Tapping this out on the fence wires, or sending it with the galahs

[st_aurafina]

The internet is out at work, which is bad because I can't order more yarn have ready access to important medical information that could potentially save a life.

It's a paradox: on the one hand, I have no distractions and can write this post, but on the other hand, I don't know how I can post it. [ETA: Answer: briefly tethered to phone, and wow, is this novelty wearing off fast.] But I have four fairly long fics open in tabs which was pretty clever of me. And not at all because I hoard tabs.

In other news, Australia launched a satellite this morning to improve internet access to rural areas. Climb, little satellite, climb! (Actually, we are apparently in an area that's going to get the cable, so it probably won't help us much. But still! Internet from the sky!)


Five things about Blindspot 1.01

1. The opening scene is as ridiculous as it looked on the trailer.

2. Jaime Alexander is really, really pretty, like, pretty enough for me to overlook the ridiculous and slightly squicky premise (a woman with amnesia, covered in tattoos that are clues to crimes) enough to give the pilot a go. I was expecting (and vaguely dreading) a fragile, damaged type character, but Jane Doe is tough and kick-ass and self-determined and getting on with shit. I like her. Definitely like her enough to keep watching, anyway. For a show where the clues are literally written on a woman's body, the nakedness was not sexualised. This is probably partly Jaimie Alexander, but also the writing, both of which I appreciate.

3. Is it a required thing that every new show have an Australian actor on it now? We can play 'Neighbours or Home and Away' like other people play rock paper scissors. (These were until recently the two main soaps in Australia, and therefore the cradle of Australian thespianship. The lead dude is from Neighbours, fwiw.) Other than that point of interest, the lead male character is kind of underdeveloped. He delivers heroic lines, and looks intensely into the distance. I am hoping there's more to him.

4. Marianne Jean-Baptiste didn't have much to do either, but she was amazing and compelling. I loved her in Broadchurch S2, so I'm really glad to see her here. I think she's their supervisor-ish type person.

5. I still don't know what genre this show is - is it Fringe-style sci-fi or sci-fi at all? Is it 24-style slightly futuristic drama? What is it? I want to know.



Agents of SHIELD is back, and my marvel_bang fic was both jossed and kripked, which was interesting and a little bizarre.


Five things about Agents of SHIELD 3.01

1. SCIENCE BOBBI. That is all.

No, that's not all. Bobbi! Oh, Bobbi, you're so beautiful. And funny. (I love she she just switched from science!Bobbi to shooting!Bobbi mid-sentence) And I do not ship you in the slightest with Hunter, I'm so sorry. Just DTMFA, and go get Jemma. Okay? But you look so cute in the glasses.

2. The Mack and Skye Daisy show! It's a great show. I'd watch that show. They work really well together, and Mack is totally the teddy-bear. I like that Daisy has slipped into a mentor role for the newly discovered Inhumans. But how funny was it, watching them dance around the word 'mutant'? "It's like, your DNA has changed. In a way that gives you superpowers. Which in no way resembles another previously related franchise starting with X."

3. Coulson is all kinds of droll with his prosthesis. I give it five seconds before he gets a firearm attached to it. But where did May go? I want May. MAAAAAY.

4. New lady (Roslyn? Can't look it up because ~internet) is interesting and relevant to my interests. She looks very Miranda Zero. I have a type, and she is it.

5. Jemma Simmons: Girl in Spaaaaaace! I am looking forward to knowing more about this.


It's such a beautiful day. Too beautiful to have no internet. I have linkspams, but they are lost, lost to me. /maximum dramaz. Oh, man, the dispense computer is down now. I will have to handwrite the labels for a while. *cracks knuckles*

Comments

[untonuggan]

wait...wait...there's a season two of Broadchurch???

[st_aurafina]

Yeah, it was totally unnecessary but I guess it rated well enough that they thought it was worth a try. It was really padded, but there were canon elderly lesbians, and Marianne Jean-Baptiste was an amazing defence attorney (barrister? QC? Can't remember, but she was amazing.)

It was 50% amazing and 50% dire.

ETA: And had a lot more sexual violence than the first one, so you know, cautions there.

[lonelywalker]

Is it a required thing that every new show have an Australian actor on it now?
Looking at The Flash - yes. S1 had one, and S2's getting a new one.

[st_aurafina]

We're basically everywhere.

[dine]

oooh, poor you - no internet! that's just a dire feeling; whatever is one to do without the ability to screw about find important information immediately?

[st_aurafina]

It's awful and has curtailed my goofing off legitimate activities considerably.

[ayebydan]

So good to see someone else liking the premier of agents! Eerything from the first ep geared at Skye having this big storyline and seeing her truly become Daisy is so cool. I don't understand people who think it came from nowhere and they should have just started with Daisy. I think the whole premise they have going is fantastic. The mutant thing is amusing but then the Inhumans are a part of the marvel universe in their own right. It isn't like they were created to get around the fox having xmen thing. But people rant. And bug me. Lots.

