Viva la Revolucion. And stuff.
Oct. 27th, 2012 09:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dotsandlinesThis book is making me have feelings. Pardon me while I vent.
As noted, I got the Humble Ebook Bundle, and have thus far read Old Man's War and a bit of Stranger Things Happen; I put the latter on hold for a bit because I can only take so much Southern Gothic at a time. I then started Pirate Cinema, knowing absolutely nothing about it.
Thus far, it is a dystopian fantasy / And Then I Overthrew the Evil Empire story [note: this is a general statement about the tone, not a literal spoiler] as written by a 14-year-old AMV editor. Basically. It's a near-future dystopia revolving around copyright law, in which kids are sentenced to death for downloading movies. A teenage video-remix artist gets caught, goes on the lam, and has Grand, Scrappy Adventures. There are lots and lots of speeches about how remixing is really Art, you guys, like seriously.
It is so ding-dang cute that I wanna pinch its cheeks and give it a big hug. This is probably not the effect that they're going for. It seems to want to be Very Serious and Important, but since the characters are all so young and take this all so seriously, it just makes me want to squee and cuddle it like a rebellious kitten.
And sure, 99% of that is because I already agree with its core concepts. It's not Making Me Think that much, because I've already thought too much about this.
That said, it took me several dozen pages to get over the concept of a male live-action fanvid editor. I'm pretty sure that all of the humans in that category can fit into a taxicab, in real life. If there WERE fanvids that didn't fit into the very strict guild system of vidding, that would be cool. It's like a new playground that I didn't know existed! But I... kinda doubt that's the case. I've never heard of that playground. There's only the one, and they don't like outsiders playing in it. (I've gotten into the irony before, and I'll leave it be for now.)
Anyway, I'm not finished yet, but it's been a sweet little ride so far.
EDIT: And it's making me want to edit something, aargh! I don't have any ~stunningly brilliant~ ideas right now. Argh.
As noted, I got the Humble Ebook Bundle, and have thus far read Old Man's War and a bit of Stranger Things Happen; I put the latter on hold for a bit because I can only take so much Southern Gothic at a time. I then started Pirate Cinema, knowing absolutely nothing about it.
Thus far, it is a dystopian fantasy / And Then I Overthrew the Evil Empire story [note: this is a general statement about the tone, not a literal spoiler] as written by a 14-year-old AMV editor. Basically. It's a near-future dystopia revolving around copyright law, in which kids are sentenced to death for downloading movies. A teenage video-remix artist gets caught, goes on the lam, and has Grand, Scrappy Adventures. There are lots and lots of speeches about how remixing is really Art, you guys, like seriously.
It is so ding-dang cute that I wanna pinch its cheeks and give it a big hug. This is probably not the effect that they're going for. It seems to want to be Very Serious and Important, but since the characters are all so young and take this all so seriously, it just makes me want to squee and cuddle it like a rebellious kitten.
And sure, 99% of that is because I already agree with its core concepts. It's not Making Me Think that much, because I've already thought too much about this.
That said, it took me several dozen pages to get over the concept of a male live-action fanvid editor. I'm pretty sure that all of the humans in that category can fit into a taxicab, in real life. If there WERE fanvids that didn't fit into the very strict guild system of vidding, that would be cool. It's like a new playground that I didn't know existed! But I... kinda doubt that's the case. I've never heard of that playground. There's only the one, and they don't like outsiders playing in it. (I've gotten into the irony before, and I'll leave it be for now.)
Anyway, I'm not finished yet, but it's been a sweet little ride so far.
EDIT: And it's making me want to edit something, aargh! I don't have any ~stunningly brilliant~ ideas right now. Argh.
