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valinor spider party ([personal profile] aria) wrote2009-09-17 09:47 pm

set my sights

Even I don't care how amazing my academic life is right now (and anyway I'm trying to write my polybigbang instead of doing ... any homework) so instead I offer up a list of fannishly awesome things:

i. NEW MERLIN TRAILER. I am delighted by the recurring characters, and I am delighted by this year's picks & chooses of the canon (ship wars? OT4! Lancelot can come too) and I have to confess that I am pretty sure that Gaius is not going to die this season no matter how much they doom about it. I am tempted to do a very quick rewatch of s1 before it starts airing.

ii. NEW HUGH DILLON MUSIC. I am ridiculously spoiled, because I have only just started having that "I've listened to every single one of his songs enough and now I need new material" feeling, and now there's new material! I am really hoping that iTunes will have it, because I actually want to spend money on the music but I am not sure if Canada will in fact let me.

iii. I watched Hard Core Logo with [personal profile] feverbeats today, which was ten kinds of wonderful, mostly because I have never seen it with someone and Scott was the best audience ever. He made OTP noises at all the appropriate places, flailed at the Young at Heart conversation, demanded a replay of Billy's "touch my stump," and more or less clutched my hand numb during the last ten minutes. I don't know if he actually liked it, but then I don't know if he knows either, and in any case I am full of happiness and we yelled at each other about how Joe and Billy are horrible people, so all is right in the world.

iv. A ridiculously adorable picture of Fraser & Vecchio. Why am I linking this? I don't know. Maybe because they are not horrible people! Also if I stare at them long enough maybe I will be able to write the F/K/V oh godddd.
were_duck: Ellen Ripley from Alien looking pensively to the right in her space helmet (K/S Are you looking at my butt?)

[personal profile] were_duck 2009-09-18 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
Errr, the way they handled Gwen was a major factor in my issues with the show. Also, the way magical men (Merlin, Mordred, Gaius) were oppressed by Uther but magical women (the singer in the first ep, Nimue, to some extent Morgana, that one sidhe woman or whatever) were dangerous and had to be contained or destroyed to protect the protags. And the way Morgana's tensions with Uther resolved were not ideal. Also, Gwen's dad dies and then we never hear anything more about that wtf. Mostly I was uncomfortable with the sex and race messages. And I didn't fall in love with most of the fic I was reading, so my fannishness didn't overcome my criticism of the show.

But maybe they'll do better this year? Also, awww, ship wars! And since when did canon ever interfere with slashing? Magic Poly Wand, please!