Roundup

[jaggedwolf]

I can't believe it's still March.

His Dark Materials (TV)

I'd forgotten so much of what happens between the beginning and the end of the first book. The show was uh, fine?

I liked watching the daemons scurry about, Lyra and Mrs Coulter were intensely weird in the best ways (there's a hilarious shot of the two of them screaming at each other), the actors for Will and his mom are really good, and I liked the Gyptians. There are some very odd staging and pacing decisions, but it was entertaining enough lunchtime television. The one thing that most consistently made me have feelings was "oh wow, an adult is being nice and reasonable to Lyra".

Steven Universe

Is over ;_;

Kind of into how low-key the very last episode was, especially after the very intense penultimate one. It felt fitting for Steven's new outlook and journey. A very normal, human road trip. He deserved that nice good sob tbh. SU:Future has been kind of a weird creature of a series, nonetheless one I've been very pleased to watch. Man, what a good show, and what a good universe.

I very much want to know what the 39 states of SU's America are, given that we only know three, but I suppose it'll always be a mystery, much like Onion.

Juno Steel

Second episode of the knife wife installment came out.

I really like what they did with the contrast between Vespa's narration and her outside voice - it did an excellent job emphasizing how frustrating Vespa finds her limitations, and why she would decide to leave. As did the beginning sequence where we slowly discover Ransom isn't actually in that conversation with Vespa, Buddy and Juno. It may have been too little, too late, but I like that Vespa got that final moment of clarity that Juno wouldn't call her nuts. Also: super super curious to know more about the Vespa-Jet dynamic, given how Jet came into Buddy's employment after Vespa was long gone.

I had a little trouble following the geography/layout of characters when they started moving around the ship this episode. Time...moved faster than I expected, if that doesn't sound stupid.

I wonder if we'll be going Buddy -> Rita -> Juno next for the PoVs. I do miss my sullen detective narration, even if he's less self-involved these days.

Some cute fandom-related clips in/about these trying times

ODAAT: A six-minute mini-episode of Schneider video-calling each of the Alvarez's as everyone's staying the fuck at home. (Well, not Penelope.)

Doctor Who: Thirteen has a message - I've been catching up on Thirteen's episodes, and her charmingness is certainly an excellent motivation.

Starship Iris recs

Some recent lovely fanart :D

Park and McCabe - I am inordinately attached to Park now and I still don't know how that happened

The Rumor crew in PJs

Other Links

Last year's Shakespeare In The Park's performance of Much Ado About Nothing is currently free to stream. It is very good.

Directing artistic and intellectual energies in Singapore: ‘Passion made possible’?

Understanding Pac-Man Ghost Behavior

The key to understanding ghost behavior is the concept of a target tile. The large majority of the time, each ghost has a specific tile that it is trying to reach, and its behavior revolves around trying to get to that tile from its current one. All of the ghosts use identical methods to travel towards their targets, but the different ghost personalities come about due to the individual way each ghost has of selecting its target tile.

Comments

[nyctanthes]

Thanks for the links re: Much Ado and Singapore. I spent a couple of months there recently, and am interested in learning more about society and culture there.

[jaggedwolf]

You're welcome! Been a while since I've been back.