writing thoughts and a couple reactions
Oct. 21st, 2013 11:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jedi_of_urthGiving it some thought, I don’t think I’ll be doing NaNo this year. I’m going to be moving in the middle of November, so pretty much the whole month is structured around that. It doesn’t mean I won’t be writing during November, I’m signed up for enough big bangs that I should get moving on and an ingoing TVD AU that I want to get back to. I had some ideas for NaNo, but I wasn’t set on any of it and I’m pretty sure I won’t be able to put the time needed to it. It’s the first time in a few years I’m not even going to try and that makes me sort of sad, but I’m okay with this choice, my other projects can make me happy too.
Just a couple of reviews, I think I should just do them when I have something to say. I feel like I should have things to say about at least Korra and Downton, but I’m mostly waiting to see where things go on those shows.
Castle 6x05
OMG this show...I was not expecting this.
The thing with most “real world” shows is they like to keep things in the real world. Not the universe next door type where supposedly there’s this whole sub-world of the fantastic we’re not aware of somehow, but actually supposed to be in the real world as we know it. And in that, the occasional time they want to play with the fantastic they always have to in the end explain it in realistic ways.
This walked such a fine line that I’m not entirely sure what was real here, and I *love* that. There’s definitely things that are never explained in real world terms, but they never confirm the time travel elements either. You can be skeptical about it, or you can believe it in the end which is such a fine line to walk on a show that you know isn’t really *about* the story of this episode.
That is the one thing that sort of upsets me, but no more than a lot of the other plot hooks the show has used for an episode here and there but that the mystery of the week format has to remain intact. I love my serialized drama which is why I watch so few procedurals in the first place, I want ongoing development of stories. But I’ve discussed this before so back to the episode at hand.
It was awesome.
(except for Pi, Pi is not awesome (except in math))
TVD 5x03
This barely qualifies as having something to say...although we’ll see how that lasts. I did feel very unbothered to watch this until tonight so that should say something about how much I don’t care about this show now that the Originals are gone.
Well, a couple episodes at college let Elena almost be an actual character, now she’s back to just being a prop in the manpires’ love drama. I hate both of them, Elena needs to break the doppelganger cycle and ditch Stefan and break away from Damon just because he’s gross. His final little speech there was pretty much made of nasty. And just the fact that Elena has so little character to do with this just makes me sick.
Katherine however remains awesome.
I do appreciate the mythology stuff we got. It confirmed my reading that Katherine still carried the cure in her blood and gave me what the s4 finale teased us with but then seemed to take away, the idea that Tatia wasn’t the first of the Petrova doppelgangers and in fact was probably useful to Esther because she was already a doppelganger touched by immortality spells. (Although...does this mean that the father of Tatia’s child was a Silas doppelganger? Somehow that thought amuses me.) However, it’s always been implied that the Petrova doppelganger line at least was a genetic anomaly, Klaus and Elijah thought another doppelganger would be impossible when Katherine died with no children as far as they knew, so I wonder how that fits in with Ketsia/Tessa’s doppelganger history lessons which don’t seem to be genetic. Also, I do wonder how much the Originals know about this factor in the history that includes their creation.
...yeah, that’s about right for me, spend more time considering the creation of the Originals than anything else even when they’re not on the show anymore. I still prefer them to anyone besides maybe Katherine and the memory of real-Elena.
Just a couple of reviews, I think I should just do them when I have something to say. I feel like I should have things to say about at least Korra and Downton, but I’m mostly waiting to see where things go on those shows.
Castle 6x05
OMG this show...I was not expecting this.
The thing with most “real world” shows is they like to keep things in the real world. Not the universe next door type where supposedly there’s this whole sub-world of the fantastic we’re not aware of somehow, but actually supposed to be in the real world as we know it. And in that, the occasional time they want to play with the fantastic they always have to in the end explain it in realistic ways.
This walked such a fine line that I’m not entirely sure what was real here, and I *love* that. There’s definitely things that are never explained in real world terms, but they never confirm the time travel elements either. You can be skeptical about it, or you can believe it in the end which is such a fine line to walk on a show that you know isn’t really *about* the story of this episode.
That is the one thing that sort of upsets me, but no more than a lot of the other plot hooks the show has used for an episode here and there but that the mystery of the week format has to remain intact. I love my serialized drama which is why I watch so few procedurals in the first place, I want ongoing development of stories. But I’ve discussed this before so back to the episode at hand.
It was awesome.
(except for Pi, Pi is not awesome (except in math))
TVD 5x03
This barely qualifies as having something to say...although we’ll see how that lasts. I did feel very unbothered to watch this until tonight so that should say something about how much I don’t care about this show now that the Originals are gone.
Well, a couple episodes at college let Elena almost be an actual character, now she’s back to just being a prop in the manpires’ love drama. I hate both of them, Elena needs to break the doppelganger cycle and ditch Stefan and break away from Damon just because he’s gross. His final little speech there was pretty much made of nasty. And just the fact that Elena has so little character to do with this just makes me sick.
Katherine however remains awesome.
I do appreciate the mythology stuff we got. It confirmed my reading that Katherine still carried the cure in her blood and gave me what the s4 finale teased us with but then seemed to take away, the idea that Tatia wasn’t the first of the Petrova doppelgangers and in fact was probably useful to Esther because she was already a doppelganger touched by immortality spells. (Although...does this mean that the father of Tatia’s child was a Silas doppelganger? Somehow that thought amuses me.) However, it’s always been implied that the Petrova doppelganger line at least was a genetic anomaly, Klaus and Elijah thought another doppelganger would be impossible when Katherine died with no children as far as they knew, so I wonder how that fits in with Ketsia/Tessa’s doppelganger history lessons which don’t seem to be genetic. Also, I do wonder how much the Originals know about this factor in the history that includes their creation.
...yeah, that’s about right for me, spend more time considering the creation of the Originals than anything else even when they’re not on the show anymore. I still prefer them to anyone besides maybe Katherine and the memory of real-Elena.
