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lotesseBecause that is a thing I do sometimes!
I mainlined AtLA when I was freaking out about exams last week; somehow it seemed the thing to do. Unsurprisingly, this show completely charmed the pants off me. I love the worldbuilding, the weird animal hybrids, the sense of history and depth and strangeness that it achieves. I love the variety in the characters. I love Katara and her need to make the world a better place, Sokka and his moments of startling badassitude, Toph and her swagger and her oft-discarded manners and the fact that she likes it that in the stage show she's played by a buff dude. I can see why so many people stan so hard for Zuko - he's total fangirl catnip, between the scars and the abandonment issues and the surprising sweetness underneath all his anger. He didn't catch me as hard as he might've, though, because I've totally fallen head over heels over head for Aang. In part it's that I'm so utterly charmed that the spiritualist, pacifist boy with the heavy destiny is a cheery little dork, in part it's that my Gemini parts approve of air people and their patterns, but I - just - Aang.
(I reaaaaaally want some juicy Aang-centric fic - I don't really ship him with anyone in particular, but I want alllll the stories about Aang and his family and the way they love and care for what's human rather than divine in him. Recs pls?)
And, also unsurprisingly, I didn't like LoK nearly as much. Part of it is the loss of innocence tone-wise, but I think a lot of my problem stems from the show's portrayal of the Equalists as having far too much of a legitimate point. I could be down with a story about a hero in a time when heroism is a hindrance rather than a help, but in that story I would expect the story to be about how the hero changes away from their heroing ways and becomes a functional part of their community. I had a really, really hard time being on the side of the police rather than on the side of the protesters. But Korra herself is badass, and she and Mako and Asami need to get with the threesomes now.
This is How To Train Your Dragon: The TV Show, and it is twenty minutes of happiness and love and rainbows delivered once a month for your viewing pleasure. It's stories about what happens in the ending, which I adore - now that peace has been made, how do we live? How must we change? And it's so stupidly sweet and wonderful that I can't even. <3.
I ... don't believe in marriage as an institution and so have somewhat mixed feelings about the one where my otp gets married? But I'm glad it's over and done with, so that hopefully Mary can get some less marital storylines going on. I really enjoyed the split between she and Matthew over family loyalty - she seemed very Barrayaran there for a moment, and I'm a total sucker for that sort of semi-feudal house loyalty. I love that Mary loves her people, and I love that they love her back - Carson's face about her wedding dress was the only part of the wedding-related hoopla I enjoyed.
I'm miffed that Sybil's storyline only lets her talk about her husband. I want to know what's going on with Sybil, what she's feeling and thinking, if she's happy about the baby, if she's found what she wanted away from Downton. But instead it's just Branson Branson Branson all the time. Not that he wasn't vastly improved from last series visually. But mainly I just want some 20s feminism up in here. Get with it, sister suffragette!
I mainlined AtLA when I was freaking out about exams last week; somehow it seemed the thing to do. Unsurprisingly, this show completely charmed the pants off me. I love the worldbuilding, the weird animal hybrids, the sense of history and depth and strangeness that it achieves. I love the variety in the characters. I love Katara and her need to make the world a better place, Sokka and his moments of startling badassitude, Toph and her swagger and her oft-discarded manners and the fact that she likes it that in the stage show she's played by a buff dude. I can see why so many people stan so hard for Zuko - he's total fangirl catnip, between the scars and the abandonment issues and the surprising sweetness underneath all his anger. He didn't catch me as hard as he might've, though, because I've totally fallen head over heels over head for Aang. In part it's that I'm so utterly charmed that the spiritualist, pacifist boy with the heavy destiny is a cheery little dork, in part it's that my Gemini parts approve of air people and their patterns, but I - just - Aang.
(I reaaaaaally want some juicy Aang-centric fic - I don't really ship him with anyone in particular, but I want alllll the stories about Aang and his family and the way they love and care for what's human rather than divine in him. Recs pls?)
And, also unsurprisingly, I didn't like LoK nearly as much. Part of it is the loss of innocence tone-wise, but I think a lot of my problem stems from the show's portrayal of the Equalists as having far too much of a legitimate point. I could be down with a story about a hero in a time when heroism is a hindrance rather than a help, but in that story I would expect the story to be about how the hero changes away from their heroing ways and becomes a functional part of their community. I had a really, really hard time being on the side of the police rather than on the side of the protesters. But Korra herself is badass, and she and Mako and Asami need to get with the threesomes now.
This is How To Train Your Dragon: The TV Show, and it is twenty minutes of happiness and love and rainbows delivered once a month for your viewing pleasure. It's stories about what happens in the ending, which I adore - now that peace has been made, how do we live? How must we change? And it's so stupidly sweet and wonderful that I can't even. <3.
I ... don't believe in marriage as an institution and so have somewhat mixed feelings about the one where my otp gets married? But I'm glad it's over and done with, so that hopefully Mary can get some less marital storylines going on. I really enjoyed the split between she and Matthew over family loyalty - she seemed very Barrayaran there for a moment, and I'm a total sucker for that sort of semi-feudal house loyalty. I love that Mary loves her people, and I love that they love her back - Carson's face about her wedding dress was the only part of the wedding-related hoopla I enjoyed.
I'm miffed that Sybil's storyline only lets her talk about her husband. I want to know what's going on with Sybil, what she's feeling and thinking, if she's happy about the baby, if she's found what she wanted away from Downton. But instead it's just Branson Branson Branson all the time. Not that he wasn't vastly improved from last series visually. But mainly I just want some 20s feminism up in here. Get with it, sister suffragette!