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sympathy, sympathy
Monday, February 7, 2005

I've got the flu. I just spent all weekend lying wrapped up in blankets and coughing and groaning, and my 'Wash''s sympathy is totally used up. I've been told not complain any more - but mentioning it in passing on fireflyfans isn't moaning, right? Besides, I really do deserve that sympathy, honest. I was so weak I even turned down the offer to watch Buffy and eat chocolate last night, in favour of going to sleep (we're up to season five. I'd forgotten how good it was - my memory had been overshadowed by being disappointed that Dawn didn't turn out to be evil. I have a younger sister and it would be a much easier solution for her to be evil rather than for Buffy and Dawn to have to learn to live together...)

Anyway I felt I needed to add a little more on here after I edited all my earlier entries about work. It's not that I'm paranoid, just careful... though given that at one point my boss was stunned by my screensaver and I spent ten minutes explaining to her how to get one on her computer, I think I was pretty safe that they weren't going to check everything. It wasn't an all-bad place anyway. I suppose.

One of my friends emailed me today and said I sounded like a character in an eighteenth-century novel to them: retiring to the countryside in order to get well. Except with internet and DVDs and stuff. Hey, that's kind of like Firefly: an old historical concept (Westerns) with something modern (space). Think Joss Whedon would be interested in writing about someone who spends all day at home sick or occasionally going for gentle walks in the fresh air??

Sympathy, come on!

Oh, by the way, I'm going to London tomorrow, going to see some test screening of some movie. What do you mean, definitely no sympathy now?

I was feeling a bit down about it though (must of been the flu) as a couple people had posted comments about how fans didn't understand it wasn't an event for them, it was a marketing device to try and find out how well the film would do. I was feeling excited about seeing the film, and also about going to a test screening as I've never seen one before and I thought it would be really interesting to see more of the process of making / editing a film. I haven't seen too much of that before, just since I got a DVD player really (which was quite recently), and I was never a big TV watcher.

Actually, when I grew up we still had a b&w TV when everyone else had colour. Watching snooker was fun.

Ooh, and I remember watching my first ever film too - there was only one cinema near where I grew up, and it was in town (we were just outside) and we didn't have a car and it was a bit rough at night... anyway, it wasn't till we visited relatives in the city that I went to the cinema. My first ever film was Care Bears. I think it was even the sequel. I couldn't believe it, I thought it was real: remember, I'd never even seen colour TV at this point. I thought it was like the theatre and the pictures came out of the wings...

The second film I ever saw was 'Return to Oz', which my friend's mum took us to for my friend's birthday. It was absolutely terrifying. I watched it again a few years ago on video, and it was still pretty scarey...

I forget what my point was exactly. Just that films are so exciting. I'm the person who sits dead silent at the cinema, completely focused on the screen. I love watching films. It's magical, watching a story which so many people have worked on together. Those comments I read, which seemed a little patronising (none of them were on this site, by the way), about how Firefly fans had 'got it wrong' with their attitudes to a test screening seemed to take a little of the magic away. Or something. Anyway, it made me a little sad.

But perhaps that was the flu. Maybe I just need more sympathy...

COMMENTS

Monday, February 7, 2005 3:49 PM

SIMONWHO


I wonder if the Pope will only get a weekend's sympathy and then he has to buck his ideas up, get on with it.

The first film I ever saw was apparently The Muppet Movie. According to my parents, my eyes lit up and I just stared at the screen in astonishment the whole way through. I still love the Muppets.

I also know the Care Bear movie way too well as my sister insisted on renting it every time we were allowed to pick a video. I'd choose something cult (even then) like The Brain of Morbius, my brother would pick some action film and my sister would pick The Care Bear Movie. Every sodding time. "I want to be a Care Bear and fill the world with love; I want to be a Care Bear, that's what I'm dreaming of; We'd make a great pair, we'd stick together through and through, like glue. Yes, I want to be a Care Bear, like you? You do?" See, that's from memory from over 20 years ago.

Anyway, I'm sure you'll find somebody that'll be nice to you in London tomorrow.


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