aurumcalendula asked me about those. With the caveat that I could list more and of course it also varies depending on the mood I am in, and with the qualification that I'm excluding straightforward from-stage-to-screen film versions of a single play (the phrasing is not accidental, you'll see why), here are some of my firm favourites:

1) West Side Story. It's ( Read more... )

Because the Marvel shows - Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, The Punisher and The Defenders - are leaving Netflix as of the end of this month, I dipped into some of them to rewatch some favourite scenes or episodes and found that several years later, my basic opinions on their virtues and flaws haven't changed. This includes: Luke ( Read more... )

Without much announcement, consistent with the way Netflix has threated its Marvel shows ever since the relative lack of success of Defenders, the third and final season of Jessica Jones was released on Friday. Thoughts, I have them.

( Spoilers make Daredevil look optimistic... )

Various neat (and often short) stories in various fandoms from the recent Chocolatebox ficathon.

Agent Carter: After the Storm: The last time Peggy sees Dottie, it’s in 1991, at Howard Stark’s funeral. I have a soft spot for stories tackling older Peggy, and this is a very plausible version of her and Dottie, decades later. Love it both for the ( Read more... )

Not having watched Iron Fist yet, I have no feelings one way or the other about its cancellation. Luke Cage getting cancelled, otoh, had me torn; it was an intriguing series, but I felt for all reasons except its central character, whom I took to far more in shows not his own (i.e. Jessica Jones and Defenders). After all, it’s easy to read the two ( Read more... )

Dear Yuletide Writer ( Read more... )

Dear Brits, I would say you have my sympathy for the Orange Menace landing on your shores in a few days, except that you actually just had his spiritual twin resigning, whereas in our current political grotesque the German equivalent of Johnson in selfishness and destroying-the-country-for-career-purposes resigned from his resignation and wasn’t ( Read more... )

Back in the day, I growled against the existence of Ant-Man (as opposed to the non-existence of Black Widow) with the best of them, but it turned out to be surprisingly charming when I did get around to watching it on dvd, so I'll probably catch the sequel in the cinema. This article about how the movie creators used the events of other Marvel ( Read more... )

Jessica Jones, season 2, definitely reminded me of Buffy, season 6, or for that matter Angel, season 4. Now I like both seasons - s4 of AtS even is a favourite for that show - , but they‘re definitely not easy on the fannish heart, and you emerge with your emotions pulled inside out, not with a „yay team“ or „aw, bless you, characters“ kind of ( Read more... )

for Jessica Jones, season 2! (And it's really a new trailer, not the teaser trailer from a few weeks back.)

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Thoughts: as opposed to s1, this isn't based on anything in the Alias comics that I can recall, but it's been years since I've read them. Still, in them, Jessica's super powers truly were an accident as far as I remember (correct me if I'm ( Read more... )