a vintage year for scoundrels

- I really enjoyed this post about The Legend of Korra on ladybusiness: they get into lots of interesting issues about the baggage we bring to texts and how that influences how we see them, evaluating an ongoing canon, how two people can look at a text and see two different things without either of them being wrong, and also how Lin and Asami and Korra are awesome.

- Two Gentlemen of Verona was a DELIGHT (except the scenes that weren't meant to be). It's clearly a plot with... flaws, shall we say - Shakespeare revisited bits of it in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and got away with it a bit better because love potions - but the cast managed to carry it off with a combination of conviction and lampshading the more ridiculous bits. I particularly enjoyed the staging right at the end: ( spoiler cutting just in case! ) I think it's fair to say that the dog stole the show, though.

- Anyone else going to Nine Worlds this August? I was v. excited to see that they're going to be screening the "Wonder Women!" documentary: I very much want to see it.

- Today's Li'l Gotham almost made me cry, it was so lovely. (It also made me giggle a lot.) I don't usually have any opinions on Mr Freeze, but his Li'l Gotham appearances have been so wonderful. BEST UNIVERSE. (With the usual "I wish Cass and Steph were allowed to appear" caveat, though at least this universe still has Oracle.)

- This is where my thoughts on yesterday's Doctor Who would have gone, if my video recorder hadn't CRUELLY BETRAYED me. Quick, to the BBC3 repeat!

SUNSHINE. Yesterday was my afternoon off, and I spent a good chunk of it sitting in a deckchair in the garden reading a book. YES. Unfortunately, the book was Fearful Symmetry, the next in the DS9 relaunch series, and it had Issues. [this next bit has spoilers, also, trigger warning for discussion of rape] ( oh, as usual, dear )

In other "things I am grumpy about" news: here is a good post about the recent Wonder Woman developments. D: (I haven't been reading Wonder Woman, because I am too cheap to buy single issues and horror's not my thing, but I definitely won't be getting it now! Instead I ordered the first trade from Greg Rucka's run and am waiting impatiently for it to arrive.)

To end on a cheerier note, I watched the first two episodes of of The Legend of Korra yesterday, and loved it TREMENDOUSLY. ALL THE SQUEE IN THE WORLD. ( spoilers )