Stuff I Have Watched of Late
I finally finished Dragon Age! It shouldn't have taken me two months - I got really close to the end over a month ago and I was all fine with having the royal bastard whose hand I held through the whole game and whose virginity I took break up with me for the good of the succession, but then I found out that if I'd played as another origin story, I wouldn't have been publicly dumped and could have ended up Queen, which pissed me off immensely. So had to play the whole thing over again with a new character and installed myself as Queen this time.
The new Star Trek trailer came out last week and my official reaction is 'meh'. The trailer feels like some generic sci-fi action movie that wants to be a Christopher Nolan film but clearly isn't a Christopher Nolan film and not at all like Star Trek, and that really does not work for me. But then, as my hopes were dashed by the lack-lustre trailer, I did remember it's an odd numbered Star Trek film and therefore will not be any good anyway.
(“But, meddow,” you say “Nemesis is 10 which means Star Trek is 11 and Into Darkness 12 which means the rule does not work.” “But it does,” I reply, “if you count the magnificent flawless Galaxy Quest as a Star Trek movie in which case Galaxy Quest is 10, Nemesis is 11, Star Trek 12 and Into Darkness 13.” )
Been watching The Hour, my primary reason being that the second season promises Peter Capaldi in glasses, and that is my Achilles heel of casting. I've just finished episode five of the first season, and it's alright. Great cast, I do like the fifties and I do like setting and the Broadcast News vibe what with the love triangle (I prefer Hector to Freddie - is that odd? But I do actually rather hope it ends the way Broadcast News did). Problem is that I find the whole spying storyline rather dull. I'd much rather stick to the Suez Crisis and just follow the characters try to put a show together rather than the Tinker Tailor-lite stuff. Plus there needs to be way more Lix. Way, way, way more Lix. She's just wonderful.
Also watched Brave, having really wanted to see it in theatres but having missed it because of my mid-year two month pop culture hiatus. I had heard it was a lesser Pixar, but while it's not up to the standards of Wall-E, Toy Story 3 and the first 10 minutes of Up, I loved it thought it was was wonderful and would happily rate it up there with The Incredibles, Toy Story Original and the rest of Up. Admittedly, I'm a complete sucker for mother-daughter stories, and stories where where being a bad ass rebel with a bow is treated as awesome and also being a bad ass sensible and responsible diplomat is also treated as just as being just as awesome.
Unfortunately, I happened to think to myself that Merida and Elinor are just like Arya and Catelyn with the hair colours swapped around, and then how the Starks are pretty much just Disney-Pixar characters anyway, what with the honour and goodness and the freakishly intelligent pets - 'cept they're trapped in hell and poor, poor Catelyn and her daughters and why can't they they have their Disney-Pixar happy ending and...and....and....just...Starks *cries*
…It is so easy to fall into a ASOIAF depression spiral.
Maybe it's just the new Game of Thrones season three footage that's been released and RW has been filmed and I'm getting all emotional months in advance.
The new Star Trek trailer came out last week and my official reaction is 'meh'. The trailer feels like some generic sci-fi action movie that wants to be a Christopher Nolan film but clearly isn't a Christopher Nolan film and not at all like Star Trek, and that really does not work for me. But then, as my hopes were dashed by the lack-lustre trailer, I did remember it's an odd numbered Star Trek film and therefore will not be any good anyway.
(“But, meddow,” you say “Nemesis is 10 which means Star Trek is 11 and Into Darkness 12 which means the rule does not work.” “But it does,” I reply, “if you count the magnificent flawless Galaxy Quest as a Star Trek movie in which case Galaxy Quest is 10, Nemesis is 11, Star Trek 12 and Into Darkness 13.” )
Been watching The Hour, my primary reason being that the second season promises Peter Capaldi in glasses, and that is my Achilles heel of casting. I've just finished episode five of the first season, and it's alright. Great cast, I do like the fifties and I do like setting and the Broadcast News vibe what with the love triangle (I prefer Hector to Freddie - is that odd? But I do actually rather hope it ends the way Broadcast News did). Problem is that I find the whole spying storyline rather dull. I'd much rather stick to the Suez Crisis and just follow the characters try to put a show together rather than the Tinker Tailor-lite stuff. Plus there needs to be way more Lix. Way, way, way more Lix. She's just wonderful.
Also watched Brave, having really wanted to see it in theatres but having missed it because of my mid-year two month pop culture hiatus. I had heard it was a lesser Pixar, but while it's not up to the standards of Wall-E, Toy Story 3 and the first 10 minutes of Up, I loved it thought it was was wonderful and would happily rate it up there with The Incredibles, Toy Story Original and the rest of Up. Admittedly, I'm a complete sucker for mother-daughter stories, and stories where where being a bad ass rebel with a bow is treated as awesome and also being a bad ass sensible and responsible diplomat is also treated as just as being just as awesome.
Unfortunately, I happened to think to myself that Merida and Elinor are just like Arya and Catelyn with the hair colours swapped around, and then how the Starks are pretty much just Disney-Pixar characters anyway, what with the honour and goodness and the freakishly intelligent pets - 'cept they're trapped in hell and poor, poor Catelyn and her daughters and why can't they they have their Disney-Pixar happy ending and...and....and....just...Starks *cries*
…It is so easy to fall into a ASOIAF depression spiral.
Maybe it's just the new Game of Thrones season three footage that's been released and RW has been filmed and I'm getting all emotional months in advance.