1. I’m not ready to concede that Pith In The Wind is the new local center around which blogs can rally, a la NiT. I’m sorry, but my memory (for some things) is long, and I don’t forget the snide remarks and belittling attitude the Scene had toward bloggers back when their paper had money and readers who weren’t online. Now that they’ve seen a marked decrease in both they are coming late to the party. I’ve checked. The staff behind the redesigned bits are largely the same folks who were there before making the with the snide.
2. Battlestar Galacatica. What was that? I’m not yet ready to just write off Earth. In fact, I’m mighty pissed off about the whole thing. The whole point of the show was that they were striving for something better. In this case, a permanent home on Earth. For them to get to Earth and have it be nonviable within an hour is just…well, it makes me not give a crap about the show from here on out. And I’m certainly not wasting the time and energy to tune into the Caprica show.
3. Can we call a moratorium on spelling criticism on the blogs. Unless you’re writing specifically about a grammatical or syntactical issue a spelling criticism is the most out of left field, unconstructive thing you can leave behind. I mention this because in the middle of Friday’s tense, intense exchange about deep ideas, multi-millenial major religions, writing styles and responsibility to one’s audience, somebody dropped in and pointed out that I can’t spell “semitic”. Thanks. That was so on point. I also can’t spell seperate, Teusday, and a few other words I have problems with. In case you hadn’t yet cottoned on, all my spelling pitfalls involve the letter “e”. I, with my Indiana accent, tend to write as I speak to myself in my head. Some of the words invariably come out on page the way they “sound” to me in my head as I write them. Yes, I could learn. But, frankly, when I’ve got major thoughts spilling out everywhere, going back and fixing a spelling error is–to me–like making the beds before leaving a burning house. It’s largely pointless, ruins the free flow of things and is really, in the main, too anal for words.
But thanks for playing.
Just Another Pretty Farce 
Wait. Do we think that Pith is the new hangout? I think Facebook is the new hangout, honestly. I just don’t think what Brittney did can really be replicated. I don’t expect that they will ever publicly eat the crow they should eat. And I don’t expect that they will become a place the bloggers who are left want to hang out because a.) we’ve mostly replaced that large group with smaller, more stable groups and we in those groups know where to find each other; b.) they don’t participate in the comments and as long as they don’t actually discuss with each other and their readers the stuff they bring up, who cares?
Oh, I see you’re talking about it over at my place, too. Ha, well, don’t consider my poetry a ringing endorsement of Pith. I think of them as something akin to the jerky cousin who suddenly is way into what you’re doing because he thinks one of your friends is hot.
Pardon me, ma’am. But there are kids on your lawn.
Well, since someone ELSE quit,I decided I could fill the role of Resident Curmudgeon.
Kat, spelling criticisms thrown into the middle of tense, intense discussions aren’t anal, they’re passive-aggressive. At other times they may indicate almost anything, but in the sort of context you mention, they mean “I have no evidence to refute your arguments, and I have no eloquence to present an alternate viewpoint, but what you have written makes me uncomfortable so rather than dealing with it I will explain why I don’t need to consider it: it’s because your spelling is so contemptible.”
And I personally will never feel like gathering at Pith, because it takes too long to load.
I’m not convinced that is Earth. My boss thinks it may be Mars, depending on when this is all taking place. Even though we saw Earth in that pull out shot at the end of last season, when they approached the nuked planet this season we didn’t see any continents or the planet in relation to anything else in our solar system. So there’s hope yet.
(this is all assuming Ron Moore hasn’t said somewhere that this is definitely Earth Earth, but I haven’t seen anything yet)
jag,
RM said it was Earth in an online interview.
Okay, so I’ll get accused of hypocrisy, but I’d heard so much about the episode I caught it on Hulu while cooking dinner last night. I knew all the spoilers so I was able to watch it somewhat divorced from itself.
I’m always amazed when I come to a really popular show in the middle of its production. With absolutely no emotional attachment, I’m able to see it for what it really is: an attempt to get people to continue watching so the studios can sell airtime. That episode of BSG was nihilistic, depressing, and left me with a huge empty feeling. Why would I want to continue watching?
Oh, and one more thing Ron Moore said in the interview was that the show is going to get darker (and may not get lighter).
yay
Can’t I at least continue to poke fun at people who comment that they think something should be illegal because it makes people “dummer?” Please? 😉
Well, shoot. There goes that Earth theory.
It was horribly depressing. Not get lighter? Yay is right.
At least Papadama picked himself up to lead on, even if Roslin didn’t. That may have been the only happy thing. Or near happy thing.
We’ll have to disagree on BSG….I loved every second of the hour and am eager for the next nine.
I am going to weep when this show is done….