this is a viable skill, yes?

[kayliemalinza]

It only took me 3 brief shots and two lines of dialogue to realize that a random guest character on Xena was played by Marton Csokas. He was tied to a cross at the time, which may have helped. In my mind Marton Csokas is permanently associated with bondage, ok, don't judge me

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[kayliemalinza]

I didn't like the animated series either-- I watched a couple of episodes as a child and it gave me a phobia of severed limbs that persisted for years. Blegh. :/ The movie is much more palatable; it's not as dark and Aeon doesn't die horribly every 20 minutes. I remember watching it more than once, so I must've liked it. There's one sort of spine-shudder/gross-out moment I remember, but there's an element of body horror to it (not mindless gore) so you'll probably like it. (which is not to say you won't also be squicked, but oh well.)

Kingdom of Heaven is wonderful and Orlando Bloom isn't cute so much as angsty and unwashed. The story is quite serious and beautifully done. Liam Neeson, Jeremy Irons, David Thewlis, Eva Green, and Edward Norton are in it, which is a good sign, and as far as I know (being personally ignorant of Arab culture) it isn't whitewashed. Stephanie bought it from the Wal-mart Bargain Bin iirc and we watched it many times. In fact, I just nipped over to Amazon and bought a used copy for five bucks; I've been meaning to get it for a while.

You know Karl Urban was a Rider of Rohan in LotR? Eomer, I think. I was distracted by Viggo Mortenson so I don't really remember, but I do know he had v. pretty blonde hair. It was wispy and long enough to properly grab and yank. Um. Not that I like that sort of thing. >>

* lol I made you keyboard smash. :P The episode in question is "Green-Eyed Monster" from S3 and is slightly cringy; Hercules is lower in quality than Xena, imo, and there's some dated CGI and stilted dialogue. But if you know it's cheesy going in (which, come on, it's Hercules) that shouldn't be a problem.

You know, once the show figures out what it's doing (near the end of S1, imo) most of the relationships in Xena are pretty well done. Xena is unabashedly bisexual and a total stud. I must warn you about the Caesar episode, however: Lawless and Urban are smoking but the sexual banter is gloriously bad. Bad in a "I know this pick-up line sucks but I'm so incredibly sexy it'll work" sort of way. Lawless and Urban take that cheesy dialogue and do wicked things to it. Or maybe that's my vulva talking. Whatever. :P

Isn't that headdress just delish? Like I said, this is my favorite version of Xena. In "Adventures in the Sin Trade" she gets an animal headdress with cute little antlers and I love it to pieces. (although I watched those episodes again and the Mary Sue montage I told you about isn't there; I'll let you know when I find out what episode it is in, if you're interested.)

THAT MAKES ME HAPPY. Bones is such an awesome character, and I'm not just saying that because he's Southern. :P Prowl is sneaky like Spock, but Spock doesn't have many other ninja or loner tendencies so idk. You're right that Optimus is too mild-mannered to be Kirk but when it was revealed that he got expelled from the Academy I lol'd. I think Ratchet is the only good analogue, BUT it would be very easy for the Enterprise to stumble upon the autobots during one of her five year missions. Can't you just imagine how excited Scotty would be? And Sulu and Prowl can face off while Chekov and Bumblebee cheer them on.

[stunt_muppet]

and Aeon doesn't die horribly every 20 minutes

Oh, good. I was wondering how they'd make a movie work around that. (Er, I knew that they couldn't do that in the movie, but that was the main thing I remembered about the cartoon besides Aeon's impossibly tiny waist, so I wasn't sure how the movie would do without the cartoon's main gimmick.)

Heeey, I didn't know Edward Norton was in Kingdom of Heaven! I enjoy Edward Norton greatly (though I...have very mixed feelings about Fight Club) and am always looking for more movies he's been in. Didn't know David Thewlis and Eva Green were in it either. I will have to check this movie out as well.

You know Karl Urban was a Rider of Rohan in LotR? Eomer, I think.

I did know that! That is actually what I remembered him from when I saw his name in the cast list of Star Trek, which was very surprising because I wouldn't have matched the two characters by sight. And because I thought McCoy was very, very handsome while Eomer was all-right-looking. I think his blond hair in LotR didn't really work for me; the length was okay, but it looked overbleached and strange and didn't match his very brown stubble and eyebrows.

Lawless and Urban are smoking but the sexual banter is gloriously bad.

Isn't that true of most sexy banter, though? Something that just sounds silly when said under everyday circumstances suddenly works when one's in the right frame of mind, i.e. when one's watching Lucy Lawless and Karl Urban sex each other up. ;) Besides, I've seen Lucy Lawless on Burn Notice and some of her dialogue was...very cookie-cutter (it wasn't the strongest episode) but worked well enough because it was Lucy Lawless talking and she can give even the most blatant pick-up line a lovely frisson.

I admit the Prowl-Spock thing is mostly because I visually associated Spock's pointy ears and Prowl's pointy glasses. And Optimus mostly got kicked out of the Academy because Sentinel Prime is a big jerk rather than because of anything he did, but the parallels are amusing nonetheless.

Given your fanon that Kirk is at least familiar with old SFF and pulp, do you think he'd be familiar with the giant robot oeuvre? Given that a metric ton of giant robot shows have come out of Japan, I can't imagine that slowing down into the 21st and 22nd century, so Kirk might have a passing familiarity with the concept of large sentient robots if nothing else, and would appropriately geek out over the Autobots when he encountered them. Which would be adorable.

I'm also wondering if even Kirk would have to give up on hitting on the bots. I'm thinking despite geeking out over giant robots even he would see their scale as something of a deal-breaker. Or maybe not.

dammit now you're making me want to write fic and I can't be writing fic because I'm working and homework is more important than fic and I already have 200 words of Blitzwing fic that I'm supposed to be finishing. STOP WITH THE ENABLING. :<