Hikago Day
May. 5th, 2021 10:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meteordustThroughout the game, I felt in you an intensity characteristic of the most seasoned veterans. Next time, we'll play an even match.
- Touya Meijin, Chapter 102 of Hikaru no Go
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It always feels like there's all the time to post when nothing is happening, and no time to post when everything is happening.
Anyway, some of the stuff I've been watching and reading lately:
* WandaVision - I went in with low expectations, because while I liked Wanda well enough, I disliked Vision for replacing JARVIS, and I just was not invested in their relationship. Well, count me wrong. Turns out, when they get the material, Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany have amazing chemistry and awesome comic timing. And when the big emotional moments come, they really bring it. Plus bonus nostalgia for all the sitcoms I grew up with.
* The Falcon and the Winter Soldier - I would have been completely happy with buddy comedy shenanigans, but what we got was so much deeper and richer. Sam and Bucky finally get the character exploration that the movies never had room to give them. As one commenter put it, forget the action plot, I could watch a whole series about PTSD, race relations, and bickering. And I love that in the MCU, the story of Captain America is, now and forever, entwined with the story of Black America.
* Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells - New Murderbot novella! Timewise, it's set between the existing novellas and the recent novel. This means, plotwise, it's necessarily constrained. But it still manages to be an engaging adventure. Murderbot investigates a murder mystery on Preservation Station! There's a lot of juicy character stuff, with Murderbot getting to interact with numerous humans openly as itself, and all the angst, snark, and protectiveness that entails.
- Touya Meijin, Chapter 102 of Hikaru no Go
It always feels like there's all the time to post when nothing is happening, and no time to post when everything is happening.
Anyway, some of the stuff I've been watching and reading lately:
* WandaVision - I went in with low expectations, because while I liked Wanda well enough, I disliked Vision for replacing JARVIS, and I just was not invested in their relationship. Well, count me wrong. Turns out, when they get the material, Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany have amazing chemistry and awesome comic timing. And when the big emotional moments come, they really bring it. Plus bonus nostalgia for all the sitcoms I grew up with.
* The Falcon and the Winter Soldier - I would have been completely happy with buddy comedy shenanigans, but what we got was so much deeper and richer. Sam and Bucky finally get the character exploration that the movies never had room to give them. As one commenter put it, forget the action plot, I could watch a whole series about PTSD, race relations, and bickering. And I love that in the MCU, the story of Captain America is, now and forever, entwined with the story of Black America.
* Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells - New Murderbot novella! Timewise, it's set between the existing novellas and the recent novel. This means, plotwise, it's necessarily constrained. But it still manages to be an engaging adventure. Murderbot investigates a murder mystery on Preservation Station! There's a lot of juicy character stuff, with Murderbot getting to interact with numerous humans openly as itself, and all the angst, snark, and protectiveness that entails.
