take their rosy children by the hand.
May. 14th, 2012 09:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
damkiannaSo! I hear LJ's making some fairly major changes to Scrapbook that have caused some people to lose images, and will delete tags and restructure everything so as to remove sub-albums. I guess it's time I quit putting off moving everything to Photobucket and relinking. Oh, for DW imagehosting!
Far more importantly: I'm caught up on OUaT! I adore more Regina backstory in principle, but I have to admit that the scene with Snow by the grave was ... not precisely what I'd hoped for. :/ It seemed very anvilous, which is not exactly unusual for OUaT, obvs., but somewhere in my heart of hearts I was hoping there would be somewhat more subtlety - an icier Regina, intent on keeping all her grief to herself. Or at least less heavyhanded dialogue. I don't know! Like so many other things I watch, OUaT ... mostly serves to provide a framework for acres of headcanon, which always means more to me than source. Also, show has an interesting definition of "willingly". I love me some self-sacrifice, but solely for purposes of defining what willingness really means, that sucked. You'd think magic would have a more comprehensive definition, there, if that's the linchpin of the apple's whole spell. Although I guess accuracy - "you have to take it without me physically forcing you or the magic won't work, although non-physical coercion is acceptable" - would have been a bit less pithy.
Anyway! I'm also glad they didn't forget about the Hatter, although now I'm curious as to what happened to him in between - he vanished into the hat at the end of his first ep, right? Did he get dumped into another part of Storybrooke? Was Emma's magic sufficient to get him to Fairytaleverse (which ... is empty? Did Regina curse the whole place, or just everybody at Snow and James's wedding?) or did he go back to Maineverse because daughter and use it up? (I'm assuming he couldn't have used it to go back into Fairytaleverse's past, or that if he could have he couldn't have changed anything while there, because ... if that were true, surely Regina would have rewritten the universe to her liking when she first got hold of him in Fairytaleverse.)
... Possibly I'm paying a little too much attention to what was probably just a way to exposit and let Regina lay hands on the apple.
YAAAAAAAAAY EMMA BELIEVES. (Up until this, this show made for a lolarious contrast to Awake, where the protagonist believes thoroughly and everyone else thinks he's deluded.) \o/ I did think it was unintentionally funny that they included the usual "I'm sorry, [person who tried to tell me], I should have believed you" - like, well, as a viewer, I knew Henry was right, but, uh, he was still asking you to believe in a magical curse and that you were Snow White's kid. It's actually pretty reasonable that you were dubious, really.
But anyway! Taking up her father's sword: YES PLS. I'm sorry they killed Maleficent; I hope we get more flashbacks of her in Fairytaleverse, if nothing else. And Regina! I am so so glad they let her say she loved Henry believably, that is a huge weight off my mind, and that whole janitor's-closet-wall-slam scene was AMAZING. I'm not sure where they're going with the curse not quite being broken, but I'm intrigued that everybody remembers now - will the Hatter's daughter leave her not-actual-family, now that she presumably remembers who her father is? Is the douchebag king somewhere in Storybrooke? (Have we met him before and I just forgot?) Does Geppetto now know who August was? I sort of wish this had been two hours, I think it might have helped with the pacing a little bit. But I enjoyed it anyway! And the Blue Fairy was in Maineverse, which was cool.
Also, Korra! It's like they tried to get through all the shipping in one episode, for which I cannot blame them at all! I came out of that mostly adoring Bolin, and I wish they'd spend more time on Asami - which, presumably they will, if she really is a sekrit Equalist or whatever people have been theorizing. (I suppose she could be; but she did say she was a pro-bending fan. And sure, she might have been lying, but she also seemed to know who Mako was and get her father to back the team and all, idk. Unless the Equalists were trying to - infiltrate the bending teams somehow? that really doesn't make sense.) And this week, omg, LIN BEI FONG FOREVER. That fight scene at the end was maybe sort of long, but I LOVED EVERY SECOND OF IT and Korra and Lin should just run around kicking ass and solving crimes together, seriously. I would watch that show aaaaaaaaaall day. :D :D :D
I will say that I still can't quite figure out what they're doing with Amon. That "cleanse them of their impurities" line he used doesn't quite fit with his other stuff about oppression and injustice - does he secretly think bending is some kind of spiritual offense? Or is he just trying to appeal to the widest possible Equalist audience by using like three different reasons for what he's doing?
Also: the council guy totally had Padmé hair. If you look at his back during the argument about canceling the bending match, it's in long locks separated with sets of rings, which is exactly how Padmé's hair is done when she's disguised as a fighter pilot at the start of ... Attack of the Clones, I think? I can't decide whether that was some kind of tiny shoutout or they just came up with it independently, butidriya spotted it and we had a good chuckle.
And I watched two more episodes of The Borgias, which was, like. I don't even. IS IT CHRISTMAS. IS IT MY BIRTHDAY. I knew there was a semi-apocryphal story about Lucrezia taking her father's place temporarily and leading the cardinals as pope in his absence, but I didn't expect it so soon! That scene was FANTASTIC. And then she got together with Giulia and Vanozza to ruin the cardinals' lives and help the poor. MY HEART. And there was more Caterina Sforza, which was great, even if it was three-quarters sex scenes and then Cesare killed her cousin (who was Lucrezia's rapist asshole husband, so I can't blame him for that one). I loved her face during the scene right before the horrific murder, though! And her tone when she gave that simple "no". How so awesome? Aside from all the sex and death, these two episodes were like a party in my soul. (I don't consider sex and death spoilers for The Borgias; it's The Borgias.)
