Monday's personal first world problems

[selenak]

Tonight the first (? Do we have any word on whether or not there'll be a second?) season of Better Call Saul ends, which reminds me that the tv shows that most swept me away this year so far were all short ones - Agent Carter, Black Sails (and I must write a manifesto as to why everyone should watch Black Sails, not only because everyone should but selflishly because how else am I ever going to read any decent meta or fanfiction outside of bloody tumblr?), The Americans and to my surprise (because I really hadn't counted on it, due to having been only mildly fond of Saul on Breaking Bad) Better Call Saul. Whereas The Good Wife with its 23 episode length has become so stale and repetitive that I had to drop it, and I'm currently pondering as to whether or not to drop Once upon a Time because the current arc isn't really working for me and the last episode might just have broken my suspension of disbelief in the emotional reality of the characters. (I can take any amount of weird plots as long as the characters remain emotionally real for me.) Unless the next episode wows me back, I think I will. Which leaves Elementary as the one long season type show with an ongoing canon I currently have. (The last Elementary episode might have been meh, but the third season in general has been so strong that something like this doesn't register as more than a glitch.)

The problem with short season shows is that they, or at least the ones I tend to fall in love with, don't have big fandoms, and then there's my personal problem of being a gen oriented fan who only rarely gets in the shipping mood, which makes fanfiction to my taste hard to find. For example, Agent Carter, perhaps because it's tied to the MCU, does generate a lot of fanfiction, but last I looked, the Peggy & Jarvis case fic of my dreams isn't there yet. Instead, there are a lot of pairings, and I'm just not interested in Peggy/Anyone (or Daniel/Jack) right now. And Better Caul Saul, where I actually could be easily pushed into shipping the hell out of Jimmy and Kim, and at any rate would love to read about their relationship, no matter the state of same, has precisely two stories, one drabble type thing and a good longer one, about them. And the state of Black Sails fanfiction is one major reason why I MUST write this manifesto, argh.

In the meantime, two links:

Orphan Black: The many faces of Tatiana Maslany. Excellent profile of the actress, with some (minor) season 2 spoilers.


Agent Carter: The Mother of Invention. It's wartime in Britain, and Howard Stark is attempting to bake a better cake. Lovely Peggy and Howard during the war ficlet. Next to Peggy & Jarvis case fic, Peggy & Howard friendship fic is the other thing I want from Agent Carter fandom, and at least there once in a blue moon, you come across little gems like this.

Comments

[saturnofthemoon]

That's a shame about Agent Carter. I have yet to finish S1 because of other priorities, but Peggy and Jarvis' team up is the highlight of the show for me.

[sholio]

Thank you for reccing my story! :)

... and yeah, I agree with you about the tragic lack of fic for the Peggy and Jarvis Buddy Adventure Show. I meaning to write it myself, but getting sidetracked by other ideas (I think this is one of those cases where there's so much of what I want in the show itself that I keep wandering down other side avenues instead). But SOMEONE needs to.

[wee_warrior]

I *would* try Black Sails, except it's a Starz show, and I really hated what little I've seen of their most famous show, Spartacus. If it's in that vein... no chance.

[selenak]

They're the best. But fandom refuses to write them for me! :(

[selenak]

I enjoyed it a lot, so you're welcome. :)

[selenak]

You know, I had expected it to be like Spartacus (which I didn't hate, but it was undeniably trashy), but actually it's more like Deadwood. Except more female power players. Will report on this in the big manifesto!

[wee_warrior]

Deadwood? Colour me intrigued!

Btw, amusing little callback to your post about Flint being revealed as bi and the fandom reaction to it: Roomie watches the show with her boyfriend, and while she totally expected it, his jaw literally dropped when the kiss happened. And that was as far as it went, because Roomie's bf isn't an immature fanboy whose masculinity is super-fragile, but the fact that he didn't see it coming says a lot about different ways of watching TV shows. Fandom does teach you some things after all. >:D

[selenak]

It does, and encouraged by you, I've finished my manifesto and posted it!