Fannish consumption as a form of RL avoidance
I'm feeling totally avoidant about RL, so instead, here's a smorgasbord of things that are not RL -- reading, watching, and listening roundup, such as it is:
1. Katherine Addison, The Angel of the Crows -- so, funny story: K was excited about this book just on the strength of the author's name, but then I looked it up and was like, "...are you sure you want to commit to Sherlock wingfic sight unseen?" But then
lunasariel read it and liked it, and I decided to check it out, too. And it was... enjoyable? It took me like two months to finish, but was a reasonably good time, but I can't take it seriously as a book. First, it's very obviously Sherlock wingfic. I mean, I knew that going in, and the afterword makes no secret about it (even explains what wingfic is), and I will actually say that it did not dwell on any particularly wingficcy aspects and so did not turn me off, as someone who could not care less about wingfic. But it still has a very ficcy feel, and so pretty much throughout I was thinking, "but why does this have to be a book?" (The decidedly non-novel-like structure doesn't help -- it feels like a bunch of fics in the same AU strung together, or several episodes of a TV show -- or, well, several ACD cases, except pretending to be a novel.) It also took me a good third of the book to get over just seeing Benedict Cumberbatch whenever Crow was described, which I'm not sure was helpful to the suspension of disbelief. (I was amused, though, that the very Mycroft character was the Angel of Whitehall. That bit was nicely played.)
Ultimately, I dunno... I felt like the very complex AU did not actually contribute any to the aspects of the Sherlock Holmes (or Sherlock, even) stories I like -- the mysteries were LESS clever, I thought, and the occasional subversion of Sherlock Holmes's genius and having the Watson character (Doyle) be the one to lead to the mystery resolution in a number of cases made it so that, like, why even make this a Sherlock Holmes thing at all. I also did not really get that strong feeling of companionship from Crow and Doyle, which might have made the book interesting to me on a character level. Crow doesn't feel brilliant, and is not enough of a jerk to be entertaining the way BBC's Sherlock is (this Tor review describes it as make him likeable and also an angel, but I didn't find him so much likeable as kinda boring) -- he is pretty odd, both as a human and as an angel, but not in any way I found arresting. And I like Doyle well enough, I guess -- enough that I think it was the first person narration that carried me through the book rather than plot of cleverness or worldbuilding -- but I don't know that quite that much needed to be going on there, SPOILERS FROM HERE with the born female secret, and the hellhound secret.
There were some interesting gender stuff brushed up against in the book, but I didn't feel like it ultimately went anywhere? Doyle saying that "I'm not a man, but I'm not a woman either" left things nicely open-ended, but also I didn't actually care? Similarly, it's mentioned that angels are all technically female, meaning Crow is too, although he and most of them are perceived as male -- even by Doyle, after Doyle learns that fact, which I did think was a nice touch. But none of it really resonated with me -- it all just felt like an exercise: look, I'm subverting gender expectations in Sherlock Holmes! -- but without any sense of "so what" for me. (There's also a clear attempt to problematize the colonial and similar elements in the original stories, which was actually done with a lighter touch than I'd expected.)
The worldbuilding is elaborate, but along lines I did not care about -- not about angels and the elaborate rules that apply to them, not about hellhounds, or werewolves and vampires, which are well integrated into society, or the homphages and necrophages which seem to be something else entirely, and also magical automatons apparently? -- but none of this invention is anything I wanted to know more about, because I just don't care for angel AUs, I guess.
The cases (A Study in Scarlet, The Specled Band, The Sign of the Four, in particular) were largely disappointing. I mean, some of the subversions were interesting as subversions, I guess, but on the whole, the cases were less satisfying as mysteries, and why would I read a Sherlock Holmes pastiche for crappy mysteries? especially if there's also no Sherlock Holmes? Like, instead of clues, cases are solved by clairvoyance and autopsy and hellhound tracking, stuff like that, which... is kind of the opposite of the point of a Holmes story? I found the resolution with Mary Morstan particularly disappointing, because why even bring her in if that's all you were going to do with her? I did enjoy this version of The Hound of the Baskervilles, but it's barely even a Holmes pastiche at that point -- Crow stays home, Doyle saves Sir Henry by transforming into a hellhound. And then there's the sort ofoverarching story having to do with Jack the Ripper, and there I can only ask, really? did we really need another Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper take? One which ends so unsatisfyingly, too?
