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OMG ok watched the Killjoys finale

I want to post about it in detail as I have thoughts!! But I also know how tired I am and that it is the kinda thing that I probably won’t get round to so short version!

Incredibly well executed and it was as a perfect happy ending as they could make it. So TV execs take note this is what made it so good:

– ZERO character deaths

– hints at the adventures the characters will continue to have even though we aren’t watching

– sooooo many callbacks, they really tried to make sure nobody was forgotten

– our heroes won the day so there is a feeling of victory

The smile on my face might be bittersweet because I am genuinely sad that there will be no more Killjoys episodes but the smile is most definitely there.

It would have been so easy for them to have killed off one of the big 3 to prove the cost of war. Usually TV people think if they don’t kill someone off then the stakes won’t feel high – rubbish! This is TV, I can believe in the stakes without my heart being shattered.

Well with Killjoys my heart was safe. Sure there are things I wish they had explored more, and the whole Pippin resurrection thing was very fast, but I forgive them that because it made Zeph happy – it meant no character was left out of the happy ending. I mean Johnny didn’t get Pawter back 🙁 but he’s got Lucy and Clara and a life which is something.

I don’t know. I just thought it was really good.

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Ok I’m going to do it, I’m going to watch the last two episodes of Killjoys.

I am so sad that such a great show is coming to an end but I am grateful that the producers et al had plenty of notice so the finale should hopefully be good.

I’m too tired really for this but I don’t know when I’m not going to be tired and I can’t avoid spoilers forever.

/sighs I haven’t even watched it yet and I’m already missing this show.

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Watching Star Wars: Rebels and I find it interesting that Vader refers to Anakin Skywalker like he’s a separate person. He didn’t say “my apprentice lives” he said “Anakin Skywalker’s old apprentice”.

That is some serious distancing going on. Pushing away any connections to who he used to be like they aren’t connections to him anymore.

I’m still not all that fond of Zeb but I would love him to bang Vader’s helmet like he does with the stormtroopers and have Sabine maybe go “Remember Snips?” Because Anakin did deeply care about Ahsoka once. Perhaps after he eventually managed to twist it so that she had ‘abandoned him’ just like everyone else but that doesn’t change the fact that she is one of the few people still living that he cared about.

I love Ahsoka. I feel like the season 2 premiere was a bit all over the place and didn’t carry on that well from the finale. I was expecting it to pick up immediately I guess with some introduction for the Ghost crew as to who Ahsoka was. I guess maybe the TV people are trying to leave it a mystery for those who don’t know for some kind of reveal later.

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I have a love/hate relationship with discovering shows late.

One aspect of this is yay binge watching but boo so much canon material I haven’t seen.

I’ve had this with Agents of Shield. I watch an episode and something makes me want to write fanfic but I’m weeks/months behind and as I don’t want to be completely spoiled I have no idea if what I’m thinking is stupid or not based on the episodes I’ve not seen thanks to living in the U.K.

I’ve written canon-divergence of course but doing so knowingly (or before it gets rendered thus by canon) is different from exploring something that canon has dealt with and I just don’t know because I’m behind.

It’s a very frustrating feeling.

But seriously if “how Hera and Kanan” met isn’t covered at some point then I’m going to write it.

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Watched the last of The Clone Wars so started on Star Wars: Rebels. It just cemented what I already knew which I love the world of Star Wars more than any particular character (though I adore several characters).

Thus far I’m not keen on Zeb or Ezra. Zeb in particular is annoying me.

I really like Hera though and I like the hints of the relationship with Kanan. The episode I just watched they described the two idiots as “the kids” which was funny. I think Sabine has potential but yeah Hera is my favourite by a mile. Chopper is a cool droid but then droids usually are cool.

Having C3PO, R2D2 and Bail Organa do a cameo in the second episode was pretty heavy handed in terms of trying to grant the new series (like a spin off I guess) some ‘legitimacy’ but as I like them I didn’t mind so much. Along with the line “this is not the Tie you are looking for” 🙂

Anyway I think Ezra is supposed to be the main character but this would hardly be the first time I wasn’t keen on a main character in a series but loved the show anyway (Alias comes to mind).

I wish I could pinpoint what makes the Star Wars universe so captivating but then I guess if I could explain it then I would be rich :p as an author I mean that’s like the holy grail hehe

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It’s past time for my annual moan so excuse me.

My uni semester starts on Monday. I happen to not have classes until Tuesday but either way it is Friday today – Friday of the week before.

The system is 3 classes per semester (it’s very tightly controlled). This time one of those classes is obviously led by an efficient tutor. Well over a month ago through the uni’s online portal access was granted to that class. There was prep work for the holidays. Since then he has put up a clear guide to how the class was going to run AND the material needed to be studied in advance for week one.

