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Words cannot express how much love I have for Mon Mothma. Do I want to be her? Do I wish I was her best friend? Am I in love with her? Is it a little of all of the above? Yes!

Let's discuss Mon Mothma in "Andor" Season 2.
( Spoilers below! )

nic

"Andor". This show was made for me. I have so many thoughts and so much to discuss and this might be one of many posts - we will see.

Firstly - the show itself and the release schedule. 3 episodes a week was FAR TOO MUCH when each single episode was a masterpiece. There was so much to dissect in every single episode. The worldbuilding. The characters. The STAR WARS lore. Every single element of that show was carefully designed and elegantly executed and it deserved much more time to breathe.

Imagine how much more discourse there would be at a 1-episode-a-week release! I wouldn't be writing this post now at the end; I could have participated in fandom a lot more. It was all I could do to try and watch the 3 episodes within a week and avoid as many spoilers as I could. Inevitably, by Friday, I was typically spoiled for at least 1-2 things. Not because I went to STAR WARS forums. But because other sites would "helpfully" suggest (in my feed) "You may be interested in this!" I saw the final scene of the show THREE TIMES in places I shouldn't have. E.g. "Buy this shirt with "Andor's" final scene on it!"

So that's the rant.

My love for this show? So much. It was the story of the rise of the Rebellion and you know what?

THE WOMEN IN THIS SHOW WERE AMAZING.

And that's something that SW has always done well. From the very first time I saw Princess Leia, she was my hero. I wanted to be her. The women we got in "Andor" all have shades of Leia: competent, strong and people who have their own stories and destinies. They are not side characters. They're fully human. I love every single one of them.

musesfool

I realize I owe replies to comments and I will get to that. Work has just been eating my brain lately and not leaving much leftover.

In the meantime, I bring you two cool links:

- the Superman trailer which looks so good (I also ordered this adorable Superman dress for Baby Miss L); and

- this interview with John DeMarisco, who directs Mets games for SNY (and a cool behind the scenes video here).

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Current Mood: drained
Current Music: Plush - Stone Temple Pilots

musesfool

So I did watch the last couple of episodes of Elsbeth and enjoyed them a lot. ( spoilers )

Mets have won 2 ugly games from the Pirates. Let's hope they take the third one tomorrow, too. And the Knicks! Wow!

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Current Mood: okay
Current Music: Mets post game show

musesfool

I did not end up baking anything this weekend but last night I made this angel hair pasta with grape tomatoes (NYT gift link) scaled down for one, and it was delicious. The hardest, most time-consuming part was slicing the tomatoes, but I did it while the water was boiling, so you know 2 birds, 1 stone (I also made it all in the same pot - boiled the pasta and left it in the strainer while I cooked the tomatoes).

Then today I made another of my favorite chicken dishes: Rustic Garlic Chicken with Gravy - the chicken is good but the gravy is FANTASTIC. I made 2 boneless, skinless thighs (and ate them), but the full amount of gravy, since I also made a pot of mashed potatoes in the slow cooker and stirred the extra gravy into it so that'll be lunch or dinner for a few days as well.

There was an unfortunate amount of washing up afterwards, but I guess it was worth it.

Earlier, I watched this week's episode of Leverage: Redemption and ( spoilers )

I also learned, via tumblr, that season 1 of the original Leverage was aired out of order and is still out of order on Prime. So I will definitely have to do a rewatch with the correct viewing order at some point!

I still have not watched any of season 2 of Andor - 3 episodes a night is too many and I just keep putting it off now until I have the bandwidth for it - but I might watch the new eps of Poker Face tonight, or maybe I'll finish off this season of Elsbeth. I guess we'll see!

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Current Mood: happy
Current Music: Shake It Out = Florence + the Machine

musesfool

Netflix is finally releasing The Old Guard 2, aka, 2 Old 2 Guard, and here is the trailer!

Poker Face season 2 started last night. Here's that trailer and good lord, that is a lot of guest stars.

I'm trying to decide if I want bake something this weekend and if so, what. Could be a chocolate cake. Could be a lemon tart. Could be something else entirely! I really dislike that the lack of a dishwasher is making me consider it all very carefully, because I also have things I want to cook for dinner tomorrow and Sunday, and I hate having a sink full of pots and pans to be washed. I guess we'll see how I feel tomorrow.

Today work was suddenly stupidly busy after a couple of days of being quiet, but I logged off a 5 and took a lovely nap (I stayed up too late last night reading fic) and now there's baseball. It's hilarious to me that the Cubs tried to claim Chicago Pope but it turns out that he's actually a White Sox fan. Talk about a team needing a miracle, yikes. Though the Mets could use a little divine intervention right now, or at least a pitcher who can throw strikes. *eep*

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Current Mood: anxious
Current Music: Mets vs Cubs on tv

musesfool

Up first, the big news: I have hearing in my left ear again! I went today and had it vacuumed out by a nice young doctor who told me that my ears are otherwise in good shape, and he gave me drops for the itchiness, which I will pick up tomorrow. The other ENT also gave me drops for the itchiness but they never seemed to actually make a difference since I never felt like they were going where they needed to go instead of leaking out all over, but I guess I'll try again. Also, I guess at some point I should address my general, all-over itchiness with one of their allergists, but I've been this way my whole life and it just seems like a huge hassle to get it checked out. You have to stop taking allergy meds for 5 days before they do the tests and that sounds like 5 days of awfulness I just can't be having with right now or any time soon.

Anyway, my ears are unclogged and that did leave me slightly dizzy, which was surprising but I guess makes sense since balance is regulated all up in there.

I guess the really big news that other people care about is: the Knicks are up 2-0 on the Celtics!!! In WILD fashion. 2, 20-point comebacks in a row!!! Bing bong! Go New York go New York go! Now, I'm a playoffs-only kind of Knicks fan, and to be honest, I'm a last 3 minutes of the playoff game kind of fan, but oh boy, these 2 games were insane!!! The group text with my college friends, which is mostly dead most of the time, LIGHTS UP during these games since they are all big Knicks fans. Let's hope they can keep it up and shock everyone by winning the series!

There was other excellent sports news yesterday too: the Mets won, and Soto went yard twice! The Panthers lost! (I kind of hate that this means I am technically rooting for the Maple Leafs because that never ends well, but I really hate the Panthers.) And the Stars won! Another hat trick for Rantanen!!! Woo! I'd like the Stars to win, for

angelgazing, and also for Rantanen.

Okay, okay, I guess the really truly big news is that there is a new pope and he's from Chicago! I don't think he's one of the weirdo super conservative ones, and I'm curious as to what his chosen name signifies - there hasn't been a Leo since the late 19th century. I'm only a lapsed Catholic, but the rituals still hold some fascination and after having watched the movie Conclave recently, I was interested in seeing how this one would play out. (I also wondered if we'd see a schism from the weirdo super conservative Opus Dei types and whether there'd end up being an antipope from one of those factions. I wonder if electing an American was a play to hold that off, but who knows.)

Anyway, after I was done at the doctor's I went and got Shake Shack and it was delicious.

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Current Mood: shocked
Current Music: Twin Skeletons - Fall Out Boy