Currently Wednesday: 20 November 2019

[calissa]

Currently reading
Just a few chapters into Tam Lin by Pamela Dean. Because I'm predictable, I love the mythic atmosphere of it, though nothing much has happened yet. Even beyond the fantastical though, there's this feeling of it being in a slightly different world created by its 1976 setting. The idea of lugging heavy typewriters around seems quite strange to me these days. On the other hand, I can't imagine university dorms have changed much over the years.

Currently watching
Sahaquiel and I wrapped up Season 4 of She-Ra last night. On the whole, I enjoyed it, though I wanted to strangle Glimmer on more than a few occasions and I'm not sold on the treatment of the first genderqueer character. However, I did rather like the way they've developed Shadow Weaver and Scorpia.

With that show done, we've moved on to rewatching Legend of Korra. I've never revisited the cartoon before, so I'm interested to see how I find it, especially having watched Avatar: The Last Airbender so recently.

Comments

[sweet_sparrow]

Oh, I'm glad I'm not the only one who's not sold on how She-Ra handled the presentation of Double Trouble.

Have fun with Legend of Korra! <3

[calissa]

You're definitely not the only one!

And thank you!

[sweet_sparrow]

Uff, I'm so glad to know I'm not the only one. I like them as a character, but way to lean into the stereotypes. T_T

[winterbird]

I've been meaning to watch She-Ra, I imagine I'll have a mixed response to it when I get there, but I really like the art design.

So curious how you find the rewatch of LoK! I always really struggled with the Bolin 'emotional abuse' storyline and how that was used for levity (when he's paired with that water bender who treats him terribly, he low-key begs others for help and is constantly treated as a joke because of it). I felt that LoK really suffered from the loss of Konietzko (and his partner) in the writer's room, so you had a show that was conceptually amazing, but really tone deaf across a whole bunch of issues, which AtLA never suffered from in the same way.