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tori_reviewsSo my interest in watching, much less reviewing, House of the Dragon sort of fizzled. And I think it would be easier to find some interest in watching if I didn’t expect myself to review it (not that I’ve found it yet). Also I’m thinking maybe I’ll wait until it’s closer to s2 to give it another try, since (when I’m feeling optimistic) I do have better hopes I might enjoy later seasons; though when I’m not feeling optimistic I feel like I’m already drowning in lore changes that aggravate me at every turn.
I have written a few thousand words about why it doesn’t make sense in lore for the Velaryons to be black where I break down mathematically how much it can’t make sense in the story (short version: they intermarry with the Targs all the time, unless there’s some weird magic reasons, you can’t have one house pasty white while the house they share so much often incestuous genetics with be all black) *and* makes a shambles of the parentage debate which I think is going to piss me off to watch (I also gather they did the same thing to Laenor that they did to Renly where making him explicitly gay substitutes for giving him a complex character; and I already hated it with Renly more than ten years ago, plus they have even less time). But I can’t seem to work up the gumption to finish off that rant either.
But I still like the idea of working on something new/newer for these reviews. I’ve thought about continuing with one of the shows/universes that I’ve done reviews for already (Andor? Bad Batch s2? HDM s3? No more Mando, probably ever. Definitely not feeling the Marvel urge), but I can’t seem to find the right mood for any of those. (I did work up the energy to watch HDM s3, and I’m glad I didn’t review it, it wasn’t awful or anything but I think I would have come off very complainy if I had talked through it.)
The one thing that I guess I have some impulse to deal with is…from a different corner. Not exactly unexpected or improbable, but is not going to be handled the way most of the shows on this blog are. I think I’ll try doing Star Trek Picard, but only s3.
Truth is, Star Trek is a huge factor in my history of TV viewing, fandom, and life in general. I was a little too young to have watched TNG when it started, but I probably was exposed to it even in those first couple seasons as I think my parents were watching from the beginning. I can remember being exposed to it by the time I was six or seven, although I only paid attention to it intermittently. I’m pretty sure I remember when DS9 started and I would have been (I think) 10 then, and I was paying attention a lot more by then. One of the early movies I can remember seeing in the theater is Star Trek 6, I even remember it clearly enough to recall the original ending and being very confused when I saw the home release with the revised end.
But as much and often as I mention my life long love for Babylon 5 on this blog, you may have noticed a lot less mention of Star Trek. I always had a kind of rocky relationship with saying I was a *Star Trek* fan, starting with the fact that I never cared about the Original Series. I like some of the movies (though I think Wrath of Khan is overrated), and have since found a few episodes I like, but I’m definitely not a fan. And, although I still have a lot of affection for TNG and DS9 (especially DS9), I pretty much always had issues with Voyager…and, well, Enterprise hit at a bad time for me to ever give it much chance (college/life/I was busy getting into Buffy), so I didn’t then it largely dropped off my radar.
Then there are the modern (now kind of modern-ish) movies which I have a very clear opinion on: I enjoy them while I’m watching them, and don’t give a damn about them when I’m not. I actually had to edit this paragraph in as I was getting ready to post this, I had completely forgotten people might wonder about my feelings on those movies.
If I needed another big project to struggle to see through on this blog, doing Star Trek would certainly be an option. I’m not sure where I would start, so I guess it’s actually several options.
I’ve followed what the newest generation of Star Trek shows have been doing and I’ve never really been tempted to give them a shot before. Every time a new one starts I briefly hope this one will get the kind of reviews/reaction that will sound appealing, but so far they haven’t. Pretty much everything I heard and saw about Discovery rubbed me the wrong way, pretty much the same with the first two seasons of Picard (only with more disappointment because I would have liked for that one to be good). While Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds have gotten a bit more mixed reviews than those other shows, it still hasn’t sounded all that tempting to me.
