One thing I love about tumblr: Being exposed to new shows by way of all the enthusiastic posts that cross my dash, and all the pretty gifsets. I learn of shows I would have missed otherwise, and I give shows a try that I wouldn’t have looked twice at before.
One thing I hate about tumblr: Being exposed to new shows because I live in England. I have netflix and Amazon Prime but I don’t have paid for TV e.g. Sky or anything like that. I really want to try out all the cool shows I’ve learned exist but I have absolutely no way of watching them.
The frustration is real. At least though there is one small benefit. I rarely get a chance to watch shows in their first season, so I don’t get overly attached to things that are cancelled prematurely.
What is it with them cancelling shows on cliffhangers? It’s really annoying!
This could apply to lots of shows. SGU and Almost Human come to mind, but this post was inspired by the fact that I just finished Agent Carter. I think they should release at least a blog post detailing the conclusion even if they don’t film it, it’s only polite. The creator did that for Born and Bred when it was unexpectedly cancelled, what a stand-up guy.
Ok I know I’ve made a couple of posts about this already while I was watching it. This wasn’t a movie, this was a mini-series, so it was over five hours long. You know how I said yesterday I was going to have a battle between reason (aka going to bed at a decent hour) and self-control? Well my lack of self-control won out and I watched the remaining two episodes last night.
Under the cut for the length because I really liked it, and the more I like something, the more I have tendency to go on about it.
I watched To End All Wars earlier. I’m not really sure what to say about it, except unless biopics are a genre you like, then I wouldn’t recommend it at all.
Anyway, to cheer myself up I watched another two episodes of The Last Enemy. I’m debating whether to watch another before bed, but then I would only have one episode left, so really I need to watch both but that would make it close to midnight. The battle is on – reason vs self-control.
Honestly 10/10 would recommend this. I think this is probably my third favorite Robert Carlyle project that I’ve seen so far. Stargate Universe is #1 and Once Upon a Time is obviously #2. I love Lachlan a lot, but California Solo was a slice of life film. It was one of the better ones I’ve seen but it’s really not my thing. The Last Enemy is very much my genre, and I’m really liking it. I have two episodes left so if the conclusion sucks, then I might change my mind but so far so good.
I would prepare yourselves though, because I’m fairly certain the second I get time (haha, excuse me while I laugh at myself) I’m going to wind up writing some anyelle for this. David Russell, thus far at least, is my kind of character. He is a super spy – intelligent, dangerous, he has people everywhere. I’m fairly certain he’s lying about his motives (I love it when he’s cryptic and sneaky). There’s also his whole aesthetic, very inspiring.
Oh and in case anyone was worried. Yeah he does get lines in episode two 🙂
1) We really do have the most talented writers in this fandom don’t we? I know that’s more of a statement than a question, but I’ve read a fair bit of Macelle fic. It’s not my preferred anyelle but it seems to be quite popular. Father MacAvoy wasn’t exactly fleshed out very much as a character, so if The Tournament is all the source material there is then, just wow, I’m impressed.
2) Has anybody actually done an anyelle with The Tournament as a basis? When I was watching I was thinking replace Lai Lai Zhen with Belle (I know Belle as an assassin is a huge stretch). It’s just the interaction between MacAvoy and Lai Lai made me think that would work quite well. They sort of were protecting one another, fighting together, technically MacAvoy killed for her. Now, I know to quote Speed “relationships formed under intense circumstances rarely work out” but at the end rather than going back to his regular miserable life, MacAvoy could head off into the sunset with Belle who would get all patched up and job done.
Anyway I thought the premise was interesting. It’s like a grown-up Hunger Games. I’m quite sure people’s heads don’t actually explode like that but it was a spectacle. I think half of their budget must have gone on fake blood practically, it was kinda unnecessary. Also I really want to know, who got the 10 million dollar prize money? Technically Lai Lai was the surviving assassin but with Joshua doing that fake out, and then the manager guy dying, would they have still paid out?
Now I am actually a fan of action movies. This one is pretty mindless, and pretty stupid in places, but it wasn’t bad. The Anton character that cheated, which is how MacAvoy got drawn into the game, he did some fairly awesome acrobatics. Actually full props to the stunt team, they did know how to fake fight very well. I’m almost sorry that guy died. He was the only one clever enough, or daring enough to take out the tracker. Good for him!
So in terms of being an actual movie, then yeah not bad. I have to be honest it’s something I might have watched anyway, and not just for Robert Carlyle. As much as I love Lachlan, I can’t say the same about something like California Solo. In terms of watching just for Robert Carlyle? It was alright but like I said I really didn’t connect with MacAvoy. I am beyond impressed with all the incredible Macelle writers. To be honest I might be tempted to recommend just sticking with reading the Macelle and don’t bother with the movie. The writers really bring a depth to MacAvoy which the movie just doesn’t.
raise your hand if you’ve ever started watching a show solely because of a ship you saw on tumblr.
