w the dead to someone who wants to live w people. Her flashback dream sequence was wicked, her first pets, her child, the beginning of the reasons she traveled alone for so long.Flashbacks and conversations are the only way we're going to get back story. She was so different before the zombie plague.  We now know she cried holding Judith because she is mourning her own child. Seeing her walker double made her realize that even if being with the living can be painful its better then being dead emotionally. After slaughtering the herd she goes right back to Rick's tracks and follows them to Carl who she has bonded with. She is so frigin happy to see the kid alive (and I bet she has his shoe)
     
    I imagine Rick saw Michonne w the shoe through the peek hole. When he turns and flops on the couch with that genuine happy amused smile!!! OMG haven't seen that since he found Laurie and Carl...
     
    When Carl yells at his unconscious father... its all shit I woulda said to Rick myself. He had become useless and was dragging others down with him. If he had killed the gov at the start Hershel Andrea Milton Judith (?) could still be alive. He was weak when it came to dealing with external threats. He was a fucking asshole when it came to issues inside the prison. He was a douchenado to Michonne when they first met, she has saved him and his kid repeatedly. She's the only one that went looking for the gov after the shit went down at the prison. And then there is Carol. He was intimidated by her ability to adapt, teach, lead the group and do the hard things alone if necessary (from getting water to burning infected bodies). She found her bravery and Rick lost his so he took his crap out on her. Sending her away was a rape/death sentence, an utterly malicious move he tried to write off as protecting her from Tyreese. The ultimate bullshit was inviting the gov in after kicking Carol out. Rick is broken and has been since he killed Shane.
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    Ladywriter got a reaction from DeathscytheX in The Walking Dead Season 4 Episode Discussion [Possible Spoilers]   
    There are very few television series that I would call art. Ron Moore's Battlestar Galactica and The Walking Dead are art. With this medium the writing, directing, acting all have to be the tip of the top. I look at each episode, season then series over all. It has to be a thought provoking and emotionally impacting story, the delivery has to be amazing. Not an easy thing to do on the small screen.
     
    I think its awesome they open w Michonne. You see her transition in the ep from someone willing to blend in w the dead to someone who wants to live w people. Her flashback dream sequence was wicked, her first pets, her child, the beginning of the reasons she traveled alone for so long.Flashbacks and conversations are the only way we're going to get back story. She was so different before the zombie plague.  We now know she cried holding Judith because she is mourning her own child. Seeing her walker double made her realize that even if being with the living can be painful its better then being dead emotionally. After slaughtering the herd she goes right back to Rick's tracks and follows them to Carl who she has bonded with. She is so frigin happy to see the kid alive (and I bet she has his shoe)
     
    I imagine Rick saw Michonne w the shoe through the peek hole. When he turns and flops on the couch with that genuine happy amused smile!!! OMG haven't seen that since he found Laurie and Carl...
     
    When Carl yells at his unconscious father... its all shit I woulda said to Rick myself. He had become useless and was dragging others down with him. If he had killed the gov at the start Hershel Andrea Milton Judith (?) could still be alive. He was weak when it came to dealing with external threats. He was a fucking asshole when it came to issues inside the prison. He was a douchenado to Michonne when they first met, she has saved him and his kid repeatedly. She's the only one that went looking for the gov after the shit went down at the prison. And then there is Carol. He was intimidated by her ability to adapt, teach, lead the group and do the hard things alone if necessary (from getting water to burning infected bodies). She found her bravery and Rick lost his so he took his crap out on her. Sending her away was a rape/death sentence, an utterly malicious move he tried to write off as protecting her from Tyreese. The ultimate bullshit was inviting the gov in after kicking Carol out. Rick is broken and has been since he killed Shane.
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    Ladywriter got a reaction from Sledgstone in Impact of technology in your lives   
    I grew up in the country 3 miles from the lake. No video games no internet. I never even owned a computer until my kids were 3 and 5. I didn't get a cell until after I broke down w the car one night on the gorge road (scary). In my teens I worked on a farm where the most tech savvy thing I did was drive tractor. After that I worked retail at the time everything was transitioning to bar code scanners. I stuck with retail until it got to the point where I needed to be home w my kids full time, I was working to pay a baby sitter. It wasn't until my youngest started school that I actually had time to do something on the computer. I met Sledgers that year .
    Early on I realized the best part of the net was the free education I get from the fucking thing. Before internet I read a lot of books. With internet I spend most of my reading time studying the topics of internist to me. Facebook is convenient for communicating sometimes, but I use my wall like the corporate tool it is and share things like animals that need rescue, politics, new science etc. Personal stuff stays in private messages. I have no interest in broadcasting what I cooked for dinner or what I think of what so and so did. Not into the gossipy celeb bullshittery. I've made friends with other activists via fb and its hella convenient for sharing articles. My news feed is mostly news. I use it to get all the crap I wanna look at in one place. 
    Video games... well I OCD that shit. I find a game I like and I will master that motherfucker. I can multi task while playing. Boss fight in the middle of cooking dinner no problemo. My hands have some playstation ninja muscle memory thing going on.      
    I read on my phone a lot cuz I'm outside with chu. Endless streaming education, love it. I have read a novel on my phone; Stephen King's Cell of course. Texting is usually how I talk to my kids. I send my mom and his cute chu pics.
    As far as kids go, they're not just expensive they're time consuming. Evey time I go to a fucking Walmart I encounter parents not parenting and their out of control kid results climbing in the frozen food. Fuck that shit dude I get right away from that. If you're going to have kids you have to do the time or you'll create assholes the rest of us have to deal with. You have to pour your time into a kid. Toilet training a kid can take months. A cat will learn to shit in the box within two weeks.... I'm very pro furbaby. Marriage is involving the state in your personal life, a license is cheap compared to the cost of a divorce which pretty much benefits lawyers only.The benefits of marriage should out weigh the the consequence of being legally bound to the other person or don't bother. Been married and divorced and with the old man for thirteen years not getting married no need.    
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    Ladywriter reacted to DeathscytheX in YT thread   
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    Ladywriter got a reaction from Sledgstone in Dr. Who   
    I'll always remember when the doctor was me ....
    gonna miss Matt but looking forward to new adventures with Peter
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    Ladywriter got a reaction from Sledgstone in Once Upon a Time   
    I had this in my Netflix cue forever, a week or so ago  I put it on "in the background" when I was doing crap online and ...it sucked me in, quick.
    Snow White thieving, fighting and stabbing mo fos? I'm all in. The show is an awesome twist on all old fairytales. Very creative, it gives such depth to characters we thought we knew all our lives. I'm loving the Rumpelstiltskin and Regina stuff  The Grumpy back story ep was a fav.
    We're in season 2, probably gonna have to check out Once upon a time in Wonderland after we get caught up with this.
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    Ladywriter got a reaction from Sledgstone in I'm 22 and what is this   
    AC is like the zombie virus, we are all infected and (re)turn eventually
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    Ladywriter reacted to Crash in House rant   
    "Lets buy a house" he said
    "It'll be fun"
    "You can have your own garden and paint walls!" he said...
     
