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6 things are still better than 5
Mar. 13th, 2013 05:01 pm1. I've decided that the proper response to everything I've heard about Oz the Great and Powerful is to rewatch the Tin Man miniseries. Which, despite the name is not an Oz retelling from a male POV. The title character doesn't even show up until about halfway through the first of 3 episodes, and while he's the male lead, he's very much secondary to the two female leads, and while he has his own angst/revenge subplot going, he mostly functions as Our Heroine's surrogate-crotchety-protective-uncle-figure/reluctant bodyguard (unsurprisingly, that's the main fandom ship, but it's platonic in canon). It's a SyFy miniseries so it's certainly far from perfect (and does absolutely nothing to help with Baum's race issues), but it's fun, and the creators appear to at least be more familiar with the books than the new movie, and it isn't afraid of Women Doing Things or being powerful, or thinking that they need men to validate having their own narratives.
2. But first I need to finish rewatching Last Exile, and a couple graphics I saw on one of my brief forays into tumblr (not a good place to hang out if you avoid spoilers and are behind on everything ever, and tumblrsavior working relies entirely on people choosing the same tags as you) convinced me that I really need to watch the second series soon. I'm actually a bit surprised that the CGI holds up as well against current anime animation does, and still being a bit "WTF?" at the ending isn't affecting my rewatch enjoyment. (I had managed to forget how it seems all the women suddenly want to get into Klaus's pants for a few episodes in the middle, though. I will now attempt to re-banish that from my mind.)
3. Is anyone watching this season of Body of Proof? I liked the first 2 seasons a lot and had planned to add the show to my "try to watch as it's airing" list once I'd caught up since the season just started, but then I learned they were changing out so much of the cast and decided to wait and see what people thought about that.
4. I haven't been reading/posting on much manga the last year or so because I'm no longer able to buy all the manga I want (Or...much of any, really.) and my library's manga selection is rather small, and I dislike reading manga on my computer a lot, which nixed following series I was buying that way until I could actually get the new volumes, or reading unlicensed series. But my library just added a LOT to its collection, and I've figured out how to read manga on my kindle, so I will hopefully be talking about a lot of manga soon. (Currently devouring Kami-sama Kiss and Kimi Ni Todoke.)
5. Picking a flight for WisCon is WAY more stressful than it should be. I spent about an hour last night staring at a flight option that's about $150 less than any others, but it involved flights that left at 6 am both ways. The first would be fine, but for the return flight, I'd probably have to either pull an all nighter and store my luggage somewhere until I was ready to leave for the airport, or disrupt poor roommates at 4~ am. (Then I remembered that I have to move some money before I can purchase the tickets anyway, so that option will probably be gone byt he time the funds clear anyway. We'll see.)
6. Speaking of WisCon, I can't decide if I want to volunteer for 2 panels or 3 (keeping in mind that I'll also be spending most of Friday at The Gathering.) But I have to volunteer for the panel I suggested, obviously (if it makes the final program), and I was on the Girl Cooties panel last year, and want to do at least one of the spinoffs (though I doubt they'll all end up on the program) and one anime/manga panel. And then there are fairy tale panels that sound interesting too.
ETA: I'm finallt starting season 3 of Downton Abbey, and halfway through the first episode, I'm wondering if it's actually possible for Robert and Branson to be more awful. (Not that I expect better from Robert, but I had hopes for Branson. Sadly, he seems to view Sybil as a symbol of victory over the aristocracy even more now than I thought he did before.)
2. But first I need to finish rewatching Last Exile, and a couple graphics I saw on one of my brief forays into tumblr (not a good place to hang out if you avoid spoilers and are behind on everything ever, and tumblrsavior working relies entirely on people choosing the same tags as you) convinced me that I really need to watch the second series soon. I'm actually a bit surprised that the CGI holds up as well against current anime animation does, and still being a bit "WTF?" at the ending isn't affecting my rewatch enjoyment. (I had managed to forget how it seems all the women suddenly want to get into Klaus's pants for a few episodes in the middle, though. I will now attempt to re-banish that from my mind.)
