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Thanksgiving long weekend, followed by a short week wherein there is just as much to do as in a regular week is not as much of a holiday as it seems. However, there was, and still is pie.

Things have been too busy around here lately to have an opinion on anything, so here you go all at once. *g*

( So, Fringe )

( Books )

Seems I haven't made a post here in ages without spamming y'all with pictures. Wouldn't want to break that trend. ;)

I managed to find some cheap graduated neutral density filters and filter mount online a while back, and by cheap, I mean inexpensive - not brandname, but good enough for my level of photography that I can play with them and decide if this is something worth splurging on more expensive glass or resin filters. Basically, what a graduated ND filter allows you to do is use a slower shutter speed or a wider aperture than you normally would be able to use in bright conditions in order to allow more light (and hence, brighter colors, or that misty look to waterfalls and oceans) through the lens. You can also use them to even out the ground and the sky in a landscape shot without the need to over- or under-expose one or the other.

So, even though it was snowing/raining out the day they arrived, there I was sinking into the not-yet-frozen river bank to try them out:


( Photography )

This, which might be my favorite performance of Oh Fortuna ever:




Unrelated, the big epic BSG rewatch is up to the beginning of season three's Unfinished Business (aka, the one where Starbuck and Apollo beat the crap out of each other in the boxing ring, while in another time and place Bill and Laura smoke up and giggle like teenagers), and can I just say that the structure of the episode hits all my storytelling buttons? The way the flashbacks unravel all sort of missing backstory...weaving what's essentially two separate episodes into one but heightening the tension and drama in both because we, the audience, are made suddenly prescient? yeah. Why don't more shows use this device?



Fringe - The Astrid Episode: Flail and satisfaction all around. That's all I need to say about that. I love that, for a sci-fi show, they never lose sight of it being a story about love and family and being exceptional in ones own way and finding a place to belong.

Non-spoilery reaction: !O_O!

( Spoilery reaction )

Also, I'm pretty sure there's some sort of conspiracy between Fox, Bad Robot, and Major League Baseball - that was one evil evil cliff-hanger.

I'm sure I'll have more thoughts later about what this all means, but it's late a I have to be out of the house and probably wi-fi-less early tomorrow. Damn you, hiatus!
Let there be fic!

How can we be at episode 4 already?!

This is one of those episodes, like 'Peter' and 'Subject 13', where, watching it at face value, I'm left going "Huh, well that happened", but I'm not terribly blown away by it.

( But that's just on the surface... )

So, yes, so much more than meets the eye.