Hee! Yeah, I can see that... Being at the beginning of S5, I'm feeling this missing time all too acutely. The dragon says, at the end, "All that we had dreamed of has come to pass." This, combined with Arthur's comfortable familiarity with the other monarchies around his kingdom, I take to mean that Albion is unified already, even if "High King" isn't actually Arthur's title. Which is a little unnerving, really, because it does give this feeling of there being an entire series missing between S4 and 5, doesn't it?
Ah, well. It's not that I'm jumping for joy that S5 is what it is, but ultimately, I'm still pretty darn happy with the finale. Maybe I'd feel differently about A:tLA, too, if I watched it again. The only real elements left that I can't forgive are the loose ends of Azula and Ursa, which broke my heart. With Korra dealing with bending-bending, I feel like I can forgive that massive deus ex machina, though it still is jarring and comes out of absolutely nowhere.
I'm quite loving it so far, though my German is slow to improve. :)
I'm starved for good reading, so I'll take anything right now. I just read a David Gibbins novel for the first time in half a decade and I think my brain fell out. His characters are more fleshed out than Dan Brown's (heaven forbid that his male or female lead should be one step short of improbable perfection), and the chains of events feel more realistic than John Grisham (seriously, sometimes I want to smack those characters upside the head and call them out on their idiocy)...but while now and again I'd find myself intrigued, 1-2 pages later some contrived statement/description/dialogue would jar me out of it and I'd have to struggle to engage myself again.
I should just give up on trying to read thrillers, really. And yet they're the easiest type of book to get one's hands on, and every now and then you do come across a good one.
I'm now reading Daughter of the Sun by Barbara Wood, because it was on sale for 1 euro. So far, I'm 3 pages in and all I know is that it's set in a pre-colonization Chaco Canyon, 2 characters are in love and getting married, and the groom's dad really wants his son to just have sex with the girl and get it out of his system because his lust is addling his brain.
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Ah, well. It's not that I'm jumping for joy that S5 is what it is, but ultimately, I'm still pretty darn happy with the finale. Maybe I'd feel differently about A:tLA, too, if I watched it again. The only real elements left that I can't forgive are the loose ends of Azula and Ursa, which broke my heart. With Korra dealing with bending-bending, I feel like I can forgive that massive deus ex machina, though it still is jarring and comes out of absolutely nowhere.
I'm quite loving it so far, though my German is slow to improve. :)
I'm starved for good reading, so I'll take anything right now. I just read a David Gibbins novel for the first time in half a decade and I think my brain fell out. His characters are more fleshed out than Dan Brown's (heaven forbid that his male or female lead should be one step short of improbable perfection), and the chains of events feel more realistic than John Grisham (seriously, sometimes I want to smack those characters upside the head and call them out on their idiocy)...but while now and again I'd find myself intrigued, 1-2 pages later some contrived statement/description/dialogue would jar me out of it and I'd have to struggle to engage myself again.
I should just give up on trying to read thrillers, really. And yet they're the easiest type of book to get one's hands on, and every now and then you do come across a good one.
I'm now reading Daughter of the Sun by Barbara Wood, because it was on sale for 1 euro. So far, I'm 3 pages in and all I know is that it's set in a pre-colonization Chaco Canyon, 2 characters are in love and getting married, and the groom's dad really wants his son to just have sex with the girl and get it out of his system because his lust is addling his brain.