EVERYTHING IS BACK
Ahhhh things are starting to come back and I'm on this like, EMOTIONAL OVERLOAD OF FEELINGS.
Okay first, just to set the scene, this week the final part of one of my favorite hockey fics in the history of fucking ever was posted - a final 111k word chapter to a five-chapter fic that I've been following for two years, 300k words overall, and it was like getting a new Harry Potter book, if you know, HP books tore your freaking heart apart. (......oh wait, some of them actually did.) So then I had to find people to have feelings at, and you know, that was like 24 hours of an emotional roller coaster - still in progress, still it included basically forcing some RL friends to give it a shot, and I am still waiting on them to finish so I can talk about it some more. I do plan on making, like, an Official Rec of it at some point when I have enough wits about me to do it, but in the meantime, for those curious, it is this 300k Hockey RPF fic (with a 6k prequel) where Patrick Kane discovers he has a three year old kid and learns to parent and is really fucked up and loves her so much that sometimes it's hard to breathe, and it's about life and love and everything, ugh, sorry I get REALLY ANNOYINGLY INCOHERENT talking about it.
But anyway, yes: HOCKEY IS BACK. Like, almost. So so close to being back. Players are back together at training camps, preseason games started a couple days ago, the Blackhawks have their first preseason games today, tumblr is afresh with new gifs and new photos; you can smell it in the mid-night air (because that is how late I have to be to actually watch it). I'm not gonna use the word overinvestment, but let's just say today I found myself worrying about the fact that a bunch of players are starting the season weighing a few pounds lighter than they did last year. And by worrying I mean freaking out on chat.
ANYWAY. So then I needed something to distract myself from the terrifyingly disturbing production of Carrie I saw tonight, and remembered that The Good Wife was back! Guys. GUYS. THE GOOD WIFE. Omg.
I am SO CURIOUS where they're going to take everything from here. Cary in jail! Alicia and Finn! It s seriously ridiculous how quickly Matthew Goode has managed to worm his way into my heart and, not replace Will? But wow totally replace Will. And though they're not yet going there overtly? I ship him and Alicia so much more than I shipped her and Will post, say the brief period of time they were together.
I'm not super fond of Eli and Peter trying to browbeat Alicia into running for DA, and I really hope the show doesn't go in that direction - even though so far TPTB have not made me not trust their decisions (almost), so if they do go there, it'll probably be well written, BUT. I really love Alicia as a lawyer and a partner; I don't want her turning into a politician. The only good it might do is add some, idk, flavor to her relationship with Finn. But I seriously do not want to see her ever not being on the same side as Cary (and maybe Diane in the future).
I also wasn't a fan of the sexual-harassment-in-Peter's-office plot, which, why. I WAS a fan of the way Alicia, Kalinda, Robin and Diane all pitched in and did whatever they could to help out Cary.
Also LOLOL Eli's daughter. Don't send your kids to a kibbutz, guys, next thing you know they're spending two years in the IDF. This is actually what happens. I would love to watch basically all of the conversations she had with Eli in the past two years, lol. Okay yes, so, I am happy this show is back on.
And in shows coming back, though it is a new show, Gotham! But it feels like another season returning - familiar characters coming back to my screen through TV instead of through comic. So I have no idea what I'll ultimately feel about this show, but there are so many characters it's just such a joy to watch coming to life onscreen: RENEE MONTOYA AND CRISPUS ALLEN IT'S SO GOOD TO SEE YOU :DDDD I hope they don't die. I really, really hope they don't die. Like honestly, I think that's all I'm gonna ask of this show: low standards. Don't kill them, and we'll be good.
I love Ryan - sorry, whathisname, Benjamin McKenzie - as Jim Gordon. I'm only ten minutes in so at this point all I like is his face, but his face is a GOOD FACE okay. I also support his lack of mustache. LOLOL at the comfort he offers Bruce - a scant few minutes after seeing his parents murdered in front of his eyes, "I know how you feel" coupled with "there will be light" - sorry to break it to you Jim, but moments of light will be FAR and in between and maybe might happen after this kid becomes a psychotic MAN BAT who prowls in the night.
Okay, more observations:
-in an unexpected turn of events, the moment Jim Gordon and Alfred set eyes on each other over the head of a sobbing Bruce Wayne, by brain was immediately on board this ship.
-they really have the old time-y police station/comic book aesthetic going for them, which is fun for now but I wonder how long they can keep going with it; I'm also curious whether cellphones exist in this world.
So far the future villain cameos feel both gratuitous and just totally unsubtle, which is a shame - it could have been cool to introduce them more gradually, I guess, and also not spoonfeed the audience who they are with phrases like "no more riddles, Enigma!" and "you penguin! haha".
-Really, Ivy too? What a weirdly shot chase scene with Jim and her dad.
-The Waynes' funeral - like their murder scene, the funeral scene is pretty iconic, and it's really cool seeing it filmed just the way I remember it. The kid playing Bruce, so far with very few lines, looks just the part.
-WOOOOOOOOOW. Barbara and Renee used to be together in this universe? Jesus. That's... something.
-I'd forgotten how the very basis for everything that goes on in Gotham is how very rotten and corrupt the police are, with Jim being one of the honest few. With so much Harvey Bullock going on, this could be a very depressing show very fast.
-.....uh okay I kind of nodded off and it's 4AM and I still have half a day to work tomorrow before the holiday. Whoops. I will make up the rest of the episode after a good half-night's rest.
