And that's all she wrote...

[locker_monster]

- Well, I'm officially unemployed now, but what are you going to do.

- At least now I have time to knit and read. I've been visiting my sister and my niece a lot over the past couple of weeks and I once again I get in an hour of reading while taking the train in and out of downtown. Maybe I can finish off the pile of books I got from my book club. I am definitely grateful for the knitting time. In my enthusiasm to make things, I decided to knit all of my Christmas gift. I've finished two but I still have two more to finish. Fingers crossed that I get them done on time.

- Speaking of knitting, I've been watching Jessica Jones and I can't stop staring at her grey scarf. It's an infinity scarf, but I can't make out the pattern on it. Hell, it might not even be knitted. But that's how my brain works now. I look at knitted items and I obsess over how they were made. I think Jessica's scarf may be a seed stitch pattern, but who knows.

- I'm only three episodes in to Jessica Jones, but I like it. Similar to Daredevil, they really down play her powers and so the show feels more like a detective show rather than a super hero show. I'm surprised they haven't referenced Daredevil yet, but maybe there's something later in the season. And damn, David Tennant's English accent is so slick; I'm so used to his rougher Tenth Doctor accent. I know Kilgrave is crazy and sadistic, but I would totally listen to anything he has to say with that accent. ;-)

- And Happy 52nd Whoniversay! It was two years ago that I got to tour the TARDIS set. Man, I really need to get back to Cardiff at some point. I didn't see enough of the city when I was there.

Comments

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

I'm watching Jessica Jones, too. I have a love/hate relationship with it so far--like, the cinematography and casting and the care with which they're handling the subject matter is really great and it's a super compelling show, but there's so much traumatic stuff happening that it's also hard for me to watch.

[locker-monster.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I get a little squirmy sometimes when they get into some of the traumatic stuff, but the rest of the show is so good that I can ignore my own discomfort.

Your Karen icon makes me wish that they could have the Netflix Marvel characters crossing over. I know everyone will eventually team up, but that's a few years away. I want to see Matt and Foggy acting as Jessica's lawyers because she got herself into some legal trouble.

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

I know! There are so many good potential crossovers there.

[locker-monster.livejournal.com]

I just reached an episode where Jessica could have used a good lawyer and I kept waiting for Matt or Foggy to show up. Or someone could have slipped her their card or said in passing, "Oh yeah, I know some good lawyers. Nelson and some other guy; I can't remember his name."

I guess we'll just have to wait for the Defenders miniseries, whenever that is.

Oh, and I finished Uprooted. I didn't fall in love with it as I did with her first Temeraire book, but it was still a good book. It took me a while to get into it, but once Agnieszka left the tower to save her town and she started to practice magic then I really got into it. The approach to magic was neat. The Dragon and the Falcon have a very tradition approach to their magic while Agnieszka's approach is more natural. I can totally see how she was able to battle the Wood. It'll be fun to see more of this world; the story can't just end with just one book.

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

I just saw a cameo of one of the cops from Daredevil, but I've didn't get to say much because of plot reasons.

I liked the different approaches to magic in Uprooted, too! I don't know about sequels, but I heard someone bought the movie rights.

[locker-monster.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Mahonney was in episode seven (I think that's his name). I wasn't sure when I was watching the episode but when I looked at the cast list afterwards, it confirmed it was the same character. For a few seconds, I was super hopeful that Matt or Foggy would show up, because I was thinking their cop friend called them. but nope. It was Kilgrave who fixed everything in the police station.

I heard that, too, about Uprooted. I think it was Ellen's production company. I see it more as a miniseries, though. That's a lot of plot to cram into a two hour movie.