Magic School Bus 101
Jan. 20th, 2006 12:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arishaI must force myself to make this a short entry because I have to go do stuff. Yes it is midnight and I still have to study and write down what I thought up while washing dishes at work, leave me alone~~~~~.
Okay, okay. So I might have mentioned this before, but one of the problems I have with Reba is that a lot of the episodes are paced so fast. I mean, the pilot is an obvious example, because it is like, oh! she's pregnant. oh! they're engaged. oh! they're divorced. oh! they're married. and by the end of it you are just like WHAT JUST HAPPENED HERE. And I guess they wanted to get all that over with in the pilot so they could move on with the show, but it still comes off as crazy and a bit lacking in places (Reba's tearful "we were supposed to grow old together!" always seems like it comes out of nowhere) and even as far along as the end of the second season they are still expanding on the events in the pilot (with the flashback to Cheyenne deciding to keep the baby - what I like about how they did that was how at the end Van throws the pregnancy test out the window, which may not corroborate the first season idea that Jake was the one who found it, but it doesn't contradict it either).
But anyway!! Perhaps what bugs me is not so much the fact that the episodes are often really quick, but that you can usually see the writers working. I was thinking about the episode where in one scene Van announces he's got a job at the pizzeria, and then by the start of the next scene he's been promoted. It seems to me the writers wanted Reba to have a moment of pride before Van asks for the car, and they couldn't figure out any other way to write it. Awkward!
Also, in the BJ's baby episode where Cheyenne is in the hospital bed and there's that one second shot of her and Van before it goes back to the wide shot? WHAT THE RANDOM. My brother did not think too highly of that part. Although perhaps it is made up for by Jake's "Is this really a helmet?" which is so stupid and obvious that I think it's hilarious.
BUT ANYWAY ANYWAY. In a roundabout way this all reminds me of when I watched the audio commentaries of The Mummy and The Mummy Returns in the dark of night at my cousin's house. The same guy is in both of the commentaries, and in the first one he seems very thoughtful, very careful about the way he made the movie, thinking hard before putting anything into the final cut. And then you watch the second one, and he's like "And then I was like, you know what we should do? Pygmy mummies would be awesome. And so I phoned my friend, and I was like, 'OH MAN PYGMY MUMMIES!!!!' and my friend was like 'OH MAN THAT SOUNDS AWESOME!!!!' and so we put them in the movie!" So apparently between the making of the first and second Mummy movies, this guy lost half of his brain, or something.
Anyway, Ruth Ozeki came to talk to my Japanese culture class on Monday, and the prof wanted her to talk about what it's like to be Japanese-American but instead she talked mostly about writing novels and making movies, which I found really interesting, and I probably annoyed her with all my questions, but it's all good. Apparently Gwenyth Paltrow was reading one of Ruth Ozeki's screenplays while on the set of Shakespeare in Love. I don't know why I feel like I have such a connection to that movie. I've only seen it once, and it was DUBBED.
(Did I ever mention I get a huge kick out of the way they did the death of Marlowe? Because I get a huge kick out of the way they did the death of Marlowe.)
The time before this last time that I was at my cousin's house, Back to the Future II was on, and I was all "Oh, I've never seen this movie in English before!" and nobody commented on that. Usually my family asks me the most ridiculous questions about learning languages, but the one time I wouldn't have minded them to ask and they didn't. HOW ABSURD.
PS: I AM GOING TO SEE THE SOUP NAZI TOMORROW
NO SOUP FOR YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PPS: Forget it, I will study tomorrow.
Me = dumb. x_x
Tiny PPPS because it is dumb too: My favourite Escaflowne character is Van and my favourite Reba character is Van. THIS IS HILARIOUS DON'T YOU SEE
Okay, okay. So I might have mentioned this before, but one of the problems I have with Reba is that a lot of the episodes are paced so fast. I mean, the pilot is an obvious example, because it is like, oh! she's pregnant. oh! they're engaged. oh! they're divorced. oh! they're married. and by the end of it you are just like WHAT JUST HAPPENED HERE. And I guess they wanted to get all that over with in the pilot so they could move on with the show, but it still comes off as crazy and a bit lacking in places (Reba's tearful "we were supposed to grow old together!" always seems like it comes out of nowhere) and even as far along as the end of the second season they are still expanding on the events in the pilot (with the flashback to Cheyenne deciding to keep the baby - what I like about how they did that was how at the end Van throws the pregnancy test out the window, which may not corroborate the first season idea that Jake was the one who found it, but it doesn't contradict it either).
But anyway!! Perhaps what bugs me is not so much the fact that the episodes are often really quick, but that you can usually see the writers working. I was thinking about the episode where in one scene Van announces he's got a job at the pizzeria, and then by the start of the next scene he's been promoted. It seems to me the writers wanted Reba to have a moment of pride before Van asks for the car, and they couldn't figure out any other way to write it. Awkward!
Also, in the BJ's baby episode where Cheyenne is in the hospital bed and there's that one second shot of her and Van before it goes back to the wide shot? WHAT THE RANDOM. My brother did not think too highly of that part. Although perhaps it is made up for by Jake's "Is this really a helmet?" which is so stupid and obvious that I think it's hilarious.
BUT ANYWAY ANYWAY. In a roundabout way this all reminds me of when I watched the audio commentaries of The Mummy and The Mummy Returns in the dark of night at my cousin's house. The same guy is in both of the commentaries, and in the first one he seems very thoughtful, very careful about the way he made the movie, thinking hard before putting anything into the final cut. And then you watch the second one, and he's like "And then I was like, you know what we should do? Pygmy mummies would be awesome. And so I phoned my friend, and I was like, 'OH MAN PYGMY MUMMIES!!!!' and my friend was like 'OH MAN THAT SOUNDS AWESOME!!!!' and so we put them in the movie!" So apparently between the making of the first and second Mummy movies, this guy lost half of his brain, or something.
Anyway, Ruth Ozeki came to talk to my Japanese culture class on Monday, and the prof wanted her to talk about what it's like to be Japanese-American but instead she talked mostly about writing novels and making movies, which I found really interesting, and I probably annoyed her with all my questions, but it's all good. Apparently Gwenyth Paltrow was reading one of Ruth Ozeki's screenplays while on the set of Shakespeare in Love. I don't know why I feel like I have such a connection to that movie. I've only seen it once, and it was DUBBED.
(Did I ever mention I get a huge kick out of the way they did the death of Marlowe? Because I get a huge kick out of the way they did the death of Marlowe.)
The time before this last time that I was at my cousin's house, Back to the Future II was on, and I was all "Oh, I've never seen this movie in English before!" and nobody commented on that. Usually my family asks me the most ridiculous questions about learning languages, but the one time I wouldn't have minded them to ask and they didn't. HOW ABSURD.
PS: I AM GOING TO SEE THE SOUP NAZI TOMORROW
NO SOUP FOR YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PPS: Forget it, I will study tomorrow.
Me = dumb. x_x
Tiny PPPS because it is dumb too: My favourite Escaflowne character is Van and my favourite Reba character is Van. THIS IS HILARIOUS DON'T YOU SEE