rambling, ranting, reccing, running
The other night we saw Troy, which was not nearly as bad as somehow I had expected it to be. I mean, it would have been nice if they'd selected a standard accent to use, so that Odysseus hadn't sounded like he was from Sheffield. :-) And some of the dialogue was kinda stoopid. But I didn't get bored for the nearly 3 hour running time, and there
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I saw Troy on the big screen when it was first released. I went with two like-aged women friends. We had a lovely time ogling the hot, pretty men, and the theater was so sparsely populated that we could entertain ourselves by chatting quietly when the occasional battle scene got just too damn long to hold our interest.
The gals I went with were all over Brad Pitt (*shrug*) and Eric Bana (pretty, but his legs were too skinny to grab me at the time), but I couldn't take my eyes off Odysseus. This was before I knew who Sean Bean was, much less that he was anything special (I'd liked Boromir, but my brain hadn't made the connection between the two characters), and I kept repeating in more and more urgent whispers, "Who IS that???"
I haven't tried reading ST:Reboot fic yet, but I'm thinking that I might be able to get into it because it's about characters I first knew and deeply loved as adults (and when I was 12, they were well and truly into that category in my mind), just as I love reading about Benton Fraser at Depot, or RayK and Stella's early years together. We shall see.
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Eric Bana doesn't wow me that much, but I liked the character of Hector a whole lot. Meanwhile, Paris was a self-centered idiot, and Achilles an arrogant asshole.
And I'm the opposite of you - I am mostly not interested in the younger versions of the characters I love as adults. (Which is why High School AUs leave me cold - and as someone on my flist pointed out, Reboot is basically Star Trek: High School AU.)
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I did not know that about you. How did I not know that about you? This seems so very wrong. [ETA: Wrong that I didn't know, of course; not "wrong" that you feel that way.] *headscratch*
Also: I was pondering the choice of tense so I counted my stuff, and it turns out that I write roughly twice as much past tense as present. I was sort of expecting to find a higher percentage of present tense in the short stuff (drabbles & snippets), but it turned out that those are exactly 2:1 while the longer stuff is more like 8:5. I couldn't find any particular pattern, either, like present tense for PWP and past for gen or (semi-)plotty stuff... nope, no correlations. Go know. The only thing I did see is that I seem to use present tense when I need to get deep into a character's emotional responses to relatively fast-moving action (which can include sex); it seems to be easier for me to write someone getting carried away/swept along by what they're feeling and/or experiencing in present tense. Maybe. I think. *g*
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