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AND since I promised a fandom post, here it is, summary of various fannish things I've seen lately, even though by now most of these are old by internet standards and all.
Merlin, the one of the Dragonheart:
I LOVE THIS SHOW, OKAY? It's my happy place lately.
That said, I do know that it's not perfect, but I'm not watching it for perfection, but for the silly epicness that it is. I'm kinda sad that they pushed the Arthur/Gwen so much, not because I don't like the couple but because it was a little too soon. I would have been happy for the relationship to start around the end of the second season, more or less, to have it being better worked. I mean, Arthur went from thinking Gwen was kind of cute to loving her desperately in, what, five minutes?
I also would have liked more of Gwen and Merlin's BFFness. I missed that during the show, as well as Gwen and Morgana, and Morgana and Arthur's snarky friendship was also greatly missed.
I cried when Merlin poisoned Morgana and I'm grieving already for the friendship. I can't believe that Gaius is still alive since I was sosure he was going to be a gonner. I love Merlin's dorkitude and he broke my heart when his werecat girlfriend died. And I squee and sob and love his and Arthur's epic friendship/bromance/romance, call it as you must.
I hope next season gives us more Lancelot, more Round Table Knights and more Morgana and Morgause, pretty plese.
Also, I am le sad. Who is going to be Merlin's Criptic Mentor now that the dragon's gone?
Avatar, the one of the Giant Smurfcats:
I'm sort of in the middle with this one. I didn't hate it, like many people did, but I also didn't love it, like many others it. Mostly, well. It sort of bored me, if I have to be honest.
Not the special effects, and not the world. I did love that. Oh, Pandora was so beautiful, and the Na'vi were amazing. I loved the world creation, the facts, pretty much everything... except for the plot.
Plotwise, it was something I had already seen a number of times, and that stole from the world creation. There was not a single thing, story wise, that I found amazing. After the first fifteen minutes, I knew perfectly well how the story was going to go, and that's how it was.
Instead? I would have loved a story of the Na'vi without the Stranger Like Me POV. Because I really, REALLY did love the Na'vi culture. Also, the hair-thingy? SOCOOL. And me being me, one of my first OHSOMATURE thoughts was 'wow, I wonder what implications it has during sex to go with that' and chances are that if the story had been mainly about Pandora and the life within, I would have loved it.
As it was, well... I found it hard to feel empathy for any of the characters, when I kept comparing it to all the other stories that were exactly the same, sans the explosions and Giant Smurfcats.
Glee, the one with the issues-me:
I STILL HAVE MY ISSUES WITH THIS SHOW, AAAAH. I'm hoping that for next season it decides what the heck it wants to be, that's pretty much my main wish. I want it also to stop being Rachel and the Glee Club, if possible, and the rest of the characters to be more balanced.
Of the last ep? I loved it the first time I saw it, and then less and less as the days went by, which is pretty much how I rolled with Glee during the 13 eps.
I cheered when Mercedes got the solo but of course then Rachel had to get it. I mean, don't get me wrong. Lea's rendition of 'Don't rain on my parade' WAS mindblowing: it still gives me the chills. But it didn't feel as if she ha learned anything. Perhaps if the show hadn't showed her singing Every Single Episode, I could have believed it was something AMAZING that the club was acknowleding her talent. As it was? Not really, not.
Will not being perfect makes me happy, because he is supposed to be growing alongside his students, but, really his whole 'sometimes being special sucks', I mean. Really, Will? And I ended up feeling so sorry for Terri, in the end, which I'm not sure if it was meant to happen or not. And his relationship with Emma... DON'T GET ME WRONG. AGAIN. I loved it! I've loved it since ep 1! BUT. BUT. BUT. I AGREED with Emma when she said that it was way too fast for Will to simply finish his marriage and then start a new relationship. But apparently after a day or two then it's NOT soon enough?
Puck, Quinn, Rachel and Finn. You know, I usually hate adding new characters when you're already dealing with a lot of secondary characters that are ignored or unused, but by now I'm pretty much hopping that next season we'll get romances for these characters out of their cuadrangle, because right now the only thing I want is for Finn to somehow keep the little girl he loved as a daughter. I still Do Not Like Puck. He hasn't convinced me of having grown up or anything, and one of my biggest squicks in life is friends being disloyal. I would have supported more Rachel an Finn if it hadn't been pushed down my throat so hard. If they had become friends rather than Rachel, after having explicitly said that she wouldn't try to get Finn again, kept on coming on to him over and over and OVER even to the point where HE was uncomfortable, perhaps I would have liked it more. Quinn, I think, is the only smart one when she said she needed to be alone.
