Wrap-Up
I know the Gotham season finale aired quite a while ago by now but still wanted to say a few things about the last few episodes of the season.
Gotham had the Riddler behave like such a petulant, resentful Nice Guy to the woman he chose over Penguin that I came to feel that the Riddler's not good enough for Penguin, who deserves better. ...thanks, Gotham? It's still not enough to make up for seasons of queerbaiting, but it's... something.
Aside from the Riddler with Lee storyline, I mostly enjoyed the final episodes of the season--it's an enjoyable trashfire--and this show was the one season finale I was looking forward to this year, the last of which doesn't speak very well for everything else I was watching (looking especially at you, Arrow and The Flash).
So in the finale a lot of the villains (and Alfred) team up to try to save Bruce Wayne and the city--Gotham's version of the Justice League is a bit different--and the writers actually remembered Tabitha's role in Penguin's mother's murder. I thoroughly enjoyed our mama's boy murder bird getting some delayed revenge, and how long was he plotting this? I'm very curious what he intends to do with the Riddler and Lee once Hugo Strange resurrects them.
I was less thrilled about seeing the Queensboro, Williamsburg, Manhattan, and Brooklyn Bridges blowing up. I may be accustomed to media destroying my home city for cheap thrills but it can get tiring.
Next season--and there will be one, though it'll be a short finale season--we get No Man's Land. I'm intrigued by the possibilities.
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Apparently Supernatural continues to be completely out of new ideas and will just remix things they've already done until someone mercy kills the show.
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I finally watched The Last Jedi and didn't hate it as much as a lot of people did, though the reasons I didn't was that I went in very spoiled and couldn't be disappointed or surprised by as many things. Like, the OT3 barely spending any time together, Luke being very unLuke, the side quest, etc. I didn't mind the Canto Blight thing because the side quest was just part of this movie avoiding things I really wanted to see in favor of... whatever, such as the milking scene. The time at the casino was okay; at least it let Finn see more of the universe and its underpinnings. Rose was okay, though I'm not sure what I'm supposed to make of her kissing Finn. I don't think this series needed a potential love triangle, though it's not like Finn and Rey have even spent all that much time together either, not enough for something like that to really develop between them.
Was I supposed to think that Poe is a misogynist, arrogant dick? Because that's where I ended up with him.
The Reylo gave me massive misgivings. There's a big societal difference between Luke seeing potential in his biological father and a woman thinking her love and trust might redeem a temper tantrum-throwing brat who spends the movie negging her and trying to undercut her confidence in her everything. Oh, his evil is all Luke's fault! So why did you murder the other trainees who didn't defect with you? Oh, I guess that's all supposed to be Snoke's fault?
Given the way Han and Luke kind of went out like punks and how gendered TLJ was, I worry about how the creators are going to kill Leia in the next film.
I hear that Kylo/Hux is for some reason a huge pairing on AO3 and wonder if the relationship in them is presented as screwed-up as canon suggests it should be or if they're fluffy and woobied. I'm not curious enough to try reading any of them though.
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Gotham had the Riddler behave like such a petulant, resentful Nice Guy to the woman he chose over Penguin that I came to feel that the Riddler's not good enough for Penguin, who deserves better. ...thanks, Gotham? It's still not enough to make up for seasons of queerbaiting, but it's... something.
Aside from the Riddler with Lee storyline, I mostly enjoyed the final episodes of the season--it's an enjoyable trashfire--and this show was the one season finale I was looking forward to this year, the last of which doesn't speak very well for everything else I was watching (looking especially at you, Arrow and The Flash).
So in the finale a lot of the villains (and Alfred) team up to try to save Bruce Wayne and the city--Gotham's version of the Justice League is a bit different--and the writers actually remembered Tabitha's role in Penguin's mother's murder. I thoroughly enjoyed our mama's boy murder bird getting some delayed revenge, and how long was he plotting this? I'm very curious what he intends to do with the Riddler and Lee once Hugo Strange resurrects them.
I was less thrilled about seeing the Queensboro, Williamsburg, Manhattan, and Brooklyn Bridges blowing up. I may be accustomed to media destroying my home city for cheap thrills but it can get tiring.
Next season--and there will be one, though it'll be a short finale season--we get No Man's Land. I'm intrigued by the possibilities.
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Apparently Supernatural continues to be completely out of new ideas and will just remix things they've already done until someone mercy kills the show.
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I finally watched The Last Jedi and didn't hate it as much as a lot of people did, though the reasons I didn't was that I went in very spoiled and couldn't be disappointed or surprised by as many things. Like, the OT3 barely spending any time together, Luke being very unLuke, the side quest, etc. I didn't mind the Canto Blight thing because the side quest was just part of this movie avoiding things I really wanted to see in favor of... whatever, such as the milking scene. The time at the casino was okay; at least it let Finn see more of the universe and its underpinnings. Rose was okay, though I'm not sure what I'm supposed to make of her kissing Finn. I don't think this series needed a potential love triangle, though it's not like Finn and Rey have even spent all that much time together either, not enough for something like that to really develop between them.
Was I supposed to think that Poe is a misogynist, arrogant dick? Because that's where I ended up with him.
The Reylo gave me massive misgivings. There's a big societal difference between Luke seeing potential in his biological father and a woman thinking her love and trust might redeem a temper tantrum-throwing brat who spends the movie negging her and trying to undercut her confidence in her everything. Oh, his evil is all Luke's fault! So why did you murder the other trainees who didn't defect with you? Oh, I guess that's all supposed to be Snoke's fault?
Given the way Han and Luke kind of went out like punks and how gendered TLJ was, I worry about how the creators are going to kill Leia in the next film.
I hear that Kylo/Hux is for some reason a huge pairing on AO3 and wonder if the relationship in them is presented as screwed-up as canon suggests it should be or if they're fluffy and woobied. I'm not curious enough to try reading any of them though.
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comments at Dreamwidth.