Sparkles and Thanksgiving and Comics, oh my!

[nevermore999]

I had a pretty good thanksgiviing. My cousin came over and we hung up. Oh! We saw New Moon. I put of glitter to be extra sparkly and giggled through the whole thing. Soooo many shirtless hot guys around my age. DRAMATICALLY taking their shirts off. It was worth it just for that

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[parsimonia]

Oh my goodness, I don't know if I told you, but I went to see New Moon and the funniest thing was how pretty much the entire theatre was laughing at all sorts of not-intentionally-funny moments.

The ending especially--almost everyone laughed.

I completely forgot that Steph and Babs were going to be in the web until you posted those scans on s_d and didn't pick it up.

shirtless taylor hotner = worth my free movie ticket.

[scottyquick]

Victoria was so. Freaking. Badass. I was totally just waiting for her to snap a neck. She stole every scene she was in without even any dialogue. Edward came across as a MEGA selfish prick, abandoning her when it would have been obvious that Victoria would come after her. Alice looked like she could have been fun, but was kind of stupid (he'll read my mind and think I'm lying!) and couldn't fight anyone, so uh WTF there.

The ending was hilarious. Best cliffhanger ever! Seriously, what do people think? "Edward, I'm not sure if I want to spend eternity with you, even though I've spent the past year trying to become a vampire so we can spend together forever".

I really like

Re: shirtless taylor hotner = worth my free movie ticket.

[scottyquick]

Parsimonia's idea that maybe in the future, if her origin's retold, it could be more ambiguous, leaving the idea that maybe it was Cass or Babs or Helena or another Batfamily member.

Stupid hitting enter button.

Re: shirtless taylor hotner = worth my free movie ticket.

[nevermore999]

To be fair, in the book, Edward was actually hunting Victoria 24/7 when he abandoned Bella. BECAUSE THATZ HOW HE DEALT WITH DA PAIN Apparently, he really sucked at it. I can't remember if Victoria even showed up in Forks during the book, but if she did, Edward was right behind her.

Also in the book, Alice had sent several psychic messages to Edward being liek "ITZ OK! BELLAZ ALIVE!" And he would be all "YER JUST TRYING TO STOP ME KILLIN MYSELF! IF U COME, I'LL DO IT FASTER!"

And in the book, there was no fight with the Volturi. They just talked. Meyer is the master of the anti-climax.

[shanealt]

Guardian? Boring?

Well, I haven't read much of James Robinson's take on him yet, but he was certainly not boring in the Kesel/Grummet Superboy run! Well. I don't know. I guess he didn't really have quirks, but he was a strong character who frequently played the straight man to Superboy's antics...the father figure, in many ways, that Superboy never had (he wasn't quite as close to Superman in those days, and Rex Leech was...not exactly an expert in parenting).

[shanealt]

And now I really, really really really miss Rex, Roxy, Dubbilex and Tana :(

[k9feline]

Shanealt, you're not the only one. I even miss Paul Westfield, if only because when Superboy was Westfield's clone, he didn't endlessly wangst over it.

[shanealt]

I don't really care about Westfield, except for the notion that Superboy was on his way to becoming his own person when he was Westfields clone, and now he is, like you said, constantly worrying about whether or not he's becoming Superman or Lex Luthor, whereas he'd sort of accepted that he'd be neither during his solo series. But I understand why Johns did it, I guess--it helps elevate the character to a more "iconic" status, even if it isn't my preference.

All of this, though, is just another casualty of the "Book gets canceled or creative team changes; supporting cast vanishes into limbo." It happens with all books, really. I still miss the cast from the Kesel Hawk and Dove book (although they didn't so much "vanish into limbo" as they were "killed off in Armageddon".)

...so, apparently the moral is that the Kesels develop great supporting casts.

[scottyquick]

Also, Taylor Lautner is jailbait for you now, ma'am!

[nevermore999]

He is for Bella too, though. that doesn't stop her...