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I published two (three sentence) ficlets on Tuesday, both gen, focused on two female characters I hadn’t written before. They were originally posted at 3sentencesfic at the end of March. I’d hoped to write more ficlets for it, but I didn’t manage it. (However, I’ve just seen an intriguing meme...)
Bear, Woken (HP, Minerva McGonagall universal) and Perseverance AOS, Jemma Simmons, teen? Spoilers for 3.05.
Moving on to TV I caught up on or watched a few days ago, but haven’t had time to post about, and starting aptly with Agents of SHIELD 3.12 Inside Man
I didn’t think we actually needed to see Maveth co-opt Ward’s dead body – it was pretty clear that was what had happened. Save the FX budget for something else, show.
Cue Bobbi trying to have a conversation with Daisy about teregenesis and why people (like Hunter) might be scared of Inhumans. Daisy is still taking it personally, understandably.
Linc earned some sympathy for the crack at Talbot’s hairstyle but it was clear that he needed training to be able to offer more than his powers and medical skills, or a proper agent (May) would always have to fly in and do the hard work.
I didn’t remember Creel’s backstory so I was grateful for all the exposition there.
I enjoyed May reminding Hunter that they aren’t friends!
Talbot managed to be bigoted about everyone – that boded well. Also western Europe had a sniffle that Australia got invited to the symposium and not one of us did.
Daisy and Linc had fighting as foreplay, even as he said he didin’t want to take the same path as her necessarily (which is not an attack on her choices!).
Jemma’s ‘Dr Fitz’ was very flirty.
And Creel’s blood is potentially a ‘cure’ for teregenesis. Oh, come on, is this going to be Marvel shows Fox how it should have done the X-Men or was there really a comic with this plotline?
Of course Hunter went off mission, and after all the fuss to get the palm prints Bobbi could just break in through the window!? (There was a whole Mission Impossible vibe going on this episode.)
The twist about the Inside Man was quite good, except that I hadn’t cared who he/she/it was. But I was a little relieved that Talbot was being blackmailed into working with Malick and that he was smart enough to have Creel as back-up.
May’s line about hating Hunter a little less after he gave her weapons <3
You could tell Melinda and Bobbi meant srs bsns because They’d Pulled Their Hair Out of The Ponytail.
I liked that Daisy and Linc were both raw in their argument about what should be done with the cure, and he had a good point about Lash and she had a good point about the government. While he and the relationship got development this episode, I still feel like they could send him away.
(What was Mack doing this episode?)
Of course May rescued the kid successfully.
Huntingbird were cute, so I’m glad they were sent on a mission together.
How conveniently acute of Coulson to pick up on the fact that Malick might be reporting to ‘something’.
Oh, Marveth!Ward’s use of 'we' was interesting (I haven't mentioned him much, because his posturing isn't, in general) – did Maveth mean Ward or does he/it have multiple consciousnesses? We’ll have to wait until he meets one of the original team, I suppose. And he/it is of the same alien ilk as the Inhumans sort of are. If we knew that before, I’d forgotten it.
Underground episode 1
Very gripping, as promised, with lots of hot topics in the mix – racism, especially in the field of law and order; undercover officers; and the death penalty. Add to that lots of personal complications and good acting – Sophie Okenedo was excellent as Maya, and that Adrian Lester isn’t half bad either. They got away with flashbacks 20 years ago by just changing their hairstyles! Dennis Haysbert was one thing the trailers had kept totally quiet about and the casting of Maya and Nick’s children was believable. Danny’s learning difficulty or autism, essentially being the most honest and little person in the room, is probably going to blow up. Nick not being able to let the loving family he’d created love him when his father died was affecting.
I will keep watching to see where this goes, even though it’s in the same slot as Agents of SHIELD and, now, Home Fires.
Gotham 2.12 Mr Freeze
We started off with a recap of all the villainy so far, which just made me disgruntled about their writing out Jerome again. Then we had flashbacks to the end of the last episode – did this air after a little break in the US? – as Jim lied and his captain and Dent knew it, but Lee didn’t. The flashbacks and the building where all this took place looked good, though.
Why was Selina was spying on Butch? Anyway, that was all we got of her and there was no Bruce. PRESUMABLY she will see Tabby crack the whip instead of playing Captain Hook.
Nygma needn’t have bothered working so hard on his ‘an innocent mistake’ story about Oswald being his flatmate for a bit – Jim is the worst detective ever and distracted.
Penguin pleaded insanity, without really expecting to be sent to Arkham. The inmates’ response to his ‘king of Gotham’ claim was entertaining.
I just want to make bitter jokes about how Mrs Fries isn’t going to get fridged so much as...
UGH, GLOOP. That was unnecessary.
But I do salute the ‘I’ll be back’ because I was certainly thinking of Arnie and how they were trying to wrestle the character back from the camp with tragic devotion.
Is it an out-there Gotham thing for pharmacies to have security guards or a for real thing in the States?
Hugo Strange with his gesturing is intriguing, and I look forward slightly to his interaction with Penguin, who is all the things he described, but a lucid kind of comic book criminally insane. I liked how he bounced off Peabody. I also liked that we didn’t see Gallavan.
Finally for now, I saw Zootropolis (can someone explain why the title was changed from Zootopia in the UK?) which was very entertaining. Judy Hopps, ILU. It features 'bunny saves fox'. I hope there are sequels - there's plenty of potential in the world they've created and the characters that inhabit it - and I see that AO3 has hundreds of fics already.
