Took Nephew to lunch and a movie; saw Dark Shadows. Being a child/pre-teen in the '70's I got many references, but not having watched the DS from then, I'm sure I missed a boatload of them. Won't say much more so as to not spoil you, but I was mighty impressed when Nephew said, "You know, they could have used more exposition when XXXXXX." (X'd for spoilers.) I was like, cool, he used the word exposition! :D (And his point ended up being well made.)
Nephew and I agreed to drag my father to MIB III (so he gets a break from my mother) and then we'll see Snow White and the Huntsman after it comes out.
Oh, I've seen Dark Shadows! It was... disappointing. Sigh. I felt like it was really trying, but just... not so much with the succeeding. But I found Johnny Depp weirdly hot, and I'm usually not a huge Depp fangirl. SO!
I think I'm going to see The Avengers for the second time tomorrow. I wanted to see MIB3 but it's gotten such horrible reviews that I decided to skip it. Let us know how you think it is!
I agree with your analysis. Some parts I really liked, but I got the feeling he was trying to put so much in it and jumped here to there so quickly that I had to agree with Nephew, it was like huh? A little exposition please?
LOL! Yep, he was. And believe you me, I was squinting at the big screen really trying to see Captain Jack in him, and he wasn't there, and I thought go Johnny! :)
I'd offered that to Nephew also - to see Avengers (it'd be the 2nd time for him), but he decided we'd do DS. He enjoyed Avengers, and actually for the disappointments, he liked DS too.
Hee! I'll see MIB3 because Nephew wants to. Huntsman though is for AuntieSS - I look forward to Charlize Theron as the Queen. :)
So this comment is strictly confined to the vampire diaries bit. I resisted FOREVER watching this show bc I read the books way back in seventh grade (ie 17 years ago or so-god I'm old) and I resisted hard much to the dismay of my brother in law...and why he likes it, I'll never know. But anyway I finally sat down and blew through the first three seasons in a couple of weeks and once I was able to separate myself from the books, I really liked it. I'm not super hardcore about it, but I'll keep watching it on netflix. And Damon was a murdering shithead in the books and I loved him in there in seventh grade and I love the character onscreen as well
But it's really hard to separate him from the guy Boone in LOST who had sex with his step sister. Just saying. ;)
Haaa! I knew as soon as your second reply came in that it must have been you! ;)
I think I actually have the first TVD book too, now that you mention it. But I don't think I ever finished it. Yeah, I'm not hardcore about it either, and I don't think it'll be a big shipping show for me or anything, but it's entertaining! And I like horror-based shows.
Hahaha. I never really got into Lost, but I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN!
TVD: The vampires are affected by sunlight, Damon and Stefan (and later on just about every vampire on the show) just have rings enchanted by witches that let them walk in the sun. Yes, really. Magic jewelry, the latest in vampire fashion! But, and I cannot say this emphatically enough: THEY DO NOT SPARKLE. Unless the sunshine hits their giant rings, in which case they might gleam
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AHHHH! Okay. Well, I mean, the rings make sense after Stefan gave Elena that amulet thing with the herb in it that allowed her to resist Damon's glamour power thing. So, at least they're consistent?
Heh! SEE, THAT IS ALL I ASK. If you're going to hold Chuck's past behavior against him (which, btw, never included MURDER, ffs.) and call him abusive, then you CANNOT SHIP ELENA/DAMON because he's 'oh so misunderstood'. At least do not be hypocritical, and I will be fine.
I LIKE shipping dysfunction and redemption arcs because they are interesting. Kind of like Rookie Blue. It's not that I dislike Luke, I just... he's so borrrrring! I like exploring the dark angles and all that, and the only place you WANT to see what happens in romance with villains is in fiction. Right?
Yes! Darkest Hour is a movie. I think it was actually in the theaters last year some time but it didn't do very well. I thought it was perfectly good for a 90 minute waste of time. It didn't overly annoy me or anything, and the effects were kind of neat.
Yeah, they are that, pretty good with the consistency/continuity. Except for sometimes going "this person/vampire/thing is SUPER-POWERFUL" and then five episodes later it's defeated by a well-placed stake or being thrown into fire or something simple like that.
ITA! I am nothing if not consistent in my shipping. Bad boys = yay, good boys = SNORE. And yeah, it's fiction! Fun > realism, always the number one rule. I wouldn't tell a real life person to date Damon, or any vampire for that matter. Mostly because RL has no vampires. *Sadface*
Sweet, I'll have a look at it then! I'm way behind on my movie watching though, I rarely find movies that motivate me to actually forego TV for them. But if I'm in a movie mood, and I usually am in the summer time!
I held out for so long on TVD, mostly because it's a vampire show and they are really not my thing. It was catteo who got me started (because she was writing all this fic AND I NEEDED TO BE ABLE TO READ IT, OKAY?). Once I started, I blew through the first 2.5 seasons in about 3 weeks.
