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st_aurafinaThe 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![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
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 andSkye 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*
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
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*