SO I DON'T KNOW. I'm still standing very much on my: PLEASE, GLEE. I want to like you! Give me good reasons to do so other than the fact that you make me happy with your music!
After the tl;dr (and to think I said I didn't have much to say about it!), my points: Glee to decide if it wants to be a satire or a serious show. CONSISTANT WRITING AND CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT. For it to stop pushing its shipping preferences down my throat.
..... and if maybe we could have a gay character who's not a stereotype, that would be lovely as well.
Doctor Who, the one of Craaaaaaaaaaaawlin in my skiiiiiin, also known as SPOILERS FOR END OF TIME.
SPOILERS.
I liked it? But yeah, the emoness DID come to be a little too much, I'm afraid. I loved seeing Wilf and Donna again, an the Ood! But I'm afraid that they pushed the SAD AND ALONE so much that instead of being tragic it was pathetic at times.
But oooooooooooooh, the Master. SO GOOD. I. I have a weak spot for characters like him, okay? And the whole dying and being destroyed and MAN the utter mindfuckery that the Time Lords did to him and. My crazy-buttons, so thoroughly smashed in the bestest of ways.
Also, now I ship the Doctor and the Master. Halp, plz.
About the companions and such! I'm sort of hoping Jack and Jenny to meet each other, like you have no idea. I'm kind of bitter about the Mickey/Martha thing. For starters, I LIKED what we saw of Tom, he seemed like an utter sweetheart. But okay, I could forgive that, except that I also sort of, you know, LIKED the idea of Mickey/Martha before this three seconds peek and now I have more questions that answers. And Donna and her husband! I was sort of hoping that it'd get to be the man she was married in that library planet, but I admit that didn't make much sense, woe.
OH, OH, YEAH, LAST THING! I did like the new Doctor! I mean, we had like five seconds of him, but so far he seemed kinda quirky and energetic and he stopped the emo. That's ever so good, seriously. So now I'm kind of hoping to see more of him.
END OF SPOILERS.
Loveless:
So Kio was actually married, he has a ten-or-so years old daughter WITH NO EARS and he didn't know about his younger sister.
KOUGA YUN IS BRINGING ON THE CLONES YOU GUYS. MARK MY WORDS. Ritsuka is going to end up being a clon and that's why he has no memories of his past.
... damn, now I want to do the Tales of the Abyss crossover.
Inkworld Trilogy:
I got the first book as a Christmas present, and then with the extra money I had for Christmas I bought the other two.
MY PINGS, OH GEE. Fairytales and meta-tastic and I loved the characters and really, so so awesome.
Inkdeath WAS a little bit different than the other two, and it was a little bit strange, after having had Meggie being so much part of everything, simply falling back. But instead we had Mo and Dustfinger and Resa and Violante kicking ass and taking names SO I can't say I minded the loss that much.
Who is surprised that my favorites are the Black Prince (a secondary character) and Farid (the underdog of the series)?
Things I ended up shipping.
Mo/Resa/Dustfinger and any and all combination there, Meggie/Farid, Dustfinger/Farid, Black Prince/Dustfinger, Violante/Brianna, Elinor/Darius/Fenoglio and any and all combination there.
I am also THIS close of writing a crossover between Inkworld and the Sandman. Who's surprised?
Regarding the movie! I recently saw it, and I liked it a lot... until we get those five last minutes. Seriously, the movie WAS pretty much amazing to me up til then. I didn't mind the changes, what they added, what they moved around. As an adaptation it was pretty much solid.
But then, of course, those five Let's Tie It All So There's No Sequel minutes. ARGH. It was such a good place to end before that! Or, you know, instead of having those five minutes, actually HAVE Meggie read Df back into the story as she did with everyone else. It was way too pastede on yay, for me.
Is there anything else fannish that I've failed to mention? I am planning on catching up to Katekyo Hitman Reborn and Air Gear, I am a bit behind in Nabari no Ou, and I still have a number of mangas I plan to read. I have a number of anime to watch as well (Michiko to Hachin and I promised Liz to watch Peacemaker Kurogane as well as Casshern Sins) and I am thinking of catching up in Supernatural, which I dropped a while ago. I have no idea what's about to start or anything else, so we'll see.
And now I shoul go to bed.