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So just to like, round it up, for the record I'm also watching Outlander and Masters of Sex. Because that was like, important to mention right there.
...okay then.
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Okay first, just to set the scene, this week the final part of one of my favorite hockey fics in the history of fucking ever was posted - a final 111k word chapter to a five-chapter fic that I've been following for two years, 300k words overall, and it was like getting a new Harry Potter book, if you know, HP books tore your freaking heart apart. (......oh wait, some of them actually did.) So then I had to find people to have feelings at, and you know, that was like 24 hours of an emotional roller coaster - still in progress, still it included basically forcing some RL friends to give it a shot, and I am still waiting on them to finish so I can talk about it some more. I do plan on making, like, an Official Rec of it at some point when I have enough wits about me to do it, but in the meantime, for those curious, it is this 300k Hockey RPF fic (with a 6k prequel) where Patrick Kane discovers he has a three year old kid and learns to parent and is really fucked up and loves her so much that sometimes it's hard to breathe, and it's about life and love and everything, ugh, sorry I get REALLY ANNOYINGLY INCOHERENT talking about it.
But anyway, yes: HOCKEY IS BACK. Like, almost. So so close to being back. Players are back together at training camps, preseason games started a couple days ago, the Blackhawks have their first preseason games today, tumblr is afresh with new gifs and new photos; you can smell it in the mid-night air (because that is how late I have to be to actually watch it). I'm not gonna use the word overinvestment, but let's just say today I found myself worrying about the fact that a bunch of players are starting the season weighing a few pounds lighter than they did last year. And by worrying I mean freaking out on chat.
ANYWAY. So then I needed something to distract myself from the terrifyingly disturbing production of Carrie I saw tonight, and remembered that The Good Wife was back! Guys. GUYS. THE GOOD WIFE. Omg.
I am SO CURIOUS where they're going to take everything from here. Cary in jail! Alicia and Finn! It s seriously ridiculous how quickly Matthew Goode has managed to worm his way into my heart and, not replace Will? But wow totally replace Will. And though they're not yet going there overtly? I ship him and Alicia so much more than I shipped her and Will post, say the brief period of time they were together.
I'm not super fond of Eli and Peter trying to browbeat Alicia into running for DA, and I really hope the show doesn't go in that direction - even though so far TPTB have not made me not trust their decisions (almost), so if they do go there, it'll probably be well written, BUT. I really love Alicia as a lawyer and a partner; I don't want her turning into a politician. The only good it might do is add some, idk, flavor to her relationship with Finn. But I seriously do not want to see her ever not being on the same side as Cary (and maybe Diane in the future).
I also wasn't a fan of the sexual-harassment-in-Peter's-office plot, which, why. I WAS a fan of the way Alicia, Kalinda, Robin and Diane all pitched in and did whatever they could to help out Cary.
Also LOLOL Eli's daughter. Don't send your kids to a kibbutz, guys, next thing you know they're spending two years in the IDF. This is actually what happens. I would love to watch basically all of the conversations she had with Eli in the past two years, lol. Okay yes, so, I am happy this show is back on.
And in shows coming back, though it is a new show, Gotham! But it feels like another season returning - familiar characters coming back to my screen through TV instead of through comic. So I have no idea what I'll ultimately feel about this show, but there are so many characters it's just such a joy to watch coming to life onscreen: RENEE MONTOYA AND CRISPUS ALLEN IT'S SO GOOD TO SEE YOU :DDDD I hope they don't die. I really, really hope they don't die. Like honestly, I think that's all I'm gonna ask of this show: low standards. Don't kill them, and we'll be good.
I love Ryan - sorry, whathisname, Benjamin McKenzie - as Jim Gordon. I'm only ten minutes in so at this point all I like is his face, but his face is a GOOD FACE okay. I also support his lack of mustache. LOLOL at the comfort he offers Bruce - a scant few minutes after seeing his parents murdered in front of his eyes, "I know how you feel" coupled with "there will be light" - sorry to break it to you Jim, but moments of light will be FAR and in between and maybe might happen after this kid becomes a psychotic MAN BAT who prowls in the night.
Okay, more observations:
-in an unexpected turn of events, the moment Jim Gordon and Alfred set eyes on each other over the head of a sobbing Bruce Wayne, by brain was immediately on board this ship.
-they really have the old time-y police station/comic book aesthetic going for them, which is fun for now but I wonder how long they can keep going with it; I'm also curious whether cellphones exist in this world.
So far the future villain cameos feel both gratuitous and just totally unsubtle, which is a shame - it could have been cool to introduce them more gradually, I guess, and also not spoonfeed the audience who they are with phrases like "no more riddles, Enigma!" and "you penguin! haha".
-Really, Ivy too? What a weirdly shot chase scene with Jim and her dad.
-The Waynes' funeral - like their murder scene, the funeral scene is pretty iconic, and it's really cool seeing it filmed just the way I remember it. The kid playing Bruce, so far with very few lines, looks just the part.
-WOOOOOOOOOW. Barbara and Renee used to be together in this universe? Jesus. That's... something.
-I'd forgotten how the very basis for everything that goes on in Gotham is how very rotten and corrupt the police are, with Jim being one of the honest few. With so much Harvey Bullock going on, this could be a very depressing show very fast.
-.....uh okay I kind of nodded off and it's 4AM and I still have half a day to work tomorrow before the holiday. Whoops. I will make up the rest of the episode after a good half-night's rest.
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So just to like, round it up, for the record I'm also watching Outlander and Masters of Sex. Because that was like, important to mention right there.
...okay then.
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