So I didn’t do a post yesterday, mostly because the morning I was working on revision (ugh) and the rest of the day was snuggling and finishing fic. Which I did! Woo! So my first season of kink fic is done and posted, As I mention in the notes it’s my first omegaverse fic.
To be honest, I’d never really seen the appeal of omegaverse stuff until fairly recently. I always thought it seemed pretty... well, strange, however I ended up reading a few Kliego ones (and it seems pretty popular especially on the meme for some reason) and I came out with a kind of appreciation for it. I just hope it all turned out pretty well.
Yesterday we walked Naryu around the reservoir and the geese are all so big! All 11 of the babies are still there, but they’ve gotten so big now and they’re not as fluffy. They’ve done so well with them to get them to be so big.
I got tired last night so wasn’t in the mood to do much gaming or watching anything. I put King Falls on instead and drifted off (which is annoying cause it keeps playing so I have to backtrack a bit.
Next week is the exam and ugh. I feel so nervous about it and unprepared. I just want the damn thing to be over already.
Once it’s done I’m gonna be back to writing more. I have some wip to do (like finally finishing the kliego serial killer fic) as well as a few other fic to do (a Ben/Diego, eldritch Ben, another Grant fic, Killjoys stuff etc). As well as the seasonofkink table. I expect the table will mostly be filled with The Umbrella Academy or MCR stuff though I may do something a bit more self indulgent too.
I also want to get other things done too. I want to read at least 4 of my Star Wars books, as well as the graphic novels I have. I want to complete some of the games I have both on Xbox and the switch. I want to watch the pile of DVDs and films I have on my to do list on Netflix and shudder (shudder especially since I’ve hardly watched it alas). I might compile a list sometime.
I’ve still not decided what to do about those mcr titans from the other day. Damnit.
The Xbox sale for e3 started last night, but it was thankfully, nothing terribly special. Most were what I already had and I don’t feel like some of the ones I might get are discounted enough yet. Speaking of E3 the coverage starts this weekend and I’m excited for it. I hope we get more info on stuff like Animal Crossing (like footage, or a release date or anything!) as well as some cool new games.
Anyway, before I get back to revising here is my June Something answers.
5: What fandom that got a series finale was that most appropriate/most satisfying. Bonus: What about it would you have changed, if anything?
6: What fandom that got a series finale was the LEAST appropriate/least satisfying. Bonus: How would you have fixed it?
So I feel these two questions are best answered together since they cover the same topic, season finales.
Now the thing about season finales is that they tend to wrap things up too quickly (and thus, badly) or introduce romances out of nowhere. As such, many finales are either unsatisfying or have as many flaws as they do good parts.
A recent season finale I rewatched (since it was on tv) was Warehouse 13. It had some good parts (I really loved Claudia becoming caretaker and the looking back thing was pretty good, although some revelations came out of nowhere) but the Myka/Pete romance felt like it came out of the blue. Myka had way more chemistry with HG and they would’ve been a much better fit.
The Stargate season finale was another one I watched recently and it didn’t tie anything other. The Asgard all committed mass suicide, but it felt like that, to, came out of nowhere and there was no real time to mourn them. The whole ep felt disappointing as a finale, though I do know that they have some films that tie some things up (which I need to see).
Some shows that did better with season finales are shows like Deep Space Nine, which spent the last few episodes tying all the threads of the series together. This worked better than trying to rush things together in one finale and, as a whole, it was pretty satisfying. The Next Generation finale worked pretty well too, linking back to the first ep.
I’m trying to think of other ones that did pretty well, but alas the only ones that come to mind are shows that went off the rails instead (that’s not to say there aren’t good ones that I’ve seen, just that there’s a lot of shows I’ve not watched in ages so can’t properly comment.
One example of that is The X-Files. Now, I love The X-Files, it’s one of my favourite shows but I have to admit that the two finales for it weren’t the best. The first one, The Truth from the end of season 9 had lots of neat call backs and it was good to see some people come back again (like Marita) but it was mostly set in a courtroom and so was pretty, well, boring. And then introducing the smoking man being alive (again) only to kill him (again) it just felt a bit like a mess.
So when the show came back for some more eps I hoped that they’d manage to do a better job with it. Alas, they didn’t. At the end of the first ep, the smoking man is inexplicably back (despite being blown up!) and so much of the series gets taken up with trying to set up a new thing that seems to ignore all of the established stuff (Monica Reyes joining the smoking man? The aliens suddenly not wanting to invade?) and so it all felt like a mess. I think it might have worked better if there were more episodes to give the show room to breath (and some of the standalone ones were great! So it was disappointing not to get as many). Plus the ending of the last show felt (somehow) even more unsatisfying.
But yeah, that’s some of my rambling thoughts.
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