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media consumption friday (well, thursday)
Sep. 5th, 2013 07:52 pmIt's so strange seeing everyone's Wednesday Reading posts on Wednesday now. (Last year, bc of the time zone thing, they would usually show up sometime on Thursday, and I would go 'oh, too late to do that tonight, take care of it tomorrow'. But I wasn't reading a lot of books at the time, so I switched to general media consumption.)
I'm re-reading The Serpentine Subterfuge, the sequel to The Pureblood Pretense, which is billed as 'an Alanna the Lioness take on Harry Potter.' Both are a) brilliant, and b) wonderfully long. The second one is not yet finished, but just re-reading it is giving me so many FEELINGS I just have to talk about it. ( spoilers for the fic )
They're both great fics with wonderful characterization (for everyone) and a very good plot. I like them more than either Song of the Lioness or Harry Potter, and you should absolutely go read them. No, please. I'll wait.
After going sour on White Collar, I went back and watched some episodes of Leverage. What an amazing show! I love all the team moments, and the little tidbits of backstory, and the 'weeeee just got away with muuuurdeeeerrr' success music. I think my main problem with White Collar is that it just doesn't have that sort of structure; it's such a plot-driven show. Case of the week/Kate/music box/other piece of overarching plot. Whereas Leverage is really a show about the team (and how they will BREAK YOUR HEART, I'm looking at you Eliot and Parker and Hardison) and . . . well, it's like Parker said: sometimes bad guys are the only good guys you get.
If you think about it, the Leverage team aren't exactly good people; they've lost a lot of people their jobs, they've probably accidentally killed a bunch of people, and in the past they used to be even worse. But if you go to them as a last resort, there's no one who will go to bat for you harder.
Since my dad's boss is letting us use her Netflix, I started watching Protect the Boss! It's a kdrama, pretty good, but I have such mixed feelings on it. I mean, the heroine can beat up a bunch of mobsters or strangle-tie a sexual harasser to a sink with his own tie . . . but also, she works for a boss who is super tsundere and also refuses to admit he has agoraphobia/social anxiety. (I mean, it's adorable when he's out in the dark and something scares him and he's like "Aaaaa! No Eun-Seol! No Eun-Seol! Where are you?" but that doesn't make him a good person.) And her work environment is like the worst. Everyone thinks she pulled strings to get a job she's not qualified for, and maybe that she's sleeping with her boss, and his ex-girlfriend hates her, and . . .
I hate shows like that, where it's just like YOU WANT SOME MICRO-AGRESSIONS? HERE, WE BROUGHT EXTRA! I mean, yeah, accurate depictions of sexism in the workplace, sure, but also I don't wanna deal with that shit on television any more than I wanna deal with it IRL. If No Eun Seol doesn't get to punch every one of those jerks in the face, what's the point?
Could somebody rec me some lady-heavy j-dramas or Chinese/Taiwanese dramas? I need to practice my language skills, and I want to practice my 'liking television shows' skills.
I'm re-reading The Serpentine Subterfuge, the sequel to The Pureblood Pretense, which is billed as 'an Alanna the Lioness take on Harry Potter.' Both are a) brilliant, and b) wonderfully long. The second one is not yet finished, but just re-reading it is giving me so many FEELINGS I just have to talk about it. ( spoilers for the fic )
They're both great fics with wonderful characterization (for everyone) and a very good plot. I like them more than either Song of the Lioness or Harry Potter, and you should absolutely go read them. No, please. I'll wait.
After going sour on White Collar, I went back and watched some episodes of Leverage. What an amazing show! I love all the team moments, and the little tidbits of backstory, and the 'weeeee just got away with muuuurdeeeerrr' success music. I think my main problem with White Collar is that it just doesn't have that sort of structure; it's such a plot-driven show. Case of the week/Kate/music box/other piece of overarching plot. Whereas Leverage is really a show about the team (and how they will BREAK YOUR HEART, I'm looking at you Eliot and Parker and Hardison) and . . . well, it's like Parker said: sometimes bad guys are the only good guys you get.
If you think about it, the Leverage team aren't exactly good people; they've lost a lot of people their jobs, they've probably accidentally killed a bunch of people, and in the past they used to be even worse. But if you go to them as a last resort, there's no one who will go to bat for you harder.
Since my dad's boss is letting us use her Netflix, I started watching Protect the Boss! It's a kdrama, pretty good, but I have such mixed feelings on it. I mean, the heroine can beat up a bunch of mobsters or strangle-tie a sexual harasser to a sink with his own tie . . . but also, she works for a boss who is super tsundere and also refuses to admit he has agoraphobia/social anxiety. (I mean, it's adorable when he's out in the dark and something scares him and he's like "Aaaaa! No Eun-Seol! No Eun-Seol! Where are you?" but that doesn't make him a good person.) And her work environment is like the worst. Everyone thinks she pulled strings to get a job she's not qualified for, and maybe that she's sleeping with her boss, and his ex-girlfriend hates her, and . . .
I hate shows like that, where it's just like YOU WANT SOME MICRO-AGRESSIONS? HERE, WE BROUGHT EXTRA! I mean, yeah, accurate depictions of sexism in the workplace, sure, but also I don't wanna deal with that shit on television any more than I wanna deal with it IRL. If No Eun Seol doesn't get to punch every one of those jerks in the face, what's the point?
Could somebody rec me some lady-heavy j-dramas or Chinese/Taiwanese dramas? I need to practice my language skills, and I want to practice my 'liking television shows' skills.
