Spontaneous Musings

There's an article about fanfiction, fandom and shipping in the new romance magazine Blush, that's just been launched. (Got it via Smartbitches. )

1. Critiques?
( tiny print and what is cult not cult )
2. Wrong-headed shipping or shipping bad guys with heroes...such as Kylo Ren and Rei, or Draco Malfoy and Hermonine, or Angelus and Buffy.

Quibbles aside..I don't ship the way the person being interviewed does. I don't really do or tend to do "wrong-headed" shipping. With a few rare exceptions -- and usually those are one's that fit the story thread and are canon. I don't tend to ship counter to the canon.
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3. Canon vs. non-canonical shipping (not to be confused with m/m or f/f slash - which can be canonical or non-canonical depending on the series.).

Per the above, I ship with the canon or with the story-thread. And don't have a lot of patience for shipping against the story-thread. It's rare that I'll ship characters that aren't going to end up together, aren't written to be romantic love interests, and aren't written to be friends. And if they are friends or lovers or married and the story-thread leads to their inevitable separation and the demise of their relationship in a convincing manner that tracks -- and shows why, doesn't tell, I'll go along with it. (See Buffy/Angel above as an example. The writers successfully broke that ship up for me in S1 Angel.)
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4. Where the line should be drawn regarding shipping...

( shippers who try to influence the writing of the show )

5. My ships or the one's that I have shipped the hardest in recent years and still do to an extent?

Canonical Ships:
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Nothing new though. I don't ship much any longer. Shipping for television shows is ridiculously painful.

Non-canonical?
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But I can't say I was passionate about any of them.

While The Good Wife episode entitled "The Ham Sandwich" - rocked, I mean really rocked. That was a brilliant episode and a satisfying one as well. Once Upon a Time is starting to frustrate me.

Dear writers of Once Upon a Time, either kill off the bwwahhahha evil Regina, or give me a reason to feel sympathy for her. Because right now, she's starting to grate on my nerves, and having her win in EVERY SINGLE EPISODE is getting old. Keep it up and I'll jump ship. The whole proverbial carrot routine that was such an in-thing dramatically in the 20th Century, isn't going to work in the 21st when we have serials like the Good Wife, Dowton Abbey, Justified, etc to choose from.

In short? Get to the bleeding point. LOST drug out too long too. Learn from Lost's mistakes, pronto.

I'm of two minds about Once - I love the metaphors. And the back story on Sydney Glass, otherwise known as Regina's mirror, is quite brilliant. But it also paints Regina as a classic Narcissist with no redeeming value. This is a problem. Morgana on Merlin is more sympathetic.

Speaking of Merlin? I finally figured out who the guy playing Arthur's Uncle/Cheif Advisor and Morgana's co-conspirator is - he's the actor who played Inspector Lynely on the Lynely Mysteries.
(Courtesy of the Momster). I already knew who James Callis was - because I adored that actor in BattleStar Galatica v.2. This past week's Merlin also rocked. We got to see a really cute white dragon. I have weakness for dragons, I admit it. The Momster and I suddenly wished we had kept all those Anne McCaffrey Dragon Riders of Pern novels, so we could re-read them.

Rather love Merlin. Lost Girl...sigh, can the dialogue be any more wooden or the acting for that matter? Yes, the guy playing the fae cop is sort of hot and looks like a Fae, but...this show is really badly written and this comes from someone who has watched a lot of bad television in her lifetime. It may be too bad for me to tolerate. I refuse to watch the US version of Being Human, it's just so cheesy, and once you see the British version...well let's just say, the US is unwatchable. I don't know if I'd have liked it - if I hadn't seen the British version first. Possible. But now that I have seen the British version - I just can't watch the US one.

Okay off to bed. May write a more in-depth review on Once and Good Wife later.

Here's a few quickie impressions:
( spoilers for Once Upon a Time )


( Good Wife )

I have a bone to pick with you, flist. You did not warn me that Merlin was premiering on Syfy on Jan 6. How am I supposed to remember this on my own? Without my reliable tv prompters? See? THIS is the problem when everyone watches the show via the internet or overseas (I live in NYC - overseas is outside the US. Hey, if you think that's annoying I could be worse, a lot of New Yorkers define overseas as everyone who lives on the opposite side of the Hudson River and The Atlantic Ocean or the East River (if they are Manhattanites). I'm not kidding. This is true.]

That said, I did manage to find it on my own - online, took a little bit of hunting.

Here: http://stream-tv-shows-online.com/merlin-season-4-episode-1-the-darkest-hour-part-1/

Gotta love the information age. Particularly if you are a information/cultural junkie like myself. Time was you'd have to wait until the tv show got re-run in the summer, or if it didn't deal. Now..not a problem.

Damn, that was a good episode. What happened? They suddenly hire some really good writers, directors and cinematographers or something? Best episode I've seen. Special effects were even good. Plus we have a new and somewhat complicated villain. And Anthony Stewart Head's brief appearances were quite brilliant, he truly is a gifted actor when he's given something to do.

And Bradley James is getting really good in this role. His eyes really got across fear and vulnerability. I'm impressed. Actually everyone is getting good...even Morgana, who was admittedly the weak link for a while there.

We also have layers now. And metaphor! And it's not just monster of the week or problem of the week. It's actually become a serial. YAY! I have a feeling I'm going to love the 4th Season, which is nice...since S2 and 3 drug a bit.

[Oh - almost forgot...Violence-a-meter...about 20 deaths, lots of fighting, and a human sacrifice...but hey all in a good days work. And it was a willing human sacrifice, so there's that. A willing, already dying, somewhat morose human sacrifice.
The other deaths were all by ghost not sword...so maybe they don't count?]

Fringe - whoa...( cut for insane squeeing which will not make sense to anyone who hasn't watched Fringe - except it truly is following two parallel universe and in a way I've never seen done before on tv or film for that matter )