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baleanoptera) wrote2006-09-26 03:45 pm
baleanoptera) wrote2006-09-26 03:45 pm
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Thoughts in the aftermath of an art historical conference:
-Most young male associate professors use way too many complicated words. This makes their lectures almost impossible to understand, and it makes the debate following the lectures slightly ridiculous. This is especially true if the person asking the question is another young male associate professor – then the communication breakdown is complete. So note to self – go to lectures held by older, female professors. They call a painting a painting, and not a two-dimensional, visual object whose content must be seen in the context of the visual tradition.
-Also avoid lectures that consist completely of theory, as they have no connection to the real world. Okay, this is a pet peeve – but I feel that if theory isn’t connected to one or several examples its use is kind of limited. As any action flick will tell you – it was a good plan, in theory…
-How come on a conference spanning several days, with almost 70 lectures, no one talks about art outside Western Europe? Fine, I’m guilty of this my self, but the fact still worries me.
-Watching BSG and LOTR is a good way to relax when you head is still buzzing with visual theory. I’m still not sure of BSG S2 though – the story keeps telling me that Starbuck is so, so special – and I can’t see it. She shows up in each episode and behaves with the maturity of a five year old, and sulks her way through storyline after storyline. She is really starting to annoy me. And why do all the storylines in the later part of the season depend on the incompetence of the characters? The Pegasus is having trouble – their leader is incompetent. Or there is a hostage situation – Starbuck is incompetent. It just seems sloppy.
-As for LOTR – I still get emotional when Boromir dies. It might be the Sean Bean factor, but still.
-Most young male associate professors use way too many complicated words. This makes their lectures almost impossible to understand, and it makes the debate following the lectures slightly ridiculous. This is especially true if the person asking the question is another young male associate professor – then the communication breakdown is complete. So note to self – go to lectures held by older, female professors. They call a painting a painting, and not a two-dimensional, visual object whose content must be seen in the context of the visual tradition.
-Also avoid lectures that consist completely of theory, as they have no connection to the real world. Okay, this is a pet peeve – but I feel that if theory isn’t connected to one or several examples its use is kind of limited. As any action flick will tell you – it was a good plan, in theory…
-How come on a conference spanning several days, with almost 70 lectures, no one talks about art outside Western Europe? Fine, I’m guilty of this my self, but the fact still worries me.
-Watching BSG and LOTR is a good way to relax when you head is still buzzing with visual theory. I’m still not sure of BSG S2 though – the story keeps telling me that Starbuck is so, so special – and I can’t see it. She shows up in each episode and behaves with the maturity of a five year old, and sulks her way through storyline after storyline. She is really starting to annoy me. And why do all the storylines in the later part of the season depend on the incompetence of the characters? The Pegasus is having trouble – their leader is incompetent. Or there is a hostage situation – Starbuck is incompetent. It just seems sloppy.
-As for LOTR – I still get emotional when Boromir dies. It might be the Sean Bean factor, but still.
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And Starbuck.. don't you think the thing with her is that she is special, up to a certain point, and when her possible development has been fulfilled, she is incapable of going further. But what is expected of her is that she is supposed to just go on moving upwards, when in fact she cant. That is really disappointing, and then we, and Lee and daddy Adama etc. get irritated. Playing on our problem with the inconsistency with our/their earlier picture of her, kind of thing. Then of course there is the whole Anders situation, even though even I can't say (and mean, at the same time) that she handles that very well..
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Sean Bean woman! Bean! *grin*
And Starbuck.. don't you think the thing with her is that she is special, up to a certain point, and when her possible development has been fulfilled, she is incapable of going further.
Well that is how the series portray her, but it tries to tell us something else. Every now and again one of the Cylons talks about how special she is, or someone on the Galactica mentions how amazing Starbuck is - BUT we never see her doing anything amazing or special. At least not in season 2.
As for her moving upwards - I don't need for her to move upwards, but to be something more than a cardboard character. Right now she has two possible reactions to whatever happens - get angry or get drunk. Gods - Ellen Thigh has more layers than her! Cally the deckhand has more layers - and these are minor characters in comparison.
As for Anders. I kind of like Anders - we don't know that much about him, but as of yet he hasn't been annoying so...
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I suspect you are. *grin* Maybe this is Starbuck post Anders - but then it really is sloppy plotting, for we have only seen ten minutes of Starbuck/Anders - and that isn't enough to make me believe she has changed so much.