Sign of good world building: Even if the main cast's storylines all get wrapped up, there's still so much out there: politics, culture, the long-term effects of changes made during the story. I keep wondering how the Ishvalan repatiration will affect the rest of Amestris, and when Roy will become president, and what will he do once he reaches his ( Read more... )

Finished Life on Mars, then marathon-rewatched Princess Tutu.

Tutu seems like it was created just for me, because I could go on for hours on the amalgamation of Eastern and Western fairy tales, with the fairy princess and the hearts and the true love but also lots and lots and lots of living possession, and how the theme of being yourself despite ( Read more... )

Started on facebook but got too long.

So, thanks to Netflix Instant, I finished the whole thing in 36 hours, and the UK version is #1 on the queue right now, but that doesn't give me any standards for comparison right now. So, without comparing it to anything else:

I liked the premise. Period pieces are cool. Time travel is cool. A modern protagonist ( Read more... )

Every time I try to watch the Star Wars sequels, I just notice more and more things that suck. And not even from a "JOO RAP3D MY CHILDH00D!!!!11!ONE!" perspective, just the directing and the editing and the dated CGI and the meandering crappy plot that mostly consists of people standing around talking about things that are never shown onscreen. ( Read more... )

Jim Croce’s “Roller Derby Queen” features a better constructed, more believable romance than Twilight.

The narrator of “Roller Derby Queen” sees the eponymous woman on television one night at the bar. The woman in question does not know he exists.

Edward smells Bella and thinks she’s delicious. Bella becomes obsessed with Edward when he does not ( Read more... )

The Volturi suck as villains because they make no sense. There is no reason to hide-Stephenie Meyer has outright stated that no human power on earth-not flamethrowers nor missiles nor hydrogen bombs could possibly help in a fight against vampires. Nothing is stopping the Volturi from taking over the world except “good” vampires like the Cullens, ( Read more... )

Main character girl:
Doesn't have a name yet. She's a foundling baby taken in by nuns, though, so it should be something super nunny, like Scholastica or St.-John-of-the-Cross.
It will be set . . . somewhere in Europe . . .  some time between 1100 and 1500 (but no bubonic plague. That's a whole 'nother story right there).
So as part of Charity/Sts. ( Read more... )

I'm a huge sucker for talky, alternate-PoV episodes. It's nice to hear Cas's side of the story, since he's been pretty scarce, even though he's moonlighting as the Angel of Exposition.

I also loved the Dean/Cas confrontations because they demonstrated (a) how Dean (our noir season’s PoV Sam Spade) has matured over the past year and a half, and (b ( Read more... )