silveradept | Assorted Miscellaneous, et cetera. (Reply)

Saw the Book Three Korra premiere. Found it underwhelming, considering the past two seasons. Except where Asami and Korra found out the other was not as concerned about Mako. And where we got to see Fire Lord Zuko's most excellent ride, and where he and the twins commiserated a bit about past attempts to kill the Avatar.

Otherwise, though, I couldn't really accept that both Tenzin and Korra are so phenomenally bad at trying to recruit. For one thing, Tenzin seems unable to figure out that he has the ability to remake the Air Nomad culture into whatever he wants it to be, and to use that to his advantage. Korra, while never particularly good at PR, would never take the same approach Tenzin did after seeing how poorly it worked. Or because it was Tenzin's approach. So the characterization seemed off. And even more so with what Korra does for the Earth Queen. Korra had been down this road before - more specifically, last season and to some degree, the season before that with how Amon positioned himself in relation to benders. At this point, she should be immediately suspicious of these kinds of favors or fetch quests. I'm hoping we get some interplay between Team Avatar and Team Villain Benders where it's not one-dimensional evil.

jenett has a great icon that reads "Virgo Hufflepuff - Details Managed", and that makes me wonder what sort of phrasings would be used for each of the main HP houses and the primary Western zodiacal sun signs. I don't know enough about the actual sun signs to even hazard a guess, but I would also expect that it's been done somewhere and my searching skills aren't quite up to par enough to find it.

I'm still continuing the series of deconstructing (or at least trying) the Dragonriders of Pern at The Slacktiverse. I'm just about finished with Dragonflight, which will mean new opportunities to jump in at the beginning of a book when we move on to Dragonquest. There's a lot more wrong going on there than I noticed when I was younger.

I got to see Catching Fire on a second run tonight. I can't say that I'm wild about the decisions on what content to exclude from the adaptation, because it took away a lot of the development and uncertainty that the novel presented, making it more of a "wha?" when it turned out that Plutarch was with the rebellion. Although I personally always saw Plutarch as a tall black man, so yeah. They also cut out the watching of footage portion, probably so as to not have to hire in more actors, but that part also means neither Katniss nor Peeta got to see the previous Quarter Quell, where they find out that sober Haymitch is freaking scary. The adaptation decision seems to have been that the audience would know no more than Katniss is supposed to, if that. It made the movie much more straightforward than the book was. I'm not sure what they will do with Mockingjay, since it's the most straightforward of the three.