3sentencesfic at the end of March. I’d hoped to write more ficlets for it, but I didn’t manage it. (However, I’ve just seen an intriguing meme...)Bear, Woken (HP, Minerva McGonagall universal) and Perseverance AOS, Jemma Simmons, teen? Spoilers for 3.05.
Moving on to TV I caught up on or watched a few days ago, but haven’t had time to post about, and starting aptly with Agents of SHIELD 3.12 Inside Man
I didn’t think we actually needed to see Maveth co-opt Ward’s dead body – it was pretty clear that was what had happened. Save the FX budget for something else, show.
Cue Bobbi trying to have a conversation with Daisy about teregenesis and why people (like Hunter) might be scared of Inhumans. Daisy is still taking it personally, understandably.
Linc earned some sympathy for the crack at Talbot’s hairstyle but it was clear that he needed training to be able to offer more than his powers and medical skills, or a proper agent (May) would always have to fly in and do the hard work.
I didn’t remember Creel’s backstory so I was grateful for all the exposition there.
I enjoyed May reminding Hunter that they aren’t friends!
Talbot managed to be bigoted about everyone – that boded well. Also western Europe had a sniffle that Australia got invited to the symposium and not one of us did.
Daisy and Linc had fighting as foreplay, even as he said he didin’t want to take the same path as her necessarily (which is not an attack on her choices!).
Jemma’s ‘Dr Fitz’ was very flirty.
And Creel’s blood is potentially a ‘cure’ for teregenesis. Oh, come on, is this going to be Marvel shows Fox how it should have done the X-Men or was there really a comic with this plotline?
Of course Hunter went off mission, and after all the fuss to get the palm prints Bobbi could just break in through the window!? (There was a whole Mission Impossible vibe going on this episode.)
The twist about the Inside Man was quite good, except that I hadn’t cared who he/she/it was. But I was a little relieved that Talbot was being blackmailed into working with Malick and that he was smart enough to have Creel as back-up.
May’s line about hating Hunter a little less after he gave her weapons <3
You could tell Melinda and Bobbi meant srs bsns because They’d Pulled Their Hair Out of The Ponytail.
I liked that Daisy and Linc were both raw in their argument about what should be done with the cure, and he had a good point about Lash and she had a good point about the government. While he and the relationship got development this episode, I still feel like they could send him away.
(What was Mack doing this episode?)
Of course May rescued the kid successfully.
Huntingbird were cute, so I’m glad they were sent on a mission together.
How conveniently acute of Coulson to pick up on the fact that Malick might be reporting to ‘something’.
Oh, Marveth!Ward’s use of 'we' was interesting (I haven't mentioned him much, because his posturing isn't, in general) – did Maveth mean Ward or does he/it have multiple consciousnesses? We’ll have to wait until he meets one of the original team, I suppose. And he/it is of the same alien ilk as the Inhumans sort of are. If we knew that before, I’d forgotten it.
Underground episode 1
Very gripping, as promised, with lots of hot topics in the mix – racism, especially in the field of law and order; undercover officers; and the death penalty. Add to that lots of personal complications and good acting – Sophie Okenedo was excellent as Maya, and that Adrian Lester isn’t half bad either. They got away with flashbacks 20 years ago by just changing their hairstyles! Dennis Haysbert was one thing the trailers had kept totally quiet about and the casting of Maya and Nick’s children was believable. Danny’s learning difficulty or autism, essentially being the most honest and little person in the room, is probably going to blow up. Nick not being able to let the loving family he’d created love him when his father died was affecting.
I will keep watching to see where this goes, even though it’s in the same slot as Agents of SHIELD and, now, Home Fires.
Gotham 2.12 Mr Freeze
We started off with a recap of all the villainy so far, which just made me disgruntled about their writing out Jerome again. Then we had flashbacks to the end of the last episode – did this air after a little break in the US? – as Jim lied and his captain and Dent knew it, but Lee didn’t. The flashbacks and the building where all this took place looked good, though.
Why was Selina was spying on Butch? Anyway, that was all we got of her and there was no Bruce. PRESUMABLY she will see Tabby crack the whip instead of playing Captain Hook.
Nygma needn’t have bothered working so hard on his ‘an innocent mistake’ story about Oswald being his flatmate for a bit – Jim is the worst detective ever and distracted.
Penguin pleaded insanity, without really expecting to be sent to Arkham. The inmates’ response to his ‘king of Gotham’ claim was entertaining.
I just want to make bitter jokes about how Mrs Fries isn’t going to get fridged so much as...
UGH, GLOOP. That was unnecessary.
But I do salute the ‘I’ll be back’ because I was certainly thinking of Arnie and how they were trying to wrestle the character back from the camp with tragic devotion.
Is it an out-there Gotham thing for pharmacies to have security guards or a for real thing in the States?
Hugo Strange with his gesturing is intriguing, and I look forward slightly to his interaction with Penguin, who is all the things he described, but a lucid kind of comic book criminally insane. I liked how he bounced off Peabody. I also liked that we didn’t see Gallavan.
Finally for now, I saw Zootropolis (can someone explain why the title was changed from Zootopia in the UK?) which was very entertaining. Judy Hopps, ILU. It features 'bunny saves fox'. I hope there are sequels - there's plenty of potential in the world they've created and the characters that inhabit it - and I see that AO3 has hundreds of fics already.