holiday TV watching
For Yuletide, I got two lovely stories which took me back to some of my childhood ships: Time's Arrow (The Secret Garden, Mary/Dickon after WWI, 2548 words), and New Ways to Dream (Little Women, Amy/Laurie on the voyage home, 628 words). Wonderful stuff in both -- and yay! for my first Yuletide.
The holidays so far have also involved seeing a lot of in-laws, friends, and TV. So pretty good, on balance.
Misfits
Oh, this show! We've just finished Series 2, out of three series aired so far. (By the way, I have come to really prefer the shorter, more focused seasons of UK shows and US cable shows -- not to mention the curse words and nudity.)
For those unfamiliar, this is a UK show about young offenders doing community service on a council estate in southeast London who get superpowers after being struck by lightning -- as do some other people, with varying degrees of using said superpowers for good vs. evil. Obvious similarities to Heroes, Smallville, X-Men and Skins are obvious. But it's so witty and oftentimes over the top funny/ridiculous, just as much as it brings the drama and the angst. The characters are all charmers in their own ways -- they fuck up a lot and they're young and stupid, and most of the situations they get into are forehead-slappers...but I adore them all.
It's also filmed in a really slick and interesting way, making the otherwise drab background scenery of a London council estate kind of beautiful. I will be looking for vids as soon as we're done with the last series.
I'm aware of various casting and plot spoilers. I know Nathan is out of Series 3, and that Simon and Alisha will be out of Series 4. I also know a few of the new powers they'll be getting. I will bravely weather these changes through at least the end of Series 3, I suppose.
I found the Christmas special episode of Series 2 frustrating. They're young and stupid kids, and selling their powers made sense character-wise, but it was still hard to watch. Compared to the last episode of Series 1, where we got Nathan's surprising and inspired rooftop speech romanticizing youth and stupidity, it was just a let-down. And the milk-killer episode just before the Christmas special was so good as well.
Alisha straight-up lying to Simon's face, also hard to watch. I actually first got interested in the show when someone on ONTD linked to her sex scene with future!Simon, and I was like, what is this hotness, pls can I have some more?? But having seen the two series now, their relationship is a bit underwhelming. I love them both individually, but not quite together.
And I know we already saw the scene where he learns about future!Simon, but that moment got erased when Curtis rewound time, and I would have liked the show to be clearer about how he got the knowledge again. Like, did he really have time to tell Curtis about it when he'd just been stabbed and was urging Curtis to rewind, so that Curtis would then tell it back to him in the present? I guess that's plausible, but not probable. I just want to have seen how Alisha and Simon ultimately got together in this reality, and how she came to tell him about his future self again -- especially given that she'd promised not to. The only reason she told him in the milk killer future was because he'd followed her to the flat.
Sherlock
I appreciated this as an entertaining modern take on Sherlock Holmes, but mostly I was left with two impressions:
(1) I can't WAIT to see Martin Freeman in The Hobbit.
(2) Why do they take cabs everywhere? It's so expensive and takes so much longer than the Tube!
(I also saw the latest Sherlock movie. And while Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law all but had sex with each other on the big cinema screen, and I was happily surprised about Mad Men's Jared Harris's excellent -- and superior -- take on Moriarty, Guy Ritchie's directing style just needs to get over itself.)
American Horror Story
Finished up the season. The last episode was a major disappointment, but then the last scene delivered a nicely satisfying punch.
Jessica Lange deserves all the actress awards.
Watch this show only if you don't take shit too seriously.
Parks and Recreation
There were indeed more tears after 4x01. I blame PMS. And gingerbread.
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The holidays so far have also involved seeing a lot of in-laws, friends, and TV. So pretty good, on balance.
Misfits
Oh, this show! We've just finished Series 2, out of three series aired so far. (By the way, I have come to really prefer the shorter, more focused seasons of UK shows and US cable shows -- not to mention the curse words and nudity.)
For those unfamiliar, this is a UK show about young offenders doing community service on a council estate in southeast London who get superpowers after being struck by lightning -- as do some other people, with varying degrees of using said superpowers for good vs. evil. Obvious similarities to Heroes, Smallville, X-Men and Skins are obvious. But it's so witty and oftentimes over the top funny/ridiculous, just as much as it brings the drama and the angst. The characters are all charmers in their own ways -- they fuck up a lot and they're young and stupid, and most of the situations they get into are forehead-slappers...but I adore them all.
It's also filmed in a really slick and interesting way, making the otherwise drab background scenery of a London council estate kind of beautiful. I will be looking for vids as soon as we're done with the last series.
I'm aware of various casting and plot spoilers. I know Nathan is out of Series 3, and that Simon and Alisha will be out of Series 4. I also know a few of the new powers they'll be getting. I will bravely weather these changes through at least the end of Series 3, I suppose.
I found the Christmas special episode of Series 2 frustrating. They're young and stupid kids, and selling their powers made sense character-wise, but it was still hard to watch. Compared to the last episode of Series 1, where we got Nathan's surprising and inspired rooftop speech romanticizing youth and stupidity, it was just a let-down. And the milk-killer episode just before the Christmas special was so good as well.
Alisha straight-up lying to Simon's face, also hard to watch. I actually first got interested in the show when someone on ONTD linked to her sex scene with future!Simon, and I was like, what is this hotness, pls can I have some more?? But having seen the two series now, their relationship is a bit underwhelming. I love them both individually, but not quite together.
And I know we already saw the scene where he learns about future!Simon, but that moment got erased when Curtis rewound time, and I would have liked the show to be clearer about how he got the knowledge again. Like, did he really have time to tell Curtis about it when he'd just been stabbed and was urging Curtis to rewind, so that Curtis would then tell it back to him in the present? I guess that's plausible, but not probable. I just want to have seen how Alisha and Simon ultimately got together in this reality, and how she came to tell him about his future self again -- especially given that she'd promised not to. The only reason she told him in the milk killer future was because he'd followed her to the flat.
Sherlock
I appreciated this as an entertaining modern take on Sherlock Holmes, but mostly I was left with two impressions:
(1) I can't WAIT to see Martin Freeman in The Hobbit.
(2) Why do they take cabs everywhere? It's so expensive and takes so much longer than the Tube!
(I also saw the latest Sherlock movie. And while Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law all but had sex with each other on the big cinema screen, and I was happily surprised about Mad Men's Jared Harris's excellent -- and superior -- take on Moriarty, Guy Ritchie's directing style just needs to get over itself.)
American Horror Story
Finished up the season. The last episode was a major disappointment, but then the last scene delivered a nicely satisfying punch.
Jessica Lange deserves all the actress awards.
Watch this show only if you don't take shit too seriously.
Parks and Recreation
There were indeed more tears after 4x01. I blame PMS. And gingerbread.
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