Carmilla the series

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

Yeesh! A car accident? I'm sorry.

Ah, I see. I'll give it a try tomorrow. In between Deadbeat.

I was reading up on iZombie and found some info that is pretty cool. In the main cast there is a Kiwi, a Brit, a Canadian, and two Americans. Talk about going global!

 

[Guy Gardener]

I didn't say that "V is Dead" is good, just that it exists. Although, considering these webisodes are less than 5 minutes long each, it's good to save up a bundle to unload on.

If I was going to politely nudge you towards a palate cleaning hiatus show, it'd be Middle Man (again).

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

Oh yeah... That 44 minute-long YouTube video.

Care to enlighten me on the storyline?

 

[Guy Gardener]

Everything they ever told you was a B-Movie, sciencefiction garbage or a comic book story, is real, so someone has to protect ordinary people from Aliens, Monsters and Gods. Someone has to stand in the middle, in the middle between the ordinary and the extraordinary. Someone like the Middle Man.



Our story begins as the Middle Man, a 6 foot three hunk of blond yum, starts training his apprentice, a tiny, sarcastic, plucky, fast talking adorably dry Latina, who is only mildly prepared to accept how strange the world really is.

 

[Gov Kodos]

New episode tomorrow, any predictions?

Does the enemy a name?

Does Perry ever get an incantation to work?

Will Carm get to the Shunned House for those missing pints?

Will we get any Hollstein?

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

Everything they ever told you was a B-Movie, sciencefiction garbage or a comic book story, is real, so someone has to protect ordinary people from Aliens, Monsters and Gods. Someone has to stand in the middle, in the middle between the ordinary and the extraordinary. Someone like the Middle Man.



Our story begins as the Middle Man, a 6 foot three hunk of blond yum, starts training his apprentice, a tiny, sarcastic, plucky, fast talking adorably dry Latina, who is only mildly prepared to accept how strange the world really is.

Sounds pretty cool. I'll check it out after Deadbeat. I should be finished in a few days.

Gov, we might continue to just get snippets of Hollstein

 

[Gov Kodos]

It's up.

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9MI9eHArk8&index=9&list=PLxoQWQtSiTvV4JUT7Zqctu2LV3cfZKdKo[/yt]

 

[Guy Gardener]

Thank you.

I have a new lap top, replacing the 12 year old spider house I called a pc, so it is now within my power to see embedded youtube.

Whoop, whoop!

Hello! 2009!

Holla!

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

^ Party like it's 2009!

Gov, you are taking away my job.

So an evil fairy who wants menstrual blood to bring her kingdom back?

 

[Gov Kodos]

Just evil like that

I also took note that Perry had tried a spell (love spell maybe?) to keep LaF's attention but she thought it hadn't worked because she was in a negative mood when she tried it. Do you suppose it just might have worked and triggered Tythia. Kind of like a magical hacksaw for her prison? Something like that could lead Perry to dropping her magic so completely?

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

Both theories sound reasonable. Summoning Tythia would turn anyone off from dong magic.

 

[Gov Kodos]

Both theories sound reasonable. Summoning Tythia would turn anyone off from dong magic.

Dong magic does sound disturbing.

Anyway, here's a little interview with Natasha about season zero. http://starrymag.com/?p=7612

 

[Guy Gardener]

Fairies really work their sexuality, to make sure that you're dopey and suggestible right up to the point when they start eating you.

Ditto for Vampires.

Did the spell turn Susan into La Fontaine... WTF? That's just Susan's surname?

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

Guy, you didn't know that! Where have you been for the last two seasons?

 

[Guy Gardener]

I watched two seasons in three days, mostly past midnight. There's not a lot of retention involved, and a hell of a lot of moving parts.

I had assumed that it was somesort of transsexual folkhero from the 1940s who I was too ignorant to know about.

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

You must know that you're not supposed to use that word anymore...

That's what happens when you binge-watch, you don't retain anything. It all goes by in one big blur of colours and incoherent voices.

Kind of like being on drugs.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Transsexual refers to associative issues that can end in reassignment surgery.

Surgery like that, wasn't happening in the 1940s.

I should have said crossdressing if I wanted to talk about wartime androgyny.

Which was a massive subculture at the time, which in Europe and in Germany right up till when Dolphy took over was even a culture more than a subculture.

Caberet of course, but have you ever seen Bent?. Starring a young Clive Owen, the movie starts off showing the magnificent & decadent life styles of the Drag Queens, less specialized transvestites and homosexuals getting wasted and clubbing like it's 1939... Who are then all stripped, shaved and thrown into trains in 1940, and taken to camps to be worked to death or gassed en mas.

The last hour of that flick is a real downer.

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

The proper term now is transgender. Which LaF is not. LaF is genderqueer.

The first sex reassignment surgery (at the time it was only vaginoplasty) was done on a trans woman in 1931.

I have heard of but not seen Cabaret. After the ending description of Bent, I have no interest in seeing it. Stuff like that makes me sad and a little horrified.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I have really altogether seen/heard The Rocky Horror Picture Show too many times to stop wanting to say transsexual, and then I have to stop-stop myself from saying Transylvania right after I say or want to say transsexual.

It's a sorta Pavlov's dog situation.

Wikipedia says that transgender and transsexual have slightly different definitions but on a pop-psychology front these two words have been at war with each other since the 1960s to define each generation. Which one is dominating the other is fluid and really depends on who you are talking to, where they are in the world, and probably since the first text I googled about this was from 5 years ago, when what is said is being said.

Can you always tell the difference between Maimie Gummer and Grace Gummer?

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

I love Rocky Horror! Although the first time I saw it, I kept thinking that I should be on drugs to fully comprehend what was going on.

Tim Curry had nice legs.

I take what Wikipedia says with a grain of salt.

One has long hair and the other has short hair?