For All Mankind: Following the reccommendations, I marathoned the first two seasons of For All Mankind, aka what Ron Moore (and friends) did next (after BSG), which is an AU starting from the premise that the Soviets get to the moon first, therefore the Space Race doesn't end, and history starts to alter in small and big ways from therel. (One of ( Read more... )

After a month where I had to do other things, I went on with my Discovery rewatch, and four episodes into s3 I'm filled with even more love for the show. I think one of many reasons why I adore the later two seasons so much is that for me, they solved a narrative problem even my beloved Babylon 5 struggled with in its fifth season and which the ( Read more... )

In a first for me, I just got served a complaint from the A03 that "The Archive Warnings are designed to inform users that they may encounter the following types of content: underage sex, rape/non-consensual sex, graphic violence, and major character death. We have determined that this work contains content that warrants the "Major Character Death ( Read more... )

Watched the second season of Bridgerton, which was frothy fun. Of all the (gazillion) things to snap me out of its cheerfully anachronistic universe, though, was various characters going "ugth, but we can't, he's our cousin!" at the prospect of a fourth degree cousin as a potential match. (And no, they didn't grow up with him, none of them had met ( Read more... )

James MacAvoy interview, apropos his playing the title role in Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac (which appearantly leans into homerotic subtext for Cyrano/Christian), which contains this gem:

I once sat with Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen and both of them had a ‘Macbeth-off’ where they started speaking Macbeth to each other. I had just finished ( Read more... )

I’ve been meaning to post these two links for ages, but this week and the next are terribly crowded for me.

Star Trek: Discovery : Level Up : wonderful vid capturing all the joy and love this show offers in three seasons. Definitely the one to show to people who didn’t watch more than first few episodes and keep calling the series “grimdark” when ( Read more... )

Just found this, had to share: Sanjeev Bhaskar's hilarious rendition of Napoleon Bonaparte's slightly overwrought letters to his wife Joséphine (played by Miriam Margolyes). "Peace with Rome has just been signed. Not a word from you!!!" Miriam Margolyes gives an acting class with her facial reactions to it all.

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Quickly: watched The Old Guard, which appealed to my inner Highlander (the series, not the movies) fan, have noted the existence of comics it's based on for the mythic future era when I have more time. There's distinct crossover potential, though the two types of immortality do not exactly align. And go, movie, for all the queer canon-ness. ( ( Read more... )

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Day 29 ~ Link to a fanvid you like.

My pleasure. This vid sums up Lorenzo de' Medici's second season arc beautifully, if spoilery for the entire show:

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(Incidentally, what is it with most vids these days using dialogue? I remember when that was a strict no in vids. I'm still often not keen on it, but for this vid it works.)

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