TTD: Coming Soon

[owlmoose]

Doing this one out of order because I probably ought to write it while it's still 2014. ;) umadoshi asked what books and movies I was most looking forward to for 2015.

Movies: The big franchise films are the ones that come to mind -- Mockingjay Part 2 and Avengers: Age of Ultron. Also Agent Carter, which is television not movies, but I tend to think of the MCU as a series of movies, and there is nothing else I'm looking forward to more, in any medium. So, so, so excited. Just a week away now! And the new Star Wars, of course, although I'm looking forward to that with as much trepidation as excitement.

Books: The book I'm most looking forward to reading in the near future is Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie, which has been out since like October, but I haven't yet gotten around to picking it up. Also Katherine Addison's The Goblin Emperor, which isn't out in paperback until March (though I may bite the bullet and get that one anyway, maybe as an ebook, because I've heard so many people gushing over it, and I might need to read it before Hugo nomination deadline). As for books that are actually new in 2015, top of my list are "Voyage of the Basilisk" by Marie Brennan, the two new Kate Elliott titles -- "Court of Fives" and "The Black Wolves" -- and "The Fifth Season" by N.K. Jemisin. Not to mention, like, practically every book on this list from ladybusiness, which continues to be the most dangerous spot on the Internet for making my to-read list explode.

Comments

[umadoshi]

Agent Carter--! I'm so nervous, because I bounced so hard off the Agents of SHIELD pilot (and have yet to try going back), but it has SO MUCH POTENTIAL. Peggy!!!

(I lack a Peggy icon. I should fix that.)

[owlmoose]

Agents of SHIELD got so much better after Winter Soldier. I would say just skip the lead-up to the turn, but a lot of things happen in the earlier episodes that pay off later. For me it was worth it, but I can totally understand why other people noped out.

Sooooo happy for a Peggy TV series. She's one of my very favorite Marvel-verse characters. Also a little nervous though, because if it sucks, or is good but nobody watches it, we have yet another excuse for the "no one wants female superheroes" crowd.

[umadoshi]

I'd heard that Agents of SHIELD improved a lot over the course of season 1, but then I heard mixed things about season 2 so far, and that they did something appalling at the mid-season finale. ;_;

if it sucks, or is good but nobody watches it, we have yet another excuse for the "no one wants female superheroes" crowd.

That's my fear too. :/

[owlmoose]

I don't know that I'd call it appalling, but I surely wasn't happy about it. (Assuming that we're talking about the same thing.) They'd better make the second half of the season earn it, is all I'm saying. Overall, it's been a mixed bag. I'd say it was better than the first half of season one, but not as good as the second half.

[lassarina]

Oh good God. Thanks for the reminder about Agent Carter. I need to add it to our ever-growing Tivo backlog.

[owlmoose]

Tuesday January 6th!!! (Can you tell this has been on my calendar for awhile?)