rec post #3

[queenslayerbee]

Just felt like doing one of these again!

-ONE SHOW: as I return to my DCU roots, I decided to rewatch & complete "YOUNG JUSTICE" this month, as I never watched the fourth, and for now last, season. I finished the first a few days ago; it is, without a doubt, the best one, and the one I'd recommend without caveats. Quite a few of the show's choices have frustrated me since season 2 and especially season 3 (which committed the cardinal sin of being largely... boring). But it still offers a lot that interests me, and that first season... that first season is impecable and I do recommend it wholeheartedly. Especially if you want to work on building believable, organic group dynamics for your characters; I consider it quite a good reference for one of my original WIPs, in that sense.

-ONE ESSAY: "YOU GET THOUGH. YOU GET EVEN: RAPE, ANGER, CYNICISM, AND THE VIGILANTE GIRL DETECTIVE IN VERONICA MARS" by Alaine Martaus. Quite an interesting piece on one of the best protagonists of our era, IMO. It's barely 10 pages long, all in all, and it's available here in academia(.)edu, where you can make a free acount.

-ONE COMIC BOOK: now that I'm reading other Image titles, I'm thinking back to "PAPER GIRLS", one of my faovurite comics. It's a mystery/sci-fi series following the story of four 12yo newspaper delivery girls from the 80s and their time travel mishaps. It ended a few years ago, with 30 issues total. Amazon started an adaptation, and it was quite good, promising to faithfully adapt the comic's spirit while deviating from it in interesting ways... and ofc it was cancelled right after the first season xDD. But the comic itself is more than worth it!

Comments

[charlottenewtons]

I'm still annoyed about Amazon cancelling Paper Girls.

Veronica really was great. I sort of fell out of love with the show, but she was a wonderful character.

[nyctanthes]

Still pissed at Amazon for canceling Paper Girls. I was wary of an adaptation (and Mac's dark hair, heh.) But it was so good!

[queenslayerbee]

It showed SO much promise...

Veronica is outstanding. The show wavered in quality, IMO (although I seem to be in the minority who disliked the film AND liked s4 lol), but Veronica herself remains incredible.

[queenslayerbee]

Same! I'm very wary of adaptations for books/comics I love (this is totally compatible with rolling my eyes at purists that complain about every conscious choice that deviates from the source material in other cases, of course), so I felt a lot of trepidation when I heard they were adapting this one. But I ended up LOVING IT, and I even prefer a few of the changes they made in this version! And then it was oh so cruelly taken away from me xD

[charlottenewtons]

What annoys me most about the Paper Girls cancellation (beyond the promise it showed) is that Amazon never even bothered to promote it. I only found out it existed by accident. It's something that I would have expected to have been all over tumblr as well, but it never seemed to get much traction there.

I haven't seen the film or s4 yet but I'm curious about s4, mainly because widely hated seasons of tv always intrigue me.

[queenslayerbee]

True. It's been a while but IIRC I only heard about the show from tumblr, a week or two at most before release.

I wasn't in any rush to watch s4 (although I eventually would have), given how I liked each instalment progressively less and less. Buuuuut I saw the hate for s4, and being Ms. Contrary I decided to give it a go. I'm very pleased that I did lol. And I wouldn't say I'm *happy* about the one (1) thing that made fandom hate it so much, but... I have a different perspective on things like that and I appreciated it as a writing choice, nonetheless.