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May. 10th, 2020 10:38 am• My brief dreams of watching The Wire were shattered by HBO apparently being exclusive to the northern hemisphere, so back on the shelf it goes with Fringe and Mr Robot and other shows that somehow keep dancing just out of reach.
• Can't really complain about not having enough to watch, however, as a whiny complaint to my parents weeks ago ended up netting me their Amazon Prime log-in and - sigh - their Disney+ log-in. Whatever my grudges against the corporate monolith, I can't say I haven't enjoyed having access to a huge wad of my favourite media. The highlight so far has been catching up on the last of the unseen Pixars, Ratatouille and Coco: I watched the latter twice in a row and wept both times. The low has been having to bail out on Aladdin: King of Thieves when it turned out fuzzy memories of liking it as a child did not brace my adult self for the really bad caricature designs somehow getting even worse having already done some awkward squinting throughout the first movie. Clone Wars/Rebels is next on my list, I think!
• In the meantime I have, at very long last, been working my way through Community after it unexpectedly turned up on Netflix. I've had a fantastic time with it overall and have particularly enjoyed playing mental bingo every time I catch a line that I've seen pop up on some gifset, meme, or other source that cannot resist the incredible quotability of the show. It has its rough patches, mind - during the first season I was getting close to going to my knees begging for just one episode without a demeaning gay joke, good grief - but when it's at its peak and focusing more on spearing genres and tropes than minority groups, and setting the characters' quirks against absurd circumstances rather than each other? Amazing. Hilarious. A truly next-level sitcom. Unfortunately, I've just broached season 4 so I know my time is limited, and I'm going to miss it. It's been a good evening dinner-time show.
• I rented Birds of Prey for an evening and ended up really liking it! I might try and write a short review at some point, so I'll just say I thought it was great character capture for the most part and a lot of fun.
• Have also watched Frozen 2 and Ant-Man and the Wasp as part of some long-distance movie nights with my old housemate. Frozen 2 was cute and had a surprisingly apt moral message ("when everything is dark and difficult, all you can do is the next right thing") but did not make one goddamn iota of sense. Ant-Man II was about the same as Ant-Man I - that is to say, harmlessly mediocre - with the welcome addition of more women characters getting to do cool things.
• Ex-Housie has also locked me into a Friends trivia night next weekend. I may have to mainline the TV tropes page to prep, it's been a while and I can't say I remember that much anymore.
• Still plodding slowly through Mass Effect 1, and have also been replaying Pokémon White on the side for no particular reason? Unless Scolipede counts as a reason. It's a pretty good reason.
• I don't seem to have picked up a book in a while, but I have been reading a lot of fanfiction lately - old favourites and fandoms for the most part.
• Can't really complain about not having enough to watch, however, as a whiny complaint to my parents weeks ago ended up netting me their Amazon Prime log-in and - sigh - their Disney+ log-in. Whatever my grudges against the corporate monolith, I can't say I haven't enjoyed having access to a huge wad of my favourite media. The highlight so far has been catching up on the last of the unseen Pixars, Ratatouille and Coco: I watched the latter twice in a row and wept both times. The low has been having to bail out on Aladdin: King of Thieves when it turned out fuzzy memories of liking it as a child did not brace my adult self for the really bad caricature designs somehow getting even worse having already done some awkward squinting throughout the first movie. Clone Wars/Rebels is next on my list, I think!
• In the meantime I have, at very long last, been working my way through Community after it unexpectedly turned up on Netflix. I've had a fantastic time with it overall and have particularly enjoyed playing mental bingo every time I catch a line that I've seen pop up on some gifset, meme, or other source that cannot resist the incredible quotability of the show. It has its rough patches, mind - during the first season I was getting close to going to my knees begging for just one episode without a demeaning gay joke, good grief - but when it's at its peak and focusing more on spearing genres and tropes than minority groups, and setting the characters' quirks against absurd circumstances rather than each other? Amazing. Hilarious. A truly next-level sitcom. Unfortunately, I've just broached season 4 so I know my time is limited, and I'm going to miss it. It's been a good evening dinner-time show.
• I rented Birds of Prey for an evening and ended up really liking it! I might try and write a short review at some point, so I'll just say I thought it was great character capture for the most part and a lot of fun.
• Have also watched Frozen 2 and Ant-Man and the Wasp as part of some long-distance movie nights with my old housemate. Frozen 2 was cute and had a surprisingly apt moral message ("when everything is dark and difficult, all you can do is the next right thing") but did not make one goddamn iota of sense. Ant-Man II was about the same as Ant-Man I - that is to say, harmlessly mediocre - with the welcome addition of more women characters getting to do cool things.
• Ex-Housie has also locked me into a Friends trivia night next weekend. I may have to mainline the TV tropes page to prep, it's been a while and I can't say I remember that much anymore.
• Still plodding slowly through Mass Effect 1, and have also been replaying Pokémon White on the side for no particular reason? Unless Scolipede counts as a reason. It's a pretty good reason.
• I don't seem to have picked up a book in a while, but I have been reading a lot of fanfiction lately - old favourites and fandoms for the most part.
