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I slept less than two hours and had a dreadful morning. I had a very decent afternoon. It concluded at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sairaali's when beckitypuff came over with assorted berries and maple whipped cream and Saira showed us the first episode of the second season of The Librarians (2014–), "The Librarians and the Drowned Book." Both of them coped very well with me immediately saying that I'd be disappointed if this didn't turn out to be a Tempest episode and then shouting things at the screen like "Sixteenth-century Milanese shipwreck! Chess set! Pearls! Category 5 hurricane overhead, what more do you want, a cast list?" Weirdly, the show it reminds me of most is The Fantastic Journey (1977) in that it has all the structural qualities of bad television, but something works out in the alchemy and it's delightful instead. I love that the master thief is a geeky-looking East Asian kid, that the scholar of art history looks like a Midwestern bruiser, that the mathematical genius is a perky young woman, that the actual bruiser of the team is middle-aged and female. Any one of them would be the quirky lead of their own show, but all together they make a quirky team. Predictably, I like John Larroquette's Jenkins. Noah Wyle's Flynn is distractable enough to be a Time Lord, but it looks like the narrative might remember to call him on it every now and then. Rebecca Romijn's Eve straight-up stabbed a fictional character with a saber. Would gladly watch more episodes. Need more time to waste on TV. Saira also sent me home with three novels by Anuja Chauhan: I am halfway through Those Pricey Thakur Girls (2013) and it's terrific, social comedy against the political backdrop of the aftermath of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, with a wry, effervescent, multilingual style. I may try to nap.
sairaali's when beckitypuff came over with assorted berries and maple whipped cream and Saira showed us the first episode of the second season of The Librarians (2014–), "The Librarians and the Drowned Book." Both of them coped very well with me immediately saying that I'd be disappointed if this didn't turn out to be a Tempest episode and then shouting things at the screen like "Sixteenth-century Milanese shipwreck! Chess set! Pearls! Category 5 hurricane overhead, what more do you want, a cast list?" Weirdly, the show it reminds me of most is The Fantastic Journey (1977) in that it has all the structural qualities of bad television, but something works out in the alchemy and it's delightful instead. I love that the master thief is a geeky-looking East Asian kid, that the scholar of art history looks like a Midwestern bruiser, that the mathematical genius is a perky young woman, that the actual bruiser of the team is middle-aged and female. Any one of them would be the quirky lead of their own show, but all together they make a quirky team. Predictably, I like John Larroquette's Jenkins. Noah Wyle's Flynn is distractable enough to be a Time Lord, but it looks like the narrative might remember to call him on it every now and then. Rebecca Romijn's Eve straight-up stabbed a fictional character with a saber. Would gladly watch more episodes. Need more time to waste on TV. Saira also sent me home with three novels by Anuja Chauhan: I am halfway through Those Pricey Thakur Girls (2013) and it's terrific, social comedy against the political backdrop of the aftermath of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, with a wry, effervescent, multilingual style. I may try to nap.
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Thank you! I am going to close the computer and give it a try.
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No! I have the previous two: The Zoya Factor and Battle for Bittora. When I finish Girls, I'll look for it. Those Pricey Thakur Girls has very much the feel of a family saga—so much so that I wasn't sure if I had missed the novel about the three sisters who are already married when the story begins—so I am glad to hear it has a follow-up; that feels correct somehow.
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I hope Chauhan keeps writing; the plots are great---I assume someone is making these into screwball-esque movies---and the characterizations are completely believable. There is drama, but it always believable drama.
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I was not disappointed!
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*note to self*
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Always Roddy McDowall.
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I am good at certain kinds of pattern recognition, and stories are probably at the top of the list.
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Also, I may have said this in your metaphorical hearing before, but I would not be surprised to find the show's writers came up with the three trainee Librarians, then rotated their schticks one position around the circle. You would expect the girl to be the art history major, the Asian guy to be the math nerd, and the white guy to be the thief, but nope -- it's more interesting than that.
It annoys the snot out of me that they haven't yet released even the first season on physical media. I would shove it into far more peoples' hands if I could.
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Makes sense to me.
It annoys the snot out of me that they haven't yet released even the first season on physical media. I would shove it into far more peoples' hands if I could.
Really? Phooey. It would certainly make it easier for me to catch up on Season One.
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I wish I could promise to liveblog consistently, because then my reply would be: why not both? I am planning on watching more, though. The plots will have to get very silly indeed before I stop wanting to see more of that cast.
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Like you find in a bar.
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I've seen gifs from that episode! I'm sure it's not really Boston, but I want to see it anyway.
For me, the show suffered in comparison to Leverage which had many of the same writers and Christian Kain (the art historian/bruiser) and better production values.
I recognized Christian Kane from Leverage and was delighted to find him working. I saw about half a dozen episodes over the years and enjoyed it, but never really got caught up in it the same way as several of my friends (and my mother, who followed it from the start. I watched the pilot with her in 2008. She started watching for Timothy Hutton, but everyone else—especially Eliot, Hardison, and Parker—grew on her almost immediately). I agree that the use of brightly colored CGI for magic on The Librarians is not fantastic, but after one episode I really like the core cast and the catch-as-myth-can atmosphere. I will let you know how it works out for me in future episodes.