Batman! Tron! DS9!!!
I have found myself the holder of a very unpopular opinion today since I love the idea of Anne Hathaway as Catwoman, mainly because I adore Anne Hathaway (she's the second coming of Julie Andrews), but also she's rather superior to some of the other actresses listed as contenders.
Okay, so stuff:
Empire Magazine has a weekly movie poster mash-up competition and recently the theme was Doctor Who. My personal favourite is The Oodfather.
In my little mini-review of Tron: Legacy I mention that there was an unforgivable lack of a certain character and this desperately needed to be fixed in fanfic. I have a look through the AO3 archives and found this gem: Start of Line by Destina. A wonderful and utterly perfect little coda to the film about Alan and Tron.
Also, while I thought Tron: Legacy was predictable, now that I have found out that that guy that looked like Cillian Murphy and who was in the movie for two second actually is the Cillian Murphy, I'm rooting for it to become a trilogy, just so long as the writers remember the series is called 'Tron' which implies that maybe Tron should show up at some point, and not
'Sam Flynn' (although, I wouldn't mind if the series was called 'Quorra Kicks Ass' or 'Michael Sheen as David Bowie Reads from the Phonebook')
Okay enough Tron and onto something I'm, really, really ridiculously excited about: ds9_rewatch. It's starting the weekend with the pilot 'Emissary.' All DS9 fans, come talk about the episodes, and all those who have been considering watching the show, now's a great time to get into it.
And really, DS9 is such a great show. Possibly nurtured by the fact it was never at any point the flagship Trek show and that it didn't have the old 'planet/spacial anomaly' of the week format to follow like the other Treks, it did experimental things such as focus on characters and on massive plot arcs, an it even took on a serialised format in later seasons.
If you're out in the hunt for a good science fiction show with wonderful writing, incredibly endearing three dimensional characters with enormously rewarding arcs, that ties everything together well and doesn't descend into a horrific mess of fail (in fact, the quality just gets better as it goes along, season six being the best), that explores issues that have become more relevant today than they were at the time (and, also, as they weren't so immediate at the time, gets away with exploring some issues and presenting others in way that shows probably could not do today, hell, just Kira - she could not have her back-story if she were a character created today), and happens to contain the best damn James Bond spoof ever and also an episode with Tribbles, then you should give DS9 a try.
Also, if all the crews of the various Trek shows wound up in some massive battle royale fight to the death against each other, I reckon the smart money's on the DS9 crew.
ETA: Hell, Just watch this scene and tell me you don't want to spend seven seasons with this lot.
Okay, so stuff:
Empire Magazine has a weekly movie poster mash-up competition and recently the theme was Doctor Who. My personal favourite is The Oodfather.
In my little mini-review of Tron: Legacy I mention that there was an unforgivable lack of a certain character and this desperately needed to be fixed in fanfic. I have a look through the AO3 archives and found this gem: Start of Line by Destina. A wonderful and utterly perfect little coda to the film about Alan and Tron.
Also, while I thought Tron: Legacy was predictable, now that I have found out that that guy that looked like Cillian Murphy and who was in the movie for two second actually is the Cillian Murphy, I'm rooting for it to become a trilogy, just so long as the writers remember the series is called 'Tron' which implies that maybe Tron should show up at some point, and not
'Sam Flynn' (although, I wouldn't mind if the series was called 'Quorra Kicks Ass' or 'Michael Sheen as David Bowie Reads from the Phonebook')
Okay enough Tron and onto something I'm, really, really ridiculously excited about: ds9_rewatch. It's starting the weekend with the pilot 'Emissary.' All DS9 fans, come talk about the episodes, and all those who have been considering watching the show, now's a great time to get into it.
And really, DS9 is such a great show. Possibly nurtured by the fact it was never at any point the flagship Trek show and that it didn't have the old 'planet/spacial anomaly' of the week format to follow like the other Treks, it did experimental things such as focus on characters and on massive plot arcs, an it even took on a serialised format in later seasons.
If you're out in the hunt for a good science fiction show with wonderful writing, incredibly endearing three dimensional characters with enormously rewarding arcs, that ties everything together well and doesn't descend into a horrific mess of fail (in fact, the quality just gets better as it goes along, season six being the best), that explores issues that have become more relevant today than they were at the time (and, also, as they weren't so immediate at the time, gets away with exploring some issues and presenting others in way that shows probably could not do today, hell, just Kira - she could not have her back-story if she were a character created today), and happens to contain the best damn James Bond spoof ever and also an episode with Tribbles, then you should give DS9 a try.
Also, if all the crews of the various Trek shows wound up in some massive battle royale fight to the death against each other, I reckon the smart money's on the DS9 crew.
ETA: Hell, Just watch this scene and tell me you don't want to spend seven seasons with this lot.