And now, in fannish news...
Jul. 18th, 2017 01:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vaznetti1. I am pleased about the new Doctor -- as much as I am ever pleased by cast changes on Doctor Who. Normally I spend about half a season not sure about the new Doctor or Companion and then decide that I love them. I will certainly miss Moffat and his addiction to ridiculous time travel shenanigans and Time Lordish female characters, but I expect that Chibnall will be fine, and will bring something new and interesting to the show.
2. I am, as usual at this point in the challenge, eying the![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
crossovering tag set and wondering about signing up for it. I haven't yet, but who knows, maybe this will be the year for it! There are certainly many interesting possibilities there. The problem with crossovers is that there are stories I want, but I want them in a very specific way.
3. GAME OF THRONES IS BACK!!! Although in my version, it was Arya and Sansa together who killed all the Freys, I also love this show's version of it, first last season's "Your sons are here, with you" baby Atreus scene and this season's mass poisoning. How did that work, logistically? Someone probably cares, but not me. In my head, Arya suborned all the Frey serving women, and on the way back north she'll hook up with the newly widowed Lady Frey.
So far, I like everything that's going on, at least well enough to let the storylines run on. Will there be tension between Jon and Sansa? Sure, because everybody thinks Jon is nuts in his "forgive everybody, we have a bigger enemy to worry about" mode. That's what got him stabbed to death the first time! And he hasn't learned from the experience, because in fact he's right. I did think it was a little unfair of him to suggest that Sansa admired Cersei, though. At least she isn't listening to Littlefinger: it looks more like she's looking for a reason to get rid of him.
I also very much liked the look back to the family Sandor stole the gold from back in S4. A had to look this up to remind us both of what had happened there: that when he took the money Arya told him that without it they would die, and die they did, and Sandor had to face it. I like the Sandor/Beric/Thoros grumpy guy roadshow.
A thing I hope for: Arya not killing the random Lannister soldiers. That scene looked back to something we see in the books, and saw a little of last season in her interactions with the actress who played Cersei -- her ability to see individuals, and pity them. She spared the latest Lady Frey as well, another good sign. I don't really understand why people think all Arya cares about is her revenge: she does want revenge, but that's not the only thing she wants. In that she's like Danaerys, who wants her kingdom and her revenge, but also wants her home. (But one thing I didn't understand -- has Dragonstone been deserted since Stannis left? Did he leave without a garrison? and has nobody tried to occupy it since then? Because I know that things in Westeros have been a little disorganized, but that seems like a serious oversight.) Between the Arya scene with the soldiers, and these scenes, the show was spending time on the destructiveness and stupidity of the war, and that's a theme I like in the books.
4. I am still rereading old XF fic. Thank goodness, there is a lot of it, and a lot of it is still worth reading. I do miss Krycek, that cranky, violent, uncooperative asshole (to quote a friend). He was fun to write. (On which note, self, do not write your Thomas Nightingale/Alex Krycek crossover idea. It is not a good idea. No one will read it.)
5. A crossover people would read: Tony Stark and the Westeros Starks. In New York? In Westeros? There is a lot of good crossover potential in the MCU/ASOIAF thing.
2. I am, as usual at this point in the challenge, eying the
crossovering tag set and wondering about signing up for it. I haven't yet, but who knows, maybe this will be the year for it! There are certainly many interesting possibilities there. The problem with crossovers is that there are stories I want, but I want them in a very specific way.3. GAME OF THRONES IS BACK!!! Although in my version, it was Arya and Sansa together who killed all the Freys, I also love this show's version of it, first last season's "Your sons are here, with you" baby Atreus scene and this season's mass poisoning. How did that work, logistically? Someone probably cares, but not me. In my head, Arya suborned all the Frey serving women, and on the way back north she'll hook up with the newly widowed Lady Frey.
So far, I like everything that's going on, at least well enough to let the storylines run on. Will there be tension between Jon and Sansa? Sure, because everybody thinks Jon is nuts in his "forgive everybody, we have a bigger enemy to worry about" mode. That's what got him stabbed to death the first time! And he hasn't learned from the experience, because in fact he's right. I did think it was a little unfair of him to suggest that Sansa admired Cersei, though. At least she isn't listening to Littlefinger: it looks more like she's looking for a reason to get rid of him.
I also very much liked the look back to the family Sandor stole the gold from back in S4. A had to look this up to remind us both of what had happened there: that when he took the money Arya told him that without it they would die, and die they did, and Sandor had to face it. I like the Sandor/Beric/Thoros grumpy guy roadshow.
A thing I hope for: Arya not killing the random Lannister soldiers. That scene looked back to something we see in the books, and saw a little of last season in her interactions with the actress who played Cersei -- her ability to see individuals, and pity them. She spared the latest Lady Frey as well, another good sign. I don't really understand why people think all Arya cares about is her revenge: she does want revenge, but that's not the only thing she wants. In that she's like Danaerys, who wants her kingdom and her revenge, but also wants her home. (But one thing I didn't understand -- has Dragonstone been deserted since Stannis left? Did he leave without a garrison? and has nobody tried to occupy it since then? Because I know that things in Westeros have been a little disorganized, but that seems like a serious oversight.) Between the Arya scene with the soldiers, and these scenes, the show was spending time on the destructiveness and stupidity of the war, and that's a theme I like in the books.
4. I am still rereading old XF fic. Thank goodness, there is a lot of it, and a lot of it is still worth reading. I do miss Krycek, that cranky, violent, uncooperative asshole (to quote a friend). He was fun to write. (On which note, self, do not write your Thomas Nightingale/Alex Krycek crossover idea. It is not a good idea. No one will read it.)
5. A crossover people would read: Tony Stark and the Westeros Starks. In New York? In Westeros? There is a lot of good crossover potential in the MCU/ASOIAF thing.
