FTH and Station Eleven

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In a moment of weakness, I have signed up for the Fandom Trumps Hate auction. Mostly because there's some really fantastic organizations being supported. So, if you'd like a 5-10K story from me (possibly longer if I get inspired) stay tuned for the auction details.

In TV news, I watched the first episode of Station Eleven on Thursday out of curiosity, and now three days later I've finished zipping through all ten episodes. Pre-Covid, I was rather fond of Pandemic Wipes Out Most of Humanity stories, but I have to say all the pandemic stuff in the beginning of the show now really stresses me the eff out.

Infectious disease stress aside, I thought the show was really beautifully made and constructed. The narrative jumps forward and backward in time, making you work a bit to keep up, but everything ties together in a very satisfying way in the final episode. And it's just full of brilliant performances, from the leads down to minor side characters. I was especially happy to see Lori Petty, playing the conductor of the Traveling Symphony, the nomadic theatre troupe keeping Shakespeare alive, post-pandemic.

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As a Canadian, that should probably irk me more than it does. But I did grad school in Wisconsin and spent a lot of time in Chicago while I was there, so I've also got a lot of affection for the city. Now I kind of want to know if Jeevan and Kirsten walked across Lake Ontario instead of Lake Michigan in the book. (Not enough to read the book, though. 😉)

I had NO IDEA about Midwest geography until I lived there. (I had more than one Michigan kid show me in the classes I taught where they were from using their hand as the Michigan catcher's mitt. 😆 The first time it happened, I had NO IDEA what the heck they were doing.)