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lunabee341. jackandahat asked me: Re: Parenting - what's the thing you wish someone had told you before?
How much I'd want to smack other people's children when they hurt mine. I would never do so, naturally, but I never realized before I was a parent how someone hurting my kids would hurt me so much more deeply than someone hurting me. I have had to seriously hold my tongue multiple times when in presence of the mean girls, and I will cop to cutting dead (in the Victorian sense of the word) at a social event a nasty little girl who was bullying Emma at the time. LOL
2. I haven't been posting reviews of Lucifer becausehavocthecat has been posting pretty much everything I think about the show. I'll read her episode reviews, nod along madly, and then forget I haven't posted about the show myself.
Since the hiatus, the show has been just kicking it into overdrive. I am absolutely adoring the evolution of Pierce's character. Havoc and I were talking about this, and when I just thought he was a normal police chief, he was kinda boring. Now that I know he's Cain, he's so freaking interesting. I love his world-weariness, how he's bored and done with living, how he's not interested in developing relationships because they're doomed to end. I love that Lucifer is just about the only person he could be friends with because he's immortal. I love that Pierce seems reluctantly affectionate with Lucifer. The episode where they pretend to be married is comedy gold but also serves as a really strong basis for good friendship (or romance if your slash goggles are on) between them. I love that Pierce brought up Amenadiel's vs Lucifer as a mirror of his relationship with Cain. I keep waiting for Lucifer to bring up that he killed Uriel. I also keep waiting for Pierce to put some spin on the story, to give some acceptable (or at least complex) reason for killing Abel. I was reading some review that said maybe Cain could die when he's actually remorseful for killing Abel; that's an idea with merit, but I think Cain is remorseful. I think Abel's death is going to turn out not to be as straightforwardly "Cain is evil" as the biblical story suggests. Also, on a purely shallow note, Amenadiel and Pierce fighting was so hot and violent and funny and glorious. Well worth the price of admission.
I am loving Charlotte. Love her smacking down Pierce. Love her on a date with Dan. She is such a fantastic character. She was so ruthless last season as Mom; it's wonderful seeing her so vulnerable and insecure as Charlotte. Tricia Helfer is such a fantastic actor.
Really loving Maze. Love her casually offering a threesome to Charlotte and Dan. Love her covering her knife throws with Trixie's art. Love her helping Ella despite herself.
Really liking Ella's character arc, too. I love her standing up for herself to Pierce and love her protecting her brother. Lucifer threatening Jay if he ever upsets Ella again was awesome; I love that he feels protective of her.
Love Linda and how she is trying to overcome her fear of Mom to help Charlotte. I also love that even though she really digs Amenadiel, she is willing to give him up so as not to hurt Maze.
Really looking forward to what's coming.
3.
The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I have never been super into Arthurian legend. Outside of swooning over Richard Gere as Lancelot when I was a teen, I've never been particularly interested, so I am surprised by how much I like this book.
It follows Merlin from childhood to young adulthood (25 tops, and probably younger than that); Arthur hasn't even been born when the book ends. I think maybe that's why I like it so much; it's not the familiar legend at all but on the periphery of the story I know already.
The supernatural is present, and Merlin wields it, but I also like how many of Merlin's "powers" aren't supernatural at all. The story reminded me a bit (in content only) of Renault's The King Must Die where Renault takes a well-known legendary figure and gives us his childhood only while stripping the supernatural from the myth.
Definitely interested in finishing this series.
View all my reviews
jackandahat asked me: Re: Parenting - what's the thing you wish someone had told you before?How much I'd want to smack other people's children when they hurt mine. I would never do so, naturally, but I never realized before I was a parent how someone hurting my kids would hurt me so much more deeply than someone hurting me. I have had to seriously hold my tongue multiple times when in presence of the mean girls, and I will cop to cutting dead (in the Victorian sense of the word) at a social event a nasty little girl who was bullying Emma at the time. LOL
2. I haven't been posting reviews of Lucifer because
havocthecat has been posting pretty much everything I think about the show. I'll read her episode reviews, nod along madly, and then forget I haven't posted about the show myself.Since the hiatus, the show has been just kicking it into overdrive. I am absolutely adoring the evolution of Pierce's character. Havoc and I were talking about this, and when I just thought he was a normal police chief, he was kinda boring. Now that I know he's Cain, he's so freaking interesting. I love his world-weariness, how he's bored and done with living, how he's not interested in developing relationships because they're doomed to end. I love that Lucifer is just about the only person he could be friends with because he's immortal. I love that Pierce seems reluctantly affectionate with Lucifer. The episode where they pretend to be married is comedy gold but also serves as a really strong basis for good friendship (or romance if your slash goggles are on) between them. I love that Pierce brought up Amenadiel's vs Lucifer as a mirror of his relationship with Cain. I keep waiting for Lucifer to bring up that he killed Uriel. I also keep waiting for Pierce to put some spin on the story, to give some acceptable (or at least complex) reason for killing Abel. I was reading some review that said maybe Cain could die when he's actually remorseful for killing Abel; that's an idea with merit, but I think Cain is remorseful. I think Abel's death is going to turn out not to be as straightforwardly "Cain is evil" as the biblical story suggests. Also, on a purely shallow note, Amenadiel and Pierce fighting was so hot and violent and funny and glorious. Well worth the price of admission.
I am loving Charlotte. Love her smacking down Pierce. Love her on a date with Dan. She is such a fantastic character. She was so ruthless last season as Mom; it's wonderful seeing her so vulnerable and insecure as Charlotte. Tricia Helfer is such a fantastic actor.
Really loving Maze. Love her casually offering a threesome to Charlotte and Dan. Love her covering her knife throws with Trixie's art. Love her helping Ella despite herself.
Really liking Ella's character arc, too. I love her standing up for herself to Pierce and love her protecting her brother. Lucifer threatening Jay if he ever upsets Ella again was awesome; I love that he feels protective of her.
Love Linda and how she is trying to overcome her fear of Mom to help Charlotte. I also love that even though she really digs Amenadiel, she is willing to give him up so as not to hurt Maze.
Really looking forward to what's coming.
3.
The Crystal Cave by Mary StewartMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
I have never been super into Arthurian legend. Outside of swooning over Richard Gere as Lancelot when I was a teen, I've never been particularly interested, so I am surprised by how much I like this book.
It follows Merlin from childhood to young adulthood (25 tops, and probably younger than that); Arthur hasn't even been born when the book ends. I think maybe that's why I like it so much; it's not the familiar legend at all but on the periphery of the story I know already.
The supernatural is present, and Merlin wields it, but I also like how many of Merlin's "powers" aren't supernatural at all. The story reminded me a bit (in content only) of Renault's The King Must Die where Renault takes a well-known legendary figure and gives us his childhood only while stripping the supernatural from the myth.
Definitely interested in finishing this series.
View all my reviews
