ceruleancorvid

My dad and I watched the first season of STDisco over the past week and I found it .. mostly .. disappointing. I really wanted to like it! But argh the writing was heavy handed and I absolutely do not care about any of the Klingon stuff.

Things I DID like:

• Michael’s character concept. Michael’s actor. But not Michael’s writing, tragically


• Both Georgious! Although I’m torn between how hot evil Georgiou is and irritation at the tired dark-Willow trope of your evil self being More Visibly Queer.


• Everything about Lorca. Sighs deeply. Unfortunately I love shitty fictional men


• Stamets! Because Bryan Fuller CAN’T stop naming characters after that poor real-life mycologist. And because he’s rude and weird. However, I can’t think too long about Culber or I get mad—


• Tilly!! When her writing wasn’t veering into sort of mean-spiritedly making fun of her she was delightful. I loved how at-ease she seemed at the party (relative to our other protagonists) and her ability to convincingly channel her evil self in an over the top way.


• The irrepressible horniness of the mirror universe. So much weird caressing and torture and leather and blood.


• Lorca’s inexplicable Scottish accent bit.


• That time there was a montage of him being murdered in a time loop.


• The way he talks to Philippa.


• Once he slammed his face into a wall without prompting to make himself look beat up.


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• I am not very good at being a lesbian.


• look it’s too complicated to explain how my various feelings about various fictional men fit into my sexuality here but rest assured: i’m already taking care of overthinking it on my own!

ANYWAY. I read a summary of bits of season 2 and I’m, uh, baffled and not particularly motivated, DESPITE the promise of more Georgiou, which is frankly impressive. Why couldn’t we just stick with the various iterations of the horrible little Georgiou-Michael-Lorca family for a bit longer?? Sigh.

Meanwhile: I have a job! Grading/writing feedback for online math and CS classes, which honestly I really enjoy. I get to pick my own hours and it feels like Accomplishing Something. I like explaining things! And while doing so in text is harder in many ways than doing TA lab hours and helping people with their homework in person, it does allow me to pick my words carefully. Plus, you can’t copy-paste a conversation when two people make the same mistake. ;)

The other chrysalides have yet to come out. There’s a delightful cat staying in my room during the days - I’ll try to post pics soon. Me and my friend might start a podcast soon that’s just recapping and then bitching about the television show Gotham - so if you enjoy my complaining about being let down by fiction, stay tuned.

Edit: wow, i catastrophically fucked up the formatting of the first version of this post by forgetting how HTML works. Oops. Should be fixed now.