She doesn’t appear on the show after the third ep, just some mentions.
How’d you like Away? Idk if it’s bc Emma is our lead but I don’t like Lu so far, hopefully I warm up to her and she warms up to her commander too
Oh, hmm, well, it’s hard to say how much I liked it as a whole, a lot of it is colored by how much I liked certain parts. I don’t think it fully succeeded, tbh, in what it was attempting, as I mentioned in the previous ask, it was blending different genres and to me, it didn’t fulfill its potential in either. For one thing, Lex, the daughter, her arc seemed so out of place on this show, where the rest of the drama and stakes and characters were on such a different level, and then this teen romance.. And the various adult romances popping up, like, maybe it’s hypocritical to say that when Lu and Mei are my favorite part, but they’re defined by their literal restraint and not following through, it’s not just about the romance but culture and willpower and they only got the one ep, instead of all these random friends and coworkers with their season-long inappropriate arcs.
Yeah, when you start off, Misha and Lu really don’t come across well, which is unfair because Lu especially is correct, Emma was impetuous and didn’t listen and caused the fire, but Emma is also our sympathetic lead so the audience naturally sides with her. As I did too. But I very much started to warm to Lu, partly because of her romantic arc, which is entirely intentional, even the general audience should like her by the end of ep 3, but she also warms to Emma a lot. Also, she’s just funny and badass and so smart and good at what she does. It’s hard to not like her even if she weren’t a wlw.
boocita so i checked out Away and it was way better than the trailer!! ok yeah bit of a family melodrama but also a story of ppl coming together and accepting one another ? with Lu’s character i was eyerolling at the start bc the whole china’s honour thing always reeks of chinese market PR to me now but i loved her arc of deciding what she wants. the photo at the end was really lovely it perfectly encapsulated her growth. oh my god and the wlw pining!!! can you say slow burn? mei asking just to be beside her for a night, oh my god! exquisite
Yeah, the marketing did the show a bit of a disservice! But on the other hand, I thought the show would have a lot more of what we saw in ep 2, action thriller in space but it really pulled on that going forward. Maybe it was trying to draw in the emotional drama crowd that loves This Is Us so much or something. A lot of it was hopeful and, as you said, people coming together.
I actually was thinking something similar about Lu’s character originally except from the opposite perspective, wondering if she was going to be an American’s version of a cold, Honor Above All Chinese stereotype, but mannnn, the way they humanized her and let her grow too.
The WLW PINING WAS THE BEST. God. I really cannot praise it enough in the writing and acting. The only thing I’d change was Mei’s disappearing completely, at the LEAST show a couple of seconds of her reacting to the Mars landing in ep 10? But the two actors sold this true, abiding love story so well. So romantic and beautiful and all about the other person’s wishes. It was just the one ep (for the most part) and I’m still thinking about them.
Hilary Swank and Josh Charles in the same show, like that’s two powerhouse actors right there. Wow. I’m gonna give it a shot just bc of those two lol
And not because of the emotional heartfelt f/f ship I’ve been giffing and posting about?? I see how it is. -_-
But on a more serious note, they’re actually quite lovely as a married couple, both are sympathetic rootable characters Going Through Things.
Had Priory of the orange tree since your rec last year. I stalled because of THE LENGTH but finally I started and finished it last week and I want more of it. Ead and Sabran are just so ~chefs kiss~ Thank you so much! I wasn’t big on fantasy before but now I’m craving more. Do you have other book recs? (I finished a book called Never tilting World today which has a literal goddess whos a gay disaster and in love with her healer/bodyguard right off the bat)
The length was the best part! The establishing, the buildup, the arc!
Uh, but I actually have not really read a lot of books since and liked even fewer, and none really like Priory? Gideon the Ninth and Memory of Empire are probably the two biggest ones but neither are fantasy. Maybe just go through my sparsely used books tag? I guess there’s the Nevernight trilogy, though the f/f takes a super long time to start. There are so many books I’ve heard about and want to get around to (including The Never Tilting World!) but obviously can’t rec yet.