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lunabee341. We watched Hotel Artemis which I enjoyed. I am firmly convinced that it takes place in the same world as John Wick and am very disappoint there are no fics for the show at all on AO3. It's got a great cast (really nice to see Jenny Slate playing a serious character). I especially appreciate Jodi Foster's physical acting in this; she has a way of walking and moving that communicates Older Woman Whose Feet Really Hurt that works well for the character.
2. We watched the first episode of Carnival Row last night and enjoyed it. I see it's gotten poor reviews, but I don't get why based on the first episode.
Legolas has gotten hotter with age IMHO. He looks really, really good.
I really like the world building. We're in a fantasy world suspiciously like Victorian England in which the fey and other supernatural creatures exist. I really love the sets--this is grimy, gritty 19th century London alright except that woman has bright blue hair, and this man has horns on his head. It's really beautifully costumed with all sorts of little fantasy world details all over the sets.
It's really difficult to see this show as anything other than commentary on current social events. We've got people fleeing murder, imprisonment and persecution--people who have been evicted from their homes and who are refugees seeking asylum. They are paying enormous sums of money (condemning themselves to indentured servitude) to escape to a place where they will be treated as second class citizens. The non-human beings are seen as by the humans as introducing vice and heretical religious worship as well as taking jobs from humans (does this rhetoric sound familiar). Legolas can't get any institutional support for tracking down a serial killer (handily named Unseelie Jack in honor of Jack the Ripper) because he's killing non-human folk. Now, 19th century England had its own problems with race and immigration and fear of foreign "pollution," and the show is certainly riffing on those as well, but much like Star Trek could talk about current racism pretty openly by making it racism experienced in the far future by made up aliens, I feel like this show is doing a pretty good job of talking about the current immigration crisis and xenophobia by making it about fantasy creatures in a fantasy past.
I love the sister and brother duo (I had a hard time catching just about everyone's name in this show). They hit many of the highlights of Victorian lit tropes: upper crust man who makes poor financial decisions but who is hiding that from his family, aging woman who is desperate to get married before her rapidly approaching expiration date (and by aging, of course, I mean she's 23), class and racial prejudice.
Who kidnaps the Chancellor's son? I'm assuming it's his political enemies who want to shame him by publicly revealing that his kid frequents fairy brothels.
Why did Legolas make Vignette believe he's dead and leave her to mourn him in fairy land? I hope he had an actual good reason and not a dumb reason the show wants us to believe is a good reason.
What's the evil Cthuhlu creature? Unseelie Jack insinuates that he murdered the fey on its orders.
The biggest mystery so far is the Pact. Who or what are they? Despite seeing the human looking soldier running the big dog creatures after the refugees, I don't think we've actually seen the Pact yet.
Really looking forward to more of this.
3. Inside Jokes bymisbegotten
Big Bang Theory
Penny/Sheldon
Ficlet which employs "Soft Kitty" to delightful effect. :)
4.archersangel sent me a couple of Trek memes that look like fun, so I think I'm going to start doing a mixture of Trek shitpollsting based on those memes and meta posts about Trek. Stay tuned!
2. We watched the first episode of Carnival Row last night and enjoyed it. I see it's gotten poor reviews, but I don't get why based on the first episode.
Legolas has gotten hotter with age IMHO. He looks really, really good.
I really like the world building. We're in a fantasy world suspiciously like Victorian England in which the fey and other supernatural creatures exist. I really love the sets--this is grimy, gritty 19th century London alright except that woman has bright blue hair, and this man has horns on his head. It's really beautifully costumed with all sorts of little fantasy world details all over the sets.
It's really difficult to see this show as anything other than commentary on current social events. We've got people fleeing murder, imprisonment and persecution--people who have been evicted from their homes and who are refugees seeking asylum. They are paying enormous sums of money (condemning themselves to indentured servitude) to escape to a place where they will be treated as second class citizens. The non-human beings are seen as by the humans as introducing vice and heretical religious worship as well as taking jobs from humans (does this rhetoric sound familiar). Legolas can't get any institutional support for tracking down a serial killer (handily named Unseelie Jack in honor of Jack the Ripper) because he's killing non-human folk. Now, 19th century England had its own problems with race and immigration and fear of foreign "pollution," and the show is certainly riffing on those as well, but much like Star Trek could talk about current racism pretty openly by making it racism experienced in the far future by made up aliens, I feel like this show is doing a pretty good job of talking about the current immigration crisis and xenophobia by making it about fantasy creatures in a fantasy past.
I love the sister and brother duo (I had a hard time catching just about everyone's name in this show). They hit many of the highlights of Victorian lit tropes: upper crust man who makes poor financial decisions but who is hiding that from his family, aging woman who is desperate to get married before her rapidly approaching expiration date (and by aging, of course, I mean she's 23), class and racial prejudice.
Who kidnaps the Chancellor's son? I'm assuming it's his political enemies who want to shame him by publicly revealing that his kid frequents fairy brothels.
Why did Legolas make Vignette believe he's dead and leave her to mourn him in fairy land? I hope he had an actual good reason and not a dumb reason the show wants us to believe is a good reason.
What's the evil Cthuhlu creature? Unseelie Jack insinuates that he murdered the fey on its orders.
The biggest mystery so far is the Pact. Who or what are they? Despite seeing the human looking soldier running the big dog creatures after the refugees, I don't think we've actually seen the Pact yet.
Really looking forward to more of this.
3. Inside Jokes by
misbegottenBig Bang Theory
Penny/Sheldon
Ficlet which employs "Soft Kitty" to delightful effect. :)
4.
archersangel sent me a couple of Trek memes that look like fun, so I think I'm going to start doing a mixture of Trek shitpollsting based on those memes and meta posts about Trek. Stay tuned!