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AND since I promised a fandom post, here it is, summary of various fannish things I've seen lately, even though by now most of these are old by internet standards and all.
Merlin, the one of the Dragonheart:
I LOVE THIS SHOW, OKAY? It's my happy place lately.
That said, I do know that it's not perfect, but I'm not watching it for perfection, but for the silly epicness that it is. I'm kinda sad that they pushed the Arthur/Gwen so much, not because I don't like the couple but because it was a little too soon. I would have been happy for the relationship to start around the end of the second season, more or less, to have it being better worked. I mean, Arthur went from thinking Gwen was kind of cute to loving her desperately in, what, five minutes?
I also would have liked more of Gwen and Merlin's BFFness. I missed that during the show, as well as Gwen and Morgana, and Morgana and Arthur's snarky friendship was also greatly missed.
I cried when Merlin poisoned Morgana and I'm grieving already for the friendship. I can't believe that Gaius is still alive since I was sosure he was going to be a gonner. I love Merlin's dorkitude and he broke my heart when his werecat girlfriend died. And I squee and sob and love his and Arthur's epic friendship/bromance/romance, call it as you must.
I hope next season gives us more Lancelot, more Round Table Knights and more Morgana and Morgause, pretty plese.
Also, I am le sad. Who is going to be Merlin's Criptic Mentor now that the dragon's gone?
Avatar, the one of the Giant Smurfcats:
I'm sort of in the middle with this one. I didn't hate it, like many people did, but I also didn't love it, like many others it. Mostly, well. It sort of bored me, if I have to be honest.
Not the special effects, and not the world. I did love that. Oh, Pandora was so beautiful, and the Na'vi were amazing. I loved the world creation, the facts, pretty much everything... except for the plot.
Plotwise, it was something I had already seen a number of times, and that stole from the world creation. There was not a single thing, story wise, that I found amazing. After the first fifteen minutes, I knew perfectly well how the story was going to go, and that's how it was.
Instead? I would have loved a story of the Na'vi without the Stranger Like Me POV. Because I really, REALLY did love the Na'vi culture. Also, the hair-thingy? SOCOOL. And me being me, one of my first OHSOMATURE thoughts was 'wow, I wonder what implications it has during sex to go with that' and chances are that if the story had been mainly about Pandora and the life within, I would have loved it.
As it was, well... I found it hard to feel empathy for any of the characters, when I kept comparing it to all the other stories that were exactly the same, sans the explosions and Giant Smurfcats.
Glee, the one with the issues-me:
I STILL HAVE MY ISSUES WITH THIS SHOW, AAAAH. I'm hoping that for next season it decides what the heck it wants to be, that's pretty much my main wish. I want it also to stop being Rachel and the Glee Club, if possible, and the rest of the characters to be more balanced.
Of the last ep? I loved it the first time I saw it, and then less and less as the days went by, which is pretty much how I rolled with Glee during the 13 eps.
I cheered when Mercedes got the solo but of course then Rachel had to get it. I mean, don't get me wrong. Lea's rendition of 'Don't rain on my parade' WAS mindblowing: it still gives me the chills. But it didn't feel as if she ha learned anything. Perhaps if the show hadn't showed her singing Every Single Episode, I could have believed it was something AMAZING that the club was acknowleding her talent. As it was? Not really, not.
Will not being perfect makes me happy, because he is supposed to be growing alongside his students, but, really his whole 'sometimes being special sucks', I mean. Really, Will? And I ended up feeling so sorry for Terri, in the end, which I'm not sure if it was meant to happen or not. And his relationship with Emma... DON'T GET ME WRONG. AGAIN. I loved it! I've loved it since ep 1! BUT. BUT. BUT. I AGREED with Emma when she said that it was way too fast for Will to simply finish his marriage and then start a new relationship. But apparently after a day or two then it's NOT soon enough?
Puck, Quinn, Rachel and Finn. You know, I usually hate adding new characters when you're already dealing with a lot of secondary characters that are ignored or unused, but by now I'm pretty much hopping that next season we'll get romances for these characters out of their cuadrangle, because right now the only thing I want is for Finn to somehow keep the little girl he loved as a daughter. I still Do Not Like Puck. He hasn't convinced me of having grown up or anything, and one of my biggest squicks in life is friends being disloyal. I would have supported more Rachel an Finn if it hadn't been pushed down my throat so hard. If they had become friends rather than Rachel, after having explicitly said that she wouldn't try to get Finn again, kept on coming on to him over and over and OVER even to the point where HE was uncomfortable, perhaps I would have liked it more. Quinn, I think, is the only smart one when she said she needed to be alone.
