я хохотала так, что чуть своей хурмой не подавилась :DD You know we agree essentially and on most points re City of Fail (or Stupid, that works too *another hi-five for L*), probably apart from my general disinterest in rat!Simon, so let me just revel in some of your wording XD
instead of witty he just sounded pissy all the time. Clary barely registered as a character He failed pained and/or constipated to me, and Clary.. OH YOU A RONG, she had an amazing character development!!1! She actually learnt to clean her room by applying angelic magic to it by the end of the movie!!1!
Oh, and giving Shadowhunters British accents was something I didn't expect, and it just made the teens seem extra pretentious. Ahahah, I didn't know that, for reasons of dub XDD Sounds appropriately over-the-top *eyeroll*
Alec was sulky and vicious and still way more preferable to Jace
That... just kind of got dropped, right? Yup. The sound you're hearing is the plot points getting dropped from such great heights except not nowhere into the abyss.
:D I'm glad it amused, then! (And, hurma, nom! It's hurma/persimmon season here, too, and we got a bag from the rodents' former kindergarten teacher's friend's tree, which sounds like the start of an urban legend but the hurma is delicious.)
"Constipated" supports Jace's delivery as well, especially during the more pathos-laden scenes XD
Clary.. OH YOU A RONG, she had an amazing character development!!1! She actually learnt to clean her room by applying angelic magic to it by the end of the movie!!1!Oh my god, that scene was so WTF! Like, the rodents obviously do not have the first idea about the books (L had expressed some interest in reading them -- she asked my opinion and I told her they were fun books, but also told her about the Draco Trilogy and how some of the best parts were done better there -- but I'm not sure that interest survived the movie, though I kept telling her the book was way less stupid and random and confusing and much funnier than what we were watching), but even they could tell that nonsense was amazingly
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we got a bag from the rodents' former kindergarten teacher's friend's tree, which sounds like the start of an urban legend but the hurma is delicious. love everything about that sentence, starting from the fairy-tale climax to down-to-earth Hobbit-y resolution XDD I saw persimmons grow on trees in Beijing - it impressed me a lot! Especially since it was winter, and the few fruits that were still on trees were bright orange, just like their red lanterns.
and the "kids" are all 25+, and Alec is 30 (!) FFS O_O I didn't know that. One of the reasons why I never warmed up to THG movies, while being able to acknowledge they are not bad movies as such, was that substituting child actors with grown-ups they killed the point of the books.
L's theory, to quote my favorite The Producers, is "nah, too good". Impressive cunning on her side, though:)
God, I luurve trashtalking this stuff with you XDD It's a LYNCHPIN of the series for me, if you will <3
(But I still can't see any chemistry between him and Jace. Jace has no chemistry with
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the few fruits that were still on trees were bright orange, just like their red lanterns.
Oh, that's such a pretty imaged! And yes, the shape and the color of persimmons is really gorgeous -- I think they are the prettiest fruit, except maybe lemons. We have two kinds of hurma here, the ones that are sort of flat, like little pumpkins in shape, and the ones that are bigger, longer, and almost acorn-shaped. The flat, little ones are the ones I like best. I forget what they have in Russia -- both kinds? I think it was only the bigger, longer ones when I was a kid, and I didn't like them, so I didn't realize I liked hurma until I became familiar with the little ones.
L's theory, to quote my favorite The Producers, is "nah, too good". Impressive cunning on her side, though:)
Haha, yes, I think that was basically what I told her -- that she was expecting too much depth from a shitty adaptation of a popcorn book.
Interestingly enough, most of Jace-Simon chemistry was on the gifs with extra scenes/behind the scenes material. Which
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too much lol for one comment XDhamsterwomanDecember 8 2013, 21:48:33 UTC
Woman, if you don't appreciate the hawk story, get out of here. WE are all here for the hawk story. Contrary to the opinion of peasants naysayers, its originality and poignance only GROWS with repetition!!
