First off, I have a draft! Of the stupid long Berlin fic! It's 23k words and I'm convinced it's terrible and not worth saving, but I will still have it betaed and edit it anyway, because I care too much! What the fuck!
Also, now that I have an![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
azephirin visiting, we have binged a good amount of Lucifer, which is a show that I kind of hate a lot right now but has been promised to get better and has enough flashes of something interesting around the edges that I will stick with it at least while she's here. I have enough residual good feelings for Sandman to find this take on Lucifer really obnoxious. Flattening it out into 'well, and then he fights crime' sounds like the stupidest take. I also hate his relationship with Chloe, which is not sold well in any particular way. He can't use his powers on her, so of course he's obsessed? And harrassy? In a frequently sexual way? Okay? And the show seems to be convinced this is what passes for sexual/romantic tension.
Right now, six episodes into the first season, this show slots right into a particular subgenre of crime procedurals also taken up by The Mentalist and Castle where a hyper competent woman police officer has to drag around her reckless male non-law enforcement consultant and clean up all his shit while he does whatever the fuck he wants. (I would say that White Collar fit into this trope as well in the first season.) And that garbage has gotten real stale already. Thankfully, Mazikeen and Amenadiel are around to be interesting and hinting at some real complexity while the white people do stupid white people shit.
Also, now that I have an
azephirin visiting, we have binged a good amount of Lucifer, which is a show that I kind of hate a lot right now but has been promised to get better and has enough flashes of something interesting around the edges that I will stick with it at least while she's here. I have enough residual good feelings for Sandman to find this take on Lucifer really obnoxious. Flattening it out into 'well, and then he fights crime' sounds like the stupidest take. I also hate his relationship with Chloe, which is not sold well in any particular way. He can't use his powers on her, so of course he's obsessed? And harrassy? In a frequently sexual way? Okay? And the show seems to be convinced this is what passes for sexual/romantic tension.Right now, six episodes into the first season, this show slots right into a particular subgenre of crime procedurals also taken up by The Mentalist and Castle where a hyper competent woman police officer has to drag around her reckless male non-law enforcement consultant and clean up all his shit while he does whatever the fuck he wants. (I would say that White Collar fit into this trope as well in the first season.) And that garbage has gotten real stale already. Thankfully, Mazikeen and Amenadiel are around to be interesting and hinting at some real complexity while the white people do stupid white people shit.