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Since I don’t really know if anyone is still even reading the thoughts I put out there, I have developed a habit of writing up my thoughts and sitting on them for a few days before I actually post them. So I wrote this up a couple days ago after the Spiderman drama started up, and some of it might already not apply, but I might as well throw it out there.

Just a few Marvel/MCU thoughts, partly brought by the Spiderman stuff going on, and partly stuff I’ve been thinking on for a bit.

( MCU/Spiderman )

( Also AoS )

( Brief FFH )

So I got hit with my semi-annual knock out cold last week so I’m only posting this now, but here’s part 1 of analyzing some behind the scenes factors of B5 season 1.

( B5 Rewatch extra, further analysis of episode order )

So, baseball is done for a few months, now the extent of my interest in sport can hibernate for the winter, there's not even the Olympics to break it up. Oh well Royals, I was rooting for you, but you got outplayed in the end, if my Rockies are so disappointing again next year I'll be back to pay attention to you guys again.

And now back to fandom...with some more talk about AoS and the larger MCU.

( Spoilers for the Age of Ultron trailer, the future Marvel projects announcement and AoS 2x06 )

Okay, so I finally finished the first Vampire Diaries book (of maybe the first half of the first one, I checked The Awakening and The Struggle out separately but I don’t know if they were published together. It’s an easy read, but it takes a while when you have to stop and laugh hysterically at every other thing that happens.

( 'Spoilers' for The Awakening, minor spoilers for all of TVD the show )

So, apparently 'Water's of Mars' snook up me and it's airing...today...on one side of the pond or another at this point. I've also been putting off watching TSJA so far this year (not sure why just...savoring and extending the time before I have seen it I guess). I did the same thing with CoE and finally watched it what a month after it aired? And that was a show that aired in a week.

In any case, apparently there's new DW to be had soon and...it's reminding me that I just don't care that much anymore. I think I need to rewatch the show, or at least get back into vidding it or something because right now I'm feeling towards these last few specials the way I did for the end of Harry Potter, that no matter what the story is coming up it's just there and I'm not *really* looking forward to it.

This, I'm sure is a consequence of *knowing* I'm going to stop when Moffat takes over. If I was at all looking forward to season 5 then I'd be more excited to see what the special would do with DT's last episodes and how things would be going forward. But there *is no* going forward aspect to me, it's about the coming of the END. And these are already in epilogue stage, about how Ten goes when every other story line pretty much left in JE (some don't have to be permanently ended but all of them could be considered over (as far as DW goes)).

Granted I've been steadily dropping out of love with the show ever since JE always at least partly for those same reasons, but having this year to say goodbye to Ten/DT/RTD and Co means that I can measure my drop in interest with each special. Not necessarily because the specials haven't been great (although I haven't been crazy about either it must be said) but because instead of JE being the finale for me and DW when my love for the show, though confused was still pretty high, I've been downshifting as the year has passed.

I'm not sure which would have been more depressing in the end.

Look, I promise I'll say something happy after this but this rant has been boiling for a long time and I need to say it.

So I started reading Jacob's recap of last weeks BSG, and really, Jacob annoys the crap out of me most of the time and this has a lot to do with why:

HUMAN HATRED FOR THE CYLONS IS NOT RACISM
( ranting, capslock, and grrrr )

I still have a couple of specific things about Journey's End that I can't get out of my head, and they tie into the larger things from the show I'm still trying to resolve.
( Dalek Caan's prophesies )

Okay so there's a transcript of the cut scene from JE out there, and there's Moffat-ism news...but for right now I'm going to focus on the Journey's End stuff, I'll rant about Moffat later.

( In which I explain why I want this to be canon )

I'be been doing some thinking about the last couple minutes of DW 4x12.
( Read more... )

As long as it's been since I did the recap thing, it's been longer since I did anything approaching meta, but I have a few things I want to throw out there regarding Donna that hit me this week.

( Spoilers through 4x06 to be safe )