Comments | shihadchick: "The details of plots were never really my strong point."

shihadchick

"The details of plots were never really my strong point."

Mar 19, 2006 23:31

Odd day. For one thing, we're off daylight savings now, which means the Northern portion of the world I am intimately concerned with is now an hour further away.

( Talking about what Chris and I did, Banff, due South, and Slings & Arrows (cut cos it got longer than I realised) )

wilby wonderful, csi, canadia, due south, banff

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joandarck March 19 2006, 19:39:39 UTC

You know, I was thinking about what you said up there about Emily and the skeezeboy and her being too aware for that. And that was one of my problems with it, that all his lines and their whole relationship seemed too stereotypical to be real, just like Buddy and Carol are total stereotypes of the cheat-on-me career woman and the who-am-I-now husband, so how can I care about them if I could write their dialogue by numbers myself, right? But after reading what you said -

wait, okay, getting back to Emily being too smart here - I'm wondering if maybe she basically is aware on some level that he's being trite and gross, but she's choosing to ignore it, choosing not to get it, because she wants something better than what her mom has ("Sometimes it's about love.") You know how it is when you're a kid, how you can understand something underneath and still not get it on the surface, at the same time. You think? Because I agree, she has those wise eyes, she just knows too much.

shihadchick March 19 2006, 22:53:20 UTC

You know how it is when you're a kid, how you can understand something underneath and still not get it on the surface, at the same time

Ooh. That is a really good point, yeah. Hrm. I think you might be onto something there. And as well as that, every time I start thinking about it and being a bit uncomfortable with the stereotypicalness I then also remember how often I've seen people more or less act out the exact same fight/scene themselves (and, actually, h ave wondered then how the people involved didn't see how stereotypical they were being in their real life, but I guess it's harder to see when it's your actual self involved and not fiction) and so then I swing back to seeing the movie's point. Heh.

And having said that, I will now proceed to ogle your icon for a bit longer, because, um, yes. I also don't understand how that colour looks so good on him because in my head it shouldn't, and yet... *is shallow*

joandarck March 19 2006, 22:59:48 UTC

Oh, he looks so good in the cowboy shirt, it's shocking. *is shallow too*

shihadchick March 19 2006, 23:01:35 UTC

Wilby icons are totally one of my favourite things about LJ. Because... ohthepretty. Did you see the other day where someone (I think Anna? Maybe?) had an animated gif of the hands in the hospital and I'm just like CALLUM HANDS and FACE and I could watch that for hours (and, um, a little bit did). :D

joandarck March 19 2006, 23:03:57 UTC

I was working on an animated one of when he lowers his chin and it pushes the neck of the shirt open. Also, one of the wall-wrestling, because maybe I haven't made it enough clear to everybody that I have absolutely no soul whatsoever.

shihadchick March 19 2006, 23:06:57 UTC

...ohh YEAH. i hope that one works out, because, um, i would quite like the opportunity to stare at that on a semi-regular basis. not to make this all about me or anything.

see, i don't quite get the no-soul correlation there, but instead will just sit here and make enabling-type noises in your general direction.

joandarck March 19 2006, 23:09:15 UTC

I'll let you know if it works out. And the no-soul correlation is that it might give the impression that my objection to the Most Beloved Movie of All Time was "not enough homoerotic violence against teenagers" and even I am not that bad. (*checks* well. not quite.)

shihadchick March 19 2006, 23:18:18 UTC

SHIT. I had a huge long comment in response to this (mostly rambling, but still) and just hit 'delete' instead of 'post'. I do not win at LJ ( ... )

joandarck March 19 2006, 23:35:24 UTC

Callum is the classic romance-novel "deceptively thin and wiry" type. Lean, but oh so effective. ngrrrrr.

shihadchick March 19 2006, 23:43:27 UTC

didn't someone, like, write a romance novel and admit the characters were based on Paul and Callum? am I making this shit up or remembering things? *ponders*

and OH YES. indeed. mmm.

joandarck March 19 2006, 23:50:17 UTC

Oh dear god, really?

shihadchick March 19 2006, 23:52:15 UTC

I swear to god, I'm sure I remember someone mentioning that. that the two 'heroes' in a published romance novel were based on them. ...I kinda want to know for sure now. Hrm. Oh google...

katrin March 20 2006, 01:41:39 UTC

I feel the need to point out that you were at one point going to write a romance quartet with Certain Names for the four heroes.

shihadchick March 20 2006, 01:46:25 UTC

...you suck for a) knowing me in all my foolish youthful plans and b) REMEMBERING them.

*loves on you anyway*

katrin March 20 2006, 01:47:45 UTC

**points and laughs**

shihadchick March 20 2006, 01:48:47 UTC

*cries omg*!

why can i not remember any mildly embarrassing stories about you? curse you for your grace and illusion of dignity!

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