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Green Lantern
In a hugely rare occurrence, I have finished all aired episodes of Green Lantern (except the one that will be airing in an hour, not that I will be watching it, because I will be AT WORK) in thirty-six hours and now I have some slightly more coherent thoughts than my last post on this subject.
The Good
–It goes without saying that I love Razer (Zuko-in-space) and Aya (the clock-work girl he loves!) but I want to mention how amiable I find Hal Jordan. Seriously! 99% of the time he seems like a really nice, funny dude!
–I really like the premise of the Green Lantern Corps - I think it's very inclusive and allows for a great variety of stories to be told. (Sidenote, ten bucks says that Razer is going to end the series as a green lantern.)
–The writing is top-notch. There are very few moments where I felt like I was watching a "show for kids", the dialogue is funny and snappy without being bitchy, there are a ton of great character moments (two that really stuck out at me is the ridiculously precise way Razer eats, that Razer lied about Aya's alternate poem working to help him power-up, and the repeated beats regarding disobedience). The one exception is...
The Bad
–...The ladies. This show gets a C– for it's treatment of the female cast. First of all, there are barely any females on the show. Second of all, most of the one or two shot characters fit into dated SF/F tropes. Third, OH MY FUCKING GOD, THE OUTFITS. If it would be pleasing for a hetero male to see a female character in a slut-tastic outfit, that bitch is going to be in a slut-tastic outfit. It's not automatically clear in a gif, but Aya? Who modeled herself on a woman who wore a very conservative outfit and is living with three males who are covered from toe to wrist to neck is dressed IN A FUCKING BIKINI AND THIGH-HIGHS. The scene where she first assembles herself is as ridiculously gratuitous, she falls like this:
...and one episode after that, she's forcibly disassembled in a scene straight out of a hentai.
Aya wants to know what's up with that kind of shit:
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Also, BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL UNDERSTATEMENT. *sobs*
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I must read the one where Aya and Razer (Hal and Kilowog can come too) go back to his world for reconstruction, and there are FEELINGS, and then maybe Razer runs out of raeg and the red lantern ring fails him and he BROODS about being useless, and then maybe a different ring finds him (but I don't see him as a blue lantern; I think he'd be a green lantern).
I MUST READ IT, AND I DO NOT WANT TO WRITE IT, BUT THAT'S THE WAY THESE THINGS ALWAYS GO
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Which is to say, OH MY GOD I WOULD READ THE HELL OUT OF THAT STORY.
and then maybe Razer runs out of raeg and the red lantern ring fails him and he BROODS about being useless, and then maybe a different ring finds him (but I don't see him as a blue lantern; I think he'd be a green lantern).
I don't buy Razer as a blue lantern either; however, I think the show is really setting him up to be a green lantern, and if the show doesn't end with that, I am actually going to be really, really annoyed.
I MUST READ IT, AND I DO NOT WANT TO WRITE IT, BUT THAT'S THE WAY THESE THINGS ALWAYS GO
IT'S OUR BURDEN TO BEAR.
AND OMG, WHY IS THERE SO LITTLE FIC
I do no know, but there are some really choice ones, despite the limited selection:
http://archiveofourown.org/works/497619
http://archiveofourown.org/works/505869
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1) It doesn't usually work for me to write for in-progress stories, since getting jossed tends to really throw me off. But episodic one-offs might be a format that works. We'll see.
2) Occasionally, I'll find a story that is so perfect for whatever reason(s) that I just can't add to it; fic would be spoiling it. Fruits Basket is probably my all-time favorite story of any genre ever, and I have never read fic of it or even really looked for art. Fullmetal alchemist is similar; the story was just complete, even if there was plenty unshown. Right now, I'm kind of hanging off every word of the show and marveling at its except-for-noted-flaws-in-female-character-portrayal amazingness.
3. Must. Finish. Enslaved. End of gardening season coincides with end of work busy season with end of exterior painting season. So we'll see if knitting and interior remodel season is again conducive to writing. Plus, I just outlined a three-part mini-epic Terminator Salvation fic for the same reasons ("must read this, whyyyyyy has no one written it?"), but that may have been bumped by GL (YOUR FAULT).
ALL THAT SAID, I spent yesterday's shower figuring out culture on
ZukoRazer's home planet, as well as a one-off "episode" that would probably work. Meh.ALSO, this is the first time I've actually scanned tumblr for a fandom, since there is like NOTHING on lj, and OMG, the fandom is united. Everyone is like "What, Green Lantern? Wait, this is pretty good... OMG ZUKO IN SPACE AND CLOCKWORK GIRL, ILU" and then epic awesome gif spam.
OMG. Crap. Must go to absurdly early work function that involves "dressing up" read: "no cargoes and nice jeans only" which means "CRISIS CRISIS CRISIS". *dies*
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I can completely understand that and there are a couple fandoms like that for me - where what you have is just so good, that you don't feel comfortable adding (or there is just no need to add).
OMG. Crap. Must go to absurdly early work function that involves "dressing up" read: "no cargoes and nice jeans only" which means "CRISIS CRISIS CRISIS". *dies*
Cruel!