More Random Musings
So, I started Mario & Luigi Paper Jam the other day, and though I didn't get very far, it's off to a great and promising start, particularly with Luigi's characterization--for the first time in... the entire series basically... Luigi volunteers to head out with Mario and find the lost Paper folk. This is a huge, huge development for him--it basically shows how much he's grown, and how the events of Dream Team have boosted his self-confidence and bravery! While I still doubt that they can ever top Dream Team in the level of squee, this one seems to be looking great!
I ended up getting sidetracked from this because I got fully pulled back in to the Oracle games from Legend of Zelda. I beat Oracle of Seasons in... less than four days? And I have just one more dungeon left in Oracle of Ages, and then I can challenge Veran in the tower--and since I linked from the Seasons file, after I beat Veran, I can challenge Twinrova and Ganon. ...The only embarrassing thing for me is that I used to be able to beat these games without needing a guide, and I finally had to use a guide to find a key item in Seasons and get past two of the dungeons in Ages. Although while I was looking for the guide, I found someone's theory/headcanon regarding Veran and Queen Ambi--
With Ambi being a queen, in charge of Labrynna and therefore with a good amount of intelligence to govern, one wonders why she so readily tossed her former advisor aside and trusted Veran implicitly. Veran promises her that she will see to the completion of the watch tower that Ambi intended to use as a beacon to guide home her true love/possible husband, a Captain who was lost at sea, and Ambi readily accepts--not knowing that Veran intends to use the tower as a channel for dark magic to increase her power. And the person's theory was pointing out that Ambi's true love is dead, now continuing to be lost at sea as an undead Stalfos... and yet, Ambi's descendant Ralph is alive and well 400 years later--the implication being that Ambi found out she was carrying the Captain's child and that was why she was so desperate to find him, and once she found him as a Stalfos, couldn't bring herself to tell him. ...That's admittedly very dark, but this is the Fallen Hero timeline, which comes into existence by the canonical death of a very fan-beloved incarnation of the main character at the hands of the series biggest/main villain, so you can't really get much darker than that, I suppose.
At any rate, replaying the game has reminded me of just how much I like Veran as a villainess. I would love to write for her again--but I have to resist my knee-jerk impulse to have her cause havoc in my current main fandom of MFU. Veran's main tactics are manipulation, possession, and petrification; manipulation just won't work--Napoleon and Illya just simply can't be turned against each other like that. Possession? ....Veran possessing one of the guys (or even April or anyone else at UNCLE) would get reaaaaaallly weird--too weird. And petrificaiton, though I used to write that trope before, is one that I haven't been able to touch since that disaster that was OUAT season 4a and I'm still not ready to touch that trope again--I don't know if I ever will.
And while I've had Veran use mind control in some old fics, I still wonder if I could pull off having a dark sorceress show up in the MFU-universe and not have it end up too weird. Maybe I'll write a drabble or something to satisfy me and then move on to more typical MFU fics.
...This segues me into what was the most bizarre episode of Benson that I saw last night. Every once in a while, the show touches on the paranormal, and in this one, Benson is out playing golf with the governor and he gets kidnapped by aliens for ten minutes and shows up later not able to remember a thing about having been gone. While it's vexing in that there is no explanation for what the heck happened, seeing the governor worry and panic over him was squeeful to see, and later, when no one else seems to believe the governor, Benson says that even if he can't remember seeing anything, he'll still believe him. So, yes, incredibly weird, but very squeeful.
I've taken to watching Benson at nights with my parents and, in the mornings, I watch MFU. I'm about... a third of the way through Season 3 after finishing up S2. Mixed bag here, clearly, with the decidedly different direction the show took. Anyway, the next up on the watchlist is the two-parter "Concrete Overcoat Affair," which I've heard lots of good things about, so I'll probably stop there and pick up S3 the next time I have some extended time at home. ...I also really want to see the interview with Robert and David in the bonus features, so I'll probably see that Saturday and wrap things up with that.
...And speaking of David, I don't think I've mentioned this here on LJ, but if you follow me on tumblr, you'll know that I've started casually watching NCIS. I'm watching for David's scenes as Ducky--he's absolutely adorable. Of course, with Ducky being a pathologist, he does have some of the most graphic scenes in regards to the autopsies, but, thankfully, my background in biology has me used to this--I pretty much saw all there was to see at an anatomy exhibition that I went to during my undergrad, so the scenes don't really phase me. At any rate, there are only two eps left this season--and what concerns me is that David's contract is up for renewal, and there's no word on whether or not he's renewing it. One of the other actors is already confirmed to be leaving, but he's pretty much the second in command and all the focus is on his departure, which makes me worried that they can use that as an opportunity to secretly plan Ducky getting written off as a bonus surprise shocker. I really hope that isn't the case...
