Arrow dreams, second night running

I dreamed a Sentinel/Guide AU of Arrow. Tommy Merlyn was a Guide, and he'd volunteered to meet me off the plane as part of his new and improved Responsible Human impression.

... oh hell, I just looked up how to spell his name right and saw a great big spoiler I did not want to see. Especially since I'd just decided he's most interesting. Great.

ANYway...

Tommy Merlyn as a Guide, unbonded in his late 20s, helping a fragile Sentinel out as part of his being an actual person plan. ( Read more... )

But I'm pretty sure this is the kind of thing that is too specific to file the serial numbers off without a ton of work, and too OC focused to be much use as a fanfic. Or at least much read as a fanfic.

:-/



Fun to dream though.

Arrow, up to ep 15

At the end of disc three.

I wrote a really long post ranting on what they keep doing to DCU characters.

But then I hid it because either I get over it and watch or I decide it's a dealbreaker and don't watch.


... I'm veering towards don't watch right now.

But I pretty much like the plots and the characters that are new enough to me.

I continue to be epic bored by the island but I worked out that's because I am, as ever, epic bored by Oliver, and I'm used to being bored by the guy who thinks the show is about him. Except in Doctor Who. So, okay, I'll continue to watch those bits fast.



I'm just annoyed that they keep the names and strip everything important about the characters. Especially when those important things include ethnicity and class.

It also bugs me the way they juggle generations. It only ever detracts from the stories, so why do that? Why compress everyone to be in the same narrow band of ages? Boring much?




I want to go write my version. Not, currently, more than I want to put the next disc in, but that has as much to do with procrastinating on scary paperwork as anything else.

... I'm kind of sulking. :eyeroll:

... yeah, at this rate I'm going back to watching Marvel and liking it.

Arrow eps 16 & 17

Casting is weird. There's so many people now I know from going to conventions, stuff filmed in certain locations is just one long 'hey it's that guy!' And then I'm distracted from whatever the story is meant to be, and people are significant in weird lack of proportion to the plot. Add to that the people I associate strongly with a particular role and/or have followed around the country repeatedly trying to get an autograph and it's getting hard to watch the fictions without bouncing through all kinds of irrelevant associations.

In ep 16 I had to stop and LOL though. ( Read more... )

So there was plot stuff happening, but, I may need a second or third go at it to only see the characters.



In 'what have they done to them?' news, I'm still not loving some of the choices they've hung on particular character names, but now not only because of the DC associations. ( Read more... )

I'm back to being kind of cranky about this. But cranky about it being exactly what it said on the tin.


Also, I've been in a bad mood all day, so it's possible I'm just cranky full stop.


... I keep talking myself out of having an opinion. Like I start out really cranky about something and then rant about it until I think I've gone ridiculous and then I just shrug and figure it's a TV show and feel stupid for caring. Boo.