Good Place and Adjustment Bureau
Sep. 28th, 2017 11:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwynOMG The Good Place tonight! Mindy!!!! Mindy was back!!! I love Mindy so much--last season minim calibre and I were talking about how utterly amazing that actress was, how much we loved that character, and I had hoped, but really didn't expect, that she would show up this year. And we got her in episode three!! Her timing is astounding, she is a seriously gifted actor and the character just kills me. How much she wants some cocaine. Dressing in her afterlife medium place outfit of the '80s power suit. Her love of gardening and masturbation.
And that it came with the revelation that Chidi and Eleanor really are in love…seriously, this is like the best fanfic. I wasn't going to ask for Good Place fic for Yuletide, but I think I might have to ask for Mindy fic. With a bonus of Chidi and Eleanor falling in love. I was really kind of panicking in this episode, because I thought, how are they burning through all these stories, how on earth can they sustain this show? This is like having fanfic filmed, I swear to god. This is exactly what fic has to do all the time to sustain a show that devolves into shitty writing--but it's being given to us, like a gift, with the actors and the sets and the cinematography and everything.
And OMG the names of all the shops--Sushi and the Banshees! This show. I spent so much time proselytizing last year, but only a few people went ahead and watched back then, and I'm loving seeing people discover it now because it's so good. SO GOOD.
In other news, I nominated a movie this year for Yuletide that I think is going to be an empty choice. But back when I got home from the hospital, it was nominations time, and I was telling killabeez and minim calibre about how much I've always dreamed of having a The Adjustment Bureau fic where Sam Wilson finds out that he was Harry Mitchell, one of the quasi-angel-like beings in the movie (both roles played by Anthony Mackie). I'd been thinking about that desire a lot in the hospital for some reason, I'd written a post about it on Tumblr years ago, but neither min nor killa were familiar with the movie and min suggested that this is a perfect time to begin a campaign to get more people familiar with the movie, so that someday maybe someone will write that fic where Sam realizes he used to be one of the Adjustment team's caseworkers. They suggested that if I can drum up interest, it could happen.
Min actually bought the dvd, and we watched it the other night and she gave me the regular non-hd dvd which I'm planning to rip--I don't know if anyone would be interested, but I could put it up for download here if anyone wanted to see it. Anthony Mackie is adorable as Harry, and I think the movie satisfies both slashers with Mackie and Matt Damon's characters, and het or gen fans, with the romance between Damon and Emily Blunt's characters that's at the heart of the movie. It also has great performances from John Slattery and Terence Stamp, and I don't know why, but I just love it and I want more people to love it too.
I looked for fic on AO3 but wow, there's almost nothing--out of 15 stories, there are only about seven or eight that aren't either AUs of a different fandom or crossovers without the movie's characters I wanted. Only a couple feature Mackie's character, and only one is more than a few hundred words. I thought it would be great for me since it's a crossover with Political Animals, but it was really, really terribly written, so I don't even have fic to pimp someone with. I'll have to see about maybe vidding it, but that might not be for a while.
I don't have much luck trying to lure people into shows or movies. Once in a while I succeed, but not often, so I don't know that there'll be anyone else but me doing anything with the movie this year. But I'll keep trying, I guess. (Of course, I never thought to look on ff.net, but since I've never gone there to read anything, I'm kind of in the mode of why start now…)
And that it came with the revelation that Chidi and Eleanor really are in love…seriously, this is like the best fanfic. I wasn't going to ask for Good Place fic for Yuletide, but I think I might have to ask for Mindy fic. With a bonus of Chidi and Eleanor falling in love. I was really kind of panicking in this episode, because I thought, how are they burning through all these stories, how on earth can they sustain this show? This is like having fanfic filmed, I swear to god. This is exactly what fic has to do all the time to sustain a show that devolves into shitty writing--but it's being given to us, like a gift, with the actors and the sets and the cinematography and everything.
And OMG the names of all the shops--Sushi and the Banshees! This show. I spent so much time proselytizing last year, but only a few people went ahead and watched back then, and I'm loving seeing people discover it now because it's so good. SO GOOD.
In other news, I nominated a movie this year for Yuletide that I think is going to be an empty choice. But back when I got home from the hospital, it was nominations time, and I was telling killabeez and minim calibre about how much I've always dreamed of having a The Adjustment Bureau fic where Sam Wilson finds out that he was Harry Mitchell, one of the quasi-angel-like beings in the movie (both roles played by Anthony Mackie). I'd been thinking about that desire a lot in the hospital for some reason, I'd written a post about it on Tumblr years ago, but neither min nor killa were familiar with the movie and min suggested that this is a perfect time to begin a campaign to get more people familiar with the movie, so that someday maybe someone will write that fic where Sam realizes he used to be one of the Adjustment team's caseworkers. They suggested that if I can drum up interest, it could happen.
Min actually bought the dvd, and we watched it the other night and she gave me the regular non-hd dvd which I'm planning to rip--I don't know if anyone would be interested, but I could put it up for download here if anyone wanted to see it. Anthony Mackie is adorable as Harry, and I think the movie satisfies both slashers with Mackie and Matt Damon's characters, and het or gen fans, with the romance between Damon and Emily Blunt's characters that's at the heart of the movie. It also has great performances from John Slattery and Terence Stamp, and I don't know why, but I just love it and I want more people to love it too.
I looked for fic on AO3 but wow, there's almost nothing--out of 15 stories, there are only about seven or eight that aren't either AUs of a different fandom or crossovers without the movie's characters I wanted. Only a couple feature Mackie's character, and only one is more than a few hundred words. I thought it would be great for me since it's a crossover with Political Animals, but it was really, really terribly written, so I don't even have fic to pimp someone with. I'll have to see about maybe vidding it, but that might not be for a while.
I don't have much luck trying to lure people into shows or movies. Once in a while I succeed, but not often, so I don't know that there'll be anyone else but me doing anything with the movie this year. But I'll keep trying, I guess. (Of course, I never thought to look on ff.net, but since I've never gone there to read anything, I'm kind of in the mode of why start now…)
