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Jun. 13th, 2014 02:37 pmI still mourn for the demise of Livejournal, and miss journal-style fandom a great deal. Tumblr has its place (gifsets! Art!) but it's not a place for discussion / thinking out loud and has become something of an echo chamber. I used to use my LJ to ramble about things I was reading and watching, so I guess I'll go with what I know!
Currently Watching
I just started Buffy season 3, having totally missed out on Buffy when it was actually airing and never getting around to watching it. I've managed to miss a lot of plot-related spoilers through the years so it's a relatively fresh experience for me, though I do know some things through general fandom osmosis. I am so far finding it a supremely fun, engaging show. The characters' emotional arcs ring true, the ensemble cast work well together, the mythos of the show is treated seriously in-show without taking itself too seriously... it's all thoroughly enjoyable.
The only character I don't enjoy is Angel, who was far more interesting as a villain, and I don't like the writing of his relationship with Buffy. I can completely buy Buffy's attraction to him (though I think she's attracted to the idea of him more than anything else) and I can understand his fascination with her, but the romantic dynamic is something I find off-putting.
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I am one of the people who stuck with Lost right up until the bitter end, and I am adamant that there is a good show in there. It went off-the-wall several times, particularly towards the end, and had a rough deal around actors leaving / network problems, and there were a lot of bad decisions, story and character-wise... but god I love it so much. For every poor decision (why, why didn't you write Jack out in the first episode?) there was a fantastic one (keeping Ben Linus around and building his character).
I've not rewatched Lost at all since its initial airing, so it will be interesting to see if the experience is different a second time around. I've only watched the pilot at this stage, and I will maintain that the first sequence of Jack waking in the woods and stumbling out to find the plane wreck is one of the best openers I've ever seen on television.
Recently Watched
Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Good lord. I started watching it on a whim, thinking it would be a fun magical girls series to entertain me for a few days. I proceeded to watch the whole thing in one marathon and make increasingly anguished posts to tumblr because it was not what I was expecting at all. What a beautiful, brutal, magnificent show. I'm not sure I could do justice to it - the plotting, the emotional arcs, the deconstruction of the magical girls trope, the worldbuilding... it was painful, certainly, but I am very glad that my whims led me to watch it.
Currently Reading
The City and the City, by China Miéville. Two cities laid on top of one another, citizens forbidden to notice the existence of the other, with severe penalties for those who do not Unsee, and a policeman investigating a murder that threatens this delicate status quo. I've never read any Miéville before, but I'm enjoying this noirish, decaying dystopia of Beszel and Ul Quoma. It's a police procedural in a post-Soviet world with more than a few shades of Raymond Chandler, but with a fantastic modern sci-fi bent.
Currently Watching
I just started Buffy season 3, having totally missed out on Buffy when it was actually airing and never getting around to watching it. I've managed to miss a lot of plot-related spoilers through the years so it's a relatively fresh experience for me, though I do know some things through general fandom osmosis. I am so far finding it a supremely fun, engaging show. The characters' emotional arcs ring true, the ensemble cast work well together, the mythos of the show is treated seriously in-show without taking itself too seriously... it's all thoroughly enjoyable.
The only character I don't enjoy is Angel, who was far more interesting as a villain, and I don't like the writing of his relationship with Buffy. I can completely buy Buffy's attraction to him (though I think she's attracted to the idea of him more than anything else) and I can understand his fascination with her, but the romantic dynamic is something I find off-putting.
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I am one of the people who stuck with Lost right up until the bitter end, and I am adamant that there is a good show in there. It went off-the-wall several times, particularly towards the end, and had a rough deal around actors leaving / network problems, and there were a lot of bad decisions, story and character-wise... but god I love it so much. For every poor decision (why, why didn't you write Jack out in the first episode?) there was a fantastic one (keeping Ben Linus around and building his character).
I've not rewatched Lost at all since its initial airing, so it will be interesting to see if the experience is different a second time around. I've only watched the pilot at this stage, and I will maintain that the first sequence of Jack waking in the woods and stumbling out to find the plane wreck is one of the best openers I've ever seen on television.
Recently Watched
Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Good lord. I started watching it on a whim, thinking it would be a fun magical girls series to entertain me for a few days. I proceeded to watch the whole thing in one marathon and make increasingly anguished posts to tumblr because it was not what I was expecting at all. What a beautiful, brutal, magnificent show. I'm not sure I could do justice to it - the plotting, the emotional arcs, the deconstruction of the magical girls trope, the worldbuilding... it was painful, certainly, but I am very glad that my whims led me to watch it.
Currently Reading
The City and the City, by China Miéville. Two cities laid on top of one another, citizens forbidden to notice the existence of the other, with severe penalties for those who do not Unsee, and a policeman investigating a murder that threatens this delicate status quo. I've never read any Miéville before, but I'm enjoying this noirish, decaying dystopia of Beszel and Ul Quoma. It's a police procedural in a post-Soviet world with more than a few shades of Raymond Chandler, but with a fantastic modern sci-fi bent.
