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Ugh, back to work/school yesterday morning and WonderDog has something going on with his eyes/face, so I had to zoom by and grab BabyBoy from school & then took the dog to the vet & then went home & finished up clearing out my work inbox (I did not log in even once over spring break, yay me, which means I had a 4-figure unread count when I got back*) while I sat & waited for karate class to end.
And, to show that I truly do have my priorities in the right place, the laundry is only half-done, the suitcases are still only halfway unpacked, the kitchen is a freaking disaster area, I had to stop on the way to the office to buy nail polish remover/cotton balls & then got my chipped to hell & back polish (pink sparkles with Minnie Mouse confetti) off my nails while I got gas in the car (but I did not run out on the side of the road, \o/), & the taxes aren’t done yet...
BUT!!!
I managed to upload all my vacation pictures and figure out Instagram (yes, late to the party, whatever, I’m old), write up some recs (see previous post) and, most importantly, see Cap 2 and get caught up on Agents of SHIELD!
Captain America
My first thought was, “OMG, look how good DC looks!” It does look like that, early-early in the morning, before the day truly begins, and I loved how that sets up what Steve Rogers wants even when he’s alone and still running (figuratively as well as literally.) Also, I love that they set his exhibit in the Air & Space Museum, rather than in American History. I’m fairly certain they did that just because A&S is so recognizable and cool, while AH is rather generic, but it still gave a little bit of an edge where Steve Rogers wasn’t just American, but more global, despite the Captain America name. (I also liked that when the SHIELD techs & Sharon were pushing back against HYDRA, they just said “Captain’s orders,” again, with no mention of the rest of the title.)
Other than that, I kept watching on two levels, one just going 'oooo, nice twist' and the other going 'oh, CRAP, how am I going to make all this work with the story I have in progress?' Also, I kept smacking BabyBoy at critical points in the narrative (like, SITWELL, omg! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!) And I'm not sure how Sebastian Stan managed to be so menacing out on the streets and so totally lost in the lab, but the whole performance mostly reconciled me to losing him on Once Upon a Time (which, I don't know if I mentioned this, but at the DragonCon OUAT panels, they were all mourning him not being able to continue with the show.)
Falcon and Black Widow and their interaction with Cap were even better than I'd hoped. I am cautiously ok with Natasha not having the history from WWII and all that, because while I love that rationale for why she's the Widow, I do get that it's a lot of comics-canon baggage to have to explain. Sam was fantastic, top to bottom. I love his background, his attitude, and how much he *cares*. He didn't just stop looking out for the people he fought with when his partner died--it's part of of who he is, so much so that he doesn't even blink when it's Captain America standing in front of him, just extends that care to Steve Rogers. You don't know how much I want the Steve-and-Sam-On-The-Road movie/fic/short.
tl;dr -- A++++, will definitely see again! (oh, and Natasha's arrow necklace made me so happy you don't even know.)
AoS
Briefly: I'm on the side that says Ward isn't really HYDRA idealogically; it was just the best of what he'd seen in life. The team on the bus is better than that & he knows it, but he hasn't worked through it yet. Other than that, one of the issues I've had with the show is that there wasn't anything for people to lose by being a part of this team. Yes, strange things, danger, yadda, yadda, yadda, but hi, nice big plane with all kinds of support, with the Avengers always there in the background if things get really bad. But now, taadaaaaaa, boy, did we just get the rug pulled out from under us. I can only think that's a good thing, story-telling-wise.
Back in the real world, my closest friend at the office isabandoning me leaving for a great opportunity elsewhere, sigh. Change, man. So hard.
*pro-tip: in MS Outlook, there is a Clean Up command that is a life-saver. It deletes all those long chains of emails, where 20 different people weigh in on an issue & just leaves the most recent email. (It preserves anything that branches or adds an attachment, too.) This got rid of 175+ emails right off the bat this morning. I felt so productive!
And, to show that I truly do have my priorities in the right place, the laundry is only half-done, the suitcases are still only halfway unpacked, the kitchen is a freaking disaster area, I had to stop on the way to the office to buy nail polish remover/cotton balls & then got my chipped to hell & back polish (pink sparkles with Minnie Mouse confetti) off my nails while I got gas in the car (but I did not run out on the side of the road, \o/), & the taxes aren’t done yet...
BUT!!!
I managed to upload all my vacation pictures and figure out Instagram (yes, late to the party, whatever, I’m old), write up some recs (see previous post) and, most importantly, see Cap 2 and get caught up on Agents of SHIELD!
Captain America
My first thought was, “OMG, look how good DC looks!” It does look like that, early-early in the morning, before the day truly begins, and I loved how that sets up what Steve Rogers wants even when he’s alone and still running (figuratively as well as literally.) Also, I love that they set his exhibit in the Air & Space Museum, rather than in American History. I’m fairly certain they did that just because A&S is so recognizable and cool, while AH is rather generic, but it still gave a little bit of an edge where Steve Rogers wasn’t just American, but more global, despite the Captain America name. (I also liked that when the SHIELD techs & Sharon were pushing back against HYDRA, they just said “Captain’s orders,” again, with no mention of the rest of the title.)
Other than that, I kept watching on two levels, one just going 'oooo, nice twist' and the other going 'oh, CRAP, how am I going to make all this work with the story I have in progress?' Also, I kept smacking BabyBoy at critical points in the narrative (like, SITWELL, omg! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!) And I'm not sure how Sebastian Stan managed to be so menacing out on the streets and so totally lost in the lab, but the whole performance mostly reconciled me to losing him on Once Upon a Time (which, I don't know if I mentioned this, but at the DragonCon OUAT panels, they were all mourning him not being able to continue with the show.)
Falcon and Black Widow and their interaction with Cap were even better than I'd hoped. I am cautiously ok with Natasha not having the history from WWII and all that, because while I love that rationale for why she's the Widow, I do get that it's a lot of comics-canon baggage to have to explain. Sam was fantastic, top to bottom. I love his background, his attitude, and how much he *cares*. He didn't just stop looking out for the people he fought with when his partner died--it's part of of who he is, so much so that he doesn't even blink when it's Captain America standing in front of him, just extends that care to Steve Rogers. You don't know how much I want the Steve-and-Sam-On-The-Road movie/fic/short.
tl;dr -- A++++, will definitely see again! (oh, and Natasha's arrow necklace made me so happy you don't even know.)
AoS
Briefly: I'm on the side that says Ward isn't really HYDRA idealogically; it was just the best of what he'd seen in life. The team on the bus is better than that & he knows it, but he hasn't worked through it yet. Other than that, one of the issues I've had with the show is that there wasn't anything for people to lose by being a part of this team. Yes, strange things, danger, yadda, yadda, yadda, but hi, nice big plane with all kinds of support, with the Avengers always there in the background if things get really bad. But now, taadaaaaaa, boy, did we just get the rug pulled out from under us. I can only think that's a good thing, story-telling-wise.
Back in the real world, my closest friend at the office is
*pro-tip: in MS Outlook, there is a Clean Up command that is a life-saver. It deletes all those long chains of emails, where 20 different people weigh in on an issue & just leaves the most recent email. (It preserves anything that branches or adds an attachment, too.) This got rid of 175+ emails right off the bat this morning. I felt so productive!
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My unread inbox count is currently 1,398 (plus app 4,000 in the archive -- most of those are chain things where I skipped stuff, plus broadcast messages or media notices). Only one in 15-20 of my messages is "unread", so you can get an idea of how many of the suckers I get ... :-(
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