it's Monday, and i finished some media

[ironymaiden]

what are you currently consuming?
Jane the Virgin, Agents of SHIELD

i'm behind a week on Jane; they were making me annoyed with a love triangle plot, and now while i like how that was resolved we'll have to slog through the consequences. with the telenovela format you have to take the good and the bad together.

SHIELD is pretty bonkers so far. they're completely avoiding the events of the films, they've split the party, and we're still mostly in spaaaaace. (i'm sorry that we couldn't let the TV shows explore the stuff that was skipped over in Endgame. seriously, there was at least an amazing season of The Defenders in there.) but hey, Clark Gregg might be the only man who can actually rock skinny jeans.

what did you recently finish?
Star Trek: Discovery. season one DVDs finally came in from the library, and i liked where it was going enough to watch season two. (still resentful that people outside of the US and Canada can just watch on Netflix. it certainly hasn't sold me on buying yet another streaming service.) there are many things that i liked, and many things that i did not. through both seasons, it seemed to alternately smoosh too many plot points into too little time, and stop ticking-time-clock scenes dead for long looks and big discussions of feelings. season one was spent becoming Star Trek (in that while i liked many things that they did, i felt that the moral core of Starfleet and the ensemble cast were both missing, and didn't arrive until the end of the season) and season two ultimately overcorrected with nostalgia wank that only accented all of the things that didn't slot into the assigned place in the timeline.

even though i'm annoyed with it, i expect that i will eventually watch season three. but probably not as it airs.

what will you consume next?
i'm busy going to SIFF films, so who knows?

Comments

[garyomaha]

We are the only people I know who subscribe to CBS All Access. But that may make some sense because we do not subscribe to any other streaming service, so the cost is minimal. We subscribed primarily for Discovery* and, though there are many things I disliked about each season, I'm enough of a Trekker that it lured me in. Glad to hear **someone** else watched. (*Though I've gotten hooked on The Good Fight.)

[ironymaiden]

There are many fans on DW and a community with the hard-to-find name of spacefungusparty. I feel like I know more folks from outside the US who are watching.

[garyomaha]

Thanks! I admit, somewhat embarrassed, that I have not joined communities here because I found the search process confusing or tedious. (Getting older can do that to a person.)

[yourlibrarian]

Star Trek: Discovery. season one DVDs finally came in from the library... (still resentful that people outside of the US and Canada can just watch on Netflix.

Huh! I had no idea that they'd but the series out on disc. Also, interesting but perhaps not surprising that Netflix has distribution rights outside the U.S. given CBS' scope.

it certainly hasn't sold me on buying yet another streaming service.)

We'd probably only have had CBS for two months if (a) we'd been able to view the shows we wanted to see at least once daily (Mike's schedule prevented this) and (b) we weren't also watching Colbert. We can now get him through Hulu but that costs way more and overlaps the Sling a lot, (so we're also dropping for a while next month). But we're dropping our subscription until Disco and The Good Fight's next seasons and the new Captain Picard show is available. Cord cutting saves us money but is definitely complicated.

stop ticking-time-clock scenes dead for long looks and big discussions of feelings

I hate it so much when movies and TV shows do this.

season one was spent becoming Star Trek (in that while i liked many things that they did, i felt that the moral core of Starfleet and the ensemble cast were both missing, and didn't arrive until the end of the season) and season two ultimately overcorrected with nostalgia wank that only accented all of the things that didn't slot into the assigned place in the timeline.

Succinct!

[ironymaiden]

I spent much of the season two finale two-parter yelling at the screen for them to hurry up.