![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapinglightOn the days when I'm at home (often only two a week at the moment), I always wake up determined to get back into journalling - make a post that isn't just wittering on about TV shows that no one seems much interested in except me- chatty ones with pics, like I used to make. But then I make the mistake of reading the news or whatever and I just can't face it any more. I suspect I'm not alone in this.
:Sigh:
In fact, the same thing's happened this morning. So more TV show wittering behind cut.
Spoilers for Lucifer season 3 and vague (so vague as to not really be spoilers at all) for The Expanse up to season 2 episode 1, Star Trek :Discovery and The Defenders.
I've started making some Lucifer season 3 icons. Okay, they're terrible, but hopefully someone will make some better ones soon. I've now watched the first two episodes of season 3 three times and I've enjoyed them more each time. Have seen some people (okay,peasant) saying they don't like Ella this season, but have to say I don't get that. She seems the same to me as she's always been - a little OTT, very tactile, very fannish, always very polly, given to talking about God a lot. I don't get what's changed. IMO, what has changed (and rebcake is the one who pointed this out), is that we haven't (so far) had many (any?) scenes between the female characters - no Chloe/Maze/Trixie scenes, for instance. But I'm sure this will change when Maze comes back and Dr Linda in particular has been fabulous in these first two episodes.
I was thinking, though, that it would be nice if the show developed a small cast of regular recurring characters. I quite liked the horrible comedian in episode 2. Thought he was a decent actor, unlike many of the one-off characters in the procedural parts of the show, and wouldn't mind seeing him recurring. Likewise the little stalker girl from season 2. In small doses, characters like that add to the world - not that I think the Lucifer showrunners are that much into world building. Guess they don't need to be. The world is already built for them by Gaiman and Carey and they can just use the bits they think will work in the show and discard the rest (ie. most of it).
Anyway, so far, my stand out favourite scene has to be the one with the gun inside the puppet, if only because it's made me laugh out loud every time I've watched it.
On a far more sombre note, I've now watched the whole of series one of The Expanse and I think it's far and away the best sci fi series I've ever watched (which doesn't mean I like it the best, will take a lot to dislodge Babylon 5 from that position). I find the setting (not to mention the politicking) very believable and like most of the characters. The end of season 1 was quite horrific. Can't wait to see where that goes.
To the extent that I'm considering reading the books. Are they any good, does anyone know?
Star Trek: Discovery continues to be a frustrating watch - for me (because I really don't care much about Star Trek and am not at all bothered if this show has a completely different tone to all the other series) because of the Klingons. I just don't get why the show has chosen to alter their appearance so radically. The make up/prosthetics are so heavy it's impossible for the actors to emote, making every scene they're in (of which there are far too many) boring and draggy. Not helped by all that Klingon dialogue with subtitles. Whoever thought this was a good idea should be given their marching orders, IMO. Apart from that, I quite like the main character, the dodgy captain and the rude scientist. Everything else is pretty meh! Watchable, is as far as I'll go, but no way I'd take out a subscription to some streaming platform just to watch it.
Was trying not to rush through The Expanse too quickly so I started watching The Defenders. Was afraid that not watching Daredevil season 2 (due to the excessive violence in season 1) and not being able to get through all of Iron Fist (due to extreme dislike of the main character) would impact on my understanding of the plot. But it doesn't. I've watched three episodes now and it's okay so far. Danny Rand is still annoying as hell and Daredevil's Catholic guilt schtick is also pretty annoying. But Cage and Jessica Jones make up for that, and I always liked Elektra as a character (though not enough to go back and watch Daredevil season 2, which Mr K tells me is even more violent than season 1).
A-and this is pretty much all I have to say. Sorry. How are all of you?
In a fit of possible overconfidence (or, more likely, given this is me, guilt over having done nothing to try and keep the fandom going for so long) I signed up for the autumn round of![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
seasonal_spuffy. It feels like forever since I wrote any fanfic. I'm not sure I can still do it. Oh dear!
:Sigh:
In fact, the same thing's happened this morning. So more TV show wittering behind cut.
Spoilers for Lucifer season 3 and vague (so vague as to not really be spoilers at all) for The Expanse up to season 2 episode 1, Star Trek :Discovery and The Defenders.
I've started making some Lucifer season 3 icons. Okay, they're terrible, but hopefully someone will make some better ones soon. I've now watched the first two episodes of season 3 three times and I've enjoyed them more each time. Have seen some people (okay,
peasant) saying they don't like Ella this season, but have to say I don't get that. She seems the same to me as she's always been - a little OTT, very tactile, very fannish, always very polly, given to talking about God a lot. I don't get what's changed. IMO, what has changed (and rebcake is the one who pointed this out), is that we haven't (so far) had many (any?) scenes between the female characters - no Chloe/Maze/Trixie scenes, for instance. But I'm sure this will change when Maze comes back and Dr Linda in particular has been fabulous in these first two episodes.I was thinking, though, that it would be nice if the show developed a small cast of regular recurring characters. I quite liked the horrible comedian in episode 2. Thought he was a decent actor, unlike many of the one-off characters in the procedural parts of the show, and wouldn't mind seeing him recurring. Likewise the little stalker girl from season 2. In small doses, characters like that add to the world - not that I think the Lucifer showrunners are that much into world building. Guess they don't need to be. The world is already built for them by Gaiman and Carey and they can just use the bits they think will work in the show and discard the rest (ie. most of it).
Anyway, so far, my stand out favourite scene has to be the one with the gun inside the puppet, if only because it's made me laugh out loud every time I've watched it.
On a far more sombre note, I've now watched the whole of series one of The Expanse and I think it's far and away the best sci fi series I've ever watched (which doesn't mean I like it the best, will take a lot to dislodge Babylon 5 from that position). I find the setting (not to mention the politicking) very believable and like most of the characters. The end of season 1 was quite horrific. Can't wait to see where that goes.
To the extent that I'm considering reading the books. Are they any good, does anyone know?
Star Trek: Discovery continues to be a frustrating watch - for me (because I really don't care much about Star Trek and am not at all bothered if this show has a completely different tone to all the other series) because of the Klingons. I just don't get why the show has chosen to alter their appearance so radically. The make up/prosthetics are so heavy it's impossible for the actors to emote, making every scene they're in (of which there are far too many) boring and draggy. Not helped by all that Klingon dialogue with subtitles. Whoever thought this was a good idea should be given their marching orders, IMO. Apart from that, I quite like the main character, the dodgy captain and the rude scientist. Everything else is pretty meh! Watchable, is as far as I'll go, but no way I'd take out a subscription to some streaming platform just to watch it.
Was trying not to rush through The Expanse too quickly so I started watching The Defenders. Was afraid that not watching Daredevil season 2 (due to the excessive violence in season 1) and not being able to get through all of Iron Fist (due to extreme dislike of the main character) would impact on my understanding of the plot. But it doesn't. I've watched three episodes now and it's okay so far. Danny Rand is still annoying as hell and Daredevil's Catholic guilt schtick is also pretty annoying. But Cage and Jessica Jones make up for that, and I always liked Elektra as a character (though not enough to go back and watch Daredevil season 2, which Mr K tells me is even more violent than season 1).
A-and this is pretty much all I have to say. Sorry. How are all of you?
In a fit of possible overconfidence (or, more likely, given this is me, guilt over having done nothing to try and keep the fandom going for so long) I signed up for the autumn round of
seasonal_spuffy. It feels like forever since I wrote any fanfic. I'm not sure I can still do it. Oh dear!