and sundry
1. I finally got around to watching Belle and Maleficent yesterday. These are the only two movies I've really anticipated this year, and they both lived up to expectations, though i'm late enough to the party that I think everything I'd say has been said multiple times by most who are reading this and would care. I wish Maleficent had had a little more subtlety and nuance at times, though (my one real beef with it is the characterization of the three fairies, who were largely thrown under a bus, characterization-wise, for Maleficent's arc, and unlike Stefan's characterization, I don't think doing so strengthened what the movie was doing), but it did a good job of saying and doing what it wanted to. Belle was just extra lovely, though yet another movie about a historical woman that's promoted as a romance but which has the romance as a secondary aspect.
2. Until 2 days ago, I did not know that flight rising had a piece of apparel that would let you have literal swarms of pixies floating around your dragon's head. The end result of that discovery was this:
(She has been named Kyoko. If you've read Skip-Beat, then you know it is the most perfect of all possible names for her.)
Now to resist buying pixies for ALL my dragons.
3. I am horrifyingly behind on TV. I haven't watched any of season 2 of Witches of East End or Devious Maids, or past episode 9 of season 2 of Beauty and the Beast. This is not disinterest at all, I just...haven't. I also haven't watched more of Ja Myung Go or Queen Seon Deuk since WisCon, much less any of the latest kdramas, and have only seen the first couple episodes of all the anime from this season that I intend to watch. These, at least, are mostly because I haven't felt up to subtitles the last few months, except for a couple very brief spurts.
4. Netflix now has season 9 of Bones and series 3 of Call the Midwife streaming, and Amazon Prime has season 5 of The Good Wife. I watched CtM on DVD a couple weeks ago and have been switching back and forth between the other two, both of which I still quite enjoy, despite not having much to say about them.
5. It seems there's going to be a sequel to Dae Jang Geum. This was apparently announced a while back, but I only recently heard about it. Reports seem a bit mixed about whether or not Lee Young Ae will be back as Jang Geum, though.
2. Until 2 days ago, I did not know that flight rising had a piece of apparel that would let you have literal swarms of pixies floating around your dragon's head. The end result of that discovery was this:
(She has been named Kyoko. If you've read Skip-Beat, then you know it is the most perfect of all possible names for her.)
Now to resist buying pixies for ALL my dragons.
3. I am horrifyingly behind on TV. I haven't watched any of season 2 of Witches of East End or Devious Maids, or past episode 9 of season 2 of Beauty and the Beast. This is not disinterest at all, I just...haven't. I also haven't watched more of Ja Myung Go or Queen Seon Deuk since WisCon, much less any of the latest kdramas, and have only seen the first couple episodes of all the anime from this season that I intend to watch. These, at least, are mostly because I haven't felt up to subtitles the last few months, except for a couple very brief spurts.
4. Netflix now has season 9 of Bones and series 3 of Call the Midwife streaming, and Amazon Prime has season 5 of The Good Wife. I watched CtM on DVD a couple weeks ago and have been switching back and forth between the other two, both of which I still quite enjoy, despite not having much to say about them.
5. It seems there's going to be a sequel to Dae Jang Geum. This was apparently announced a while back, but I only recently heard about it. Reports seem a bit mixed about whether or not Lee Young Ae will be back as Jang Geum, though.