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Time for a world-shaking season ending, I suppose.

I wonder if the Loomworld has leaked into the other Arrowverse shows.

It feels like the Fates have just taken control of one city. Loomworld feels small.

I wasn't aware steel was that good a conductor (but I approved of Nate getting electrocuted, because yes, I never did like that character that much...)

I'm sorry, but - the fight with psycho!Fate is breaking my suspension of disbelief here. It's - the Fates are supposed to be these superpowerful gods, and they are defeating her this easily? That's not. Nope. Feels fake.

Hmmm, looks like we've gone from the 1984 dystopia model to the Brave New World mode, aka the people living in it mistakes it for a utopia.

Poor Behrad remembering his first death.

And no shouting about being stranded Mick - four months? Who cares? You left the others longer back in season one. (Mind you, they could have gone looking for him.)

So - Zari 1.0's presence in this reality means that her reality is getting superimposed - including Behrad's death? And Behrad is being an idiot and not mentioning the fucking bulletholes, and I HATE THAT TROPE!

I still want to know what that goat exhibit is about.

Sounds like Mick spent those four months productively, telling Lita the truth at long last. And pep talks run in the bloodline, apparently.

And Zari 1.0 must leave. Oh well, if she goes into the totem, at least guest appearances are surely possible.

And we end with Charlie back in her punk band, doing a cover version of the Cul-de-sac friends song, and John gets his soul back. And Lita looks nice as a punk.

And - guess Sara was the one to get abducted by aliens. Right. Cliffhanger.

And we open in 1984, I see. Hello, Mona.

I never particularly liked Friends, and sorry, but having Legends do a ripoff hasn't improved it.

I feel that having Zari 1.0's emotional return being stuck in TV land where nobody else remembers her - sucks.

Oh, good, away from Friends. Hello, British period drama. Hello, very wrong looking John. (Is he supposed to be Thomas?)

On the positive side: Astra did get her mother back?

John the very correct butler, who is seduced by dark magic. Snerk.

I do like Sara and Ava almost immediately accepting that the rest of the crew are clearly from an alternate timeline/dimension/something, because that's just how Star Trek rolls.

Well, that's one way to give everybody their memories back of both Behrad and Zari.

So, does this make Mr. Parker a Q? No, wrong series, he wasn't until TNG.

I'm annoyed that Mick hasn't even appeared yet. It's more than half the episode gone. Seriously, why is Dominic Purcell getting so little screentime this season?

You know, the utter absence of Astra's father makes me wonder if the Constantine is her father theories are correct.

"Is John Constantine really capable of such a selfless act?" No. Canonically, no.

Ah, Mick! Finally. With very nice hair.

(I'm sad that Mick didn't get a ninja show.)

You know, between the hellhound and now the Zari 1.0 being separated out of Zari 2.0, methinks somebody watched Good Omens.

Right. Let's see how my favourite disasters cope with being like gods.

Dear Sara. Having vision powers is not going to be helpful if you don't want to share with the rest of the class.

Nice outfits. Though seriously, no throwing the bus driver around. That's just bad manners.

Astra, you are immortal, not invulnerable. They can still hurt you.

Wait - is Sara's vision really gone? Probably because the Fates have the Loom, thus time is about to go wonky.

I appreciate Mick punching a zombie. Except - didn't he used to have zombie issues?

I might know a bloke. Please be Chas, please be Chas, please be Chas.

Well, Astra's evil step-Fate does have a point. Bringing someone back to life by magic is not fixing the underlying issue.

Hmm. Let's eradicate death? Nah, she'd just show up if they tried that.

Okay, possibly Gary is not just seeing human!Gideon, he's hallucinating his bunny?

And Legends continues it's long history of inappropriate make out sessions.

How does Mick still have his gun? Surely the British military would have confiscated such an obvious weapon before locking him up?

So, everybody's dead and Charlie's back with her sisters. Yep, that's definitely going to stick

Why I generally agree that reading the book is best - that is a very clever and time-saving use of Sara's new powers, thank you, Zari.

Astra makes good plans.

Also: why would the cup of Dionysus be with a frat house? He loved to hang out with lots and lots of scary women, not random idiot men.

If Mick can have a treasure room and fund the Waverider, he can easily afford to send Lita to college.

