H50 Ep: Pe'epe'e Kanaka

[the_other_sandy]

Only two episodes left this season, huh? I suspect they may be the last two I ever watch.

I'm kind of in a quandary here. I've never been shy about saying when I didn't like something about an episode, but there's a potential here for me to get really unpleasantly ranty, more so than anyone would find enjoyable to read. I also don't know if it's possible for me to properly articulate why this episode made me so angry. I think it just may be that the sheer number of things in this episode that pushed my buttons achieved critical mass and I'm overreacting. Let me start with the basics and see how far I get.

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Nope, I didn't get far. You can't see it, but I've been writing and deleting and rewriting this entry for over an hour. I think I'm just going to have to let this one go.

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So, umm...

Yay for TPTB sending Danny to PT instead of granting him a magical recovery during the off-week. Boo for the way the "banter" scenes between Steve and Danny have become so mean-spirited.

And you know, I mostly do like Grover, but they really need to stop having him participate in the action scenes. Chi McBride is just not up to it.

Sorry, everyone. There were many issues in this episode that deserved thoughtful and considerate deconstruction. There are many things to be said about the plot, the way Steve talked to Dawn, and the agenda TPTB had for this episode that they pushed so hard they didn't care the episode ran short enough to need two epilogues, including a monologue about fish. But they're not going to be said by me. I need to go read some fic. From another fandom.

Comments

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I used to be a traditional paper book person too, but then I moved into a very small apartment and ran out of room for paper books. The only reason I got an e-reader in the first place was as a space-saving measure, but then it turned out that what I really liked were stories and the stories were the same no matter what I read them on. E-ink screens are actually pretty nice. Overall, I still prefer paper books, but my Nook has been great for both space-saving and for reading enormously long fics.

If you do get an e-reader and want to read fic on it, you should download Calibre (it's free) and the FanFictionDL and EpubMerge plug-ins. FanFictionDL does a much nicer job of creating e-books from fic (there's a major bug in AO3 when it comes to downloading fics that have illustrations, like big bang and reverse bang fics), and using FanFictionDL with EpubMerge allows you to download an entire series as one big fic with each story in the series as its own chapter in the table of contents. It's very cool.

My e-reader pretty old, so there were a lot fewer choices available when I bought it. Tablet e-readers hadn't come out yet, so e-ink was the only option, and the only brands where I live were Kobo, Nook, and Kindle.

I tried a Kobo at an electronics store and hated it. It felt cheap and the page turns were so slow I thought I'd hit the wrong button or something.

Between the Kindle and Nook, I chose the Nook because Amazon had been in the news several times for deleting books that people had paid for from their Kindles, usually "controversial" titles like gay fiction. As a librarian, that deeply offended me. Amazon is also pushier about getting you to buy more titles (their cheapest model is ad-supported, so you get ads pushed at you all the time) so I went with the Nook. I also chose the Nook because there's a brick-and-mortar Barnes & Noble near where I live, and the employees are all trained on it, so you can actually take your Nook there and they can help you if you can't figure out how to do something on it. Since it was my first e-reader, I liked that extra sense of security. That said, I know a lot of people who are perfectly happy with their Kindles, so YMMV.