- Since Alien is on tv, reminded me. I'm pretty excited about Neil Blomkamp doing Alien 5 as a direct sequel to Alien/Aliens and totally ignoring Alien 3/Resurrection. Because I have always hated that 3 killed off Newt and Hicks (I understand Carrie Henn was done with acting, but they could've recast Newt), and I am perfectly okay with undoing it ( Read more... )

I saw X-Men Days of Future Past on Sat night, and it was everything I wanted from the movie, all tied in a bow!  I really love how Singer takes advantage of mutant powers with different choreography. The gold-standard for superhero action is for me is Nightcrawler invading the White House which is a great, clever sequence that IMO showed me ( Read more... )

I realize ff.net isn't set up to show secondary characters in a story in the same way that Ao3 is, but c'mon, people, do every single one of you have to ask whether Finch is gonna show up? Next chapter, I'm putting a note in Ch3: "If you're only here for Finch, adios, cuz he ain't here." sigh.

Saw the Hobbit!!

( Some technical comments )

I'm a little too prematurely excited for the idea that Neil Finn might get an Oscar nomination for the Hobbit song. OMG, you guys. this is like Oingo Boingo getting a nomination - oh wait, that's happened, too (*runs to check that Danny Elfman's actually been nominated*). MY CHILDHOOD, ALL GROWED UP. awwww. except there are a bunch of bullshit ( Read more... )

- I hope things aren't too awful for any of you affected by the storm ( Read more... )

In case you haven't seen it: xkcd answers: how would humans fare in a robot apocalypse . kitchen counter, tee hee. (I agree this is true but there are some Uncanny Valley 'bots in Japan that are totally gonna try to kill us all some day.)

My review of ALPHAS: ep 2 . I'm enjoying this season more than I thought I would, after they switched ( Read more... )

It is entirely probable that watching this (part 2 of BBC's The Hollow Crown Shakespeare adaptations) is NOT GOOD for my Loki fixation because JFC, Hiddleston. (and Jeremy Irons and some other people, but really, if I'm being honest, Hiddleston as Hal is the only reason I'm watching it). Cracks me up when they're talking about being anonymous, cuz ( Read more... )

Meshing two timelines in a crossover is always problematic, but man, especially Avengers/Marvel movies stuff. That timeline is TIGHT, y'all. I think I can set the fic in the gap pre-Avengers, which on the one hand will give me even more to talk about than I thought before I realized some of the films overlap, but on the other hand, creates a ( Read more... )

Warning: watching Avengers Sunday and Thor yesterday may result in Asgardian Family Shenanigans fic.

Or in my case, has resulted in fic. God, I don't even want to know how many people have written the exact same thing already. I think this is one of the things that sorta scares me off from a big, active current fandoms? Or at least why I usually ( Read more... )

Most amusingly, today was Harry Potter Day at kidlet's day camp. Now, he has not read the books or watched the movies, so he has only a bit of idea about them. The camp teachers come up the car, all dressed up in black robes and scarves and stuff, and you should've seen the WTF look on his face. So then they ask, "Are you ready for Harry Potter ( Read more... )