    this is the last time we own a house until he retires!!! Those gutters were NASTY!! I want a landlord to complain to about these things at our next location! Sure painting and gardening are fun...but when the pipes froze earlier this week (apparently houses in Charleston SC are not equipped to handle temps in the teens without pipes freezing unlike MD) and guess who is deployed and who is the landlord...me....when the ac broke this past summer (in 100+ weather) whose the land lord....Me!!

    Okay 
     
    small rant over.
     
    p.s. home ownership sucks!
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    Ladywriter reacted to DeathscytheX in YT thread   
    Prepare yourselves
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    Ladywriter got a reaction from Myk JL in YT thread   
    can you say pissed off?
     

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    Ladywriter got a reaction from Sledgstone in YT thread   
    can you say pissed off?
     

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    Ladywriter got a reaction from DeathscytheX in s.CRY.ed   
    *coughEvacough*
    the ending was conclusive and satisfying
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    Ladywriter got a reaction from Sledgstone in YT thread   
    upworthy shared this today.
    it moved me to tears
     

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    Ladywriter reacted to DeathscytheX in The Walking Dead Season 4 Trailer   
    With a month left until Season 4's debut, here is another preview for The Walking Dead.


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    Ladywriter reacted to Sledgstone in The Walking Dead Season 4 Trailer   
    The Walking Dead Season 4 Sneak Peek:
     
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUvpFAYGoWI
     
    Its a commercial for Low Winter Sun for the first half, then a rather pointless Sneak Peek of TWD showing Michonne dismounting her new horse and having some difficulties with a couple walkers. The new season premieres Sunday, October 13th.


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    Ladywriter reacted to DeathscytheX in The Walking Dead Season 4 Trailer   
    Well, here it is! The unveiling of Season 4 which will premier Oct. 13th! It looks pretty freakin' amazing!.
    It looks like they are using elements skipped over in the first part of season 3 from the graphic novel since Tyreese shows up much later in the TV series, while combining it with what has been going on in the graphic novel after the prison. Interestingly enough, there is no sign of the Governor... I expect him to show up at the mid season finale after this mystery killer is found out, and conclude the season with a final resolution. Now that I see how close they are to passing the graphic novel. I understand why they've kept the Governor around. If they proceeded, they'd only have about 2 more seasons of source material.
    Anyways... I CANT WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!
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    Ladywriter got a reaction from Sledgstone in YT thread   
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    Ladywriter reacted to Pchan in YT thread   
    Incredible video of a real glacier calving ... the largest ever recorded ... the sound of the thing is MASSIVE and just amazing, frakkin scary and the size of a city.
     


     

     
     
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    Ladywriter got a reaction from Sledgstone in YT thread   
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    Ladywriter reacted to DeathscytheX in YT thread   
    They should have done this to her:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmdJ4IgGzII
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    Ladywriter reacted to Sledgstone in YT thread   
    Poor Star Trek crew..
     
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF0IhyAasWw
     
    "I will go Super Saiyan!"
     

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