I feel as though my fannish interests are drifting further and further away from the LJ/DW zeitgeist, which makes me hesitant to post about the stuff I'm enjoying. So, as an experiment, I'm going to try to post in code to make my enthusiasms sound more relevant to everyone else's interests.
I've been catching up on
The Secret Six Leverage and I'm really enjoying the "band of misfit outlaws" team vibe and
Gail Simone's John Rogers' writing. And the characters are great -- I had my doubts about
Bane Eliot at first, but I think I like his dynamic with
Scandal Savage Sophie.
Another recent find is
The Mighty Avengers Merlin. I'll admit, I found the
art anachronisms jarring at first, but it's very well done visually. And the writing somehow hits that magical "so wrong, it's right" sweet spot. The characterization of
Hank Pym Uther is especially inspired, and I'm intrigued by where they're going with
Loki Nimueh.
A pretty strong episode of
SYTYCD Canada Supernatural this week; I haven't seen tonight's results show yet, but I'm assuming that
Melanie B. Castiel gets eliminated. Still,
America's Best Dance Crew House had possibly its best episode this season with the Bollywood challenge.
...okay, I'm stumped for what to substitute for professional wrestling. I guess I haven't used the Star Trek reboot yet: if Randy Orton = James Kirk, who's the WWE's Spock?
Wow, this code thing pretty much went all down hill after Secret Six/Leverage, huh? ETA: or possibly during.
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(I always enjoy your creativity! And your posts about things I know nothing about are illuminating, in a way. They broaden my horizon!)
Somehow I managed not to say much about anything. When what I really want to say is, Scandal Savage, you're the lesbian mercenary anti-hero supervillain I've been waiting all my life for! Mighty Avengers, how are you managing to skate on the edges of crackfic and still feel like a worthy flagship comic of a legendary superhero team? And everybody knows that the b-boys of Massive Monkeys are pretty much a shoe-in for winner of America's Best Dance Crew this season, but it's so awesome that a bunch of NYC voguers headed up by a fierce trans woman has become the audience's favorite underdog crew! Also, professional wrestling, with your feuds and your gimmicks and your pyrotechnics and and your costumes and your corny announcers and your hapless referees and your male melodrama, why did I ever turn my back on you?
I have no help to offer with anything else, except to say that I certainly have my own share of obscure fandoms.
But hey, now that Disney has bought Marvel Comics, maybe Marvel will be a good influence on them. Oh, wait....
(I'm fixated on Lewis this week. Talk about fandom of one.)
(Okay, so part of why I like it is because it's essentially anti-academicwankery. Also, Lewis' sidekick is scary and hot. Show-Oxford is whiter than actual-Oxford, which is too bad, and there's occasionally weird gender stuff with their boss, who is female and has a lot of that stereotypical "women in authority must be irrational bitches" thing going on. But, that aside, I like it.)
judgesdemons giving Castiel good reviews on his salsa number....Alex Drake approves of these shenanigans!
And I, too, was soon bored by LoM, though I think it's a well-made show; I didn't have the patience to try matching up all the LoM eps with their A2A counterparts. But I came to it after seeing A2A, and with a negative bias thanks to the prevailing fannish Gene Hunt Will Never Love Some Annoying Woman meme.
That said, here's my VRY SRS opinion: LoM was a well-written but conventional drama dressed up as a time-travel buddy-show hybrid. Ashes to Ashes is an artful and surprisingly (for the medium) astute analysis/critique of the sexual politics of aforementioned formula (including some commentary on the audience) that nevertheless manages to maintain its membership in that set of formulaic narratives in good standing. Plus: funny.
Hm. The Secret Six, eh?
(New Trek? Bah, humbug.)
That said, Secret Six (GUSH!)!!! I'm no longer picking the single issues (of just about anything these days), but I can't wait for the next trade. Gail kicks ass with these characters and until DC wises up and reboots Birds of Prey with her (again), this will be my favorite capes-n-spandex title.
I got the impression that Gail Simone has a lot of freedom with Secret Six precisely because the characters are relatively marginal to the DC universe. Which makes me almost hope that the series keeps flying under the radar and the team doesn't get drawn into the constant mega crossovers or characters poached by more central titles.