since i have taken an actual day off from work...
...and am procrastinating about mowing the lawn.
I am still going back-and-forth on the idea of signing up for
crossovering; some of my fallback crossover fandoms did not make the list and I'm just not sure I could pull together enough requests and offers to make it worthwhile. There is also the fact that I have not written anything since Yuletide, although I have signed up for the History Exchange, so I will have to write something soon.
Meanwhile we are reaching the end of a television cycle here -- Game of Thrones is over, and Penny Dreadful and Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell will be wrapping up soon. In the books I've been dreading the thought of a showdown between Brienne and Stannis, but I will be terribly, terribly sad if Stannis isn't dead in the show. Not only did I want him dead on a personal level, but I really liked the narrative -- he made the ultimate sacrifice, and it didn't work. He lost everything anyway. It gives me hope that some of the prophetic elements in the books will be undercut like that. For example, I know that it is completely unlikely, but I would actually love it if Jon Snow stayed dead. His story is such a mass of fantasy cliches -- the secret heir who comes to power just in time to save the kingdom -- that if he turned out to be such an unskilled leader that he was actually killed by his own men before he could get to the world-saving part of it, my respect for GRRM would go through the roof.
On the "needs more cannibalism" front, Hannibal is back, but I still don't like it very much. I am enjoying Strike Back: Project WNGWJLEO. I am the only person in fandom who has only seen the non-Richard Armitrage seasons of this show, but I absolutely love it. They have reached the "everyone assumes the two protagonists are married" stage of things.
And finally, Nashville has come back to my TV -- we are now up to episode 6. How I love the increasingly poor decisions of every single character on this show! It is the evening soap of my heart. I mean, I can only assume that Luke and Rayna are headed for a breakup, because the writers clearly ship Rayna/Deacon/dysfunction, and I can't say I mind, because Luke's proposal to her was the worst proposal ever. But in the meantime I am so enjoying watching Luke torment Deacon about it, while Rayna just swans around looking earnest and vaguely injured most of the time. What I really want is more Rayna & Juliette time, especially because Avery's ability to get his act together is not all that great, although at least he's trying not to be drunk and sorry for himself all the time now (wow, does this show love its cliches). I don't actually care about Avery, but I do care about Juliette being happy, so if he's what she wants, all I can say is that I think he should get his act together -- but she could do better! (My ships for this show are actually Juliette/Rayna/world domination, or sometimes Juliette/Rayna/happiness, but anyway you see where this is heading.)
Meanwhile, Teddy proves that his political career really was bought for him by his father-in-law, since he does not possess the self-preservation instincts of a lemming, and I am as usual least interested in whatever is going on with Scarlett and Gunnar except when they are singing together.
Damn it, I am going to have to put on shoes and socks and go mow that lawn.
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I am still going back-and-forth on the idea of signing up for
crossovering; some of my fallback crossover fandoms did not make the list and I'm just not sure I could pull together enough requests and offers to make it worthwhile. There is also the fact that I have not written anything since Yuletide, although I have signed up for the History Exchange, so I will have to write something soon.
Meanwhile we are reaching the end of a television cycle here -- Game of Thrones is over, and Penny Dreadful and Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell will be wrapping up soon. In the books I've been dreading the thought of a showdown between Brienne and Stannis, but I will be terribly, terribly sad if Stannis isn't dead in the show. Not only did I want him dead on a personal level, but I really liked the narrative -- he made the ultimate sacrifice, and it didn't work. He lost everything anyway. It gives me hope that some of the prophetic elements in the books will be undercut like that. For example, I know that it is completely unlikely, but I would actually love it if Jon Snow stayed dead. His story is such a mass of fantasy cliches -- the secret heir who comes to power just in time to save the kingdom -- that if he turned out to be such an unskilled leader that he was actually killed by his own men before he could get to the world-saving part of it, my respect for GRRM would go through the roof.
On the "needs more cannibalism" front, Hannibal is back, but I still don't like it very much. I am enjoying Strike Back: Project WNGWJLEO. I am the only person in fandom who has only seen the non-Richard Armitrage seasons of this show, but I absolutely love it. They have reached the "everyone assumes the two protagonists are married" stage of things.
And finally, Nashville has come back to my TV -- we are now up to episode 6. How I love the increasingly poor decisions of every single character on this show! It is the evening soap of my heart. I mean, I can only assume that Luke and Rayna are headed for a breakup, because the writers clearly ship Rayna/Deacon/dysfunction, and I can't say I mind, because Luke's proposal to her was the worst proposal ever. But in the meantime I am so enjoying watching Luke torment Deacon about it, while Rayna just swans around looking earnest and vaguely injured most of the time. What I really want is more Rayna & Juliette time, especially because Avery's ability to get his act together is not all that great, although at least he's trying not to be drunk and sorry for himself all the time now (wow, does this show love its cliches). I don't actually care about Avery, but I do care about Juliette being happy, so if he's what she wants, all I can say is that I think he should get his act together -- but she could do better! (My ships for this show are actually Juliette/Rayna/world domination, or sometimes Juliette/Rayna/happiness, but anyway you see where this is heading.)
Meanwhile, Teddy proves that his political career really was bought for him by his father-in-law, since he does not possess the self-preservation instincts of a lemming, and I am as usual least interested in whatever is going on with Scarlett and Gunnar except when they are singing together.
Damn it, I am going to have to put on shoes and socks and go mow that lawn.
This entry has also been posted at http://vaznetti.dreamwidth.org/49845.html, where it has
comments. Please comment here or there, as you like.