Rambling on pasts and futures, with comics tv and movie meta

The problem with being a fan of time travel shows is the eve present temptation to reimagine one's own life
to look for the single point intervention that would have changed everything
somehow.

... and then it's half past two in the morning and everything is depressing.

Because the options are
there was an off ramp and you failed to take it
or there never was any way out.

and, on the whole, sod that.

It's no bloody use living life looking backwards
and yet that's the only view we actually get.
... view of the inside of our own skull either way, but you know what I mean.

This is why I don't ship Steve/Bucky, leap of logic though that seems:
( Read more... )

Random speculation about fictional characters is way less depressing than pondering the puppeteer's limits on one's own life.

There's some point in reviewing the past and looking for mistakes or missed opportunities. But only if anything vaguely like that could ever come again.

Stuff you'd really actually need a time machine for is no use to anyone.




... so why do I keep watching it...?

Legends of Tomorrow 2-06 Outlaw Country

Mick, Sara, and Nate all had their own strands of this episode.
... I'm paying most attention to Mick, kind of 'of course' about Sara, and not enthralled about Nate.

Also I ate the rest of my birthday cake while watching and wow is that a lot of chocolate goo.
A Lot.
I maybe might have been distracted with chocolate crumb and dawning suspicion I shouldn't have has the last few bites.

This episode divides weirdly between things that are plausibly in character but I'm annoyed at the characters for them, and things that I'm annoyed at the writers for... though I guess those are plausibly in character too.

Both sets are about how people treat Mick.

( Read more... )

There's a lot of threads and layers going on in here, and mostly I like it and want to see how it plays through.

I'm just annoyed at the Legends because if they're so anti Mick why are they keeping him around to risk himself? If they don't like him, why work with him? Do or do not, dudes. Be a team.



The whole Mick misses hanging out with criminals who appreciate him thread is getting well established.

(no subject)

I just started the next episode and it's the Invasion xover
and in the one minute 'previously' it just covered more plot ground... like obviously three other shows of plot, but a few key moments for Legends crew, so if you want to know how that bit worked out, you don't know what show it was on, you're going to have to watch them all.

And they aren't all in this set, funnily enough, and even though Legends was out first on DVD it's clearly not the first in the xover

So I can either watch it, and know how Invasion ends, or not watch until I gather the other parts, which will take... a while.

... I'm going to watch it now, I'm just kind of annoyed at the layout and delay having to change discs and all.

So I complain to the internet.




Like, I see how it worked in the original schedule
but this does not work, on DVD, at all.

Legends of Tomorrow 2-07 Invasion xover

Well. That was... a lot of threads that came from nowhere and went who knows where.
As a stand alone it was lumpy and oddly paced, so it's probably only readable as a piece with the rest of the crossover.

( Read more... )

So I can see there will be chewy stuff for all the characters when I get the other sections of this story, but as of right now, all I can say is it's nice to see Mick get appreciated

and weird through annoying the writers undercutting it by the whole 'hot' remark, much as Mick does appreciate hotness, and fun as it is to see Sara right there with him.

Legends of Tomorrow 2-08 The Chicago Way

I'm kind of glad I saw so many spoilers and knew not to get my hopes up
because that was kind of a gut punch
what we wanted, in a way we'd never want.

Which is the temptation time travel dangles over all of them.

( Read more... )