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meganbmoore) wrote2015-05-08 06:31 pm
meganbmoore) wrote2015-05-08 06:31 pm
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1A. Secrets and Lies ended. Well, the season did, at least. I had thought it was a miniseries going in, and seem to recall it being promoted as such. Pretty much, I didn't realize it was possible to feel that betrayed and let down by a show you found faily all over the place anyway, and didn't actually like.
1B. It was renewed, and I'll probably end up at least trying out season 2 in the hopes that the one element of the finale that I liked gets followed up on.
1C. Agent Carter and Galavant were also renewed, and I'm pretty sure they were also originally promoted as miniseries? At least I mostly liked both of them, though, and can hope the second seasons will be better about the things I didn't
2. Madam Secretary's first season also ended, and was a much better ending. I've seen some people call it anticlimactic, but I don't think it really was. I think we're just conditioned to expect cliffhangers, and for parts of the BIg Mystery to carry over into the second season, not leave things resolved, especially when another season is already a done thing. Fandom seems to have skipped over this one for the most part, which makes me sad, but at least it apparently has decent enough ratings.
3. Hwajung is probably my favorite thing I'm watching right now. For those who don't like to start sageuks until the leads have grown up, they grow up at the end of episode 7. I am pleased to report that the crossdressing exiled princess heroine who wants revenge is also a conartist who braves volcanoes and Edo era checkpoints (hey, those things were scary!) I can see some of the things I liked best about Queen Seon Deok as influence here (well, the 51 episodes of QSD that I acknowledge exist), particularly in regards to character dynamics and how Jungmyung thinks and plots, but not to a really obvious degree. I made a few picspams for tumblr for it. Two general ones for the first episode, and one for episode 8 that's more character specific.
Episode 1:
Episode 8:
This is Jungmyung (currently going by Hwa Yi) and her fake!brother, Ja Kyung. After Jungmyung escapes an assassination attempt, she ends up drifting in the sea on a dingy and is picked up by pirates. Since she's dressed like a boy, she gets sold to a Japanese sulfur mine. Ja Kyung is another Korean boy who is a slave at the mine, and pretty much takes care of all the other kids. He hates her at first because she's arrogant and might cause trouble for the other kids, but gets over it before long and he convinces their owner not to sell her to a brothel and let her live at the mine as a boy as long as she pulls her wait. Then he gives her his dead sister's name and changes the characters from "flower" to "fire," because why limit yourself when your protective mother hen instincts kick into full gear and tend to have murderous tendencies?
I am currently more interested in shipping them than in seeing Jungmyung reconnect with the adult version of her official love interest. Who does not recognize her and she doesn't know he's the only person in Joseon who thinks she's still alive and hates Gwanghae forever for supposedly having her killed.
4. Interesting article about the influence of Nancy Drew.
5. I took a break from Murder She Wrote because the narrative POV of Jessica's writing and adventuring in it really, really irked me, but I'm watching season 6 now. An interesting thing about watching older shows is that they're prone to reusing the same guest actors in multiple roles. Today, with DVDs and streaming services being the norm, it's really noticeable. But 20+ years ago, the episodes wouldn't be spaced far enough apart that you wouldn't immediately go 'this producer was the lady in prison back in X episode of season 1, and this guy was the cheating husband in Y episode, the hapless cop in Z episode, and the evil brother in T episode."
Also, people's hair looks they they could have conceivably done it themselves. I mean, you know wardrobe got their hands on them, but it LOOKS like they could have done it themselves, as opposed to completely broke people's "disheveled" look making them look like they just spent 3 hours at the salon.
6. While they don't have much in common besides being historical mysteries with a civilian female lead solving crime with a police officer who initially doesn't care for their butting in, I think fans of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries might like Victoria Thompson's Gaslight Mysteries.
1B. It was renewed, and I'll probably end up at least trying out season 2 in the hopes that the one element of the finale that I liked gets followed up on.
1C. Agent Carter and Galavant were also renewed, and I'm pretty sure they were also originally promoted as miniseries? At least I mostly liked both of them, though, and can hope the second seasons will be better about the things I didn't
2. Madam Secretary's first season also ended, and was a much better ending. I've seen some people call it anticlimactic, but I don't think it really was. I think we're just conditioned to expect cliffhangers, and for parts of the BIg Mystery to carry over into the second season, not leave things resolved, especially when another season is already a done thing. Fandom seems to have skipped over this one for the most part, which makes me sad, but at least it apparently has decent enough ratings.
3. Hwajung is probably my favorite thing I'm watching right now. For those who don't like to start sageuks until the leads have grown up, they grow up at the end of episode 7. I am pleased to report that the crossdressing exiled princess heroine who wants revenge is also a conartist who braves volcanoes and Edo era checkpoints (hey, those things were scary!) I can see some of the things I liked best about Queen Seon Deok as influence here (well, the 51 episodes of QSD that I acknowledge exist), particularly in regards to character dynamics and how Jungmyung thinks and plots, but not to a really obvious degree. I made a few picspams for tumblr for it. Two general ones for the first episode, and one for episode 8 that's more character specific.
Episode 1:
Episode 8:
This is Jungmyung (currently going by Hwa Yi) and her fake!brother, Ja Kyung. After Jungmyung escapes an assassination attempt, she ends up drifting in the sea on a dingy and is picked up by pirates. Since she's dressed like a boy, she gets sold to a Japanese sulfur mine. Ja Kyung is another Korean boy who is a slave at the mine, and pretty much takes care of all the other kids. He hates her at first because she's arrogant and might cause trouble for the other kids, but gets over it before long and he convinces their owner not to sell her to a brothel and let her live at the mine as a boy as long as she pulls her wait. Then he gives her his dead sister's name and changes the characters from "flower" to "fire," because why limit yourself when your protective mother hen instincts kick into full gear and tend to have murderous tendencies?
I am currently more interested in shipping them than in seeing Jungmyung reconnect with the adult version of her official love interest. Who does not recognize her and she doesn't know he's the only person in Joseon who thinks she's still alive and hates Gwanghae forever for supposedly having her killed.
4. Interesting article about the influence of Nancy Drew.
5. I took a break from Murder She Wrote because the narrative POV of Jessica's writing and adventuring in it really, really irked me, but I'm watching season 6 now. An interesting thing about watching older shows is that they're prone to reusing the same guest actors in multiple roles. Today, with DVDs and streaming services being the norm, it's really noticeable. But 20+ years ago, the episodes wouldn't be spaced far enough apart that you wouldn't immediately go 'this producer was the lady in prison back in X episode of season 1, and this guy was the cheating husband in Y episode, the hapless cop in Z episode, and the evil brother in T episode."
Also, people's hair looks they they could have conceivably done it themselves. I mean, you know wardrobe got their hands on them, but it LOOKS like they could have done it themselves, as opposed to completely broke people's "disheveled" look making them look like they just spent 3 hours at the salon.
6. While they don't have much in common besides being historical mysteries with a civilian female lead solving crime with a police officer who initially doesn't care for their butting in, I think fans of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries might like Victoria Thompson's Gaslight Mysteries.
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