media announcements, TV bingewatching, life and busy
I'll admit, I burned out on the 'extended universes' of Star Wars back in the late 90s. Too many book series, some with excellent worldbuilding but a lot of them not about characters that I wanted to read about.
It's also...a lot? A lot of a lot? All from Disney? Bread and circuses? And I wonder how much of this is taking advantage of a sort of a 'relief/rush to normal' after the year of 2020.
I am pretty eager to see the Rogue Squadron movie - mostly because Patty Jenkins of Wonder Woman is directing it. I am hoping we get more non-males, non-whites, and non-human characters than were in the original Rogue Squadron. (But Mirax. Oh, I want a really snarky non-white Mirax Terrik whom Corran still 100% falls for and adores! Actually, I want the movie to be about Mirax. Just call it Rogue Squadron: The Smuggler's Daughter and I'm in!)
That said, really what I want (what I really really want) is a Wraith Squadron series. Wraith Squadron is the lighter, funnier, quirkier set of New Republic pilots. They're kind of the Rogue One to the Original Trilogy, if that makes sense. Oddballs, screw ups, mental health crises in waiting, but these people are still professionally competent, and they work together becoming a Found Family in the process. It is 100% a story for the disjointed situation that we find ourselves in at the start of the 2020s.
It would have to be a TV series, though, because you need the time to explore all the characters and develop the rapport between them. Also, to work through their psychoses and sort out what happened to them all, their backstories, their anxieties... Seriously. It could be SO GOOD - if done well. That's always the caveat, isn't it? "If Done Well..."
Frankly, don't talk to me about the Marvel TV universe. I'm still bitter about a lack of Maria Hill. My salt could supply an entire ranch's worth of cattle licks. We all know this.
Additionally, I have trouble watching TV shows anymore. Doesn't matter how good it is, or how well-recommended it comes, or even who's in it. The only way you're going to get me to watch a TV show these days is by sitting me down with someone else and some snacks and anchoring me to the seat to watch it.
I think my binge-watching days are done; I have not the patience or the time for it no more. I was discussing this with a friend in the car on the drive up to hockey on Thursday night (we didn't make it; there was a truck accident on the freeway and we would have arrived with all of 10 minutes to spare) and she said, "Well, you are doing a lot of things, T."
And I thought about it and...she's kind of right. I have a lot less brainspace given all the things I've been involved in the last dozen years. I think Season 3 of Merlin, and Season 3 of Sanctuary were the last times I watched anything through - no, wait, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D to the Season 2 midpoint, circa 2015. But I joined a writing social group (that turned into more of a social group than a writing one) in 2011, started doing more quilting around 2012, bought a house in 2014, joined a local church, started working on a permaculture garden...
That's a lot of things on the brain. And I've gotten into movies since then, but not TV series.
It's also...a lot? A lot of a lot? All from Disney? Bread and circuses? And I wonder how much of this is taking advantage of a sort of a 'relief/rush to normal' after the year of 2020.
I am pretty eager to see the Rogue Squadron movie - mostly because Patty Jenkins of Wonder Woman is directing it. I am hoping we get more non-males, non-whites, and non-human characters than were in the original Rogue Squadron. (But Mirax. Oh, I want a really snarky non-white Mirax Terrik whom Corran still 100% falls for and adores! Actually, I want the movie to be about Mirax. Just call it Rogue Squadron: The Smuggler's Daughter and I'm in!)
That said, really what I want (what I really really want) is a Wraith Squadron series. Wraith Squadron is the lighter, funnier, quirkier set of New Republic pilots. They're kind of the Rogue One to the Original Trilogy, if that makes sense. Oddballs, screw ups, mental health crises in waiting, but these people are still professionally competent, and they work together becoming a Found Family in the process. It is 100% a story for the disjointed situation that we find ourselves in at the start of the 2020s.
It would have to be a TV series, though, because you need the time to explore all the characters and develop the rapport between them. Also, to work through their psychoses and sort out what happened to them all, their backstories, their anxieties... Seriously. It could be SO GOOD - if done well. That's always the caveat, isn't it? "If Done Well..."
Frankly, don't talk to me about the Marvel TV universe. I'm still bitter about a lack of Maria Hill. My salt could supply an entire ranch's worth of cattle licks. We all know this.
Additionally, I have trouble watching TV shows anymore. Doesn't matter how good it is, or how well-recommended it comes, or even who's in it. The only way you're going to get me to watch a TV show these days is by sitting me down with someone else and some snacks and anchoring me to the seat to watch it.
I think my binge-watching days are done; I have not the patience or the time for it no more. I was discussing this with a friend in the car on the drive up to hockey on Thursday night (we didn't make it; there was a truck accident on the freeway and we would have arrived with all of 10 minutes to spare) and she said, "Well, you are doing a lot of things, T."
And I thought about it and...she's kind of right. I have a lot less brainspace given all the things I've been involved in the last dozen years. I think Season 3 of Merlin, and Season 3 of Sanctuary were the last times I watched anything through - no, wait, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D to the Season 2 midpoint, circa 2015. But I joined a writing social group (that turned into more of a social group than a writing one) in 2011, started doing more quilting around 2012, bought a house in 2014, joined a local church, started working on a permaculture garden...
That's a lot of things on the brain. And I've gotten into movies since then, but not TV series.