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⌈ Secret Post #4846 ⌋

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Most of us could always use recs for new things to read or watch, so share what you're liking lately!

I haven't started it yet, but I just downloaded the first season of Symphogear, because something dumb and flashy about idols using music to power magical armor to do battle while yelling about emotions seems really on the ticket right now. XD

I’m rereading the Shopaholic books. They’re super fun! I just pretend that the two books that took place in Hollywood never happened because those were awful.

I watched Geostorm (2017) last night and it was a genuinely charming and uplifting B-movie with likeable characters.

I've not been in the mood for anything recently. After a long (for me) break from shows, brought on by lack of interest in anything, I watched the first season of The Expanse, and while I like the overall plot, I can't get into the characters. I won't watch the second season, or start any other shows soon. I realized that I'm done with anything shiny and American. You know, shows where everyone is just a bit too good looking and a bit too cool, and every challenge can be overcome by the hero being a rogue badass who don't follow no rules.

Yeah I get this completely. I had the same problem with The Expanse as well, even though I loved some of the actors I just couldn't convince myself to become invested in the characters.

In reverse, I liked the characters from the Expanse, but didn't give two hoots about the plot. Maybe because it was too overly politic based for me?

Sad, because I adore Thomas Jane and wanted to watch it for him, lol.

I am going to see how many books on politics and ethics I can read in two years so I can maybe run for state legislature. Apparently 40+ seats in my state are won by default because no one runs.

Is anyone else watching Making the Cut, Tim Gunn and Heidi Klum's new show?

I'm currently reading Out There: An Anthology of Scottish LGBT Writing edited by Zoe Strachan, which has been pretty good so far, and Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell - which feels like its going to be a pseudo Supernatural fanfic story the same way that Carry On was a pseudo Harry Potter fanfic (not that I'm complaining, I've been wanting to read it for a while now anyways).

Lol I thought I was the only one who felt that way about Wayward Son. Are you enjoying it, anon?

I'm still in the early chapters so far, but yeah I am actually :D

With the title and the author's history of doing intentionally thinly disguised fanfic that's probably exactly what it is.

I've been watching The Magicians for a while now, and I kind of hate the way the narrative is structured.

It feels almost like a video game or something (says the girl who hasn't played video games since the oughts). The characters have a goal and in order to accomplish their goal they are told they have to perform a difficult task. They stumbled chaotically towards completing the task. They succeed or fail at completing the task, but ultimately whether they succeed or fail, the goalposts get moved and they can't manage to achieve their goal. Instead, they end up with a new task, which they again stumble chaotically towards completing. And it just goes on and on like that, ad nauseam. It's incredibly linear. There's a hurdle, they attempt to jump the hurdle, their attempt to jump the hurdle introduces a new hurdle, they attempt to jump the hurdle, their attempt to jump the hurdle introduces a new hurdle, and so on, and so on, forever.

There's hardly any plot build, because the stakes are constantly both too high and too irrelevant at the same time. Every time they have a new hurdle, it's always "We absolutely need to succeed here or it's all over," and then every time, regardless of whether they succeed or fail, they just end up with another hurdle to tackle.

And then, when the show finally does resolve any of it's major, ongoing catastrophes, it always feels underwhelming and almost by chance. The characters just stumble chaotically into a half-assed resolution.

Not every element I'm talking about is inherently bad. Some of it could be done well, IMO. But the way The Magicians does it just feels like incredibly weak plotting to me.

Insecure SEASON 4!!!! May have a virtual Wine Down with friends after.

And I'm going catch the premiere of Run with Domnhall Gleeson, so I'll report back with findings.

Insecure delivers once more, been waiting 2 years, and I expect nothing less

Run: I'll give it another episode. I found myself mildly annoyed and mildly intrigued. I don't touch the petty things that bothered me, but I'm willing to reserve judgment-- one episode isn't always enough.

lol I thought it was a lifestyle/reality show where Domhnall Gleeson trains for a marathon or something.

ayrt

lmao I would definitely watch that and give it high ratings! He seems like a genuine and funny guy,so I'd expect shenanigans! and it doesn t hurt that I think he's cute/adorable.

Eurotrash Cartoon Anon wishes the fandom for Lastman was active enough to talk about it

(I *would* give you links to pirate it if I could but I can't because region locking and fast expiring links so I have no idea what works where and for how long, I'm sorry, just google yourself lastman streaming or something?)

I'm going to watch the first episode tonight.

signed,

anon who you were in contact with last time and offered to join you, but made little attempt to actually do so (that's all me, I'm working on my follow through)

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Not a rec, but I watched The Expanse and realized something

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Making the Cut

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findings:

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