Jupiter's Legacy

Good grief. You know, I'm in the market for fictional dysfunction (especially in a family context), multi generation sagas, and to a degree cheesiness. But without having read the comics this is based on: the tv series feels to me as if someone, be it Mark Millar or the scriptwriters, took exactly the wrong writing lessons from Alan Moore's Watchmen. The contrast to the Watchmen tv series last year, which managed to say something new and specifiic to it within the superhero context and to engage with the Moore original in a present day context, is pretty glaring.

To be more specific without spoilers: Jupiter's Legacy to me felt as if someone took the sequence in Watchmen where Rorschach explains how he went from simply using the name Rorschach as his vigilante moniker to becoming Rorschach, said to themselves "oh yeah!" and took that as a basis, perhaps together with some Frank Millerian take on Batman and Superman mixed in. Leaving aside everything else: I'm baffled on how you can look at the world today, not just in the US, and conclude it needs a story where "Team Lawfully Good doesn't use lethal violence against criminals, and that's a problem!" is a central premise. I kept waiting for a debunking, but no. (And no, the final twist isn't one.)

( Specific irritations with spoilers )

In conclusion: unfortunately, I didn't like this series at all, and won't continue watching.

On the other hand...

On a different note, I recently got feedback for two very old stories of mine in two different fandoms which were a bit odd. Not negative; it's just that both writers used the comment to tell me all about their specific headcanons. Basically, the comments went: "Nice story. Let me tell you in several paragraphs about my headcanon for this show/movieverse issue which is only vaguely related to what the story has been about." I'm a bit at a loss on how to respond. Especially since in neither case, the headcanon in question is something I agree with, but their comments were polite and I don't want to be rude, not least given that comments to fanfic have become rarer and rarer in general.

Meanwhile, nominations for the Rare Male Slash Exchange are happening. I participated last year for the first time, wrote Greek mythology slash and got both the Ben/Locke (from Lost) story of my dreams and two great historical fanfics, so I won't be able to resist signing up again.