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In something of a surprise, BabyBoy & I are watching Yuri!!! on Ice together -- he's seen it already but is patiently waiting until I have the mental bandwidth to deal with subtitles. We're 3? 4? episodes in and it is as lovely as everyone has said. I'm also semi-spoiled for the big reveal but it's fine; I'm enjoying all of it regardless. :D
I finally finished Star Wars: Rebels, which I think has the most coherent arc & execution of any SW-related project I've seen. And then, we were going to get into the whole Siege of Mandalor arc on Clone Wars, but life got a little complicated, so they took a side-step and showed me the one episode with Obi Wan and Satine and I'm counting my blessings they did not film me as I watched because I was cackling from about 90 seconds in. Count me among the Obi Wan/Satine 'shippers, for real. Now I need to go back in for Mando S2, and I'll possibly catch up on the Siege episodes. Clone Wars just doesn't hold my attention but I like the general arc of the story, so I'm going to just fill in around the edges.
I finally watched the most recent Little Women, which I both loved and had great ambivalence about.
First off, it was gloriously produced--the sets, the costumes, the location work... just beautiful, all of it. I still cry when Beth dies, even if that particular set of cuts through time didn't really add to the story. It didn't help that everyone basically looked the same throughout the movie--no one aged, not really (though Timothee did actually look a little more mature at the end). I mean, I get approaching such familiar material from a fresh angle, I just don't think it did any favors for Beth's death and what it meant to the family. I thought Meryl and Florence did great things for what are the more unlikeable characters, and I'm happy that they didn't turn Mr. March into a saint. Marmee could have zinged him a little more, imo, but I'm happy she did as much as she did. (Bronson Alcott is right up there with Branwell Bronte as my least favorite authorial relations.)
I don't really know where I come down on the 'did she marry the professor or not' open-ended proposition, except that the very fact that it was there was annoying. Either option raises interesting questions about what we (still) expect from our heroines, but the not-picking (which I acknowledge is yet another set of questions to the heroine expectations) was a little too meta and took me out of the story.
I'm almost through with a full rewatch of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries -- If anything, I'm surprised how much I'm still enjoying it. I'd almost expected to lose interest after a few episodes, but I'm only a couple from the end of the 3rd season and happily watching along (I'm watching through a library add-on so I only get a few episodes each month, but that's fine.)
I also just rewatched The Big Chill, which I thought held up well over the years, but wow, the drugs were ... a lot. I was there during that era, so I'm not saying it's wrong, but looking at it now, yeah, a LOT.
At some point, I swear I'm going to watch Shadow and Bone, but I should probably get on with Mando and Loki, so those are on deck.
In personal news, work continues to be both mad ricochets and thoughtful support, so I guess I'm happy about the support and wish the actual project work might smooth out in time. (The whole industry is just so bad for my tendency to procrastinate--I *know* there's a better than even chance that whatever date they're giving me will slip, so it encourages my bad habits about just not jumping in and doing things, because it never fails that when I do, it changes later down the line, so I'm better off just waiting and doing it all in a power rush at the end, because it'll be that rush anyway.) Ah, well, only a couple more years and the R-word becomes viable.
For fun things, I started posting the latest thing I've been noodling on, if only to get the early parts out of my head and let my brain focus on the rest of the story, so the first chapter of waiting in the eye of the storm, a post-Wandavision/mid-TFATWS Darcy/Bucky is out in the world.
I finally finished Star Wars: Rebels, which I think has the most coherent arc & execution of any SW-related project I've seen. And then, we were going to get into the whole Siege of Mandalor arc on Clone Wars, but life got a little complicated, so they took a side-step and showed me the one episode with Obi Wan and Satine and I'm counting my blessings they did not film me as I watched because I was cackling from about 90 seconds in. Count me among the Obi Wan/Satine 'shippers, for real. Now I need to go back in for Mando S2, and I'll possibly catch up on the Siege episodes. Clone Wars just doesn't hold my attention but I like the general arc of the story, so I'm going to just fill in around the edges.
I finally watched the most recent Little Women, which I both loved and had great ambivalence about.
First off, it was gloriously produced--the sets, the costumes, the location work... just beautiful, all of it. I still cry when Beth dies, even if that particular set of cuts through time didn't really add to the story. It didn't help that everyone basically looked the same throughout the movie--no one aged, not really (though Timothee did actually look a little more mature at the end). I mean, I get approaching such familiar material from a fresh angle, I just don't think it did any favors for Beth's death and what it meant to the family. I thought Meryl and Florence did great things for what are the more unlikeable characters, and I'm happy that they didn't turn Mr. March into a saint. Marmee could have zinged him a little more, imo, but I'm happy she did as much as she did. (Bronson Alcott is right up there with Branwell Bronte as my least favorite authorial relations.)
I don't really know where I come down on the 'did she marry the professor or not' open-ended proposition, except that the very fact that it was there was annoying. Either option raises interesting questions about what we (still) expect from our heroines, but the not-picking (which I acknowledge is yet another set of questions to the heroine expectations) was a little too meta and took me out of the story.
I'm almost through with a full rewatch of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries -- If anything, I'm surprised how much I'm still enjoying it. I'd almost expected to lose interest after a few episodes, but I'm only a couple from the end of the 3rd season and happily watching along (I'm watching through a library add-on so I only get a few episodes each month, but that's fine.)
I also just rewatched The Big Chill, which I thought held up well over the years, but wow, the drugs were ... a lot. I was there during that era, so I'm not saying it's wrong, but looking at it now, yeah, a LOT.
At some point, I swear I'm going to watch Shadow and Bone, but I should probably get on with Mando and Loki, so those are on deck.
In personal news, work continues to be both mad ricochets and thoughtful support, so I guess I'm happy about the support and wish the actual project work might smooth out in time. (The whole industry is just so bad for my tendency to procrastinate--I *know* there's a better than even chance that whatever date they're giving me will slip, so it encourages my bad habits about just not jumping in and doing things, because it never fails that when I do, it changes later down the line, so I'm better off just waiting and doing it all in a power rush at the end, because it'll be that rush anyway.) Ah, well, only a couple more years and the R-word becomes viable.
For fun things, I started posting the latest thing I've been noodling on, if only to get the early parts out of my head and let my brain focus on the rest of the story, so the first chapter of waiting in the eye of the storm, a post-Wandavision/mid-TFATWS Darcy/Bucky is out in the world.
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I really enjoyed the most recent Little Women, too. It made me a bit more sympathetic to Amy. Have you ever read March by Geraldine Brooks? It's had mixed reviews, but I enjoyed it. I remained disappointed in Mr. March, but still liked the book.
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