Just two more episodes of season five of Lost left. And then season six, of course, and then the super special epilogue, and then I am done!
The existence of the epilogue frustrates me, to some degree. Like, it shouldn't be needed because the story should've been wrapped up by the last episode, but whatever. I'm done being mad with this show now.
I said on twitter, and I'm going to repeat it here, that I have no idea why I got so mad with the show in the first place. I can only conclude that it was a combination of the elitist fans (and holy shit there were some) and the showrunners being jerks (which they were. There's a good reason I dislike Damon Lindelhof). Also because it feels like it doesn't work being shown weekly/across years. I've enjoyed it a lot more over the last month or so on DVD.
(I mean yeah there's still hilariously bad stuff*, and some continuity errors/dead plot ends, but it still all kind of fits together in a larger way, and that's all right).
*e.g. Widmore's accent goes, chronologically, from southern British (i.e. "posh"(ish) ), to South African, to Australian. Which is because of the actors playing him.
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I finally got around to switching browsers after about fifty billion years!
I'm now using Opera instead of Firefox and I like it? I think? It is certainly faster than Firefox, and doesn't choke when loading tumblr pages. I have a sidebar I can put Youtube in so I don't have to switch tabs to listen to music! (Apparently Firefox can also do that, but I didn't know that).
It feels like it's eating less memory, too. I could well be imagining that. (Not that Firefox ever hogged that much memory on this laptop - it's got 8Gb of RAM - I'd need to do a LOT to make it cry, I think. But it feels smoother? I feel like that is me talking out of my arse, but oh well).
The only thing I don't like so far is that all my tabs are crushed up, and don't scroll across like the ones in Firefox do. And also that when you load a tab, if you have the same site open in other tabs, it loads all of them all at once. There's probably a way to stop it doing that, but it's not immediately obvious in the preferences tab.
Also I accidentally loaded my bookmarks in twice, so now I have dupes of pretty much everything, and no way to get rid of them apart from manual point and click, or use some dodgy looking software or extensions.
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I did a bit more world-building in the abominations story, and the more I tinker with the straight "this is what the world should be like", the less I want to write that, and the more I want to write an AU instead.
This could end up being a good thing, though. A lot of the main universe world building has stuff in it that I do not like in sci-fi. That I have no interest in. Where the AU has a lot more things I do like.
I guess I shall just tinker and see what happens, eh?
The existence of the epilogue frustrates me, to some degree. Like, it shouldn't be needed because the story should've been wrapped up by the last episode, but whatever. I'm done being mad with this show now.
I said on twitter, and I'm going to repeat it here, that I have no idea why I got so mad with the show in the first place. I can only conclude that it was a combination of the elitist fans (and holy shit there were some) and the showrunners being jerks (which they were. There's a good reason I dislike Damon Lindelhof). Also because it feels like it doesn't work being shown weekly/across years. I've enjoyed it a lot more over the last month or so on DVD.
(I mean yeah there's still hilariously bad stuff*, and some continuity errors/dead plot ends, but it still all kind of fits together in a larger way, and that's all right).
*e.g. Widmore's accent goes, chronologically, from southern British (i.e. "posh"(ish) ), to South African, to Australian. Which is because of the actors playing him.
~
I finally got around to switching browsers after about fifty billion years!
I'm now using Opera instead of Firefox and I like it? I think? It is certainly faster than Firefox, and doesn't choke when loading tumblr pages. I have a sidebar I can put Youtube in so I don't have to switch tabs to listen to music! (Apparently Firefox can also do that, but I didn't know that).
It feels like it's eating less memory, too. I could well be imagining that. (Not that Firefox ever hogged that much memory on this laptop - it's got 8Gb of RAM - I'd need to do a LOT to make it cry, I think. But it feels smoother? I feel like that is me talking out of my arse, but oh well).
The only thing I don't like so far is that all my tabs are crushed up, and don't scroll across like the ones in Firefox do. And also that when you load a tab, if you have the same site open in other tabs, it loads all of them all at once. There's probably a way to stop it doing that, but it's not immediately obvious in the preferences tab.
Also I accidentally loaded my bookmarks in twice, so now I have dupes of pretty much everything, and no way to get rid of them apart from manual point and click, or use some dodgy looking software or extensions.
~
I did a bit more world-building in the abominations story, and the more I tinker with the straight "this is what the world should be like", the less I want to write that, and the more I want to write an AU instead.
This could end up being a good thing, though. A lot of the main universe world building has stuff in it that I do not like in sci-fi. That I have no interest in. Where the AU has a lot more things I do like.
I guess I shall just tinker and see what happens, eh?
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