![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
I was going to reply to the comments on my previous post about getting frustrated early in season four of The Expanse, but instead I watched the next episode, 4.04. And got so annoyed that I didn't even finish it.
Hard to say how much of that is the show truly getting to a low point in the writing versus my frame of mind--which is not particularly positive at the moment. Although I think at least some of the blame rests on THAT FACE. Burn Gorman's villain face. I want to punch it. He's The Worst, and not in a fun way. Ugh.
So I'm rewatching season two of The Good Place and contemplating watching more of the Charmed reboot, because I think that's the level of tension I can handle in my visual fiction. Feel free to recommend something equally fluffy and care-free on Netflix or Amazon.
(I'm not saying "Goodbye forever!" to The Expanse, but it's definitely on hold.)
Books: Sabaa Tahir's Ember quadrology has captured my attention. Tahir's world-building is excellent and her prose solid. What I felt was a bit lacking was a strong bond to the characters. But with three books' worth of reading time, I am more invested than before. Also, it's just a heckuva story. (Current publishing date for book four is December 1, 2020.) An adventure series based on the Roman empire? Pretty cool. By the way, book one is still the weakest link at this point. I enjoyed it, but I didn't rush to read the next book. After finishing book two I immediately went to the online library to check out book three.
Lucy Parker has a contemporary romance novel series set in London; I read and enjoyed book one, Act Like It. It fits the "fluffy and care-free" requirement I mentioned for new television. (Tahir's books, on the other hand, do NOT. But I still enjoyed 'em.)
Hard to say how much of that is the show truly getting to a low point in the writing versus my frame of mind--which is not particularly positive at the moment. Although I think at least some of the blame rests on THAT FACE. Burn Gorman's villain face. I want to punch it. He's The Worst, and not in a fun way. Ugh.
So I'm rewatching season two of The Good Place and contemplating watching more of the Charmed reboot, because I think that's the level of tension I can handle in my visual fiction. Feel free to recommend something equally fluffy and care-free on Netflix or Amazon.
(I'm not saying "Goodbye forever!" to The Expanse, but it's definitely on hold.)
Books: Sabaa Tahir's Ember quadrology has captured my attention. Tahir's world-building is excellent and her prose solid. What I felt was a bit lacking was a strong bond to the characters. But with three books' worth of reading time, I am more invested than before. Also, it's just a heckuva story. (Current publishing date for book four is December 1, 2020.) An adventure series based on the Roman empire? Pretty cool. By the way, book one is still the weakest link at this point. I enjoyed it, but I didn't rush to read the next book. After finishing book two I immediately went to the online library to check out book three.
Lucy Parker has a contemporary romance novel series set in London; I read and enjoyed book one, Act Like It. It fits the "fluffy and care-free" requirement I mentioned for new television. (Tahir's books, on the other hand, do NOT. But I still enjoyed 'em.)