Yuletide, Legends of Tomorrow, fiction
A Partial List of Things They Changed in the Movie (2626 words) by rivkat
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Speed (1994)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Annie Porter/Jack Traven
Characters: Annie Porter, Jack Traven, Harry Temple
Summary:
Harry lives. Other parts of life go on too. Note: I ignored Speed 2 because I never saw it. It does not exist in this universe.
I've been bingewatching Legends of Tomorrow and ...it is definitely its own thing. If Black Lightning is "Luke Cage, but they're enjoying making it," then LoT is "2000s comics like Batman/Superman, but (mostly) live action"--CGI is now cheap enough that they can do basically any ridiculous thing that could happen in the comics. I mostly like the singing though, let's face it, without Victor Garber the singing talent average dropped a ton. I love that a Muslim character declines to become a god for a day because drinking wine is super haram. I love the stoner superhero. I think it might have run its course, but maybe there are more depths of absurdity to plumb.
Charles Stross, The Revolution Trade: Third in the revised Merchant Princes series; the US knows about worldwalkers now and is out for blood-and oil from the less-developed worlds, where it’s just sitting under the territory we know as Texas. Plenty of other stuff is happening politically in two other worlds as well, including a political revolution where Miriam was trying to start an industrial revolution. Stross could definitely use an Ameri-picker for small details of speech when he’s trying to write Americans, but I had fun anyway. He gets a lot of mileage out of the misunderstandings that let nations lurch into war-misunderstanding intent, misunderstanding goals, misunderstanding what counts as a stable situation. And his alternate Iraq war is, sadly, much more successful than the real one even though he probably thought he was being pessimistic.
Charles Stross, Empire Games: Seventeen years after the original trilogy, the US recruits Miriam’s daughter and trains her as an operative to spy on the timeline they’ve found that has advanced enough technology to threaten them. Meanwhile, Miriam’s adopted timeline is progressing rapidly with its borrowed technology and push to catch up, but politically is still quite unstable. Very much a transitional volume to get to the next part.
Charles Stross, Dark State: Now things start to happen in this second volume of the new trilogy-Miriam’s daughter starts her spy mission and immediately things go sideways, but fortunately for her she’s been trained by a German deep cover spy and the new American Republic has a use for him too. As it turns out, they are also dealing with a succession crisis and are trying to get the Pretender’s daughter to renounce her claim to the throne and accept citizenship in return for money and freedom from the breed-mare status of European princesses. But the extraction is complicated. And… cliffhanger.
Adrian Tchaikovsky, Ogres: Ogres dominate the humans they rule. But when one human strikes back, he starts a journey to heroism and rebellion. Onto this basic formula, Tchaikovsky applies his interests in genetics, politics, and politically relevant genetic traits. Most of the novella is in the second person, for a reason.
Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star:Second in this series based on pre-Columbian cultures with a city to which the gods have returned, much to the city’s detriment. Contending political and sorcerous forces and lots of bloodshed ensue. For fans of magic crossed with palace politics.
Aliya Whiteley, Skyward Inn: Jem is human, formerly working on a planet that humans are colonizing, partially driving out the native intelligent species, which is close enough to humanoid for serious misunderstanding to be easy. She and her alien companion-with whom she is in what seems like unrequited love-now run an inn in an Earth province that has seceded from modernity (chips in the head/expansionism, mostly) and sell the alien brew that restores pleasant memories to immediate experience. Her son is one of the POV characters, and he’s callow and unpleasant enough to make reading not super pleasant either. Humanity as destroyer, I think, but I admit I couldn’t finish.
Daniel Abraham, Age of Ash:New trilogy opener, set in the city of Kithamar, where many races mingle. When Alys’s brother is killed, her revenge quest sets her into affairs magical and political. Meanwhile, the young woman hopelessly in love with Alys is being drawn to the other side of the conflict, in service of a foreigner searching for her son. It’s a good starter.
Kate Elliott, Unconquerable Sun: The most operatic of space operas. Sun is her mother’s heir, but her mother doesn’t plan to release control over the empire any time soon, and just got married to a new wife who is already pregnant with a potentially competing heir. Sun’s victories in battle may help her but also arouse her mother’s jealousy, and when one of Sun’s companions is killed, the replacement is a resentful young woman who has big family drama of her own. Lots of fighting on space and on the ground, some romance, and much politics. (Loosely based on Alexander the Great, I think.)
