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Jan. 29th, 2016 06:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapinglightHello. Haven't posted much lately. Dunno why really. I just have nothing to say, or nothing that I think anyone will be interested in. ;(
More behind cut with (very) slight spoilers for Lucifer.
I do seem to be busy most of the time, but not with anything worth talking about - except that I have done a little writing. Am currently about half way through the first draft of another historical fic - something I started several years ago but never got very far with. So we'll see how that goes.
TV-wise, I've been watching Deutschland 83 on Channel 4 (brilliant), War and Peace on the BBC (not at all brilliant), Agent Carter by 'other means,' (still enormous fun) and Ripper Street season 4 on Amazon Prime (harrowing). Also on Prime, I've just watched the first episode of Lucifer. I knew nothing about it before I watched it. Had never read the comics series it's (very tenuously, from what I've read since) based on, and only realised it existed because Amazon Prime had a big banner advertising it.
All the way through the first half of the episode, I was racking my brains trying to work out where I'd seen the actor playing Lucifer before. Took me ages before I realised he was the bloke who played Gary, the love interest in Miranda. Bit of a change of pace for him. I thought he was very good anyway - and nice to see a Brit actor playing a villain, who is also the main character so you sorta, kinda have to root for him despite yourself (even if he is playing opposite a very hunky looking DB Woodside sporting a pair of not terribly good CGI wings). We'll see how it goes, but so far so cliched police procedural with a twist, and I really don't like procedurals.
I wonder if the original idea was to make the show much darker, more like the comic books, but that got stomped on by the suits upstairs? We can't have a lead character who is unsympathetic, right, even if he is supposed to be the Devil?
I dunno. Anyway, I kind of want it to do well, if only because some conservative Christian mothers group (or something of the sort) wanted to ban it, in case it made people think the Devil was a good guy. They had a petition, so I understand, with over 100,000 signatures.
Anyway, I'm away this weekend, away next weekend, then away for most of March and April. More on that at some point. Annoyingly, looks like I'll going away in March on the actual day of the Agent Carter finale and the day before season 4 of The Americans begins airing. Somehow or other, I have to find a way of not missing them, but so far I've no idea how I'm going to do it.
Have a nice weekend, and see you next week. I'll try to post some pictures next week, if nothing else.
More behind cut with (very) slight spoilers for Lucifer.
I do seem to be busy most of the time, but not with anything worth talking about - except that I have done a little writing. Am currently about half way through the first draft of another historical fic - something I started several years ago but never got very far with. So we'll see how that goes.
TV-wise, I've been watching Deutschland 83 on Channel 4 (brilliant), War and Peace on the BBC (not at all brilliant), Agent Carter by 'other means,' (still enormous fun) and Ripper Street season 4 on Amazon Prime (harrowing). Also on Prime, I've just watched the first episode of Lucifer. I knew nothing about it before I watched it. Had never read the comics series it's (very tenuously, from what I've read since) based on, and only realised it existed because Amazon Prime had a big banner advertising it.
All the way through the first half of the episode, I was racking my brains trying to work out where I'd seen the actor playing Lucifer before. Took me ages before I realised he was the bloke who played Gary, the love interest in Miranda. Bit of a change of pace for him. I thought he was very good anyway - and nice to see a Brit actor playing a villain, who is also the main character so you sorta, kinda have to root for him despite yourself (even if he is playing opposite a very hunky looking DB Woodside sporting a pair of not terribly good CGI wings). We'll see how it goes, but so far so cliched police procedural with a twist, and I really don't like procedurals.
I wonder if the original idea was to make the show much darker, more like the comic books, but that got stomped on by the suits upstairs? We can't have a lead character who is unsympathetic, right, even if he is supposed to be the Devil?
I dunno. Anyway, I kind of want it to do well, if only because some conservative Christian mothers group (or something of the sort) wanted to ban it, in case it made people think the Devil was a good guy. They had a petition, so I understand, with over 100,000 signatures.
Anyway, I'm away this weekend, away next weekend, then away for most of March and April. More on that at some point. Annoyingly, looks like I'll going away in March on the actual day of the Agent Carter finale and the day before season 4 of The Americans begins airing. Somehow or other, I have to find a way of not missing them, but so far I've no idea how I'm going to do it.
Have a nice weekend, and see you next week. I'll try to post some pictures next week, if nothing else.
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Date: 2016-02-04 10:29 am (UTC)