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shapinglightI won something in the Sunnydale Memorial Fanfiction Awards. Thanks so much to whoever nominated me and voted for me. Really, really appreciate it.
In other news (such as it is) I've now watched two episodes of Amazon Prime's The Man in the High Castle (S signed up for a month by accident), and one of Netflix's Jessica Jones. Slight spoilers for those behind cut, and please no spoilers for later episodes.
I approached Jessica Jones with a great deal of wariness, after finding the level of violence in Daredevil earlier in the year so hard to stomach. One episode in, it's not as bad, but the tone of it suggests it might still become so. So still wary. I do quite like all the characters so far, though, whereas I was finding Foggy and Karen teeth-grittingly annoying before I'd got to the end of the first episode of Daredevil. We'll see. Have to say, it doesn't endear me to the show that David Tennant is playing the villain with an English accent. What's wrong with him using his own Scottish one?
As for The Man in the High Castle, I'm very impressed so far, though as it's so long since I read the book, I really can't remember how faithful the adaptation is being to it. I'm also surprised that Joe's real identity was revealed so early on (not the case in the book, that I do remember) and am beginning to wonder whether it's been done because they've changed the ending. It all does look great, though - and Rufus Sewell gives good Nazi (though thankfully not with his real accent).
Finally, while I was away from LJ so much in the last few weeks, I watched The IT Crowd. Can't believe I never watched it before. It's hilarious. Why did no one tell me?
In other news (such as it is) I've now watched two episodes of Amazon Prime's The Man in the High Castle (S signed up for a month by accident), and one of Netflix's Jessica Jones. Slight spoilers for those behind cut, and please no spoilers for later episodes.
I approached Jessica Jones with a great deal of wariness, after finding the level of violence in Daredevil earlier in the year so hard to stomach. One episode in, it's not as bad, but the tone of it suggests it might still become so. So still wary. I do quite like all the characters so far, though, whereas I was finding Foggy and Karen teeth-grittingly annoying before I'd got to the end of the first episode of Daredevil. We'll see. Have to say, it doesn't endear me to the show that David Tennant is playing the villain with an English accent. What's wrong with him using his own Scottish one?
As for The Man in the High Castle, I'm very impressed so far, though as it's so long since I read the book, I really can't remember how faithful the adaptation is being to it. I'm also surprised that Joe's real identity was revealed so early on (not the case in the book, that I do remember) and am beginning to wonder whether it's been done because they've changed the ending. It all does look great, though - and Rufus Sewell gives good Nazi (though thankfully not with his real accent).
Finally, while I was away from LJ so much in the last few weeks, I watched The IT Crowd. Can't believe I never watched it before. It's hilarious. Why did no one tell me?