prometheus!

[luninosity]

(Actually, just as a side note, because I'm realizing this: if I'm going to put up more of the original fantasy fic, I could use more medieval/fantasy/fairytale icons...suggestions, people?)

So, I was feeling well enough to venture out for a couple of hours, and Awesome Husband and I went to see Prometheus. Random observations under the cut; not in

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[luninosity]

...did I not answer this? I should've. Getting behind...

And that is BRILLIANT. I wish I'd written it. Now I kind of want to watch the film again, with that in my head as commentary...

I completely agree that they needed more David 8. He was the most compelling, and most original, character in the story. And I'd've loved to see his evolution explored in more depth, and his relationship to Weyland, and Vickers...I didn't mind Noomi Rapace, as a character, exactly (other than the sheer implausibility of half her scenes); of course she's a cliche, but I can live with cliche if it's done well, and while I groaned out loud at the I-can't-reproduce moment, I found her likeable in a way that most of the other characters were decidedly not. (And I say this as more or less an agnostic person, married to a VERY lapsed Catholic.) It's a dilemma that a lot of people do face, so, if they want to tell that story (again), why not. But it should've been better than it is.

if they made a sequel that was the adventures of Elizabeth Shaw and David 8's head, I'd totally watch it. I'd totally be there with you!

[starlady38]

I saw it again last night (because it is really pretty in 3D) and I loved David and Vickers more and hated just about everyone else more, too. I still don't care about Elizabeth Shaw until the narrative tries to screw her over and then she turns into a BAMF and fights back. It was more enjoyable the second time around, for sure.

I kind of want to request the TV show of David's head and Shaw tooling around the galaxy for Yuletide, no lie.

[luninosity]

We might end up seeing it again this weekend; I hear my dad wants to, and my mother is entirely uninterested. (Sometimes I suspect she wonders how she has two geek children. I imagine she blames my comics-reading, Star-Trek-watching father for this.) I feel like I'll have less tolerance for the supporting characters, this time around. ("DIE. DIE NOW.") On the other hand, it IS very pretty. The holographic chamber sequence...mmm.

I kind of want to request the TV show of David's head and Shaw tooling around the galaxy for Yuletide, no lie. You should write this. I'd read it. (I MAY have been talked into, at some future date, writing David/Bishop fic. Somehow. We'll see.)

Also, I do love your icon. I somehow do not have a Star Wars icon, so, Captain Kirk instead? Because you can too have both!

[starlady38]

There were a couple Captain Kirk lines that kept going through my head while I watched this movie - "What does God want with a starship?" "You're mistaking the stars for heaven!"

See, the second time around I knew when everyone was going to die so I didn't waste my energy thinking Die die die die now! at them like I did the first time. Thus, more enjoyable.

[luninosity]

Oh, no, not the fifth movie! *shudders* The search for God...seriously, Star Trek, no. But having said that I can totally see the comparison. And it didn't work then, and doesn't quite work now...

I knew when everyone was going to die so I didn't waste my energy thinking Die die die die now! at them like I did the first time. Hmm. Very true. Now you can watch more contentedly, in the knowledge that they will, perhaps. And then mentally catalog details to use for that David 8 head + Shaw sequel story. :-)