Did somebody say Farscape?
Seriously I’d even actually tried this show once and decided I didn’t like it. Then tumblr started with all the pretty gifsets and the next thing I knew I’d got the complete series on DVD for Christmas. Thank you tumblr 🙂
Update – just because I find this utterly hilarious.
You know how I was laughing earlier because Robert Carlyle had been on screen 3x and not said a word? Well I’ve watched the whole extended first episode of The Last Enemy now. He was on screen 9-10x and did not have a single line.
I mean mastery of acting doing silent scenes, and this is a good look for him, but seriously what a waste of his accent. I hope he has lines in episode two! Plus watching him skulk around is fun, but I want to know more about his character and have be involved in the plot. A couple of other characters talked about him, so we got his name and a tiny bit of info but it sounded so interesting, I want more.
Damn you Robert Carlyle. *goes to find out what the heck this is so I can watch too*
There’s an extended version?!?!?! AHHH MUST FIND!
Well on the DVD episode one was listed as ‘extended’ at 85 minutes. All the other episodes are 60 minutes. I’ve never seen it anywhere but the DVD so I have no idea if it’s always that length or not.
I hate watching thrillers. I had this urge to stay up all night binge watching the whole thing just to find out how it ended. I restrained myself but I put this on to watch first because there was more of it so I’m supposed to space it out. Yeah I don’t think that’s going to happen. Although I really don’t like the main character which might help with my patience. On the other hand I made it through 5 seasons of Alias with a loathing of Sydney and Vaughn so perhaps not.
I don’t quite believe this. He was on screen again and didn’t say a word! That’s just funny the second time. Edit: and a third time! So funny.
Though to be honest I’m far more horrified about the – presumably main character – making out (with the implication of more) with his brothers widow. That is wrong, oh so very wrong. It’s the day of the funeral for crying out loud and they’ve never met before. I mean I get grief affects people in different ways and generally I try not to judge, but it just came across so wrong.
Anyway I’m not planning on live blogging this. I just had to get that out. Sorry.
Does anyone else do ridiculous fan-casting sometimes and not even really know why? I don’t think I’ve mentioned it on here before. I seem to recall typing up a post but I think I deleted it as I was embarrassed. However, then they cast 6ft tall Giles to play Gideon and maybe my fan-casting for a potential Rumple and Belle son wasn’t quite so ridiculous. So I’m just going to admit to something now.
For some reason best known to my subconscious, when I was plotting a fic that had a grown-up Rumbelle son (it was my first Once fanfic idea actually) I was trying to picture him in my head and I wound up casting Jason Momoa. Why? Well I’ve only seen him in Stargate: Atlantis and he wasn’t so beefed up back then, he was kinda lean and lanky which reminded me of Rumple’s build, but he was still solid more like Neal.
Then I saw this picture and that just reminded me even more of Neal with the overcoat and scarf and everything. Plus he has a really warm smile which is just so Rumple and Belle, and I don’t know, it just felt right to me and you are all probably reading this and thinking I’m utterly crazy.
Then pretty soon after I first joined tumblr, this picture was reblogged onto my dash and I nearly fell off my chair.
That looked like two brothers just messing around. I was actually a little creeped out by that because I’d had no idea up until then that the actors even knew one another.
Anyway, I just saw Raven’s post about John Cena and I thought I might admit to a little fancasting of my own 🙂
Oh man how to choose? Ok under the cut, because I like gifs, and in no particular order …
Hustle – Ash Morgan
Dark Matter – Two aka Portia Lin
CSI – Catherine Willows
Agents of Shield – Leo Fitz
Numb3rs – Amita Ramanujan
What! No Once Upon a Time? Yeah I couldn’t choose between Rumple and Regina. What! No Stargate?
Yeah how can I choose when I love all of the characters so damn much? I thought maybe about picking Samantha Carter because she is an inspiration, or Nicholas Rush just because, but really it was like a 10 way tie. What! No…
I had the same problem with Alias, how could I pick between Jack and Irina, or Sark actually for that matter? With Flashpoint, how could I pick between Spike and Jules? Then there was the problem of can you still call a character your favorite, if the canon version started to disappoint you? I had that with both Ziva David and Kensi Blye on NCIS.
Hmm I just realized my favorites all have something in common – they are all brilliant. Ash is the fixer on the team, he can hack into anything, he is the one that makes all the plans work. Amita and Fitz both have PHD’s, Catherine is a forensic scientist and Two is the brains of the Raza. Then for the ones I couldn’t pick between, Carter and Rush are both scientists, Spike is a hacker/brains of the team … yeah I’m sensing a pattern emerging heh 🙂
