and i know i'm not the one who is habitually optimistic
I think I'm coming down with a cold? Or possibly it's just allergies and Zyrtec fails at actually being a 24-hour medication (which I already knew, because after four hours around cats, it stops working for me and I start to be unable to breathe) and yet I still feel better than I did earlier this week. It never fails to amaze me what an actual decent night's sleep and some sunlight can accomplish in terms of improving my outlook on life.
While I was having that great night's sleep, I dreamt that the Gilmore Girls reunion was also a Star Wars crossover. I'm not really sure how that worked but somehow Luke Danes was replaced with Ewan McGregor-era Obi-Wan Kenobi. I guess one sarcastic bearded guy is just like another? IDEK. I can't picture Obi-Wan in a backwards baseball cap, though.
Speaking of Star Wars crossovers and meta, I love this post about Anakin Skywalker: When Hufflepuffs Go Bad. Search your feelings! You know it to be true!
And books:
What I've just finished
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Omnibus 3 by John Jackson Miller, which I liked less than the first two volumes, but it was still fun.
The Hidden Oracle (The Trials of Apollo, #1) by Rick Riordan, which happens post Heroes of Olympus and probably concurrent with the Magnus Chase stuff? Which is all leading into an epic apocalypse-averting crossover between all his series, I think?
Anyway, I didn't like Apollo as a narrator as much as I've liked the other kids, and there wasn't nearly enough Percy Jackson in this one, given that he appeared early on to get my hopes up. For all that these books kind of blur together, it's amazing to me how much I like Percy and how much more vivid a character he is than some of the other kids. But it does check in on a bunch of other characters and Nico and Will are still happily together (is that even a spoiler?) and LEO shows up at the end, which is good because I enjoy Leo a lot. And Percy does get to show up like a hero at the climax, even though Apollo gets to strike the winning blow, since it's his book. And I thought the Meg reveal was telegraphed early on, but I would still like her to not end up as a bad guy.
I also read this month's Darth Vader and ugh, Palpatine continues to be THE WORST. And I guess he kind of has to be so you can feel okay rooting for Vader to get the better of him. Because otherwise, you're rooting for Vader against people who probably don't deserve it and, well, despite the fact that he is, as Oscar Isaac said, "a sad, weird man" (I think the sadness is a given, but the WEIRDNESS is just not talked about often enough and he is just SO FUCKING WEIRD), he's still a terrifying and fascist murder machine you wouldn't ordinarily root for even if you've developed a deep yet unwanted affection for him. And by you I of course mean me. So whoever he's up against has to be worse than him (or it has to be his kids, where you're rooting for them but hoping he doesn't do anything too irrevocable that he'll feel awful about later and...I know. I'm judging me, too), or the whole premise kind of falls apart.
And this month's Gotham Academy was the last in that series for a while (I'm glad it's going to stick around after "rebirth") and Damian and Maps' friendship makes me so happy.
What I'm reading now
Star Wars: Bloodline by Claudia Gray. I just started it this morning on the subway, so I don't have much to say though I was a little sad that in a whole long thing about Bail Organa, Breha barely gets a mention (and not by name), and that so far, even in an aside about Leia not acknowledging her aforementioned bio dad, Padme doesn't get a mention at all. Hopefully that last part changes. IJS. I mean, her only mistake was having terrible taste in men. *hands*
What I'm reading next
I don't know! I discovered that my library card expired but I haven't made it back there to reinstate it - you have to go IN PERSON which I find ridiculous! - so I have no holds coming in or anything. I guess we'll see!
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While I was having that great night's sleep, I dreamt that the Gilmore Girls reunion was also a Star Wars crossover. I'm not really sure how that worked but somehow Luke Danes was replaced with Ewan McGregor-era Obi-Wan Kenobi. I guess one sarcastic bearded guy is just like another? IDEK. I can't picture Obi-Wan in a backwards baseball cap, though.
Speaking of Star Wars crossovers and meta, I love this post about Anakin Skywalker: When Hufflepuffs Go Bad. Search your feelings! You know it to be true!
And books:
What I've just finished
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Omnibus 3 by John Jackson Miller, which I liked less than the first two volumes, but it was still fun.
The Hidden Oracle (The Trials of Apollo, #1) by Rick Riordan, which happens post Heroes of Olympus and probably concurrent with the Magnus Chase stuff? Which is all leading into an epic apocalypse-averting crossover between all his series, I think?
Anyway, I didn't like Apollo as a narrator as much as I've liked the other kids, and there wasn't nearly enough Percy Jackson in this one, given that he appeared early on to get my hopes up. For all that these books kind of blur together, it's amazing to me how much I like Percy and how much more vivid a character he is than some of the other kids. But it does check in on a bunch of other characters and Nico and Will are still happily together (is that even a spoiler?) and LEO shows up at the end, which is good because I enjoy Leo a lot. And Percy does get to show up like a hero at the climax, even though Apollo gets to strike the winning blow, since it's his book. And I thought the Meg reveal was telegraphed early on, but I would still like her to not end up as a bad guy.
I also read this month's Darth Vader and ugh, Palpatine continues to be THE WORST. And I guess he kind of has to be so you can feel okay rooting for Vader to get the better of him. Because otherwise, you're rooting for Vader against people who probably don't deserve it and, well, despite the fact that he is, as Oscar Isaac said, "a sad, weird man" (I think the sadness is a given, but the WEIRDNESS is just not talked about often enough and he is just SO FUCKING WEIRD), he's still a terrifying and fascist murder machine you wouldn't ordinarily root for even if you've developed a deep yet unwanted affection for him. And by you I of course mean me. So whoever he's up against has to be worse than him (or it has to be his kids, where you're rooting for them but hoping he doesn't do anything too irrevocable that he'll feel awful about later and...I know. I'm judging me, too), or the whole premise kind of falls apart.
And this month's Gotham Academy was the last in that series for a while (I'm glad it's going to stick around after "rebirth") and Damian and Maps' friendship makes me so happy.
What I'm reading now
Star Wars: Bloodline by Claudia Gray. I just started it this morning on the subway, so I don't have much to say though I was a little sad that in a whole long thing about Bail Organa, Breha barely gets a mention (and not by name), and that so far, even in an aside about Leia not acknowledging her aforementioned bio dad, Padme doesn't get a mention at all. Hopefully that last part changes. IJS. I mean, her only mistake was having terrible taste in men. *hands*
What I'm reading next
I don't know! I discovered that my library card expired but I haven't made it back there to reinstate it - you have to go IN PERSON which I find ridiculous! - so I have no holds coming in or anything. I guess we'll see!
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This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/841130.html.
people have commented there.