SO I DON'T KNOW. I'm still standing very much on my: PLEASE, GLEE. I want to like you! Give me good reasons to do so other than the fact that you make me happy with your music!
After the tl;dr (and to think I said I didn't have much to say about it!), my points: Glee to decide if it wants to be a satire or a serious show. CONSISTANT WRITING AND CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT. For it to stop pushing its shipping preferences down my throat.
..... and if maybe we could have a gay character who's not a stereotype, that would be lovely as well.
Doctor Who, the one of Craaaaaaaaaaaawlin in my skiiiiiin, also known as SPOILERS FOR END OF TIME.
SPOILERS.
I liked it? But yeah, the emoness DID come to be a little too much, I'm afraid. I loved seeing Wilf and Donna again, an the Ood! But I'm afraid that they pushed the SAD AND ALONE so much that instead of being tragic it was pathetic at times.
But oooooooooooooh, the Master. SO GOOD. I. I have a weak spot for characters like him, okay? And the whole dying and being destroyed and MAN the utter mindfuckery that the Time Lords did to him and. My crazy-buttons, so thoroughly smashed in the bestest of ways.
Also, now I ship the Doctor and the Master. Halp, plz.
About the companions and such! I'm sort of hoping Jack and Jenny to meet each other, like you have no idea. I'm kind of bitter about the Mickey/Martha thing. For starters, I LIKED what we saw of Tom, he seemed like an utter sweetheart. But okay, I could forgive that, except that I also sort of, you know, LIKED the idea of Mickey/Martha before this three seconds peek and now I have more questions that answers. And Donna and her husband! I was sort of hoping that it'd get to be the man she was married in that library planet, but I admit that didn't make much sense, woe.
OH, OH, YEAH, LAST THING! I did like the new Doctor! I mean, we had like five seconds of him, but so far he seemed kinda quirky and energetic and he stopped the emo. That's ever so good, seriously. So now I'm kind of hoping to see more of him.
END OF SPOILERS.
Loveless:
So Kio was actually married, he has a ten-or-so years old daughter WITH NO EARS and he didn't know about his younger sister.
KOUGA YUN IS BRINGING ON THE CLONES YOU GUYS. MARK MY WORDS. Ritsuka is going to end up being a clon and that's why he has no memories of his past.
... damn, now I want to do the Tales of the Abyss crossover.
Inkworld Trilogy:
I got the first book as a Christmas present, and then with the extra money I had for Christmas I bought the other two.
MY PINGS, OH GEE. Fairytales and meta-tastic and I loved the characters and really, so so awesome.
Inkdeath WAS a little bit different than the other two, and it was a little bit strange, after having had Meggie being so much part of everything, simply falling back. But instead we had Mo and Dustfinger and Resa and Violante kicking ass and taking names SO I can't say I minded the loss that much.
Who is surprised that my favorites are the Black Prince (a secondary character) and Farid (the underdog of the series)?
Things I ended up shipping.
Mo/Resa/Dustfinger and any and all combination there, Meggie/Farid, Dustfinger/Farid, Black Prince/Dustfinger, Violante/Brianna, Elinor/Darius/Fenoglio and any and all combination there.
I am also THIS close of writing a crossover between Inkworld and the Sandman. Who's surprised?
Regarding the movie! I recently saw it, and I liked it a lot... until we get those five last minutes. Seriously, the movie WAS pretty much amazing to me up til then. I didn't mind the changes, what they added, what they moved around. As an adaptation it was pretty much solid.
But then, of course, those five Let's Tie It All So There's No Sequel minutes. ARGH. It was such a good place to end before that! Or, you know, instead of having those five minutes, actually HAVE Meggie read Df back into the story as she did with everyone else. It was way too pastede on yay, for me.
Is there anything else fannish that I've failed to mention? I am planning on catching up to Katekyo Hitman Reborn and Air Gear, I am a bit behind in Nabari no Ou, and I still have a number of mangas I plan to read. I have a number of anime to watch as well (Michiko to Hachin and I promised Liz to watch Peacemaker Kurogane as well as Casshern Sins) and I am thinking of catching up in Supernatural, which I dropped a while ago. I have no idea what's about to start or anything else, so we'll see.
And now I shoul go to bed.