time and relative dimension in space

Disproportionately tired and cranky, so I'm reading Hellblazer. That totally makes sense, right? Yay, John Constantine!

... This is mostly just reminding me that I still need to check out the Swamp Thing TV series. *guilty*

I finally finished reading all of The Swamp Thing, up through the June 2012 release. Wow. It's over. Finally.

I have no idea if I'm going to keep up with it from here out or not.

Thoughts on the series as a whole beneath the cut.

( Tefé Holland is too good for this series )

Some thoughts on media I consume:

▼ Obtained and watched the pilot of Continuum, because Lexa Doig. (Lexa! You were not in this enough, I hope you get more screentime in future episodes.) There was bonus William B. Davis, too, that's always nice. Oh, God, the future society is awesome. In the really-interesting-to-watch way, not the place-I-want-to-live way. I really love the way the justice system works there. They don't even bother bringing the perps in themselves, just inject them with (something?) that puts them in pain if they don't bring themselves in, that's awesome. ♥
And then TIME TRAVEL and CULTURE CLASH and INTRAGROUP CONFICT oh God, this show is hitting all my narrative kinks. Well, not all of them. But a lot.
Alec reminds me of both Topher and Harper. That's not a complaint. Kind of a low-key, low-self-esteem, low-drive variation, though. Also not a complaint. I like him already.
Kiera's a pretty straightforward version of the trope, but they pull it off. She's not very hard-edged, but she's clever and determined and capable and you believe she can get the job done. I like that she adapts to being in 2012, but she doesn't do so immediately or flawlessly. She's not a great liar.
No, seriously, the best part of this so far is that I like both sides. I like Kiera, I like Ingram. I like Alec, I like the rest of the Liber8 group (I want more information on them, tho). Blurry lines between the good guys and the bad guys = awesome.
I kind of predicted the twist at the end re: Alec, but it still worked well.
Altogether, a good start to a new show.

▼ After entirely too long, I have successfully finished reading Vol. 2 of The Swamp Thing. Sadly, my dislike of the title character has not decreased at all. I also really disliked Mark Millar's take on Abby, though that might be because it was really clear he didn't like her. I dig Tefé a lot, though. Apparently Vol. 3 is supposed to focus more on her, so I'm hoping that will make it an easier read. I also found myself like Constantine far more than I expected to; once I finish Swamp Thing I'm going to have to tackle Hellblazer, I think.

▼ So Elementary looks kind of interesting. On the one hand I am hopeful because LUCY LIU; on the other hand I have no hope because CBS. But I'll probably give it a shot. I'm an easy sell on Holmes adaptations anyway.

▼ Kagerou is updating again, which makes me extremely happy even as the actual updates depress the hell out of me. I just want to give Kid a hug. And Dark, if he promises not to info-dump traumatic memories into my head. And Fuuka, too. She needs a good hug.

▼ Jenna-Louise Coleman has started filming on Doctor Who! I am excite. XD Why are there no spoilers about her yet some of us require those to live

On Saturday I will officially be a quarter of a century old. How did that happen? I'm not okay with this.

My parents and the little brother will be coming up to see me for my birthday, so that's nice. We're planning to do a day trip to Busch Gardens since none of them have had a chance to hit the park this summer and I have comp tickets for them. Hopefully I'll be able to divorce my brain from "this is where I work" and have fun. Hit up some rides, wooo. It'll be good to spend time with my family.



Quick fandom updates:

- This week's Alphas was AMAZING. Eventually I might get sick of gushing about this show but right now I'm riding the new-fandom buzz. I want Bill and Gary to be awkward and terrible partners for ALWAYS. I'm less enthused about the Nina/Cameron hookup, but it has potential to not be mind-numbingly dull.
I want Alphas icons. :(

- I finally got hold of the new Dresden Files and am 18 chapters in. And seriously WHAT ON EARTH. Everything's gone to hell and I feel like Harry, floundering around trying to figure out what's going on. MOLLY, WHAT THE HELL? most of all. Although ( small spoiler ). Anyway, there's still a good chunk of book left so maybe things will start ... making sense. Or not. I don't know!

- I am now 14 episodes into The Pretender! And getting more and more addicted. Jarod is strangely lovable. I do feel like the writers don't actually know what's going on with the Center and Jarod's past, but whatever, I was an X-Files fan and a Lost fan; I can cope with writers making up mythology as they go along.

- My Swamp Thing reading is still ongoing, by the way. I'm buried in Vol. 2. I am now being slowed down largely by the fact that I am increasingly creeped out by the whole Alec/Abby romance. I realize this makes no sense as I happily shipped Matt/Abby which is creepy as hell, but arrrgh. I think it's made worse by the fact that none of the writers seem to realize how creepy it is that they're writing Abby as increasingly dependent on and even (literally?) addicted to Alec. And the hallucinogenic aspect of the relationship doesn't help. Although I kind of lol'd over the fact that in Abby's fantasy of a perfect future with Alec, Matt showed up all healthy and happy and "I signed the divorce papers! You clearly belong with him, not me! Let's be BFF! :D" Oh, Abby. Go seek therapy.




Oh, hey, other real life news: I will be moving to a proper apartment in the middle of September, for the rest of the duration of my job contract. YAY for no longer living in a cheap hotel room. *counts down days*

So my The Swamp Thing read has finally brought Matt and Abby back into the storyline. Cheers! They're starting to get properly dysfunctional, too. And I still ship them. I don't know why that is.

I kind of want to read fic about everything that happened to Matt and Abby in between them disappearing from the storyline in volume 1 and reappearing in volume 2. Sadly, no one writes Swamp Thing comicverse fic. (I don't know if they write fic for other incarnations of Swamp Thing, but much searching has turned up no comicverse stuff.)

The endless recapping and footnoting is still driving me crazy, though.


13. From the musical you loved from hearing the first note.

"I'm Not That Guy", Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. ...basically I started listening to this show and immediately went "OMFG how have I lived so long without you and Benjamin Walker's sexypants, show?"
And then not all that long after that, I read the closing announcement. Because Broadway hates me and everything I love.

( the full list )

I have been working my way very slowly through The Swamp Thing, and I do mean slowly; I'm only up to issue 14 now. It's just really difficult for me to motivate myself through it. I've been informed that the plot picks up in Vol. 2 when Moore takes over, but my completist streak will not let me skip ahead.

I am enjoying following Matt's character arc so far, though. And weirdly finding myself shipping Matt/Abby even though I already know exactly how badly that's going to turn out.