{"id":1072,"date":"2006-11-29T13:29:55","date_gmt":"2006-11-29T17:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2006-11-29T13:29:55","modified_gmt":"2006-11-29T17:29:55","slug":"darkness-and-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2006\/11\/darkness-and-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Darkness and Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s that dark time of year where I don’t see the sun.<\/p>\n

Today:<\/p>\n

6:30 AM: Leave home for work
\n7:00 AM: Arrive at work
\n7:03 AM: Sunrise
\n4:37 PM: Sunset
\n5:00 PM: Leave work<\/p>\n

OK, so this week is special because it’s month end and I’m working overtime (coming in early). And I do have the option of leaving the office during a 45 minute lunch break, which I do every day during most of spring, summer and fall. Now it’s getting too cold to walk and the traffic around here is so bad I don’t want to drive<\/i> during my lunch break.<\/p>\n

At least last year I had a desk next to a window. Now I need to walk down the hallway, make a turn and walk down another hallway to press my face against a window.<\/p>\n

I miss the sun during this time of year.<\/p>\n

On the bright side, the company I work for lets us decorate our office for the holidays and on Monday I dove into our stash of decorations at work and transformed the room into some crazy happy Christmas wonderland. I have some singing penguins and a Christmas Furby on my desk, others have a variety of cute noise-making things on theirs. I might be an atheist who doesn’t observe the religious bits of this season, but I love the colors, decorations and lights.<\/p>\n

So what is there to do on evenings so dark? This weekend I downloaded the first 9 episodes of Heroes<\/a>. It had been recommended to me by a few people, and there was a lot of buzz about it at the science fiction convention.<\/p>\n

The short review: I don’t like it.<\/p>\n

The long review: It has a format very similar to Lost<\/i>, a series you can’t really jump into in the middle of and each episode unto itself doesn’t have a stand-alone plot, it’s one giant story. I don’t like this format at all (is there a name for it?). While I enjoy development of characters through the run of a series and sometimes a small plotline running through a series (a la X-Files), I want to have a complete story told to me during a single show.<\/p>\n

Also like Lost<\/i>, I don’t really care about the characters. Finally by episode 9 I was starting to feel something for a couple of them, but I don’t think it should take half a season to start caring.<\/p>\n

But it is better than Lost<\/i>. The story has direction and there are hints dropped along the way as to where it’s going to let your brain work a little<\/i> while watching it.<\/p>\n

We won’t be watching any more of it. There were cliffhangers at the end of episode 9, but I’m just not interested enough to want to know the resolution.<\/p>\n

I’m so picky when it comes to television.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s that dark time of year where I don’t see the sun. Today: 6:30 AM: Leave home for work 7:00 AM: Arrive at work 7:03 AM: Sunrise 4:37 PM: Sunset 5:00 PM: Leave work OK, so this week is special because it’s month end and I’m working overtime (coming in early). And I do have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}