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rose_griffes) wrote2023-03-10 08:18 pm
rose_griffes) wrote2023-03-10 08:18 pm
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triangles! literal and love
New-to-me html for Dreamwidth: the triangle of spoileriness! more details here. Click on the triangle to see the ‘read more’ stuff.
I’m gonna try it out, so:
Ah yes, the very very YA nature of the show (which comes straight from the S&B books), which is doubly so in the pilot episode. There’s too much crammed together; the show doesn’t necessarily handle its ensemble cast well. On the other hand: I still really enjoyed it. The cast is good, and aesthetically fitting for their roles. Definitely interested in season two.
Could still go for an S&B/Star Wars mashup with Rey as Alina, Finn as Mal, and Kylo Ren as you-know-who.
I started watching the show Lockwood & Co. The show creator, Joe Cornish, is an English comedian who also did the movie Attack the Block.
Lucy Lucy Lucy! Good job on getting us to care about her in that pilot episode. The actress does solid work, too. The premise works for me: well-embedded in world building is the mystery of why ghosts started doing… the thing. (I don’t know yet! Maybe it won’t be revealed this season?
The male lead. Meh. Not sure how much is the writing versus the acting versus the actor’s appearance. Also, there’s an element in so many of these YA stories where the premise excludes or denigrates the role of “normal, responsible adult” within the lives of the teens, and OOOF, these teens need an adult. And I get that it’s part of the premise, but it also just gets a bit old, y’know?
(I miss Andor. *sadface* Still working on a second chapter of one of my two Andor fanfics.)
Unrelated to TV: lovely homage to the works of Connie Willis. (No, she’s not dead. In case you were concerned.) The article writer spoils the book Passage in hopes of getting you to read it. I have to concur that it’s her best book, at least for me. SO WONDERFUL! And so connected to the themes she returns to over and over again in her writing.
I’m gonna try it out, so:
Rewatching season one of Shadow & Bone:
Ah yes, the very very YA nature of the show (which comes straight from the S&B books), which is doubly so in the pilot episode. There’s too much crammed together; the show doesn’t necessarily handle its ensemble cast well. On the other hand: I still really enjoyed it. The cast is good, and aesthetically fitting for their roles. Definitely interested in season two.
Could still go for an S&B/Star Wars mashup with Rey as Alina, Finn as Mal, and Kylo Ren as you-know-who.
I started watching the show Lockwood & Co. The show creator, Joe Cornish, is an English comedian who also did the movie Attack the Block.
things I liked
Lucy Lucy Lucy! Good job on getting us to care about her in that pilot episode. The actress does solid work, too. The premise works for me: well-embedded in world building is the mystery of why ghosts started doing… the thing. (I don’t know yet! Maybe it won’t be revealed this season?
Stuff I didn’t like.
The male lead. Meh. Not sure how much is the writing versus the acting versus the actor’s appearance. Also, there’s an element in so many of these YA stories where the premise excludes or denigrates the role of “normal, responsible adult” within the lives of the teens, and OOOF, these teens need an adult. And I get that it’s part of the premise, but it also just gets a bit old, y’know?
(I miss Andor. *sadface* Still working on a second chapter of one of my two Andor fanfics.)
Unrelated to TV: lovely homage to the works of Connie Willis. (No, she’s not dead. In case you were concerned.) The article writer spoils the book Passage in hopes of getting you to read it. I have to concur that it’s her best book, at least for me. SO WONDERFUL! And so connected to the themes she returns to over and over again in her writing.