A 5 things + 1 post!
1. This season of The Librarians is a little...off? Good, but not quite gelling like the first 2 seasons. I've seen some people say that it's because there's too much Flynn, but there hasn't actually been more Flynn than at this point in the first 2 seasons, it's just that the first 2 seasons had the first 2 episodes of the season as a 2 part arc with Flynn that aired on the same night, and this season only aired the first episode on the first week. I do think, though, that they're trying too hard to make him part of the team even though he's still off doing his own thing. Flynn is best as the LITs' weird uncle who shows up from time to time and is dating their babysitter.
2. Hwarang: The Beginning, which is a Silla sageuk about the founding of the Hwarang, starts tomorrow, and while most of the promotional stuff for it was terrible and had me expecting a decently entertaining but not good drama at best (and that they scheduled it during a sageuk drought on purpose) they longer trailer dropped a few days ago and looks considerably better:
The comedy parts still make me cringe, as did the "flower boy idols IN COSTUME" fanservice, but the actual serious sageuk parts look good, and the romantic plotlines don't look terrible. I mean, if nothing else, it has to at least be better than Moon Lovers ended up being. I hope. Warrior Baek Dong Soo and Sungkyunkwan Scandal come to mind as sageuks that I thought had terrible trailers and promos that ended up being very good, even if it did take me years to get to SKKS (and then the lead actor was charged for raping multple women a few weeks after I did, so that was a thing that happened...)
3. Saimdang: Light's Diary, the sageuk with Lee Young Ae as both the artist Shin Saimdang and a modern art history lecturer who is studying her, is finally coming out at the end of next month. I feel like I've been waiting for that show for years and years, even though it was "only" announced last March. Which isn't as long a wait as some cdramas, but is a long wait for kdramas. That said, I'm bitter anew that the title was changed to Saimdang: Light's Diary. I mean, don't get me wrong, it's a good title, but the original title was Shin Saimdang: The Herstory, which was so much better. Alas.
4. I'm reading the first volume of Soul Eater NOT! is a manga series set in the soul Eater universe and is about students at the academy who will eventually fill support roles, a opposed to being monster hunters. I liked the Soul Eater anime but couldn't get into the manga at all. SEN is about three girls who form an awkward romantic and professional triangle and is cute, though not amazing.
5. I haven't seen Moana or Star Wars: Rogue One yet and probably won't until the week between Christmas and New Years, but I haven't been able to fully avoid spoilers for either. I don't mind Moana spoilers, but was hoping to avoid Rogue One spoilers. I haven't really been spoiled for anything I wasn't expecting, though, and it sounds like fandom might be having an even more racist reaction to it than it did to The Force Awakens.
I understand the CGI Leia wasn't bad, HOWEVER I feel it was completely unnecessary when they could have put Billie Lourd in a brown wig and given her a good makeup artist and you'd barely be able to tell the difference.
6. I mostly like the new laptop I got last month, but the keyboard is terrible. I shouldn't be having to pound the keys on keyboard that isn't even a month old!
2. Hwarang: The Beginning, which is a Silla sageuk about the founding of the Hwarang, starts tomorrow, and while most of the promotional stuff for it was terrible and had me expecting a decently entertaining but not good drama at best (and that they scheduled it during a sageuk drought on purpose) they longer trailer dropped a few days ago and looks considerably better:
Click to viewThe comedy parts still make me cringe, as did the "flower boy idols IN COSTUME" fanservice, but the actual serious sageuk parts look good, and the romantic plotlines don't look terrible. I mean, if nothing else, it has to at least be better than Moon Lovers ended up being. I hope. Warrior Baek Dong Soo and Sungkyunkwan Scandal come to mind as sageuks that I thought had terrible trailers and promos that ended up being very good, even if it did take me years to get to SKKS (and then the lead actor was charged for raping multple women a few weeks after I did, so that was a thing that happened...)
3. Saimdang: Light's Diary, the sageuk with Lee Young Ae as both the artist Shin Saimdang and a modern art history lecturer who is studying her, is finally coming out at the end of next month. I feel like I've been waiting for that show for years and years, even though it was "only" announced last March. Which isn't as long a wait as some cdramas, but is a long wait for kdramas. That said, I'm bitter anew that the title was changed to Saimdang: Light's Diary. I mean, don't get me wrong, it's a good title, but the original title was Shin Saimdang: The Herstory, which was so much better. Alas.
4. I'm reading the first volume of Soul Eater NOT! is a manga series set in the soul Eater universe and is about students at the academy who will eventually fill support roles, a opposed to being monster hunters. I liked the Soul Eater anime but couldn't get into the manga at all. SEN is about three girls who form an awkward romantic and professional triangle and is cute, though not amazing.
5. I haven't seen Moana or Star Wars: Rogue One yet and probably won't until the week between Christmas and New Years, but I haven't been able to fully avoid spoilers for either. I don't mind Moana spoilers, but was hoping to avoid Rogue One spoilers. I haven't really been spoiled for anything I wasn't expecting, though, and it sounds like fandom might be having an even more racist reaction to it than it did to The Force Awakens.
I understand the CGI Leia wasn't bad, HOWEVER I feel it was completely unnecessary when they could have put Billie Lourd in a brown wig and given her a good makeup artist and you'd barely be able to tell the difference.
6. I mostly like the new laptop I got last month, but the keyboard is terrible. I shouldn't be having to pound the keys on keyboard that isn't even a month old!