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I feel like I have been tired for months. I must be psm'ing, because I am exhausted in a way that really isn't...directly related to how much I've done? Work is stressful, I worked almost 40 hours last week (and considering I'm part time and should really be only working approximately 24 hours a week, that's really hard to get used to.
dungeonmarm and I have been working so much that our apartment is a mess (don't talk to me about dishes, they're the worst) and just uuuuugh.
A couple of fun things have happened, too--I released the first chapter of my soulmate au and am either on my third or fourth chapter, depending on how I cut chapter 2 (it's currently 7200 words, which may be too long?) but now I'm also torn because I have two or three long fic wips still sitting on my hard drive. There's hardly any coldflash output since Leonard Snart is on LoT instead of Flash, and it kills me. I MUST WRITE ALL THE COLDFLASH AND KEEP MY OTP ALIVE. Apparently.
Dad and I went to a Paul McCartney concert last night, and I'm not particularly a fan of his solo or Wings music, but the emotions I got from all of his Beatles work was really nice. Blackbird and Hey, Jude were my favorites, I think. Blackbird, because of a lovely pared down performance, and Hey, Jude because everyone in the crowd was singing along, and it was one of the few moments of like, true connection and synergy I've felt with a crowd of people before, so it was really nice.
Next Wednesday, we're going to see Def Leppard, for the second? third time? IDK, they're my dad's favorite band, so you know.
As for television, Supergirl, Brooklyn 99, and Lucifer have all ended their seasons, and while I'm a little surprised that Supergirl hasn't officially been renewed, Lucifer and B99 have! So super stoked.
Of course, my favorite show right now is the Flash, but even that's been kind of disappointing me lately? I'm going to rant about it for a second.
Where do I even begin with the Flash, guys? Season 2 started off so strong--I loved Patty Spivot, I loved Kendra and Dr. Stein being part of Team Flash. I didn't even hate Jay? And Zoom was terrifying and awesome and I was so excited about it! Then they stripped Flash for its best supporting characters (I mean, LoT is made heavily of Flash characters -- Stein, Jax, Kendra, Len, and Mick ALL came from Flash.) If they were going to focus on Zoom so heavily on Zoom (which I was totally into!) then they should have done much, much better on his serial killer history. Maybe it's because I've read about serial killers for most of my life, and read a million psychology books, but he just seems SO off. He's a serial killer because the writers say he was a serial killer, and it doesn't even really ring true to me. He seems like a man who is suffering PTSD because of his mother's murder, but there's always a particular set of behaviors that ring true for serial killers, a certain psychology that each killer brings into their MO, and Zoom just doesn't have it. He's not compelling anymore. I just wish he were gone. I want the man in the mask to be Eddie Thawne, who on E2 is an evil speedster himself, who could then be the s3 bad guy, which would cause a lot of pain for Barry and Iris. And don't even get me talking about Jay killing his time remnant. That ruins the whole cycle of time paradox. UGH WRITERS WHY DON'T YOU THINK ABOUT THIS JUST A LITTLE?
Also, I am officially calling Team Flash the Bad Idea Bears. Barry, Caitlin, and Cisco are so bad at plans that it's infecting Harrison, because like. Wells spent the entire episode coming to terms with his hubris and the fact that he was responsible for the creation of Zoom and the horrible things that the particle accelerator unleashed, and then WHAT DOES HE DO? Decide to CAUSE THE PARTICLE ACCELERATOR TO EXPLODE AGAIN TO GIVE BARRY BACK HIS POWERS?
The only good thing I can think of resulting from another explosion is maybe Wally and Jesse finally getting speed force powers, and maybe a new wave of metas appearing. Like Mirror Master? Finally?
And on LoT, duuuuude, like. OKAY. everyone in the universe is watching it for Leonard Snart. I am watching it for Len. But I'm really starting to feel like the plot is so, so bad that it's actually diluting his voice? He's starting not to sound like himself anymore. I hated the entire last episode. I liked that Len was flippant about his father and the abuse he suffered, but that was pretty much it? Jax was wonderful as always, and they've so thoroughly ruined Kendra that I've given up. They could have ended the season on that episode, if she'd only had the guts to kill him. Carter would have forgiven her, I'm sure--he's a douchebag, but even he understands that killing Savage and living her life withSara Ray instead of Carter would be preferable to Savage surviving because of Kendra's weakness in regards to Carter. I HATE CARTER HALL SO MUCH, HE IS EVERYTHING I HATE ABOUT TOXIC MASCULINITY AND DOUCHEBAGGERY ALL ROLLED INTO ONE and what, we're supposed to support it? Kendra deserves to have her own fucking life and her own fucking PLOT without a guy messing it up. I'm waiting on tenterhooks for the reveal that Carter is coming back onto the Waverider just so they can have a stupid, trashy love triangle with Carter-Kendra-Ray.