So, anyway, a curious exercise I don't regret consuming, but definitely nowhere near as enjoyable for me as either the original stories or Sherlock. And I'm still puzzled by why this needed to exist as a book...
Currently I'm having much more fun with the Winter's Orbit sync read. Also, anyone who has read the book or think they might want to, Zoom Best Chat was able to catch and liveblog this virtual event with Everina Maxwell, Ann Leckie, and Becky Chambers, which was a lot of fun. (I've seen Becky Chambers on panels before, and she is always a great panelist, but I think it was my first time hearing Ann Leckie speak, outside of the autograph queue, and she was also wonderful. And, of course, it was very cool to "meet" the author of Winter's Orbit as well.)
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WandaVision, episode 5 -- this one I really liked! But also it confirmed that I definitely prefer the balance to be on Wanda, Vision, and the town rather than SWORD perimeter camp thing. Like, seeing Monica and Jimmy was fine but I wouldn't have missed them if they hadn't been there (and Darcy I really could've done without; I don't think we need an audience stand-in, actually, or at least not one who is so on-the-nose in her remarks), but the times I was really paying attention was when stuff was happening inside Westview (or when the two worlds brushed together). Which, fortunately, that was most of the episode.
spoilers for episode 5!
- X-Men!Quicksilver!! I knew this was coming -- well, I knew the actor had been cast in WandaVision, which had started all the speculation, and then I heard the leaked confirmation that this was whom he's playing, so was waiting for him to show up, but was NOT expecting it to be midway through the show. Really excited to see more of him (loved him in XMFC-verse, but who didn't) and also to understand what this means for the two universes, both in in-universe terms and in movie franchise terms.
- I was watching post-s4 discussion on YouTube and someone was speculating that Wanda stole Visions corpse from a classified morgue thing at one point (I can't remember if this was due to a comics parallel or just taking off from the scene reportedly cut from Endgame), and... apparently that's what happened here, too. Which lends a lot of support to the "Vision as animated corpse" theore that the super-creepy shot in the last episode set up, and every aspect of that just gets more and more disturbing the more I watch/think about it. Additional levels of creepiness this episode are that Wanda apparently just sends him off to work whenever she needs him out of the house and if the kids notice she tries to gaslight them (except that her magic doesn't work on them, so she can't do it effectively), Vision is starting to see through the perfect sitcome facade and is justifiably angry and frightened as opposed to confused and it doesn't seem to affect Wanda's priorities at all, and the resurrection is apparently against Vision's own stated wishes (living will), is smarmy-and-possibly-evil SWORD director can be believed, and I suspect in this particular instance he probably can. I mean, this was creepy and sad in flashes from the beginning, but now we're into full-on tragedy... Oh! and the Wanda and Vision argument when Wanda is trying to roll the credits was such a great trick to put the sitcom gimmick to!
- Speaking of the kids: I'm glad we're getting them growing at this pace and appreciate keeping them color-coded. The five year olds were very adorable, and I wish we'd gotten more of them (though I understand, of course, why we didn't, both in universe and practically speaking). The doggie was also very cute, and I'm a bit :/ that he was apparently just introduced to be killed off so that Wanda could have the uber-hypocritical "some things are forever, we need to let them happen no matter how said it makes us" moment with the kids -- well, I assume it's actually setting up her coming to this understanding herself at the end of this whole arc, but I guess we'll see. (I understand the dog, including the name, is also a comics reference). I did not on my own pick up that it's probably true that Wanda can't literally bring people back from the dead -- Vision isn't really a person, and Shuri did scan in some (most?) of him or whatever before he was destroyed. But the way that answers the question of why she couldn't bring Pietro back from the dead -- and so instead had to, like, pluck a different version of him out of the multiverse.
- Agnes continues to be an MVP -- I missed her last episode, too. 80s Agnes might actually be my favorite, in terms of costuming. And apparently she's basically given up the pretense that things are normal life, asking for stage directions ("should we take it from the top") in addition to just the sitcom tropes of the neighbor just popping up.
- Vision's scene with Norm was another one that stood out for me this ep. The cracks in Wanda's control of the people trapped inside Westview have been creepy already -- Mrs Hart at dinner in the first episode, the neighbor cutting through the fence, Dottie snapping out when she broke the glass -- but it was always just for a moment or still through a shroud of Wanda's control -- but here, with Vision snapping him out of it, you get the actual person, who remembers his pre-hex life and is frantic about disappearing from those responsibilities -- and all Vision can do is put him back under, since he can't actually help him.
