fanaddict

Star Trek: Into Darkness

Star Trek: Into Darkness is an action packed movie that rewards Trek fans by paying homage to previous TOS Star Trek moments while finding it's own path. In some ways it definitely honors the original spirit but in other ways it really doesn't. And that would sum up the entire movie for me - in some ways it works, in other ways it doesn't. For ever meta moment of fail, there is another one that's a win. For every great cinematic moment, there's the lens flare of doom. For every character moment, there's an action sequence or two or three or four... You can break the movie down into so many component parts that you forget what the movie is about, so the real question to me is what did it accomplish emotionally. Did I care? And the answer was yes I did - but there were definitely times when the clunkiness of the dialogue or placement of a scene took me out of the movie in a way that decreased the overall emotional impact.

( Collapse )

( Collapse )

( Collapse )

( Collapse )

( Collapse )

Overall, I enjoyed it a lot, but not as much as the first movie because I felt it sacrificed character develpment for larger actions sequences. I'm hoping there will be a lot of character stuff in the deleted scenes on the DVD, because if there are then I will probably love this movie. As it is, I give it a B/B+ rating.</span>

The Trial and Error ep of SPN reminded me of why I have liked Carver's writing - even though Andrew Dabb gets script credit (although it wasn't as over the top as his previous ones, which is interesting). Dabb is the go to guy for Kevin eps I think. Anyway, Carver wrote what may be my all time favorite SPN ep "Mystery Spot" back in S3, and he used a humorous premise to really delve into Sam's psyche for how he would feel when Dean's crossroads deal came through. Now, it's possible that this pushed Sam even more psychologically because he knew how awful it would be and that's what led to his drinking Ruby's blood to gain power to try and break Dean out of Hell, but... Whatever, Carver gets their weird co-dependent relationship in ways I trust. And more than the actual plot itself, that understanding permeated this ep.

OK, on to specifics:
( Collapse )

Anyway, overall, I really enjoyed it because I felt like Carver knows Sam&Dean and how the think/interact, so their relationship in this ep felt true to me in ways that go back through all 8 seasons of interactions. And that's... really enjoyable when you've invested as much time/emotion in a show as it takes to watch it weekly for 8 years.

I have been waiting for that episode since I first heard about it - Felicity Day is awesome and I loved her Charlie when she was on last year. She had Dean had amazing chemistry (of the non-sexual) variety. I was also interested in how they would play the whole LARPing thing, because SPN has been hit or miss with how it deals with genre fans in the past.

Before I get going on the ep, though, I just wanted to mention that I have been in various fandoms for a long time. I understand how fandom works and it's interesting sometimes if I'm not fannish (but still love) a show, because I can sometimes see how things are going to be perceived as subtextual by the fandom even while it doesn't hit me emotionally like it would if I were a fan. The same is true for pairings in that I can understand why one's so popular, but it doesn't do much for me even when I see the way others could perceive something as subtextual validation. So, er, I will mention Destial in here in the sense that I understand why many Destial fans perceived certain things a certain way, but honestly I didn't really think it was intended that way. So don't read this if that statement is a warning to your sensibilities.
( Collapse )

Last night SPN trailed in the wake of Farscape, and like the Farscape ep it copied, it was more crash and burn than awesome. I loved Ben Endlund's The Tick, but I'm very hot or miss on him as an SPN writer. I mean, Ghostfacers was hilarious, but the wishing well one (despite the talking teddy bear, which was great) made me rage about how basically date rape was just ignored as anything important. And everything else is kind of in between. I guess ultimately I don't like how he handles women and so the more female characters in an Elund ep, the more ragy I'm likely to be afterward. I'm not ragey after this one particularly, mostly because the female characters that were in it were at least a mixed bag of cool (the cop) and sexy fantasy (suburban house wife shenanigans). Mostly, honestly, I was bored.
( Collapse )

We still have power! Snow and cold, but power (btw, I haven’t watched Revolution for the past couple of weeks and may not for a while because, man, now I know what it feels like to have no electricity/heat and it’s not a happy place for me to watch on TV).

OK, last night on SPN:( Collapse )

We're back home. We lost power Mon and got it back Fri - 5 very cold days even though we had a generator because it wasn't hooked into our heating system (something we're rectifying as of Mon). I took the kids up to my parents on Fri because it was just too cold to deal and it was my grandmother's birthday. We actually got power back prior to leaving, but with her birthday and the fact I had promised the kids a mini-Halloween by going around to my aunts and uncles' houses we went anyway. I felt less guilty leaving my husband behind though, and he wasn't willing to leave under the conditions in our town.

I have pretty much not seen any news for the past week so I probably know less about what went down with Sandy than any of the rest of you. I just know half our town still is without power. Gas lines are miles long, and school is still closed for an unknown length of time because the town is under emergency conditions. So yeah, fun times.

I did watch SPN on my sister's computer and liked it. It felt a little set up-y for the next ep, which should be interesting.

Obviously beware of spoilers - not just for SPN but also for the movie Chronicles and one particular X-Files ep. You've been warned! Also, this is the first SPN ep in a while I've felt inspired to actually critique.

( Collapse )

My CW isn't being carried right now because of a service dispute, so I couldn't watch until this morning on the CW website. So without further ado and not having read/see anything other than the remarkably unhelpful tumblr reactions, here are my thoughts:
( Collapse )

http://teenwolf.tumblr.com/post/30…

MTV is asking people to submit Teen Wolf fan fiction in order to win a trip to LA to meet the showrunner and hang out in the writers room. I don't even know how to process this - fan art is one thing, but actually asking for fan fic? Wow.

Also, of the 4330 fan fics on AO3 as of today, 2488 of them are sterek, which is almost 60% (57.5% to be exact). I don't know if AO3 is representative of the fandom fic output as a whole, but if it is then MTV better be prepared to read a lot of sterek (assuming it's sent in in the same ratio). They showed sterek fan art on TV when doing a contest for TW fan art this summer, so I assume that means they won't object to it in fan fic form (although the contest specifies no porn allowed, probably to spare whatever poor interns are the first line read through). And they mocked EW's "apology" for not including sterek in their shipper poll (EW said it was intended only for het couples who have an intentional will they/won't they vibe) by saying maybe next year sterek would be allowed to enter (implying they would have an intentional will they/won't they vibe maybe?), so MTV seems pretty open to slash possibilities.

Anyway, this is a signal boost to anyone who writes fan fic and would like to get inside a writers room for a TV show. I'd do it, but my writing experience tends toward the the more science-y, which isn't really great for fic writing (it's just a completely different way of writing).

So hey, Grimm started up again! I feel like this is a very weird time for it to start - the kids aren't even in school yet, how can there be fall TV? I don't have time for this yet!

OK, so we watched the first 2 eps and since they were a 2-parter, this will be about both eps and will be just quick bullet points because I have a kid to get to bed in a few minutes.

Grimm ( Collapse )