3. Is anyone watching this season of Body of Proof? I liked the first 2 seasons a lot and had planned to add the show to my "try to watch as it's airing" list once I'd caught up since the season just started, but then I learned they were changing out so much of the cast and decided to wait and see what people thought about that.
4. I haven't been reading/posting on much manga the last year or so because I'm no longer able to buy all the manga I want (Or...much of any, really.) and my library's manga selection is rather small, and I dislike reading manga on my computer a lot, which nixed following series I was buying that way until I could actually get the new volumes, or reading unlicensed series. But my library just added a LOT to its collection, and I've figured out how to read manga on my kindle, so I will hopefully be talking about a lot of manga soon. (Currently devouring Kami-sama Kiss and Kimi Ni Todoke.)
5. Picking a flight for WisCon is WAY more stressful than it should be. I spent about an hour last night staring at a flight option that's about $150 less than any others, but it involved flights that left at 6 am both ways. The first would be fine, but for the return flight, I'd probably have to either pull an all nighter and store my luggage somewhere until I was ready to leave for the airport, or disrupt poor roommates at 4~ am. (Then I remembered that I have to move some money before I can purchase the tickets anyway, so that option will probably be gone byt he time the funds clear anyway. We'll see.)
6. Speaking of WisCon, I can't decide if I want to volunteer for 2 panels or 3 (keeping in mind that I'll also be spending most of Friday at The Gathering.) But I have to volunteer for the panel I suggested, obviously (if it makes the final program), and I was on the Girl Cooties panel last year, and want to do at least one of the spinoffs (though I doubt they'll all end up on the program) and one anime/manga panel. And then there are fairy tale panels that sound interesting too.
ETA: I'm finallt starting season 3 of Downton Abbey, and halfway through the first episode, I'm wondering if it's actually possible for Robert and Branson to be more awful. (Not that I expect better from Robert, but I had hopes for Branson. Sadly, he seems to view Sybil as a symbol of victory over the aristocracy even more now than I thought he did before.)
Tin Man ep 3
Mar. 16th, 2008 12:14 am( Read more... )
I need an Az icon. And when I get caps, I think I'll do a picspam of her wardrobe. I think Yuuko would love it.
Tin Man ep 3
Mar. 16th, 2008 12:14 am( Read more... )
I need an Az icon. And when I get caps, I think I'll do a picspam of her wardrobe. I think Yuuko would love it.
Tin Man: episode 1
Mar. 13th, 2008 02:29 pmTin Man is a steampunk retelling of The Wizard of Oz that ever so many people went nuts about last year.
Dorothy is now D.G. a motorcycle riding waitress from Kansas who dreams of another world, and draws pictures from her dreams and hangs them on the wall of her attic bedroom. She also, naturally, dreams of escaping her small life and seeing the world. She gets her wish in a way she never expected when strange men invade her house during a tornado that carries her and her parents away. Waking up in a strange forest with two suns in the sky, she finds herself separated from her parents and surrounded by little painted men babbling that they're the resistance and she's a spy for Askadelia, the evil sorceress who rules the world known as the O.Z.(Outer Zone.)
Soon, she meets Glitch, a man who thinks he used to be important and maybe an inventor and possibly an advisor, but he's not sure because half his brain was removed because he knew too much, who tells her he'll lead her to the yellow brick road her father once told her about. Except that Glitch forgets how to get there. Along the way they meet Cain, a former lawman who joined the resistance against Askadelia and who was tortured and had his family tortured and possibly killed before it, and was then locked inside a tin cage and forced to rewatch the beating and loss of his family on an endless loop for years before D.G. and Glitch freed him. Glitch thinks he may have invented the device that made the scene play over and over. With Cain to guide them through the dangerous territories(he just happens to be going the same way) they make good time, and along the way they pick up Raw, a humanoid lion with psychic abilities.
