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brightknightie) wrote2024-01-19 08:00 am
brightknightie) wrote2024-01-19 08:00 am
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Snowflake challenge #9 (2024): "Rec your newest thing"
Challenge #9: Rec your newest thing -- enthusiasm, obsession, fandom, earworm, etc.
Yesterday, I read an impressive Journey to the West AU fanfic, told from the dragon-horse's perspective, in which Monkey is mute. (This is a sober re-imagining, not the bonkers humor I often go for in JttW.) This change makes humanity (and Heaven) take him even less seriously (though Buddha treats him exactly the same). Removing his voice swallows his patter and boasts and exposes his foundational motivations in new, evocative ways. Killer final line. "Spring Unheard" by![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
Idonquixote (T, gen, ~8K words).
A few days ago, I finished watching the five episodes of Echo, the latest MCU show on Disney+, the first officially under the "Marvel Spotlight" imprint for standalone, don't-need-to-know-canon, adult-aimed productions (Werewolf by Night belongs there, too, imo, if they're willing to relabel it). The title sequence -- theme song and graphics -- is absolutely fantastic, ten out of ten. In a nutshell, I enjoyed it, respect what they were doing, and rank it well above average among MCU TV shows. But while I spent the first three episodes wide-eyed in hopes that they really were taking flight with a whole new kind of story in a whole new storytelling direction, the finale... fell out of the sky and sank under the MCU's third-act formula. Darn it. Hopefully, they've finally learned the lesson that TV is not movies; reputedly, that lesson is why they yanked and restarted work on Daredevil: Born Again, so... fingers crossed.
I'm presently spacing out the final few episodes of season one of My Adventures with Superman because I don't want it to be over. This is my kind of Superman! A very good guy being good! This is a show that deeply understands why Superman must rescue the cat. The story is so clearly told by people who love the characters, and who change them only in ways that make them more essentially themselves for today's audience. I adore how they addressed and subverted certain tropes, like Lois finding out Clark is Superman. Fundamentally, this is a story where he is Clark to the bone, and Superman is just his work clothes, his "customer service voice," and I am there for that. (I think that the "my" in the title is Clark's.)
Yesterday, I read an impressive Journey to the West AU fanfic, told from the dragon-horse's perspective, in which Monkey is mute. (This is a sober re-imagining, not the bonkers humor I often go for in JttW.) This change makes humanity (and Heaven) take him even less seriously (though Buddha treats him exactly the same). Removing his voice swallows his patter and boasts and exposes his foundational motivations in new, evocative ways. Killer final line. "Spring Unheard" by
A few days ago, I finished watching the five episodes of Echo, the latest MCU show on Disney+, the first officially under the "Marvel Spotlight" imprint for standalone, don't-need-to-know-canon, adult-aimed productions (Werewolf by Night belongs there, too, imo, if they're willing to relabel it). The title sequence -- theme song and graphics -- is absolutely fantastic, ten out of ten. In a nutshell, I enjoyed it, respect what they were doing, and rank it well above average among MCU TV shows. But while I spent the first three episodes wide-eyed in hopes that they really were taking flight with a whole new kind of story in a whole new storytelling direction, the finale... fell out of the sky and sank under the MCU's third-act formula. Darn it. Hopefully, they've finally learned the lesson that TV is not movies; reputedly, that lesson is why they yanked and restarted work on Daredevil: Born Again, so... fingers crossed.
I'm presently spacing out the final few episodes of season one of My Adventures with Superman because I don't want it to be over. This is my kind of Superman! A very good guy being good! This is a show that deeply understands why Superman must rescue the cat. The story is so clearly told by people who love the characters, and who change them only in ways that make them more essentially themselves for today's audience. I adore how they addressed and subverted certain tropes, like Lois finding out Clark is Superman. Fundamentally, this is a story where he is Clark to the bone, and Superman is just his work clothes, his "customer service voice," and I am there for that. (I think that the "my" in the title is Clark's.)