Fannish type stuff
Oct. 20th, 2014 08:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapinglightIncludes spoilers/mention of this week's Doctor Who, the season finale of Legends, AoS episode...er, whichever it was that aired last week, and the first five issues of Loki, Agent of Asgard.
DW first, and boy was it good this week! The villains were scary, the Doctor was scary, Clara was great (not something I ever thought I'd say when Matt Smith was the Doctor), and the supporting characters were fun (even the selfish, grumpy old git). I thought it was a terrific conceit, having Clara walk a mile in the Doctor's shoes as it were, though I'm not sure she'd entirely taken on board at the end the lesson the Doctor thought she should have learned.
Capaldi and Coleman are beginning to develop serious chemistry, I think (not in a 'shippy way).
As for Legends, I watched the season finale last week and then scoured the 'net for any news about renewal. Nothing so far, though. If the show isn't renewed it would be a shame because the last episode was such a downer. The bad guys (in this case a private security firm, way, way worse than Blackwater (which Wikipedia tells me was renamed Academi in 2011)) won and our hero was a fugitive in a hoodie.
Can't say the show entirely lived up to its promise. Earlier episodes were better. However, at least there was a reasonable explanation in the end for Sean Bean's accent. Well, reasonable-ish.
AoS continues to surprise me by being very watchable. What's up with that? It does help a lot thatMr Wooden Face evil double agent Ward is still mad and bad in the basement.
Not that everything about the show is great. Hunter and Triplett continue to be surplus to requirements - so much so I'm pretty convinced that one of them is going to die, and since BJ Britt isn't in the main credits I'm guessing it'll probably be him.
I'll wait till it actually happens to be sarcastic about Hollywood's total lack of self-awareness, in case the fact the show is (minimally) connected to Joss means I'm wrong (not that Joss's record is so great in that regard).
I'm also a bit worried about the former comedy Nazi's right hand man, Mr Bakshi. It surely must occur to the former comedy Nazi soon that Mr Bakshi has so far failed in every mission he's sent him on. If I were the former comedy Nazi I'd be in the market for a new chief henchperson.
Finally, I've now read the first five issues of Loki: Agent of Asgard, which features the adventures of the version of Loki who killed his own younger self (the late, and still lamented Kid!Loki) so he could take over Kid!Loki's body and give himself a fresh start, during the course of which he managed to age his body to his late teens (hence the comparisons to One Direction). There's been a mention of the crime that cannot be forgiven - Teen!Loki's murder of his younger self - in every issue so far, and no 5, in which it's revealed that there's another Loki - this one the old, completely unreconstructed version - languishing (quite happily) in an Asgardian dungeon, makes it pretty clear that Kid!Loki was right when he told his murderer that he would never be able to change.
Teen!Loki will one day become this older, gleefully unreconstructed version and there's nothing he can do to stop it.
Another downer. :(
'Course, it's possible that Teen!Loki will come up with a clever plan that will not only save himself but save everyone else from his old, evil self, but I suspect it's more likely another case of Marvel wanting to have their cake and eat it too.
Pretty much like Marvel's current Magneto series, which has undone all the character's 'reform' from the past five years (again) without flat out saying he's evil again.
I would quite like this comic if it weren't for the fact that most of the people I see saying they like it seem to prefer Magneto evil, and I have hang-ups about people who say that sort of stuff from the BtVS fandom (not to mention much older hang-ups from the last time Magneto had a redemption story that got completely reversed).
Hmm, suspect I'm just talking to myself at this point.
DW first, and boy was it good this week! The villains were scary, the Doctor was scary, Clara was great (not something I ever thought I'd say when Matt Smith was the Doctor), and the supporting characters were fun (even the selfish, grumpy old git). I thought it was a terrific conceit, having Clara walk a mile in the Doctor's shoes as it were, though I'm not sure she'd entirely taken on board at the end the lesson the Doctor thought she should have learned.
Capaldi and Coleman are beginning to develop serious chemistry, I think (not in a 'shippy way).
As for Legends, I watched the season finale last week and then scoured the 'net for any news about renewal. Nothing so far, though. If the show isn't renewed it would be a shame because the last episode was such a downer. The bad guys (in this case a private security firm, way, way worse than Blackwater (which Wikipedia tells me was renamed Academi in 2011)) won and our hero was a fugitive in a hoodie.
Can't say the show entirely lived up to its promise. Earlier episodes were better. However, at least there was a reasonable explanation in the end for Sean Bean's accent. Well, reasonable-ish.
AoS continues to surprise me by being very watchable. What's up with that? It does help a lot that
Not that everything about the show is great. Hunter and Triplett continue to be surplus to requirements - so much so I'm pretty convinced that one of them is going to die, and since BJ Britt isn't in the main credits I'm guessing it'll probably be him.
I'll wait till it actually happens to be sarcastic about Hollywood's total lack of self-awareness, in case the fact the show is (minimally) connected to Joss means I'm wrong (not that Joss's record is so great in that regard).
I'm also a bit worried about the former comedy Nazi's right hand man, Mr Bakshi. It surely must occur to the former comedy Nazi soon that Mr Bakshi has so far failed in every mission he's sent him on. If I were the former comedy Nazi I'd be in the market for a new chief henchperson.
Finally, I've now read the first five issues of Loki: Agent of Asgard, which features the adventures of the version of Loki who killed his own younger self (the late, and still lamented Kid!Loki) so he could take over Kid!Loki's body and give himself a fresh start, during the course of which he managed to age his body to his late teens (hence the comparisons to One Direction). There's been a mention of the crime that cannot be forgiven - Teen!Loki's murder of his younger self - in every issue so far, and no 5, in which it's revealed that there's another Loki - this one the old, completely unreconstructed version - languishing (quite happily) in an Asgardian dungeon, makes it pretty clear that Kid!Loki was right when he told his murderer that he would never be able to change.
Teen!Loki will one day become this older, gleefully unreconstructed version and there's nothing he can do to stop it.
Another downer. :(
'Course, it's possible that Teen!Loki will come up with a clever plan that will not only save himself but save everyone else from his old, evil self, but I suspect it's more likely another case of Marvel wanting to have their cake and eat it too.
Pretty much like Marvel's current Magneto series, which has undone all the character's 'reform' from the past five years (again) without flat out saying he's evil again.
I would quite like this comic if it weren't for the fact that most of the people I see saying they like it seem to prefer Magneto evil, and I have hang-ups about people who say that sort of stuff from the BtVS fandom (not to mention much older hang-ups from the last time Magneto had a redemption story that got completely reversed).
Hmm, suspect I'm just talking to myself at this point.
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Date: 2014-10-21 03:52 am (UTC)But I tried Legends and just couldn't manage to care. I expected to; the premise is interesting, the actors are good...but it just leaves me cold.
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Date: 2014-10-21 09:01 am (UTC)Mac is definitely the best of the three new(ish) characters - I mean, I know Triplett isn't new, but to be honest, I feel the character's still a bit of a blank slate, even though he's been in a fair number of episodes now. Mac has far more of a personality already, and I agree his interaction with Fitz is great. So great that I'm hoping Simmons stays away for a large part of the season.
As for Legends, I probably wouldn't have stuck with it if it hadn't been for Sean Bean and the novelty of a Brit actor using his own accent in an American drama and not being the villain. ;)