Fantasy and Reaction panel

Flycon is still going on.

You can find me at the Fantasy and Reaction panel. description and times below.

Fantasy and Reaction

DESC: It’s often said that because fantasy so often relies on monarchy, the writers want to go back to the glory days of yore. Is that true? What fantasy is reactionary, and what fantasy is subversive of traditional cultural assumption?

PANEL: Marie Brennan, Monissa Whiteley, Kate Elliott

TIMES
NZ (Wellington) 3pm (Monday 16 March)
AUST (Sydney) 1pm (Monday)
UK (London) 2am (Monday)
US (Eastern) 10pm (Sunday 15 March)
US (Pacific) 7pm (Sunday)

For some reason, they left off Hawaii Time!!! 4 pm Sunday 15 March

Kings

This is a new NBC show, a kind of alt history thing based on the stories of Saul and David from the Bible. I will admit my biases up front.

They would have had to do something amazing or actually edgy and provocative for this to work for me, because I have strong ideas about the story already. This basically means they either have to play it pretty straight in terms of what is already a convoluted emotional and political story with great depths and heights and interpersonal relationships and no single villain--even Saul is not actually a villain--OR they have to do some crazy sidewise kind of interpretation that opens up a new view of the material.

( I bitch behind the cut about why I didn't last more than an hour, so if you enjoyed the pilot, I would skip this, also mild spoilers although one can't really spoil this story as prolly most people know it already )