Day 3: Your favorite new show (aired this TV season).



I'm one of the apparently very few people who liked and was satisfied with the Battlestar finale, but even I was skeptical about Caprica at first. This doubt was not assuaged by the pilot, which was rocky, overwritten, and not particularly compelling for all that there were a few nice moments. But the first nine episodes of the show proper got better every week, until the mid-season finale made it clear that this was going to be a show that while very different from Battlestar was still able to compete with it. This is less a show about how the Cylons were made and more about why they decided to destroy humanity; that said, for as dark as it can be, it's also a very human show. A lot of the time when I watch TV, characters do mean, dumb, ignorant things for no other reason than to further the plot, or because it seems that no one knows how to write a flawed yet sympathetic character. Not so with Caprica - they all have problems, and everyone seems emotionally stunted in one way or another, yet they're all so wonderfully real and human that it can be difficult to watch, knowing that they're all going to die.

The Caprica mid-season finale was EPIC. Although I am totally sick of the network's insistence on splitting up a season with a long hiatus; the show won't be back until October. That's ridiculous.

It had been three months since my last sleep paralysis incident, so I suppose I was due. And it was my own fault for thinking about Slenderman so much. A couple of nights ago, I dreamed that I heard my bedroom door open, and when I rolled over Slenderman was standing in the doorway; I immediately woke up, and thank goodness my door was actually shut. I fell back asleep pretty quickly. Then I dreamed that my bedroom door opened again, but in the dream I assumed that someone had pushed it open because I was late for work, so I scrambled out of bed and made my way into the hallway only to find myself face to face with Slenderman. This time when I woke up, I was frozen, and it was a good, solid thirty seconds before I unlocked. When I'm desperately trying to move and I can't, I end up feeling like I'm vibrating or even shaking, sometimes very violently, even though I'm sure I'm not actually really moving at all - it's very unpleasant. I don't have this type of paralysis as often as the other kind, where I wake up normally enough and only gradually realize I can't move, usually in conjunction with some kind of hallucination. Even though waking up from a nightmare and not being able to move sucks, I prefer it to the latter kind, because I usually don't feel like I'm going to die and I'm not actually feeling anything, just freaked out and unable to check my surroundings out.

Aside from that, it's been pretty boring 'round these parts. I'm so, so close to being done with this draft of my Lizzie Borden script, and I figure it'll take me about a week to do a light edit and polish, so that's scheduling up pretty well. Laura and I are thinking of renting a table at the local craft fair coming up next month; I'll have some pics maybe this upcoming week.