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betagoddess! May you have all the happiness you could wish for, darling.
I changed my banner and layout colours again. I was getting bored with blue, and needed something colourful.
Apparently SPN fandom is imploding over some rumoured S3 spoilers. I don't know what they are (and if you tell me I will beat you to death with a damp lettuce leaf) but hell, you'd think the fandom would have learned to trust Kripke by now.
Supernatural has a lot wrong with it, and they've made mistakes (*cough* Heart *cough*) but despite the occasional bobble the show still delivers, over and over. Fact is, Supernatural at its worst is better than most current shows can come up with at their best, and Supernatural at its best rocks like a rocking thing.
This is coming from me, the fan least likely to trust TPTB in any fandom: Trust the Krip. At least until he proves we can't. For a man with virtually no track record in TV to deliver two spectacular seasons is a good sign. I'm not saying the show might not jump the shark, but I'm willing to give the man the benefit of the doubt and say he probably knows what he's doing.
I finally got around to watching the rest of Blood Ties. I really must get hold of those books. I'm turning into an urban fantasy addict. Anita Blake got me started, then Kelley Armstrong's wonderful Women of the Otherworld books, Kat Richardson's fantastic Greywalker, Carrie Vaughn's werewolf stories...and I just started reading the Rachel Morgan books. Guess this is one to add to the list. But that's books. As for the TV adaption...
The good: I loved the characters and the basic setup of the plot. I can't figure out whether or not it's meant to be a "everyone knows about the supernatural" verse. The pilot implied not, but as the season went on there was way too much acceptance of the weird among the supporting characters. Yay for strong female leads, and I love that Vicki is a disabled character and still kicks ass with the best of 'em. Henry's a cool character, too. The background mythology is very different from most of the supernatural shows I've loved.
The bad: The film quality (and admittedly this might be because my copies are downloaded) is really poor, and the scripts are pretty weak (can't blame that on illegal downloads). Worst of all, there's very little chemistry between the leads, and I get the impression there's supposed to be a lot of sparkage there. I just don't see it.
I finished reading The Harlequin. It's a huge improvement over the last few AB novels, proving my theory that the AB books are no longer worth reading unless it's an Edward story. But even Edward's presence failed to save it. The awful thing is I can see how easily a decent editor could fix this novel: just talk LKH into giving the plot as much loving attention as she does the sex, and actually explain what's really happening occasionally and this one would be really, really good. It's not that sex is bad. It's that sex is not plot. A novel-length story requires plot.
The Harlequin actually has plot. And mostly the sex is relevant to it. I was all set to give the book an amazing review until I got to the last few chapters where Anita & Co are in the middle of a confrontation with the scary bad guys and take time out to talk about their feelings. I mean...seriously? And where the hell was Edward in that sequence? He was there, but the author ignored his presence totally until she needed him - which is wrong, Edward is action-guy, not stand-around-listening-while-the-bad-guys-do-bad-shit guy. So it ends up with 6/10. Best since Obsidian Butterfly but it's ample evidence that it's not worth buying any more of them.
I gave in to temptation and am downloading the next season of Numb3rs. I've found it's a great series to write to (to, not about - I write in front of the TV). It's interesting and exciting without being distracting. This may not be a compliment to the show, but it's good for me :-)
betagoddess! May you have all the happiness you could wish for, darling.I changed my banner and layout colours again. I was getting bored with blue, and needed something colourful.
Apparently SPN fandom is imploding over some rumoured S3 spoilers. I don't know what they are (and if you tell me I will beat you to death with a damp lettuce leaf) but hell, you'd think the fandom would have learned to trust Kripke by now.
Supernatural has a lot wrong with it, and they've made mistakes (*cough* Heart *cough*) but despite the occasional bobble the show still delivers, over and over. Fact is, Supernatural at its worst is better than most current shows can come up with at their best, and Supernatural at its best rocks like a rocking thing.
This is coming from me, the fan least likely to trust TPTB in any fandom: Trust the Krip. At least until he proves we can't. For a man with virtually no track record in TV to deliver two spectacular seasons is a good sign. I'm not saying the show might not jump the shark, but I'm willing to give the man the benefit of the doubt and say he probably knows what he's doing.