But this season of Picard…it sounds like there might be enough strings that connect me to it that I can at least test the waters (to badly mix some metaphors). So I guess that’s what I’m doing, guess we’ll see if those strings have any strength to them once I’m in the water.
Anyone want to take bets on how long it will take me to get through a 10 episode series at the rate I’ve been posting?
I have written a few thousand words about why it doesn’t make sense in lore for the Velaryons to be black where I break down mathematically how much it can’t make sense in the story (short version: they intermarry with the Targs all the time, unless there’s some weird magic reasons, you can’t have one house pasty white while the house they share so much often incestuous genetics with be all black) *and* makes a shambles of the parentage debate which I think is going to piss me off to watch (I also gather they did the same thing to Laenor that they did to Renly where making him explicitly gay substitutes for giving him a complex character; and I already hated it with Renly more than ten years ago, plus they have even less time). But I can’t seem to work up the gumption to finish off that rant either.
But I still like the idea of working on something new/newer for these reviews. I’ve thought about continuing with one of the shows/universes that I’ve done reviews for already (Andor? Bad Batch s2? HDM s3? No more Mando, probably ever. Definitely not feeling the Marvel urge), but I can’t seem to find the right mood for any of those. (I did work up the energy to watch HDM s3, and I’m glad I didn’t review it, it wasn’t awful or anything but I think I would have come off very complainy if I had talked through it.)
The one thing that I guess I have some impulse to deal with is…from a different corner. Not exactly unexpected or improbable, but is not going to be handled the way most of the shows on this blog are. I think I’ll try doing Star Trek Picard, but only s3.
Truth is, Star Trek is a huge factor in my history of TV viewing, fandom, and life in general. I was a little too young to have watched TNG when it started, but I probably was exposed to it even in those first couple seasons as I think my parents were watching from the beginning. I can remember being exposed to it by the time I was six or seven, although I only paid attention to it intermittently. I’m pretty sure I remember when DS9 started and I would have been (I think) 10 then, and I was paying attention a lot more by then. One of the early movies I can remember seeing in the theater is Star Trek 6, I even remember it clearly enough to recall the original ending and being very confused when I saw the home release with the revised end.
But as much and often as I mention my life long love for Babylon 5 on this blog, you may have noticed a lot less mention of Star Trek. I always had a kind of rocky relationship with saying I was a *Star Trek* fan, starting with the fact that I never cared about the Original Series. I like some of the movies (though I think Wrath of Khan is overrated), and have since found a few episodes I like, but I’m definitely not a fan. And, although I still have a lot of affection for TNG and DS9 (especially DS9), I pretty much always had issues with Voyager…and, well, Enterprise hit at a bad time for me to ever give it much chance (college/life/I was busy getting into Buffy), so I didn’t then it largely dropped off my radar.
Then there are the modern (now kind of modern-ish) movies which I have a very clear opinion on: I enjoy them while I’m watching them, and don’t give a damn about them when I’m not. I actually had to edit this paragraph in as I was getting ready to post this, I had completely forgotten people might wonder about my feelings on those movies.
If I needed another big project to struggle to see through on this blog, doing Star Trek would certainly be an option. I’m not sure where I would start, so I guess it’s actually several options.
I’ve followed what the newest generation of Star Trek shows have been doing and I’ve never really been tempted to give them a shot before. Every time a new one starts I briefly hope this one will get the kind of reviews/reaction that will sound appealing, but so far they haven’t. Pretty much everything I heard and saw about Discovery rubbed me the wrong way, pretty much the same with the first two seasons of Picard (only with more disappointment because I would have liked for that one to be good). While Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds have gotten a bit more mixed reviews than those other shows, it still hasn’t sounded all that tempting to me.
But this season of Picard…it sounds like there might be enough strings that connect me to it that I can at least test the waters (to badly mix some metaphors). So I guess that’s what I’m doing, guess we’ll see if those strings have any strength to them once I’m in the water.
Anyone want to take bets on how long it will take me to get through a 10 episode series at the rate I’ve been posting?