*googles Hudson university to see if it is real* Apparently fictional, but appears in many different shows. Apparently Jessica Fletcher taught a criminology class there once. So, LoT is canonically in the same extended multiverse af Murder she wrote. :-)

So, actual Dionysus, that's fine. But why is he not surrounding himself with scary women?

Well, the Nate/Mick shippers should be happy with that twist.

Considering the things people can end up in viral videos of, that sounds relatively mild, if not conducive to the right sort of online fame.

Astra's plan: molotov cocktail.

I mean, Mick never sit in on the team meetings these days and he's still a legend. And moose costumes are entirely optional. Calm down, Astra.

I am finding the obvious age difference between the legends and all the frat children a bit distracting. Though really, they are all acting like high school children having weekend parties anyway...

So, Mick, God of - you know what, inflammatory speeches of something. Fire. Romance novels.

I hope next episode actually has fun with the god thing.

And yeah, we are 1½ week into May, so be it. Life continues with work from home - it's very unexciting and you'd think I'd get more reading done, but no, not really. Oh well...

Books I've recently finished reading

( Several comics, a little vampiric stuff, a little sf )

What I've recently watched

( Just a single Chinese show about a necromancer )

What I'm reading now:

Barbara Hambly's Travelling with the dead, Makoto Yukimura's Vinland Saga vol. 9. and Mo Xiang Togn Xiu's The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, which has plenty of flaws and the translation is somewhat clunky, but it's easy to see why it's got a fandom going. Once I'm done with it, I'll be watching the live action show next.

Total number of books and comics read this year: 34

I have chosen to stop trying to keep this fic post updated. Instead, you can find a full, updated look at what I've written at my AO3 account.

Well, Mick accidentally found something his daughter might enjoy. And casually unveiled the Waverider randomly parked in Central City Park.

Headcanon that at this point, Centralites just don't give a damn what happens - superheroes, aliens, random timeships - they've seen it all and then some.

Well. Constantine is pretty much correct. Barring the occasional grudge, most enemies become friends in a second.

Gary is the only sensible person aboard, having actually seen a therapist about having been to Hell.

The Loom of Destiny - very pretty, doesn't look like the CGI crew knew much about how looms actually look.

Okay, so Sara clearly has some sort of Fate power. So, Charlie, Sara and - who will make up the third Legends fate? Hmmm.

They really need a better cell one of these days. At least with a chair.

Awww, poor Mick. He makes snacks and his daughter isn't even impressed with his heatgun.

I agree with John. It'd be plain rude of Sara to kill everybody.

So - nobody is going to theorize that a spare Fate has snuck aboard and is shapeshifting to ferment chaos?

I feel that that dog breed is in danger of being typecast as Hellhound. First Good Omens and now Legends.

I like Astra more and more.

The demonic hellhound design is actually half decent.

Awww, at least Mick and Lita managed to bond. (I still think she should have found the cold gun and shot the hellhound with it.)

Awww, Zari and Astra are also bonding. That's nice.

Welcome to Ancient Egypt, where people apparently lived in the middle of the pyramids. (Also, I bet there's not going to be a guest appearance from a certain high priestess...)

Take years. Time ship. John, if you need years, you can have years.

I always find the fake urgency thing annoying. They are time travellers.

Okay, so the showrunners spoiler of "did she mention me" "no" was - extremely misleading. A message is quite different than not mentioning him at all.

I like John's house.

Well, that's a very liberal boarding house. Or possibly a shady one. The other guest certainly seems shady.

"greatest sorcerer that ever lived". Bit full of yourself, John? The rest, sure, but the greatest? Nah.

Why do I think the doctor might be a serial killer? Ah. He's the serial killer.

Mick: "She told me to go to Hell. Where are we headed?" "Hell." *snerk*

I am happy that Mick and Ava have made friends.

Mick Rory, officially scarier than random demons.

You know, Ava is going to be so jealous that John and Zari met Jack the Ripper.

Heh, magic compass.

You know, I really like this season's villains.

Getting drunk in a house full of encores that want to kill you whether you are you or your disguise. I find this a questionable decision at best.

Did Dominic Purcell have something else going on while these episodes were filming? He has so few scenes and at most B-plots.

