Oh, how the ghost of you clings
Yuletide sign-ups are open, and among the fandoms one can offer and request is also the one I've spent considerable time in these recent months, to wit, Frederician RPF, by which we mean Frederick II of Prussia and assorted foes, friends and frenemies. We're having a blast; anecdote sharing, chatting and speculating about people in the 18th century, their messed up politics and even more messed up personal lives has proven a lovely distraction from the horrors of the current day. (Will someone in the future want to fictionalise The Dumbest Timeline we're currently living in? Not sure about that...)
Other than this one, the fandoms I've requested and the fandoms I offered were completely different this year. There's been a third group, i.e. fandoms I'm hoping someone else requests and writes, but that's per usual.
I also watched the first two episodes of the new tv Watchmen, and am cautiously intrigued. Damon Lindelof is definitely way more ambitioius with his approach than Zack Snyder, or, for that matter, what little I've seen of the non-Moore Watchmen prequel comics. I do think not doing another straightforward adaption but remaining in the same universe, with (mostly) new characters set several decades later (in 2019, but wthin the Watchmen universe, i.e. with that alternate timeline - all that happened in the original book did happen, including, it seems, the Squid) was a good choice, and while the various nods and homages are there, the tv show graspect something essential, i.e. that if you want to do something with the material like Moore and Gibbons did, you can't make it a nostalgia fest but need to make a point about today. And Regina King as Angela, our new main character, has been great so far. Of course there are also a number of potential storytelling desasters, various points where I mentally went "Really?" but so far the show then did what the original Watchmen also did, i.e. subverted and pointed out that early assumptions can be deceiving. Oh, and I appreciate the mystery aspect. When reading the original Watchmen for the first time, I did want to figure out what was going on and yes, who'd killed the Comedian, after all.
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Other than this one, the fandoms I've requested and the fandoms I offered were completely different this year. There's been a third group, i.e. fandoms I'm hoping someone else requests and writes, but that's per usual.
I also watched the first two episodes of the new tv Watchmen, and am cautiously intrigued. Damon Lindelof is definitely way more ambitioius with his approach than Zack Snyder, or, for that matter, what little I've seen of the non-Moore Watchmen prequel comics. I do think not doing another straightforward adaption but remaining in the same universe, with (mostly) new characters set several decades later (in 2019, but wthin the Watchmen universe, i.e. with that alternate timeline - all that happened in the original book did happen, including, it seems, the Squid) was a good choice, and while the various nods and homages are there, the tv show graspect something essential, i.e. that if you want to do something with the material like Moore and Gibbons did, you can't make it a nostalgia fest but need to make a point about today. And Regina King as Angela, our new main character, has been great so far. Of course there are also a number of potential storytelling desasters, various points where I mentally went "Really?" but so far the show then did what the original Watchmen also did, i.e. subverted and pointed out that early assumptions can be deceiving. Oh, and I appreciate the mystery aspect. When reading the original Watchmen for the first time, I did want to figure out what was going on and yes, who'd killed the Comedian, after all.
This entry was originally posted at https://selenak.dreamwidth.org/1369434.html. Comment there or here, as you wish.