- The Wanda vs SWORD confrontation scene was really cool and also completely unexpected to me. I was not expecting Wanda to be the one coming through the bubble when I saw the shot of the figure pushing through the bubble in the trailers, but it worked out great. I really liked the scene on a visual level -- the green of the lasers converging and then switching around, the tension in the scene -- and even though I do not like Wanda's "Sokovian" accent, it was cool to see it reappearing outside. And the "take the shot" scene with the 80s drone which preceded it was also really cool -- like Monica, I had not expected the drone to be armed, and liked the way that was revealed. (Also, it seems like the SWORD director is definitely being set up as an antagonist, whether for this thing or for something down the road, because even the in-universe people seem to agree he's a dick).
- I've missed the commercials! Lagos paper towels -- "for when you make a mess you didn't mean to", ouch. It's quite clean now that the commercials are, indeed, moving along the timeline of traumatic things in Wanda's past. (Also, one YouTube video I watched suggested the commercials' visuals map to the Infinity stones -- Hydra Soak bar in the shape of the tesseract cube, the Strucker watch implying the time stone, etc. I guess we'll see how many of them we end up with?
- Monica's Kevlar bellbottoms with the fish XD And I assume the weird vitals scene is setting up her becoming a superhero (/mutant?) down the line?
- Monica mentions bringing in an aerospace engineer -- that seems like a Significant Line, and once I thought about it for a moment, the first name that popped up was Reed Richards, although I doubt it's that... (I saw people saying Rhodey -- is Rhodey an aerospace engineer? I was assuming he was just straightforward military...)
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I've also gone back to She-Ra, season 2, inspired by
cahn and
isis's progress, and that's continuing to be fun.
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Completely unexpectedly, I appear to be listening to the Zack to the Future podcast and rewatching Saved by the Bell as homework. I graduated from high school in 1996, so I was just at the tail end of the generation that would come home from school and watch SBTB reruns on TV. I'm not sure I've seen every episode -- I'm guessing probably not -- but I've definitely watched a lot of it, and was very fond of it -- you can see it just made my list of top 10 favorite TV shows for the Kairos 30 day meme LJ link] (which I really should get back to doing). Anyway, the premise of the podcast is brilliant: apparently Mark-Paul Gosselaar (Zack) does not like watching himself act (he ends up second-guessing his choices and it's stressful and counterproductive for him), so he's never watched the show. (He claimed he barely remembered it, but actually he seems to remember it just fine, based on what I've heard so far.) So now he is watching the episodes in order and discussing them one at a time with the author of Zack Morris is Trash (which I have not seen), who is also a writer on the SBTB reboot (which I also haven't seen, though I'm curious to check it out at some point), plus special guests from the cast. I'm not even sure how I heard about this podcast, but I think it was one of the YouTube folks I listen to mentioning it in passing when talking about Dustin Diamond's passing a couple of days ago.
Anyway, it seemed like an intriguing concept but one that could also just be not all that interesting to me, since it's not like I'm some kind of Deep Fan, but! I listened to the intro episode, and Gosselaar was really charming in it -- not in a Zack Morris way but funny and genuine, so I listened to the first diving-into-an-episode-of-SBTB episode (70 minutes of it), and it turned out to be a really cool mix of Gosselaar and guest Elizabeth Berkley (Jesse) reminiscing about the shoot and how they felt during their key scenes together, which was very cute, poking fun at the shows various choices (both thematic and, like, set design and wardrobe and stuff), behind the scenes info, historical info -- really engaging considering I did not remember the episode AT ALL. Well, since I enjoyed the podcast, I went to see where SbtB was streaming (since they mentioned it was streaming somewhere), and turns out it's on Amazon for free with ads (at least with Prime), so I watched the episode in questions and enjoyed it. And then I watched another one, and listened to the podcast for it, and then I watched one more. At this point I've watched six episodes and listened to the associated podcasts, and while I definitely shouldn't binge them, it's been fun. And NGL, part of the attraction for me is that Zack/Slater was always an interesting dynamic for me (though this was a show I watched before I discovered slash as a concept), and that part for sure holds up on rewatch XD
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Oh, and,
rachelmanija shared this gorgeous Piranesi fanart and I absolutely have to pass it on: THE BEAUTY OF THE HOUSE IS IMMEASURABLE; ITS KINDNESS INFINITE
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Anyway, talk to me about fannish things so I don't have to think about work, college stuff, or the idiots in our school district :)
This entry was originally posted at https://hamsterwoman.dreamwidth.org/1143705.html. Comment wherever you prefer (I prefer LJ).
