EXCHANGE INTERFACE

I'll admit, I burned out on the 'extended universes' of Star Wars back in the late 90s. Too many book series, some with excellent worldbuilding but a lot of them not about characters that I wanted to read about.

It's also...a lot? A lot of a lot? All from Disney? Bread and circuses? And I wonder how much of this is taking advantage of a sort of a 'relief/rush to normal' after the year of 2020.

I am pretty eager to see the Rogue Squadron movie - mostly because Patty Jenkins of Wonder Woman is directing it. I am hoping we get more non-males, non-whites, and non-human characters than were in the original Rogue Squadron. (But Mirax. Oh, I want a really snarky non-white Mirax Terrik whom Corran still 100% falls for and adores! Actually, I want the movie to be about Mirax. Just call it Rogue Squadron: The Smuggler's Daughter and I'm in!)

That said, really what I want (what I really really want) is a Wraith Squadron series. ( why can't Disney hire me for these ideas? )

Frankly, don't talk to me about the Marvel TV universe. I'm still bitter about a lack of Maria Hill. My salt could supply an entire ranch's worth of cattle licks. We all know this.

Additionally, I have trouble watching TV shows anymore. Doesn't matter how good it is, or how well-recommended it comes, or even who's in it. The only way you're going to get me to watch a TV show these days is by sitting me down with someone else and some snacks and anchoring me to the seat to watch it.

I think my binge-watching days are done; I have not the patience or the time for it no more. I was discussing this with a friend in the car on the drive up to hockey on Thursday night (we didn't make it; there was a truck accident on the freeway and we would have arrived with all of 10 minutes to spare) and she said, "Well, you are doing a lot of things, T."

And I thought about it and...she's kind of right. I have a lot less brainspace given all the things I've been involved in the last dozen years. I think Season 3 of Merlin, and Season 3 of Sanctuary were the last times I watched anything through - no, wait, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D to the Season 2 midpoint, circa 2015. But I joined a writing social group (that turned into more of a social group than a writing one) in 2011, started doing more quilting around 2012, bought a house in 2014, joined a local church, started working on a permaculture garden...

That's a lot of things on the brain. And I've gotten into movies since then, but not TV series.

Create a list of at least three fannish things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a fannish wish-list of sorts.

Well, I've never been afraid to ask for more of what I want. I just don't ever get it!

1. An epic action-adventure packed Steve/Maria story, where they come together, fall in love, have to defeat an enemy, and get out of it all. Civil War optional, or maybe just the process of Steve realising that while he doesn't want a home-and-family white picket fence kind of life, he does want this one woman, and then having to overcome his expectations of what she might want from him that he's not able to give (the white picket fence).

2. The Star Wars Original Trilogy story (again, epic) where Luke turns to the Dark Side in the Emperor's Throne Room and Leia has to escape Endor, learn to be a Jedi and turn her brother back from the Dark Side.

( spoilers for SW:TFA )

3. I would love a Mucha-style drawing of Maria Hill. Something like the graphic here, only with her standing in uniform, guns in hand, ready to fire. (Alternatively, in the red dress from AoU, Steve's jacket on her shoulders, gun in her hand, looking out of the picture.) The problem is mostly that I don't want one of the promo or movie stills of her superimposed on a Mucha-style background - I want actual hand-drawn art by an artist - original pose, original design, and a reasonable (or, at least, recognisable) resemblance. This is not easy to find.

(Incidentally, I made the graphic in the link; I used Cobie's face, hodgepodged a whole bunch of other elements together (the dress, the arms, the jewel) and then added the hair, the background, and the arch. It took a long time. If someone was willing to take the time to do something like this in graphic art, that would also be amazing, but it takes a willingness to spend a lot of time, and a certain amount of determination to do it right.)