warning: exceptionally rambly post ahead.
Jun. 19th, 2014 11:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
healingmirthFree Preview Weekend strikes again, and this time it was almost every episode of Strike Back.
We start with Strike Back Origins, aka Guy of Gisborne abandons several nice young men in precarious circumstances. And also kills lots of dudes who are probably just local law enforcement. And wears a terrible wig. (He's also...Thorin? I haven't seen the new Hobbit movies.)
And then Strike Back seasons 1-3 which were... very Cinemax. Lots of boobs. Lots of sex. I am now forced to imagine that that dude is exceptionally fast and stealthy at condom application. And then they introduced two consecutive queer antagonists after, at least so far as I noticed, not having a single LGBT character for twenty-some episodes. And doing an excellent job of keeping the two white male leads alive, but not so much with anyone else. Do you still get credit for diverse casting if its a revolving door of dead white women and people of color?
Unrelated, except that the final game of the Stanley Cup playoffs was a thing that also happened at the weekend:
Gotta love when the third google image result for "Jeff Carter" is a gif of Mike Richards. But wow, Jeff Carter's current tooth situation is rough. On the one hand, it's nice that he is apparently not bothered. On the other hand, put your bridge in, please. Yikes.
Also, I'm still (5? days later) a little mad at NBCSN for launching straight into interviewing Mike Richards at the top of their coverage instead of filling for a minute until I switched over. Bah.
I had this fic idea that I'd been poking at, but it sort of depended on the Kings bombing out of the playoffs, which obvs. didn't happen, and now I'm not sure if I want to rework the premise, or set it during a different season, since it is so, so very detached from reality anyway. It's always amusing to be able to tell when your fandom Does a Thing because of the shift in kudos e-mails, and I really want to write some more. Maybe a h-c bingo story.
Speaking of which, I should have said earlier. If there's a fandom that you know I have at least a fair familiarity with, and you want to make a suggestion for a character combination and a square from my h-c bingo card, please do.
Also rewatched parts of The History Boys (was that really only set in 1983? Good job my brain on combining it with Dead Poet's Society, I guess) and all of Pacific Rim, and I had 1) totally forgotten the whole scientist plot, and 2) forgotten how terrible the dialogue is. Terrible. So bad. Terribad. So much narration!
Has there ever been a more "As you know, Bob..." -tastic major motion picture? I don't think so. And yet the images are so pretty!
We start with Strike Back Origins, aka Guy of Gisborne abandons several nice young men in precarious circumstances. And also kills lots of dudes who are probably just local law enforcement. And wears a terrible wig. (He's also...Thorin? I haven't seen the new Hobbit movies.)
And then Strike Back seasons 1-3 which were... very Cinemax. Lots of boobs. Lots of sex. I am now forced to imagine that that dude is exceptionally fast and stealthy at condom application. And then they introduced two consecutive queer antagonists after, at least so far as I noticed, not having a single LGBT character for twenty-some episodes. And doing an excellent job of keeping the two white male leads alive, but not so much with anyone else. Do you still get credit for diverse casting if its a revolving door of dead white women and people of color?
Unrelated, except that the final game of the Stanley Cup playoffs was a thing that also happened at the weekend:
Gotta love when the third google image result for "Jeff Carter" is a gif of Mike Richards. But wow, Jeff Carter's current tooth situation is rough. On the one hand, it's nice that he is apparently not bothered. On the other hand, put your bridge in, please. Yikes.
Also, I'm still (5? days later) a little mad at NBCSN for launching straight into interviewing Mike Richards at the top of their coverage instead of filling for a minute until I switched over. Bah.
I had this fic idea that I'd been poking at, but it sort of depended on the Kings bombing out of the playoffs, which obvs. didn't happen, and now I'm not sure if I want to rework the premise, or set it during a different season, since it is so, so very detached from reality anyway. It's always amusing to be able to tell when your fandom Does a Thing because of the shift in kudos e-mails, and I really want to write some more. Maybe a h-c bingo story.
Speaking of which, I should have said earlier. If there's a fandom that you know I have at least a fair familiarity with, and you want to make a suggestion for a character combination and a square from my h-c bingo card, please do.
Also rewatched parts of The History Boys (was that really only set in 1983? Good job my brain on combining it with Dead Poet's Society, I guess) and all of Pacific Rim, and I had 1) totally forgotten the whole scientist plot, and 2) forgotten how terrible the dialogue is. Terrible. So bad. Terribad. So much narration!
Has there ever been a more "As you know, Bob..." -tastic major motion picture? I don't think so. And yet the images are so pretty!