This only highlights how bloody awful it is that ON THE FRIDAY BEFORE I still have no access to my other two classes. One of those has put up a reading list through the library system so I self-assigned myself some prep work. For the other class? That happens to be my very first class of the semester – Absolutely nothing.

It is the Friday before. I know I’m repeating myself but it is literally just one working day – today! – from classes starting.

Do they not want us to prepare in advance for class? As it stands at 11am on Tuesday I will be going in completely blind.

Of course from previous years I know full well that even if admin do flip the switch so that the classes show on my profile, there is no guarantee there will be any information there as it’s up to the tutors to be organised enough to put it up.

I’m not a very good student (though I’d like to be) I’m just scared of failing (this year the marks start to count) and information is a good weapon to fight that terror.

And it is the Friday before. Not totally unreasonable right?

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Do you ever start planning a new story and then think it’s actually the same story?

Or

Is it just repeating themes because that is common, authors do explore the same topic in different ways over and over, drawn to what interests them?

#todays dilemma should I combine the stories

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killingkueen  asked:

💘 Leverage

OMG I swear you always pick the hardest ones! haha. You like to make me work for it 🙂 Thank you very much as always for the ask! I really appreciate it.

Alright *thinks hard*

Favourite – Parker
Parker means a lot to me and the more I rewatch (which I do often) the deeper I see. At first I thought she didn’t realize when she was being what most people would deem ‘weird’ but then there was that episode where we meet Archie and she says “it’s ok I wouldn’t have fit in with the real family anyway” and I realized that actually it did hurt Parker a lot and that perhaps some of her seeming ignorance was really just carefully crafted pretending aka ‘if I pretend not to care then maybe it won’t hurt anymore’.

So Parker is sometimes weird, she is detail orientated, protective of her personal space, she doesn’t understand people – she’s me basically. I mean while sometimes I have favourite characters whom I don’t identify with, the ones that get under my skin tend to be ones whom I do identify with. Leverage is such a good show for a hundred reasons (which aren’t relevant to this ask) but re: Parker. I love that they accept her unconditionally but I also love that the acceptance is realistic. Sometimes they get frustrated with her, sometimes they even get angry because they don’t understand but they are always there for her and she’s always part of their family.

Least Favourite – Nate
I was tempted to cheat here and pick a minor character but that would be – cheating so I didn’t.

I do like Nate but he’s just the one I find least interesting I suppose. I also dislike his occasional arrogance when it’s aimed at the team. I enjoy him gloating to the bad guys but when he shuts down one of the guys because he thinks he knows best, or a little bit of what happened with Sophie. Don’t get me wrong I think their romance was well-written and how it developed slowly and how Sophie always supported him but wasn’t willing to let his shit slide was a revelation compared to most TV relationships. I mean on most shows their relationship would have been used for ‘the drama’ and turned toxic or just unhealthy. Not so with Leverage. I really feel like it was proper grown-up how they handled it.

Anyway basically as you’ve forced me to choose :p Nate is my least favourite but when it comes to a quality show like Leverage that doesn’t mean much – I love all the characters. This show is well written, there’s proper character development. I will never be over Hardison saying to Parker “they are here when you want them” because he would never push her into anything she wasn’t ready for.

4×01 WH13 liveblog

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The flashback memory of the grappler with the you can owe me one and then the sequence with the meeting with the saving and the flying – so fucking rude I tell you!!! We’re not even 30 seconds in and I’m dead.

The tears in Myka‘s eyes and how she is obviously trying to hold it all together, such a bite in her voice and then when she thought that HG could be saved it was like flicking a switch and then she was almost pleading saying “if we ever needed an artifacts magic now would be the time” and that is of course what HG thought about the death of her daughter. All this endless wonder and it couldn’t save her.

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I think I’m actually finally going to do it. I’m actually finally going to watch 4×01 of Warehouse 13. Let me just check…

December 9th 2018

so that’s what 9 months? It has been about 9 months since I watched the season 3 finale and was so emotionally compromised by Bering and Wells I couldn’t bear to watch what happened afterwards. (I have heard that it did not, shall we say, go well). I didn’t watch though because I didn’t think I could take it.

HG sacrificed herself, it was like a redemption via death if you want to get all TV Tropes about it regarding the Warehouse BUT really it was for Myka, and Myka knew that, knew that the love of her life died to save her.

Oh man I’m getting emotional again. I just couldn’t bear to see how Myka reacted because however the writers chose to play it I would probably be destroyed (I can work with very little and extract meaning from a stone when it comes to my OTP’s).

I will try and contain my liveblog to one rambling post buuuut it is definitely going to be a thing because I will have so many feelings, oh so many feels.

In somewhat related news, I might be getting a new phone in a couple of months and I went looking on RedBubble and found an awesome Bering and Wells phone case.

Oh man ok *deep breath* here goes…