fun stuff! and the occasional tv opinion
first, i must squee about lynda carter playing the president on supergirl. not just that the supergirl universe imagines a female president, but that she's WONDER WOMAN.
little girl [talking about the president]: do you know her?
supergirl: no, but i'm sure we'd be cool.
I DIED. supergirl fangirling the president was super cute. and on a purely shallow note, lynda carter looks really good.
the aliens=immigrants thing is kind of heavy-handed, tho, and if it turns out that maggie and alex's initial antagonism is hiding the fact that they're both desperately hot for each other - lust/love at first sight disguised as deep dislike because they're both emotionally five - i will be SO ANNOYED, because that is my least favorite trope EVER.
but on the other hand, WONDER WOMAN.
"if you think that's cool, you'll want to see my other jet." AND SHE WINKS. OH MY GOD, THIS SHOW.
between the end of supergirl and the beginning of timeless i had to watch blade: trinity, because i am apparently constitutionally incapable of NOT watching it whenever it's on. i blame ryan reynolds and the vampire pom. i love the vampire pom. so fluffy and so wrong.
so far timeless has been set in time periods i don't know a whole lot about, so i haven't had to yell at the tv yet. this is good. (the hindenberg exploded in 1937 in the pilot, and while i do know something about the 30s, what i know is gangsters and not exploding zeppelins.) i give it a couple more episodes until we get some variation on wyatt/lucy, wyatt's previous dead-wife angst notwithstanding. his constant attempts to protect her are starting to get on my nerves. so she's not a soldier or a spy or a field operative, but she's not stupid and do we really need another manly dude protecting the pretty girl because he thinks she's out of her depth?
i kept expecting ian fleming to be blond, and i kept being confused that he wasn't. (was he blond in real life? i don't know why i think he should be blond on tv.) also they're not even pretending to give lucy period-appropriate hair and i am disappoint, especially since they seem to be making an effort to give her period-appropriate clothes. more or less.
i really appreciate that rufus has something legitimate to say about the difficulties of being a black man in every single year they've traveled to, and i think we've gotten at least one period-appropriate race-related comment each episode. and they're not heavy-handed, either. i like it.
every time the nazis saluted in this episode i expected them to say "hail hydra", rather than "heil hitler". the mcu has ruined me for fictional nazis. :|
there was an adorable (if intermittently cranky) baby on the bus this morning, so that was nice. and last night my curling team won! we all played well! by which i mean i played well! even tho i fell on my ass twice! there were only three of us - normally a team is four people - and yet we still managed to win by like five points. go us. i was even home in time for elementary, which i only liked about half of. usually i at least try to enjoy the cases, but last night's was so needlessly convoluted and so ridiculous that i gave up. so i was just there for the joan&sherlock show. also joan's cute pajamas. and sherlock's squeaky violin.
speaking of hair! ephemera shared this article on ladies' ww2 hair. british women adopted a style they could hide a lipstick and change purse in. i'd just lose stuff if i tried that.
also from ephemera, 3d printed armor. so, so cool.
little girl [talking about the president]: do you know her?
supergirl: no, but i'm sure we'd be cool.
I DIED. supergirl fangirling the president was super cute. and on a purely shallow note, lynda carter looks really good.
the aliens=immigrants thing is kind of heavy-handed, tho, and if it turns out that maggie and alex's initial antagonism is hiding the fact that they're both desperately hot for each other - lust/love at first sight disguised as deep dislike because they're both emotionally five - i will be SO ANNOYED, because that is my least favorite trope EVER.
but on the other hand, WONDER WOMAN.
"if you think that's cool, you'll want to see my other jet." AND SHE WINKS. OH MY GOD, THIS SHOW.
between the end of supergirl and the beginning of timeless i had to watch blade: trinity, because i am apparently constitutionally incapable of NOT watching it whenever it's on. i blame ryan reynolds and the vampire pom. i love the vampire pom. so fluffy and so wrong.
so far timeless has been set in time periods i don't know a whole lot about, so i haven't had to yell at the tv yet. this is good. (the hindenberg exploded in 1937 in the pilot, and while i do know something about the 30s, what i know is gangsters and not exploding zeppelins.) i give it a couple more episodes until we get some variation on wyatt/lucy, wyatt's previous dead-wife angst notwithstanding. his constant attempts to protect her are starting to get on my nerves. so she's not a soldier or a spy or a field operative, but she's not stupid and do we really need another manly dude protecting the pretty girl because he thinks she's out of her depth?
i kept expecting ian fleming to be blond, and i kept being confused that he wasn't. (was he blond in real life? i don't know why i think he should be blond on tv.) also they're not even pretending to give lucy period-appropriate hair and i am disappoint, especially since they seem to be making an effort to give her period-appropriate clothes. more or less.
i really appreciate that rufus has something legitimate to say about the difficulties of being a black man in every single year they've traveled to, and i think we've gotten at least one period-appropriate race-related comment each episode. and they're not heavy-handed, either. i like it.
every time the nazis saluted in this episode i expected them to say "hail hydra", rather than "heil hitler". the mcu has ruined me for fictional nazis. :|
there was an adorable (if intermittently cranky) baby on the bus this morning, so that was nice. and last night my curling team won! we all played well! by which i mean i played well! even tho i fell on my ass twice! there were only three of us - normally a team is four people - and yet we still managed to win by like five points. go us. i was even home in time for elementary, which i only liked about half of. usually i at least try to enjoy the cases, but last night's was so needlessly convoluted and so ridiculous that i gave up. so i was just there for the joan&sherlock show. also joan's cute pajamas. and sherlock's squeaky violin.
speaking of hair! ephemera shared this article on ladies' ww2 hair. british women adopted a style they could hide a lipstick and change purse in. i'd just lose stuff if i tried that.
also from ephemera, 3d printed armor. so, so cool.