[st_aurafina]

Yeah, I head canon much closer to comics, and comics smushes all the worlds together - like, Ms Marvel can totally have an adventure with the Wolverine. It makes the careful separation of properties really stand out for me.

[monanotlisa]

AND THAT COMIC WAS GREAT!

But, yeah. The avoidance of "mutant" is hilarious.

(I like Skye, I do. I just love love love Bobbi and want her with Jemma, or with May, who needs to be back RIGHT NOW!)

[st_aurafina]

It's so weird for me to have concrete yes/no feelings about relationships, but this show. I am 100% Jemma/Bobbi, and 100% Fitz/Mack, and there's no seeing it any other way. Except for May/every kick-ass woman on the show, possibly every kick-ass woman in the MCU, but that just seems like commonsense, right?

[senmut]

Sad times are nigh when the internet is broken...

[st_aurafina]

IT'S HORRIBLE. I miss you all.

[alba17]

I just watched Blindspot today. None of the reviews I saw were good so I wasn’t hopeful. But I really liked it! I wasn’t expecting Jane Doe to kick butt. Great to see Marianne Jean-Baptiste even if her role was boring. I didn’t realize the lead guy was Australian. I liked the way they used NYC.

Haven’t seen AoS yet.

Hope the internet comes back soon! Are you a knitter?

[st_aurafina]

Blindspot was a total surprise - I did not expect to enjoy it that much. It's an awesome cast.

There are so many stealth Aussies on tv right now, like in Reign and The 100, and now Blindspot. We are invading!

I'm a crocheter. But I always need more yarn. Never enough yarn.

[adafrog]

Nooooo! Not the interwebz!

Blindspot sounds interesting. We have 'spot the Canadian actor' over here. ;)

[st_aurafina]

It's so bad! It's a long weekend and they're just not going to send any crews out here until Monday. Bleh, living in the country sucks sometimes.

'Spot the Canadian actor' is always good, especially with so many shows shot in Vancouver.

[adafrog]

Monday? {{{hugs}}}

[nenya_kanadka]

D'you think a person could get into S3 without having seen S2, of Agents of SHIELD?

Because I wandered off after the first couple episodes of S2. But BOBBI. <3

[st_aurafina]

Oh, yeah, sure. As long as you've seen the first couple of S2 Bobbi episodes. lilacsigil says you should probably watch the finale but I think the only salient Bobbi detail you need to know is that she gets injured, hence in 3.01 she's doing lab work and not beating up bad guys with sticks.

This is a compilation of her fights scenes that I keep handy. For reasons.

[nenya_kanadka]

I saw the introduction episode where she was undercover with Hydra, and then when she was revealed to be SHIELD and Bobbi (and both Simmons and I developed stars in our eyes). And then something something mission something Hunter IDK. I don't care about Hunter. He's not even Clint. That's about when I fell off the show. I think Skye was hunting for her dad at that point? Something Ward evil brother in politics something.

I'm vaguely interested in the Skye/Daisy/Inhumans angle, but don't know if I'm up to watching the entire rest of the season. So I dunno. (All I know about the Inhumans comes from the Kamala Khan Ms Marvel comics.)

I am OK with Bobbi doing lab work--I always like the science nerds anyway--so long as she is in it preferably with Simmons slash possibilities. Bobbiiii. Is Melinda May out for some reason at the moment?

[st_aurafina]

Is Melinda May out for some reason at the moment?

There was a throwaway line that she went on vacation and never came back - I read somewhere that they're doing episodic focuses on characters this season because of the hugeness of the cast. I don't know if that's a good or bad thing, but if we get some May-centric episodes, that would be awesome.

I'm vaguely interested in the Skye/Daisy/Inhumans angle

Some of it was awesome and some of it was clumsy as fuck, I don't know that I'd rewatch it. I liked the way we saw Skye/Daisy finding her roots and putting her family history together. They showed us a community of Inhumans and gave us some history and world building but they kind of tore it down afterwards, which wasn't so great.

I don't care about Hunter.

I don't care about Hunter, and I don't much care about Coulson either, but there was one scene when he and Coulson were trapped in a cabin, and suddenly there was all this UST. It was unexpected. "They're spending that time blowing each other," I said to lilacsigil. "They're starting log cabin wank," she said back. I think Hunter would be much better off with a dude. (I think this is turning into the show where everyone is queer inside my head.)

[nenya_kanadka]

Now Mucca says maybe we will just watch the rest of season 2, which I am happy with but probably wouldn't have gone to the effort for on my own. So we will see!

OMG Hunter/Coulson. That would make both of them twice as interesting to me. (Though I was somewhat into the weird alien writing thing--I just am not sure that Coulson is the man to carry that off. Ah well. I guess I'll see if I do watch it.)

Looking forward to an excuse for Moar Bobbi. And hopefully some good May.

(I may need Bobbi icons eventually.)

[lark_ascends]

Never fun to be internetless.

[st_aurafina]

It's back! Finally! It's been out since Thursday, ugh.