I finally got around to watching the rest of Blood Ties. I really must get hold of those books. I'm turning into an urban fantasy addict. Anita Blake got me started, then Kelley Armstrong's wonderful Women of the Otherworld books, Kat Richardson's fantastic Greywalker, Carrie Vaughn's werewolf stories...and I just started reading the Rachel Morgan books. Guess this is one to add to the list. But that's books. As for the TV adaption...
The good: I loved the characters and the basic setup of the plot. I can't figure out whether or not it's meant to be a "everyone knows about the supernatural" verse. The pilot implied not, but as the season went on there was way too much acceptance of the weird among the supporting characters. Yay for strong female leads, and I love that Vicki is a disabled character and still kicks ass with the best of 'em. Henry's a cool character, too. The background mythology is very different from most of the supernatural shows I've loved.
The bad: The film quality (and admittedly this might be because my copies are downloaded) is really poor, and the scripts are pretty weak (can't blame that on illegal downloads). Worst of all, there's very little chemistry between the leads, and I get the impression there's supposed to be a lot of sparkage there. I just don't see it.
I finished reading The Harlequin. It's a huge improvement over the last few AB novels, proving my theory that the AB books are no longer worth reading unless it's an Edward story. But even Edward's presence failed to save it. The awful thing is I can see how easily a decent editor could fix this novel: just talk LKH into giving the plot as much loving attention as she does the sex, and actually explain what's really happening occasionally and this one would be really, really good. It's not that sex is bad. It's that sex is not plot. A novel-length story requires plot.
The Harlequin actually has plot. And mostly the sex is relevant to it. I was all set to give the book an amazing review until I got to the last few chapters where Anita & Co are in the middle of a confrontation with the scary bad guys and take time out to talk about their feelings. I mean...seriously? And where the hell was Edward in that sequence? He was there, but the author ignored his presence totally until she needed him - which is wrong, Edward is action-guy, not stand-around-listening-while-the-bad-guys-do-bad-shit guy. So it ends up with 6/10. Best since Obsidian Butterfly but it's ample evidence that it's not worth buying any more of them.
I gave in to temptation and am downloading the next season of Numb3rs. I've found it's a great series to write to (to, not about - I write in front of the TV). It's interesting and exciting without being distracting. This may not be a compliment to the show, but it's good for me :-)
Re: multifandom comments
You maybe don't wanna get me started on that. For a show that's supposed to be hot on myths and legends, the treatment of the werewolf mythos was just plain nonsense. And the werewolf makeup sucked. And the only reason they fucked it up was so Dean could recognise Madison.
Madison herself was a suicidal doormat. That mugging story was supposed to make the audience respect her, show she was a strong person, but then she totally caved in to this silly notion that she had to die - when she had absolutely no reason to trust Sam or Dean. Not that far. She was weak and pathetic and it's even worse that a woman wrote the episode.
And just to add insult to injury, the final scene stripped her of any individuality and made her a symbolic thing, a cipher used to drive home a point which, let's face it, the audience didn't really need, about the Sam/Dean relationship.
Sam's characterisation sucked. He's an intelligent man who doesn't give up on people. Except in Heart where he's a sexist pig and a murderer. Fuck that.
And the sex scene was dreadful. It was filmed like porn, which would be okay, but they left out the "money-shot" (orgasm) which makes it crappy porn.
because of your Cry Wolf story, which I hope you will do a sequel to.
I refuse to apologise for getting you into Sentinel fic! But as for a Cry Wolf sequel...I don't know. The sequel I originally planned kinda got spoiled by canon; I can't think of a way to make it work now. I might still write more about Jim and Blair in that 'verse, but a crossover sequel is less likely.
Richard seemed to be making progress in this book only to regress majorily.
Richard always does. LKH basically doesn't like him, but she's too chicken to do what the plot demands and kill him off. Look how close she came in Harlequin, and she still didn't. Either Jean Claude or Richard needs to die. And it's overdue. My vote would be JC, actually (because he deserves it more and because Richard's is the more interesting storyline), but either one will do. It would break the triumverate, which would in turn give Anita back her free will, even if she didn't loose the extra powers like the ardeur. Grief would provide excellent actual plot, as would vengeance. But LKH won't do it. A decent editor would force her into it, but she has lousy editors.
I hope you post more supernatural stories soon.
Depends on your definition of "soon" but I can pretty much guarantee that :-)