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- I finally finished my Chocolate Box signup, squeaking in under the wire! No real surprises, as I've requested all of these fandoms in previous exchanges. Letter here.
- Several different people told me they thought The Mandalorian would be my sort of thing, because apparently some of my narrative kinks are visible FROM SPACE, and they were not wrong. It’s not flawless, but certain aspects of it are pretty much made for me. (Space western with badass bounty hunter taking care of a baby ... yeah, hi, this is![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sholio and my id reporting for duty.) So far it doesn’t really seem to be inspiring fannish feelings in me, but we just stopped for the night on episode four, and I flat-out loved that one - it's a very stock plot that delivered everything you might want from that stock plot - so fannish feelings may happen if the rest of the series continues to be like that.
Two small spoilers under the cut:
- I've seen the show criticized for lacking women and they're not wrong, but I flat-out ADORED the former shock trooper in ep. 4. She's wonderful, and I especially love that she's sturdy and burly and really looks like a physical badass. (Orion: "I think her biceps are bigger than mine.") I hope she a) comes back in future episodes, and b) doesn't die. I might not forgive the show for killing her. I have rarely shipped two characters as fast and hard as I now ship her with the nameless protagonist on the basis of one episode.
- Somehow I osmosed that the baby in this show was actually Yoda as a baby and therefore the show was set several hundred years in the past, as opposed to a baby whatever-Yoda-is. (Orion: "But if they did that, you'd know Yoda couldn't possibly die, so the Mandalorian could just ..." *mimes holding up a baby and using it as a bullet shield*)
Anyway, I'm really enjoying the show's depiction of the post-Empire galaxy not as a utopia, or even as a safe and functional democracy, but rather, as slightly seedy post-revolution chaos, with defeated factions of the Empire still scrabbling for power, outlaw gangs preying on isolated planets in the absence of a strong central government, and so forth. I'm also really enjoying the nonstop spaghetti western homages; the first episode was a little ham-handed with it, but since then it's settled into a nice mix of western tropes blended with space opera. I also really enjoy how the Star Wars universe has kept the retro look of the tech and f/x and even the cuts between scenes.
No spoilers for the new movie or for Mandalorian past episode four, please!
Reveals are out on Happy Belated Treatmas! I wrote:
Time After Time (Schitt's Creek, 5500 wds, Stevie & David + canon pairings)
Stevie and David get married on a whim during a time loop. It would really be a shame if the loop ended at that point, wouldn't it?
Basically it's accidental marriage with platonic BFFs, and was really a lot of fun to write.
- Several different people told me they thought The Mandalorian would be my sort of thing, because apparently some of my narrative kinks are visible FROM SPACE, and they were not wrong. It’s not flawless, but certain aspects of it are pretty much made for me. (Space western with badass bounty hunter taking care of a baby ... yeah, hi, this is
sholio and my id reporting for duty.) So far it doesn’t really seem to be inspiring fannish feelings in me, but we just stopped for the night on episode four, and I flat-out loved that one - it's a very stock plot that delivered everything you might want from that stock plot - so fannish feelings may happen if the rest of the series continues to be like that.Two small spoilers under the cut:
- I've seen the show criticized for lacking women and they're not wrong, but I flat-out ADORED the former shock trooper in ep. 4. She's wonderful, and I especially love that she's sturdy and burly and really looks like a physical badass. (Orion: "I think her biceps are bigger than mine.") I hope she a) comes back in future episodes, and b) doesn't die. I might not forgive the show for killing her. I have rarely shipped two characters as fast and hard as I now ship her with the nameless protagonist on the basis of one episode.
- Somehow I osmosed that the baby in this show was actually Yoda as a baby and therefore the show was set several hundred years in the past, as opposed to a baby whatever-Yoda-is. (Orion: "But if they did that, you'd know Yoda couldn't possibly die, so the Mandalorian could just ..." *mimes holding up a baby and using it as a bullet shield*)
Anyway, I'm really enjoying the show's depiction of the post-Empire galaxy not as a utopia, or even as a safe and functional democracy, but rather, as slightly seedy post-revolution chaos, with defeated factions of the Empire still scrabbling for power, outlaw gangs preying on isolated planets in the absence of a strong central government, and so forth. I'm also really enjoying the nonstop spaghetti western homages; the first episode was a little ham-handed with it, but since then it's settled into a nice mix of western tropes blended with space opera. I also really enjoy how the Star Wars universe has kept the retro look of the tech and f/x and even the cuts between scenes.
No spoilers for the new movie or for Mandalorian past episode four, please!
Reveals are out on Happy Belated Treatmas! I wrote:
Time After Time (Schitt's Creek, 5500 wds, Stevie & David + canon pairings)
Stevie and David get married on a whim during a time loop. It would really be a shame if the loop ended at that point, wouldn't it?
Basically it's accidental marriage with platonic BFFs, and was really a lot of fun to write.
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As long as we are talking about Star Wars, I am going to leave my favorite related vid here: it takes a dead obvious concept—Imperial officers to the tune of Lorde's "Everybody Wants to Rule the World"—and gets neat amounts of horror and empathy out of it, never losing sight of the fact that being a galactic fascist is not actually a good life decision. I tried to track the vidder down on AO3 once I had an account to tell them how much I loved it, but was not able to find them. I realize it is also germane to the previous comment in that it illustrates that the one sleek, frictionless, classically futurist sphere of the original movies is the one you really don't want to live in: it's the echelons of the Empire. (I remain disproportionately fond of Admiral Piett and delighted that it's really not just me.)
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it illustrates that the one sleek, frictionless, classically futurist sphere of the original movies is the one you really don't want to live in
Oh yes, that's an excellent point.
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The vid made it click for me. I'd never spent that much time immersed solely in the Imperial aesthetic before.
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You're welcome!