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I rarely post but I decided to participate as much as I can in squidgie's June Something. I think I can handle a post or two (or maybe every day of the June Something! I'll try really hard).

Anyhoo, the Day 1 question is:
Did you miss us? We're back! Just kidding. Question: What show or movie original cast would you like to see reunite for an update - where the intervening time has passed and we're getting a view of where they are now along with glimpses on how they got there?

1) Well, I didn't miss it because I never participated before, but I'm happy to give it a shot. And...

B. omg, the possibilities here are too many and too much fun. I second squidgie's due South update - that would be wonderful. I need to know what Kowalski and Fraser are up to now, what happened after they went to find the Hand of Franklin, and everything they did in between.

But... there are other fannish series/movies for which I'd love to see updates if I ruled the world and could make them happen.

In no particular order, I'd like to see updates on:

• Forever Knight. If I could wave a magic wand - and despite the awful series ending (no spoilers), for which there was a fannish Virtual Fourth Season that was group written and fixed the awful ending - I would love to see what all the principal characters were up to ( more on that, lots more )
  
  
  Forever Knight got me into fandom. Got me into online fandom. Led me to my OTF, due South. Forever Knight also got me to go to a fan con, take a couple trips to Toronto (where it was set) (beginning my love affair with Canada/Canadiana), and got me into writing fic. My very first fanfic (slash, of course!) was a Nick/LaCroix fic. I never did write more in Forever Knight, tho I had many plot bunnies. I was content to read the tons of great fanfic already out there.
  
  
• Lost Girl
  Like Forever Knight's series finale, the series finale (hell, the last couple seasons) was a disappointment. And why are these fantasy shows so often shoehorned into cop shows?? it's like that's all TV writers know!). But I'd love to see what Light Fae succubus Bo is up to... ( and all her Light - and Dark! - Fae and human compatriots, too )
  
  
  
• Moonlight (the one season vampire series)
  Way before he was on H5O, Alex O'Loughlin played vampire detective (see what I mean??) Mick St. John on the ill-fated (d/t the Writer's Guild strike that year) Moonlight, which the network sank as if it was intentional, by moving the broadcast day and time around to death slots like Friday nights.
  
  Of course Moonlight ended in no way like I would've wanted it to - and with so many loose ends. I would ignore the canon... and would love to see what Mick, Josef (the slashy possibilities!!), and Beth are up to - and what happened to Coraline.
  
  
• V for Vendetta
  I need to know what became of Evey Hammond and Chief Inspector Finch.
  
  
• True Detective (Season 1)
  Rust and Marty. Maggie and the girls. Need to know what happened to all of them.
  
  Well, that's about it... and that's plenty, I guess. 🙂

It's just a few hours until True Detective wraps up with its last episode of this season. I am both incredibly excited and apprehensive. I want to know what's going to happen, but the suspense is kind of killing me... and I'm still kind of numb and freaked out about what happened last week.

SPOILERS for episode 7 ( (and what I'm afraid will happen tonight on episode 8) )

Dear Nick Pizzolatto (like you'll ever read this):
I truly was addicted to Season 1 of True Detective. It was hypnotic, fantastically gothic southern noir, and had all sorts of elements (not to mention great acting by the leads and the ensemble cast) that pushed my buttons, plus an amazing soundtrack.

Now we're up to Episode 3 of Season 2. I'm happy the soundtrack is still appropriately foreboding (and thematically similar). I was iffy on the casting up until seeing 2x1. But when I saw 2x1, I was okay with it mainly because all the leads are playing broken, angsty people (<3 <3 <3).

I'm ignoring critics and fan responses to the new season in order to form my own opinion. I have not read a SINGLE professional or fan review or recap of a single Season 2 episode so far (just imdb.com info on cast). So this is purely my opinion.

Your actors this season were *all* cast against type. You had to know going in, people might have a problem with it (I did, and I'm very willing to suspend disbelief for an ultra-noir show like TD). ( why it worked in S1 )

But after 2x1, I was with you and with your cast-against-type S2 characters... up until last night, that is. ( why it isn't working as well in S2 )

I get the intertwining of themes of pollution and environmental degradation in a sunny, beautiful climate with the fertility problems of Frank's and Ray's wives. I get that these hidden toxicities parallel the ingrained, embedded corruption (occasionally shot through with streaks of hopeless attempts at morality) among the ambitious and desperate cops/career criminals/politicians in your beautifully shiny, sleazy, perverse, twisted SoCal noir.

I get that you're saying these categories (cop, criminal, politician) are basically parts of the same inherently immoral patriarchal power structure fighting over finite pieces of a rotten pie. I <3 these themes! It is so great to see deeply cynical noir themes up on my TV screen that aren't my DVDs of classic noir from one or two generations before me, but are lovely postmodern twists.

But, dude. ( your lead characters say stuff they would never say IRL -- or in eps 2x1 or 2x2, for that matter )

If anyone were to say these words, it would be Detective Bezzarides. She's the one reading Hagakure (The Book of the Samurai) ( how do I know that? I checked )

And... ( classic Greek tragedy name? rilly? ) The meta you seem to be going for is a little obvious.

( SPOILERY predictions based on canon implications from 2x1 to 2x3 )

The way everyone with something to gain is willing to pimp out colleagues &/or underlings in order to gain it -- whether cop, politician, or organized crime -- is especially well done. It is so matter-of-fact that it indicates just how ingrained and necessary such exploitation is to the essence of patriarchy. I mean, politics, law enforcement, and organized crime are nothing if not utterly patriarchal structures.

But I truly hope for no more jarring, unrealistic dialogue from your lead characters.

Maybe I'm hoping against hope... It throws me right out of the story

And I'm sorry to nitpick because, as with S1, it's such a well done show in so many respects. But some of this nitpicking is because what little is wrong with S2 ruins my suspension of disbelief, and I don't want that. I want to be absorbed, addicted, and hypnotized like I was during S1!