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netgirl_y2k-Tumblr always makes me feel like an old fandom lady, never more so than when it took my dash about forty-eight hours to go from doing cartwheels about Agent Carter's renewal, to panicking about the change of setting for S2 and the possibility of Haley Atwell being the only returning cast member. I don't know-- well, nobody knows. It could be brilliant, if they're doing a time skip then we're into early fifties Hollywood which is pretty cool. It could well be that I was right the first time, in my failure to have much time for the MCU, and Agent Carter S1 was just a brief, glorious aberration. Either way, I don't have it in me to worry.
Plus, I came to Agent Carter via Merlin (which crashed and burned into a toxic mess of misogyny, bitterness, and resentment), Doctor Who (which at the very least teaches us not to fear change), and the endless, endless bloody sniping in ASOIAF/Game of that's your adaption choice? So I think I have earned my slightly condescending Oh, you sweet summer children moment.
-Speaking of Game of Thrones, my overwhelming reaction to S5 continues to be: I understand why you made these adaptation choices, I don't necessarily agree with you with you about all of them, and I think in a few cases your execution leaves a lot to be desired. But my ambivalence is mostly drowned out by my gratitude that you're moving the story along before I was forced to perform a one woman reenactment of the Get On With It! crowd scene from Holy Grail.
And from episode five we learned that Jorah Mormont is that character in the zombie movie who gets bitten and then doesn't tell anyone. It seems like they're giving him Connington's plot from the books, which suggest that Young Griff is definitely out. Yay and hallelujah! I am choosing to take this as confirmation that he was as much of a pointless red herring as I always suspected him to be. Of course, I also took the omission of the Greyjoys to mean the same thing.
It occurs to me that's it's probably easier to be chilled about the show's choices when a lot of the stuff they're changing or ignoring is the stuff that bores and annoys you anyway.
Shireen Baratheon is a cutie patootie, and should be queen, or at the very least minister for eduction. Oh, show, don't think I don't recognise when you're buffing a character up for the slaughter. It will never fail to impress me how the show, and Stephen Dillane of course, managed to interest me in Stannis, a book character so uninteresting to me that I genuinely kept forgetting that he hadn't died yet.
I know people have reservations about Sansa's stuff, and rightly so, but Brienne's faithful waiting, and the whole 'light a candle in your window if you need me and I'll come at once' thing hit narrative kinks I didn't know I had.
My new OTP is Dany/Making better life choices.
- I have signed up for remix, and I think other people should too. There's no qualifying fandoms this year, which I like, because I always thought they skewed towards old, slashy fandoms and locked people into offering fandoms they were otherwise pretty much done with. But I'll be interested to see how matching shakes out, and if it actually changes what people are writing that much.
See, this is what happens when you grow old in fandom, you start noticing changes in fandom trends, which is a highly specific and difficult to explain hobby.
Plus, I came to Agent Carter via Merlin (which crashed and burned into a toxic mess of misogyny, bitterness, and resentment), Doctor Who (which at the very least teaches us not to fear change), and the endless, endless bloody sniping in ASOIAF/Game of that's your adaption choice? So I think I have earned my slightly condescending Oh, you sweet summer children moment.
-Speaking of Game of Thrones, my overwhelming reaction to S5 continues to be: I understand why you made these adaptation choices, I don't necessarily agree with you with you about all of them, and I think in a few cases your execution leaves a lot to be desired. But my ambivalence is mostly drowned out by my gratitude that you're moving the story along before I was forced to perform a one woman reenactment of the Get On With It! crowd scene from Holy Grail.
And from episode five we learned that Jorah Mormont is that character in the zombie movie who gets bitten and then doesn't tell anyone. It seems like they're giving him Connington's plot from the books, which suggest that Young Griff is definitely out. Yay and hallelujah! I am choosing to take this as confirmation that he was as much of a pointless red herring as I always suspected him to be. Of course, I also took the omission of the Greyjoys to mean the same thing.
It occurs to me that's it's probably easier to be chilled about the show's choices when a lot of the stuff they're changing or ignoring is the stuff that bores and annoys you anyway.
Shireen Baratheon is a cutie patootie, and should be queen, or at the very least minister for eduction. Oh, show, don't think I don't recognise when you're buffing a character up for the slaughter. It will never fail to impress me how the show, and Stephen Dillane of course, managed to interest me in Stannis, a book character so uninteresting to me that I genuinely kept forgetting that he hadn't died yet.
I know people have reservations about Sansa's stuff, and rightly so, but Brienne's faithful waiting, and the whole 'light a candle in your window if you need me and I'll come at once' thing hit narrative kinks I didn't know I had.
My new OTP is Dany/Making better life choices.
- I have signed up for remix, and I think other people should too. There's no qualifying fandoms this year, which I like, because I always thought they skewed towards old, slashy fandoms and locked people into offering fandoms they were otherwise pretty much done with. But I'll be interested to see how matching shakes out, and if it actually changes what people are writing that much.
See, this is what happens when you grow old in fandom, you start noticing changes in fandom trends, which is a highly specific and difficult to explain hobby.