Killjoys + Snowflake Challenge, days 2-5

[hamsterwoman]

An assortment of fannish things!

1) fandom_stocking extended its deadline to Wed, 1/11. I am usually impatient to see all the goodies revealed, but this year I'm greatly relieved, because between the stockings going up pretty late, crazy work, holiday, and feeling sick, I haven't actually managed to do anything yet, beyond browse and take notes,

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[hamsterwoman]

I'm now 2.3 episodes into season 2, and definitely agree about Pree! I always liked his cameos in the first season, and it was so great to see more of him! (and now I wanna know about his criminal/warlord past. I hope there's fic, at least!) And I think I like the way the Khlyen thing is headed, if that's not a misdirection. (Also, Khlyen being a badass and stone-cold ruthless is just kind of nice to watch.)

with how the show approaches the usual tropes from unusual side.

I agree! (Also, I just love the "Sorry for stabbing you. Thanks for not dying." exchanges between the brothers XD)

dutch believes that he's innocent but is enraged about how he IS innocent, non-complicit in his dark past, unlike her (as she sees it); it was a wonderful little piece of complexity

Yes, it is! Mostly Dutch works better for me on the pretty + ass-kicking than deep emotional level, but she really got me in that scene.

I think episode 8 is my favorite overall -- the Rain (for the worldbuilding and the plot tension), and Dutch and D'av teambuilding (speaking of subverted/approached unusually tropes, I also really liked the scene where she stands in front of the target and tells him to shoot... and then backs out -- I definitely hadn't expected that, but it was a lot more realistic than what I *had* been expecting), but ESPECIALLY for Johnny's arc. (I'd forgotten about the blowtorch thing, but ooh, you're right!).

and he stood up for himself re: d'avin, and it was wonderful, too (for all that he held out for like 25 minutes).

Heh, yes. XD

The soundtrack is really, really cool! I normally don't notice things like that in what I'm watching, because I'm not a music person, but I was for sure noticing it here.

But... season 2 got rid of the theme song? And replaced it with "ooh ooh ooh"? WHY.

[egelantier]

oh, and unrelatedly: i've read coldfire trilogy for that one yuletide, and i'm... not a fan. the worldbuilding is really fascinating and it's well-written, but it's chock full of weirdly detached misogyny - i mean, one of the protagonists literally gets off on torturing and killing women, and the narrative is a bit... relaxed about it, and there are all these deaths, and just - and it's very very very very slashy but no-homo in a WEIRD way (apparently the author does not understand, after writing a scene in which one dude literally runs through literal hell with a literal other-dude-inspired boner, where do the fangirls get this weird "slash" thing from her pristine writings), and all combined, i don't regret reading it, but it weird me with a very weird taste.

[hamsterwoman]

a scene in which one dude literally runs through literal hell with a literal other-dude-inspired boner

Whaa.... XD

I am OK with a lot of deaths (especially if I know it's that kind of a book going in), and very dark protagonists (although how well they work for me really depends a lot on the writing style, it seems).

The worldbuilding sounds interesting (although I tend to be picky about how SF/fantasy blends work for me or don't), but IIRC, I was originally sold on Coldfire by people talking about Gerald Tarrant (in I forget what context, but based on what I do recall, I doubt it was "characters who are good people" :P)

Anyway, it's been on my to-read list for, IDK, probably 8 years, so who knows if I'll actually get around to it. But I'm rather heartened by the fact that I have several people on my flist who love the series and several who do not, so I guess regardless of whether I end up enjoying it or not, I'll have someone to talk about it with. XP