1. Katherine Addison, The Angel of the Crows -- so, funny story: K was excited about this book just on the strength of the author's name, but then I looked it up and was like, "...are you sure you want to commit to Sherlock wingfic sight unseen?" But then
lunasariel read it and liked it, and I decided to check it out, too. And it was... enjoyable? It took me like two months to finish, but was a reasonably good time, but I can't take it seriously as a book. First, it's very obviously Sherlock wingfic. I mean, I knew that going in, and the afterword makes no secret about it (even explains what wingfic is), and I will actually say that it did not dwell on any particularly wingficcy aspects and so did not turn me off, as someone who could not care less about wingfic. But it still has a very ficcy feel, and so pretty much throughout I was thinking, "but why does this have to be a book?" (The decidedly non-novel-like structure doesn't help -- it feels like a bunch of fics in the same AU strung together, or several episodes of a TV show -- or, well, several ACD cases, except pretending to be a novel.) It also took me a good third of the book to get over just seeing Benedict Cumberbatch whenever Crow was described, which I'm not sure was helpful to the suspension of disbelief. (I was amused, though, that the very Mycroft character was the Angel of Whitehall. That bit was nicely played.)
Ultimately, I dunno... I felt like the very complex AU did not actually contribute any to the aspects of the Sherlock Holmes (or Sherlock, even) stories I like -- the mysteries were LESS clever, I thought, and the occasional subversion of Sherlock Holmes's genius and having the Watson character (Doyle) be the one to lead to the mystery resolution in a number of cases made it so that, like, why even make this a Sherlock Holmes thing at all. I also did not really get that strong feeling of companionship from Crow and Doyle, which might have made the book interesting to me on a character level. Crow doesn't feel brilliant, and is not enough of a jerk to be entertaining the way BBC's Sherlock is (this Tor review describes it as make him likeable and also an angel, but I didn't find him so much likeable as kinda boring) -- he is pretty odd, both as a human and as an angel, but not in any way I found arresting. And I like Doyle well enough, I guess -- enough that I think it was the first person narration that carried me through the book rather than plot of cleverness or worldbuilding -- but I don't know that quite that much needed to be going on there, SPOILERS FROM HERE with the born female secret, and the hellhound secret.
There were some interesting gender stuff brushed up against in the book, but I didn't feel like it ultimately went anywhere? Doyle saying that "I'm not a man, but I'm not a woman either" left things nicely open-ended, but also I didn't actually care? Similarly, it's mentioned that angels are all technically female, meaning Crow is too, although he and most of them are perceived as male -- even by Doyle, after Doyle learns that fact, which I did think was a nice touch. But none of it really resonated with me -- it all just felt like an exercise: look, I'm subverting gender expectations in Sherlock Holmes! -- but without any sense of "so what" for me. (There's also a clear attempt to problematize the colonial and similar elements in the original stories, which was actually done with a lighter touch than I'd expected.)
The worldbuilding is elaborate, but along lines I did not care about -- not about angels and the elaborate rules that apply to them, not about hellhounds, or werewolves and vampires, which are well integrated into society, or the homphages and necrophages which seem to be something else entirely, and also magical automatons apparently? -- but none of this invention is anything I wanted to know more about, because I just don't care for angel AUs, I guess.
The cases (A Study in Scarlet, The Specled Band, The Sign of the Four, in particular) were largely disappointing. I mean, some of the subversions were interesting as subversions, I guess, but on the whole, the cases were less satisfying as mysteries, and why would I read a Sherlock Holmes pastiche for crappy mysteries? especially if there's also no Sherlock Holmes? Like, instead of clues, cases are solved by clairvoyance and autopsy and hellhound tracking, stuff like that, which... is kind of the opposite of the point of a Holmes story? I found the resolution with Mary Morstan particularly disappointing, because why even bring her in if that's all you were going to do with her? I did enjoy this version of The Hound of the Baskervilles, but it's barely even a Holmes pastiche at that point -- Crow stays home, Doyle saves Sir Henry by transforming into a hellhound. And then there's the sort ofoverarching story having to do with Jack the Ripper, and there I can only ask, really? did we really need another Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper take? One which ends so unsatisfyingly, too?
So, anyway, a curious exercise I don't regret consuming, but definitely nowhere near as enjoyable for me as either the original stories or Sherlock. And I'm still puzzled by why this needed to exist as a book...