I just want Barry and Len back together again. I'll forgive LoT a lot if they just give me that. Also, Kendra and Sara running away into the Old West together, I'll take that, too.
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A couple of fun things have happened, too--I released the first chapter of my soulmate au and am either on my third or fourth chapter, depending on how I cut chapter 2 (it's currently 7200 words, which may be too long?) but now I'm also torn because I have two or three long fic wips still sitting on my hard drive. There's hardly any coldflash output since Leonard Snart is on LoT instead of Flash, and it kills me. I MUST WRITE ALL THE COLDFLASH AND KEEP MY OTP ALIVE. Apparently.
Dad and I went to a Paul McCartney concert last night, and I'm not particularly a fan of his solo or Wings music, but the emotions I got from all of his Beatles work was really nice. Blackbird and Hey, Jude were my favorites, I think. Blackbird, because of a lovely pared down performance, and Hey, Jude because everyone in the crowd was singing along, and it was one of the few moments of like, true connection and synergy I've felt with a crowd of people before, so it was really nice.
Next Wednesday, we're going to see Def Leppard, for the second? third time? IDK, they're my dad's favorite band, so you know.
As for television, Supergirl, Brooklyn 99, and Lucifer have all ended their seasons, and while I'm a little surprised that Supergirl hasn't officially been renewed, Lucifer and B99 have! So super stoked.
Of course, my favorite show right now is the Flash, but even that's been kind of disappointing me lately? I'm going to rant about it for a second.
Where do I even begin with the Flash, guys? Season 2 started off so strong--I loved Patty Spivot, I loved Kendra and Dr. Stein being part of Team Flash. I didn't even hate Jay? And Zoom was terrifying and awesome and I was so excited about it! Then they stripped Flash for its best supporting characters (I mean, LoT is made heavily of Flash characters -- Stein, Jax, Kendra, Len, and Mick ALL came from Flash.) If they were going to focus on Zoom so heavily on Zoom (which I was totally into!) then they should have done much, much better on his serial killer history. Maybe it's because I've read about serial killers for most of my life, and read a million psychology books, but he just seems SO off. He's a serial killer because the writers say he was a serial killer, and it doesn't even really ring true to me. He seems like a man who is suffering PTSD because of his mother's murder, but there's always a particular set of behaviors that ring true for serial killers, a certain psychology that each killer brings into their MO, and Zoom just doesn't have it. He's not compelling anymore. I just wish he were gone. I want the man in the mask to be Eddie Thawne, who on E2 is an evil speedster himself, who could then be the s3 bad guy, which would cause a lot of pain for Barry and Iris. And don't even get me talking about Jay killing his time remnant. That ruins the whole cycle of time paradox. UGH WRITERS WHY DON'T YOU THINK ABOUT THIS JUST A LITTLE?
Also, I am officially calling Team Flash the Bad Idea Bears. Barry, Caitlin, and Cisco are so bad at plans that it's infecting Harrison, because like. Wells spent the entire episode coming to terms with his hubris and the fact that he was responsible for the creation of Zoom and the horrible things that the particle accelerator unleashed, and then WHAT DOES HE DO? Decide to CAUSE THE PARTICLE ACCELERATOR TO EXPLODE AGAIN TO GIVE BARRY BACK HIS POWERS?
The only good thing I can think of resulting from another explosion is maybe Wally and Jesse finally getting speed force powers, and maybe a new wave of metas appearing. Like Mirror Master? Finally?
And on LoT, duuuuude, like. OKAY. everyone in the universe is watching it for Leonard Snart. I am watching it for Len. But I'm really starting to feel like the plot is so, so bad that it's actually diluting his voice? He's starting not to sound like himself anymore. I hated the entire last episode. I liked that Len was flippant about his father and the abuse he suffered, but that was pretty much it? Jax was wonderful as always, and they've so thoroughly ruined Kendra that I've given up. They could have ended the season on that episode, if she'd only had the guts to kill him. Carter would have forgiven her, I'm sure--he's a douchebag, but even he understands that killing Savage and living her life with
I just want Barry and Len back together again. I'll forgive LoT a lot if they just give me that. Also, Kendra and Sara running away into the Old West together, I'll take that, too.