*weeping with laughter* Yes, of course. Worldbuilding, poorly explained Accords, the central ~mystery~ of are-they-or-aren't-they, Jace's actual personality and wit, the part where the plot makes any sort of sense, all of it is secondary to the linchpin of the series, that narrative jewel, the hawk story. (Also, hee, peasants! XD)
Simon was adorable, even though he didn't match my mental image and sounded a bit too plaintive too much of the time. But of the male characters he was the one most like himself, and I definitely brightened each time he was in a scene. (But I still can't see any chemistry between him and Jace. Jace has no chemistry with anything in the movie, except possibly the piano that one time ;P)
and also because teens don't have the same problems that currently annoy me.That is actually a good point! On the one
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instead of witty he just sounded pissy all the time. Clary barely registered as a character
He failed pained and/or constipated to me, and Clary.. OH YOU A RONG, she had an amazing character development!!1! She actually learnt to clean her room by applying angelic magic to it by the end of the movie!!1!
Oh, and giving Shadowhunters British accents was something I didn't expect, and it just made the teens seem extra pretentious.
Ahahah, I didn't know that, for reasons of dub XDD Sounds appropriately over-the-top *eyeroll*
Alec was sulky and vicious
and still way more preferable to Jace
That... just kind of got dropped, right?
Yup. The sound you're hearing is the plot points getting dropped from such great heights except not nowhere into the abyss.
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"Constipated" supports Jace's delivery as well, especially during the more pathos-laden scenes XD
Clary.. OH YOU A RONG, she had an amazing character development!!1! She actually learnt to clean her room by applying angelic magic to it by the end of the movie!!1!Oh my god, that scene was so WTF! Like, the rodents obviously do not have the first idea about the books (L had expressed some interest in reading them -- she asked my opinion and I told her they were fun books, but also told her about the Draco Trilogy and how some of the best parts were done better there -- but I'm not sure that interest survived the movie, though I kept telling her the book was way less stupid and random and confusing and much funnier than what we were watching), but even they could tell that nonsense was amazingly ( ... )
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love everything about that sentence, starting from the fairy-tale climax to down-to-earth Hobbit-y resolution XDD I saw persimmons grow on trees in Beijing - it impressed me a lot! Especially since it was winter, and the few fruits that were still on trees were bright orange, just like their red lanterns.
and the "kids" are all 25+, and Alec is 30 (!)
FFS O_O I didn't know that. One of the reasons why I never warmed up to THG movies, while being able to acknowledge they are not bad movies as such, was that substituting child actors with grown-ups they killed the point of the books.
L's theory, to quote my favorite The Producers, is "nah, too good". Impressive cunning on her side, though:)
God, I luurve trashtalking this stuff with you XDD It's a LYNCHPIN of the series for me, if you will <3
(But I still can't see any chemistry between him and Jace. Jace has no chemistry with ( ... )
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Oh, that's such a pretty imaged! And yes, the shape and the color of persimmons is really gorgeous -- I think they are the prettiest fruit, except maybe lemons. We have two kinds of hurma here, the ones that are sort of flat, like little pumpkins in shape, and the ones that are bigger, longer, and almost acorn-shaped. The flat, little ones are the ones I like best. I forget what they have in Russia -- both kinds? I think it was only the bigger, longer ones when I was a kid, and I didn't like them, so I didn't realize I liked hurma until I became familiar with the little ones.
L's theory, to quote my favorite The Producers, is "nah, too good". Impressive cunning on her side, though:)
Haha, yes, I think that was basically what I told her -- that she was expecting too much depth from a shitty adaptation of a popcorn book.
Interestingly enough, most of Jace-Simon chemistry was on the gifs with extra scenes/behind the scenes material. Which ( ... )
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*weeping with laughter* Yes, of course. Worldbuilding, poorly explained Accords, the central ~mystery~ of are-they-or-aren't-they, Jace's actual personality and wit, the part where the plot makes any sort of sense, all of it is secondary to the linchpin of the series, that narrative jewel, the hawk story. (Also, hee, peasants! XD)
Simon was adorable, even though he didn't match my mental image and sounded a bit too plaintive too much of the time. But of the male characters he was the one most like himself, and I definitely brightened each time he was in a scene. (But I still can't see any chemistry between him and Jace. Jace has no chemistry with anything in the movie, except possibly the piano that one time ;P)
and also because teens don't have the same problems that currently annoy me.That is actually a good point! On the one ( ... )
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