You know, I don't particularly want a John Constantine/Zari 2.0 pairing.

Hey, hey, the gangs all here.

Aka the episode that's a sort of crossover with Supernatural.

Well, it certainly opens very Supernatural-ish. Monster slaughtering punks in the 70s. Poor punks.

And Nate's first assumption is that they had sleep sex...

Ha, I guessed Lachesis.

I'm surprised not a single legend has brought up that Mick's daughter is technically an aberration, as surely as Stein's was. But yeah, no, bad Mick, no erasing the girl once she's been born.

I mean, it's fairly easy to see where a conflict between the creating life Fate and the ending life Fate might come about.

Kitten!

It's a bit sad in the dramatic irony way that none of them are guessing that maybe, just maybe, Behrad wasn't around and everything was a lot more tragic.

Hmmm. I wonder how long Mick and Ava must have spent to make an objective difference in Lita's life.

So. Is that John or is that not John? Questions, questions.

Zari has a nice totem house. (Though I still wonder where her family got the bloody thing.)

No, Behrad! I liked Behrad!

Charlie's pretty badass when she wants to be.

Zari is pretty consistently an overprotective older sister when it comes to it.

So, in the end, pretty much no Supernatural crossover, they just borrowed a few props and murdered the crew. But no actual guest appearances, which - booo.

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So. March. The month were a Monday was a perfectly ordinary day at work and then Wednesday the prime minister had a press conference and Thursday we all got sent to work-from-home. Which was okay for the first 1½ week and then suitable work-from-home work started drying up fast. So - starting tomorrow I'm spending what's left of this year's vacation. It was supposed to have been spent after Easter on a trip to New York, but, well - looking at the news, NY really isn't the place to be right now.

It still sucks.

I hope everybody's okay. Hiding at home or going to work, but staying healthy.

Books I've recently finished reading

( Mostly fantasy )

What I've recently watched

( Well... )

What I'm reading now:

Richard Morgan's Woken Furies, which takes far too long to start getting interesting, Barbara Hambly's Those Who Hunt the Night (and can I take five seconds to recommend the National Emergency Library? 1.5 mio. scanned books, ready to be read, for the duration of the current ~~Inter~~National Emergency - and lots of good stuff there (*fingers crossed it doesn't get shut down - there is the predictable controversy. Question: does the US not have library money for authors?*), and a fan translation of a Chinese novel called They All Say I've Met a Ghost, about a good socialist academic who is remarkably oblivious to the fact that all the students and coworkers at the school he's been hired to teach at are, well, ghosts.

Total number of books and comics read this year: 23

What's the point of working from home if I can't sit down and watch Legends early for once?

And a wild Mona appears. And I find I still haven't forgiven her for the entire new!Rebecca Silver thing. Go away, Mona.

And even Gideon is getting in on it.

Now why do you need to know the price of a strumpet, Ray? You are a happily married man now.

Awww, Astra got a demon adoptive mom. Who is probably evil and manipulative, because: demon. I still kinda hope their relationship is genuine, albeit twisted, but we'll see.

Drunken legends fucking up Shakespeare: check

Hmmm. I wonder if Aziraphale is somewhere and can go see the inevitable new play?

Honestly, the boys getting drunk and sharing their emotions was a dull bachelor party anyway.

Bah, it's the wrong year for Mick to get to burn the Globe down.

And Nate's just being an asshole now. Which was to be expected, really. He's crap at people leaving.

Oy, Mick! No dissing the Bard, or Aziraphale will get upset. (I bet there's a Principality lurking in that tavern. Hmmm.)

John as Romeo. Okay. Nate as Juliet. Well. I mean. Technically women didn't appear on stage, so - except. Well. I mean. Behrad wasn't an option?

Why are they acting as if they'll never see Ray and Nora again. Nora will visit for book club, Ray can meet up with his friends. Moving out of a room mate situation or getting a new job doesn't = leaving your friends forever.

Right, enough of letting this annoying Corona business interfere with important Legends watching.

Funny how many Fate and Destiny things can randomly change history. The world must have been very chaotic back in the day.

Because of course it's realistic that an entirely mythical artifact just happened to be part of Nate's history curriculum.

Ah. Clever Charlie.

