my earbuds finally broke. i guess that is what happens when you repair them with duct tape, huh.
I am returned! And these are the things I have to say:
- Saw a preview screening of Eastwick, which is a TV show based on The Witches of Eastwick (the book rather than the movie, though they do admit to being influenced by the movie as well), which features the most incongruous casting in all the world: Paul Gross as the Devil. The version of the Devil formerly played by Jack Nicholson. WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU FRASER D: D: D: D: Except he is actually really, really good at it, and the three ladies are lovely too--points for Jaime Ray Newman, whom I've only ever seen in guest roles (SGA, one episode of Supernatural) but always liked, and now gets to take on a role once played by Susan Sarandon. Big shoes to fill, indeed, but I think she's got some sizable feet once you let her use them. Or something. I'm not good with metaphors. My point is, it looks like a fun show (created and run by a woman, too!), so I will be watching it when it comes out this September, and you should too. (I actually did not like the movie at all, but that is probably because I loathe Jack Nicholson beyond all belief.) I admit that it could very easily fall into the trap of letting the male character dominate the female ones--there were points in the pilot where I was a little wary--but the women seem pretty formidable so far. We shall see.
- I did not see the Doctor Who, Torchwood, or Supernatural panels, because our flight time did not make it feasible, but apparently some of the spoilers I had heard about Ten's final adventure are in fact true and that makes me happy because I quite liked those spoilers. Yes.
- Apparently my parents saw Paul Bettany just wandering around the hotel. Since I don't think he was on any panels this year, it leads me to believe that Paul Bettany just likes going to Comic-Con for fun, and that amuses me. Whodathunkit?
- It is kind of really awesome to watch Ouran High School Host Club in a room full of people who mostly are not horribly distressed by it. (There were a couple people behind me who, after the episode was over, exclaimed "What the hell was that?". I feel no pity for them; they should have been warned by the title.) Also, the person sitting in front of me was a big, trenchcoat-bedecked guy with stubble and a ponytail, and he laughed the loudest and most enthusiastic of all. I feel obligated to share this with you.
- I spent far too much of my idle time throughout the con writing bits of the human!Hetalia AU that I will not get to for years and years. It's not even just the sexy parts, it's the shameless domesticity parts and the awkward-family-interaction parts and basically this is going to be the most wretchedly normal thing I have ever written and I am looking forward far far too much to writing completely unremarkable things. Functional relationships! I wasn't sure I even remembered what those were! But I have to write five years of other stuff before I can get to Tension and two more years after that before anything actually happens, and there still has to be some England/Japan in there, much as I'm distressed by it. HURRY UP AND HIT PUBERTY, AL, I CAN'T DO THE ADORABLE-LITTLE-KID SHTICK FOREVER.
Right, okay, off to watch moar highly dubious anime and guzzle Diet Snapple. Isn't Washington supposed to be rainy all the time? Oh right, we just tell that to people to mess with them. Why is it hotter here than it was in San Diego.
- Saw a preview screening of Eastwick, which is a TV show based on The Witches of Eastwick (the book rather than the movie, though they do admit to being influenced by the movie as well), which features the most incongruous casting in all the world: Paul Gross as the Devil. The version of the Devil formerly played by Jack Nicholson. WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU FRASER D: D: D: D: Except he is actually really, really good at it, and the three ladies are lovely too--points for Jaime Ray Newman, whom I've only ever seen in guest roles (SGA, one episode of Supernatural) but always liked, and now gets to take on a role once played by Susan Sarandon. Big shoes to fill, indeed, but I think she's got some sizable feet once you let her use them. Or something. I'm not good with metaphors. My point is, it looks like a fun show (created and run by a woman, too!), so I will be watching it when it comes out this September, and you should too. (I actually did not like the movie at all, but that is probably because I loathe Jack Nicholson beyond all belief.) I admit that it could very easily fall into the trap of letting the male character dominate the female ones--there were points in the pilot where I was a little wary--but the women seem pretty formidable so far. We shall see.
- I did not see the Doctor Who, Torchwood, or Supernatural panels, because our flight time did not make it feasible, but apparently some of the spoilers I had heard about Ten's final adventure are in fact true and that makes me happy because I quite liked those spoilers. Yes.
- Apparently my parents saw Paul Bettany just wandering around the hotel. Since I don't think he was on any panels this year, it leads me to believe that Paul Bettany just likes going to Comic-Con for fun, and that amuses me. Whodathunkit?
- It is kind of really awesome to watch Ouran High School Host Club in a room full of people who mostly are not horribly distressed by it. (There were a couple people behind me who, after the episode was over, exclaimed "What the hell was that?". I feel no pity for them; they should have been warned by the title.) Also, the person sitting in front of me was a big, trenchcoat-bedecked guy with stubble and a ponytail, and he laughed the loudest and most enthusiastic of all. I feel obligated to share this with you.
- I spent far too much of my idle time throughout the con writing bits of the human!Hetalia AU that I will not get to for years and years. It's not even just the sexy parts, it's the shameless domesticity parts and the awkward-family-interaction parts and basically this is going to be the most wretchedly normal thing I have ever written and I am looking forward far far too much to writing completely unremarkable things. Functional relationships! I wasn't sure I even remembered what those were! But I have to write five years of other stuff before I can get to Tension and two more years after that before anything actually happens, and there still has to be some England/Japan in there, much as I'm distressed by it. HURRY UP AND HIT PUBERTY, AL, I CAN'T DO THE ADORABLE-LITTLE-KID SHTICK FOREVER.
Right, okay, off to watch moar highly dubious anime and guzzle Diet Snapple. Isn't Washington supposed to be rainy all the time? Oh right, we just tell that to people to mess with them. Why is it hotter here than it was in San Diego.