Currently I'm having much more fun with the Winter's Orbit sync read. Also, anyone who has read the book or think they might want to, Zoom Best Chat was able to catch and liveblog this virtual event with Everina Maxwell, Ann Leckie, and Becky Chambers, which was a lot of fun. (I've seen Becky Chambers on panels before, and she is always a great panelist, but I think it was my first time hearing Ann Leckie speak, outside of the autograph queue, and she was also wonderful. And, of course, it was very cool to "meet" the author of Winter's Orbit as well.)
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WandaVision, episode 5 -- this one I really liked! But also it confirmed that I definitely prefer the balance to be on Wanda, Vision, and the town rather than SWORD perimeter camp thing. Like, seeing Monica and Jimmy was fine but I wouldn't have missed them if they hadn't been there (and Darcy I really could've done without; I don't think we need an audience stand-in, actually, or at least not one who is so on-the-nose in her remarks), but the times I was really paying attention was when stuff was happening inside Westview (or when the two worlds brushed together). Which, fortunately, that was most of the episode.
spoilers for episode 5!
- X-Men!Quicksilver!! I knew this was coming -- well, I knew the actor had been cast in WandaVision, which had started all the speculation, and then I heard the leaked confirmation that this was whom he's playing, so was waiting for him to show up, but was NOT expecting it to be midway through the show. Really excited to see more of him (loved him in XMFC-verse, but who didn't) and also to understand what this means for the two universes, both in in-universe terms and in movie franchise terms.
- I was watching post-s4 discussion on YouTube and someone was speculating that Wanda stole Visions corpse from a classified morgue thing at one point (I can't remember if this was due to a comics parallel or just taking off from the scene reportedly cut from Endgame), and... apparently that's what happened here, too. Which lends a lot of support to the "Vision as animated corpse" theore that the super-creepy shot in the last episode set up, and every aspect of that just gets more and more disturbing the more I watch/think about it. Additional levels of creepiness this episode are that Wanda apparently just sends him off to work whenever she needs him out of the house and if the kids notice she tries to gaslight them (except that her magic doesn't work on them, so she can't do it effectively), Vision is starting to see through the perfect sitcome facade and is justifiably angry and frightened as opposed to confused and it doesn't seem to affect Wanda's priorities at all, and the resurrection is apparently against Vision's own stated wishes (living will), is smarmy-and-possibly-evil SWORD director can be believed, and I suspect in this particular instance he probably can. I mean, this was creepy and sad in flashes from the beginning, but now we're into full-on tragedy... Oh! and the Wanda and Vision argument when Wanda is trying to roll the credits was such a great trick to put the sitcom gimmick to!
- Speaking of the kids: I'm glad we're getting them growing at this pace and appreciate keeping them color-coded. The five year olds were very adorable, and I wish we'd gotten more of them (though I understand, of course, why we didn't, both in universe and practically speaking). The doggie was also very cute, and I'm a bit :/ that he was apparently just introduced to be killed off so that Wanda could have the uber-hypocritical "some things are forever, we need to let them happen no matter how said it makes us" moment with the kids -- well, I assume it's actually setting up her coming to this understanding herself at the end of this whole arc, but I guess we'll see. (I understand the dog, including the name, is also a comics reference). I did not on my own pick up that it's probably true that Wanda can't literally bring people back from the dead -- Vision isn't really a person, and Shuri did scan in some (most?) of him or whatever before he was destroyed. But the way that answers the question of why she couldn't bring Pietro back from the dead -- and so instead had to, like, pluck a different version of him out of the multiverse.
- Agnes continues to be an MVP -- I missed her last episode, too. 80s Agnes might actually be my favorite, in terms of costuming. And apparently she's basically given up the pretense that things are normal life, asking for stage directions ("should we take it from the top") in addition to just the sitcom tropes of the neighbor just popping up.
- Vision's scene with Norm was another one that stood out for me this ep. The cracks in Wanda's control of the people trapped inside Westview have been creepy already -- Mrs Hart at dinner in the first episode, the neighbor cutting through the fence, Dottie snapping out when she broke the glass -- but it was always just for a moment or still through a shroud of Wanda's control -- but here, with Vision snapping him out of it, you get the actual person, who remembers his pre-hex life and is frantic about disappearing from those responsibilities -- and all Vision can do is put him back under, since he can't actually help him.
