Random thoughts on media
May. 22nd, 2015 11:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grammarwomanAre the flying pigs having snowball fights in hell? Because I seem to have made it through an entire regular TV season without a single one of my shows being canceled. That hasn't happened since...EVER. I even watched multiple new shows this year, and they all made it through. I don't think it's my tastes that are changing; either the networks are relaxing their standards for demographics and audience size required to renew, or *GASP* the masses are coming around to my way of thinking.
This includes: Castle, Grimm, iZombie, The Flash, Arrow, Agent Carter (:D :D :D), Agents of SHIELD, and Once Upon a Time. I'm not counting Glee because its end has been planned for a while.
Spoilers ahoy!
So yeah, that season finale for Once Upon a Time? Punked-up, evil Snow White did things to me like WHOA. I don't know if it's the hair, or her sneer, but DAYUM. Now I want all the dirtybadwrong D/S evil!Snow/guylinered-heartless!Charming. (I may just have to write it myself.)
I am loving everyone's delight in Mad Max: Fury Road, both fannishly and critically. I really appreciated analysis pieces like Chuck Wendig's We Are Not Things: Mad Max Versus Game Of Thrones and Tor.com's We All Agree that Mad Max: Fury Road is Great. Here's Why It's Also Important. Alas, though, much like Jupiter Ascending and its minor donor egg storyline, I think I'm going to have to give Fury Road a pass, because judging from those articles, it's got stuff to trigger me all the way through. From women hooked up to milking machines, to child endangerment, to pregnant women putting their bellies in harms way and having their babies cut out from them...I just can't. Maybe in the privacy of my home with a huge box of tissues and the option to pause and regroup, but not in the movie theater.
In flashback news, I've been watching Alias. Bless that zany early 00s show; I have to shake my head every time Sydney skulks through her missions in her all black spy gear...with a belly shirt, so her abdomen flashes through like a beacon whenever she moves. So stealthy!
Confession time: I loathed Kennedy in Buffy season 7. Her storyline, her designs on Willow, the lackluster performance by the actor...everything. So I take a certain amount of catty glee (I will admit to being an awful person sometimes) to seeing Iyari Limon in an irritable bowel medicine commercial. Heh heh heh.
Speaking of commercials, have you seen Kristen Bell and her husband Dax Shepard hawking Samsung appliances? They legitimately made me laugh; I watched the whole behind-the-scenes thing, because I love watching KBell in action, being loose and comfortable with herself, and HAPPY.
I saw Avengers: Age of Ultron, because it was necessary as a MCU fangirl. I'm still deciding if it's too late to post a reaction piece about it, because about 2300 words poured out of me when I sat down to watch an AHEM copy.
I've got a business trip next week to visit the main office. Airfare was ridiculous for traveling that week, so my coworker and I will have to drive 1.5 hours to a podunk airport, take a hop to Chicago, then over to the Twin Cities, meaning a day wasted in travel each way. But I'll get to have dinner withheresluck, which I am very happy about, and lots of down time to catch up on shows. I'll be packing Lost Girl, Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries, Doctor Who, Orphan Black, plus some movies for my Big Idea VVC vid...and going into the office at some point. :)
I hope you all have a lovely weekend!
This includes: Castle, Grimm, iZombie, The Flash, Arrow, Agent Carter (:D :D :D), Agents of SHIELD, and Once Upon a Time. I'm not counting Glee because its end has been planned for a while.
Spoilers ahoy!
So yeah, that season finale for Once Upon a Time? Punked-up, evil Snow White did things to me like WHOA. I don't know if it's the hair, or her sneer, but DAYUM. Now I want all the dirtybadwrong D/S evil!Snow/guylinered-heartless!Charming. (I may just have to write it myself.)
I am loving everyone's delight in Mad Max: Fury Road, both fannishly and critically. I really appreciated analysis pieces like Chuck Wendig's We Are Not Things: Mad Max Versus Game Of Thrones and Tor.com's We All Agree that Mad Max: Fury Road is Great. Here's Why It's Also Important. Alas, though, much like Jupiter Ascending and its minor donor egg storyline, I think I'm going to have to give Fury Road a pass, because judging from those articles, it's got stuff to trigger me all the way through. From women hooked up to milking machines, to child endangerment, to pregnant women putting their bellies in harms way and having their babies cut out from them...I just can't. Maybe in the privacy of my home with a huge box of tissues and the option to pause and regroup, but not in the movie theater.
In flashback news, I've been watching Alias. Bless that zany early 00s show; I have to shake my head every time Sydney skulks through her missions in her all black spy gear...with a belly shirt, so her abdomen flashes through like a beacon whenever she moves. So stealthy!
Confession time: I loathed Kennedy in Buffy season 7. Her storyline, her designs on Willow, the lackluster performance by the actor...everything. So I take a certain amount of catty glee (I will admit to being an awful person sometimes) to seeing Iyari Limon in an irritable bowel medicine commercial. Heh heh heh.
Speaking of commercials, have you seen Kristen Bell and her husband Dax Shepard hawking Samsung appliances? They legitimately made me laugh; I watched the whole behind-the-scenes thing, because I love watching KBell in action, being loose and comfortable with herself, and HAPPY.
I saw Avengers: Age of Ultron, because it was necessary as a MCU fangirl. I'm still deciding if it's too late to post a reaction piece about it, because about 2300 words poured out of me when I sat down to watch an AHEM copy.
I've got a business trip next week to visit the main office. Airfare was ridiculous for traveling that week, so my coworker and I will have to drive 1.5 hours to a podunk airport, take a hop to Chicago, then over to the Twin Cities, meaning a day wasted in travel each way. But I'll get to have dinner with
heresluck, which I am very happy about, and lots of down time to catch up on shows. I'll be packing Lost Girl, Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries, Doctor Who, Orphan Black, plus some movies for my Big Idea VVC vid...and going into the office at some point. :)I hope you all have a lovely weekend!