Ah, happy family reunion.

Mick? One bad review does not a troll make.

Honestly, Mick? Seeking out a bad reviewer at their home, even if they posted a book burning video (you are a famous arsonist - consider it a tribute) - that just makes you worse than Anne Rice. Stop it, Mick.

I do believe Len's parkas are nice and warm, but just a single one on top of John's usual outfit does not a pleasant trip to Antarctica make.

I am halfway convinced this will end with the reveal that Damien knew all along.

Meanwhile, Mick is handling fatherhood even worse than Damien.

Huh. Daddy issues episode. Right. Why is it never Mummy Issues?

Hmmm

Why do I suspect this will end with Nora losing her fairy godmother powers?

Gary is getting a lot of train related trauma this episode.

There is way too little Mick this episode. Though I am liking the main plotline, mostly.

As an ending, that felt a little out of character. Unless torture in Hell is worse than unexistance? But Damien would seem more the type to try and take over.

So, I am officially sent home from work as a non-essential public employee - for at least two weeks, but honestly? I'd not be surprised if they extend it until Easter.

We're supposed to give up social interactions for Lent, basically, to slow the Corona pandemic enough that the Danish health system isn't overwhelmed entirely.

So far, so good. I intend to go out in a moment to panic buy some milk and a cucumber, and then hide from the storm inside the rest of the day. There'll be a little work-from-home-work, but not a lot, not really. My job mostly involves ILL, and since there's nobody to process the physical books and nobody to receive them anyway, well.

I'm a little annoyed that my planned Easter trip to New York is now utterly impossible, but perhaps also slightly relieved. Even if I think Trump is closing the gate after the fox has already raided the chicken coop. Still. Will need to see about getting my tickets refunded. And then we'll see what's going to happen.

House unpacking continues. I got new sofas, so that's good. I still have boxes, so that's less good. But I'm settling in.

Books I've recently finished reading
( Some mind-twisting sf, some dystopia, some very entertaining fantasy with what is essentially small, shapeshifting dragons )

What I've recently watched

( Birds of Prey )

What I'm reading now

Erin Morgenstern's The Starless Sea, which has proved to be a slow read for me, and Rainbow Rowell's Wayward Son, which I might be enjoying more if it didn't have a road trip plotline.

Total number of books and comics read this year: 13

Well, that is the proper response for John Constantine to finding out he's dying of lung cancer.

Charlie the shapeshifter is a goddess of Fate? (Also - she is what to Behrad?)

As if I didn't find Nate annoying enough already, now he's got one of those idiot toys.

Why would Genghis Khan bother with petty organized crime? He conquered nations, not drug dealing territories.

For a show that usually does't mind showing LGBT content, I'm not sure I'm a fan of them swapping in Behrad for Zari ans then making the resident shapeshifter/totem wielder canon.

I do like the had to dig his way out of an impenetrable tomb bit.

Awww, John didn't get to circumcise Ray... This show is weird.

And doesn't know its history. I mean, I'm pretty sure France had a queen or two after Marie Antoinette. Not for long, but I mean they did swap rulers a lot for a bit there in the 19th century. *googles* A couple. One of them for a grand total of 20 minutes... Still counts.

Those stupid scooters. Keep Genghis on a proper bike, damnit!

I really want Chas to show up now and yell at John.

I feel that the general encore ridiculousness is a very different show from John's storyline this season, and they don't quite mesh.

I'm not really a fan of the new intro.

Where did Ava's confidence go?

Mick the famous romance novelist needs Ray to tell him that he actually like-likes Ali. Yeah...

Zari's rocking the Versailles look.

I like the Constantine giving background story parts, though I'd like it more if it didn't keep cutting to either Versailles or Hell.

Punk!John is nice. Though - fair enough that the ghost is angry, but asking John Constantine to give up magic is losing proposal.

And Marie lost her head.

Hey, they still have the Helmet of Fate in the corner. And supposedly there's a loom of fate coming up. Probably not the same Fate, though...

I am growing fonder of this sneaky selfish Zari - but really, she needs a boyfriend with a head.

Marie's got pretty good aim for a headless body.

Okay, I am not really a fan of Zari's boyfriend, but seriously, Nate? What the hell did the guy do to deserve getting hit like that? That's a creepy, possessive asshole move.