And as far as Robert is concerned, I got the DVD of The Protectors set; I've only seen two eps for now--the ones guest-starring Patrick Troughton and Jeremy Brett, for obvious reasons--and I'll probably get to the rest of them once I finish MFU.
But, for the meantime, more Zelda and MFU!
I ended up getting sidetracked from this because I got fully pulled back in to the Oracle games from Legend of Zelda. I beat Oracle of Seasons in... less than four days? And I have just one more dungeon left in Oracle of Ages, and then I can challenge Veran in the tower--and since I linked from the Seasons file, after I beat Veran, I can challenge Twinrova and Ganon. ...The only embarrassing thing for me is that I used to be able to beat these games without needing a guide, and I finally had to use a guide to find a key item in Seasons and get past two of the dungeons in Ages. Although while I was looking for the guide, I found someone's theory/headcanon regarding Veran and Queen Ambi--
With Ambi being a queen, in charge of Labrynna and therefore with a good amount of intelligence to govern, one wonders why she so readily tossed her former advisor aside and trusted Veran implicitly. Veran promises her that she will see to the completion of the watch tower that Ambi intended to use as a beacon to guide home her true love/possible husband, a Captain who was lost at sea, and Ambi readily accepts--not knowing that Veran intends to use the tower as a channel for dark magic to increase her power. And the person's theory was pointing out that Ambi's true love is dead, now continuing to be lost at sea as an undead Stalfos... and yet, Ambi's descendant Ralph is alive and well 400 years later--the implication being that Ambi found out she was carrying the Captain's child and that was why she was so desperate to find him, and once she found him as a Stalfos, couldn't bring herself to tell him. ...That's admittedly very dark, but this is the Fallen Hero timeline, which comes into existence by the canonical death of a very fan-beloved incarnation of the main character at the hands of the series biggest/main villain, so you can't really get much darker than that, I suppose.
At any rate, replaying the game has reminded me of just how much I like Veran as a villainess. I would love to write for her again--but I have to resist my knee-jerk impulse to have her cause havoc in my current main fandom of MFU. Veran's main tactics are manipulation, possession, and petrification; manipulation just won't work--Napoleon and Illya just simply can't be turned against each other like that. Possession? ....Veran possessing one of the guys (or even April or anyone else at UNCLE) would get reaaaaaallly weird--too weird. And petrificaiton, though I used to write that trope before, is one that I haven't been able to touch since that disaster that was OUAT season 4a and I'm still not ready to touch that trope again--I don't know if I ever will.
And while I've had Veran use mind control in some old fics, I still wonder if I could pull off having a dark sorceress show up in the MFU-universe and not have it end up too weird. Maybe I'll write a drabble or something to satisfy me and then move on to more typical MFU fics.
...This segues me into what was the most bizarre episode of Benson that I saw last night. Every once in a while, the show touches on the paranormal, and in this one, Benson is out playing golf with the governor and he gets kidnapped by aliens for ten minutes and shows up later not able to remember a thing about having been gone. While it's vexing in that there is no explanation for what the heck happened, seeing the governor worry and panic over him was squeeful to see, and later, when no one else seems to believe the governor, Benson says that even if he can't remember seeing anything, he'll still believe him. So, yes, incredibly weird, but very squeeful.
I've taken to watching Benson at nights with my parents and, in the mornings, I watch MFU. I'm about... a third of the way through Season 3 after finishing up S2. Mixed bag here, clearly, with the decidedly different direction the show took. Anyway, the next up on the watchlist is the two-parter "Concrete Overcoat Affair," which I've heard lots of good things about, so I'll probably stop there and pick up S3 the next time I have some extended time at home. ...I also really want to see the interview with Robert and David in the bonus features, so I'll probably see that Saturday and wrap things up with that.
...And speaking of David, I don't think I've mentioned this here on LJ, but if you follow me on tumblr, you'll know that I've started casually watching NCIS. I'm watching for David's scenes as Ducky--he's absolutely adorable. Of course, with Ducky being a pathologist, he does have some of the most graphic scenes in regards to the autopsies, but, thankfully, my background in biology has me used to this--I pretty much saw all there was to see at an anatomy exhibition that I went to during my undergrad, so the scenes don't really phase me. At any rate, there are only two eps left this season--and what concerns me is that David's contract is up for renewal, and there's no word on whether or not he's renewing it. One of the other actors is already confirmed to be leaving, but he's pretty much the second in command and all the focus is on his departure, which makes me worried that they can use that as an opportunity to secretly plan Ducky getting written off as a bonus surprise shocker. I really hope that isn't the case...
And as far as Robert is concerned, I got the DVD of The Protectors set; I've only seen two eps for now--the ones guest-starring Patrick Troughton and Jeremy Brett, for obvious reasons--and I'll probably get to the rest of them once I finish MFU.
But, for the meantime, more Zelda and MFU!