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[selenak]

Briefly, as conference duties call:

Black Sails:

At last a collection of beautiful icons! The lack of Black Sails icons has been depressing. I used this bunch to rectify the situation immediately. Oh, I should add there's male nudity in some, I suppose, so if your employer frowns on that sort of thing, beware, etc. (The same icon post also has Daredevil icons, btw.)


Avengers: Age of Ultron.

Two positive reviews not despite but because of Natasha's part in the movie, praising it:

Here and here.

And lastly.

Sense 8:

Trailer for a new Netflix show which is of fannish interest because JMS (that's J. Michael Straczynski for non Babylon 5 people) wrote it. Oh, and those Wachowski guys are producing. It does look interesting. Caveat: JMS obviously is very interested in mutants/superpowered people and the way they're intrumentalized and/or persecuted by societies, since he's been dealing with that subject not just with the Telepath arc on B5 but repeatedly in comics - Supreme Power, The Twelve, Rising Star (not sure about the last title, I may misremember it). This had results ranging from the fascinating to the Byron, and I am not thinking of the poet. And then there's the part where Supreme Power petered out after a strong start because he lost interest, and we never got the Telepath War, and, well, I want my complete story, is what I'm saying, he's spoiled me on B5. All this said? I'll definitely tune in.

Comments

[aris_tgd]

To be fair "those Wachowski guys" should more correctly be "The Wachowski siblings," as one of them is a lady, but I am so interested in this.

[selenak]

I had no idea. I dimly remember them being referred to as "the Wachowski brothers" back when The Matrix was released, but I didn't pay that much attentionn, so I probably am misremembering.

[aris_tgd]

Ah! No, you're absolutely correct that for the first part of their film career they were the Wachowski brothers, but Lana transitioned a few years ago. I'm so used to her transition being on people's radar for either trans activism reasons or film nerd reasons that I sometimes forget not everyone knows.

[yvi]

Thanks for the review links. I really enjoyed the movie and there's just been so much hate for it...

[selenak]

Hail, fellow movie enjoyer! All the hate is why I thought at least some people might like myself be on the lookout for positive reviews.

[beck_liz]

Ugh, Byron the telepath. Whyyyyy? That said, I'm hopeful that since this is a full season dropped on Netflix all at once, that the plot is fully-realized and won't peter out weirdly.

[selenak]

True, and I shall remain optimistic.