- The Wanda vs SWORD confrontation scene was really cool and also completely unexpected to me. I was not expecting Wanda to be the one coming through the bubble when I saw the shot of the figure pushing through the bubble in the trailers, but it worked out great. I really liked the scene on a visual level -- the green of the lasers converging and then switching around, the tension in the scene -- and even though I do not like Wanda's "Sokovian" accent, it was cool to see it reappearing outside. And the "take the shot" scene with the 80s drone which preceded it was also really cool -- like Monica, I had not expected the drone to be armed, and liked the way that was revealed. (Also, it seems like the SWORD director is definitely being set up as an antagonist, whether for this thing or for something down the road, because even the in-universe people seem to agree he's a dick).
- I've missed the commercials! Lagos paper towels -- "for when you make a mess you didn't mean to", ouch. It's quite clean now that the commercials are, indeed, moving along the timeline of traumatic things in Wanda's past. (Also, one YouTube video I watched suggested the commercials' visuals map to the Infinity stones -- Hydra Soak bar in the shape of the tesseract cube, the Strucker watch implying the time stone, etc. I guess we'll see how many of them we end up with?
- Monica's Kevlar bellbottoms with the fish XD And I assume the weird vitals scene is setting up her becoming a superhero (/mutant?) down the line?
- Monica mentions bringing in an aerospace engineer -- that seems like a Significant Line, and once I thought about it for a moment, the first name that popped up was Reed Richards, although I doubt it's that... (I saw people saying Rhodey -- is Rhodey an aerospace engineer? I was assuming he was just straightforward military...)
/spoilers
I've also gone back to She-Ra, season 2, inspired by
cahn and
isis's progress, and that's continuing to be fun.
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Completely unexpectedly, I appear to be listening to the Zack to the Future podcast and rewatching Saved by the Bell as homework. I graduated from high school in 1996, so I was just at the tail end of the generation that would come home from school and watch SBTB reruns on TV. I'm not sure I've seen every episode -- I'm guessing probably not -- but I've definitely watched a lot of it, and was very fond of it -- you can see it just made my list of top 10 favorite TV shows for the Kairos 30 day meme LJ link] (which I really should get back to doing). Anyway, the premise of the podcast is brilliant: apparently Mark-Paul Gosselaar (Zack) does not like watching himself act (he ends up second-guessing his choices and it's stressful and counterproductive for him), so he's never watched the show. (He claimed he barely remembered it, but actually he seems to remember it just fine, based on what I've heard so far.) So now he is watching the episodes in order and discussing them one at a time with the author of Zack Morris is Trash (which I have not seen), who is also a writer on the SBTB reboot (which I also haven't seen, though I'm curious to check it out at some point), plus special guests from the cast. I'm not even sure how I heard about this podcast, but I think it was one of the YouTube folks I listen to mentioning it in passing when talking about Dustin Diamond's passing a couple of days ago.
Anyway, it seemed like an intriguing concept but one that could also just be not all that interesting to me, since it's not like I'm some kind of Deep Fan, but! I listened to the intro episode, and Gosselaar was really charming in it -- not in a Zack Morris way but funny and genuine, so I listened to the first diving-into-an-episode-of-SBTB episode (70 minutes of it), and it turned out to be a really cool mix of Gosselaar and guest Elizabeth Berkley (Jesse) reminiscing about the shoot and how they felt during their key scenes together, which was very cute, poking fun at the shows various choices (both thematic and, like, set design and wardrobe and stuff), behind the scenes info, historical info -- really engaging considering I did not remember the episode AT ALL. Well, since I enjoyed the podcast, I went to see where SbtB was streaming (since they mentioned it was streaming somewhere), and turns out it's on Amazon for free with ads (at least with Prime), so I watched the episode in questions and enjoyed it. And then I watched another one, and listened to the podcast for it, and then I watched one more. At this point I've watched six episodes and listened to the associated podcasts, and while I definitely shouldn't binge them, it's been fun. And NGL, part of the attraction for me is that Zack/Slater was always an interesting dynamic for me (though this was a show I watched before I discovered slash as a concept), and that part for sure holds up on rewatch XD
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Oh, and,
rachelmanija shared this gorgeous Piranesi fanart and I absolutely have to pass it on: THE BEAUTY OF THE HOUSE IS IMMEASURABLE; ITS KINDNESS INFINITE
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Anyway, talk to me about fannish things so I don't have to think about work, college stuff, or the idiots in our school district :)
This entry was originally posted at https://hamsterwoman.dreamwidth.org/1143705.html. Comment wherever you prefer (I prefer LJ).