It's pretty obvious this was the episode getting filmed alongside Crisis.

The plot thickens. Charlie, Charlie, what did you get up to back in the day?

I really feel that standards for most evil souls have been - kinda lax. I mean, Rasputin? Only in pop culture, if we're honest. A random gangster? At least this episode is supposed to involve a serial killer.

Freddy Myers? Come on, they're not even trying, are they.

At least they remembered Ava is a serial killer nerd.

Is this Mick's reunion? Assuming US high school usually ends at 18, that'll make him nearly 50 by standard years now.

I wondered if this John had a demon double, but nope. Just Charlie.

So, magic gun for the gangster, telekinesis for the serial killer. Magic roulette?

I really hope Nora gets to stop being a fairy godmother. All the power, very little choice in anything. And if kids can be as old as this Freddy - some of those wishes could be nasty things and not just ponys.

Poor Mick. No killing his - probably 20 years younger high school girlfriend. (Can't have a woman his own age for a love interest? Needs to be younger and prettier).

And poor roasted Mick. At least he died the way he'd have wanted to?

Reset button pushed, Zari to the surprise of nobody staying, and John having gone to the House of Mystery? To visit a long-captive ghost? That's Astra's dead mother. Well, that's gonna end well.

I like Astra. I do find the narrative choice - child kidnapped by Hell becomes villain - unfortunate in some ways, but Astra herself? An excellent villain.

And Mick is back to just sitting around, drinking and grumpy and doing nothing. Damnit, Mick, why aren't you channeling that into writing?

This entire Nate Zari thing is already giving me second-hand embarrassment.

John needs to meet a certain Mountie. They've got a lot in common: they both keep tasting inappropriate things.

This crime noir story is amusing, though John's American hard-boiled PI accent is atrocious.

Behrad's mom knows exactly where the air totem is, doesn't she?

Mick looks very fetching like that.

Okay, the switch between suave Ava and drunk Ava works.

Yeah, yeah, pretty girl's a femme fatale alright. Totally didn't see that one coming...

How did Ray get free? Two seconds ago he was handcuffed to a car and unable to do anything more to prevent the femme fatale dying than using the horn? Ah, nice wheel, Ray. Couldn't have done that a second faster.

I wonder if Hell gives frequent flier discounts?

Was that Mona's book Mick was reading?

And Behrad just kidnapped his sister. Because of course he did...

So, I've been kinda busy - partly at work, because I am tired almost every day I come home (we're busy enough that they are doing the utterly unheard thing and offering paid overtime, which I intend to take some of), partly at home unpacking and assembling things needed for my new house. (I was in my old town for a brief stroll yesterday and could tell somebody's already moved into my old apartment. I hope the landlord warned them, but somehow I really, really doubt it. Well, that's not my problem anymore.)

Meanwhile I am being utterly baffled at the weather. There have been snowdrops and erantis in my garden since mid-january. Today is Candlemass and it hasn't come close to below-zero. This winter is - sorely lacking in winter.

Anyway, since I really suck at keeping this sort of post of on a weekly basis, I will give up trying and accept that it's going to be about monthly. Hopefully.

Books I've recently finished reading

( Some fantasy, some historical fiction )

What I've recently watched

( Toss a coin to your witcher )

What I'm reading now

Erin Morgenstern's The Starless Sea, which so far feels like it wants to be The Neverending Story.

Total number of books and comics read this year: 6

LoT reaction post: Swan Thong

LoT reaction post: The One Where We're Trapped on TV

LoT reaction post: I am Legends

LoT reaction post: Freaks and Greeks

What I read and watched in April

My fiction

LoT reaction post: Ship Broken

LoT reaction post: The Great British Fake-Off

Lot reaction post: Zari, Not Zari

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What I read and watched in March

LoT reaction post: Romeo V. Juliet: Dawn of Justness

Lot reaction post: Mr. Parker's Cul-De-Sac

Speaking of the Corona virus

What I read and watched in February

LoT reaction post: Mortal Khanbat

LoT reaction post: A Head of Her Time

LoT reaction post: Slay Anything

LoT reaction post: Miss Me, Kiss Me, Love Me

What I read and watched in January

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