writing break

[lizardbeth]

hm, you know, writing Helo and Starbuck in the same fic is... a pain. Kara and Karl. Bah, I think I'm going to have to use Helo, because the names confuse ME. I often read only the first letter of a name as I go along (it slows me down a lot if I have to concentrate on which J-name I'm dealing with), which is why in my original fic/characters I very rarely use the same initial letter in names.

I sincerely doubt Helo thinks of himself as Helo, but readers will just have to deal. Or I could switch to first person... No, like I need more things to discourage me from this fic.

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There's a new kid's show "Ni hao Kai Lan", aimed at preschoolers. It's supposed to be like Dora the Explorer, in that the main character uses basic chinese phrases for the kids to learn. I thought it would be a good idea, since I like having the rugrat exposed to other languages. So we watched one.

ugh.

This show is the animated Chinese Sanrio (Hello Kitty and her friends, if that helps). It's full of characters obviously intended for marketing (and rip-off versions of Chococat and other Sanrio characters). The writing is painfully bad, and the music... well, we love 'Wonder Pets", where the show is scored by Broadway composers. This? not so much. And they spend half the show giggling like they're in a bad anime.

Good concept, but wow, bad execution.

Avoid if you have young ones.

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And now I'm avoiding my Shagathon fic again. *sigh*

Comments

[sabaceanbabe.livejournal.com]

The instance I'm thinking of is in s1, Kobol's Last Gleaming 1. After he shot her and they're sitting in the rain and she says, "Helo," like she's starting to tell him something and it's in a tone that says they've known each other forever and the shouts at her not to call him that, not to pretend she knows him because she doesn't, she's not even human. If it was just a call sign, I really don't think it would have caused that much anger and frustration.

I'm not sure of the tone in WK, but if it was anywhere near when he walked on Hera's blanket, I'll bet it was snark. :P

Actually, I just watched a Moment at Kindreds and yeah, Sharon is definitely angry at Helo when she calls him Karl. It's during the argument they have when Helo goes off to save Dee when they say some pretty nasty things to each other.

And I'll have you know I've got 441 words written on my fic. We won't talk about the fact that the bunny wants the fic to be ginormous, along the lines of Letting Go...

[lizardbeth-j.livejournal.com]

okay, I couldn't remember which of their conversations it was, just that she called him that for the first time in that ep. Good. Then I can use Helo with clean consciensce! :) (because man, do I hate writing Kara and Karl. Do TPTB do not think of my issues when they name characters?!?!?! *g*)

I have 1200 words on mine theoretically. I know, you're all 'cry me a river', but I have only barely set it up. This also wants to be ginormous.

And Helo is mean. It's hard to write my noble sir being a dick, even though he has a very good reason.