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locker_monster- There were a pile of Christmas themed books at my book club meeting yesterday and everyone tried so hard to get me to take some home. Nope. I'm not against Christmas, but I hate Christmas books. They're all the same Hallmark-y crap that has no substance at all and the plots sound nearly identical. It also doesn't help that most stories have a romance and you all know what I think of romance novels. I'll just stick to watching the annual Doctor Who Christmas special, thank you very much. The episode may be hit or miss, but it's ten times more entertaining.
- It's what? 12 days until Christmas? God, where did the time go? I'm still working on my last knitted Christmas gift and I'm starting to doubt whether I'll have it done in time. My back is getting sore from being hunched over the yarn.
- The local comic book expo is teasing a big guest announcement on Tuesday. So far, the line-up has been kind of lacklustre so hopefully this one is exciting. The only hint they've given is that this person, they specifically said he, is an oft requested guest and it's going to be very cool news for a "certain cult following." It's the "cult following" bit that throws me. Cult, in my mind, implies a fandom that's not very well known. Like, it won't be a Star Trek or a Star Wars actor because those are huge fandoms. But cult could also mean something that's not mainstream and that describes a lot of sci fi/fantasy TV shows and movies. The one guess that keeps floating around is David Tennant; people request him every year. Is Doctor Who a "cult following" though? I think I've heard the show be described as a cult phenomenon so maybe people are right. David has been doing quite a few cons through Wizard World. Perhaps the expo people found a way to lure him to Canada. If I have an incomprehensible post on Tuesday that's all exclamation marks then you know it was David that they announced. ;-)
- Speaking of David, I finished Jessica Jones. I think I liked Daredevil more. Maybe it's because Daredevil was more action-y and that helped with the pace.
I still feel like Jessica Jones ran out of plot and they had to pad the last three episodes. Useless things, like Simpson's random crazy turn, didn't need to be there and it took away from the urgency. When we finally get to the end, it's kind of underwhelming. And I'm was totally bummed that they killed off Kilgrave. He was the best thing about the show. You know you've written an excellent villain when you're sad that they're dead. I just like that his aspirations were so personal. He didn't want to take over the world like Loki. He just wanted Jessica. Episode eight, "AKA WWJD", was the best episode of the season, I think. You're really rooting for Kilgrave to turn over a new leaf, but he's still creepy as heck.
And there was a slight crossover in the end. No Matt or Foggy showing up to defend anyone, but Jessica does run into Claire. I hear Claire will be the character who ties together the Netflix shows, so I guess she's like the Agent Coulson of the small screen. It still wouldn't have killed them to have a reference to Daredevil somewhere. I would have happily settled for a newspaper article about the Devil of Hell's Kitchen.
Now that David and Christopher Eccelston have played Marvel baddies, I fully expect Matt Smith to play a Marvel villain in the future.
- It's what? 12 days until Christmas? God, where did the time go? I'm still working on my last knitted Christmas gift and I'm starting to doubt whether I'll have it done in time. My back is getting sore from being hunched over the yarn.
- The local comic book expo is teasing a big guest announcement on Tuesday. So far, the line-up has been kind of lacklustre so hopefully this one is exciting. The only hint they've given is that this person, they specifically said he, is an oft requested guest and it's going to be very cool news for a "certain cult following." It's the "cult following" bit that throws me. Cult, in my mind, implies a fandom that's not very well known. Like, it won't be a Star Trek or a Star Wars actor because those are huge fandoms. But cult could also mean something that's not mainstream and that describes a lot of sci fi/fantasy TV shows and movies. The one guess that keeps floating around is David Tennant; people request him every year. Is Doctor Who a "cult following" though? I think I've heard the show be described as a cult phenomenon so maybe people are right. David has been doing quite a few cons through Wizard World. Perhaps the expo people found a way to lure him to Canada. If I have an incomprehensible post on Tuesday that's all exclamation marks then you know it was David that they announced. ;-)
- Speaking of David, I finished Jessica Jones. I think I liked Daredevil more. Maybe it's because Daredevil was more action-y and that helped with the pace.
I still feel like Jessica Jones ran out of plot and they had to pad the last three episodes. Useless things, like Simpson's random crazy turn, didn't need to be there and it took away from the urgency. When we finally get to the end, it's kind of underwhelming. And I'm was totally bummed that they killed off Kilgrave. He was the best thing about the show. You know you've written an excellent villain when you're sad that they're dead. I just like that his aspirations were so personal. He didn't want to take over the world like Loki. He just wanted Jessica. Episode eight, "AKA WWJD", was the best episode of the season, I think. You're really rooting for Kilgrave to turn over a new leaf, but he's still creepy as heck.
And there was a slight crossover in the end. No Matt or Foggy showing up to defend anyone, but Jessica does run into Claire. I hear Claire will be the character who ties together the Netflix shows, so I guess she's like the Agent Coulson of the small screen. It still wouldn't have killed them to have a reference to Daredevil somewhere. I would have happily settled for a newspaper article about the Devil of Hell's Kitchen.
Now that David and Christopher Eccelston have played Marvel baddies, I fully expect Matt Smith to play a Marvel villain in the future.
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Date: 2015-12-14 06:07 am (UTC)I agree with you about Jessica Jones - the final three episodes really dragged on. I think they were trying to bring closure to some of the relationships within the show and seed plots for the next show (Daredevil season 2, or Luke Cage), but it just slowed everything down. I also never got the feeling that Jessica grew from her experience, and perhaps she was just a little too frosty - I certainly cared more for Kilgrave than I did for her. On the good guys' side, I think Trish was the only truly interesting character.
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Date: 2015-12-14 03:49 pm (UTC)I also never got the feeling that Jessica grew from her experience, and perhaps she was just a little too frosty - I certainly cared more for Kilgrave than I did for her. On the good guys' side, I think Trish was the only truly interesting character.
Yeah, once Jessica knocked out Kilgrave at the end of episode eight and stuck him in that prison, she kind of lost some of my sympathy. Had she stopped to consider that Kilgrave could actually do some good, she might have avoided the deaths that followed. But maybe she was meant to fail this season? She's not a hero but she'll learn how to be a better person next season.
Trish was an interesting character. She doesn't need superpowers to be kick ass. I totally didn't realize that she's one of Marvel's oldest characters. Pasty Walker used to be a teen comic they published back in the day. So it's cool that they worked in a teen starlet background for Trish.
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Date: 2015-12-14 07:09 pm (UTC)Yes, I heard about that - Hellcat. I actually really liked the backstory behind Trish and Jessica's relationship, how two such different people came to care so much about each other. It was a very mature relationship for the two girls, too.