Happy October everyone! Regardless of all the current events I refuse to directly address on my website, it’s always a good month to celebrate ghosts, horrors, and spookiness. A few of my favorite things. I’m glad October already seems to be pulling its weight.
As far as what I’ve been up to lately, I’m happy to report that I have started season three of Gilmore Girls, experienced Mouth Dreams by Neil Cicierega for some reason, and played approximately 40 hours of Breath of the Wild and have successfully climbed many, many mountains without making any progress whatsoever on several ongoing quests and side quests. My computer is technically on its way back to me now (yay!) but I don’t actually know long it will take. At least it’ll be fixed.
Making my way through the television of Fall 2016, I have hit the Week of Thanksgiving which without fail, means all sitcoms attempting to bring about their own version of the Friends turkeyhead incident. It doesn’t seem like news of the 2016 has begun coloring anything in production (I’m expecting to wait until January for that) so it means that all the US shows are happily pretending everything is okay while the one british panel show is going absolutely bonkers about the election because it’s weekly and news-based.
One of the things I have found myself missing on cableless streaming TV is the sense of time passing that goes along with watching a show over the course of the year instead of all at once. Gilmore Girls is particularly excellent at portraying seasons, letting them play out in the background while clothing gets warmer and warmer, until it becomes some sort of plot point and you’re like “oh, it’s snowing.” (It snows a lot in Gilmore, but fall is its best season.) It very rarely does holiday episodes just for the sake of having them, although I don’t mind that from other shows. Watching the B99 and New Girl Thanksgiving episodes reminded me how many network seasons always had episode 6 or 7 at Thanksgiving and episode 9 or 10 at Christmas. With streaming shows it’s a Halloween show (like Stranger Things) or it takes place in a strange amorphous time with no discernible holidays or seasons. And if there are it’s all at once and not doled out at the “appropriate” time. RIP holiday eps essentially.