Things I Have Recently Watched Or Read
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8. Finished this a few weeks ago. As a whole, the season was entertaining, but I cared so little. It's a shame; great and terrible things are happening to my favorite characters and I just don't give a shit. I think the art style may be to blame because Georges Jeanty's lineart just isn't very emotive. However, read it for the army of tiny vampire teddy bears screaming, "EAT THEIR #%&@ING OVARIES!"
Angel: After the Fall. So much better than the above. I think if I had been keeping up with it as it was still releasing new issues, I would not have liked it as much, but the ending pretty much justifies the rest of the story and forgives it for reviving arcs that had seemed to be finished after the prequel television show's end. I took a little issue with the actual mechanics of how the story ended, but unlike BtVSS8, which should have made me cry but didn't, this series did make me cry. I like the art; it's very dystopian and heavy on the shadows, and Connor looks many times more attractive in the comic than he did on the television series. (Sorry, Vincent Kartheiser.) Also, read it for the dinosaur, the telepathic fish, and Groosalugg flying in on a winged horse while crying, "My glimmering hope is so large, it eclipses the sun and the moon!"
Gunnerkrigg Court. I do not know what to make of these recent developments.
Books
Shadow Magic. By Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett, the sequel to Havemercy, one of my most favorite novels. I've only read the first chapter because I don't have a library card and have therefore been reading it in tiny increments on Tuesdays and Thursdays before work, but already, I am impressed. It follows the four-character first-person style of its prequel, but from the outset, it's clear that this will be a very different novel because the first character to speak is Mamoru, prince of the Ke-han, Havemercy's faceless and voiceless enemy. It may turn out to be not so different if the Ke-han and the Volstovics unite against a common enemy, but at this point, it's subverting expectations all over the place. Especially since Caius Greylace is apparently 17 years old? I had thought when I read the first novel that he was in his thirties, but now I may have to reread it keeping in mind that the guy is seventeen. I suppose Alcibiades may also be younger than I had expected, since Caius seems so eager to get on with him that I'm sure the two characters were designed for smut (not that I think these authors care about age differences). Something else interesting about the first chapter: the Ke-Han narrators write more poetically than the Volstovics.
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. I gave up on this. I was very close to finishing, but I had fallen to skimming the pages because I was so bored and hated all of the characters.
Television
Merlin. I haven't watched any in a while because I was stupid and promised to watch it with Eugenia, which means we watch at most two episodes a week, and if we have other plans, then we don't watch any. Gwaine is about to be introduced. I am so eager to keep watching! She'd surely be cool with me watching it by myself, though. I just haven't asked yet because I have been watching...
LOST. I am four episodes into the series, and I love Kate. I'm a bit cautious about liking any character, though, because I have overheard enough about this series to know that I should not think I know anything about the characters. Also, this show is creepy.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8. Finished this a few weeks ago. As a whole, the season was entertaining, but I cared so little. It's a shame; great and terrible things are happening to my favorite characters and I just don't give a shit. I think the art style may be to blame because Georges Jeanty's lineart just isn't very emotive. However, read it for the army of tiny vampire teddy bears screaming, "EAT THEIR #%&@ING OVARIES!"
Angel: After the Fall. So much better than the above. I think if I had been keeping up with it as it was still releasing new issues, I would not have liked it as much, but the ending pretty much justifies the rest of the story and forgives it for reviving arcs that had seemed to be finished after the prequel television show's end. I took a little issue with the actual mechanics of how the story ended, but unlike BtVSS8, which should have made me cry but didn't, this series did make me cry. I like the art; it's very dystopian and heavy on the shadows, and Connor looks many times more attractive in the comic than he did on the television series. (Sorry, Vincent Kartheiser.) Also, read it for the dinosaur, the telepathic fish, and Groosalugg flying in on a winged horse while crying, "My glimmering hope is so large, it eclipses the sun and the moon!"
Gunnerkrigg Court. I do not know what to make of these recent developments.
Books
Shadow Magic. By Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett, the sequel to Havemercy, one of my most favorite novels. I've only read the first chapter because I don't have a library card and have therefore been reading it in tiny increments on Tuesdays and Thursdays before work, but already, I am impressed. It follows the four-character first-person style of its prequel, but from the outset, it's clear that this will be a very different novel because the first character to speak is Mamoru, prince of the Ke-han, Havemercy's faceless and voiceless enemy. It may turn out to be not so different if the Ke-han and the Volstovics unite against a common enemy, but at this point, it's subverting expectations all over the place. Especially since Caius Greylace is apparently 17 years old? I had thought when I read the first novel that he was in his thirties, but now I may have to reread it keeping in mind that the guy is seventeen. I suppose Alcibiades may also be younger than I had expected, since Caius seems so eager to get on with him that I'm sure the two characters were designed for smut (not that I think these authors care about age differences). Something else interesting about the first chapter: the Ke-Han narrators write more poetically than the Volstovics.
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. I gave up on this. I was very close to finishing, but I had fallen to skimming the pages because I was so bored and hated all of the characters.
Television
Merlin. I haven't watched any in a while because I was stupid and promised to watch it with Eugenia, which means we watch at most two episodes a week, and if we have other plans, then we don't watch any. Gwaine is about to be introduced. I am so eager to keep watching! She'd surely be cool with me watching it by myself, though. I just haven't asked yet because I have been watching...
LOST. I am four episodes into the series, and I love Kate. I'm a bit cautious about liking any character, though, because I have overheard enough about this series to know that I should not think I know anything about the characters. Also, this show is creepy.
