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Been running a big crochet push here, trying to finish a mermaid blanket.
Principal crochet is done. I have to finish getting the fin on it.
So there has been much TV. A couple DVDs, including Constantine, which was good.
And I'm into Season 2 of a Sons of Anarchy Rewatch.
My opinions, since I'm doing this mostly with full attention and not writing a post-apoc biker gang novel in another window:
1) I still don't care for Opie. He feels rather like a spineless sociopath, one who has gotten where he is by following Jax, instead of on his own hook. He brings to mind the line "Windy's a follower and Deak's the follower of a follower!" from the SW radio plays.
2) Clay and Gemma are one of the most amazing couples. Older, adoring, hot for each other, but with enough buried history and enough silent spaces in the present to cause them trouble.
3) I like Tig better this time around. He's wrong and evil and awful. He's Clay's attack dog. But there is an unexpected streak of kindness that comes out in him at the oddest moments. None of the others has that kindness.
4) Jax... He's pretty but this is not a man I like. I understand him, but I don't find many likeable traits in this cute ball of revenge. He could grow up, and has several chances to over the seven seasons, but throws away life with both hands in pursuit of revenge.
5) Chibs. He's raunchy and competent and occasionally the voice of wisdom. But there is deep sadness in him, which makes him hard, but brittle. And the "tiocfaidh ar la" is not support of Cammie's Cause, it's a grim promise that Jimmy O will get what's coming to him.
6) Juice and Happy and Half-Sack are much more active than I remember. And I adore Juice. He's smarter in some ways and dumber in others than the rest of the guys.
7) Bobby Elvis is complicated. I love him for his wisdom and hate him for his brutality. And he looks like my father -in-law.
8) Gemma is a Crone, quite literally as she hits menopause (I wish I would look that good at 51). She is north and earth and winter and death. She stands like the mountain between her people and trouble. Occasionally she drops a landslide on them, but that's occupational hazard. She is the dark mother, from whom all come and to whom all return. And if she has to make you come back to her, you won't like it.
The plotting is seamless, and Sutter is a magnificent bastard.
And Gemma Teller crossed with Granny Weatherwax is exactly the kind of Crone I want to be.
Principal crochet is done. I have to finish getting the fin on it.
So there has been much TV. A couple DVDs, including Constantine, which was good.
And I'm into Season 2 of a Sons of Anarchy Rewatch.
My opinions, since I'm doing this mostly with full attention and not writing a post-apoc biker gang novel in another window:
1) I still don't care for Opie. He feels rather like a spineless sociopath, one who has gotten where he is by following Jax, instead of on his own hook. He brings to mind the line "Windy's a follower and Deak's the follower of a follower!" from the SW radio plays.
2) Clay and Gemma are one of the most amazing couples. Older, adoring, hot for each other, but with enough buried history and enough silent spaces in the present to cause them trouble.
3) I like Tig better this time around. He's wrong and evil and awful. He's Clay's attack dog. But there is an unexpected streak of kindness that comes out in him at the oddest moments. None of the others has that kindness.
4) Jax... He's pretty but this is not a man I like. I understand him, but I don't find many likeable traits in this cute ball of revenge. He could grow up, and has several chances to over the seven seasons, but throws away life with both hands in pursuit of revenge.
5) Chibs. He's raunchy and competent and occasionally the voice of wisdom. But there is deep sadness in him, which makes him hard, but brittle. And the "tiocfaidh ar la" is not support of Cammie's Cause, it's a grim promise that Jimmy O will get what's coming to him.
6) Juice and Happy and Half-Sack are much more active than I remember. And I adore Juice. He's smarter in some ways and dumber in others than the rest of the guys.
7) Bobby Elvis is complicated. I love him for his wisdom and hate him for his brutality. And he looks like my father -in-law.
8) Gemma is a Crone, quite literally as she hits menopause (I wish I would look that good at 51). She is north and earth and winter and death. She stands like the mountain between her people and trouble. Occasionally she drops a landslide on them, but that's occupational hazard. She is the dark mother, from whom all come and to whom all return. And if she has to make you come back to her, you won't like it.
The plotting is seamless, and Sutter is a magnificent bastard.
And Gemma Teller crossed with Granny Weatherwax is exactly the kind of Crone I want to be.