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Aug. 1st, 2023 02:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pearwaldorfLook, I’m not talking shit about that 16K word glurge about S2 just because OP is my icon twin but it certainly does not help. (Although frankly I am insulted my friends even for a second were like "Oh shit, what did Alice do" lmao)
I have not watched the last episode yet. It is entirely possible it could make me do an about-face on the entire season but I feel it is deeply unlikely.
It still feels like it’s trying to do too much and succeeds at very little. If you’re going to do the silly fanfic tropes you gotta lean into it with your whole bussy, not this half-assed referencing of Austen for both Maggie/Nina and Aziraphale/Crowley. I am absolutely the target audience for this bullshit! This is such a low fucking bar! How do you manage to biff it this terribly when I am rooting for you??
The sheer Johnlock Conspiracy vibes that fucking post gives off. (Not in terms of “is it canonical”, but rather “there is an actual plan”.) Sometimes art made within the constraints of capitalism just fucking sucks. You don’t need to write 16,000 words about it so you can pretzel yourself into believing Neil Gaiman isn’t doing this partially because Amazon offered him a fuckton of money. Babe, sometimes it’s really not that deep.
Also, as a fan, one must internalize that canon is a trash pile. Not in terms of quality necessarily (although sometimes this is true), but as a thing one sorts through to decide whether it sparks joy. This is especially important for things with decades of contradictory lore like comics, Star Wars, or Doctor Who.
And sometimes you really do know a character better than a creator. I do not believe this is a particularly arrogant position to hold, especially when they obviously take up more space in your head. (Like, Crowley has never been objectively cool in his life. He is to Aziraphale, and that’s what truly matters, but he’s really really not.)
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There was something with Crowley and Jim/Gabriel. I wish they’d tugged on that thread more. Jim is not Gabriel (at least he doesn’t seem to want to be, and not just because brain hurty) and that changes things for everybody. Or at least it should.
I really don’t want to write fic about this season. But god, there is so much stuff that needs to be unfucked and remediated, and unfortunately sometimes this is where I camp out.
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Mm. I can't say it's great when you're watching something and shrieking HE WOULD NOT DO THAT!! in your head. Like, fine. Pitch six thousand years of character development for a contrived ending that's purely there to set up season 3, whatever. That's what fanfic's for.
Maybe I will have more to say later. But right now I'm just grumpy as hell.
I have not watched the last episode yet. It is entirely possible it could make me do an about-face on the entire season but I feel it is deeply unlikely.
It still feels like it’s trying to do too much and succeeds at very little. If you’re going to do the silly fanfic tropes you gotta lean into it with your whole bussy, not this half-assed referencing of Austen for both Maggie/Nina and Aziraphale/Crowley. I am absolutely the target audience for this bullshit! This is such a low fucking bar! How do you manage to biff it this terribly when I am rooting for you??
The sheer Johnlock Conspiracy vibes that fucking post gives off. (Not in terms of “is it canonical”, but rather “there is an actual plan”.) Sometimes art made within the constraints of capitalism just fucking sucks. You don’t need to write 16,000 words about it so you can pretzel yourself into believing Neil Gaiman isn’t doing this partially because Amazon offered him a fuckton of money. Babe, sometimes it’s really not that deep.
Also, as a fan, one must internalize that canon is a trash pile. Not in terms of quality necessarily (although sometimes this is true), but as a thing one sorts through to decide whether it sparks joy. This is especially important for things with decades of contradictory lore like comics, Star Wars, or Doctor Who.
And sometimes you really do know a character better than a creator. I do not believe this is a particularly arrogant position to hold, especially when they obviously take up more space in your head. (Like, Crowley has never been objectively cool in his life. He is to Aziraphale, and that’s what truly matters, but he’s really really not.)
–
There was something with Crowley and Jim/Gabriel. I wish they’d tugged on that thread more. Jim is not Gabriel (at least he doesn’t seem to want to be, and not just because brain hurty) and that changes things for everybody. Or at least it should.
I really don’t want to write fic about this season. But god, there is so much stuff that needs to be unfucked and remediated, and unfortunately sometimes this is where I camp out.
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Mm. I can't say it's great when you're watching something and shrieking HE WOULD NOT DO THAT!! in your head. Like, fine. Pitch six thousand years of character development for a contrived ending that's purely there to set up season 3, whatever. That's what fanfic's for.
Maybe I will have more to say later. But right now I'm just grumpy as hell.