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Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Speed (1994)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Annie Porter/Jack Traven
Characters: Annie Porter, Jack Traven, Harry Temple
Summary:
Harry lives. Other parts of life go on too. Note: I ignored Speed 2 because I never saw it. It does not exist in this universe.
I've been bingewatching Legends of Tomorrow and ...it is definitely its own thing. If Black Lightning is "Luke Cage, but they're enjoying making it," then LoT is "2000s comics like Batman/Superman, but (mostly) live action"--CGI is now cheap enough that they can do basically any ridiculous thing that could happen in the comics. I mostly like the singing though, let's face it, without Victor Garber the singing talent average dropped a ton. I love that a Muslim character declines to become a god for a day because drinking wine is super haram. I love the stoner superhero. I think it might have run its course, but maybe there are more depths of absurdity to plumb.
Charles Stross, The Revolution Trade: Third in the revised Merchant Princes series; the US knows about worldwalkers now and is out for blood-and oil from the less-developed worlds, where it’s just sitting under the territory we know as Texas. Plenty of other stuff is happening politically in two other worlds as well, including a political revolution where Miriam was trying to start an industrial revolution. Stross could definitely use an Ameri-picker for small details of speech when he’s trying to write Americans, but I had fun anyway. He gets a lot of mileage out of the misunderstandings that let nations lurch into war-misunderstanding intent, misunderstanding goals, misunderstanding what counts as a stable situation. And his alternate Iraq war is, sadly, much more successful than the real one even though he probably thought he was being pessimistic.
Charles Stross, Empire Games: Seventeen years after the original trilogy, the US recruits Miriam’s daughter and trains her as an operative to spy on the timeline they’ve found that has advanced enough technology to threaten them. Meanwhile, Miriam’s adopted timeline is progressing rapidly with its borrowed technology and push to catch up, but politically is still quite unstable. Very much a transitional volume to get to the next part.
Charles Stross, Dark State: Now things start to happen in this second volume of the new trilogy-Miriam’s daughter starts her spy mission and immediately things go sideways, but fortunately for her she’s been trained by a German deep cover spy and the new American Republic has a use for him too. As it turns out, they are also dealing with a succession crisis and are trying to get the Pretender’s daughter to renounce her claim to the throne and accept citizenship in return for money and freedom from the breed-mare status of European princesses. But the extraction is complicated. And… cliffhanger.
Adrian Tchaikovsky, Ogres: Ogres dominate the humans they rule. But when one human strikes back, he starts a journey to heroism and rebellion. Onto this basic formula, Tchaikovsky applies his interests in genetics, politics, and politically relevant genetic traits. Most of the novella is in the second person, for a reason.
Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star:Second in this series based on pre-Columbian cultures with a city to which the gods have returned, much to the city’s detriment. Contending political and sorcerous forces and lots of bloodshed ensue. For fans of magic crossed with palace politics.
Aliya Whiteley, Skyward Inn: Jem is human, formerly working on a planet that humans are colonizing, partially driving out the native intelligent species, which is close enough to humanoid for serious misunderstanding to be easy. She and her alien companion-with whom she is in what seems like unrequited love-now run an inn in an Earth province that has seceded from modernity (chips in the head/expansionism, mostly) and sell the alien brew that restores pleasant memories to immediate experience. Her son is one of the POV characters, and he’s callow and unpleasant enough to make reading not super pleasant either. Humanity as destroyer, I think, but I admit I couldn’t finish.
Daniel Abraham, Age of Ash:New trilogy opener, set in the city of Kithamar, where many races mingle. When Alys’s brother is killed, her revenge quest sets her into affairs magical and political. Meanwhile, the young woman hopelessly in love with Alys is being drawn to the other side of the conflict, in service of a foreigner searching for her son. It’s a good starter.
Kate Elliott, Unconquerable Sun: The most operatic of space operas. Sun is her mother’s heir, but her mother doesn’t plan to release control over the empire any time soon, and just got married to a new wife who is already pregnant with a potentially competing heir. Sun’s victories in battle may help her but also arouse her mother’s jealousy, and when one of Sun’s companions is killed, the replacement is a resentful young woman who has big family drama of her own. Lots of fighting on space and on the ground, some romance, and much politics. (Loosely based on Alexander the Great, I think.)
comments on DW | reply there. I have invites or you can use OpenID.