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Yuletide Recs II
Dec. 29th, 2023 04:03 pmPenny Dreadful
Pandora's Mirror Hecate Poole’s history was one of betrayal and blood, but her end, at least, would be her own.
(A great backstory not only for Hecate but for Evelyn and Joan, and allow me to squee about the historical tie-ins in particular!)
For All Mankind
Thinking Different In which Wayne and Karen help each other contend with different kinds of uncomfortable newness.
(The friendship that sprung between Karen and Wayne in s1 was a delightful take on the trope of two very different people bonding, all the more so because they are a woman and a man from the same generation without the slightest bit of UST.)
Lonely as Those Storytellers Five awkward conversations Gordo Stevens once had.
(Excellent portrait of Gordo through the prism of his relationships - frienships (with Ed and Danielle), flings, his marriage with Tracy, his relationship with his sons.)
Henry IV
Horatio Dreaming
(Absolutely hilarious bodyswitch tale involving Hotspur, Hal and Kate. I was toying with writing a bodyswitch tale in a different fandom this Yuletide and now I’m glad I didn’t, because there is no way I could have competed with this! )
Moby Dick/Wars of the Roses
What though the mast be now blown overboard Starbuck persuades Captain Ahab to pick up a drifting whaleboat, only to find it contains the scions of two notoriously feuding Nantucket families, the Yorks and the Lancasters, who, following the wreck of the whaleship Albion, have been stuck together in a little rowboat for a week.
(More brilliantly entertaining insanity, in the crossover you never knew you needed.)
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
and in the daylight, you're crossing all your wires: what happened to John Connor after the s2 finale. Co-starring most, though not all, of the ensemble. SCC is my one true Terminator canon, and this is a terrific follow up on the set up we’re given in what turned out to be the series finale. Everyone and their relationships are ncomplicated and layered and intense, as in the show, and I love the solution offered at the end (so does Catherine Weaver).
Pandora's Mirror Hecate Poole’s history was one of betrayal and blood, but her end, at least, would be her own.
(A great backstory not only for Hecate but for Evelyn and Joan, and allow me to squee about the historical tie-ins in particular!)
For All Mankind
Thinking Different In which Wayne and Karen help each other contend with different kinds of uncomfortable newness.
(The friendship that sprung between Karen and Wayne in s1 was a delightful take on the trope of two very different people bonding, all the more so because they are a woman and a man from the same generation without the slightest bit of UST.)
Lonely as Those Storytellers Five awkward conversations Gordo Stevens once had.
(Excellent portrait of Gordo through the prism of his relationships - frienships (with Ed and Danielle), flings, his marriage with Tracy, his relationship with his sons.)
Henry IV
Horatio Dreaming
(Absolutely hilarious bodyswitch tale involving Hotspur, Hal and Kate. I was toying with writing a bodyswitch tale in a different fandom this Yuletide and now I’m glad I didn’t, because there is no way I could have competed with this! )
Moby Dick/Wars of the Roses
What though the mast be now blown overboard Starbuck persuades Captain Ahab to pick up a drifting whaleboat, only to find it contains the scions of two notoriously feuding Nantucket families, the Yorks and the Lancasters, who, following the wreck of the whaleship Albion, have been stuck together in a little rowboat for a week.
(More brilliantly entertaining insanity, in the crossover you never knew you needed.)
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
and in the daylight, you're crossing all your wires: what happened to John Connor after the s2 finale. Co-starring most, though not all, of the ensemble. SCC is my one true Terminator canon, and this is a terrific follow up on the set up we’re given in what turned out to be the series finale. Everyone and their relationships are ncomplicated and layered and intense, as in the show, and I love the solution offered at the end (so does Catherine Weaver).