I have not-precisely-poison-ivy aaaaaaall over my hands. It's not as bad as two years ago, when I basically dunked my hands in calamine lotion every few hours and then covered myself with bandaids; but it's close. WHY ME.
Far more importantly: I'm caught up on OUaT! I adore more Regina backstory in principle, but I have to admit that the scene with Snow by the grave was ... not precisely what I'd hoped for. :/ It seemed very anvilous, which is not exactly unusual for OUaT, obvs., but somewhere in my heart of hearts I was hoping there would be somewhat more subtlety - an icier Regina, intent on keeping all her grief to herself. Or at least less heavyhanded dialogue. I don't know! Like so many other things I watch, OUaT ... mostly serves to provide a framework for acres of headcanon, which always means more to me than source. Also, show has an interesting definition of "willingly". I love me some self-sacrifice, but solely for purposes of defining what willingness really means, that sucked. You'd think magic would have a more comprehensive definition, there, if that's the linchpin of the apple's whole spell. Although I guess accuracy - "you have to take it without me physically forcing you or the magic won't work, although non-physical coercion is acceptable" - would have been a bit less pithy.
Anyway! I'm also glad they didn't forget about the Hatter, although now I'm curious as to what happened to him in between - he vanished into the hat at the end of his first ep, right? Did he get dumped into another part of Storybrooke? Was Emma's magic sufficient to get him to Fairytaleverse (which ... is empty? Did Regina curse the whole place, or just everybody at Snow and James's wedding?) or did he go back to Maineverse because daughter and use it up? (I'm assuming he couldn't have used it to go back into Fairytaleverse's past, or that if he could have he couldn't have changed anything while there, because ... if that were true, surely Regina would have rewritten the universe to her liking when she first got hold of him in Fairytaleverse.)
... Possibly I'm paying a little too much attention to what was probably just a way to exposit and let Regina lay hands on the apple.
YAAAAAAAAAY EMMA BELIEVES. (Up until this, this show made for a lolarious contrast to Awake, where the protagonist believes thoroughly and everyone else thinks he's deluded.) \o/ I did think it was unintentionally funny that they included the usual "I'm sorry, [person who tried to tell me], I should have believed you" - like, well, as a viewer, I knew Henry was right, but, uh, he was still asking you to believe in a magical curse and that you were Snow White's kid. It's actually pretty reasonable that you were dubious, really.
But anyway! Taking up her father's sword: YES PLS. I'm sorry they killed Maleficent; I hope we get more flashbacks of her in Fairytaleverse, if nothing else. And Regina! I am so so glad they let her say she loved Henry believably, that is a huge weight off my mind, and that whole janitor's-closet-wall-slam scene was AMAZING. I'm not sure where they're going with the curse not quite being broken, but I'm intrigued that everybody remembers now - will the Hatter's daughter leave her not-actual-family, now that she presumably remembers who her father is? Is the douchebag king somewhere in Storybrooke? (Have we met him before and I just forgot?) Does Geppetto now know who August was? I sort of wish this had been two hours, I think it might have helped with the pacing a little bit. But I enjoyed it anyway! And the Blue Fairy was in Maineverse, which was cool.
Also, Korra! It's like they tried to get through all the shipping in one episode, for which I cannot blame them at all! I came out of that mostly adoring Bolin, and I wish they'd spend more time on Asami - which, presumably they will, if she really is a sekrit Equalist or whatever people have been theorizing. (I suppose she could be; but she did say she was a pro-bending fan. And sure, she might have been lying, but she also seemed to know who Mako was and get her father to back the team and all, idk. Unless the Equalists were trying to - infiltrate the bending teams somehow? that really doesn't make sense.) And this week, omg, LIN BEI FONG FOREVER. That fight scene at the end was maybe sort of long, but I LOVED EVERY SECOND OF IT and Korra and Lin should just run around kicking ass and solving crimes together, seriously. I would watch that show aaaaaaaaaall day. :D :D :D
I will say that I still can't quite figure out what they're doing with Amon. That "cleanse them of their impurities" line he used doesn't quite fit with his other stuff about oppression and injustice - does he secretly think bending is some kind of spiritual offense? Or is he just trying to appeal to the widest possible Equalist audience by using like three different reasons for what he's doing?
Also: the council guy totally had Padmé hair. If you look at his back during the argument about canceling the bending match, it's in long locks separated with sets of rings, which is exactly how Padmé's hair is done when she's disguised as a fighter pilot at the start of ... Attack of the Clones, I think? I can't decide whether that was some kind of tiny shoutout or they just came up with it independently, but
idriya spotted it and we had a good chuckle.And I watched two more episodes of The Borgias, which was, like. I don't even. IS IT CHRISTMAS. IS IT MY BIRTHDAY. I knew there was a semi-apocryphal story about Lucrezia taking her father's place temporarily and leading the cardinals as pope in his absence, but I didn't expect it so soon! That scene was FANTASTIC. And then she got together with Giulia and Vanozza to ruin the cardinals' lives and help the poor. MY HEART. And there was more Caterina Sforza, which was great, even if it was three-quarters sex scenes and then Cesare killed her cousin (who was Lucrezia's rapist asshole husband, so I can't blame him for that one). I loved her face during the scene right before the horrific murder, though! And her tone when she gave that simple "no". How so awesome? Aside from all the sex and death, these two episodes were like a party in my soul. (I don't consider sex and death spoilers for The Borgias; it's The Borgias.)
I have not-precisely-poison-ivy aaaaaaall over my hands. It's not as bad as two years ago, when I basically dunked my hands in calamine lotion every few hours and then covered myself with bandaids; but it's close. WHY ME.