Does this pattern of behaviour remind you of anything? No? Never mind then.
The first two seasons are pretty fab, the third is... not as fab. It's still compelling and all, but the WHO WILL ELENA CHOOOOOOOOOSE thing gets dialled up to eleven, and, as someone who honestly couldn't give a crap*, I found that kind of tedious. There's a lot of fan-pandering going on too, which I have problems with.
* That said, character-wise I find Damon a lot more interesting than Stefan. Stefan became more interesting to me in the first half of season 3, but then the writers undid almost all that I found interesting about him. Sigh.
Oh, and ugh. I think that anyone who ships any pairing where one of the characters is human and one is a
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About Stefan's derailment, season 3 felt like it was written by two different people. I think when Kevin Williamson left to work on The Secret Circle, he left notes for the first half of season 3 with Julie Plec. And the first half felt like it connected with seasons 1 and 2. Then she had to work without a safety net, and it collapsed in on itself. I watched up until the 1920 episode, then I had to turn away.
OH boy. It always feels a little off when a show switches writers. Then it becomes not so much a part of a master plan as a part of two different plans that do not mesh. Sigh.
Yeah, I think you have a point. I also think that JP is altogether a bit too set on keeping both camps of shippers happy, so I feel like the writers kind of short-changed Stefan's character to get him to where they needed him to be for Elena to make THE CHOICE by season's end.
(Man, it is hard to discuss this without spoiling major stuff for surreallis!)
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Nephew and I agreed to drag my father to MIB III (so he gets a break from my mother) and then we'll see Snow White and the Huntsman after it comes out.
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I think I'm going to see The Avengers for the second time tomorrow. I wanted to see MIB3 but it's gotten such horrible reviews that I decided to skip it. Let us know how you think it is!
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LOL! Yep, he was. And believe you me, I was squinting at the big screen really trying to see Captain Jack in him, and he wasn't there, and I thought go Johnny! :)
I'd offered that to Nephew also - to see Avengers (it'd be the 2nd time for him), but he decided we'd do DS. He enjoyed Avengers, and actually for the disappointments, he liked DS too.
Hee! I'll see MIB3 because Nephew wants to. Huntsman though is for AuntieSS - I look forward to Charlize Theron as the Queen. :)
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But it's really hard to separate him from the guy Boone in LOST who had sex with his step sister. Just saying. ;)
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I think I actually have the first TVD book too, now that you mention it. But I don't think I ever finished it. Yeah, I'm not hardcore about it either, and I don't think it'll be a big shipping show for me or anything, but it's entertaining! And I like horror-based shows.
Hahaha. I never really got into Lost, but I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN!
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Heh! SEE, THAT IS ALL I ASK. If you're going to hold Chuck's past behavior against him (which, btw, never included MURDER, ffs.) and call him abusive, then you CANNOT SHIP ELENA/DAMON because he's 'oh so misunderstood'. At least do not be hypocritical, and I will be fine.
I LIKE shipping dysfunction and redemption arcs because they are interesting. Kind of like Rookie Blue. It's not that I dislike Luke, I just... he's so borrrrring! I like exploring the dark angles and all that, and the only place you WANT to see what happens in romance with villains is in fiction. Right?
Yes! Darkest Hour is a movie. I think it was actually in the theaters last year some time but it didn't do very well. I thought it was perfectly good for a 90 minute waste of time. It didn't overly annoy me or anything, and the effects were kind of neat.
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ITA! I am nothing if not consistent in my shipping. Bad boys = yay, good boys = SNORE. And yeah, it's fiction! Fun > realism, always the number one rule. I wouldn't tell a real life person to date Damon, or any vampire for that matter. Mostly because RL has no vampires. *Sadface*
Sweet, I'll have a look at it then! I'm way behind on my movie watching though, I rarely find movies that motivate me to actually forego TV for them. But if I'm in a movie mood, and I usually am in the summer time!
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I held out for so long on TVD, mostly because it's a vampire show and they are really not my thing. It was catteo who got me started (because she was writing all this fic AND I NEEDED TO BE ABLE TO READ IT, OKAY?). Once I started, I blew through the first 2.5 seasons in about 3 weeks.
Does this pattern of behaviour remind you of anything? No? Never mind then.
The first two seasons are pretty fab, the third is... not as fab. It's still compelling and all, but the WHO WILL ELENA CHOOOOOOOOOSE thing gets dialled up to eleven, and, as someone who honestly couldn't give a crap*, I found that kind of tedious. There's a lot of fan-pandering going on too, which I have problems with.
* That said, character-wise I find Damon a lot more interesting than Stefan. Stefan became more interesting to me in the first half of season 3, but then the writers undid almost all that I found interesting about him. Sigh.
Oh, and ugh. I think that anyone who ships any pairing where one of the characters is human and one is a ( ... )
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(Man, it is hard to discuss this without spoiling major stuff for surreallis!)
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