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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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I had also osmosed this and was extremely surprised to learn I was incorrect!
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And I just started watching Schitt's Creek--I've seen up through part of S2 by now, and I'm really loving it (and Stevie & David in particular), so I'm excited to read fic once I'm all caught up.
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That sounds appropriately in key with life as we saw it in the first film (which nothing else has ever really been like, except maybe bits of Rogue One), which was not utopian at all, but not correspondingly dystopian either.
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