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Oh, dude. The show is not allowed to ruin the character before I even get around to watching. (Or, okay, maybe it is as long as people can clearly signpost "don't bother watching past season X" for me.)
I hate to say it, but I tend to think of both Flash and LoT in terms of SV -- pretty, full of interesting promise, probably going to go downhill from s3-ish. (Which is not meant as an insult to your shows. It's just... I know why I keep putting off watching, and it's because I keep thinking of SV and I'm wary of getting too fannishly excited.)
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HOWEVER. I also know that I am overly critical? But there are already signs that Legends is just going to implode from its own stupid.
And hey, I love Flash, but it's a dumb show, so no insult taken. I probably insult it a lot myself. (I loved SV until S3 too. Man, I need to re-watch early seasons!Lex.)
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Well, that makes me feel better. I mean... you know. I want Miller Wentworth to have a good acting job but now I feel less guilty about not getting around to actually seeing it.
(I loved SV until S3 too. Man, I need to re-watch early seasons!Lex.)
Yes. All this superhero talk is making me long for the sheer pretty and this-makes-more-sense-if-Lex-is-trying-to-seduce-Clark plotlines.
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Zoom annoys me because there seems to be no method to his madness. If they wanted Zoom to be a serial killer, why did he stop killing on E-1? I haven't read much about serial killers, but I thought their MO/ psychology was escalation. (And I'm guessing it's because the Flash is less "dark" of a superhero show, in which case... don't have your big bad be a serial killer.)
Bringing Eddie back as a villain would be great - I'm pretty leery of Iris and Barry getting together too quickly, because TPTB don't have a good track record with portraying ongoing, healthy romantic relationships. Having Eddie as a villain would give them something outside of their relationship to deal with. Hopefully that'd also give Iris a strong story line that isn't just about her feelings for Barry.
I SOOOO want the scene that was in the speedforce where Barry & Len & Sara are fighting something together. LoT also promo'd Barry, so I've been waiting for him to show up alllllll season. *sigh* probably won't happen until the finale, so it'll be like a book-end, Arrow in the premier and Flash in the finale.
I join you in your loathing of Carter Hall - the writers have not managed, in all the flashbacks and all the present and future scenes, to in any way make this guy likeable. Poor Kendra, tied to this douchebro for 4000 years. I'm thinking Stockholm syndrome. Kendra has more chemistry with Sara in their sparring and chats than in any of the scenes with Carter.
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I know...probably more than is healthy about serial killer psychology and it's true that the majority of serial killers do escalate, and they make mistakes and then they're caught. But then there's also the ones who had one breaking moment, killed several people over the course of years, and then never did it again. (Theoretically, I mean, there's no real way of knowing who's killed who without witnesses or confessions.) Serial killers also tend to be eogmaniacs--they want the recognition for the things they've done, they want that negative attention. Zoom seriously doesn't match anything for me. He is legit a dude who is traumatized. The end.
Ugh, and yeah, we have three eps of the season left, so Barry--if he is going to show up in the season--has to be coming in at the finale. I JUST NEED THEM ON SCREEN TOGETHER, MY NEEDS ARE SIMPLE.
Dude, the writers haven't managed to give Kendra chemistry with anyone BUT Sara (although her scenes with Jax were totally cute. They should have gone with Jax/Kendra instead of Ray/Kendra, if they needed to do that sort of bs.)
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I keep going back to watch the LoT trailers with Barry & Len fighting together - I want that series! Have you watched them? I just adore their banter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLe-DS0sGFw
And Barry's amazingly smug swagger:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYBQatVehfk
I pretend that this is what happened on the show.
Ugh, the entire love triangle thing is so badly done. I haven't been able to write a review of River of Time b/c I'm so angry at the writers. Just. Really? Whyyyyyyy????
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I'd seen the first trailer you linked, but not the second, and it all just makes me so angry. That's the show that I wanted, damn it. Barry and Oliver taking a team to defeat Savage. Knowing now what we actually got, I just feel robbed.
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Def Leppard was my brother's favorite band too. I can still do the opening of pyromania from memory. :-)
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Every time my dad and I are in the car together, at least one Def Leppard song plays on the radio. It's hilarious.