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[felis_ultharus]

So I'm finally beginning to feel a little more human this weekend. Since the election in October, I've had the stress of a massive financial report hanging over me, and that stress was really eating into me.

I've been tense, irritable, depressed, stressed, distant, and generally unhappy for months, with recurring writer's block. But the auditor got the report back to us on Friday, montrealais brought it into my workplace, and I got everything signed, sealed, and delivered on Friday afternoon -- one business day before the deadline.

Then I collapsed, and slept for what felt like only the second time in five months. I was half-asleep at em_fish's birthday get-together, and I'm only just beginning to feel kind-of awake today.

I finished Payback -- not very coherent, though Massey Lectures rarely are, but I was still surprised to see Margaret Atwood rambling so aimlessly. She's usually so focused.

It was still a really interesting read, though. Her Christmas Carol re-imagined for the 21st century as an Earth Day Carol with its three spirits -- a Pagan earth priestess for past, a hippie for present, and a giant cockroach for Earth-Day-yet-to-come -- was hilarious, though heavy-handed even by Atwood's standards.

I also saw The Watchman, which people kept saying was like the comic panel-for-panel. Sadly exempt were the best panels, those full-page ones near the end. Still worth watching, though.

Comments

[rlf-2583.livejournal.com]

Glad you're feeling better!

I was thinking of seeing Watchmen, but I felt like it was a rip off of all the other superpower hero-type things that have been done.

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

With The Watchmen, it's sort of a situation of things coming full circle. Between the comics panic of the 1950s and the time The Watchmen was written between 1985 and 1987, comics were goofy, technocolour, lacking in any real depth.

After The Watchmen comic, all the gritty re-interpretations came out, and all the series were pretty heavily re-examined. So The Watchmen led to versions of the Batman myth like in Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, and to versions of Spiderman like in the movies.

It only made sense then to do the one that re-launched the superhero comic (even if the whole point of the The Watchmen was to show how messed up the superhero comic was).

That said, the movie could've have been done better. The point of the comic -- that you wouldn't really want to live in a world with superheroes, even if there were no supervillains -- was kind of lost.

[lux-apollo.livejournal.com]

Glad things are better. I hope the writers' block wanes as your energy returns.

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Thank you. It's appreciated :)