Media absorbed this week
Doctor Who:
Like the entire internets, I love Martha. But I could do without the sonic plot device.
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TMNT:
So alestar sent me an email saying: the new Ninja Turtles movie is excellent!
And I sent one back saying: THERE'S A NEW TURTLES MOVIE?!!
Because that's how up-to-the-minute I am.
Apparently there are new Spiderman & Harry Potter films out this year as well. Who knew?! (but I don't know that I want to see the Spiderman film. On the one hand: Spidey! On the other hand, Kirsten Dunst and Toby McGuire. It's a difficult decision; I'm not sure how much more of McGuire's neck [it's the same thickness as his head!!!] and Dunst's 'acting' [ ... ] I can take.)
Anyway. TMNT was a lot of fun, even if the opening narration had me rolling my eyes some. You do not start a film with five minutes of largely irrelevant exposition, even if it's Laurence Fishburne's deep, portentous voice saying:
"Four turtles."
"Mutants."
"And ... NINJAS." [No wai, Larry!]
"They fought their greatest enemy. And won! Probably."
"But this one time? 3000 years ago? There was this other guy. And a war! Mayhem! Destruction! Portals! Monsters! And then he was very very sad!! Blah blah blah backstorycakes."
"And now, back to the sewers to begin the actual film."
Also, the female character designs made me kind of ill, what with their waists being approximately the same size as their necks. CAN WE MAKE SOME TINY NOD TO REALITY ON THAT ONE AND STOP UPHOLDING DANGEROUSLY STUPID IDEALS OF FEMININE BEAUTY JUST FOR FIVE GODDAMN MINUTES KPLSTHX.
But it was still a good time; very fast and snappy. And I kind of do want that turtlecest now.
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Prince of Tennis 120-123 (for the three people on my flist who watch Prince of Tennis):
For the love of God, don't the nationally ranked Golden Pair ever win an actual match? How did they even get to be nationally ranked? Was everyone else helping pregnant women to the hospital that year? Also, someone please to be giving Eiji a smack now.
Inui vs. Yanagi is my favourite match in the manga. Not quite so much in the anime, but I was still bouncing up and down on my seat going "Squash him, Inui! SQUASH HIM! SQUASH HIM LIKE A BUG!!!!!"
I, um, take my magical gay tennis very seriously.
Still, I do not know why anyone would ship Yanagi/Inui, when Yanagi so completely DOESN'T DESERVE HIM, and especially when the end credits show Kaidoh and Inui having a private chat, with Kaidoh looking shy and hopelessly adoring, and then handing Inui a TOWEL OF EXTERNAL LOVE.
What with the BANDANNA OF ETERNAL LOVE he gave Momo a couple of episodes ago, Kaidoh really seems to have a theme going here.
You go, Darling. Next you can give Ryoma a hankie or something, and your harem will be complete.
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Like the entire internets, I love Martha. But I could do without the sonic plot device.
*
TMNT:
So alestar sent me an email saying: the new Ninja Turtles movie is excellent!
And I sent one back saying: THERE'S A NEW TURTLES MOVIE?!!
Because that's how up-to-the-minute I am.
Apparently there are new Spiderman & Harry Potter films out this year as well. Who knew?! (but I don't know that I want to see the Spiderman film. On the one hand: Spidey! On the other hand, Kirsten Dunst and Toby McGuire. It's a difficult decision; I'm not sure how much more of McGuire's neck [it's the same thickness as his head!!!] and Dunst's 'acting' [ ... ] I can take.)
Anyway. TMNT was a lot of fun, even if the opening narration had me rolling my eyes some. You do not start a film with five minutes of largely irrelevant exposition, even if it's Laurence Fishburne's deep, portentous voice saying:
"Four turtles."
"Mutants."
"And ... NINJAS." [No wai, Larry!]
"They fought their greatest enemy. And won! Probably."
"But this one time? 3000 years ago? There was this other guy. And a war! Mayhem! Destruction! Portals! Monsters! And then he was very very sad!! Blah blah blah backstorycakes."
"And now, back to the sewers to begin the actual film."
Also, the female character designs made me kind of ill, what with their waists being approximately the same size as their necks. CAN WE MAKE SOME TINY NOD TO REALITY ON THAT ONE AND STOP UPHOLDING DANGEROUSLY STUPID IDEALS OF FEMININE BEAUTY JUST FOR FIVE GODDAMN MINUTES KPLSTHX.
But it was still a good time; very fast and snappy. And I kind of do want that turtlecest now.
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Prince of Tennis 120-123 (for the three people on my flist who watch Prince of Tennis):
For the love of God, don't the nationally ranked Golden Pair ever win an actual match? How did they even get to be nationally ranked? Was everyone else helping pregnant women to the hospital that year? Also, someone please to be giving Eiji a smack now.
Inui vs. Yanagi is my favourite match in the manga. Not quite so much in the anime, but I was still bouncing up and down on my seat going "Squash him, Inui! SQUASH HIM! SQUASH HIM LIKE A BUG!!!!!"
I, um, take my magical gay tennis very seriously.
Still, I do not know why anyone would ship Yanagi/Inui, when Yanagi so completely DOESN'T DESERVE HIM, and especially when the end credits show Kaidoh and Inui having a private chat, with Kaidoh looking shy and hopelessly adoring, and then handing Inui a TOWEL OF EXTERNAL LOVE.
What with the BANDANNA OF ETERNAL LOVE he gave Momo a couple of episodes ago, Kaidoh really seems to have a theme going here.
You go, Darling. Next you can give Ryoma a hankie or something, and your harem will be complete.
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