Dorothy is now D.G. a motorcycle riding waitress from Kansas who dreams of another world, and draws pictures from her dreams and hangs them on the wall of her attic bedroom. She also, naturally, dreams of escaping her small life and seeing the world. She gets her wish in a way she never expected when strange men invade her house during a tornado that carries her and her parents away. Waking up in a strange forest with two suns in the sky, she finds herself separated from her parents and surrounded by little painted men babbling that they're the resistance and she's a spy for Askadelia, the evil sorceress who rules the world known as the O.Z.(Outer Zone.)
Soon, she meets Glitch, a man who thinks he used to be important and maybe an inventor and possibly an advisor, but he's not sure because half his brain was removed because he knew too much, who tells her he'll lead her to the yellow brick road her father once told her about. Except that Glitch forgets how to get there. Along the way they meet Cain, a former lawman who joined the resistance against Askadelia and who was tortured and had his family tortured and possibly killed before it, and was then locked inside a tin cage and forced to rewatch the beating and loss of his family on an endless loop for years before D.G. and Glitch freed him. Glitch thinks he may have invented the device that made the scene play over and over. With Cain to guide them through the dangerous territories(he just happens to be going the same way) they make good time, and along the way they pick up Raw, a humanoid lion with psychic abilities.
Tin Man: episode 1
Mar. 13th, 2008 02:29 pmTin Man is a steampunk retelling of The Wizard of Oz that ever so many people went nuts about last year.
Dorothy is now D.G. a motorcycle riding waitress from Kansas who dreams of another world, and draws pictures from her dreams and hangs them on the wall of her attic bedroom. She also, naturally, dreams of escaping her small life and seeing the world. She gets her wish in a way she never expected when strange men invade her house during a tornado that carries her and her parents away. Waking up in a strange forest with two suns in the sky, she finds herself separated from her parents and surrounded by little painted men babbling that they're the resistance and she's a spy for Askadelia, the evil sorceress who rules the world known as the O.Z.(Outer Zone.)
Soon, she meets Glitch, a man who thinks he used to be important and maybe an inventor and possibly an advisor, but he's not sure because half his brain was removed because he knew too much, who tells her he'll lead her to the yellow brick road her father once told her about. Except that Glitch forgets how to get there. Along the way they meet Cain, a former lawman who joined the resistance against Askadelia and who was tortured and had his family tortured and possibly killed before it, and was then locked inside a tin cage and forced to rewatch the beating and loss of his family on an endless loop for years before D.G. and Glitch freed him. Glitch thinks he may have invented the device that made the scene play over and over. With Cain to guide them through the dangerous territories(he just happens to be going the same way) they make good time, and along the way they pick up Raw, a humanoid lion with psychic abilities.
Dorothy is now D.G. a motorcycle riding waitress from Kansas who dreams of another world, and draws pictures from her dreams and hangs them on the wall of her attic bedroom. She also, naturally, dreams of escaping her small life and seeing the world. She gets her wish in a way she never expected when strange men invade her house during a tornado that carries her and her parents away. Waking up in a strange forest with two suns in the sky, she finds herself separated from her parents and surrounded by little painted men babbling that they're the resistance and she's a spy for Askadelia, the evil sorceress who rules the world known as the O.Z.(Outer Zone.)
Soon, she meets Glitch, a man who thinks he used to be important and maybe an inventor and possibly an advisor, but he's not sure because half his brain was removed because he knew too much, who tells her he'll lead her to the yellow brick road her father once told her about. Except that Glitch forgets how to get there. Along the way they meet Cain, a former lawman who joined the resistance against Askadelia and who was tortured and had his family tortured and possibly killed before it, and was then locked inside a tin cage and forced to rewatch the beating and loss of his family on an endless loop for years before D.G. and Glitch freed him. Glitch thinks he may have invented the device that made the scene play over and over. With Cain to guide them through the dangerous territories(he just happens to be going the same way) they make good time, and along the way they pick up Raw, a humanoid lion with psychic abilities.
