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[lunabee34]

We've been watching bad movies! The Great Wall was surprisingly entertaining and visually stunning. Kong: Skull Island fits that same bill and had the bonus effect of finally allowing me to find Hiddleston attractive. Loki just does not do it for me at all, but wash that hair and shave it off and Aragorn him up with some scruff? Yes, please. Also surprising is how little I enjoyed the Guy Ritchie King Arthur movie. I think I had too high expectations, but it just fell flat for me. It had all the cinematography hallmarks of a Ritchie film but very little of the humor. I think if it had been funny, I'd have been all over it.

What have you watched over the Christmas holidays?

The Dark Prophecy by Rick Riordan

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


I'm really digging this series. Watching Apollo develop a mortal perspective and feel shame for his past misdeeds as well as the ability to truly be a friend and put someone else's welfare before his own is really satisfying. I love that we're meeting new characters while checking in with some beloved characters from last series.

I am so glad that Riordan has gone all in on depicting queer characters in his latest books. Apollo is very upfront about having relationships with men and women and a lesbian couple feature prominently in this book. It means a lot to me that Emma can pick up a series of books intended for her demographic and find people in it she can relate to. She's mentioned more than once how comforting she finds that.

I'm wondering if at the end of this thing, Apollo is going to decide to stay mortal, at least for awhile. IDK, but I just have a hunch that he might.



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[executrix]

I watched the six Wynonna Earp episodes on Netflix that I hadn't already seen. I still don't think the show is any damn good but it certainly has attractive women, and I love WayHaught for how much respect and admiration they (justifiably) have for each other. I would really be inclined to like Henry if the actor weren't so godawful.

I've just started using kanopy.com, aka "your library has a deal for you to watch lots of educational programming for free" and saw a really interesting modern-dress production of Measure for Measure but on balance I think they made more bad decisions than good ones.

I also watched some Masterpiece Mystery and part of S2 of Broadchurch, reminding myself why I don't like them. (I did like a cute little Masterpiece Mystery show called Paranoid, which is formally speaking about funny business in the pharmaceutical business but is mostly about a charming cast of extremely weird police officers and their circle.)

[lunabee34]

That's a really cool deal via your library. I wonder if GeorgiaPINES (our state library system) has something like that. I should look it up.

I should check out Wynonna Earp at some point; several people on my flist have been watching it. I'm just spoiled for too much TV; fifteen years ago, there was never anything on. Now there's waaay too much on. LOL

[executrix]

Actually, I think kanopy is primarily an academic service that some libraries are signed up with, so you probably have access from work.

Speaking as someone who once dealt with a furnace outage by watching Lawrence of Arabia (it helped), I would suggest watching Wynonna Earp during the spring or summer, because most of the time it's really cold in Purgatory (the name of the town where it's set)...but the women are running around in ripped jeans and off-the-shoulder tops.

No doubt others will have a different list, but my ranking of Canadian Awesome Laydeez Shows is:

1. Orphan Black (Netflix, where the hell is S5?)
2. Continuum
3. Dark Matter
4. Wynonna Earp
5. Killjoys.

The first three also get a few extra points from me because of the heavy-handed Corporations Are Evil theme.

[lunabee34]

And I've seen none of those. *weeps*

I will get around to them someday. LOL

[executrix]

I would say that Orphan Black is a genuinely good show that becomes must-see viewing because of Tatyana Maslany's jaw-droppingly amazing performance. She has played endless variations of Clone #1 impersonating Clones #2, 3, etc., with varying degrees of accuracy that completely reflect the personalities of each.

I have a weakness for Continuum because of its unabashed leftism, although they started so many plot threads that in the last few episodes you can hear a leitmotif of "thank fucking God we got canceled so we don't have to come up with a comprehensible explanation." I found the star so obnoxious in an earlier role as an FBI profiler that I was genuinely rooting for a serial killer to murder her horribly, so I found her a good choice to play a cyborgicized minion of a fascist state.

[lunabee34]

I have heard nothing but good things about Orphan Black. That is one that I definitely will watch at some point (even if it takes me years to get to it!) because everyone seems to think it's a tour de force.

[chelseagirl]

If you want to find Hiddleston attractive (and I do like Loki), try The Night Manager. M was all "who is this guy, he should be the next Bond" and I had to say, "you know you've seen him in other things" . . .

[lunabee34]

Is that about the Holocaust? Or am I thinking of something else?

[chelseagirl]

You might be thinking of the Night Porter?

This was an espionage sort of thing with Hiddleston and with Hugh Laurie as the main baddie. It was out last year, a miniseries.

[lunabee34]

Oh yes. Night Porter; that's exactly what I was thinking of. (and what a weird movie; Josh and I watched it eons ago)

[china_shop]

Kong: Skull Island fits that same bill and had the bonus effect of finally allowing me to find Hiddleston attractive. Loki just does not do it for me at all, but wash that hair and shave it off and Aragorn him up with some scruff? Yes, please.

Haha, I was going to say, "Ooh, that might actually work for me!" but then I saw chelseagirl's comment, and I've seen The Night Manager, and he's still not my type. (I don't really go for blonds, as a rule.)

[lunabee34]

LOL

I think he's actually more brunettey in Kong, but he may still just be a dark blond. IDK